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Show 1 THE WORLD VOL. IV. AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IS, and v want to know where all the cards ly. "V are only a couple of 'markers,' " said Don In that easy manner peculiarly hit own. And then the man laughed In a pleasant, propitiating way; as for me, I never did understand card slang. The man stood and studied for a full minute, at which I wondered very much, for any one would take him for a man who was used to deciding quickly on most Important matter. Had I then known what was in his mind. I should only have wondered how he could decide and plan so quickly. Can you turn a trick on that machine, or is a straight game all you can throw? and he looked to Don for an answer. Oh, I can do a few simple turns, said Don. I ask because more than one life may hang on your answer," said the man, cooly flicking the ash from his cigar with the little finger of the hand in which he held it Then he continued: The greatest outlaw In the Strip Is right here in that jail, and his friends have sent us word that they are going to take him out between 8 and 9 He paused and glancoclock ed toward the west, where the sun, now only the half of a great red rim, was sinking below the level. "I have had my men patrollng the town all day," he continued, "and they are not all In yet I have reason to believe that the outlaws friends are now gathering In small force down on the square, earlier than we looked for them, and I am almost alone at the Jail. If you can ride down there and get that crowd interested In your game for twenty minutes there'll be no trouble. I would be very willing to try. If I thought I could hold them, said Don, after a short hesitation. You can do It if you are up to a trick or two, said the man. These machines are more of a curiosity down here than In the states. I am sheriff here, and dont propose to lose my prisoner, but want to avoid bloodshed if NO. 50. 1807. I noticed then that he had a hat and man had made me prick up my ears, ALL ABOUT WRINKLES coat thrown over his left arm. you may well believe. It took the Here, be said, after looking down crowd just one second to realize that the street Intently for a moment, put they had been sold. THERE ARE MANY CAUSES FOR (By Admund W. Bennett) this hat and coat on and ride down Its that Faro Dan who planned THEIR APPEARANCE. ON and I had past the crowd as fast as you can go, this, said the real sheriff, and then planned thla trip on Come through, come be put spurs to his winded horse, shoutand cry, our wheels, down told to Ila on tho Inrroaaa Mam bon as you can, without ing, Back to the Jail, men. as loudly through, Into the "Strip," pace. your slacking But when they reached the Jail they of Horoala, foliar Ulrla and HuilitM for montha before Mr. 8herlff? I found Woman Doa'I Worry About Thant is that for, What we started. only the jailer, tied up in a bundoubt but that he was dle In the a never As Sana Vnilar tha Microscope. asked, corner- and every cell empty. We had talked himself to be, and he what represented over what might Don and I were the only occupants all the while preparing as rapidly as HE of the county Jail that night. We exof number happen, and still all was as I do to never a bid; possible wothat our active im--- next wrinkles matters in the plained satisfactorily question but that I must do as this mens faces Is Inaginations had day, but you are the first to learn why man forceful suggested. up fell far we our so month's cut short. outing creasing at a rats This la the hat and coat of the outshort of what did happen. that is fatal to man and in that every law, Denneth, Don Is a tall, lithe, athletic young of the beauty ON UNCLE SAM. JOKE and will will crowd them, recognize fellow, always willing to give hours of smooth skinned vais he escaping, and this It think hard work toward mastering any new g Work tho Govern- Chino will allow us time to make riety. If you doubt trick on his wheel, while I have always Tlimr for nient and the time Is it, just observe the our I'tMttt, defense it by sure, put In all my leisure time in trying to Melican man think'm number of women smart the prisoner who discovered are, you cover as much ground in as straightThlnk'm Chinaman no smart. He, be. will be safe. young women you forward a manner as possible. stress on the Chinaman fool'm. Heap big Joke on meet in a day, and such He laid peculiar .As we turned our backs on Kansas, Wah see how few of them are free from four words that I found them re- Melican man. Ha, ha, ha. last and our faces toward that land of posthese facial lines, says tbe New York volving in my mind as I stood with the Foon, second-rat- e politician and sible adventure, the Strip, 1 said to my outlaws hat and coat on, waiting for held his Bides and Herald. Riding uptown In a Broadway companion: this master of men to tell me to mount guffawed uproariously. Come right car, I heard two SoroBis women talking Now, Don, there Is to be no fancy and ride. down to it this of the about It Sorosls, yon know, cultivates Rainey riding. Now, go, he cried, and rememCelestial ha. the