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Show TIIE EEAVEIt COUNTY, WEESLY PRESS, BEAVEH. CTAir (i ut tm004 'WWV04 W WW1 ft990 44004 V 00004 n Robert J. CStssJ Amkorof m IBKitradoaw V IRWIN MYERS Clofett toy HarporaBietaara tVs Off vet In parts, appeared on although there were no sfik trapping! to bis courtesy. It was a very genuine ; c.w--- ..BUT I'M SICK OF IT' ALL". rm not wet, except for a lit and manly deference he paid her. She i. ."Weil, tle splashing," she said, "and you are. was quite sure that he .would at any Synopsis, DaVld Z3den, eon ef a Does anything occur to your moment give his life, If needed, to dedrunken, shiftless ranchman, a inaverick of the foothill, Without reply he walked stolidly In fend her from Injury and accept the la broking bottles with hla platot to the cold water, took ber In his arms transaction as a matter of course. Hit from hla running cayuse when tha and carried her ashore. The. lariat physical endurance was Inexhaustible flrmt automoblla he baa aver een anivaa and tip over, breaking the was soon repaired and the car hauled and his knowledge of prairie and footleg of Doctor Hardy but not Injur. to the ranch buildings without further hill seemed to her almost uncanny. He Ing hla beautiful daughter Irene. Dave reacuea the Injured man and read every sign of footprint leaf, wamishap. brines a doctor , from 49 mile Later In the day he said to her : "Con ter and sky with unfailing insight He way. Iran take charge of the you rider. had no knowledge of hooka, and she housekeeping. ,."Some," she answered.. "I hate rid had at first thought hla Ignorant but den city horses, but don't know about as the days went by she found In him these ranch animals. But I would like a mine of wisdom which shamed her CHAPTER I Continued. to try If I bad a sadd! V ready-mad- e education. -I an extra he said. have After such a ride they one dsy dissaddle," After breakfast Irene attended to the wsnts of her father, and by this "But It's a man's. . , . They all ride mounted In a grassy opening among the trees that bordered a mountain canyon. time the visiting doctor wag manifest that way here." ..V-She made no answer and the subject In a crevice they found a flat stone that Ing Impatience to be away. But Dave declared with prompt finality that the was dropped for the time. But the gave comfortable Seating and here they rested while the horses browsed hones most rest until after noon, and next morning she saw Dave ride-awa" the doctor, wlHy-nHIspent the morn leading a horse by his side. He did their afternoon meal ? on the grass not return until when he but above. Both were conscious of gradevening, ing rambling in the foothills. Mean ually Increasing tension : In the at while the girl busied herself with work come theldle horse carried a saddle. ' "It's a he said when he mosphere. For days the boy had been about the house, In which she was ef drew up beside Irene, "but It's a girl's. moody. It was evident he was harborfecting a rapid transformation. I couldn't find aoythin' else la the whole ing something that was After the midday JUnner. Day elMfe dlggln's.-""1-----calling through -his nature for expression, and Irene aessed the team for the Journey to "rm nure It will do splendidly If I knew that this afternoon he would talk . , town, but before leaving Inquired of can Just stick oh," she replied. . But of more than trees and rocks and footIf there were any special pur . Irene another problem was already In ber prints of the wild things of the forest chases, either personal or for the use "lour father Is getting along wen," of the house, which she would recora- - mind. It apparently had not occurred ' mend. ,! ; With some diffidence she men- - to Dnve that women require special he said, at length. for riding, especially if it's a "Tes." she answered. "He has had a tloned one that was uppermost In her clothing "strad-legger.