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Show THE WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS, ST. GEORGE, UTAH Youth Rides West By Will Irwin porter. If bring out the rest I wanted to tell Buck that my only regret at aeillng Claim No. 32 was the thought of leaving him. Toward Buck I felt at that stage of my western wanderings as a young soldier must feel toward a stern but benevolent and efficient superior officer. But Buck. It seemed, understood, for he replied In an unwontedly cad he tfMn't know but that even he was going to get the big sleep. I had found In the meantime that my duties on the Courier, like his, were not to When the last be wholly literary. Good Blood ? Cood Loot,? Alexander, N. Dak. recommend Dr. Pierce's GoldcTw 'coverv o. news filler had passed Into type, I bSdLdJonic helped wash the forms, carry them Into viv son had a the pressroom, fasten them onto the peaking Somewhat as soon out the Jerky on hi, face t. platens. As summer, old press, at the furious Impulsion of th IGotle the two boys, began to knock off passably fair Impressions, all spare hands set to folding Marcus on the stone, I on our editorial table, the little printIso known 0f ers devil on the floor. But not before others who hav one with corner a Into I bad retired taken the 'DisCov. of the early, dim copies and read mygreat benefit a, a blood Z richer and tonic and I do not hes.tI self for the first time In print. to It was Marcus who recalled that I to recommend it a, a reliable medic! anyone who ha, blond had do lodgings. Sorry I cant bed or is m a rundown impoverished state of health" I'm but he sleepadded, you down," Mr,. C. E. Donovan, R. F D 4 All deaiers Send 10c for trial ing three In a room as It Is. My cabin's Just behind Siegels beer' hall. of tablets to Dr. Pierce. Buffalo, N. pU y If you're doing nothing today, come around about noon and rout me out. Jast the Stuff Theres a lot of things Ive had to I cant work today, pVe ,(f a split- leave at loose ends. You'd better go ting headache." to the St. Louis lodging house. Tell Fine! Go out and split p them I said they were to give you a wood behind the house." th, yon like the Job. alt down on , It at twenty a week. low voice : and with go THE STORY SO FAR What say? "Ill be sorry to lose you, kid." ADd It was done; all excepting the process My breath taken away by the draOn thalr w ay to the new Cot ton wood sold digging: In Colomatic suddenness of his proposal, 1 of getting logic Into the muddled head college grammar Into It, either. There realized that here lay my way out. of Shorty. Alternating force with tact. rado In the early Seventies, Robwas a fire this morning up In White The smell of ert Qllson, easterner, and his printers Ink was already Buck accomplished that. Shorty had partner. Buck Hayden, a veteran Mule gulch. Got two cabins on a claim. to my nostrils. I had enjoyed admitted ownership of a hundred dolhold-up perfume of a miner, witness the Name of claim, Jennie June. Name of this little whirl at lars. He even drew It from Its hiding Intellectual, work stage eoach, from which the exowners, John Ferguson and Ad Woolpress box is stolen before the the thing I was trained to do as place In back of his watch. I should bandits are scared off. Among wich. Got that down?" Marcus had much as 1 had loathed digging on the have that to bind the bargain. I was the hold-u- p victims are Mrs. Connow filled out his column and set In claim. If would only buy me to keep my horse and the personal arstance Deane, and Mrs. Barnaby, Shorty the rules. All right. Two hundred out who Intends to open a restaurant which ticles of our equipment, and to take With a promptness words. Work In something about needIn Cottonwood. meets Gilson I of answered: that Marcus, equaled Shortys note at three months for the Marcus Handy, editor, on his way ing a city government to afford fire Give me an hour, and I'll let yon remainder of the money we had put to start the Cottonwood Courier. Rush em both theyre know." protection. Into our outfit which had now been Arriving In town, Gilson and needed to fill out this page and then Hayden together purchase a minWell, oouie hack anyhow need you transmuted Into our claim. That note Ill give you the big story!" ing claim. A threatened lynching tonight !" exclaimed Marcus as I dart- Shorty was to pay off