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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH m THE A STORY OP THE GREAT NORTH WEST Ou vingie e. aoc ILLUSTRATIONS 6y COAirsfii The dull rumbling again broke 16 through tne bowling ot the storm of I fire that was fast surging Us way to The Red Death. 80 they were left, these two the the cup among the peaks. East and the West alone upon the Behold the Hog Rack running out . might) pyre ot the Jumbled peaks. Only the forbidding spine of the Hog from the Jumbled peaks, a blade beBack, running like a great thin blade tween the surges far below. Behold a double high between the red surf creeping at great black horse, carrying Its base, carried a passage out of the burden, staggering blindly. See a mammoth mongrel who tugs Bllets had planned roaring death. that the splendid black should make at the rein tied to his collar and It first. strains to follow the dim trail which Now she turnedt bark to the two calls only to the heavy muzzle bugging men she loved the Treacher, silent the earth. And listen! A woman's golden voice, under the shielding ferns with his Bible and bis flute, Sandry prone upon shrill with exquisite agony. the earth, his face In the pine nee"Help! Help! My God! Oh. my dles. She passed him and knelt beside God! I'm choking! I can't breathe! the other. Her eyes were dim with Save me! Save me, Hampden! You the old look of emotion. She bared great brute, can't you do something T" the white face and gazed long upon In her wlldnoss she turned and struck IL The call of blood had ever held the man behind her and she never her to this ninn mysteriously, though knew that her beautiful hand was red both were Ignorant of the vital tie with the blood of his wound. As Hampden looked Into her face, between them, the Preacher becauso of the dreamy blank In his mind since distorted like a maniac's, his hard the tragedy of that far-of- f day, Slletz eyes softened. He knew how slim the bocause Kolawmie, wise beyond his odds that they would beat the flames generation, bad seen how blood takes to the foot of the trail. Also ho knew to Its own, even at Its cost He bad In that moment that they would uevr loved her mother and had tried to make It. "Yes." he said, swiftly, "there Is make her Indian, though she was white, a waif of the old frontier, and somethin' I can do." He slid off the he bad seen ber break her heart and horse. With heavy hands he seized the skirt of the woman's gown and die. Therefore, after silent hours by the ripped It from her. tearing It Into Great Waters be had accepted the Strips which he wound about her and mandate of Destiny and had taken the fastened securely to the saddle horn. "When you come to tb' Hog Hack babe of the Ilroken Sign and given her to the only white woman he would shut yer eyes an' don't look down. truBt, Ma Dally, who took her with He'll take you all right Now Goodfew questions when she saw he would bye." He stepped back, then caught her not tell her hlHtory. So now Sllutz looked for the first and last time con arm for one fleeting aecond. "Poppy girl," he said hoarsely, "kiss sciously upon her own. I'rosontly she leaned over and kissed him softly, re- me Jiiat once. I'm done for. but I love you My God! How I love you!" placed the ferns and rose Hut Poppy Ordway Bhook his hand ftuBlde Sandry she slopped, stood a moment gazing around at the pine loiiBe and shrieked to the horse, which boles that loomed like fearful ghoxts started forward with renewed heart In the smoke, and sat down beside under the lighter load. t blade of the Out upon the him, tucking her feet with the ape old motion of the blanket-wearerbeneath Hog Pack crept Consnah, his long her skirt, so deeply bad she absorbed body flattened to the rock, his pals the ways of the dusky people whom eyes contracted to pin points. Illuck Holt stopped at the awful he loved She did not speak. point where the spine left the mounWhen at last the man. bis faco tain, trembling In every limb, and drawn out of all semblance to Itsoif. snorted with fear. Par below In tbe raised bis eyes to ber she was calm sea of amoks long red streamers as the hills before the fire He looked licked up toward them and blazing t ber, raising blmself on bis elbow, torches lighted them like searchlights. looked long while Knowledge was Hut the dog pulled ahead on the long reins, as hs was bidden to do. lis bora In blm. faithful, wistful hy60 this was the West, the world be was going borne, had once thought so unbearable, this brid that he was. And ths horse waa of that fine was the