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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD, MAMMOTH CITY, .UTAH S i The Light in iivthe the Clearing - i i. A TALE of the NORTH COUNTRY TIME of SILAS WRIGHT I t. EBEN HOLDEN, DRI AND I. DAR-R.EISLES, KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE. L s ? CHAPTER X. errand, The two statesmen were In broadcloth and white linen gnd beaver hats. They stopped as I approached them. Well, partner, we shall be leaving In an hour or so, said Mr. Wright as he gave me his hand. You may look for me here soon after the close of the session. Take care of yourself and go often to see Mrs. Wright and obey your captain and remember me to your aunt and uncle. See that you keep coming, my good boy, said the president as he gave me his hand, with playful reference, no doubt, to Mr. Wrights remark thdt I was a coming man. Bart, Ive some wheat to be thrashed in the barn on the back lot,' said the senator as I was leaving You can do it Saturdays, If them. you care to, at, a shilling an hour. Stack the straw out of doors until youve finished, then put it back in the bay. Winnow the wheat carefully and sack It and bring it down to the granary and Ill settle with you when I . 1 return. . I remember that a number of men who worked In Grimshaws sawmill were passing as he spoke. Yes, sir, I answered, much elated by the prospect of earning.money.' The examination of Amos was set down for Monday and the people of the village were stirred and shaken by, wildest rumors regarding the evidence to be adduced. Every day men and women stopped me in the street to ask what I knew of the murder. I followed the advice oij Bishop Perkins and kept my knowledge to myself. Saturday came, and when the chores were donsj I went alone to the grain barn In the back lot of the senators farm with flail and measure and broom and fork and shovel and sacks and my luncheon. In a pushcart, with all of which Mrs. Wright had provided me. It was a lonely place with woods on three sides of the field and a road 1 on the other. kept laying down beds of wheat on the barn floor and beating them out with the flail until the sun was well over the roof, when I sat down to eat my luncheon. Then I swept, up the grain and winnowed out the, chaff and filled one of my sacks. That done, I covered the floor again and tlie thump of the flail eased my loneliness until in the middle of the afternoon two ofupy schdolmates came and asked me to go swimming with them. The river was not forty rods away and a good trail led to the swimming hole. It was a warm, bright day and I was hot and thirsty. .The thought of cool waters and friendly companionship was too much for me. I went with them and stayed with them longer than I intended. I remember saying as I dressed that I should have to work late and go without my supper in order to finish my stint. It was almost dark when I was putting the last sack of wheat into my cart, in the gloomy barn and getting ready to go. A rustling In the straw where I stood stopped me suddenly. I heard stealthy footsteps 'in the darkness. I stood my ground and demanded : Whos there? I saw a form approaching In the gloom with feet as noiseless as a cats. v 11 A Party and . My Fourth Peril? In the middle of the afternoon Uncle Peabody and I had set out in our spring buggy with the family umbrella a faded but sacred implement, always carefully dried, after using, and hung in the clothes press. We were drenched to the skin in spite of the umbrella. It was still raining when we arrived at the familiar door in Ashery lane. Uncle Peabody wouldnt stop. He hurried away. We pioneers rarely stopped'or even 'turned out for the .. weather. Come in, said the voice of ? the schoolmaster at. the door., Theres good weather under this roof. He saw my plight as I entered. Im like a shaggy dog thats been in swimming, I said. Upon my word, boy,' were in luck, remarked the schoolmaster,, . I looked up at him. clothes I sure, Michael Henrys theyre just the thing for you!" I followed him upstairs, wondering how it had ' happened that Michael Henry had clothes. He took me into his room .and bi ought some handsome, soft clothes out of a press with shirt, socks and boots to match. There, my laddie buck, said he, put them on. These will soon dry on me, I said. Put them on ye laggard ! Michael Henry told me to give them to you. Its the birthday night o little Ruth, my boy. Theres a big cake with candles and chicken pie and jellied cookies and all the like o that. Put them on. A wet ooy at the feast would dampen the whole- proceedings. I. put them on and "with a great sense of