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Show STATE UTAH DAILY PAGE SIX. JOURNAL, broken and danger. Bones had been hard-lookihis body showed many a bruise and gash. But the surgeon assured them that with skillful nursing he would lie brought out a well man in the end. Through It all the tenderLife of remained unconscious of all the in a foot A True Story Mining; Camp effort being made In his behalf. But now, as the sun began to play about the room, he legan to show signs of : trinU-rfoo- i you, deed. he was all but welcoming death. waking from his lethargy. He moved damn "Daiiif. bul For Pete was the real thing in the uneasily on the bed and mumbled Inwhile ItlK Pel, dunce!" maml bad man line. itself buried Holier he was bad distinct sentences now and then. let from ),l forty-foThe surgeon had gone in search of bane enough, but in drink a demon. It was at the woodwork In the anerlly a trying moment. A defenceless but breakfast, but the nurse was faithful a cut groove second a and of the bar, at her post. Every move of the Inin the heel of the tenderfoot! patent defiant youth against a crowd of rufman waa anticipated with a and fians a a with reputajured noted bully leather boot. It mother's watchfulness. And her head The tenderfoot stood rigid In his tion as a inunklller to maintain. was a trying moment fur tha tender- bent low upon occasion to catch the track. The wimke from nig rete'a foot. hla But he had staked his all and feeble accents of his llpa A timid about pun floated, a blue haze waa firm and won. rap came at the door. Quietly ahe head. The odor of the powder filled across the room and thew open reSeldom full Ita glided does of true stood him Big grit Before hla noetrlle. door wide In response. And there the common wardone murhath with Humunity drink, Itte, wild and crazed and It la admiration of cour- what a sight met her eyes. In a row der gleaming from hla bloodshot eyea. virtue,We may find deeds of daring like a company of soldiers stood thirAbout him. agreeable to the Imminent age. do all to ourselves, but teen half-piwolves whisky flasks, full to Impossible a of hungry puck tragedy, like In our blood tha Its course at the tjie stoppers with Mulligan's best of quickens about a ring, gathered a dozen And Just before them, as rneaneat rufflana of the gulch. Itoath spirited action of another and we be whisky. In command, was a a waa so men. It true And with that might moat captain waa n repugnant aurh a death The pile of thirteen silver dollars, and a to all hla nature denth In a bar room gnrig of miners and But fact of the tenderfoot's gameneaa had card laying beside it bore the legend: brawl Blared him In the eyea. man finally worked Its way Into their drink other or Pete any dance for Big minds. Petes gun was he would not. Hla Jaw aet hard. Hla clouded A MERRY CHRISTMAS head waa erect, eloquently beapenklng dashed from his hand even aa he MR. TENDERFOOT FROM bullet the Hla the nature. finding trigger, pulled hla of latent the dignity MULLIGAN. BIG PETE lodging in a picture of Washington llpa came together In thnt firm claap AND THE GANG. Hla bestride his white horse that hung at which denote indomitable will. iiiitdi-1vibrated, evidencing the mad the end of the room. The tenderfoot, rush of thought lit hta brain. But the but a moment before in peril of hla A movement of the patient made her bine eye met Bote' In ateady defi- life, wus proclaimed a hero and esturn with a start. The tenderfoot was corted to hla hotel, ance. sitting bolt upright In bed. The unSuch resistance waa new to Pete. Faster and even faster the train seeing eyes stared straight before dowsed bad Invariably Tenderfeet His Jaw was net and through their dignity at hla command, and, flew down the mountain Bide. There him. his clenched doubt. She wae teeth came the words; no for chance revolt longer natural the against swallowing Dance? I'll see you damned first!" helng mnde a spectacle of. had danced wus running away. The foreboding of She gave a little scream. She did na bidden, nut this dainty youth waa the third brakeman had proved true. not could hold daror No understand, and waa afraid he was brakes that He a himself tartar. engine tirovlng would hurt himself. But, faint aa It ing. defying the omnipotence of the string of cars on the gulch grade. The tenderfoot crawled and stum- waa It recalled the tenderfoots wanbully of the gulch and retea rage from car to car, from brake wheel dering thoughts and gave sight to the bled to frenay. leaped he to brake wheel. In a vain hope to unseeing eyea They were wide with dance eh!M You wont For a screamed. Well I'll teach you how!" check the mad rush of the flying train. surprise and astonishment. With a. jerk he raised the murderous The sharp Jagged hunks of ore cut hla minute the llpe were dumb, and then gun util It pointed at the tenderfoot's hands and shins as he struggled along broke forth with the glad cry. Nelheart But the latter refused to move. and the dust blew In hla eyes and lie!" 