on the Installla averted by the bravery of As I sat down to the table and shoved ed through the door to search for Buck ment plan from current yield. Having Chris McGrath, town marshal. papers and derringer away to give and Short y. Qllson becomes disgusted with arranged the details of this simple myself writing room, I had a spurt of gold digging, what with Its untransaction, having got momentarily, ending labor and small rewards, amusement at the unconventionality of at least, the consent of the party of bed. CHAPTER V and so the sudden appearance of the I Marcus proceeding. glanced up at By now very tired, what with a night e the second part. Buck and I hurried Shorty Croly, partner of to and amusement mental work piled onto a day of of sym again, Is not yielded disconVe Buck, altogether I pnshed and Jostled my way from him to the Comstock Lode saloon. I trudged down Main street. certing to him. pathy and understanding. The early Siegel's physical. to the our to Jam bar, way beer ball to the Black Jack, managed o'clock In the morning. was It three appearance of the Cottonwood Courier from the Black Jack to him quiet, Myers Variety gave Shorty a drink to keep had been no miracle, unless a miracle The clerk of the St. Louis lodging four hits bartender harassed the two I where paid at last found my CHAPTER IV Continued of hard work. In less than a week theater, In a blanket Just a for a pen, Ink and two sheets of paper. house lay wrapped lanMarcus had got his plant set up aDd adventurers lolling expansively on Ills scrawly hand at Inside the flap of hls tent, a dim over Buck back wroteln arm hooked Buck's seat. and una The look which Buck flushed back at his newspaper out; and I conjectured drawn tern Illuminating which seemed to shoulder. They, In common my dictation, entirely when I shook Bhorty was a herald of destiny. Had that he was as yet Its whole editorial Shorty's were satisfy Shorty. But he drew back at shaven face. He woke not Buck dropped that little, hesitant and business staff. Which accounted with the rest of the audience, he was full up, fell muttered that him, me a at with last moment, the with heads sentimentally glaring to be shaken awake flutter of the eyelids, had I not caught for his odd, almost drunken appear- listening askew to The Blue Alsatian Moun- suspicious eye. Then his shoulders be- asleep, had again It on the wing, the future might have ance. He was working by the light before I could make him understand with to heave as to laughthe suppressed tains, gan accompanirendered, run very differently for all three of of his own blazing nerves. ment of a guitar, a violin and the only ter; he suddenly took the pen and ap- that I came from Marcus Handy and tts. It expressed was It regret of his must have a bed. Then without a 'Rush It!" he called twice, as I set wompended the signature of Edward D. piano in camp, by a hawk-facebargain? On the one haad there stood down my plain tale. Having finished. an rose, In short and ruffly skirts. I bad to Croly to agreement and note. And. word he shed hls covers, I, an unseasoned tenderfoot of little I handed over the sheets to him, somestretched, yawned, took the lantern In back handed he encores the wait she two let until rendered paper, having use In gold washing; on the other, his what thrilled at the prospect of seeing one hand and a roll of blankets in the before I could announce to Buck and his laughter go. old and tried partner. Yet he was myself for the first time In print. He me to a tiny comparton All right?" he Inquired. Looks all other, and led bound to me by ties of law and honor; did not even glance at my copy, but Shorty that I wanted to see them ment with canvas walls. On the floor business and to them It? worth Aint dont Important drag right, papers Pretty, bright dresses and blouses. and Buck was not the man to edge out yelled to a printer: Get this out as the recess between the Variety and written on. Note signed by drunken lay three men, snoring; between them Always In the very newest shades! of a bargain. He could not know how soon as the lord'll let you! Now a afforded of wall and the hay pile Jack Ecksteins Dry Goods Em- man aint no good." Shortys laughter IIow does she do It? By the magic of much, at that moment, I wanted to he was lifting and arranging type Cheap Just space for one more. My nostrils, home