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Show THE SALINA SUN. S A LINA UTAH ZZ if The Story of a Grave ft .......WILLIAM. .. ALLEN - i t i iz WHITE j t ... ..... .. aijiiiEiinmmimimiumiiimimmmii: M.cmilUn Co. Copyright, 1922. by the tbe Great desert where green grows. At the head cf an estuary of lire great dry sea, where a long arm of white alkali runs up THERE is a plaee in among the foo' lulls of the mountains, lands an inviting tavern. It Is upon Ju.U below it, the garthe hillside. den hose and the landscape gardener, with water curnJ in troughs from the rnounhi.ris. have wrought a miracle of green. Tiees, blue grass, flowers, wax strong ami Ixuiitifiil in the urtilieial ousK Obi Ui is n and young men and maidens romp on the verdant mat, spread at the point of the estuary, and bring home the bacon, collar the blue vase, upon the lulhiue a score of languishing carry the message to Garcia, etc. guests sit in the healing sun, and look down upon the picture, and Raisins, full of energy and out into the entile, s miles of white 1ITTLEwill st. ad that stretch billowy and fantasput the pep into you tic into the blue of the horizon. that makes winning plays. Use vira Most of these idlers on the broad like it in your business, too. plnza of the tavern are invalids. It calOne hundred and forty-fiv- e Is a place of Invalids, llcre hundreds ories of energizing nutriment in every of wretched bodes are dragged by a five-'cclittle red box that you see. tragic love of life. Here scores of Comes from fruit sugar in pracsouls watch other souls flicker and die out, and still hope on and wait, while tically predigested form levulose, the the oil of life burns smudgy and low. scientists call it so it goes to work There are those whom the sunshine almost immediately. Rich in food-iro- n and tlie dry, clear air win back to also. life. Hut the dead are there. On the Try these little raisins when youre broad veranda a very citadel of life hungry, lazy, tired or faint. See how the dead are embattled, fighting with time. It is a most hideous battle, and they pick you up and set you on your toes. all so hushed and sepulchral are Its maneuvers, that life takes no heed of the empty pageant. Armed In such a combat sat HawkSim-Mai- ds ins, the chief clerk, a grim man, dark, pallid, .sinister. Of what, out In the world of life, Hawkins had been chief lie il derk, It does not matter now. had been a busy man, linn, taciturn, self contained, repellent. lie sat now at Itis post in the battle, sneering at the folly of those about him who were 5c Everywhere trying to wrest a few mortal moments Iroin eternity. For a long time, as days go, Hawk-In- s had been sitting In this sentry box, when his captain the doctor ordered him Into the infantry, and told him to march for dear life. Hawkins left the guards upon the terrace with loathing. During the first week of his Il requires strength of mlml to stop MADE HER GRIEVANCE PLAIN marching orders, he made exactly the same Journey every day. He noticed talking when some one doesnt agree his pall). He was inwith jou. Woman Annoyed When Male Escort everything along in nothing. In his mind the terested Got the Benefit and She he saw were catalogued, but The man who likes to hear ldmself objects Received the Abuse. never referred to by his memory. talk may be the only one who cares to was a huge bluff, a railroad There hear him. A woman lmd annoyed many people a quarry, a barbed wire fence, who were waiting In line for tickets bridge, a grave, a mud house,' a enclosing He who wants content curt find an on h Suturday afternoon at a railway some sheep, a steep hill, a herder, easy chair. come al station. The woman had up water trough, a cross road, and a the other side of the window, and, It's very unlucky to lose $13 on Fri- though she had been told to get in pine grove, on the hill over which he came back to his starting point. None day. lino, she had put down her money for of these objects was dignified by a two tickets and had obtained then) at In his mind. One day, atprominence once. the most unimportant det all tracted by Just like a woman," muttered Hawkins started to SHOESK.S1I Some of the men in line. Hut the inwalkthea landscape, few rods from his path, that lie woman, turned to the man she had W. Ij. Dougins shoes are actually demanded year ufior year by move jieople just joined and hurst forth nudildy: might examine more closely the grave, fenced in with barbed wire to keep than any oilier shoe in the world. I dont think its fair, Jim. You : A the ghoulish desert beatts away. w.i.pquglas:,1-;:;make me do that horrid trick of try- second made the digression thought tonal .ml uorkumiirtUip are ing to heat the line because you say front the uiioq titled for t ho price. It is path the line of an ellipse, men