- " - She opened her Hps to good holiday, even with hla broken thoughts soap, both laundry and Comention ... . this, then closed them again. leg." llet. Doctor Hardy had no hesitation He hod been on to trouble her "You enough will be in calling for a box of his favorite goln away before long,' account. He bad already spent a whole he continued. cigars and some new magazines, and "Tes," she answered, and waited. took occasion to press Into the boy's day scouring the country for a saddle. "Things about here ain't goln to be hand a bill out of all proportion to the She would manage some way. Late that night she was busy with the same after you're gone.", he went : value of the supplies requested. on. He wore no coat and the neck of The day was Introductory to others scissors and needle, ' his shirt was open, for the day was . were to that follow. Dave returned CHAPTER II. warm. Had he caught her sidelong the next afternoon, riding his own ' horse and heavily laden with cigars, glances, even his slow, Doctor Hardy recovered from hla In mind must have read their admiration. magazines and soaps. The following day it was decided juries as rapidly as could be expected But he kept his eyes fixed on the green that the automobile, which since; the and, while he chafed somewhat over wster. :':-"You see," he said, "before yon cams accident had laid upturned by the road- spending his holidays under such cir way, should be brought to the ranch cumstances, the time 'passed not un It was different I didn't know what I , was mlsetn, an so It didn't matter. buildings. Dave harnessed his team happily. A considerable acquaintanceship had Not hut what I was dog-sic- k of It at and,' instead of riding one of the horses, walked behind, driving by the reins, sprung up between hjm and the senior times, but still I thought I was llvin' and accompanied by the girl, who had Elden. The rancher had come from the thought this was life, and, of course, East tn turning now I know It ain't At least tt won't proclaimed her ability to steer the car. over forty years before, but their two. men be after you're gone." i. the memories, . With the aid of the team and Dave's lariat the car was soon righted and was found many links of association i third strange," she said, not in found to be none the worse for Its de- persons known to them both; places, direct answer to his remark, but as a flection from the beaten track. Irene even streets, and houses, common to soliloquy on It as she turned It over fan their feet In early manhood ; events of her mind. "This life, : now, seems watch local presided at the steering-whee- l, history which each could recall, empty to yon. AD my life seems ing the road with great lntentness and from different angles. And empty to me. This seems to tne the although turning the wheel too far on each oc Elden'e head and -- stooping real life, out here In the foothills, with gricxled casion, which gave to her course a frame carried more experiences than the trees and the mountains, and and somewhat wavy or undulating order. d would fill a dosen , city our horses, you know." such as Is found in bread-kniveor lives, and he had the story-teller- 's art She sentence have ended the might a better perhaps figure would be to which scorns to spoil dramatic effect in a way that would have come much compare it to that rolling motion af too strict adherence to fact But closer to him, and been touch truer, fected by fancy skaters. However, the by a no ray of conversation would he admit but mean of lier direction corresponded conventionality had been bred in Into the more personal affaire of his to her for generations and she did not . with the mean pf the trail and all went heart or of the woman who had been find It possible yet freely to speak the merrily until the stream was ap- hla . wife, and even when the talk truth. .. i- proached. Her was a rather steep turned on the he withdrew boy quickly such a con "It's wonderful she life," descent and the car showed a sudden It to another topic, as though the sub- tinued. "One gets so strong and hap purpose to engage the horses In a con, y. , test of speed. She determined to use ject were dangerous or distasteful But py In ,; silence following such "You'd soon get sick of he said, the a feat which was ac adhce, after a long diversion, had he betrayed himself W. Ann' o nstt.ln VST. Ann' complished, tinder normal conditions, Into a whispered remark, an outburst nothtn', Beente, Tm eighteen, an' I by pressing one foot firmly against a of feeling rather than 'a- communica bet you could read an' .write bettern contraption somewhere beneath the tion. ; ' , me when you was six," steering-pos- t She shot a quick glance alone so been Tve said. he much," vdownward and, to her alarm, disco ,"D!d yon never go to school t" she seems I have never been anything In genuine surprise. She knew but alone. And sooner or later It asked, his speech wss ungrammatlcaL but geta yon It gets you." due to careless training "Ton have the boy," ventured the thought that rather than to no training at alt