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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH at least, to close up with a clean sheet, if we must close up. But we cant wind up a busines without selling the stock on hand, and to whom are we to sell if not to peoplewho want it? That is what you seem to object to." "You place me In rather an unfair light, Dave protested. "What I ob.ydia E. Pinkhams Vegeject to is taking the life savings of table Compound Has Been people people of moderate circumThis Woman Safeguard in for propstances, mainly exchange next worth to be we know which erty All That Time to nothing." "Yet you admit that we must clean Omaha. Neb. I haveused'L inkhams Vegetable Compound forover up, dont you? Yes, I suppose so. twenty years for troubles and it And theres no other way. Dave, has helped me very said Conward, rising and placing his much. 1 have also arm on his partners shoulder, I symused Lydia E. Pink, pathize with your point of view, but, hams Sanative sentiand my boy, its pure sentiment, Wash with good rement has no place in business." sults. I always have a bottle of Vegetable Dave dropped the subject. There Compound i n t h e appeared to be nothing to gain from house as it is a good pursuing it further. They were in the remedy in time of grip of a system a system, which had need. You can found them poor, had suddenly made my testipublish with and now, them wealthy, equal monial as every statement I have suddenness, threatened to make them made is perfectly true. Mrs. J. 0. poor again. It was like war kill or Slmquist, 2424 S. 20th Street, Omaha. Nebraska. be killed. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Women who suffer from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should IDEA ORIGINATED IN ORIENT ie convinced by the many genuine and truthful testimonials we are constantly in the newspapers of the publishing to Claimed Have Finger-Prin- t System of Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegability Been in Use in Far East for etable Compound to restore their health. To know whether Lydia E. Pinkhams Many Years. Vegetable Compound will help you, try t! For advice write to Lydia E. The finger-prin- t system that sleuths Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, all over the world have successfully read Hass. Your letter will be used in catching desperate criminals and answered by a woman,opened, and held in was the Invention of orientals, either strict confidence. Chinese or Japanese, according to Filllpo de FIllppl, writing in Nature. The discovery was originally credited to Sir W. Herschel, In a parliamentary blue book, but Kumagusus Minakata, e Japanese, proved the case for the DEPENDED UPON IT 20 YEARS -- CHAPTER IX. few reliable firms upon which we can It all depends on one thing, Dave lean in our Inexperience.. interrupted. liuck in Conwnrds office, while the Mother has bought a house, Irene What is thnt? agreement was being drawn, Irene was explained to Dave. We thought this It all depends on whether we are A look Miss Ilardy-anpossessed o a consuming desire to was a safe place to come Mr. Elden or whether consult with Dave Elden. She was on Eldens face caused her to pause. we are still Reenle and Dave. uneasy about this transaction in which "Why, what is wrong? she said. Her bright eyes had fallen to the her mother proposed so precipitately Dave looked at Conward, at Mrs. floor and he could see the tremor of to Invest the greater purt of their lit- Hardy, and at Irene. lie was instant- her fingers as they rested on the back tle fortune. I think I would hesitate, ly aware that Conward had stung of a chair. She did not answer him mother, she cried. "If you buy this them.. It was common knowledge in directly. But in a moment she spoke. house we will have only a few thou- Inside circles that the bottom was Mother will buy the house from sand dollars left. Your henlth may de- going out. The firm of Conward & Mr. Conward, she said. She Is like mand other expenditures Elden had been scurrying for cover, as that. And when we are settled you My health was never better, Mrs. quietly and secretly as possible, to will come and see me, wont you "And Im not avoid alarming the public, but scurry- Dave? Hardy interrupted. going to miss a chance like this, health ing for cover, nevertheless. And Dave When the nardys had gone Conward or no health. You have heard Mr. had acquiesced In that policy. His turned to Elden. We had better try Con ward tell hosv muny people have position was extremely difficult. and find out where we stand," he said, "I dont think I would be In a hurry trying to speak dispassionately, but grown wealthy buying property and selling it again. And I will sell It to buy, lie said, slowly turning his there was a tremor in his voice. I agree, returned Elden, who had again when I get my price. eyes on his partner. You would per"It is as your mother says, Con-t- v haps be wiser to rent a home for a no desire to evade the issue. Do you ard interjected. There are very while. Rents are becoming easier. consider it fair to select InexperiBut I have bought, rapid Increases in value. I would not said Mrs. enced women for your victims? he surprised If you should be offered Hardy, and there was triumph rather Conward made a deprecating gesan advance of ten thousand dollars on than regret in her voice. I have paid ture. There is nothing to be gained ihis place before fall. Let my deposit. by quarreling, Dave," he said. "There must be an end somewhere, It Is the policy of this firm," Elden Continued. 