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Show 1 s. THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH Mr. Van From Out of the West she led Mrs. Scofield toward the best room, which a New England woiflan still called the parlor. Here In the midst of choice mahogany and maple furniture brought from the East, they sat down.. Please show me your sons picture! begged Millie. I am so Inter- WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSICS ested By CLARISSA MACKIE (, 1923, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Millie Gray locked the door of the small schoolhouse, perched on one of the loveliest slopes of the Pampas hills, and paused on the step to admire the view. Although she had been teaching In this Wyoming school for a whole month, she could not take It calmly this having a boundless playground for' her pupils; this dally . panorama of earth and hills and bending blue sky. It was a land of kindly ' winds and the sun kissed It warmly now, but later on say, December what would It be like then? Millie. shivered and refused to think of being away from her home In the East. And the West Is a thousand miles from anywhere she said aloud.' But Its a good old West,' eh, maam?- drawled a pleasant voice. Millie whipped around and discovered her star pupil, as she dubbed him In her Innermost thoughts. Something about this earnest, grave-eye- d young man, with the clear bronzed skin,, and the fine, muscular, bronzed hands, always brought a little catch into her throat. It was, perhaps, the timbre of his unusual voice that compelled her to take him very seriously that first day when lie had walked Into her, presence and announced that he wanted to study English. Oh,- Im a native son all right, he had assured her, but Its so long since I went to .the academy that Ive forgotten all the polish I ever had I just want to get my English rubbed All the children giggled, from up. the small Hansens, who were brought to school each morning In an antiquated flivver, to the big boys, just growing Into manhood, who admired the young cowpuncher, leaning nonchalantly against teachers desk and twirling his big hat awkwardly with lean fingers. Everybody in the coun- ty knew who Van Pierce was a man who carried two guns and never fired a shot, one who was ever the first to make peace and his ready smile with men endeared him to some of the roughest characters about the hills. His fear of women was a joke. Just' now, he had. rounded' the schoolhouse, sitting carelessly on his big roan horse, unsuspecting that the little teacher had paused a moment in the stillness to recall the music of his . - ? H U - - V - ... ni t ? H voice 1 - of - women was overcome by his own boldness af- ter his remark and had relapsed into f t' ; Sr i f'V; ' if s' l H silence, waiting for this adorable sprite of a teacher to speak to him. Oh, Mr. Pierce, I didnt dream anyone was around, she said breathlessly. Dont call me mister, please you cant call a pupil 'mister. he dared. I answer to the name of Van. I couldnt call you that I she blushed, angry at her own confusion, I shall compromise and call you Mis- ter Van. All right, thats better, he agreed. wish you could ride, Miss Gray." ' ; Why 1 can ridel Well, thats getting along but you havent .got a horse to ride Perhaps you could get one at Mother Scofields, suggested Yan after a .while. i Oh, do you know Mother Scofield? A , little," he smiled cryptically. Just ask. her, and dont turn me out of the school after what she tells you dont believe It, Miss Gray Im not half as bad as Im painted Millie smiled, too, but she could not know that she would his name to her delightful landlady. He rode beside her until their trails divided, and when she went on alone he sat like a young centaur watching her out of his grave gray eyes until sweater disappeared her scarlet ' around a thicket of trees.-That evening as Millie, helped Mrs. ; Scofield. In the roomy kitchen they ''i talked 'confidentially about Millies home life, for the good woman guessed that the girl was lonely and a little homesick in spite of her., outward cheeriness. Then the talk shifted to the little school where Millie held sway over the growing children of a widely flung neighborhood, but Millie, d did not tell'; her friend ' al?out Mr. Van, the star pupil. Just think of all those boys and girls riding miles to come to school every day they think nothing of it, either, exclaimed Millie. I know all about it, my dear I used to teach, you know. And ray own boy rose at dawn to get his chores done so he could get off then he went East to a preparatory school Millie thought and then to college. she sighed gently. When is he coming home? the girl ' asked. Oh he graduated three years ago he did not come home, but I had married Mr. Scofield In the meantime and there was dislike between them so he went an another ranch. I am sorry and I am sure he Is sorry by this tlmel He is splendid, Millie ; but he did not realize that I had spent my best years In rearing him, and that I was