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Show EMERY CX)UNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH I iLER, AT !P0S ' iOrr'r"v.-,w.v.-..-.-.-v- 80, . ui.u, By nined forty pounds at tie years and gone back to who re-'-!t day. Mr. Keeler, St, Mt Thirty-Secon- d OswfiUkt, I W v "YOU'RE FIFTEEN nm AN'" 8TNOPSIS.-- T0 the Three-Ba- r ranch, Ariiona, owned Jointly by Bandy Bourko, Mormon" Peter and "Soda-WatSam" a fine collie makes its wayManning, in the lart stages of exhaustion. Inscription on its collar says Its name Is Orlt, "property of P. Casey." Scenting a desert tragedy, Bourke and 8am mount and let the dog lead them. The two find a dying man, Patrick Casey, pinned under an overturned wagon. Kneeling beside the wagon U hie young daughter Molly, fifteen. They the old prospector, who dies er rA By gtomach and bade I felt teak dizzy ana miseranie wont L torof the question. In fact, my aro I becaa taking L and Improved from the very Puttie. I now eat anything on the months sSUH:u worn ereij s back at eel like a boy again. 10 jratefu! of me noi repeating "Molly-mine- s!" 'Til look out for that, pardner," says Bandy. It la agreed that Molly stays aa mascot of ths ranch, she and the "Three Musketeers" becoming partners In the mines. Sandy Insists upon an education for Molly. Jim Pllmsoll, gambler, visiting the ranch, Insults Molly. He claims he grubstaked Casey, which made him the old man's partner. Mormon drives him off. Starting with a gold eagle, Molly's It would be praise inn. . 1 .11 . unite IS ror saie 03 L. Accent no substitute. faon bottles sold. ' us " MMj. Over 37 Pills are Nature's For sale Where. Advertisement Iinlac m Vegetable remedy for constipation. luck piece, Sandy, with Sam, plays faro at PUmsoll's place, winning Increasing His Income, 110,000. any change in me? johnny No, why? 13 cents. fo-h-I Just swallowed boori Teachers' College Index. 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F ASS ,ne ""t few applications should show P fitter wonderful (n.n.r.m.nt M. nt freckles vanishing entirely. 11 w.re t0 Mk th druggist for a,. oa vykdiiio; 11 is mis U the money-bach guarantee. f ork- - SoM IN SHORT th. the IS CHUNKS ithor Has Said Much Worth Con- lideration in a Few Simple Sentences. mi C01 "to a waste of time tryinr to dis-Nr" yourself. Anrl wrhv hrtthr Smebody is sure to find you out Her or later and give you the de- information." Althoush there nrc nlpntv of tieo- with more monev than thev know M to do with, they are all absurdly 'dependent when nftaroA oulntonco i' kind persona wltfl the roonlalte "wledge." en man is III he does not "Me ft) shave for tho rlnptnr'a visit aJess n" has a pretty nurse. But a an under sidiilar circumstances Rive the same nurse h 1 in order Present a good appearance." ciii'dhood I was severely tanked WllPTlPvr T fnlrf a llo Aa nn l 1 have been more often cut for wing truth than fnr any other wen of ?0od manners." From the Nation f Harlequin," by Stoni h Continued. "They're through. That's enough," said Sandy. "We ain't killers." CORNS without risk SiW V 5 Instant relief Hum hed of half-circl- e good-humore- s. neck-reine- . a no bullets came near the piir. The fusillade was sheer bravado. For almost a mil the twe rode at top speed, then 'they settled down to a lope that ate up the miles a walk at the end of three then lope and walk again, until the giant cotton-wood- s of ths Three Star rose frm the plain. Mormon tiptoed heavily eut oa the creaking porch with a husky, "Hush I" "What foT "Molly's asleep. 'Slsted on waitin' up for you." "Well, we're here, ain't wer demanded Sam. "Me, I got a scrape in my arm an' some son ef a wolf spiled my saddle. Sandy, he sorter evened up fo' It" "BleedlnT asked Mormon. "Nope. Tied my bandanner round It Cold air fixed it Shucks, it ain't nuthin'I Sandy's got a green kale plaster fo' it" "You won?" "Did we win? Walt till we show you." Molly met them as they went In, her eyes wide open, all sleep banished. "Was it a luck-piec- e she demanded. Sandy produced the package ef bills, divided it shoved over part "Tour half," he said. "Five thousand bucks. Bu'sted the bank. An' here's the 'rlglnal bet" He showed the gold eagle, put it into her palm. "Served me, now you take it" he said. "I'll git you a chain fo' It. It's sure a mascot same as you are the Mascot of the Three Star." She looked up, her eyes, doudy with wonder at the sight of