13 Irene murmured, rather weakly. continued, not to force or take advantage of hurried decisions. The fact that you have already made a deposit does not alter that policy. I think I East may speak for, my partner and the No one in the controversy quoted firm when I say that your deposit' will Rashid-ud-diwho wrote about the be held to your credit for thirty days, in use in Cathay even in his system during which time it will constitute an finger-priwas a system of a It day. option on the property which you have in use not that like sort, although selected. If, at the end of that time, no blackening of was There today. you are still of your present mind, the the hands prior to the taking of the transaction can go through as now Impression, but rather the hand was planned ; and if you have changed placed on paper and traced by the peryour mind your deposit will be reson taking the print. The hands of turned. contracting parties were always placed Conward shifted under Daves direct on deeds in those days. eye. He preferred to look at Mrs. De Filippl says that this ancient What Mr. Elden has tol9 Hardy. is worthy of investigation tosystem you about the policy of the firm Is as study of the drawings shows day, to say. But, quite true, difference in the outlines a distinct as It happens, this transaction is not of the hands of different In of fingers with Conward & Elden, but with me In the length of the fingers, divlduals. Are All Cow Punchers So Discourpersonally. I find it necessary to disthe relative distance made by the axis pose of theproperty which I have just teous?" o the thumb and the axis of the first sold to you at such an exceptional in many other ways. he was looking at Mrs. Hardy us get at the facts. When we have finger, and price to we as then facts, may agree and naturally I cannot run a chance agreed Horse Lore. of having my plans overturned by any as to procedure." that there is a very found Is It He Dave. said stood with Shoot," possible change of mind on your part. between the coat connection I am entirely satisfied, said Mrs. his shoulder toward Conward, watch- definite the and frequency with horses of color dusk the the about foothill settling The fact that Mr. Elden ing Hardy. occur. Thus white which markings city. wants to get the property back makes commonmost the far are the by latter I think, said Conward, "we can me more satisfied, she added, with color. chestnut the with associated boom is over. the We have that ly the peculiarly irritating laugh of a agree most the prevaare not And they only done well, on paper. The thing now woman who thinks she is extraordilent In chestqut horses, but It Is also, is to convert our paper into cash." shrewd and is only very silly. narily fact that the You know I of course, a Dave turned about The agreement is signed? said dont claim to be extended more to be are apt any great moralist, markings Dave. He walked to the desk and Conward, he said, and I have no pity in nature in the case of this color picked up the documents, and the for a gambler who deliberately sits In than in that of any other. Chestnut, check that lay upon them. His eye and so to gets stung. Consequently I am therefore, apparently possesses, markran down the familiar contract This not troubled these for a affinity with any nor speak, special agreement Is in the name of Conward any pity for you, and If you can get ings. Bay ranks next as regards the & Elden, he said. This check is rid of our holdings to other gamblers degree of frequency with which white payable to Conward & Elden." I have nothing to say. But if it is to markings appear In horses of this col Conwards livid face had become be loaded onto women who are in or, although it comes a good way bewhite, and it was with difficulty he vesting the little savings of their lives hind chestnut In this respect Then controlled his anger. They are all women like Bert Morrison and Mrs. follows brown, while the white marks 1 nardy then I am going to have a are met with less frequently , among printed that way," he explained. d am going to have them indorsed over good deal to say. horses Indian Dave went on with black and to me. News. If business has to be apolis rising heat: You are not, said Dave. You are done that way, then I say to h with "Loot Originated in India. thou- business 1" charging this woman twenty-fivsand dollars for a house that wont "I asked you not to quarrel." ConThe word loot came into the Engbring ten thousand. The firm of Con- ward returned, with remarkable com- lish language by way of India, and is I suggested that we get at supposed to be derived from the Sanward & Elden will have nothing to do posure. Origwith that transaction. It wont even the facts. Now, granting that the scrit lotra, signifying booty. boom Is over, where do we stand? We inally all booty taken from the enemy Indorse It over. as millionaires, but we in war pertained to the crown of the A fire was burning In the grate. are rated a dollars In the bank victorious nation, the title thereto bethousand Dave walked to It and very slowly and havent The at moment. this he lifted Mrs. ing regarded as indisputable. This deliberately thrust the agreement Into Hardys check "would have seen us crown was supposed to dispose of the flame, over next payday, but you say the these spoils of war according to its Well, If that