'And nurse and tenderfoot were The folded In each others arms. R. a. He could not if he would. The spirit filled hla throat and nostrils. Gordon In Milwaukee Sentinel. In rocked their back and forth cars hla to ancestors of hla had mounted brain a spirit thnt had never brooked mad career, threatening every Inetant insult nor indignity from a king or a to leave the rails and plunge comet SHE GOT THE POSITION. ruffian, and waa ruling there. Pete fashion through apace. The trees and might, no doubt would, kill him. Here, shruba rushed past at a giddy pace. -- ack of Acquaintanceship Proved a Better been shot," mumbled the alone, friendless. 2.000 miles from his Recommendation. home, among rough and lawless men, tenderfoot as .he swung with the for government positions on Applicants a brake of the Jest would end In a tragedy and strength desperation few ever be the wiser. Still he would wheel. Thought of the wild scenes in under the civil service have a more the barroom on the day before flitted or lees discouraging time of It It was not dance. hl brain of Pete Pete not so In the olden days, when pokb But It waa not all courage. Or If It through were. It was the courage of a man threatening him with a big revolver. tlona were first thrown open to woof made desperate by a run of 111 luck too And then In rapid flying lnatanta came en during the civil war. Here Is the long continued, and defying the fickle thoughts of the little woman he had story of the appointment under Gen. goddess to do her worst. The ques- loved. He could see her smiling, tear-stain- Spinner of one who Is etlll a clerk In fsce as she had looked at the the treasury department tionable value of the man who tempts the gods, and daringly stakes fortune parting. And then another lurch ot It waa In 1864,". she said, two and life upon the turn of a single card. the car brought hla thoughts back to of women after the years He had arrived at the rough little the present, and he wondered how had become a appointment I was permanent thing. momenta before be the 'twould aame day. many mining town but that n I in sister. visiting Washington Bleak and desolate waa the landscape fars would Jump the track, and he made up my mind that I wanted a that spread before him as he had would he a bruised and blood-staina stepped from the richly furnished corpse beneath the wreckage. He had position, and so, I without saying Pullman to the depot platform. His worked hla way back from the engine word to any one, went to the treasheart had sunken within him aa he midway to the caboose, setting the ury and made my own application. I had gazed over at the expanse of val- brakea as he came. The third man simply walked Into Gen. Spinner's ley and mountain side, wrapped In A had done the aame coming forward to office and sold: mantle of dingy snow. Just about him meet him. And now, clinging to th Gen. Spinner, I would like a posiwaa the town Itself proper a medley last brake wheel, he shouted serosa tion In the treasury. The general of shacka down what purported to be the space between the cars. looked up carelessly, and then went She's running away! Can't hold on with hla work. a street, a few more scattered about and then the her! She'll go to hell when she strikes over the landscape, How long have you been In Washmountain rising in grand proportions, the curve! Go back and tighten 'em ington? he asked. a gigantic pillar aupportlng the again!" Three years.' AVlth despair In his heart the tenheavens. Its side was dotted with Influence have you? he What to brakes bark give the great piles of ore. from the midst of derfoot started asked. which rose the tall stacks of the shaft another notrh if possible. The knowlWhat Influence?' I stammered. 1 houses, that belched forth great vol edge of the awful fate awaiting them know what you mean.' I waa bewaa dont curve not had struck hla ears the umes of amoke. when they To come the snorting of switch engines, the speed reduced lent wings to his ginning to get embarrassed. Yes, influence,' he said. 'What laboring up some grade to a shaft feet and energy to his muscles. Sudhouse, or bucking a string of care denly the car he was on lurched vio- congressman do you know?' 'I dont know any, I faltered. This around a seemingly Impossible curve lently, then like a camel rising from Twas the old story a woman In the Its knees, rose clear of the rails and time the general threw down his pen, case. Back In a far eastern city he carried hlni 'mid dust and ore and fly leaned hack in his chair and looked had met and loved and .been loved in Ing debris, rolling, tumbling, down the at me. turn; just out of college he'd found, mountain side. Youve been In Washington three employment In a metropolitan hank. and don't know any congressyears are "Oh. where fny poor pardner Young, handsome, with every prosman? he queried. Good! Thats. recare you?" pect of a brilliant future, he'd attract- you? Where The position ommendation enough. echowent of hlndman the The of cry attraction ed and acknowledged the " Is to were tonea yours. Hie from crag. crag ing his employer's daughter. ones of A few short weeks of happiness had the trembling, tear-lade- n child. her mother lot Strong seeking followed and then the crash. Papa Force of Christian Examples. Manyrocka had awakened to the situ- man that he was sobs shook hla frame Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African