doctor. "Where'd I go to school he de "No," he answered, almost fiercely. school "There manded, ain't bitterly. "That would be different I could forty miles. Guess I wouldn't stand It then. But I harent got him, within have went if I could," he added, as an and I can't get him. He despises me because because I take too much at afterthought, wishing to be quite honest in the matter. "School didn't seem times." He paused as though wonderto cut no figure until Jus' lately." ing whether to proceed with this un "But yon have learned somer she wonted confidence, but the ache In his heart Insisted on Its right to human continued." Some, When I was a little kid my consympathy. "No, it ain't that" he tinued. "He despises me because he father nsed to work with me at times. thinks I wasn't fair to his mother. He He learned me to read, a little, an' cant understand.:'! wanted to be good to write my name, an' a little more. him to her, to be close, to her. . Then I took Bat thlpgs didn't go right between " to booze, as natural as a steer under an' mother, an' he got to drinkln' roars to drown his more, an' more, an' Jus making h the brandln'-Iro- n hurt But the boy don't understand. of It " Wt used to have a mighty fin He despises me," Then, after a long herd of steers here, but It's all shot alienee t ''No- - matter. ,1 dsple cur ! Piece' i When we sell a bunchjht old maq 11 stay In town for a month rWithout Reply He Walked Stolidly alt" The doctor placed a hand on his or more, blowln' the coin and leavtn' Inte the Cold Water, Took Her In But Elden was himself the debts go, I sneak a couple, of Mia Arms and Carried Her Aah era. shoulder. again. The curtains of his life, which steers away now an' then, an' with the ered not one, hut three, contraptions, he had drawn apart for a moment he money I keep our grocery bills paid all apparently designed to receive the whipped together agatn rudely, almost up an' have a little to rattle In my pressure of a foot If one could reach viciously, and covered his confusion by Jeans. My credit's good at any store them and as similar as the steps of a plunging into a tale of how he had led la town," and Irene thrilled to the note stair? This Involved a further hesita- a breed suspected of cattle-rustlin- g on of pride la his voice as he said this. tion, and In automoblllng he who hesi- a little canter of ten miles with a rope The boy had real quality In him. - "But tates Invites a series of rapid experi- about his neck and the other end tied I'm sick of It all" he continued. "Sick . ences. It was quite evident that the to the saddle. "He ran well" said the of It an' I wanna get out" You think yon are not educated," tar was running away. It was quite old man, chuckling still at the reminisevident that the horses were running cence. "And It was lucky he did. It she answered, trying to meet his outburst as tactfully as possible. "Pertoo. as- wss a strong rope." The situation away, the sumed The morning after Dave had brought haps you are oc, tbe way we think of qualities of a race, and the only matter of grave doubt related In the borrowed saddle Irene sppmred It to the city. But I guess yon could to Its termination. In a sort of bloorae suR, somewhat show the city boys a good many things Then they struck the water. It was wonderfully contrived from a spare they don't know, and never will know," mot more th two feet deep, but the skirt, and announced a willingness to "extra resistance tt caused and the ex- risk life and limb on say cm that Irene makes a promise tra alarm it excited In the horses re- Dave might select for that purpose. He sulted tn breaking the lariat. Dave provided ber with a dependable mount full of momentous conselung fast to his (earn and they were and their first Journey, taken somewhat - , quences, i wxm brought 10 a standstill Having gingerly along the principal trail was was It without tied Incident be them to a ftciVI them, post accomplished aod returned to the stream. The car the forerunner of many others, plung (TO BIS CONTINUED.) at la Vat middle ; the girl had put her ing deeper and deeper Into the fast nt beside her. snd the nesses of the foothills and even Into French Cat Chrysanthemume. feet on the The chrysanthemum Is erva4 as a , the passe of the very mountain themtwtft water flowed by a few Inches . I flip was laughing merrily when selves. Ills patience was Infinite and. anlad In Trench households, Dave, very the bank. at ' - y; strad-legger- ," - . 4 v-.