wild, the untaught, the crude which does Its bent In the face mettle this slim forest creature who served of Therefore be shook himdanger. him without question because be had self slightly, gathered bis feet and bought ber with a kiss, who asked nothing, who atayed by blm to die because she loved blm! Who still believed In him despite that other' declaration that aba was his promised wife! And yonder went his world, his cultured, polished East, riding down to life and safety, ber love forgotten In lbs face of danger! Yonder went what be had thought "the best blood of the land!" Nay, ha had beeo wrong! It was hers beside blm. Its feet tucked under It In meekness, the savagery hidden In Its dim black eyes! The last barrier went down In Walter Sandry. the last last strand of prejudice broke with a nap. Hs rolled near and caught the hem of ber ragged skirt. "Utile 8'leu!" hs said brokenly, "oh. Utile a letx! What am I that you .should havs duns this thing!" She looked down at hint and the raro smile curled up lbs corners of the lips above lbs sign. "You ars my man." abs said softly, "the king of ths wbols world! You are ths llgbt on the waters. Sandry. the mist In ths valleys, ths path to ths feet of God! Only I bsvs lost my A Great Black Horss Carrying Doufooting thereon " ble Burden. A tender wlstfutness rang In her voice. 8I10 foil silent, after her fash stepped out carefully on the narrow Almost fainting, the woman In Ion when great emotions stirred ber. path Randry's eyes smarted under blind the saddle shut her eyes snd clung to His cbln was quivering ths saddle horn, every nervs in ber Ing tears. with the mighty emotions that swell j body stretched to tbs utmost snd her his heart to bursting and bis scorched breath held bard. and b'arkened bands clung, trembliug. Once she swsyed, opened her eves to BlletC skirt. unconsciously, and aaw ,ths pin U p "8s. Utile one! I corns at last to far below where a cross gust of wind your 'Ood abovs ths sea'' Taks my blew ths smoke aside hand tbal ws may go together, and two-foo- s CHAPTtR Bnt the gtrl rained XXXII. cslm face to ths nnapekab'e heavens a face In which all struggle hsd been stilled. whr there was neither hops nor fear, n! ereat content. "No." she eald. "I cannot pray for I bavs lost It as the I havs tin toul " girl e cf Iota Tbs man could not speak and sbs Answered ths look In his face "Ws will go together. You havs no God. I bavs forsworn mine. Us will go to bell It Is the right law tbs sure and Just wags of sin." she was falling Into ths ststely Hlhle language, taking on tbs simple dignity of ths Preacher's way and manner, "but ws will go together. I 1va say soul to you." Biting his ssbesj lips Hendry rows on Is knes snd gathered her Into his rms. lis held her to htm with all ths yesmlng of his breaking heart snd sorted bis trm La bsr throat. hl sling and was filled with a generous joy In that he had found these-twalive, wound alowly down from the cup behind the Hog Back, penetrating that fringe of pines at Its foot which had formed tho trap. Tbey wars now but hideous blackened shapea, monsters that towered frightfully Into the rain, their bases smoking here and there where a bowlder shielded stubborn Ores. Closs along the faca of ths giant cliff they pressed, taking tbs shortest ll CHAPTER XXXI. pray.- shrieking hoarsely that two women were lost up there and tbat hs was go lng after them. As be ran, looking up, something fell from tbs bidden heavens and splashed upon bis face. It stopped him In bis tracks. Then another fell and another, big, plashing drops that struck blm like stones In their portent They thickened swiftly, beating up tbe llgbt ashea lu tiny puffs, and from tbe gathered men, and accounting, busy with roll-cathere came first astounded exclamations and then, as the drops gathered headway, a mighty cheer that rent the covered skies, even as a heavy clap ot thunder shook tbs hills. "The rains!" they cried, "the rains! Ths first rains!" And It was even so. Nature took hand and sent Destiny skulking from tbe havoc of her carnival. The plashlngs turned to a downpour. Among the mountains ths effect was Indescribable. Tbe thing tbat took place was too big for man to grasp. It was greater than tbe fires had been alone. Long sheets of water fell athwart the world, slanting from soma tilted sea of tbs Infinite. Tbey dashed In among the canyons, played along the ridges, lashed slope and ledge and valley. Tbe smoke was beaten to tbe earth In a blanket that spread over hundred miles and more. It writhed and twisted and was lost In the cloud of steam