And there 1 wasted no time became Homeric. porium. dyeing. Why dont you Diamond It out of of The edge fresh from myself. air of a mountain sight again "this reading Item goes on the d.ve tonight and have a whole new Its good In this case," remarked night, bridledtheatpure the camp, of human beings In aggre- front page for a lead. Start It about with preliminaries, but plunged straight a scent of mixed vile Into business. Buck dryly; and then he added In an gation, had further sickened me with this way: Mysterious holdups for human effluvia, stale tobacco, staler wardrobe of stylish things tomorrow? heard aside to me: said had never I I Shorty," Give your household things new Numon my hard lot Placer Claim The clerk unrolled my blanlarge sums have grown entirely too any other name for him, do you want whisky. "Better move on expect you up for kets, collected my two dollars, and color and fresh beauty, too; curtains, ber 82. common In camp of late. We do not to buy out my share of our claim? Ill have your stuff In the mornln'. It flashed on me that Buck and refer to picayune affairs where a tendrapes, the bedspreads or table cov! was Buck who answered. It He your half of our output ready for you turned away. ers. Any material. Right over the Bhorty wanted to be alone; that If derfoot parts with his roll. The boys looked on Next all sides stirrings upon me with a startled eye, share and share alike. I had actu- woke memorning they could talk It over they might must have their fun. But hard upon and I shook out my clothes, old or failed colors. Total cost a few come to closer agreement with the out ally forgotten the small detail of re- dressed and emerged to the outer air. cents! But be sure to use Diamond two robberies of the stages came the ward for my weeks work. come which I desired. And there In affair at Black canyon, and yesterday I made my toilet with such poor and dyes real dye even for tinting. Not In the least disturbed by soiled facilities as the St. Louis my hands was my excuse. FREE: your druggist, will give you the gang, fo the same gang it must lodgI met the editor of this paper com he. attempted the boldest crime yet Shortys drunken remark about the ing house afforded a tin washbasin, the Diamond Dye Cyclopedia ; suggenote, I Jostled back to the Courier. encrusted round the edge, a roller stions and simple directions for beautiIng across Ludlow's pass," I broke In. perpetrated. Do you think you can Marcus was still sticking type with towel whereof And I promised to look him up. get that down about the way I said It?" only one hand's breadth ful tinting and dyeing ; real "AH right, kid," replied Buck, with Jerky, maniacal speed. I think so, I faltered. was gray Instead of black, a hairbrush color samples. Or big illustrated book All right, I said. I'll stay." readiness which piqued me, in spite from which the bristles were coming Color Craft free write DIAMOND Well, take a note or two, cant f my deeper desires. "Guess 111 be "All Now out In bunches, a stained whlskboora, DYES, Dept. NH, Burlington, Vermont. right," fcchoed Marcus. When I looked up, Marcus was you? omewhere round camp until lute. move I Im a hard boss, I am. Local a piece of broken mirror. Some prelocking his completed page. So forth I went, to search for Marnews Is awful slack. Hasnt been a monition of need had caused me, when All ready? he proceeded. "Write cus Handy and the Cottonwood single shooting, and It's Saturday night Buck aDd I left the claim, to slip a the rest of It your own way. Here's Courier. When I first saw It a week at that. Want three columns of tele- clean collar Into my overcoat pocket. I the facts. Stonewall Jackson mine up before, I had thought of Main street on graph stuff " a messenger sends down put this on and started for breakfast Liverpool s crowded. Now it ran brimful.' at Mrs. Barnaby's boarding house In Telegraph? to Cottonwood In a buckboard for the A blob of light above the roadway Sure news of the world. You'll a condition of Sabbath respectability. about five thousand payroll. Probably drew me up a side street. L Illumfind the Denver Friday morning paNever had I entertained the slightest dollars. He dont take any chances of inated, 1 saw presently, a board shack seen at the hank. Gets a busipers and the Wednesday K. C. evening doubt of where I Intended to board In being