never do such things. And womworth while for you to know he followed his course without and that whn you buy W . L. en got the abuse. IUit I bet that every Iloulas shot's you are getwoman who does that has a man veering. ' ting the benefit of hi 40 yours There were days when Hawkins exienenoe In nuik mg the boat somewhere In the crowd who 1ms inihoo4 ponmble for the price. to none of the hotel guests, and poke sisted tliut she hurry." the lack of interest in the plaee WLDOUGLAST w ih ththepi iceounl for them. weighed heavily niton him. As lie sat IV ear them ami save money. SHE DYED A SWEATER, for hours after his walks gazing beProtoction xgaim t unreasonable profits is guaranteed hy tween the hills that penned out the SKIRT AND CHILD'S COAT the pi Ice stumped on every desert, the spot where the grave dotted pair. the surface of the plain kept drawWITH DIAMOND DYES W.L.DOUGLAS;1" ing his ejes to it, In au annoying liUot our oivu stores in the Each package of n.nmond lives con- manner. targe cities ami by shoe dealAsk your ers everywhere. tains directions simple any woman ran As ho took his lonely walk at the shoe dealer toshow you W.I dve or tint her worn, shabby dresses, iKmglas shoes. Only by exof that fortnight, the grave began end skirts, waists, coats, stockings, sweaters, amining tle'in can you aphim. to Irritate It aroused a certain Kefust value. their coverings, hangings, thing, draperies, every preciate even if she lias never dyed before, l.uy curiosity within him, which was very substitutes, lnsid upon ba with shoes W.L Douglas leg "Diamond Dyes no other kind then distasteful. the retail price and the name II for wic to perfect home dyeing is sure because mu?. tamped on the sole. rlbe lit One night, after his return from a Djes are guaranteed not to spot, ret.nl prices are the same walk, raging at his folly, the grave fade, streak, or run. Tell your druggist everywhere. TO MtiRCmyTS: If we whether the material you wish to dye is began to lmunt Ids wakeful daler t your toicn handletowool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton W.UDoughit shoes, rnte The next afternoon he walked to or mixed goods. Advertisement. day for exclusive rights handle thu quick setting, over to the enclosure, thinking that r line. guick he would he no longer disturbed by A Funny Idea. the thing if he examined it closely. mothanxious "Daughter," said the Wear Hawkins saw only an adult's grave er, what qualifications 1ms this young with a cactus upon it. At the head or a Now Pair Free unv.ous to marry was a wooden hoard. At the foot was man that you are so That, oar ruarante. of him?" a broad peg. The barbed wire was Well, mother, he dresses well, he torn away at one end perhaps by has a rather nice ear, he Is a swe'l some stray nnluial, wandering in the dancer, he tells jolly good stories, night. Hawkins did not approach he Sueponders nearer than a rod from the fence, and Vo rubber, E horbor Bnrni Hut. daughter, has lie a job?" he turned quickly, as though he had Spring jive more, easier sad iA9tmg stretch end Oh, I dont know, mother! You do overcome his weakness. ,vv hen he had never rot. Always omfor table. 8utnuer.- - 75c have the funniest Ideas!" Hamilton gathered these details In his ntiud. , Oarters,uUeSuoport' Aha our leolec (Out.) Spectator. The next day he came closer, and hftvn't them send caineot uivi o r'a n n Ia'o's for iarant the day fol'ovvlr.g. after n night in Strt'th Sifpttljr which he was kept awake, frenzied Airing Her Secret. Adrian, Tot One evening I was to have n joint? been use of a gnawing ache to pick man caller As I didn't have n new the cactus root out of (he dead mans dross and couldnt wear my old one, side, Hawkins canto to the fence and I finally succeeded in borrowing sish lined upon the post, looking hack ter's. toward the hotel to see if the group I wt.s nil rentJv and sitting In the on the veranda could see him. He did ot touch the cactus, and not until he parlor when he arrived, lie at once md straightened up to go did he so remarked about my new dress. Everything vvelft lovely until my little sis- Much as glance at the mound. He ter came in and said, Oh, did Eve tell read the name on thp headboard and Ex hurried away with fear dogging his hprrlul Copy 0ter Farm News, containing you you could wear her dress? 80.000 woiua. pictures, poems, government He looked behind hy sheer change. steps. full information lifetime cash quotations, Income from Investing $10 monthly Mailed force of will. It was the one name free Wm. Lee Popham, Ed , Apalachicola, Fla The best revenge for a wrong is to In the world that Hawkins loved to WANTEl County representatives to handle forgive it. hate. With It enme the recollection national advertised household (roods. Free of the woman whom the gritn man was samples $:o a week easv 1'acillc Southwest Bales Co, $16 W. Tenth 8t , Los Angeles, Cal. proud that he had forgotten. At the road around the hill he Ton orrd . to checked his nervous gait and walked U slowly back to the hotel. Hut all the " IV Riurf DVlV llvUMIzra ilw N. way tip the hillside the headboard kept th. roou and Mop. hlr fulling out All. bl5 ig i poU rapid I,. Try It! At .11 pood druggist. 