the money, shining at her new title. They rested on Sam's arm, bandaged with the bandanna. "There's been shootln'," she said. "You're hit Oh I" "More of a miss than a hit' re-plied Sam. Molly turned to Sandy. Anxiety, that affection, something stronger stirred him deeply, 6howed now In her gaze. "You hurtr "Didn't hardly muss a ha'r of my Main head. Jest a U'l excitement. p'lnt is we got the money for yo eddlcatlon, like we planned." The light faded from her face. "Air you so dead set for me to go away?" she asked. "See here, Molly." Sandy leaned forward in his chair, talking earnest "xouve got me mamn- - or a ly, mighty fine woman In you. An' paht "Got two of 'em," said Sam. "Good shootln', Sandy I I reckon I missed clean. I fired to the left" "The man who's down is Butch," said Sandy. "I'd know his figger in a coal shaft. I've a hunch the other was Hahn. Hit him somewheres In the hand ; spile his dealln' fo' a while. Let's git out of this. They've quit" "Wonder if Pllmsoll was with 'em. How about the hawsses? Can you whistle Pronto back?" "Reckon so." Sandy whistled shrilly through his teeth. After a minute he repeated the call. There came a sound of pounding hoofs. Then that of others, coming from the town. "Better load up, Sam," said Sandy grimly; "we ain't out of this yet. That'll be Jim PUmsoll's brother-in-law- , likely." "Here come our ponies." As yet they could see nothing advancing, but a horse whinnied from the plain lying between them and the Three Star road. "Pronto," said Sandy, shoving cartridges Into his guns. A body of mounted men had come out from town and ridden fast upon The foremost stopped the bridge. with an exclamation at the missing boards. All wheeled In some confusion and slid their horses down Into the arroyo to scramble up the bank again and spur for Sam and Sandy Just as the pinto and the roan curveted up to their masters. The two cowmen leaped for their seats, Sandy temporarily sheathing one gun. They faced the townsmen, who formed a about them. "You, Sandy Bourke an' Sam Manning, stick up yore hands!" "You got good eyesight" returned Sandy. "What's the Idee? Ef you shoot don't miss, I'm holdln' tol'able close ternight" His tone was almost tolerant, full of confidence. "You was shootln' In town limits. Ag'In the May have killed someone. law to shoot Inside the Herefo'd line. I'm goln' to take you in." "You air?" Sandy's drawl was "How about charged with mockery. the Herefo'd men who stahted the fireEf you want our guns, works? Sheriff, come an take 'em. First come, first served." There was no forward movement A man swore as his horse began to "You-al- l Are D d Good to Me," She dance. Said. "You go back an' tell Jim Pllmsoll to do his own dirty wo'k, If he's got of you is yore dad an' paht yore maw. any guts left fo' tryln'. Me, I'm goln' Sabe? They handed you on down an', home." If you make the most of yo'se'f, you The sheriff and his hastily gathered make the most of them. Me, I've band of Irregular deputies, working alius been trubbled with the saddle-itc- h in the Interests of Pllmsoll, knew, an' I've wanted the with sufficient intimacy to endow see I lost out on a heap," 6ald So you them with caution, the general record Sandy. "An' Tm a man. I can git of Sandv Bourke and Soda-WatBut fo' a gel, with less. erlong Sam. None of them wanted to risk a An' there's the a thing. learnln's grand not and miss. Sandy would not. fine clothes an' theaters, cities, big Even a fatal wound might not pre- an' fine manners. Like Hvin' in anvent him taking toll. Sam was almost other world." as dangerous. They were politicians wide-eyeMolly, "But" said rather than fighting men, every one "that's the life I like. I mean out of them. And they were tolerably here. I don't want to be different." certain that Pllmsoll had ambushed "Shucks," said Sandy. "You won't the two from the Three Star. The Jest polished up. Skin slicked be. aneriff blustered. fixed to the style, nails hair up, with Sahdy you yit, "I ain't through shlned. Culchured. Inan trimmed find you." I know where to fcourke. be yore real self. You "You-al- l are goln' to have a mighty side you'll out of a bit of the take gold can't hard time flndin' yo'se'f afteh election, can change more than you ore any Sheriff, as it Is. The cowmen ain't the reel stuff. But, inter Iron pyrites a take crazy about you. They might goln' to be put Into notion to escort you out of the