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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH News Notes f Its a Privilege to Live $ Utah I I in nap By HUGH PENDEXTER Author of "Kings of the Missouri by Pn1ter CHAPTER X Continued CnpyyfyM 13 Rhe wit coolly naylng: "Monsieur will forget. his fault forgot I also be kind ; so I will see that himself. lie meant to la amiable. monsieur Is well paid for his time and worry and the dangers he encounters. He shall be pnld In gold. 1 am without money Just now. I mny choose to demean myself by labor. Hut but I always pay my debts." I knew two things as she uttered this preposterous talk she was adorable, regardless of her past history ; and she deserved to he slapped. I rose and bowed, nnd said : "It Is all forgotten. If In anything I have said or done I have Impressed you as one who would help a helpless woman for so many pieces of gold or silver then you ahull pay me. If you decide to the contrary you will never mention the pay again. I only ask that during the rest of the trip neither of us be foolish enough to remember this talk to be embarrassed by It." She frowned, as If puzzled by my then gave a little shrug to show she dismissed the whole matter. Hut In the back of my mind was the amazing fact that I had offered to marry her, to extricate her from a hundred and one humiliations, let alone dangers, and had been coldly refused because of "pride." Labrador returned and reported: "If Dumoan visited the Tunica village he has not left It. No Choctaws have traveled Inland from the river." Old Six Fingers came cursing his way through the bushes, and snarled chief I later learned, stood at the foot of the couch, his girdle of colored feathers hanging down like a tall. This young man, on beholding me, backed from the couch and, In what was a most Indecorous deportment for an Indian, turned and bolted through the door. Little Turkey glared after him reproachfully. Strong Bow did not seem to notice his grandsons 111 manners. lie Bat up. I squalled on the floor, and the two of us stared Ht the beaten eurth for nearly a minute. Then the chief Bald: 'The White Indian does not forget the red (1 luma) Choctaws. He brings presents to them and ho Is always welcome. "On my last visit I brought presents and took nothing hut your friendship. That was enough. Today I bring Strung Bow a present and promise more when I come again. Anxious to rcieive his gift he motioned for Little Turkey to bring the peace calumet from Its peg on a post. Little Turkey brought It and filled and gave It to the chief and then brought d lie-side- mA Virginia Scout,9 etc, hlm. The smoke covers them. It was agreed that I amoked for the three of them." He remained silent for bali a minute staring toward the entrance In the stockade. "They smoked when you "But smoked," he finally remarked. old men sometimes forget. It la easier for them to forget If an evil bird whispers In heir ear. He had given me a friendly warning. To ask him to Interpret and go Into details would have been useless. I knew he was my friend Just as I knew the young warrior seen In the chiefs cabin would be my enemy. I observed the slight straightening of his figure and a flash of his eyes in a sidelong glance. I looked to one side and beheld Hamoan the Fox and a group of warriors approaching us. The chiefs grnndson hnd Informed my enemy of my presence, for he stood at Hamouns right hand and was pointing at me. Among the Humas were several of Damoans Choctaws; and with his hand on a pistol thrust through his sash the Fox gave a sharp order. The Biloxi C'hcctawg darted forward, but Little Turkey, already sensing the hostility between the Frenchman and me, leaied before the Choctaws and flung up his right hand, and cried: They have smoked The Choctaws fell back. Damoan cursed In French and ordered them to seize me. But even his new ally, the chiefs grandson, dared not aee the peace of the pipe violated. I heard him remind the Fox that the stem of the peace calumet did not extend beyond the stockade; in plain English, once outside the palings we could fight to our hearts desire and the savages would enjoy watching the spectacle. But the village Inside the stockade, like the Cherokee white" towns, was sanctuary, and those who had been received In peace could not be disturbed. With the first flush of anger succeeded by cold reason Damoan knew the uselessness of opposing this ancient custom of the Humas. With his thumbs hooked In his red sash he swaggered up to me, and quietly greeted : So, English spy, Ive caught you at Inst. "French spy, you mean you have caught up with me," I corrected. And where are the rest of your red friends aside from those