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Show THE LOVE ¥FHAT but | met this -man ENDURES. Thoug'h brave its walls as any in the land, And.all the turrets lift their heads in grace; Though skillful and accomplished artists trace another strange story of a lost mine,” he without funds, unfortunately. “Well, I bit lize a shark. how the blood rushed through continued, ‘‘and one that was rather costly to me. That truth is stranger than fiction is a wise old saying. There is very little romance which enters into the life of a professional Wall street man. Asa rule, he is ever ready to grasp after the almighty dollar, and I confess that I am no exception to this rule, and many times during my life have | invested money in wildcat enterprises looking more for a possibility than a probability. These enterprises to which I allude I enman: I knew the school I at school about 4 of found, about 000 told him room at he could a nominal that rent. hada the back de- lighted with the proposition, and moved in the next day. He put out a shingle, ‘Money to Loan, but I noticed that he had no customers. “Two or three weeks after his occu- pancy of the office | noticed that he came less erratic in He began his business to arrive at9 morning and would be- hours. o'clock remain in ‘the until 4 in the afternoon locked in the ofiice. Shortly after he developed this regularity in his business hours I met a man in the hall whose unusual appearance attracted my attention. He was tall, attenuated toa marked degree, of sallow complexion, smooth acc. twinkling, ferret like eyes and hair of shining blackness which hung down upon his shoulders. He was attired in a suit of rusty was an old black. The coat fashioned frock cut and but- toned tightly to his throat. He broad brimmed slouch hat. he carried the father of wore a In his hand all umbrellas, a great big gingham affair that would keep the rain off four people, and looked as though it might have belonged to one of our revolutionary grandfathers. ‘I became interested and stopped to see what his destination was. He moved along with a quick though step and tapped shambling’ lightly upon my school teacher neighbor’s door. It was opened and he disappeared within. I heard the bolt click as the door was locked from the inside, and I turned into my office with a peculiar feeling that I would like to know who this strange person was. ‘IT saw him come every day, usually about the same time in the day,” continued the banker, ‘‘and he would remain closeted with the school teacher for several hours. At last he disap. peared and my curiosity got the better of me. I made up my mind to ask the school teacher who his friend was, par- ‘ ticularly as I noticed that he had changed his shingle to read, ‘Mining Engineer.’ “JT that learned his friend dium, and from the school assertion that Spiritu Mine.. teacher was a spiritualistic me- then he startled me with the he had located the ‘Sans You must know that this mine is the richest mine in the world; was worked before Cortez entered Mexico, but for over a hundred years it has been lost. The school teacher’s assertion rather staggered me, but I laughed incredulously. ‘* “You needn't laugh, said he, ‘I have found it and I have a man locating it within a stone’s throw. Two years ago I went to Mexico ona vacation. Iam somewhat of a physician and happened to save the life of an old negro woman who was formerly a housekeeper for a padre. This padre was the only person alive who knew the location of the mine, and when he died he divulged the secret to the negress, who, in turn, divulged it to me.” This, of course, was interesting after the fashion of dime novels, and I did not take much stock'in his that locked he was really in story until I saw earnest.’ his desk and took two He un- rolls of tracing paper out. One of them heshowed me and said: “ilis is my original map. The mine lies 400 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and Vera Cruz is the seaport to it. The other roll contains a map drawn by the clairvoyant whom you inquired about. He has never seen my map, yet he has drawn almost a facsimile of it, with the exception of a few minor details. I am not a story. The $10,000 schooner, each. We provisioned her put ten miners aboard school teacher $25,000, for Vera Cruz. We three months and no schooner. Then I tele- to Vera Cruz, asking if the was there. The reply was that it had been there nearly two months and empty. This was news, any way: but I have five but four, I He seemed others a graphed schooner compelled have the for three months, of her. gave the and he set sail waited one, two, news from the office, and told me that on to give up school teaching. rooms here, and as I need and chartered a Brooklyn ill health he was supper every night out of the ‘plentiful portions to which I, as Bob, had assisted Tiny Tim.