75c. before hint with the word Za'n" r'slng V direct from T p ri over the word "Thvveke." ar Clean-Clei Co.CS.C0.U3A . N. U., Laks I'i t ty, No. 22 Hawkins sat in his chair on .he WOlt. f,r re Car. Boot. & Help Y on Run the Ba Little Between MeaV Raisins Had Your Iron Today? veranda when he bod returned, and looked over the white floor la the distance. It seemed magnified la his eyes. He fancied . he could distinguish the Then headboard from the fence. he began to fight with the spell. He reasoned that it was an accident, and it came over him with a chill, that he had been dmwn to the place by an Irresistible force. At this conclusion he smiled sardonically and lighted a cigar. He believed he had conquered the hallucination by giving it full rein. Then he began to hate his old enemy. Hawkins had not known that the man wus dead until that day. lie mused The pleasurably upon the cactus. doctor, seeing Hawkins in the sunset air with a cigar, swore at him, and the gran man went indoors. He was proud to be alive, llm pride amount-ee- l almost to a thrill. Hawkins went to sleep early that When the lights In the hotel night. were extinguished he wakem d from a dream about figures and business, and felt that there was something im-p- i riant on his mind. Then he reiuem-bete- d the discovery on the headboard. He trailed over his treasure with the harrow of his hate, lie tried to think of something else; he began counting, finally it came. A sentence formed in Was it the dead man's his mind: spirit V" When he aroused himself Ids mouth was dry, and ne was wet with perspiration. Hawkins normal mind then took control of his fancy and his hate for the conquered foe burned fiercely. The woman kept coming into his maHe wondered If lignant speculations. He she had taken the mans name. was curious to know If she had come with Ids enemy into the desert where he died. Hawkins pictured them together on the terrace. Then his sick fancy painted them In the very room where he was lying. For a moment A footfall he was In mental hell. startled him. He sprang to the floor to ring the bell and to ascertain If his Imaginings had any foundation In fact. When the boy came Hawkins asked for ice water, and upon getting It sipped It, as he stood looking out at the quiet stars and the moon, and lisand to the tening to the sheep-bell- s dogs burking out on the floor of the desert, beyond the grave. This soothed him, and he slept. The day following that night, and for many days thereafter, Hawkins stood gusing at the ugly sand heap In could know of the eoftening of his heart. The visits to the grave grew necessary to his happiness. For the first time In his life Hawkins felt as desolate as he really was. He visited the grave, as a man of ordinary temperament would enll upon a comrade. When his strength permitted a trip every other day, only, he sut in his room looking out between the hills at the plain, and at the fascinating dot upon 1 1: a wtota stretch of sand and aikalL It was at these times that Hawkins began to try to recall the possible good qualities of his dead enemy. Hawkins remembered how lie had condemned the man out of hand, when his name was first brought up because Thvveke w rote a copybook hand. Hawkins remembered that he liad sneered at the man on account of a certain cuil of the mustache; and that the fellow had incurred a husbandly hate, by knowing how to play the piano. Remembering these prejudices, Hawkins tried to make some entries on the other side of the account. As the Shadow flitted nearer and nearer to the grim man, now confined to his barren room more closely than before, lie began to 1 se the horror he once felt at what he fancied might be the present e of the dead. One day he found himself curiously listening to some token from the dead man in the grave. His mood was not one of horror, but of longing. He reasoned that his strange finding of the grave, the power that drew him inexplicable ugainst his will and against Ills nature to the lonely spot, and the Influence which it had wrought upon his life Indicated the presence of some outside power. He built up a theory of hypnotism from disembodied spirits, and snt watching for a signal to verify through his material' senses the existence of the supernatural force with which his spirit seemed to have been communing. In tills frame of mind ha He forgot the wasting of the flesh. sat by his window, overlooking