feeding the cattish In the river? d He showed his teeth In a grin and Informed me: Outside, hunting for your friends. No pipes have been smoked out there. I told them not to hurt the woman. I think I shall keep her. He desired to enrage me Into an Imprudence, so he might shoot me In the plea of I did not rise to the bait. He went on: "I came here to smoke the calumet and get some red trackers. I never dreamed of this good luck. My manlto Is very strong. I knew you had landed, for there were scraps of meat and bones on a rock In the river, where your lookout had eaten. I mentally cursed old Six Fingers for leaving the signs, although I was the more to blame for not looking after him. "Eh blen, canaille," I said, when we meet again there will be no calumet stem between us." But Nothing but red wampum. wait. Tlens! You would miss the best of It. You will find It droll. And from the medicine-baat bis girdle he took out a green scalp and shook out the long, blond hair. Switching It close to my face he said : A souvenir of the crazy Frenchman!" My heart pumped tumultuously; but my face was frozen In Its calm expression. "Because you took his hair 1 will lift your scalp some day, Damoan. d My manlto tells me you will be before the Moon of Turkeys (October). He laughed, but now his hate showed through his mirth. 1 at me: "No gold, no diamonds, aod no n gourd. So you get no water." "Then we will move on and find the Huron village. I will scout ahead and see If they will lift the peace calumet. Labrador, hold back with mademoiselle until you get my signal to come on. "A moment, Monsieur Brampton, she sharply demanded. We will go together, or not at all. One brave gentleman has lost his life to serve me. Now we will all share alike. She was as regal as a marquise In hauteur, and the tilt of the small head was suggestive of one used to authori ity. "It must be as I say, I told her. "I.ut there will be no danger. Fear nothing because of me." Instantly her mood changed, and she was clinging to my arm, and tearfully pleading: Let me go with you, monsieur. I beg of you to let me go with you. I glanced sidewise at the lowering Six Fingers and murmured. He can harm you none. He is des pendent on me fpr his very life, you will have my friend. "And you thought I was thinking of myself! she sudly remarked, turning away. With an order to Labrador-I- n Choctaw to hold her back If I received a hostile welcome, I hurried up the path to the Iluma village. Half an hour was sufficient to bring me to the ten-fostockade surrounding the village. There was loud singing Inside the stockade and I remnined at the edge of the forest, wondering what could occasion It so early In the morning; for singing meant some ceremony. Evidently something of Importance had happened, or was about to happen, and I would have preferred seek-lu- g sanctuary there when the savages were not overrun by their emotions. But to be found lurking outside of the village would place us at a great disadvantage, and. If such be the Humus Nor whim, classify us as captives. could we retreat to the river where Hamoan and his Choctaws would have but little trouble In gobbling us up. 80, assuming my best air, I advanced a warrior and came face to face Just Inside the gate. We stared at each other a moment, then his face cracked In a smile, aud he extended a hand, and said: My white brother Is welcome. The White Indian has a red heart when he Is with the Humas. I had been among Indians enough to distinguish them as individuals, just as I would white men, and as I held his hand I remembered him and replied : The White Indian comes to renew his red heart with Little Turkey and his people and to smoke the calumet with Strong Bow. Strong Bow was head chief of the Humas, and a very old man. I had smoked with him the year before and I was anxious to find him. To my relief Little Turkey said : Strong Bow Is now In his cabin after seeing the dance. He has smoked the calumet once this morning, but he Is never too weary to lift the pipe to the White Indian. He turned and walked away, and 1 followed him. We had an open path to the chiefs cabin, which was built of posts, plastered with clay. Spilt canes formed the roof. Outside the opening was a yalsed platform on which were piled SearsKlns and hides. Through the entrance I saw Strong Bow reclining on a couch of skins and cane mats. A young warrior, a , grandson of the Pay Gravel "My White Brother Is Welcome. The White Indian Has a Red Heart When He Is With the Humas." a coal from the fire In a split stick. Strong Bow did me the great courtesy of passing the pipe to me and lighting It for me. I smoke for three friends, all white like myself," I