—Toole’s Reminis- BAKERY, — 126 W. First South St. JOHN C. DOSCH, Proprietor. Bread, Cakes, Pies, Htc., | Tuckett’s Delivered to any part of the city. Spiritualist. when another month rolled by and nothing further was heard we became suspicious and sent a detective down there. He telegraphed in cipher that the crew had been discharged, the miners paid a month’s wages, and were there waiting further orders from the school teacher, who was Pooh Bah mine. Neamt Candy Pactary, A Clean sidewalk in front of his swearing and lItah (lentral Railway The only Broad Guage Road running telegraphed. the had followed .him to El] Paso del Norte, got him across the river ona friendly quest and then nabbed him. The school teacher seemed to be all broken up and FRANCIS COPE, G. F. & T, Agt. JOHN SHARP, Gen’! Supt. JOS. E. TAYLOR, General Uncertaker © Embalmer CG. B. DURST, —DEALER Owns and runs the only CASEET and COFFIN Manufactory between St. Louis and San Francisco. make amends. I will yet! go again. I have The mine is there. See, never for an instant.’ “Oh, that’s a I have parted likely the map with it, not story. school teacher: ‘don’t say that. Justone more chance,’ and he tottered over to the table, laying the map where all could see it. ‘See! Here isthe read to millions, hundreds and thousands of millions. Just cne more chance, gentlemen.’ “Not a word was spoken, and you could have heard a pin drop as we turned our eyes on the man. My God! will I ever forget it! His face was as white as a sheet, and his fingers clutched nervously at his map; he threw one hand convulsivcly to his heart and then fell forward upon the table. ‘‘He was dead—dead, sir, of apoplexy. We quietly took the body to his home in Brooklyn, and the Friday following he was buried—I think in Greenwood. We have his map and the padre’s letters, but we find that we might as well hunt for a needle in a haystack as to hunt for the ‘Sans Spiritu mine,’ as there is no indication in which direction from Tim’s Appetite. In the **Christmas Carol” Mr. Webster provided a real goose and a real plum pudding, which were served smoking hot for Mrs. Cratchit and the seven little Cratchits, of course including Tiny Tim. The children always had enormous portions given them, and all ate St., 8S. L. City. P. O. Box, 295. SALT LAKE CITY. 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She got my money and deserted me, but I Only Line Carrying the United States Overland Mail. BETWEEN stockholder. as the hinges of hell. Rather than bury myself in the trackless waste without the IN— tas- Cash paid for all kinds of Farmer’s Produce. ‘*¢(entlemen,’ said he, ‘I confess that I have wronged you, but I was tempted by a woman with the face of an angel and the heart of a devil—a heart as black “THE OVERLAND ROUTE.” Makes Direct Connections Telephone No. 70. there with bowed head, taking without |. a murmur the whirlwind of execrations angry TVION PACIPYC RAILWAY Box 3, Center Street, . PROVO, UTAH. No. 258 ‘First Door South of Walker House. which were hurled at him. > ‘“*Now explain yourself. shouted City Groceries. All orders promptly attended to. for handling of all classes of freight anc passenger business. told me to get the stockholders together, which I did inside of ten minutes, for my messenger found them all on the floor of the Stock Exchange. I felt sorry for the poor school teacher when he stood <nithe?Market. a 850 FE. First, South: St.."Salt Lake The only Road making througla connection with the Union and Central Pacific Roads without transfer of through freight. Thoroughly equipped de- tective to find him, and by hook or crook bring him back. A month later in walked our detective and the school teacher. He :. ST ar Central and Southern Utah. of the schooner and then CANDIES and Notions; Choice premises. - Every Chicago citizen can point with pride to his record for the last six months.