leaning against a log cabin. I looked ness man on Main street don't know sheets there In the heap. Run through Cottonwood. again; and there stood the object of who to draw the money for him. em and rewrite me a set of good lookI pushed through the canvas flap of An. Illumination, such as my search. Mrs. Barnabys, half expecting to find If a there's Inst ing the at dispatches. Then, minute, hanging something 1 had seen carried In political proces- makes him ringy. Just an Instinct, I anywhere, play that up big for the Mrs. Deane at the long table, wholly sions, proclaimed that this was the main story. If anything happened in disappointed when I did not. Three He ends up by sending the guess. Morning Courier, Pioneer Newspaper In the saddle-bag- s congress, make three or four Inches nondescripts of the mines, their eyes of the money boss; of Cottonwood. out of that, unless Its got to do with on their tin plates, were wolfing ham and he rides alone, with a sawed off The main cabin, like of on the seat for a blind. Sure mining. And remember, were Repub- and eggs and sucking down hot coffee. shotgun the buildings In Cottonwood, had not lican, lock, stock and barrel. Treat These, I learned later, were accilie's held up. men, Four enough, yet achieved the luxury of a regular the Democrats nasty. dental transients. Just then Mrs. him and see wooden door. In Its place hung like masked. They go through the herself In with a Denver I waddled been of One fooled. to 'eras for Barnaby gatnered mypapers theyve a portiere the conventional gunny sack. Indian fashion, to make self, and settled down to my Job. How- platter of steaming cakes In one hand him, torturing 1 pushed through this; to my nostrils ever, ten minutes later Marcus, look- and three tin cups, emitting breakfast came a scent pungent and pleasing, him tell what's become of the payroll I Sat Down to the Table and Shoved ing up as he transferred a stick of odors, hooked fanwise Into the other. lose sand. So they but rest the their but strange printer's Ink. Among Paper and Derringer Away to Give type to the stone, found me loafing and She wore a long gingham apron, not the details of a cluttered Interior, my kick him once or twice for luck and Myself Writing Room. called : vamoose. Brtfad daylight proposition, any too recently laundered, but her eye caught first the central group. At to comes down He the Rustle I What I want aint litera- gray frizzes seemed just out of notify police which grew a little a printer's stone Just large enough to suspicious as be above her flushed,, tanned and ture, but speed !" That, all held two forms stood Marcus Handy and lets go of the facts to me at the asked : Make Black afternoon. this the Jack minute- sIn overalls, splashed with Ink and Struggling with the creative prob- ruddy face they gave the effect of a the game? Got anything In Whats an interview with of lem of Imagining how a man might de- silver crown. grease, hammering a block out of a story Andthe holdup Go strong sight? It Hello!" she said, slapping the hot dramatic. hint. get galley. In one corner fumed a hot on But port himself on the scaffold, 1 had Nothing in mining, said I. the minute when hes facing the sheet-irostove. The shack beyond been offered a Job on the news- looked up to meditate. And my eye cakes before the three miners, who all Ive prospect of hellish torment. His names had caught on a sheet of proofs hooked reached for them simultaneously with revealed the figure of a fourteen-year-olpaper. And I want to take it." there. I'll be d d If I rememto a leg of the stone. At Its head was their forks. "Didn't I see you at the a boy, tinkering with Marcus Han- Henry In Shorty slight difficulty spoke; ber what the rest of It Is. Call It Smith an advertisement for Mrs. Burnabys holdup? flut-bedy's precious press. Beneath pronunciation proved that since I left Yes," I replied. "I wasn't held up. boarding house and restaurant, CaliIt, their heads propped on a pile of for the present. Finish np by drawing him he had taken many drinks. I was there." white print pu;er, lay two other boys, strong attention to the fact that someTlirowin down your good old pard-ner- , fornia and Aspen streets; special at- hut must be systematically tention to transients. reeven smaller, sound asleep. These, I one In camp At Marcus huh! he exclaimed, truculently. " buke