that fled, hissing, high above the bills. The gods played with tho Coast country. Dnlly turned his face away from any man and the general went to the little south room In the cook-shacfor unaccustomed prayer. Tbe world turned blue with rain as It had been white with smoke. And the pygmies, men, who 'had fought so long and failed, toased their blackened hands In triumph and shouted with the last of their voices. For an hour, two. It rained, until the black spikes on the devested slopes were blotted out "It's mighty onusual, a rain's hard'a this specially the first rains," said a man from Toledo, earnestly. "Don't ever remember one's hard. D'you, Hill?" And Hill didn't Presently, In the aecond hour ot the downpour, a strange procession loomed out of tbe gray-blusheets, startling tbe men who were out In It, too glad to shirk Hs worst, standing like ducks In tbe ashmud. It was the long, shining body of a giant dog, still tugging at ths retna tied to his collar, a dripping black horse, tired to the point of falling, and a woman who sat fastened to the can-tiwith strips of broadcloath. and whose face was not good to look upon. It bore upon Its features tbe brand of too much horror. Tbey flocked around ber with cheers and eager bands, and questions that tumbled over each other. Hut John Dally thrust them all aside to seize her wrist and demand word of Sandry and Siletz. "They're up behind ths Hog Hack." she shuddered as she spoke that name. "We found Hampden setting the fires with candles." Here there were awed mutterlngs. "He shot that Preacher. Hs said tbe Kast Hell deed was recorded all right but that hs owned ths Ths Blessed Rain. the upper rollway John lally was searching wildly In the crowds of silent exhausted men for lr( of Sandry. of Kllett and of Miss Ordway. Ills face was ghswtly, for lovs tors st bis heart with double force. Ma tally had not seen bin for twn day snd when shs met him shs said At csmp at strslrhtly: "S'lett went Into th' firs, son, sftef Ssndry. That was hours a to An' tb' Jerebel woman went, loo " That was the hardest knock of tbe big man's life snd he rsme near not taking It standing. Hs staggered as blow and looked sway to the from Inferno they had left at tbe north the great dun canopy tbat covered tbs sky Then he started on wavering ran among ths men, calling for volunteers. way. Suddenly, without warning, tbey cams full upon a huddled heap that lay at Its bass. It was pitifully fiat and broken, as It It bad fallen from ths heavy faca of ths Yellow Pines owner. Hampden, with the aid or ths towering spine and the sheer depths, had made good his words. They would never send htm to tbe chair. And with the passing of the wondrous face under the disheveled gold hair had gone bis last desire. They hastily constructed another sling and added one more burden to tbs procession. So at last and forever Walter Sandry came unto his own. There was yet timber in the Coast country. The East Belt waa all but free of the shadow. Those old bidden records should be unearthed through Hampden's boast, or he would file on it legitimately himself, for that confes-aloof Prazer's rocorded deed would Invalidate the O'Connel filing. His enemy waa gone In shams and wrath and dishonor. Hs had won bis Palace Barber Shop Winn Building' Main Street Ksw and Everything First Class Work Courteous Trsstmsnt to all Up-to-d- he shin stand and bathtub In oennsetle AGENT FOR PROVO STEAM LAUNDRY ROBERT LOMAX. Proprietoi Lawrence A. Miner ATTORNEY AT LAW Notary Public n Venice BWg. h. Mcknight h fight. COUNTY ATTORNEY ATTORNEY AT LAW OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE That old crime, dons In poetic Justice under ths Right Law of primal man, troubled him not at all, for hs saw the glory of his father's face, heard his "I am at peace." Beside him walked that lovs or which be bad dreamed, tbe pearl or price which ! had so nearl, lost In his blindness. Before him went his tried friend, big John Dally, whose bsart had shut on its own pain and opened to him the more. At the camp waited the white-hairegeneral who was a mother to him. Here waa his life from this time ' virforth, amid the stark forces of Tbe cities were far r way. gin coip-try-. remote, Hs had heard the Winds of God upon the Sounding Board of the Hills and they had shown him Deity. He was no longer a questioner, an agnosHe had come too closs to ths tic. bare heavens. Thus he waa borne down the dripping valley, filled with a vast peace, content a Westerner at last NEPHI. VTAH Dr. DcN 1 1ST I CO TO THE I MODERN BARBER SHOP For First Class Work