the desert, and mused by the hour upon life and the coming of the end. His whole being was softened by the approaching dissolution of his body. He longed for some sign that would tell him that he had fellowship real and palpable with the spirit of the man in the deserted grave. But the He traced false sign did not come. signs to their natural causes, and was sad. The habit of a lifetime, as a scoffer, strangled credulity, even $5S67&?8 night-fancie- turn-ove- TAW Hair Thin? UES51C-ELU- . u7 47-19- reepYbur Healthy Eyes But He Could Hardly Eat Even an expert chef for an restaurant, with everything heart could wish in the eating line and the skill to prepare it in the most appetizing manner, finds life miserable and work a burden with his appetite gone and his health all broken up on ac- count of stomach trouble. According to his own statement, such had been the case for two years with William Lackey, 805 North Wells St., Chicago, 111., chef at a popular North Clark St. restaurant, who says he recently found relief by taking Tnnlac. won3 D. 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Then Hawkins saw how like a cur he was. After that there were three in his s. cirvle of hate. One day, loathing himself, lie began to wonder what had ever induced the woman to promise to love and honor him. He recalled cowardly words he had spoken to her. Revelations of his own cruelty and meanness were made to him, and ghostly memories that he had strangled years before came flitting back. He was oppressed with a sense of The having done a terrible wrong. face of the woman whom lie had forgotten, rose and flonted on his stagnant fancies. Dialogues, that he had crowded into what seemed to him oblivion, came trooping back, and whispered themselves into his ear. in each of these pictures and voices he saw his own selfishness. llawkius began to know himself as lie was known. A love that he had trampled out with his physical heel in a fit of rage, began to glow and warm his being. A miracle was wrought the day that a shriveled tear trembled in his eje. He went to the grave, and stood a longer time than usual after that. He left the place with a sigh and walked slowly with his eyes upon the He walked slowly, partly ground. l't out choice, partly because his former gait sapped his strenglth. On the veranda they were coaming the weeks left him. He now welt to the mound every day for company. To those whom he met In the routine of his phjsical life, Hawkins preserved his cold exterior. Ills habit of austerity was not broken. Yef strange things were working withHe had lived his life in his breast. nJoue. and no one outside himse'f on - Guests Sit in the Healing Sun." So though it was the child of hope. Hawkins sat In the silence, listening and waiting for the greater silence. There came n time when he rallied when he left the window for the veranda. Then It was that a great yearning came to his heart to go and lie prone upon the grave and to be as He could simple as a child in grief. not explain this yearning; lie did not try to analyze it. He felt some way that it was a tiling the woman would huve done, and the desire became a master passion. It seemed cold to him on the porch; but out on the desert the sun shone gayly and seductively. Day after day he walked the length of the veranda. He seemed to be There was a day gaining strength. when he walked the entire distance around the hotel twice, without sitting or resting. It was a day of triThat night he planned his umph. journey to the fence and the mound between the foothills. His mental strain brought a slight relapse in his nmlady. He did not notice it the next morning. He kept his plans to himself. That afternoon he slipped away. Slowly, slowly, he crept down the terraces. He sat down often hy the vvnjside. A notion that he was making a pilgrimage that she Hawkins only thought of the woman as "she," row would have him make, warmed something in his grim heart, cot unlike a tenderness. He was very weak, and his emotions were loose. Once lie fainted when he sat down by a stone. When he returned to consciousness he hurned on in a dazed, He felt then fumbling sort of way. that it would be his last visit to the grave, but he was not sad. He was only glad that he had come in her mime. Iride was purged from his flesh. His heart was that of a little thild. lie uttered foolish little prayers tliut were bargains with God for strength to reach his goal. When he leached It, he crawled into the wire enclosure, weak and panting. There they found Hawkins at the close of day. grim, repellent of feature, apart from ids kind, alone in his very death. 3Jen said it was s fitting sod far him. That Should Hold Him. He (excitedly) Where is my cap? Has anyone seen my cap? 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