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Show FIVE COWS, A GIHL AND A BIG AUTO Romance of a Young Lawyers Scorchless Scorch on a Highway. BY ADA NIXON. Copyright, 1912, bv Associated Literary Preu) That settled It. There iuum u a smashup. "And a girl there! She must know Im In trouble. If shes got good sense she'll scatter those cows and give me a clear road. If she does Ill marry her; If she does not Here you cows, get out of this!" oiled the girl as she picked up a stick and ran forward and belabored them. The surprised cows moved. They didnt hustle, but they didn't have to go far to clear the road. A long blast and a rumble, and the girl caught sight of a. white but deter mined face through the haze of dust. That was simply one peril , avoided. Further up the road others must be encountered. She threw aside her sketching and mounted her pony and set off In chase. Half a mile away the auto had plowed its way Into a bank and was at rest. Young lmlay had been thrown out by the collision and Buffered a broken leg. He was unconscious until some time after a doctor had looked him over at the manor house. No one knew who he was until his pockets had been searched, and then the father was telephoned to. Ily the time he arrived the son had gathered up the threads of the case and was ready to say to the Jury: No use talking, governor. I've got it bad! Anything beside the leg? My heart." Why why, I dont understand that the fall had affected your heart." But it has. Its a case of love at first sight, and the first sight didnt last moren half a second. And where Is the girl? Right here In the house. It was she who found me In the road and bossed the Job of getting me here. Say, governor, she's a girl of sense! I haven't had a fair look at her face yet, but I know from her voice that she's I'd have smashed up five cows as well as myself, and the machine if It hadnt been for the girl." We must now get you home," said the father In very sober tones. Can't be done, governor. Here I stay till tbe leg mends and I've got the promise of that girl to be my TIaa youali nephew atahted his DOWN THE SCALE. Young Harold lmlay ot Chester had graduated In law and heed taken Into partnership with his father. He was having what he called a little fling before settling down to the stern business of law, and be had an auto to help him out. The auto revolved around the country at various speeds, Vo." none of which was less than forty Two layers deep?". miles an hour. No. This with a pout. On a certain morning when It was Is he?" Then what taken out to scorch up the highway It National Monthly. biscuit! Dog refused to Bcorch. In fact, it "went dead. That's not so very rare a Beautiful Decline. case. There is a little something out the gigantic aiid genOllie James, of kilter and the man that knows how A POSITIVE sad PERand senator-elec- t ial congressman can remedy it In a few minutes. The MANENT CURE FOR conversation was from in Kentucky, trouble tn this cose was that nobody with a Drunkenness and the Washingtonian, other, day In the village knew how. The clock when certain made latter inquirthe tinker, the blacksmith, the cobbler Opium Diseases. ies with reference to a mutual friend and the doctor all diagnosed and preis m mAMi, m bAmm. LaJin treated aa Tim whom he had not seen for a number . THE milib m tkair m scribed, but without avail. Then a tin STITUTE iU W. Trnlt Street, Sail Lake Cite of years. off peddler came along and hopped "And how does Colonel Prescott his wagon and fussed for a minute pend Ills declining years?" he asked. FOR SALE DRUG STORE FIXTURES, and hopped on again and drove off. Counter, Hlnmr Cae. Hints The auto was now all right. The "Beautifully, air; beautifully!" anPnuntsln. Ktr. New slid up He a fine has swered James. A liarsaln. farm, but free offered seats, young lawyer sir. And a string of trottere, air. Smith Drug Cn 2t.t 8. Main St.. Halt Lake City they were declined with thanks. It And a barrel of whisky sixteen years wasn't their day for dying. The the" same age. saw man' and machine disapaid and a wife of ilr! pear down the highway like a cannon Send for FREE CUN CATALOGUE Saturday Evening Post. ball and felt that It was good to be Western Arms A Sporting Goode Compsny alive and have dinner coming to them. Kelt Leke ('hr. I'tah. My daughter says I have a good ear. for music. What does she mean Very few lawyers take any mans HIGH GRADE I don't know exactly. I'm word for anything, and not one In ten by