relief and comfort. They were an admirable fit too perfect for an accident, although at the time' I J thought only of their grandeur, as I stood surveying myself in the, looking-glasThey were of blue cloth and I saw . that they went well , with my b'ond hair and light skin. I was putting on my collar and necktie when Mr. Hacket returned. We went below and the table was very grand with its great frosted cake and jts candles, in shiny brasssticks, and fts jellies and preserves Itfthe gleam of polished pewter among ;tliein. Mrs, Hacket and all the children, save Ruth, were waiting for us in the dining room. Nowi sit down here, all o ye, with Michael Henry, said the schoolmaster. The little lady will be Impatient. Ill go and get her and God help us to make her remember the day. He was gone a moment, only, when he came back with Ruth in lovely white dress and slippers and gay with ribbons, and the silver beads of Mary on her neck. We clapped our hands and cheered and, In the excitement of the moment, John tipped over his drinking 'glass and shattered it on - s, . the . - i' I? U Copyright by Irving'Bachelter m It was a rainy Sunday. OF THE BLESSED , etc.. Etc. , floor, Never mind, my brave lad no glass ever perished in a better cause. God bless you! We ate and jested and talked, and the sound of our laughter drowned the cry of the wind In the chimney and the' drumming of the rain upon ' the windows. Next morning my clothes, which had been hung by the kitchen stove, were damp and. wrinkled. Mr. Hacket came to my room before I had risen. Michael Henry would rather see his Wotlies hanging on a good boy than on a nail In the closet, said he. Sure they give no comfort to the Dail at all. I guess mine are dry now, I answered. They.re wet and heavy, boy. No son 0 Baldur could keep a light heart in themis-- Sure yed be as much out o place as a sunbeam In a cave o bats. If ye care not for your own comfort think 0 the poor lad In the green chair. Hes that proud' and pleased to see Iheimon ye it would be a shame to reject his offer. Sure, If they were dry yer own garments would be good enough, God knows, huf Michael Henry loves the look o ye In these togs, and then the president is In town.? That evening he discovered a big stain, black as Ink, on my coat and trousers. Mr. Hacket expressed the pinion that It might have come from the umbrella, 'but I am quite sure that he hud spotted them to save me from the last homemade suit I ever wore", save In; rough work, and keep Michael Henrys on my back. In any event I wore them no more save at chore time. Sally came and went, with the Wills hoy, and gave no hoed to me. In her eyes 1 had no more substance tian a ghost, It seemed to me, although I caught her. often, looking at me. I judged that her father had given her a, hud report of us and had some regrets, In spite of my knowledge that we were right, although they related , mostly to Amos, Next afternoon I saw Mr. Wright and the president walking back and forth on the bridge as they talked together. .A number of men stood in front 6f the blacksmith shop, by the "Ivor bore, watching .them, as I w ,; or mr, war to the mill on an ish PAPES DIAPEPSIN AT ONCE ENDS SOURNESS, GASES, ACIDITY, INDIGESTION. Michael Henry and Others. At the examination of Amos Grim-sbamy knowledge was committed to the records and ceased to be a source of danger to me. Grimshaw came to the village that day." On my way to the courtroom I saw him walking Spirit of w ' , QUININE ; in tablH Standard cold remedy for 30 year breaka up a eold form aafe, sure, no opiate 3 in relieves days. Mcoey gnp in 34 hour top baekifltfstl. 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Get the genuine at 'any drug store Keep your liver active, your bowels clean by taking Dr. Pierces Pleasant Pellets and you'll Adv. keep healthy, wealthy and wise. In Boston a rubber factory is called W. N, an inquisitive plant. U Salt Lake City, No. 12-19- 19. For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That saying: Dont be afraid. I brought my gun in case wqd meet a painter. But the by fc? f 7 The r L. 