county if the gold's circulation, it's got to be reproper limits." fined. Sabe?" "You're Inside the town line. "I ain't refined, I reckon," said out Git minutes. In two be I won't with a sigh. "I don't know as Molly of our road," said Sandy, his voice to be. I can alius come back, want He I freezing in sudden contempt. I?" can't ven Sam roweled Pronto and, with "You sure can.' In the Jump, they galloped through "An there's Dad. He's where he without opposition. the half-rin- g to be. I Wudn't want to go wanted d aside to let Horses were from him. them pass. The wind ang by them away want you to make this trip. "He'd tuncented off from the road. .a tho I 8111. said Sandy. "An that settles . . V. .flAmnt A snot or two bnt 1 it You go off to bed an' dream oa It of aome to save their I" 1 y j. Ansa Osaa r Bob-- See titjdf m, i in nipk rerrlhlA itonja-!L. i could hardly -- digest a It would fiTgiyi Mr. Keeler. 11 twice bwu 7 to nearly iii M DUNN rives entire credit for "ordinary renaommiaua -- J. ALLAN Author of "A Kan to Hts Mat.." etc fjAtj y?06 xia wheeled end burled her head a hla shoulder, sobbing. We're powerful obliged U yen, Miss Bailey, for what you told us," said Sandy. "I'm tight sure you'd give Molly a fine home, but we got other plana an' wo aim to carry 'em eut PllmsoU's a skunk an' I'll block his game about tho mines of they amount to anything. Molly's goln She's got east for her eddlcatlon: plenty money to git the best that's goln' an' she's goln' to have it" "Then you better git her 'cross tho county line before many hours are over." Miss Bailey climbed Into tho machine. "You aim on takin' her out of the county to tho railroad she asked. "What school is she goln to?" "Wo ain't settled all tho details." said Sandy. "But we'll do that all right We'll git ready soon'a wo can. Meantime, well keep our eyes peeled against any order from m.- -.. imrock Trail of enforced aiij--u- -id- ely-tnown -.. .....................re - a GOES TO WORK , fourteen xe " or m -- Zlnl Sam, I'm goln' to soak yore am with iodine. that place oa Good night Molly." She got np Immediately, went to Mormon and to Sam and gravely shook hands, thanking them. "You-al- l are d d good to me," she said. Opposite Sandy she hesitated, then threw her arms round bis neck and kissed him before she ran from the room, with Grit leaping after her. Sandy's bronzed face glowed like reflecting copper. TELLS WOMEN OF fillODLE AGE What Lydia E. Did for Her Kansas City, Mo. "I was left in a Tery serious condition after childbirth could ever bo any Hi men came oeiier. 1 the 'Change of Life' was F not preand I pared for what I had to suffer. I had to bed at times to Hereford." Miranda waved a farewell as sho called out "Good luckl" Sam. announced "Some sport "That's tho kind of woman you sh'ud hare married, Mormon." Molly, excited now, demanded audi ence. she askod ea "When do wo start gerly. "Will you wait till they come out from Hereford?" "I got to think out things a bit, "One thing it Molly," said Sandy. sure, yoa got to tuba la aa' git a good rest Ef wo slide out it won't bo all a pleasure trip. I reckon Pllmsoll means business. An' he's sure got tho county machinery behind him right now." "I can take Grit?" "Wuldn't want to leave us some-thito remember you by 7' asked Sandy. "Somethln to help make sure you'll come back?" Molly regarded Sandy soberly, her fingers twining through tho dog's mane. "You d be good to him same as you air to me? Oh, Tm Just plumb mean to ask you that I know you w'ud. He's goln' to bo Jest as lonesome as me for a bit ain't you. Grit? He alius slep' with me, cuddlin' up, an' " She gulped, straightened. "Good night," she said. "Come, r Paso Cabraa. They did not make butter on the Three Star. Since the arrival of Molly an unwilling and refractory cow had been brought In from the range and half forced, half coaxed to give the fresh milk that Mormon in sisted the girl needed. Until then evaporated milk had suited all hands. But butter to go with hot cakes and y was an imperative need for the riders. The butter came over weekly from the Bailey ranch to be kept under the spring cover for cool ing. Usually the gangling young Ed Bailey brought it over In the crotchWhen Sandy saw the ety fliwer. sparsely fleshed figure of Miranda Bailey seated by the driver he winced In spirit This second visitation looked like mere curiosity and gossip and offset the opinion he