We make a upeclalty of Klentrlr Si alp and Far SIASSAIiK- Balh and Phne Slilnliig Hutnl in Connection. Batchflor Bros., Preps. Venire Bldf. Tlu-alr- Ostler & Allen Manufacture that Hand-mad- cook-shac- e , Rorms Nos. 6 and 7, Venice Theatre Building. Phone No. 123-- J , Office "Sandy," whispered Slletz, as the procession wound up the slope to the a great height, and it bore upon a lifting troubled, adoring shouldur dreary crimson stain, dark eyes to his. "will It make any washed and widened by tbe rain. difference to you that I havs no soul? Dally baited and sent a cry along Will my heart do?" And Sandy could only hold mors tbs line. Tbey touched tbs thing with awed tightly the two small brown hands, THE END. amaze, turning up 'In tbs blue dusk A A. BOOTH . d 1 Huddled Heap Lay at Its Baas. NEPHI. UTAH Old ever-lasti- ng Harness e Haroru and Saddlea repaired good Deal In Maddlra. HrtJIta llnip. NavaJotJIankeU. ' aud City Meat Co. CEORCE GARRETT, Proprinoc All Kinds of Home Cured and Fresh Meats e j .i WOULD TAKE 8tie seemed dully bent on straightening out some tangle. "Sandry Is a man despite all. Get Hampden If he's alive No. I don't mean that He sent me down. Ths horss waa near done." As she slid down Into Daily's srms aba said with ber last ounce of strength but with vuch com mandlr.g spirit that h knew she wss in deadly earnest "0 saw a conveyance st ones. I want ts be In Toledo for the night trsln out" Ts Keum." This was ths hour tor which ba bad carelessly learned It at college. Unashamed he acknowledged fhe t Islenre of thst Power wbltb hs hsd onre denied to Sllett tbe little maid who hsd lost for lovs lifted wondering eyes toward the west ridge, hidden In the dim diststirs. where her sanctuary, the seven foot fir stump, waited In ain for her riles of worship wistful pathos In her Tbers was rslm secepisncs of ths mighty price of her, and yet which had been she was content Sbs hsd offered both ber soul snd body, stalled, glorified. In that sbs might serve this man. Where her soul had been there wss a sweeping, burning, glorious which t'sMeeed her c!aB Oft Randry's r hand. Neither she eoy 'hs yosng realized thst they rad escbSLged places oti ths pat of life. The procession, headed fcy Jnh Dallr whs carried one snd st Sasdry And her soul skl psli t-e- V.' 1 T 7ne C BW"V Jk - r - up-to-d- Ixt.njf us enalilv.'.'i r. Refiierator run on c:ttt I'usu, ti se'l al very prices. Courteous IreaUneot to all BIBLE TO RICH BROUGHT G. IRONS VETERINARIAN Poppy Seed. Twenty Csnturles Old. Sprang Into Brilliant Bloom Whan Uncovsrsd. "Pity ths poor rich, for they ars tbe poorest of alL Tbey ars barricaded against ths Hlbla. If ths Master himself were to undertake to carry bis message personally to ths hotels and apartment houses ot New York hs would be turned aside by ths doorman with ths Information that 'No peddlers ars allowed.' " So Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, explained to me tbs Sunday aennon In which hs said tbal "lbs crying need of religion In this city Is to put Bibles In ths homes of tbs wealthy." "How hardly aball tbey who bavs riches enter Into tbs kingdom of heaven." tbs dlvlns earnestly quoted. "It la not that ths possession of riches Is Inconsistent with Christianity, but tbat ths rich grow to worship tbs cresturs of their own brains money. Tbsy believe that riches may b counted la tbs palm. This Is jot so. Trus riches ars within. Tbers ars millionaires of tbs mind. Rockefellers of tbs soul, and they ars found often-e- r lha not among tbs poor tbs rich poor whose doors and whose Intellects ars open ts Us Uospsl of 80ms years ago there was seen in silver mine of Laurium a curious In tanca of ths resuscitating power 01 light after many years. Tbs sllvei mines of Laurium were abandonso mors than 2.000 years ago as unwork abie, and wars filled for ths most pan with ths slag from ths workings of the miners. It waa discovered, however, that this alag contained plenty of silver, which could easily be rendered avallabls by appliances. Accordingly It was removed to lbs furnace, and, when next the tnlns was visited, a wonderful transformation was found to havs ta ken place. Instead of a heap of rub blah, tbs mlns had become a gorgeous flower garden. Tbs entirs spacs wa covered with a brilliant ahow of pop pies. This profuse vegetable life. It l asserted, belonged to lbs age In which lbs mines wsrs worked. Twenty can turles old. therefore, wsrs thoss poppy seeds; yet, wben ths removal of ths lag allowed tbs llgbt to fall upoa them, tbey sprang Into Ufa and bloom under lis Influencs. "To