tired, and so lonely when he went away. Mr. Scofield Is a good man, but toy boy was Jealous, I do believe," she c said, apologetically. Jealous or not. If I ever meet him I shall bring him straight home to you I" declared Millie, who had a fighting spirit In her small body. With a very soft look In her changing eyes, 1 : ! ! ! never-mentio- , i & ,( j i s : f . Kj,. new-foun- (k 1 t J r1 Q Vi ' Jih n Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION large family album was brought out and the little teacher was shown the picture of a placid Infant, my bby at six months, and so year after year like steps leading up to his young manhood. Millie saw the graphs, at last her hand flew out and A llilillllllilllllllllllllllllllit: iNiiiiiiiniiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiimiinuu; By MARGARET BQYD touched a picture of a youth riding a fractious broncho, hatless, with his stern profile bent In concentration on the beast under him, site recognized at last her star pupil. Why why that Is Mr. Van I she gasped. ... ' a 4 SSvjef The descendants of the German farmers who plodded through Philadelphias streets during Evangelines day are . 1 - hand-somel- 1 Ruins th-- National Geographic ciety, Washington, D. C.) (Prepared by of St. So- For' denseness of population thought tumsr first to China, Java and Belgium; but Martinique, French island of the West Indies, Is ah able American contestant to join the list, for it Is one of the most crowded lands of the world. On Its 380 square miles live close to a quarter of a million 640 to the square people,' more than mile. And a ' great' many (of Martiniques square miles are covered by rough mountains and dense, virgin jungle, so that on the cultivated lowlands the crowding is much greater than the figures for the whole island indicate. - ' Here Is an island hot Inconsiderable in size, crowded, fairly prosperous, which somehow has almost been overlooked by the world In late years. Yet the spotlight of history has singled It out more than once and has shone npon it with a brightness ' that has Compelled attention. - What other little patch of distant land may be said to have furnished to Europe a woman who was more than a queen, a queen and an empress. Marquise de Main-teno-n was the daughter of Martinique who was all but queen; and the islands legitimate contribution to royalty was through Its beloved Josephine, herself the empress of the first, Napoleon, as well as mother of the queen of Holland and grandmother of the third Napoleon. A great tragedy of nature turned the latest spotlight on Martinique when Mount Pelee exploded in 1902 In one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions of modern times and wiped out of existence the thriving city of St. Pierre, creating Americas Pompeii. St. Pierre has been described as the quaintest, queerest and prettiest city of the West Indies. It was truly a charming city and the undoubted favorite port of call to all Caribbean sailors. To the world at large St Pierre was Martinique; and when this delightful place was overwhelmed the fiction was somehow built up that Martinique Itself was irrevocably crippled. ' ; .JBut though St. Pierre has never been rebuilt and probably never will be, and though its loss was a heavy blow, the island has gone on develop- ing and prospering to a greater than some .of its even, degree, scoffed her husband. neighbors under other flags. .Where Starved! Amanda, my dear, theyi wont know Its population at the time of the dechicken from crow when they come struction of St. Pierre was- near 190,- 000 it is now over 244,000. And the back I hope not declared Vans value of the annual produce today is J much greater than that in 1902. ; mother. What the Island Is Like. . COFFEE FOR GOOD RECIPE Martinique lies midway in the h roughly string of LeeFormula Given by William H. Ukers, ward and Windward islands that to' gether make up the Lesser Antilles or Who Claims to Be an Caribbees. Like Its immediate neighAuthority. bors, It Is rough and smothered, Perfection in coffee making may be where man has not kept it clear, by a attained by any one who will observe riot of vegetation, 'an ocean of verdure that shows forth every conceivable the few simple rules set forth by William H. Ukers, editor of the Tea and shade of green. The eastern or AtCoffee Trade Journal, New York, In lantic side is continually; under bomMr. bardment by a heavy surf and there his book, . All About Coffee. Ukers rules for correct coffee making is little chance for commerce on that The western or Caribbean may be taken as summarizing all he shore. has learned from the most complete side, however, is more sheltered and study of coffee that has so far been it Is there on the great almost landlocked bay that Is situated Fort de made. The rules follow : 1. Buy a good grade of freshly France, the capital, and, since the deroasted coffee from a responsible struction of St. Pierre, the chief city and port of the Island. Some twenty , dealer. miles up the coast Is the site of St 2. Grind It very fine and at home. with Pele and its torn top Pierre before Just using. , rising beyond. 