had begun to form of the spinster that she was sound underneath her angularities and mannerisms. It was twilight The three partners and Molly were on the ranch-hous- e porch after supper, and there was no escape. Miranda nodded at the three partners, who rose as she came up the steps. "You sure need some new clothes, child," she said to Molly. "You got to have 'em. Now then, I come on business. Sandy Bourke, you ain't any of you the legal guardian of that child, air you?" "Nothln illegal In what we're doln. I reckon." "I didn't ask you that You-al- l ain't got papers?" "Jest what's the idea?" Sandy asked. "Someone flggerln' on makln' her stay at the Three Star unpleasant? Fur as Jest gossip is concerned, it don't have any weight with none of us an' there ain't no sense In it." " 'Pears you ain't glvln' me over an' above credit for sense," said Miranda, a bit grimly. "This ain't gossip. Here 'tis. I got it direct from my brother, who's heard the talk goln' round. You've run foul of Jim Pllmsoll or he foul of you, which Is more likely. Pllmsoll an' Eke Jordan, the sheriff, are like two peas In a pod. Now for the meat of the nut They're flggerln' on gettln' control of the gel away from you-al- l. They'll use argy-mlnfor the general public that she's too young to be keepln' house for three unmarried men, leastwise three men who ain't Hvin' with their wives." She looked pointedly at Mormon. "They'll rouse up opinion enough for a change. They'd like to app'lnt a guardian of their own kidney. Mebbe we can block that if one of us comes out an' offers to take her. I'd be glad to, for one, an' do the right thing by her." Molly walked over to Sandy's chair and stood behind it her eyes widening, her breath beginning to come quickly. "There's some talk about her father's claims over to Dynamite lookln' up. Party of easterners over that way lately, nosln around to find out owners, lookln' up assessment work an' so on. Talk of a boom. I reckon PUmsoll's twigged that Lawyer Feeder, who run for state senator an whose record's none too dainty, is in cahoots with Jordan an' Pllmsoll. Ed heard they figger on goln' before Judge Vannlman, one of their crowd, to get an order of court. She's a minor. They can git her away from you. If we crowd them too hard for them to app'lnt one of their own ring an' they're flggerln' on Pllmsoll, he claim-in- ' to be her father's partner they'll likely have her put in some institution. An' It's goln' to be done right sudden." Molly stepped out eyes flashing, fists clenched, talking passionately. "I won't go with 'em. I'll run away. They can't take me. Jim Pllmsoll is a d d liar. You won't .let 'em take me?" She turned to Sandy, her arms stretched In appeal. "No, Molly, I won't Will we, boys?" "You can bet everything you got an' ever hope to own we won't" said Sam. "That goes for me," echoed Mormon, but he scratched his fringe of hair in some perplexity. "Talk don't beat an order of the court," said Miranda Bailey. "Mebbe I seem sort of vinegary to you, child, but I'm not a bad sort I figger If you came home with me today we c ud manage to git you placed with us. There's been tattle about you stoppln' n . . ." here. You're fifteen "Some folks Is Jest plumb rotten," flared Molly. "I'm no kid. I . . . oh, If Dad was alive I" Sandy stood up and slid an arm Sho about her waxing snouiders. sage-hone- PinklW Vegetable Compound ter-morr-er CHAPTER Vt men-tlonl- IS. LiMDQUIST r Grit." The three men sat silent for a mo ment or two after she left said "She's sure a stem-winder- ," perfectly quiet as I could not even 1 stoop down to pick my anything from tho noor. i cud not sutler , ' I 1 anv nain. but I was decidedly nervous and could not sleep. For nearly two years I was this way. and tho doctor was frank enough to tell ma that ho could do no more for me. Shortly after this I happened to see in a newspaper an advertisement of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. Ia a few days the medicine was in the house and I had betrna Ha ase and I took it regularly until I was well. I recom mend the Vegetable Compound to others K when I have tho 'opportunity. "Mrs. May Lindquist, 2814 Independence Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Reward Finest Building. Old London is setting an example to the world In striving for beauty. The Royal Institute of British Architects has granted a bronze medal every year for the finest