'll CASCARA , CHAPTER XI. ' rt -- who fell as I had seen a beef fall under the ax. Another man stopped beyond the reach of my flail and, after a seconds hesitation, turned and ran away in' the darkness. ' I could hear ' or see no other motion in the field. I turned and ran on down the slope toward the village. In a moment I saw someone coming out of the maple grove at the fields end, just ahead, with a lantern. Then I heard the voice of the schoolmaster saying: Is It you, my lad? Yes, I answered, as I came up to him and Mary, in a condition of breathless excitement. I told them of the curious adventure I had had. "Come quick, said the schoolmaster. Lets go back and find the man in the siuhb'.e. I remembered that I had struck the pafh in my flight just before stopping to swing the ffail. The man must have fallen, very near it.. Soon we found where he had been lying and drops of fresh blood on the stubble. , Hush, said the schoolmaster. We listened and heard a wagon rattling at a wild pace down the road toward the river. There he goes," said Mr. Hacket. His companions have carried him away. Yed be riding in that wagon now, yerself, my brave lad, if ye hadnt a made a lucky Jut with the flail God bless ye ! What would they a done with me? I asked. Oh, I reckon theyd a took ye off, lad, and kep ye for a year or so until Amos was out o danger, " said Mr. Hacket. Maybe theyd drowped ye in the river down there an left yer clothes on the bank to make it look like an honest drowning. The devil knows what theyd a done with ye, laddie buck. Well have to keep an eye on ye now, every day until the trial is over sure we will. Come, well go up to the barn and see if Kate is there. Just then we heard the receding wagon go roaring over the bridge on Little river. Mary shuddered with fright. The Schoolmaster reassured us Influenza. At the first sign of . a cold take Undigested food ! Lumps of pain ; belching gas, acids and sourness. When inyour stomach is all upset, here is4 stant relief No waiting! , r danger is past. . t He drew a long pistol from hiS coat pocket and held it In the light of .the lantern. ' Awake, Ye Limb o the Law. The loaded cart stood in the middle of the barn floor, where I had left It, slowly, with bent head as I had seen but old Kate had gone. We closed him before, followed by old Kate. She the barn, drawing the cart along with carried her staff in her left hand while us. When we came into the edge of the forefinger of her right hand was the village I began to reflect upon the pointing him out. Silent as a ghost and as unheeded one would say she strange peril 'out of which I had so followed his steps. luckily escaped. It gave me a heavy I observed that old Kate sat on a sense of responsibility and of the ' front -- seat with her hand to her ear wickedness of men. Grimshaw beside his lawyer at a: I thought of old Kate and her broken and table and that, when she looked at big her silence. For once I had heard him her moved in a strange unspeak. I could feel my flesh tingle uttered lips whisper of her spirit. , . Her when I thought of her quick words face filled with joy as one damning and her hoarse, passionate whisper. detail after another came out in the I knew, or thought I knew, why she evidence. took such care of me. She was In Thet facts hereinbefore alleged, and league with the gallows and could not were proved, for the tracks fitothers, For th see Its bear it cheated of prey. ted the shoes of Amos. The young some reason she hated the Grimshaws. I had seen the hate In her eyes the man was held .and presently indicted. The time of his trial was not deterday she dogged along behind the old u: mined. money lender through the streets of T wrote a good hand those days and the village when her pointing finger had seemed to say to me: There, the leading merchant of the village there is the man who has brought me engaged .me to post his books every to this.,, He has put these rags upon Saturday at ten cents an hour." Thencemy back, this fire in my heart, this forward until Christmas I gavf my wild look In my eyes. Wait and you free days to that task. I estimated the sum that I should fearn and wil see what I will put upon him. I knew that old Kate was not the planned to divide it in equal parts ' and irresponsible, witless creature that proudly present' it to my aunt and UDCle on Cjhristmas dpy. people thought her to be. I had begun Cine' Saturday while I was at work to think of her with a kind of awe as one, gifted above all others. One by on the big ledger of the merchant I one the things she had said of the ran upon this item; , v future seemed to be coming true. October 8. S. Wright To- one suit'1 1 As we were going into the house the of clothes for Michael Henry from i measures furnished by S. Robin- schoolmaster said: $14.30 'son Now, Mary, you' take, this "lantern Shirts to( match 1.70 and go across the street to the house L knew then the history of the suit o Deacon Binks, the constable. You'll find him asleep by the kitchen stove. of. clothes which I had worn since that, Arrest his slumbers, but not rudely, rainy October night, for I remembered Sam .Robinson, the tailor, had and, when he