that. Finlehingend Enwould believe a peddler under oath. afraid she refers to the fact that I can larging. Wnrkilune by Pmlewiionala. Young lmlay hadnt cut bis legal eyelisten to some of the things she plays C. It. NAVAUK CO. teeth yet, and he fondly believed. He without getting the earache." Halt Leke Guy. Utah would have said to a Jury that the L peddler could have no possible motive In lying to him, and the absence of a motive always raises a big doubt wife. of thq guilt of the accused. Perhaps Young man, this seems to have afthe man did not knowingly lie. Per- fected your brain." haps he thought a balky auto could It has affected me all over. Say, be fixed as easily as a balky wheel- governor. I'm a lawyer, am I not?" barrow. At any rate, after a run of A very young and tender one. three miles, young lmlay discovered But I know what a suit Is, and I dont propose to stand In the dock." Harold lmlay, what can you mean?" Governor, when I saw those cows blocking the narrow highway and realized what a butcher shop it would be if the girl didn't move them on, I vowed to marry her If she did the right thing. She did It, and I'll keep my word." Up! Cm! I think I can arrange for yoo to be cared for here for a few days, 'but my boy, dont get any fool notions In your head. Remember that you are Just entering upon your career as a lawyer." It was three days later before the Fully equipped with Mohair Top, Wind Shield, patient caught sight of Miss Irene. The doctor had said that It would be Speedometer, Lamps and Generator. better if the young man could remain there for a few days, and Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith had readily consented. A professional nurse had taken charge and the family was not to be put out to any extent. When the young man expressed his thanks In appropriate words he asked of the girl: How many coWs were there? Five." And how fast was I going?" looked like two or three hundred It a Realized That There Was 36 East Broadway, Salt Lake City miles a minute to me. Pace Before Him. If And Id struck that bunch of that he was flying, and that the map chine was beyond his control to stop. beef at that gait?" AGENTS WANTED . Why why " Five miles from where the auto My father would have had a dead started out and half an hour before he? I Just It did start, a saddled pony was led son to bury, wouldn't around to tbe door of a manor house, want him to look at tbe case on Its and Miss Irene Galbraith mounted merits, you know. As a lawyer, he la If there had been and galloped away. Something of an naturally biased. artist she was, and she had her only one cow, now, and she In poor sketch book with her. Two miles condition, but there were five, and all down the road she found her subject. fit for beef. Father must see that Five cows which were running at Miss Irene thought the young mans large contrary to the highway laws were standing in the middle of the mind was wandering and ' called the eyes and nurse. Ills mind was all there, howdusty road with C The day is not far distant when every stock farm in their tails lazily switching at the ever, though It was six long weeks these mountain states will have a Silo. No other method flies. They had arranged themselves and he was crutchlng around before of feeding equals ensilage for results. Ensilage is as If for a photograph and the girl he finished the sentence by saying: made by the fermentation of GREEN CROPS in an airdismounted and got out her materials. Yes, you must see that having tight Silo. All stock like it It keeps them healthy Honk! Honk! Honk!" all winter and prepares them for early spring market saved my life and having been bothMiss Galbraith had heard the sound ered with me here so long and as a thousand times before, but there this leg will be weak for some time to was a note In this to make her rise come and as I have fallen in love And be sure (he ronrrrte In made with HKD DEVIL Port to her feet. That honk was a danger with A Devil of a you and as your father Is In the land Cement. Then you may be aure Good Cement signal. will ari-rand as Im going to crutch In your alio will be library Five rods down was the river. On there and ask him crack and will lant a lifetime. Write ua for FIIKK HOOK LET on how to the other side the highway ascended That marriage won't take place unbuild alio. Ited Devil" brand of for a mile, and at its crest she saw til next Christmas day. Bold remeat la all leading dealers. by an auto. In ten seconds she