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Show WORLD AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY, A Fit I L 21. VOL IV. NO. 21. 1S!)7. "She proved worthy, and' gave her STEEL LETTER BOXES. avoid tbs danger of detection at an again; and as I glanced at' him from early hour in the morning, for only .time to time I felt sure his would be tha entire assistance to her young mistress. a light blow 'is required, the bock of concocted fill the I should in. next grave They desperate' plan, the letter box being very thin hardly T WAS In a pretty,, It was late that night, and I was which, by means of some mysterious REASONS WHY THEY ARE SUPERIOR. thicker than sheet iron." Inquiry at counjust thinking of going to bed, though tallan. drug, they managed to carry coma the postoffice showed that no attention and. deI I such as result with was have home; hadn't Rex out, try church yard bad been given to the question of steel that I heard the mighty uneasy about him, when I scribed; and while I was listening to Very Conflwlni Irmon.trmlliit Orly letter boxes snd that the matter had of the door click romore wonderful the downstairs than heard a any story following itory. Light Blow Keiiulrml to llrrok tli never been brought to the notice of The sexton had as It opened and shut, and then I rec- mance I had ever read, this same faithof an Iron Bos A Milllou the officials by the Washington authorBark and us. his as ful servant joined step quick hurried, been at work at a ognized V ities. Several years ago there were a " I found the door open, she said llom Aro New ia I'm. 1 little distance, but he came upstairs not a bit like the la oy of the last number of boxes on the extreme west two to the Slgnorlna, 'and bearing voices, H be observed the in- - slow, dragging steps even and but side of the city robbed ly being broken was lighter and came well, knew all quicker terest with which I nights, directly sss&IDS were recently but eucb things I hadn't done here.' to are rare. The official and used it be; than to gaze had stopped postmathe opened j! by Information the when said that, in the door and see was giving to from the opened, easy 'But it a straight wondering upon ster-general for his opinion, few thieves would take moment he was beside me next the was all that not agitation young ladys eq. finms pus pus 8iq os supplying street the risk of the noise Involved in this wild, haggard, pale as death, and with well, and I guessed that if some Vl ..Upl Jd)tejd ppqeq JJASU l boxes for the operation when there was no certainty blue eyes almost starting change was not coming soon she was his great IliaJOK ,. il pa coming four years. that anything of value would be found from hie head! I'm not a nervous man, In danger of dying in earnest from exsausia,, uondijasni eiduiis aqi tna but I jumped up worse scared than If citement The n umber of In the box; at least, this would be the and consequent exhaustion. ssa qaiqa uo appiem atiqa jo ljuqi I had seen a boxes In use is close case in the settled parts of the city, Before I utcould ghost. a complexion like ivory, and the redMy mind was speedily made up. I With while 'n the outskirts the chances of to voice for 1,000,000. a failed ter Rex me, word, my be to one good man knew our minister dest lips. She was a fine figure of a breakme hard by the arm and whisthe loss from letters of value being found would be caught ten of was I out and thousand, picked girl, too; tall snd elegant, though age and those de- exceedingly slim. Ae a matter of fact, hoarsely: pered him his soon the at k bedside, hair telling and the slight; regular Don't speak, uncle, but just listen. whole story while I helped him to manded by natural some postmaster! Instruct their mail that Ive heard belongs to that kind of dead. I hope you believe dress. Blanca Isnt It is estimated collectors that, If a lock la out of orof increase population, an of consisted beauty. Her family Is Look! dead. not she read! and he bid is accept- der anu a box cannot be opened In the whose contractor I that seen the a man more Never have uncle and aunt, and their son, to whom a held of before ed 400,000 or regular way. It la the man'a duty to eyes to will be my on scrap In called situasoon took paper, the he supply but and dazed; she was engaged to he married, on which was scrawled these words: York get a hammer or a paving atone and New the whom she seemed to hate worse than tion, and helped us out of our perplex- 500,000 before 1901, says 'Rex, my darling, if I die. or seem ity. He went with me directly, and a Tribune. The boxes in ordinary use are break it open, and. after getting the poison. die, believe them not! Have me special license was obtained at once by made of a cheap quality of iron. There mall, report the fact to the station at It isnt likely that I would ever to from my coffin within twelve Rex, so that next day the young couple are three sizea. It may not be gen- once, ao that the broken box can be retaken have known the family affairs of folks so far above me, even In a country hours of my burial, and all may yet were married and driven by me (in the erally known tbat a letter box ia a placed. It la obvious that a steel box be well. You will