stipulated, before taking the first puff. I was so hungry to meet my red friends I drew ahead of them. They will be along soon." And I waited for him to Include my friends In the smoke before putting the stem to my lips. The pipe Is lifted to the White Indian nnd his three friends, he gravely agreed. Then I smoked to the sun and the four winds and the earth and passed the pipe to him, and, not to be outdone In courtesy; held it while he repented the sacred obligation. After the pipe had been hung on the post the chief said : "It Is the second peace I have smoked since the sun began shining." Little Turkey bad said the same and of danger disa faint apprehension turbed me. I was keen to Inquire who his first visitor was, but this would be a grave social blunder. So I produced one of ijiy pistols and placed It on his couch. With a grunt of delight he seized upon the weapon, which was of Large bore and generously decorated with sliver. Little Turkey touched my arm to Intimate the audience was ended. I followed him Into the sunshine, and he said: My white brother's friends should come now. The smoke of a peace pipe covers those w'ho can see, or smell It They will be here soon," I assured "Fool! Bald-hea- d I will yourself keep the woman till she tires me, and I will decorate her leggings with the hair of the mad Frenchman and with that of the White Indian one scalp for each legging. At this grossness my gorge boiled over, and despite the calnmet I would have attacked him had I not been confounded by a fresh situation; nothing less than the appearance of Mademoiselle Dahlsgaarde running Into the village closely followed by Labrador and Six Fingers. Naturally believing that Damoans Choctaws had flushed them from their hiding-placand were hot on their trail and that at any moment they would be pouring Into the stockade, eager to kill because of their Ignorance of the peace smoke, I ran to meet the girL Damoan must have also started forward, for I heard little Turkeys raucous voice proclaiming: They are in the peace smoke. Let no one forget the shadow of the peaca calumet. I glanced back and observed the Humas had glided In between and his Choctaws and me. The next moment the girl had both my hands, and was crying: Oh, monsieur I I felt you were In danger. They tried to stop me. When they were not looking I ran up the path. Thank the good God you still live "As mademoiselle Is to see much of me. Monsieur Brampton, suppose you present me to her, suavely suggested Damoan at my elbow. t The girl stared at him wonderlnglyi then began to shrink behind me to escape his evil gaze. 8he was guessing some of the truth of the climax; and as It was best that she should understand all I bowed to her, and said: "Mademoiselle Dahlsgaarde, this Is the devil." 1 -- e Da-mo- an r CHAPTER XI "Good Lack! This Will Be Doathl" cabin where she I hurried her to could be alone with two Huma women and took up my quarters with Six Fingers and Labrador In an adjacent cabin. Shuttle me! But whats to stop these red bullies from boarding us now?" anxiously demanded Six Fingers, referring to the Biloxi Choctaws in the village. "We will not be molested while In the village," I assured them. "I have smoked for all of you. Aye? Then God bless the plpel growled Six Fingers with much relief In his voice. "But were landWheres the channel? locked here. And when do we up with our hooks and sail? Til find the channel before night. We must get away tonight If It la possible. He thrust his scrawny neck out of the opening and became absorbed in watching the men and women passing back and forth. Blow me and beach me," I heard Then, without him softly exclaim. Shipmate Labra turning his head: dor, you tpoke by the Book. The beggars are loaded with gold !" Labrador grinned at me because of the fellow's Ignorance In mistaking brass and copper for the precious metal. Six Fingers grew bolder and walked outside and toward the girls cabin. To Labrador I said: There will he a big feast tonight. Mademoiselle will not attend. You und Six Fingers leave the feast when I give the signal and take her to the In a pirogue. river and start Make for the Natchez village. I will overtake you." Ha! That Natchez village! I do not want to go there, my friend. They war against the have premised French. As my friend you will be safe. Tell Tattoed Serpent I sent you." Bah I do not care for their threats of war. There is another reason. It Is a woman. She Is noble. And she is my wife. Now the women of the Natchez, while single, were grossly below any standard of morality as measured by the white man's civilization ; but once land at the end of a Journey so It they married they became patterns of Is credibly