street frontage built within four miles of Charing Cross. It was won this year by W. Curtis Green, for Wolsely house, Piccadilly. More than a score of fine buildings were considered by the jury: Earl Crawford, Sir Aston Webb, Paul Sir Reginald Rlomfleld and F. Guy Drtwber. The quality looked for was not commercial but aesthetic and architectural. Liverpool and Manchester already have schemes for retheir beuutlflers. Loudon warding Mall. e, "How you goln' Mormon presently. Cuticura Comforts Baby's Skin to fix to get her away, Sandy?" "I got a plan warmin up," said When red, rough and itching, by hot Cuticura Soap and touches of Sandy. "Nearest to the county Una buths of Also make use Cuticura Ointment. is west through the Cabezas range. scentof now then that and exquisitely me then to an' railroad aim to git the Cuticura ed Talcum, dusting powder, an Molly'U make for New Mexico." one of the Indispensable Cuticura "Huh !" "You guessed It, Mormon. For the Toilet Trio. Advertisement. Pecos river an Bovllle an the Bed Map Sea Floor in Contour. ding ranch. I reckon Barbara RedThe first successful contour mnp of dlng'U handle the thing. She'll git a deep sea zone has Just been comMolly her outfit an' she'll know all pleted by hydrograpliers of the United about the right schools." Mormon brought his hand down on States government. It shows the submerged hills, valleys and cliffs over Sam's thigh with a sounding whack. "Dern me, ef he ain't the wise ol 34,000 square miles of the bed of the son of a gun," he cried delightedly. Pacific ocean. - n' "Sure!" Some men get out of practice beBarbara Redding, once Barbara cause they spend all their time preachBarton of the celebrated Curly O, was a bright star in the mutual firmament ing. of the Three Star partners. They had all worked together on the Curly O in the old days. Sandy had been foreman there. Once he had rescued Barbara Barton from horse rustlers with FOR INDIGESTION a grudge against her father, and once again he had rendered her even greater service when members of tho same crowd kidnaped her son, whom Barbara Redding had ELLAN S brought on a visit to his grandfather. Hot water Sandy had trailed alone and brought Sure Relief in the "li'l son of a gun," as he styled the youngster. There was little that Barbara Redding and her husband, wealthy rancher, would not do for 25 AND 754 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Sandy. "I've got an itch to give Pllmsoll an' his pals a run fo' their money," went on Sandy. "An here's the way Sure Relief ts two-year-o-ld CSTOo3?6B YipsAhM gFVlq I figger to do It, In tho rough. See you all think of it" Subdued guffaws rose from tho porch in through tho open window of the room where Molly Casey lay wide awake, the dog beside her. Presently she heard the martial strains of Sam's harmonica, cuddled under his big mustache, played "They're good," she said to Grit "An' they've flggered out something or they w'udn't be actln' thataway. You an' me got to be game." Next morning, breakfast over before the sun was well above the peaks, while desert birds were still rising, twittering shrill welcome to the dawn, Sandy went about humming snatches of cowboy songs Just above his breath as he oversaw the arrangements for the exodus that was to be, not so much a flight as a deliberately calculated laying of a trail for the pursuit. He was In high humor as the buckboard was greased, a team of buckskins given a special feed and a and various articles gathered for transportation. Among these were a spool of barbed wire and a dozen fence ports. His spirit was Infectious. Four riders, jumping to his orders, tossed badinage among one another like a ball. Mormon and Sam, seated on the top rail of the corral fence, openly admired their partnei. "Like old times. Mormon?" suggested Sam. "Sure Is. I reckon well have soma fun 'fore the day's out Got yore gun oiled up? Mere's Molly." what one-hande- d. rub-dow- n, "What's It ft, sheriff? or hawss steal in' 2" Moon-shin- e BIG PROFITS For Agents GOLD TRANSFER LETTERS GLEAMO and PROTECTO fl.eO profit en f 1.80 sale, applying initials on side doors ef automobiles; no sailing experience necessary. GLEAMO end PROTECTOour money making articles; every auto owner and housewife wants them. Write for agency or sere time and order $6.60 or $12 outfits at once. We sand instructions. 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