not fail me, dearest. minister's carriage) to a dis- patent affair. Tbat la the fact; ao, too, would lie less amenable to this process place like this, where everything gets I read this some of the Improvements recently than an Iron one. message extraordinary station. tant railway talked of, more or less, but for the cirover more than once before I took In Its Of course, I need not say that Maria, made are covered by separate putents. cumstance that I possessed a nephew, A Visit to VGaudu. who was about the handsomest young meaning, but as it flashed on me, I saw the maid, accompanied them. She had In such a case the patentee, or tho as well as Rax how little time we had fellow that ever the sun shone upon. proved herself Invaluable in bringing owner of the patent, assigns bis rights Sidney Capt. Langford lllnde gives to lose, and I forestalled his words. clothes to her mistress, and a box of to the government for the time tha He was as fair as the Slgnorlna account of a painfully Interesting Come on, in heaven's name! I valuable contract is to run. In addition to the recent visit to N'Gandu, the was dark; his eyes were blue, like jewels. capital of on tat .12 The next day there was a great hue bids received for Iron boxes, some pro- Gongo Sutete, the principal lieutenant violets, and his hair like gold; and, whispered. It must be close bless you, sir, when these two young oclock, and as safe as it will ever be and cry over the disappearance of posals for steel boxes were put In, aud at one time of Tippoo Tib, but now unfor such a work. Fortunately its Maria, whom the Italians railed a thief it is said that steel boxes can now be der the people first saw each other it was as State. The mode of exk night, and all the moon and a monster of ingratitude; but they obtained at a lower price than was paid ecution Congo clear a case of love at first sight as any these people is remarkamong other Romeo and Juliet, and just as there was has gone hours ago. Come never suspected the real cuse of the for iron ones under the contract soon able. When the chief sentences a man on! natural as the flame between fire and girl's running away. All this happened to terminate. The advantages of the While I spoke I found a little dark years ago, sir; but I hear from my former, it Is asserted, are that they he hands him over to the waiting tow. He Is immediately torn to we were already descend nephew now tlSat his wife is at length would prove more durable, and that crowd. "My nephew his name was Regl-aal- lantern, and and pieces, disappears as quickly as a and we called him Rex for short Ing the stairs, and next moment we so strong and well that they are going It would be less easy for thieves to hare ia broken up by a pack of hounds. was the organist of the little church were stealing through the churchyard, to make their appearance before the break them open. When Mr. Wana Every man lays hold of him at once over yonder, and the young lady sang with my pick and shovel in hand, Italian cousin, and claim the Signor-lna'- s maker was at the head of the with one band and with tha other I had caught up as we passed great fortune, which that villain 1g the choir, though she was such a which department he was favorably Im- whips off the piece with hie knife; no by the outhouse where I had kept had been enjoying ever since his re- pressed with the Idea of using steel grand one. one stops to kill him first, for he would boxes but when a new contract was to In that way the two young people them. It was terrible work, but in less turn to Italy.'' by doing so lose his piece. More than I betime than used a had ever he spade be made, near the close of his term, first met, and their acquaintance proonce, after a' drum-hea- d e grave was opened, did not think he would he Justified In gressed rapidly, as you may suppose. fore the newly-madSTEP COUNTS. FIRST THE when a spy or deserter waa shot, the coffin the of rifled its precious contents, The cousin to whom the Slgnorlna was Imposing the additional expense on the onlookers said to the Rex which captain and parI to Walt our In Clille and the carried Lies for home, connecDlinii engaged used to come to church with incoming administration. In do him? Its no use you Why ty, bury from Birth. her. I reckon that Italian fellow loved wrapped up in a huge shawl which I tion with this matter an interesting when are we shall, of you had gone for the brought purpose. Parental Ignorance, general ignor story is told by a man in this city, who the girl In his fierce way as well as he Eh, my! But it was the uncanniest ance that there is even an alphabet of has had for some time business rela- course, dig him up." The capital concould ever love anything, though It was thought he cared most about her night's work that ever I did since the nutrition, is black with heathenism, tion with the postoffice department. tains from 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants. It is surrounded by a double. ditch and hour I was born! We laid the body on says the Chautauquan. There is not The incident took money. place in the time of d earthwork, and this by a Of course he was as jealous as a my bed, and we chafed the cold, white even a hazy idea