I started unnecessarily; and as was afterward to lenrn, served as sub- peaching Double-cros- s him" Are you watching Mrs. Deane? I Peaching? Interposed ; for that stitute for the boiler which Marcus Shut up. Shorty ! commanded Buck. 1 bent to my work. 1 felt my cheeks Follow the next Installment In now almost the verb, forgotten prog This Is a square kid. Only I want burning. Handy hoped to get some lay from cloeely. Denver, When press time came, they ress of our American language, was to see If he aint a d n fool. Don't Marcus, on bidding me good night, would turn the great crank which re- then new slang. you know you're lettin go of a mighty added that Sunday was a day off for volved the flywheel. To one side of the whole staff excepting maybe him; Informing watching shipments of promising prospect? (TO BE CONTINUED ). the room In which I stood, rows of money for the gang. Its plain to me I know you think so," I replied. on Some face. near as of the the your cases printers lay so close to the Course, said Buck, with the flash atone that two ancient printers, furiousgambling element, maybe. And make of an understanding for which I had I ly setting type, constantly bumped the an appeal for a strong, pure, mini cl not given him credit, you're That's all no, wait disgusted with dlggin' just now.plumb boss. On the other side was a pine pal government. Its Marcus lifted Ids form hard for a young fellow to table, littered with newspapers, proofs, a minute down get To find better preientlve methods, the Ideal condition scattered sheets; all weighted down with a weary grunt, set It down on the to real work. But the first week's alfor health, ?ool floor, leaned it carefully against the ways the toughest. You'll doctors in recent years have been breezes Mowing by a double-barrelederringer. around the head, the Marcus Handy Jerked up ut roe a wall, and rested his hands on the stone the common cold more care- radiant heat of the sun, and a warm j pOR bfruer price, quicker payment, qure Aw, tome to the plnt! exclaimed studying furfl t as he meditated. No, drop that. nd liberal nervous eye. For Gods sake, sortment, hip your Shorty, waving slightly toward me as fully than ever, anti two authorities ground to stand on. Exposure alone Geo I. Fox, Inc., In New York where 9C 9 0 Don't even hint about confederates In though to begin hostilities, How much have summarized the he began, and then: Oh, the tendercauses will not cause colds In healthy Indisupposed fur are marketed. We charge no cotnmij,a of this affliction under five headings: viduals, the doctors foot!" He rested In position for an camp. No politics, either. I want to do you wont to skin me for? Meleep" pav or refund all shipping charge declare. Arctic 1 cut loose. more Now know before Send V I dou't want to skin you at all." chills and drafts, conditions of the explorers, instant, his wooden mallet poised, and correctly potted on the latest fur prices. fishermen, and who others w 1 saw that the lines of his name and addresa at once for the face were get It rilten !" said I. a little touched, in spite of weather, irritation of the membrane remain out of doors for hours Guaranteed Fur Price List and FREE ShipPinl drawn and his eyes bloodshot. "Were Looking up occasionally from the Shorty's condition. Just what I put on the breathing apparatus. Infection In stormy, cold weather, oftenlong seem Im- and get New York Market Quotation and had ventilation. The last Is re- mune from these you fooling when you said you hud a frantic haste of lay labors, I noted ab- Into It" , disorders. Irritation GEORGE I. FOX, Inc. sently that men were ccnstantly passDon't know's I can let you cheat garded as the commonest of all the of the mucous college education?" membrane of the res canvas The best and most complete educa- ing and repasslng through the New York City yourself that way. sold Rink, utterly causes, as wann stagnant air produces piratory passages by dusts and chem255 West 30th St. tion that Harvard university dispenses door and talking with Marcus as he ignoring, then and afterward, the In- congestion and swelling in the roueons icals Is also a common cause of colds. or affords, I said, taking up, where we worked. One, evidently, had brought terpositions of his muddled friend. membrane which becomes covered Popular MecharAcs Magazine. bad left It off