3. Allow a rounded tablespoonful The lives of St. Pierres 30,000 Infor each beverage cup. habitants were snuffed out almost in 4. Make It In a French drip pbt or in some filtration device where freshly a moment when a great wave of exburning gases rolled down boiling water is poured through the ploding, It from the volcano. Huge mudgrounds but once. A piece of muslin upon and any china receptacle make an flows, too, came from the crater to the north of the city and devastation was economical filter. 5. Avoid pumping percolators or general in almost the whole of the northern quarter of the Island. for heating water and forcdevice any No qffort to rebuild the lost city the grounds. ing it repeatedly through was considered practicable, and the Never boll coffee. ruins, stirring the emotions of all who 6. Keep the beverage hot and serve It "black" with sugar and hot milk, behold them, have remained much as the great catastrophe left them save or cream, or both. that nature has covered them with her Inexorable tropic growths. Cane planFearful Waste. toThe lady was addicted to bridge, and tations and villages have edged charold rather the ward city, though remontried the clergyman gentle ily; and there Is still much of the restrance. the vicinity of the dreaded he said, mildly, gion inthat Your ladyship,Is abandoned. Pelee cannot fall to have noticed the time A little over two miles south of the wasted In playing cards. old, city site, along the coast', Is the Thuts just what I have noticed, nearest village, Carbet. It was partly at the was the reply; "I always fret by1 the singeing heat of destroyed time lost In shuffling and dealing.the blast that devastated St Pierre, come home. - 1 1 north-and-sout- 75 . . slow through the suburbs plodded the German farmer, with flow eta and fruit for the market.- Evangeline. Do you know him? Millie told her, word for word, what had happened. Tears stood In the toothers blue eyes. The naughty To think of his braving the rascal ridicule of the children and coming to school I He doesnt need any tutoring, my dear ; why, he : majored In There could be English literature. only one reason " she wiped her eyes and smiled at the puzzled face of the ... little teacher. ' And that asked Millie stonily Vannie has always been scared to death of the girls, and never had a sweetheart; why, the lamb must be In love with you, darling. She folded the blushing girl in her arms. Oh, If you only cared for him a lit.tle. It wouldnt be oh, dear I think Ill Just go upstairs and go to bed. Good night, dear Mrs-- . Scofield. I am going to persuade your son to come home with me tomorrow, and he must be friends with your husband, and with an uncertain smile on her lovely face little Millie, most decorous of little schoolmams, flew up the stairs two steps at .a time. In the parlor, Mrs. Scofield wiped her eyes again and smiled, to herself, and her smile too, was cryptic like Mr. Vans. She does already, was what the' smile meant. Millie found a horse to ride, and together she and her star pupil took several rides about the hills and plains, always parting at the crossroads. Mr. . Van used abominable grammar, never once failing to bring a correction from the demure young teacher, and she came back from these rides with a beautiful color in her cheeks and a faint tinge of the suns kiss upon those who woo the outdoors. Another Saturday morning he telephoned and asked her to meet him at the cross trail, and her eyes grew darker aS slie replied: I will wait for you here, she said calmly, at your mothers house. Silence. Then, I am coming." When Van Pierce, came galloping through the ranch gate, Millie went to meet him with her was his mother and his stepfather, and a retinue of dogs all barking joyfully.-- In greetings, Millie came last Van had made peace with his mother and Mr. Scofield, had apologized and had patted the dogs, but Millie hung back, desperately frightened after alL He saw the fear in N her eyes. Come, teacher, he dared her, you promised to ride with me today I have something to tell you . The older people watched them with tender eyes as they rode out of the gate. They waved' gayly as they disappeared over the crest of a hill. Mrs. Scofield sighed happily. Just send me in a pair of chickens, Benjamin. They will be starved when they AND PACKAGES EVERYWHERE . : . 