that digestion is a former postmaster-genera- l, and In In and at the listened vain Every trunk in this palisade hands, palisade. Turk, and if looks could have killed, chemistry, with its exactions and its his office. This is the way the tale was crowned with a human skull." poor Rex would not have lived long to pulseless heart. But I saw no sign of moral, mental and physical conditions, runs, as narrated by the New Yorker: be his rival. But neither my brave life. She was as beautiful as a figure that there is a hunger of disease that I was in the office of the postmaster-genera- l, The town has six gates, and the apRex nor Miss Bianca cared a bit for of alabaster and as lifeless, for aught food never satisfies, and that there U as was also another man who proach to each ia, or waa, "ornamented the Signor's black looks, and then, you I could see, but Rex declared that she a starvation from overfeeding that hat had some interest in the then existing by a pavement of human skulls, the must know, the young lady never really waa not dead. in its wake disease, moral and Intel contract for letter boxes, and in urging bregma being the only part that showed as was it So, that necessary to was all the engagement. It agreed lectuai wreckage and death. The evil the advantages of UBing steel for that above the ground. This pavement was made up by her relatives, and she al- should restore the empty coffin and fill works begins in the nursery, whure purpose I told thorn that it was an of a snowy whiteness, and polished to ways declared she would rather die in the grave again, I was obliged to there is no limit to the feedings or re exceedingly easy thing to open the the smoothness of Ivory by the daily than marry her cousin, declaring bold leave him there, on bis knees beside suiting end to the woes of restlessness, boxes in use and extract the mall, pasaage of hundreds of naked feet. I ly that she loved Rex Haywood, and her, wildly kissing the poor cold hands fretfulness, disease and death. There Why, said I, I can open one of those counted more than 2,000 skulls in the and calling upon her to open her lovewould never marry anyother man. are no human lives that can be made boxes and take everything out of It pavements of one of the gates alone." "And one day, with his bright face ly eyes to see her lover by her. But so Of perfectly peaceful as infantile lives in four minutes by the watch.' I had no hope that anything but snme shining with triumph and merriment, Xrw rhotoarspliy In ('nlnra. were the if and and the of course, end It the first they yet incredulous, ypar Rex hurried away to the church to fearful trouble would come of it, and other man A offered French inventor. Monsieur Viile. reached with apparent health it will be to bet 2100 that it practice his music for the next Sun- marveling and terrified as to what due to an Inherent is suid to have debe couldnt I but dune. to refused con of bet, day. But it was a very different music might be the end of the business, I stituiion. The first strength was arranged that tlie trial should veloped a process by means of which it in dis step every hastened away to the work that await ease is the first morsel of food that be made right in the office. I went photographs showing objects in their ed me. lulls to be fully digested. This re downstairs to make my preparations, natural colors can be made in a very "lint they were right, and, like in an Instant loss of general tone They consisted in getting a fairly heavy simple way. With some solution, tlie suits stupid old man, I was wrong; for The piece of iron and a block of pine wood secret of whose composition he at when I returned the trance-lik- e Bleep with weak parts most affected. essels with was broken, and the soul had awak enlarge, resulting strang both of which I could easily carry in present withholds, he washes the senened within that apparently lifeless ling pressure between the structures my coat pockets without attracting at- sitive plate on which the negative la or sensitised paper, form, and the lovers sat holding each and in time a morbid condition called tention. In the meantime they fixed taken. The plate, is to be made the a which lot a on of in and stuff it box, up positive put is disease lie to reached, other's hands, her head resting on his named, ac on a lock. Then they went out of is similarly treated. At first the picput to as and while the he cording calm locality shoulder, character, sought to fearful agitation which had taken pos bronchial catarrh, asthma, rheumatism the room and locked the duor. At the ture has the appearance of any ordisession of her now that she began to eczema, etc. They all have a clearly end of four minutes they came in with nary photograph, but after three sucn realize the horror of all that had hap- ascertainable evolutionary history tbat a triumphant air. I was sitting in the cessive washes, one blue, one crimson-reone have and postmaster-general'- s been chair, quietly does not involve a germ theory oi pened. The box lay on the floor passed over it, it assumes the colors of Ah! that was a brave girl, and origin or a germ treatment of relief whistling. and alongside of It lay all the 'mail the original