- That's , well-rounde- s; if foot-brak- v. . If -- . It r ;.;,C v i;rr L& -- - - - be-fr- m 1 UTAH BUDGET . Balances tn funds tn the state treas rw.sa. , . . i I fisUry at the beginning of the present cal year, December 1. totaled f 1,497. ' I AM IN LOVE with my work and would not trade rny job for any other job in the world. All I know about this business I learned at the Lincoln Auto and Tractor : Experiments near Milford and Ohu City have demonstrated .that irrigation by means of wells can be made a success in .Utah. ' --.; Miss Alia H. Onover of Salt Lake Is the first Utah nurse to be approved for vocational training by the federal board at Washington. ; Early snows have caused considerable suffering among live stock of the state, according to a bulletin' Issued by J. Cecil Alter, local meteorologist r When Wyoming miners returned to work last week, 200 cars of coal daily were added to Utah's supply, according to officials ut the Union l'aahf railroad. " Senator King expects early action on his new bill, which takes away from the department of labor Jurisdiction e over the deportation of aliens and that authority In the attorney ?. , general. That the Investigation of the high cost, of living In Ogden Is a matter for the state authorities and not the city, was the opinion expressed to the board of dty commissioners by the city atV torney. '; y;::?;;'-:;''- ; " Five hundred ami forty veterans and widows of veterans of the Black Hawk Indian war havh-bta!npensions under the provisions of the Smoot act The disbursements will aggregate . about $325,000. , :, Announcement that $250,000 will be of expended In building the first-uni- t' a dry process wool cleaning plant "in Utah has been made by C. B. Stewart, assistant treasurer Of the United States L SchocL You can BIG PAYING POSITION -- ed Wool company. t A dam, ten feet hgh and some 200 feet long, Is planned by A. J. Hill of Suilthfleld, in stori g about fifty acre-fe- et of water from the runoff of Han som Hollow watershed, to irrigate uliu'ty-flvacres. ' J. Leo and Avard Fairbanks, Salt Lake sculptors, have been chosen by the memorial committee of Idaho to furnish counties and cities of that state with memorials for soldiers who were killed during the war.,Visual Instruction has become one of the approved methods of teaching science In Utah schools. The L. D. S. unlverslTyat Salt Lake has purchased two moving picture machines carry on this work.' " Utah la suffering for a lack of teachers of home economics, as at present every available teacher Is and there are many districts In which there are none for this department of the. schools, ; A movement In Sanpete snd Carbon counties, for diverting water from the Mammoth reservoir rights 'In part to the Sanpete county side of the Wasatch range, is making some headway, according to latest reports. The state board of equalization la preparing forms for the use of county assessors In receipting for and collecting personal taxes or taking bonds for the payment of taxes on personal property ss required by the new state , law.,, Admirers of the scenic wonders of ZIon National park, Bryce's canyon and other wonder spots of Utah met in Salt Lake last week and took the first steps toward the formation of an organization to promote these play- grounds. v '..j.. r,i Tbut Maude E. Tabor, former Ogden school teacher, whose body was found In a trunk at the Tabor home In Law-toMich, was not killed In Utah, Is the opinion of the Ogden police, who have investigated the local connections " r ; , of Miss Tabor. William Parson, a former service man. Is alleged fo have obtained $7300 from a bank In Ogden, through systematic forgeries of the name of his brother, M. Parsons, a cattleman of Nevada, who- - was doing his banking 1 In Ogden by malt V " Petitioning the city commission for a pardon on the ground of his being a col miner and willing to go to work In the mines James Martin won his release from confinement In the city Jail 'at Salt, Lake on the charge of drunkenness, -In - the- - light -- against - syndJwlJetle propagand unaccompanied by the ad vocacy of violence, the laws recently passed by the Utah; legislature fclve little or no atft'decmred Herbert Van Dam, Jr.: assistant attorney general, im&tg, a.t.?alLLake. : Under the law enacted by the thir teenth legislature,, employees of tbe state board of equalisation and. assessment 'are taking roisj the records of the land office, both .state and fed eral. 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