25 Pierre. but it has been rebuilt and fing Its position near the old city a valuable one because of the many visitors who come there to find transportation on the last leg of the journey to the ruins. Columbus is said to have landed at the spot on which Carbet stands when he touched Martinique on his fourth voyage in 1502; and there, too, the first French settlers disembarked in 1635. Industries and People. Sailing alongside Martinique will give a most inadequate impression of Jhe island, for much to be seen along the west coast, especially in the north, is jungle; and the surf is so angry on the east side that a boat must keep a respectful distance. To appreciate the full charm of the Island one must travel the superb roads In the construction of which In their colonies the French seem to be the true heirs of ancient Rome. These excellent highways traverse all parts of the island except In the immediate vicinity of Pelee. They are equally good up the slopes of mountains, through the deep tropical forests where they are almost tunnels, threading valleys or running between great fields of sugar the Pennsylvania German or the Pennsylvania Dutch of the present The land of the Pennsylvania German extends northward and westward from Philadelphia a hundred miles or so in each direction, and so far as language and customs are concerned Is a foreign land. The country Is rich farm land and the Pennsylvania German is a notable farmer. His language .is not German, but Pennsylvania German a dialect that savants say has not been spoken In any part of Germany for nearly a century. In order to conduct his market business It has been necessary for the farmer to learn some Englishbut It is e memnot unusual to find bers of tne family who can neither 6peak nor understand English, although they and their parents and their grandparents were all born in America. The English they do speak' Is a queer hybrid, of the sort spoken by the tired market woman who remarked that she was teetotally Reduces Banal Enlarge tents. Thickened, Swollen Tissues, Curbs, Filled from Tendons Soreness Blmlses or Strains; stops Spavin Lameness, allays pain. Doss not blister, remove the 1 1 hair or lay up the horse. Only lfl a few drops ' required at each application. $2.50 a bottle at druggists or delivered. Book 1 A free. W. F. YOUNG, Ik., til Lnus St- SyriarfitM, Hw, W JJ -. CLEARty"Hr COMPLEXION J I Bamor all bUmik, discolorations. Hava a mnnthi uoftnHn natnnl lwanlifnl Ildnifgtrtnfl.SS. Or odnt penpnid. Goarnnt d. Banetboofclt ir . Write Micfc.AveXhicao. 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Sta., Chicago ' Poor Sleep Producer, Old haggle (sick-a-beSleeping powder, huh, so ya call that sleeping powder ya gave me. I strewed It all oyer ma bed one night; but did ah not a wink! 6leep? e, skirts. The dresses are usually brown or black never of any bright color. MOTHER! GIVE SICK CHILD Their head covering Is a little white net CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP" cap and a little dark bonnet. The cane. . In frivolous the dress young girls style Cane growing Is the greatest agriof the town until they join the church. Harmless Laxative for a Bilious cultural Industry, though the governConstipated Baby or Child, Then they turn plain and don the ment subsidizes the planting of cof- conventional white cap. From that time Constipated, bilfee and cocoa trees to obtain a better forth they are Required to keep their Most of the heads covered.' On very hot days the lons, feverish, or balance of activities. sick, colic Babies great cane plantations are on the east- matron at work in a hot kitchen may and Children love ern side of the Island and among shove her cap far back on her head, to take genuine ' them are huge sugar factories. But but she never .altogether removes It. California ' Fig sugar is not the only product of the Syrup. No other fcL cane fields. There are many rum disSleep that knits up the ravell'd sieevo laxative regulates little tender -the in. the value and late years tilleries, of care. bowels so nicely. of the rum output has exceeded that The death of each days life, sore laIt sweetens the of sugar. bors bath, and sec-The people of Martinique are large- Balm of hurt minds, great nature! starts the liver and bowels acting withond course. out griping. Contains no narcotics or ly of a mixture of races, though there are some thousands of residents of Chief nourisher In life's feast.- soothing drugs. Say California to .... Macbeth. your druggist and avoid counterfeits I pure French stock, r When the first Insist upon genuine California Fig. French settlers arrived they found Man can live longer without food Syrup" which contains directions. Carlb Indians on the island. As time Advertisement. repassed many of these were deported than without sleep. There are many men have corded Instances where gon'e or exterminated. Then negro slaves A Staggering' Question, were brought in. The negro and Carlb for forty or more days without food Did you ever see a company of the have from recovered and experito this mixture strains united and women perfectly silent? In some ence. I do not know the maximum num- -' French blood was added. Yes, once; some one had asked parts of the Island Asiatic blood has ber of days that a man can go without which of those present was the eldof The short It is but far 'sleep, medforty. The racial entered this mixture. est." London Answers. - . ley seems to have produced a people expert workmen who line the great must mills in often wotlfc paper noted for physical beauty; and enBAYER" ASPIRIN thusiastic artists seeing the Martinl-quian- s