virtue. What the white race would alleged from Africa Quite large groups of white butter- consider a demerit was held to be a flies have settled on ships In the Med- virtue by the Natchez, as It was by iterranean, on their way from south to parting with chastity that the Natchez north. So Africa certainly exchanges woman accumulated her marriage Insects with Europe. Sir W. Beach dower. The nobles could not marry Thomas In the Outlook. within their order, and many of the women refused to marry the lower class, or commoners. To find a French Heard Truth for Once husband was an excellent way of es- 1 saw a mighty queer fight In town raping a union with the inferior class. this afternoon, related Farmer It would follow that Labradors wife upon his return from the would be true to him and was waiting A fat young feller and for him to return. county seat. a thin old one fit mighty hear all I suggested the possibility of my around the public square tumbling overtaking him before he and madedown, rolling around getting up and moiselle reached the village, which whacking away at each other some would permit him to pass by and wait more, and so on." "Mercy sake6 for me somewhere above Fort Rosalie. ejaculated his wife, What was the "No, no, monsieur; I will not hide. That was the funny She Is my wife. I have taken no othfight about?" part Both said they werent fighting er. I will take mademoiselle to the for the principle of the thing, but b'cua village and you will follow when yoa one had cheated the other out of 82. can." Kansas City Star. OOIITUIUUU (W t - thln-Ilppe- self-defens- g bald-heade- Little Is Understood of Insect Migration There Is, of course, a great deal that we do not know. In the final analysis, "all things go out Into mystery, and your most professor Is left at the counter of his laboratory with his mouth open and his short-sighteeyes njjsed In a childish query. Still, he hns detected luw and order and reasonableness, and the succession of cause and effect In many branches of biology, Including bird migration. It is not so with Insect migration, which may be on a big scale. ThlB remains a thorough-goinmiracle, still quite unplumbed. In England we entertain quite a considerable number of butterflies from overseas, though their arrival or passage over the sea Is rarely observed. But such little flights of a hundred miles or so are as nothing compared with some recent examples. Butterflies will fly 8,000 miles on occasion. That lovely creature not so common here as wa could wish the painted lady, has appeared to Ire- dry-as-du- d g 1 Fum-blegat- e, 1 U Salt Lake City. Interest In dairy expansion in the Inhermountain territory is evidenced by the number of Utahns who are in the dairy states in the middle west purchasing young foundation stock for use in Utah and Idaho, according to C. C. Gignoux, assistant supervisor of agriculture of the Union Pacific system, who was in Salt Lake Wednesday on his way to Portland. Mr. Gignoux stopped iu Salt Lake to visit the livestock show. Ogden. Construction work on the elaborate passenger station to be built by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad on the companys property on Twenty-fourtstreet will be under way within sixty days, President J. S. Pyeatt of the company said here. Salt Lake City. The intermountain livestock show received a generous drenching Wednesday the closing day. Despite the unfavorable weather Tuesday, when the auction sale of fat stock was held, attendance at the show exceeded that at any previous exhibition, J. H. Manderfield, manager, declared. As to the quality of the stock entered in the show, there was no comparison between this years and the eight that have gone before. Salt Lake City. During the present year the Los Angeles markets will look to the Intermountain region to supply approximately 250,000 head ol lambs, It was Indicated by J. A. vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Union stockyards, who came to Salt Lake to attend the ninth annual intermountain livestock show. Salt Lake City. A direct automobile truck service that will speed up express and freight deliveries between Salt Lake and Uintah basin points will be inaugurated within the next thirty days, it was announced at the chamber of commerce. The line will be operated by the Sterling Transportation company, of which A. E. Shaw of Price is president, and will conduct dally service to and from the basin, making the trip in a minimum of one h days time when necessary. Ogden. Five thousand trout finger-ling- s were planted Monday In the water of upper Ogden valley by Deputy Game Warden W. H. Anderson. Ogden merchants, members of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association, donated