literary wrinkle, the kind that knits a to ha had quarters right an"Not a bit, old he It is their rallying call, Worse, all of Chinatown Is with diffi- np the forehead between the eyes and ber the cry swered merrily, unless you give the and don't let them overtake you, or it culty suppressing Its mirth over a new imparts the profound expression that word. may be the worse for you. dodge, by which Uncle Sam la being turns Barnard college girls green with And I smiled as the wheels hummed Some of you may smile at my ImWhen played for envy. The Sorosls wrinkle is the regood thing. over the hard dirt road, for I would be obedience, but when a man's oc- heathen gets tired of this rountry he sult of deep thought and attempts at plicit the last to suggest fancy riding, as I cupation has bean such as to call for wants to return to his native flowery memorizing whole encyclopedia pages have no desire that the one with whom obedience all his life. It la very easy to kingdom, he does not have to preceding the reading of the fortnightly I ride shall attract the whole attention man who seems to know what bother itsnowadays a obey barbered head about a grub papers" at the meetings of that body. It. a of every passer-bbe whether he wants. or stake, passage price pretty girl or comely matron, and as anything else in These two Sorosls members said soma 1 sprang forward and was In good the way of expense. He is sent boms interesting things about wrinkles. Said long as two ride along in an even manswing as I neared the crowd. When I by this government aud that.'-- when one: Wrinkles In a woman's face no ner the chance exchanges from bright was even with them .1 gave the call. the eyes are more likely to be Impartially joke on Uncle Sam cornea In. When longer speak only of age. There was a It had the effect of a bursting bomb. congress distributed. passed a law requiring all Chi- time when they were Infallible signs ot At first they fell back Into a compact nese residents We had but crossed the line Into the of America to register declining years, but that was long ago, mass, and as the sheriff fired a few and Strip when we learned that the celeprovide themselves with certifi- when women were less active In both me they braced themselves shots after brated outlaw. Dock Denneth, had been cates showing that they had bowed ts body and brain than they are now. as though anticipating an attack. captured, and was then confined at the Don was the only one to penetrate tbe will of the government. It was Wrinkles are attendant upon study, county seat of X county. business responsibility and vivacious my disguise, and he fell In my wake hoped that by this means the federal You .will understand that we were followed me as I flew by, but not authorities could keep tab on Its Chi- manners; In fact, a woman can't be Inand but Idlers along the way, with no deuntil an Irregular volley had been fired nese population and effectually regu- teresting without them, and the lack of sire to lean far forward and "scorch at me. I felt that these shots, unlike late Immigration of this class. The of- wrinkles In these days indicates Indoalong; but rather loitering in our beauthose fired by the sheriff, had been ficials were clothed with authority to lence or stupidity. Smooth-face- d movements and seeking all plausible to my Injury. I could not un- seize and deport, after a given date, ties purchase their appearance at the aimed excuse for lingering along the road In derstand this unless there were other all celestials found vrlthin the boun- sacrifice of both wit and wisdom. As possible.' 6utlaw 111 the &aln daries of the United States who could they left the car I observed that each frM!rTf TYiiyl" was ttirimrtahgimoTtirwtcper a hoarse shout not show that they had complied with had a faintly defined vertical line be!L. Then followed ering. Urnutes, men could see we and the recipients of all the gossip of the road, the regulation by exhibiting the neces- tween her eyebrows the Sorosls wrinof that spoke plainly pursuit and In this way, too, we found out gathering a block below us, with now beIts now The certificates. at sary This was good kle. I determined to Investigate the moon, full, nearly a a held that there was to be an attempted res- and then shout that plainly gan to show its power, and the road enough as far as it went, but It appears subject and went to see a professional note of defiance. cue of the outlaw. Don mounted and I started to follow, lay unoccupied ahead of me, stretching that it went not far. True, the Chinese man who deals In wrinkles. From him As we neared the county town of X In an unbroken level straight into the when they once got started registered I learned that there are as many difon the evening of the third day eounty, distance. I heard a shout behind me, In droves 50,000, for instance, at this ferent kinds of wrinkles as there are of our outing, we were more than once and turned .enough to see that it was port alone. Duplicate certificates of faces for them to adorn. He showed me cautioned that there would probably Don. Behind him thundered a compact all of these