made up her mind that It was a runaway maUNION PORTLAND CEMENT CO. Body 8h!elds for Policemen. chine. It honked at every fifty feet OGDEN, UTAH The Those blasts could only mean: Look Electrometallurglc society, which has Its factory at Neuchatel, out clear tbe road!" Young lmlay had put In the fastest has received an order to construct a half mile he ever expected to before certain number of body shields (buckreaching the crest of the hill, but he lers) for the police of Paris. These Instantly realized that there was a shields, the Invention of a Swiss mile a minute pace before him. named Paul Glrod of Neuchatel, have Straight down over the crazy old been tested, and are said to have sue cessfully resisted revolver shots. bridge, and Cows In the road!" he said to Geneva Correspondence London . Hahaol ( Salt Laka City. KcftulU guaranteed stlfnrtorj. rs Buying of us by mail spring ployin' yet, Bill?" Waal, no. Jim ain't started his John Had Evidently Displeased His work yet hes powerful far befann Bride. Charming Is Just as satisfactory as If hind in his flshln'!" Puck. A regain bride is very much in you came to the store. In our new home we lore with her husband and very willsound his lo She to likes it. are better able to serve admit ing praise to her nun her and to her girl you than ever. friends. She has a number of original expressions When her husband is good she says he Is chocolate cake three layers deep." When lie Is very goo.l he Is "chocolate cake four layers SAU iANS CIII UTAH deep," and so on up the scale. OccaHill Mala Klrtvl sionally. however, things take a turn. The bvides mother dropped in the other day. The bride was a trifle peevNine limes out of ten. when a lover ish, but her mother pretended not to tells bis betrothed that hes not half notice this. good enough for her, he speaks only was her And how is John today?" half the truth. Inquiry. Chocolate cake four layers deep?" No." "Three layers deep?" ' The right way To begin the day Hewlett's - EEF-LE- M Fresh Roasted Steel Cut Coffee. IN- e. FREE coupons for ROGERS silverware PACKAGE. fine in EVERY The more you worry about it, tlui hotter the weather will get. good-lookin- breach-of-prom-ls- The New Walker Bank Buildingv Salt Lake City, will be ready for occupancy this fall. Tallest building for oldest bank between Missouri River and Pacific Coast. e Good Reason, A buy was asked by his mulher to go to the country with her, but the boy refused. All the coaxing and pleading was of no avail. When his father came home that evening he wsb told by his wife that Johnny (the boy) refused to go to the country. Did you ask him wby he didn't want to go? Baid the father. "No," said the mother, "I didn't think of that. I will go up to Johnny and ask him." Then the mother went up to Johnny and said: "Johnny, wby don't you want to go to the country?" they Well, answered Johnny, have thrashing machines out there, and it's bad enough here when you do it by hand." - Meredith Auto & The Same Thing. Bicycle Co. The orchestra played No. 6, a selection that seemed to the bachelor very Mlle-a-Minu- te 1 ... that" half-close- d Silos Double Feed Values Build a Concrete Silo r alr-tlKh- t, ir ati agfffsr - sbss ass sf ss-- v ; beautiful. He leaned toward his companion and whispered: How lovely that is! Wliat is It. do you know?" She smiled demurely and replied In a low, thrilling voice: It la the Maiden's Prayer.' " And at the same time she handed him her program. pninMng to No. 6 with her finger. He read and started, for the real name of the selection was Mendelsohn's Wedding March." The hacne-lo- r bought the ring next day. Cincinnati Enquirer. Were Improving. J. Ogden Armour, defending packing llouse methods at a luncheon In Chicago, said: We cat. thanks to the packers, more wholesome meat than we formerly did. My father used to tell a story about a farm boy who once called at a bouse and took an order for a leg of mutton. Tben a day or two later the boy called again. You'll have to countermand that mutton order, ma'am he said. " 'Yea? Why so?" The sheep's improving said the boy." New York Times. Protected. The late Thomas B.' Reed, when a lad, was requested to ball out a small boat that had been leaking badly, and was almotrt full of water. It's I cant do it," replied Tom. unconstitutional. do you mean?" inquired the owner of the moat. The constitution of the United replied the future Suites eays, shall statesman, that excessive ball not be required of any man. W-ha- . . |