the use of trucks to hawl the fish to Weber county from the aitate hatchery in Springville. Layton. Superintendent D. D. Harris oft, the Davis and Weber Counties Canal) company will soon have that part of the canal between the two bridges on the state highway and west of the road concreted. This stretch of the canal Is located on sandy sail and the concrete lining will save a great amount of water. Salt Lake City. The membership of the Utah State Woolgrowers association at a special meeting at the Hotel Utah approved the proposal of the association executive to form a wool financing and marketing association, which will function as a subsidiary to the state association of growers. Sentiment at Mondays session might be expressed in these words: "Its time for the woolgrowers of Utah to join hands or the unfavorable conditions of the past In wool marketing and financing will continue. Salt Lake City. Expansion In the tomato industry, particularly in new teritories, is noted in a report by Frank Andrews, state agricultural statistician. The statistician figures new acreage in southern Utah at 150 acres. About seventy-fivacres are growing in Washington county, where the season is several weeks earlier than in the main tomato producing areas of the state. Another seventy-fivacres are under contract near miles south of Moab, about thirty-fivthe Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad In eastern Utah. British Racing Grows Interest In horse racing in England has been increasing greatly. Statistics issued by the Racing Calendar show that during the last flat racing season 4, GOO horses ran under Jockey club rules, tills being the greatest total on record. In 1S27 only 1,1GG horses ran during the season. Builds up weak bodies General break :.i down forced me to quit work. Tauloe toned up my whole system, banished the nervous strain and gave me bach the health of twenty years ago. I strongly recommend Tan lac. F.J.Messmer, 254 So. Ninth A ve., Burlington, Iowa. From Mother Natures storehouse We have gathered the roots, harks and herbs which are compounded, tinder the famous Tanlac formula, to make Tanlac. If your body Is weak and undernourished, if you cant sleep or eat, have stomach trouble or burning rheumatism. Just you see how quickly Tanlac can help you back to health and strength. Dont delay taking Tanlac an other day. Stop at your druggists now and get a bottle of this, the greatest of all tonics. Take Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation. Honor American Woman Mrs. Carl Akele.v of New York, .wife of the African explorer, has been honored by the Canadian government which named a mountain after her. Mrs. Akeley is the former Miss Mary L. Jobe, explorer. A peak in the Canadian rockies will be named Mount Jobe. Lift Pain! Off-- No e e e Beaver. Ten teams and men left for Milford Friday morning for a carload of seed peas contracted for by the local farmers. This is the first year the farmers of Beaver have signed contracts to raise seed peas. It is believed the venture will be a success, as soil and climatic conditions are favorable to such growth. Doesnt hurt one bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift It right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or irritation. Cuticura Soap and Ointment Kes Scalp Clean and Healthy Salt Lake City. China's Sophie Promote Heir Growth Tormentra, a young producer in the Jersey herd of W. A. Nuttall of Provo, Conversions Fruit has met all requirements for the Declaring she had been converted American Jersey Cattle club silver medal by producing 492.SS pounds of at a church revival meeting, a pretty buterfat and 8120 pounds of milk In divorcee of Sacramento announced at 305 days and carrying her calf for the same time that she had dropped 176 days of this time, it Is announced her $25,000 heart balm suit against a from club headquarters. She made local merchant, because it conflicted this fine record on two milkings per with her religious convictions. day. Brigham City. Comparatively little damage was done to the fruit crop of this section, according to many of the leading orchardists and fruit dealers. While the thermometer registered around 22 degrees above zero the coldest weather here in several waaks a good breeze swept over the country, which aided materially in saving he tender buds of the early apricots and cherries, which were partly in bloom. It is thought that the crop was th'nned down a little, but not to any greit extent. Sure Relief L fad SusSN roe INDIGESTION, PS CENTS J 5a 6Hot water Bell-an- s Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION 254 and 754 Pkfjs.Sold Everywhere |