doesnt beat all Mrs. firm must have nothing to do with it pleasure, bearing in mind the services Are all cow And which Hardy ejaculated. is the more immoral since of the captors of the matter. This punchers so discourteous? have of morality to ac- was, indeed, the basis of prize law at you spoken I mean no discourtesy, said Dave. labor from clerks whom you cant sea. But at every international con cept If my behavior has seemed abrupt, or to sell property to women who gress at which the laws of war and assure you I have only sought to serve pay say they want It and are satisfied with of mutual relations came under disDoctor Hardys widow and hlsdaugh the price? We have literally thou cussion it was agreed to exempt from ter." sands of unsettled contracts. We seizure private property on land and It Is a peculiar service, Mrs. Har- must keep our staff together. We have to restrict confiscation to the national dy answered, curtly. debts to pay, and we owe It to our property of the foe. I can only apologize for my part creditors to make collections so that ners behavior, said Conward. It need we can pay those debts, and we cant Cattle Eat "Rubber Cakes." not, however, affect the transaction in make collections without a staff. Why Experiments at Singapore have the slightest degree. A new agreement on the property we are now shown that a feeding cake for cattle holding will be drawn at once an agreement the taxes alone will amount to twenty and other stock can be produced from in which the firm of Conward & Elden thousand dollars a year. And I put the residue of Para rubber seed after End Be an Must There Somewhere, will not be concerned." It to If we are to you, stand up the extraction of an oil comparing fa going Irene Murmured, Rather Weakly. That will be more satisfactory, on sentiment, whos going to pay the vorably with linseed oil. their day. Yon should heqr them brag said Mrs. Hardy. She intended the re- taxes?" g I know ; I know, said Dave, whose f their yet in the Ranch- mark for Daves ears, but he had Springs Done Away With. moved to a corner of the room and was anger over the treatment of the Harmen's club. use of springs is done away The We are with in a new cord operated device Irenes eyes danced. Dave had al- conversing in low tones with Irene. dys was already subsiding. I am sorry I had to make your in the grip of the system. Still in for ready turned the tables; where her opening and closing transoms, winmother had implied contempt be had mothers acquaintance under circum- war they dont usually kill women and dows, or shutters. stances which, I fear, she will not even uoncombatants. That is the point Im set up a note of pride. Animated Billboards. Oh, I suppose, said her mother, try to understand, be had said to trying to make. Ive no sentiment about others who are in the game as lor lack of a better answer. Every- Irene. Billboards, on which figures are "Oh, Dave Mr. Elden, I mean that we are. If you limit your operations made to move by electric motors, have thing is so absurd in the West. But Is to and to you dont know how proud you to them my daughter, been patented. you were good know how much of a man you ho had dont Andrew. If "The trouble is, you cant Theyre dear only poor, She was wise. Most of them have already been spared. Women are so unused to made me feel you are. The winds and waves are always Perhaps I moved on. A few firms, like ourselves, on the aide of the ablest navigators. these business responsibilities, Mr. flushed and excited. will stay and try to fight It out ; try, Gibbon. c.onward. It Is fortunate there are a shouldnt talk like this. Perhaps But her mother was writing a cho-k"I shall give you five thousand dollars now, she said, "and the balance when you give me the deed, or whatever it Is. That is the proper way, isnt it? Well, it's done," said Irene with an uneasy laugh which her excitement pitched a little higher than she had intended. In an adjoining room Dave Elden heard that laugh, and it stirred some remembrance in him. Instantly he connected it with Irene Ilardy. The trutli was Irene Hardy hud been in lie background of his nund during every waking hour since Bert Morrison had dropped her bombshell upon him. And now that voice Dave had no plan. ' He simply walked into Conwards cilice. His eye took in the little group and the mind behind caught something of its portent. Irenes beauty I What a quickening of the pulses was his as he saw in this splendid woman the girl who had stirred and returned his youthful But Dave had poise. He passion! walked straight to Irene. I heard your voice, he said, in quiet tones that gave no hint of the I am very glad to emotion beneath. see you again. He took the hand which she extended, in a firm, warm grasp; there was nothing in it, as Irene protested to herself, that was more than firm and warm, but it set her finger tips My mother, Mr. Elden, she man aged to say, and she hoped her voice was as well controlled as his had been. Mrs. Hardy looked on the clean-buil- t young man with the dark eyes and the brown, smooth face, but the name sugYou remember," gested nothing. Irene went on, I told you of It was at his ranch we stayed when father was hurt." But I thought he was a cow puncher exclaimed Mrs. Hardy. Times change quickly in the West, Most of our madam, said Dave. business men at least, those bred in the country have thrown a lasso in 1 Pink-tar- n . 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