—Chicago News. through and Purest Caps, Gloves, Dry Goods Record. Judge Gary declares that it is a citizen’s moral duty to keep ice and snow off the Manufacturers of the Finest Full line of Boots, Shoes, Hats, . ‘*A week later came another telegram, in which the detective reported that he had ascertained the fact that the school teacher had sold the provisions at a good profit and had left Vera Cruz with a very handsome woman, with whom he seemed to be infatuated. We did a little DUNN & C60. CAS So ceences. as quickly as I did and I subscribed $20,- to see him walk into my office a year ago. Heasted me if [-knew where he account Lamp upshot of the matter was that I agreed then and there to interest myself in forming a stock company. The next-day I brought four of my Wall street friends into the school’ teacher’s office and he laid his subject before them. They bit teacher. «1 lost sight of him for two years, when I was surprised could rent an lieavens, my heart! teacher to be a repu- Aladdin’s Wonderful nine months ago, that my disposition to become the richest man in the world had got the better of ny good judgment, and the strange, weird story which I am speaking acquaintance with hearty which the school teacher was a master. He read it to me, and it sounded like an I thought about to relate will explain itself. ‘For a number of years I have the extraordinary rapidity with which she consumed what I gave her, and she looked so wan and thin, and so pitiful, table man. de showed we the pocre’s Manuscripts, writen in Spaniun, of into a conserva- but was the conduct_of the little girl who played Tiny Tim. The child’s appetite appalled me. I could not help noticing Harness, Saddles “T have just been readinga strange story of the ‘Lost Cabin Mine’ in an old Evening Sun which I found in a pigeon hole of my desk, said a prominent Wall street banker yesterday afternoon. ‘*‘Sit down a few moments and | will teil you business EMPIRE of | every night; but what really troubiea me FJ THE SANS SPERITU MINE. tive WEEKLY. that her face used positively to haunt |. Wedding and Party Cakes made to me. We watched as well as we could, after lighting a cigar and gazing thought- | and the moment Tiny Tim was seated order. Crackers, Confectionery and Canned Fruits of every description. and began to eat we observed a curious fully at the smoke rings for a moment. “I then asked him for further details, shuffling movement at the stage fireplace, and everything that Ihad given her— but le would give me none, further than that the old negress was dead. I asked goose and potatoes and apple sauce—dishim what it would cost to work the mine, appeared behind the sham stove, the N.G. Christensen & Bro and how he was fixed. He replied: child pretending to eat as hearty as ever ‘***T have never seen the mine, but from from the empty plate. When the performance was over Mrs. Mellon and mysome manuscripts I have of the padre’s I judge that there are untold millions in self asked the little girl what became of sight: . Of course it will take some the food she did not eat, and, after a And General Horse Furnishing Goods. money to fit out an expedition, but I little hesitation, frightened: lest she 48 I. Second South St. think the output of a month’s work will should get into trouble, which we assured pay for all the mills necessary, My idea her could not happen, she confessed that Repairing Promptly Done. is to secretly charter a schooner, provis- her little sister (1 should mention that ion it for say one to three months, put they were the children of one of the aboard the necessary tools to work the scene shifters) waited on the other side mine on the quiet until I get enough out of the stage fireplace for the supplies, toacc ire the mine lawfully, but lam and that the whole family enjoyed a _ Most beautiful designs on every hancl, And gleaming statues in dim niches stand, And fountains play in some flow’r hidden space, Yet when from frowning east a sudden gust Of adverse fate is blown, orsad rains fall Day in, day out. against its yielding wall, . Lo! the fair structure crumbles to the dust. Love to endure life’s sorrow and earth’s woe Needs friendship’s solid mason work below. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. that I had settled down bragged his wonderful powers, and I gave him $9 | if he successfully accomplished his ob-| ject. He does not know what he has drawn, and Iam the only person in the world who can put his hand on the long | lost Sans Spiritu Mine.’ | IT confess that the fellow made an im- | pression on me.” continued the banker, | All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand. tered into in my younger days. and .he WESTERN age THE heartily No Transfer at the Missouri River. <= Mark and consign your_ Freight via. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Fast Freight Line. ALEX. MITCHELL, Commercial Agent. E. E. HOLT, Contracting Agent. 262 Main Sv., just below Walker Satur Lake Ciry, UTan. House, rae Grslaainies | Dealersin Behning and Conover Bros.’ PIANOS. Matchless Burdett ORGANS. _ Stools Covers, Scarfs & Guitars. 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