on Ludlow's puss our In an advertisement. Just as evidently, Why don't you grubstake Shorty? with a thick secretion and affords a Western game of chaff and rhetoric: Marcus had told him to write i him- Then youll have your share cornin weak spot for germs to attack. In Thermometer for FUhermen but Handy broke self; for he seated himself at the taGrub stake, h I ! broke in Shorty. cool air, this membrane remains taut polished, refined The wise fisherman of the and well moistened. Then. In a poor that off with a gesture, as though the ble opposite me and. with a protruding No grub-stakIn mine " future altuation were too serious for humor. tongue-tiPHIZES IN AIL following the course of his "When we strike a pocket," con- !y ventilated room, cold currents of will test the temperature of the water In litwhich be God Almighty must have sent you pencil, set himself to the labor of casts hls lines. The biocluded Buck. And hows Shorty goln' air are likely to strike the feet while Enter the ret Liquid V te-- t. . J"11 Another must have to pay? All you l.v. to do to reward me for the one good deed I erary creation. the head Is exposed to the warm, logical board of Canada, after an ex- In of than 160 word wbt J ever did, which I don't know what It borne news, for presently Marcus I'd rather not grub-stak- e polluted upper atmosphere. This Is tensive survey, has found that iidvr th outstanding uchBr,t.f lwui k anyone," and cod especially are called to me : Is. said he. A printers got drunk Liquid Wneer, or toil said I, and Shorty can pay me on the Just the reverse of what is considered . very parum tor Liquid Vor. ticular about and run out on me, and the paper aint You. kid! Name of the messengers nstallment plan, catTf her I was temperature, sava Pop- - , You may win th firat Thr ular Science dolor on of th l.54 othar wm half written. Don't say youre doing Henry Seward. They took seven Monthly. The growing eager; for our discussion had - IIH. not stay where the water Is cod will prominent buxineclo- -nn No Appeal anything tonight. Just grab a pencil lars off him. He left his gold watch brought up In my mind the sickening i Coot! judge. freezing and for 1S2S him ' Pnt 50 dont delay. and a handful of that copy paper over In camp when he started his bluff. Put memory of that last week In the ooze t otn A Journalist, his wife and child, little hot Between degrees Is unbearably Entry Blink .tel hfull y 40 and 4, decrees there, and bring It here!" Even as he that tn contrast between what they of the stream-bed- ; If and the blisters on Alice, were having lunch dealer. y.or us. Don't mut th. h together. a srrtte out he had and what hammered and out if hands the expected still hurned. I perceived, right spoke, they got." my fishermen win fisn Can 1 have some more t unity. . r pudding where such temperatnre block ; and when I had obeyed, fascio'd I finished, hesitatingly set the copy however, that my affair was going mother?" .ud Liquid Veneer I Inquired the child. It prevails ro cry elnt. dru. furonuie, nated. and turned back to bln,, he was on the case before Marcus. He ran well. Buck had not denied that he 1 think you have had enough, said gt ocrei tare. lifting with careful fingers a stick of rapidly, professionally, through the wanted to combine with Shorty. Only, the Journalist; It will make compant wa" ' ErrrxTo stkctutt ilL" you sheets. Nine hundred words or there- honest man that he was, be had tried uwr ! ivpe. Hls wife, as Is the way 0f IS liquid The board urges fishermen mothers, KudflK S. Y. he said. Couldn't hsve to guard my interests. "Tase notes on this, and when you've abouts. t said, Let her have a little more tail --si sit down there and put guessed better at space myself. Now Ive got a better chance with the and It will make her ill, insisted fath there are no flit thel;, into the English language," he I'll show my gratitude and appreciaOf course, I dont Courier, I added. Little Alice looked from oue to the added. t.ee, .noting up from his work. tion practically. Just for a change. I and here I stopped, too shy by other. Finally she and said. Austrla-HunfcfirAnd dual stop to get any of your can use you. I've been wanting re virtue of my youth and my origin to The editors decisionsighed v., la final," b the treaty of L; C'ty. No. v,. N. U. 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