what do you sttrlbuts tbs religious apathy of lbs rich?" I asked Doctor Kemp. "Ths rich ars obsessed with materialism." !ctor Kemp answered. -They bavs sll ths tiros In tbs world to read tbs latent novel, to go and es ths latest play, but they havs no lima for ths word of Ood." Nlxola York World Greeley Smith. In U- J. Dr. TO LIFE BY LIGHT They Do Not Taks Tims for God's Word, Is Assertion by Nsw York Pastor. thrlrt." :: :: NEPHI UTAH Graduate Veterinary College University of Pennsylvania PHONE 1ST Diseases of domestic animals treated City Barber Shop OOUSTSnOS rKaUTafSWT oas TXMT CLASS A KB A. MELSOIf. Proprietor South of Lunts' Pliarmae Two Doors Livery and Feed Stable us Mssts All Trains. AtP. M Kit. Drar sal Kipraas Wafoss- for Coal. Floss Us. N ss-S-. Qoe4 Livery COLDSBSOVCM. FraarUfs Dr. Charles Dunn African Faahion Notes. Ths prettiest dress of lbs Mpongws woman Is a cloth drawn up under ths arm, a scarf on tbs shoulders, and handkerchief folded over tbs colled Phons No. bair In a high stiff fold set wall up on tbs besd. rstbsr like a child Ides DENTIST of a crown, writes Jean Ksnyon 3 Nephi Mao-kenz- W. V. LEWIS In tbs Atlantic Tbers Is a great fancy for purples snd lavender set oft with shade of rose snd red Optometrist & Jeweler snd a sudden keen note of gilt With black tbers will be a touch of most Located With .Nephi Iru(j Co, delicsls bright green. A cloth snd Marketing Farm Product. worn by a woman of beautiful Eyes Tes.ed and Claises Fitted I'nltcd Wales Senator Fletcher has scarf nd a Gabonnalse Is slwsys Watches snd rnargesture called meeting of ths national Spectacles Repaired certain mutable charm; thai havs fcetlng committee to devlss means to the movements of ths wind PLACE tbs body, WITH A GUARANTEE" "HIE 14 tne farmer in marseium blows from tbs aea tbes re and also to enable ths consumer tbat snd display ths fold of ths garto dlstlngnlsh between tbs high cot new Is intrigued. of food and ths h'gh cost of serv- ment so tbat tbs cys "He Builds Wisely Who ice. -Ts Reduce Fitch Safely. Ths farmers of ths country ars proBuilds Well" ducing annually crops for which they ! If ons really wishes to reqare tbs for which snd flesh without injury, careful diet Is recelvs U.owi.iWO.POi), TO BUILD WELL ths consumer fay. I27.000.OIW.CWO." absolutely necessary. Milk, egg, fish USE aid Repreenttivs W, 8. Goodwin of fowl and fresh fn.lt ars good, and Arkanas. member of ths commutes. yon mu si bavs lots of water, air anJ "Tbs farmer gets 3i cents and tbs sunlight Bicycle riding Is bettsi middleman gets Ct cents for each dol- than walking, and dancing also help lar ths cotnumef pays for ths farm- to reduce. er crops. Tbers Is an enormous only simple, light fond without No amount of wssts. eapsctslly In pertsb-abl- s fat, greases, oils, starches snd of of lack tbs becsuss sets, prod gravies. Shun all liquors and hot 1 Tbe Largest and Purest soms central directing Intelligence" drinks and eat n.ithlng after Bve natural deposit of Gypsum Do not sleet o'clock In ths sftemoon WKers Ins tswsft Orsw ths Lies. in ths World. over seven hours at sight snd avoid Yes snsy ws sbls to fore sn old an sftemoon nap fom would the faibmtted naa to wear sveslng dress, plsguex The Jules of lemon, tsksrbut yos rsat rosvlscs him tbst hs is In ft Mfg. Co, tf sot water witb a tea Neptii eating dinsef st suppsr tlms. Chero- spoonful of rochells salts at sight b aMo good. kee Times. -t altnre. tof st ' recorder." Thus It csrae. that as night closed down blue with rain over the tortured country, two things of Import to lbs fortunes of lbs Oflllngworth and Its owner were taking place. Poppy Ordway stood on tbe platform nf ths dreary atation at ths lost little town on ths hark water, bound for tbs out aids world and ths far cities. At the same moment yet one mors procession wss coming slowly down from among ths peaks, line of men long line, for weary as thev were dozens bsd followed tbe foreman into tbs wrecked, mud deep forest who bore tenderly among them two sMnss. It wss significant fact thai along that scarecrow line was every man of Sandrv's old crews wno hsd gone over to Hampden In one silng there swung gemlv the still Mture of the Preacher. H Hook, upon Ha breant, lis msrtlal (late beside it. Hs glimmerings of ths Psst for It slfrtful searching efled. gfttn. In ths other isy Sandry, bis right hand clasping two small dark on eg whose owner trudged faithfully beside him refusing all offers of A holy joy was in hu heart, his lips troved riotpeietgiy in ths rolling Latin " Kept in liusiniM j Nephi Plaster Has F-- - Unto EquaJ |