registrations are piled up how they look under a strong be a shindy and we were advised tq was a of There horsemen. buildwithin local custom the house body both keep away and to be sure and be magnifying glass. There is nothawing to those riders, shown ing, but. Inasmuch as no index of tbs ing flattering about a magnifying on hand to see the fun. in even such a hasty glance, that made same was ever compiled. It is next to glass, and If you want to see the For my part, I had no desire to see me bend a little lower over the handle- an Impossibility for the government of- full significance of a wrinkle In a wothe fun, and so told Don. but he would bars, as I for the first time realized ficers to tell who haB or who has not man's face that is a good way to satisfy listen to nothing but that we should the position I had placed myself in registered. Their only recourse is to your curiosity. It will dispel forever ride straight Into town, and was in should they overtake me.i keep a sharp eye out and grnji every the attractive theory that wrinkles are great haste lest we should arrive too But I could not account for the per- Chinaman who cannot show a certifilate. any Improvement. Wrinkles are ensistency of what savored more of pur- cate. Now, it is this very state of af- tirely dependent upon temperament. Had he but listened to me there suit than of following. What If those fairs that gives the heathen Chinee Induces them more surely than would, probably, be one more desperoutlaws had suspected the ruse, and the opportunity to exhibit the super- Nothing The kind ado safe behind the bars, and we would worry. produced In this way now realized that I had. foiled them iority of hla and ingenuity. It appear first on the forehead, and are not have had the disgrace of occupying cunning in ILeir attempted rescue! It would has the cell vacated by that same outlaw. provided him with the means of made up of many small vertical lines, go pretty hard with me If they caught enjoying a free As we approached the county town trip to China whenever different from those caused by study, me. he takes a notion. Here Is the modus which are fewer and deeper. Take the the whole plain, which stretched out Then, as the hard dirt road seemed operand 1: Ah Sin wants to unbroken to the horizon In every direcgo home. wrinkles cauned by worry In conjuncto spin like a silver thread beneath my He has enough of America and Amerition, was dotted over with horsemen, tion with the harassed look In the eyes wheel I felt my courage rising. And, as can He goes to a certain agency that accompanies them, and the comsingly and in twos and threes, riding gold. the soft evening air fanned my brow, In Chinatown which makes a buslnest apparently to all points of the combination Is disastrous to the expresI felt a tinge of pride cobrae through of some a some a at in loppass; walk, certificates for the of a womans- face. Laughter Is purchasing sion pur my veins. I, who had always follow- pose of ing gallop, and still others in a mad them to Chinese whe responsible for the crow's foot wrinkles reselling be was to ed (through modesty, sure) run. now leading. What a herb I would be are smuggled Into the country and an about the eyes, and it brings Into view Rumors seemed to float on every fitol some small and mischievous ones near back in the states. I would be spoken naturally nervous of their chances ful breeze. Now it was that the friends his He Increases by remaining. pile the corners of the mouth. These wrinSTILL HAD PRESENCE OF of first, and Don second! Rut only for of Denneth were gathered ,In over Th kles undeniably add to the charm of his away passport. bartering of was elation moment a MIND. this feeliijg whelming force; then that the town docs not cease wit? merriment In a woman's face. They hand allowed to last The next instant, with agency's contract of had been patroled so closely that all when the sheriff laid a steel-lik- e mere the paper. Oni are almost equal to Olive Schreiner's the purchase two a soft swish, my wheel struck sand doubtful strangers had been kept out; upon my arm and said: Is of minions the dispatched to thf dimple, which was Introduced to fame As for you, you'll stay here for the inches deep. And, pedal las I would, and again that Denneth had been spiroffice with the In The Story of an African Farm." United States marshals Bhlft from side to sideof the road, present, and I had no other thought and ited away to Z county for safe keepInformation that one Ah Sin. who can Lines of care show first in the furrows not could Increase or I to but my it, escape obey. ing. Still another rumor had lt that Great drops of per- be found at thle place or that place on either side of the mouth, and they All the while I could see men runslacking speed. he had already escaped. But through nc beoozed from from and then every pore. My has no certificate and consequently The become more marked as age advances. spiration pass sight It all ran a strain of the utmost belief ning up, in to this country. right sojourn that the sheriff wad master of the sit- hind the board stockade that surround- heart sank