ation. He had social ambitions for aa he run. stumbling, calling, through his daughter. Tears, protests and the sliruba and over the stones In explorer, told, himself, how he was pleadings all proved futile. The ten- search of the tenderfoot.Hnd conductor converted by Dr. Livingstone. Hla The engine tnen story Is as follows: I went to Africa derfoot was dismissed from the serThe as prejudiced against religion as the vice of the bank. Tha daughter was scrambled along In his wake. sent abroad to find forgetfulness In engine and biggest part of the train worst infidel in London. To a rethe excitement of travel. Kmblttered. had held Its rails. The engine and the porter like myself, who had only to rendeal with wars, mass meetings and discouraged, he turned his steps west- pressure behind hnd bowed the burward. A friend had secured for him ter. But released of a part of Its political gatherings, sentimental mat a place as brakeman on the mining den the engine had controlled the ters were quite out of my province. railroad. Tomorrow he was to make reiiniiint and guided it In safety But there came to me a long time his first trip. Today he was staring around the curve and now the search for reflection. I was out there away down the bnrrel of Big Pete's revolver. for the missing brakeman waa on. from a worldly world. I saw this The ruffian's command to dance was a man awakening from solitary old man there, and I asked tinging in his ears. The peril of hla a Slowly, like he of long tha opened his eyes and myself: 'Why does he stop here In sleep, position had driven the fumes about. The blue dome of euch a pl-- -r What is 4t that Inhimcalled He gased his brain. from liquor self a fool for accepting the compan- heaven spread itself far above the spires hint?' For months after we The eun'e met I found myself listening to him, ionship of Mulligan's barroom even lieaka of the mountains. rays glistened on the snow, and from wondering nt the old man carry out under the spur of unsupportable of a the words. 'la-avHe realised the affront the distance came the chug-chu- g all and follow Me. these fellows found In his snug clothes switch engine laboring up a grade, lie But little by little, seeing hla piety, and soft speech. And then Big Pete's wondered how he came to that deso- hla gentleness, his seal, his earnestvoice rang out again with Its new late place, and how he had sought rest ness, and how le went quietly about command that he danse. And he saw in such a spot. The memory of the hla business. I was converted by him, accident come laid He tarhim. a to not as the gun pointed at his heart tried to move and could not. But his although he had not tried in any way get. to do It." Then, foolish youth that he was, in arms and legs were pinioned by some Invisible some one lie heard power, the his lonesomeness and lovesickness, calling: great dark curtain of a future, with- running, Two Signs of tho Times. Where are you? Oh, my pardner, out hope, across his mental vision he wliere The are In per capita drink bill of the you?" Issue. determined to accept the He tried to answer, but the dust and (Tolled States la Increasing, but, on dirt clogged his speech and he could tho other hand, statistlca show that not. Then memory came to him. He more people are Joining the church wondered how Imd he wits hurt and now than ever hefore. The Episcopal GOLDITJ if he would live. Then merciful utv church, for Instance, gained 3 per consciousness took him again. At last cent on ita membership last year, the they found him. And. with the ten Presbyterian church 214 per cent and demean which rough men yield to the Methodist church alo made an those who endure a common danger with themselves, they carried him up unprecedented gain. Boston Globa. the mountain side to the caboose, Blowly they ran hack to the little sta tlon and conveyed him to a room In the hotel. The cost of tea is so FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1905. THINK THEMSELVES TO DEATH ng TENDERFOOT'S CHRISTMAS I i j ur nt Thousands Said to End Llvoo by Mon bid. Unhappy Thoughts. Thousand' of people actually think them selves to death every year, says Suggestions, by allowing their minds to dwell on morbid subjects. The idea that one has some inelp lent disease in one'a system, the thought of financial ruin, that one Is get -- g on in life without improving prospects any of these or a thousand similar thoughts may carry a to a premature grave. tea,., y A melanc oJy thought that fixes Itself upon one's mind needs as much docdisease. It needs toring as to be eradicated from the mind or It will have just the same result as a neglected disease would have. Every melancholy thought, every morbid sclion and every nagging worry should be resisted to the utmost and the patient should be protected by cheerful thoughts, of which there Is a bountiful store In every one's possession. Bright companions are cheaper than drugs and plasters. The morbid condition of mind produces a morbid condition of body, and if the disease does happen to be In the system it receives every encouragement to develop. We need more mental therapy. n r-"- The Place for It. 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