has come to, tell him that,. me at our house" and made measured that I have news 0 the devil. cloth of Aunt Deels weaving. " the up Deacon Binks arrived, a fat man I also, that 'numerous ar with a big, round body and a very ticles-r--observed, a load of wood, two sacks of wise and sferious! countenance between flour, three pairs of boots, one coat, side whiskers bending from his temple ten pounds of salt pork - and four to his neck and suggesting parentheses bushels of potatoes all for Michael of hair, as If Ills head and Its acceshad been charged to Silas sories were in the nature of a side rienry Issue. He and the schoolmnster went Wright. So by the merest chance I learned out of doors and must have talked tothat the Invisible Michael Henry was gether while I was eating a howl of tlie almoner of the modest statesman bread and milk which Mrs. Hacket had and really the spirit of Silas Wright brought to me. the hungry and clothing the When I went to bed, by and by, I feeding naked and warming the cold house, heard somebody snoring on the little in the absence of its owner. It was porch under my window. The first the heart of Wright' joined to that of sound that reached my ear at the the schoolmaster, which sat In the break of dawn wns the snoring of some sleeper. I dressed and went be- green chair. I fear that my work suffered a molow and found the constable In his for just then I coonskln overcoat asleep on the porch ments interruption, to know the heart of the great began d with a gun at his side. warmth was in the clothWhilo I stood there the schoolmaster senator. Its covered my back, its delicacy came around the corner of the house ing that in the ignorance of those who had from the garden. He put his hand on benefactions. the deacons shoulder, and gave him shared its BE (TO CONTINUED.) a little shake. o the law, he de"Awake, ye limb Its Effect manded. Prayer Is better than They say the American donghnnt sleep. is making a big hit with the French The deacon arose and stretched Yes, Its Just pie for them Genuine Castoria s ALCOHOL,! - 3 PER t CENT- - 1 AVeefable Preparation&rAs by Regular p similatimjtbeFood Always Bears f IInfantsthildre Thereby Promoting Diestai Cheerfulness andRcstContaias. nor neither Opium, Morphine , Signature, Not Narcotic- Mineral. ' JHunpkav Seed jiMSeiaa ( ( -- JbcbUtSJh Anise Seed jSitofaMltSw I In i Warm Seed CUnftedSagar ftStteTfmflJbnr a A helpful Remedy fT - Use Diarrhoea Constipation and and Feverishness and Loss of Sleep resulting For Over Ihercfrom-inlmanc- Facsimile Signature; The Centaur of I CompaiW- - pjEWYOnK- - ExactCopy of Wrapper, , , Look out for Span- UPSET STOMACH . By IRVING BACHELLER Author of himself and cleared his throat and assumed an air of alertness and said it was a fine morning, which It was not, the sky being overcast and the air dark and chilly. Mr. Hacket removed his greatcoat and threw ,it on, the stoop i , saying : Deacon, yon lay there. From fiow on Pm constable and ready for any act that may be necessary to maintain the law. I can be as .severe as Napoleon Bonaparte and as cunning as Satan, if i I have; to be. - , While I was milking the deacon sat on-- a bucket in the , doorway of the stable and scored until I had finished. He awoke when I loosed the core and the constable went back to the pasture with pie, yawping with his hand over his mouth much of the way. The deacon leaned his elbow on the top of the pen and snored again, lightly, while I mixed the feed for the pigs. Mr. Hacket met us at the kitchen door, where Deacon Binks said to him : If youll look after the boy 'today Ill go home and get a little rest. God bless yer soul, ye had a busy night, said the schoolmaster with a smile. He added as he went into the house : I never knew a man to rest with more' energy and persistence. It was a perfect flood o rest. It kept me awake until long after midnight." , THE CENTAUR OWRANV, Out of Pain to' Comfort 1 Proved Safe' by Millions 1 NtW YORK QITT. t. ; , . Si Thirty Years . I Had Time to Raise My Flail and Bring It Down Upon the Head of the Leader. I took a step backward and, seeing that It was a woman, stopped. Its Kate," came in a hoarse whisper as I recognized her form and staff. Run, boy they have just come out 0 the woods. take you away. I saw them. They will Run. She had picked up the flail, and now she put It in my hands and gave me a push toward the door. I ran, and noue too quickly, for I had not gone fifty feet from the barn In the stubble when I hoard them coming after me, whoever they were. I saw that they were gaining and turned quickly. 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