as I realized what would marshal has the law before him an! The only kind of wrinkles belonging purely to old age are those caused by uation that he was the right man in ed the building I knew to be the Jail. happen when the outlaws discovered I has ho alternative but to go and seizt the lose of fatty tissue, leaving the skin was not a came leader. Then their of name the continued In the cry law, the right place. The mat loose upon the face. These appear first the rear that told me my pur- this supposed contraband. On our approach to the town we the sheriff, in a very solemn tone, I from has no certlflcte. of course. When Un- about the lower suers realized Dut to from not this command stir my predicament. you spot part of the face, and were halted by a band of was a tone in that cry that did cle Sam undertakes to deport he inns', the cheeks have a sagging appearance, there darted he then until and return," my belted, spurred and heavily armed men. monot fit my understanding of the case. pay the bill. No wonder Wah Foot where the superfluous skin disposes of each of whom I would have sworn was away after the men I had seen. A The sweat ran into my' eyes and ripples with glee. The federal official Itself In the folds. The newest thing In muflled I of a veritable outlaw. Having closely ment later heard a couple of as and a nearly blinded me. I could hear Dons say there is no help for It the taw pre- wrinkles, however, Is the bicycle vacry shots, surprise, sharp questioned us, and fully satisfying labored breathing, and then I tumbled scribes what they shall do, and perand they arc not a desirable kind. themselves that we were but harmless then silence. over from sheer exhaustion, not un force they must do it. San Franciscr riety, Into down I the looked street, peering belong to the bicycle face, and They travelers, we were allowed to proceed. 'see Don mixed with fear. Breathless as I was, Call could and the gloom, growing effect is the same as when the face the As we left the party, Don made a few on his wheel and the and almost wild with fear, I still had pirouetting becomes from anxiety or worry. drawn In what he terms his "Bucking jumps Marrlod at SK. crowd, some of whom were mounted, presence of mind enough to stagger to Under the magnifying glass wrinkles Broncho act, which called forth Maxll Coutourler, aged SS, and Mrs never before In a deep half circle, watchmy feet and throw up my hands, which suspected sre brought Incheer from the men, and then, as we standing tell this Bourcier, aged 47, both of Or-sas was ap- probably explains my living Clout to view. Even the smooth, white surhim attentively, very ing wheeled along, he apologized so pro even at that distance. Then I story. In a moment I was surrounded Island, Minn., were married n lew davi face of the Bkln Is found to be full of fusely that I forgave him, the more parent saw a movement that told me the by as rough a lot of men, as far as since. Mr. Courtouricr has (ae distine an intricate network of tlr.y crevices, readily as they were but rough men. crowd was on the tlon of being the last of the o'd Ca and It Is point of breaking, looks go, as I ever saw. TJie from not one of whom you would wish only the enlargement of these hat I had worn in buy flight nailian voyageurs and coureurs di though apparently reluctant, when Don a glance of approval. small pathways from expression, habit, hois that served under the fur com care or old age. that makes the face sprung his Bucking broncho act on had been lost, and as the leader, As we wheeled silently up a side them. villainous-looking man. got Lusty cheering followed. It was most panics In Minnesota seventy y::fus ago seamed with the wrinkles stieet we were suddenly hr u light to a evidently this cheering that brought glimpse of men. he ripped but a big or from 1S27 to 1840. of many women's are the bane that dismount by a sharp, very businesst the sheriff, springing like a tiger, out oath, saying: lives. Viewed from the standpoint ol like command to halt and throw up our to where 1 wns 'Til. be dashed If we havent been standing. Mach Ton Kin." the hands. A smooth-facemagnifying glass, It is safe to uager . fooled worsrn h Are they coming, he cried. which Is composed of worn that the strongest and most literary Society, d man, wearing a soft, a What's tbe asked Don I is holding matter, sheriff?! answered, No," hat. stepped out In front of us. man at his elbow, who was covering eu, has made a rule that a wife has i minded woman of them all would be them spellbound. right to bring all her sisters to live glad to dispense forever with her cherSorry to disturb you, gentlemen,' He'e a high card, said the sheriff, me with an ugly In an Indescribably cool, even he said. but I am leary of his being able to Matter, he roared; why, dont you with her, and the men, who cant pro- ished furrows of thought. test In any other way, have quit get tone, but as you probably know there hold them until my men arrive in see this aint Denneth? Life is too short for mean anxieties Is liable to be trouble in this town, force. 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