object, all arranged in might fill a volume with and it is barely possible that this is had put In it. The head of the their proper places and intensities. In they her history and all she went through true of acute diseases to a larger ex The other worda, the- blue takes hold only In those few months from the time tent than Is generally believed. Every department looked dumfounded. where there was blue in the original, man other turned 'How fairly pale. of her first meeting with Rex till this age has had its specifics, its special so on with the other colors, and and did do it?' as asked as soon you they awful night. But I must cut It short, dispensations, whereby old disease-a- c the from proper shades are represented. Sir their astonishfor the night is coining on. To be counts under a high pressure for Im they recovered ON HIS KNEES, H. Trueman Wood, secretary of the I ment. waited for them long enough then. She never told Rex mediate settlement are to be abolished of Arts. London, and Capt. W. that he played when that sad day came, brief, or Indeed a had become to I Then Society lifted the impatient. tenth-paof what by miracles or through remission half, have not only witnessed for on the very next morning I tolled she deW. Abney turned it and box over, showing the with those wicked rela- rather than expiation. That will be of colored photographs by the the bell for Blanca Morelli, who had tions suffered broken been niuklng in. had As back soon of hers, especially the cousin who the golden age of living in which the been found cold and still and white went out of the room I took the new process, but they have themto marry her. wanted causes of disease will bo me at thefi as they to entered dress maid for her when her on ray lap, laying the front selves experimented with Ihe plates box the "At laBt their persecution reached a very inception by a paralyzing specific breakfast. This was a Friday and the I took out my block and and solutions, and they express astondown. Then funeral was set for Sunday, and you point when she could bear no more, and life made continuously happy piece of iron and, with a single blow ishment at the results. Captain Abney and she discovered a plot by which she through salvation by grace only. may be sure, in a place like this, there which did not make noise enough for sas that he Is still somewhat skeptiwas plenty of talk about the sudden was to be hurried away to Italy, unthem to hear It in the next room, broke cal, despite what has been seen, and known to any one, and she knew well to examine the mysterious prodeath and the hurried burial. Tlie Xfwl of I'arilmi. open the box and removed the contents, wishes before bn will undertake "But my nephew poor Rex! said that she would never see Rex sgaln cess farther Peace with God is Impossible with The whole operation did not take half In this world if this plan should be caron what to principles it works. nothing. He seemed turned to stone, say Nc the time I had asked for. The postmaout pardon, says the Lutheran. tut he played the most beautiful music ried out She was in despair. was ster-general convinced after "The Italian saw that she had dis- child can feel comfortable under the that ever was heard In our church for OresmTa Vest Iruna Orchard. of its father with the sting ol that that it was not worth while to roof Immediwas she the and covered of the services plot, he funeral girl loved; the In Oregon there are 25,000 acres o In its conscience and the sense spend large sums of money In provld and, though they wouldn't allow him ately locked in her room, all communi- guilt with boxes letter expensive locks, prune orchards. They go with bread ing to go near the grand mahogany coffin cation with the outer world cut off. of sin, not as yet forgiven. An be could so when in is a like thr they sin thorn easily broken and tea for BUpper, and young ladies In the pay of her in the church, I took care he should Even her maid was who would acquire a pleasing expreswished to get at their con one If flesh source constant a ;lnto irritation of as but the she Into the It knew, lower to girl grave, and relatives, help me of mouth for photographing or for sion be Of it tents. said course, may that he stood beside me and dropped a seemed to love her personally, god, and a menace to the health of the body visitors are taught to say would undertake entertaining thief no such a Job be and must the soonei found It removed, great bunch of red roses down on to driven to the last extremity, she hold the expression until and of a with streets prunes" the chance city, herself obliged to make a confidant of the better. The longer it remains, the on the It as I began to shovel In the earth. into a broad melts It away blow a hear the ithat might policeman "Well, well, my poor Rex! I hope I her, and to trust her life to this girls more grievous the mischief and the smile. a man a with But 'pal' easily might face more of a difficult the such see of task removing it despair discretion. may sever HER LOVE STORY. CON-SIDER- ED ed 'i.-- I let-J't- er blue-blac- one-hor- se Mo-re- lll pitch-blac- d, post-offi- ce court-marti- al, loop-hole- J. MIS uUh graaa-gree- d, story-writ- er - rt bread-and-butt- er |