for sixty hours without more sleep DEMAND snatch the time can than as assertduring they for the first time have Aspirin" Marked With Bayer Crose-Hed that a cast ' made of most any that new material Is being brought in Been Proved Safe by Millions. maiden or youth or young man or to them, never more than ten minutes at a time. Surgeons and doctors some- ' Warning! Unless you see the name woman would serve without retouchBayer on package or cn tablets you ing as a masterful representation of times work continuously for fifty or Hebe or Juno, Adonis or Apollo. sixty hours at a time after great bat- are not getting the genuine Bayer tles. These men are always exhausted Aspirin proved safe by millions and Martinique has few colonial limita- after such periods of work and sleep prescribed by physicians for 23 years. tions. It possesses a government hardexcessively long periods in order to get Say Bayer when you buy Aspirin. an ly distinguishable from that of normaL It Is probable that a Imitations may prove dangerous. Adv. It back to integral department of France. who was not working could go sends a senator to the French senate man without sleep for a longer period; but Night Noises. of to the chamber and two deputies seems to be the general testimony of Here," said the salesman, Is a deputies.' In local affairs the resi- it pair of pajamas youll never wear dent' voters rule, and their freedom those who. have been kept awake for much as sixty hours, by third deas out. led to radicalism. times at has Er yes, they are rather loud for gree methods, that by that time they Fort de France le Pretty. are willing .to confess to any crime or street wear, arent they? Fort de France, the capital and un- do anything else to get sleep. The virtues of sleep as a balm of disputed metropolis of the island, has Keep Weill Avoid Sickness. a population about that of St. Pierre hurt minds is sung by Shakespeare in .. Take Brandreth Pills. One or two at at the time of its destruction close the Tempest as follows : bedtime will cleanse the system, purify , to 30,000. It makes a pretty picture blood and keep you well. Adv. seldom visits sorrow; when It doth the It roofs backed by It Is a comforter. with its Nothing Serious. green hills. To one side stands the Young expressed much the same understand your fiance writes poancient gray fort which has thunin the lines dered many a time in the long strug- thought etry." BritFrance Great and between Only during his spare time. gles Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! ain for control of the West Indies. like the world, his ready visit pays man Is a close Many a The great bay has been the rendezvous He, Where fortune sfnlles the wretched he , observer. forsakes. for huge fleets more than once, and Is still the chief French naval station While the ancients described Som-nu- s, In the Antilles. the god of sleep; as the gentlest Quaint houses and streets, and a of the gods, the tranquilizer of minds colorful market a veritable microhearts. Sir and soother of care-wor-n Treatment, both ' cosm of Martinique will Interest Philip Sidney sang' of sleep as: local and internal, and has been successthe visitor. But to ail who have a The baiting place of the balnr of ful in the treatment of Catarrh for ovei shred of the romantic In their makewoe: forty years: Sold by all druggists. up, Fort de Frances Interest lies not The poor mans wealth, the prisoner's F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio . release. In Fort de France Itself but In Its nearness to the little village of Trols Mrs. Browning refers to the PsalmIslets and the plantation of La ists exaltation of sleep: Pagerie a few miles across the bay., Of all the thoughts of God that are These are the spots most closely asso- .Borne Inward Into souls afar. ciated With that beautiful and lovable Along the Psalmists music deep, tell me If that any Is, t and pathetic figure that Martinique Now For gift of grace surpassing this - the Joseto world, Empress He giveth His beloved sleep. gave An exquisite marble statute Seay 25c, Oiatacat 25 ui 50c, Talcaai25c. phine. Scientists every now and then of Josephine stands In a park In Fort to find some try substitute for sleep, just de France, the face turned toward search for the secret of eter--( as they Trois Islets. and nal for perpetual motion. youth Little boats, take the visitor across Instead of begrudging the third of ouf' IXFLAMED LIDS the bay to the village which boasts lives that we must spend in sleep, howIt Increase! the irritation. the church In which Josephine was Use MITCHKLE EYB It seems much more to the purever, SALVE, ft simple, baptized and a memorial tablet to her pose to try to live more Intensively readable, safe remedy, lit t ell drufgtsts. mother. the of our lives that " Hell ft Racket, loeTert A few miles away Is the plantation, during we are aucake. La Pagerie, where she . was born. -- i - -- red-tile- d '"I d Hall's Catarrh Mcdcino Girls! Girls!! Clear Your Skin With Cuticura DONT R d- two-thir- -; |