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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH NEIKGHBO said Jean, who had a strain of flejlggcy In her that at times conflicted with her surroundings. Ah, that Is one of Its chief virtues. You may not know yet, but you will learrn-at least, so Jake assured me that population Is not nearly so scarce on the prairies as It seems. He says that the Inmates of one of these little bachelor shacks In many cases number Millions. Well literally millions. (hey dont like tar paper. Blessed be SPOOF Lured by hi four-yr-oplaymate, Jean Lane, Frank Hall, aged six, ventures oa the forbidden wall of a dam, la a email Ontario town. He falls Into the water, and Is saved from possible death by clinging to Jean's outstretched arms. Next day Jean Informs him that because of their adventure of the day before he Is In duty bound to marry her. He agrees when they are grownups." With Jean's brother ' John, also aged six, Frank begins school. Two years later they are joined by Jean and Frank's sister Marjorie. A little later Jean confides to Frank, In verse, her hope of some day becoming Mrs. Hall." He accepts the proposal." Frank Is fourteen when his mother dies. The boys are eighteen when Johns father Is killed In an accident. Two years later Franks father and Johns mother are married. Dissatisfied with conditions, and ambitious, the two boys make plans to go to Manitoba and homestead," the girls agreeing to go with them. They set out. At Regina they meet Jake," who agrees to find them satisfactory homesteads. He does so, and the two friends file claims on Sections Fourteen and Twenty-two- . Jteka sagely advises the advene tursrv In the purchase (ft sup piles, and In a wagon drawn by a yoke of oxen, and with a cow, the four arrive at their futurt SYNOPSIS. ld tar paper! I scratched In digging a cellar In the center of the little plot. For a depth of nearly two feet I dug through a brownish-blacloam that' turned easily and threw clean from the shovel. Then I struck a sticky, yellow day, and the going was much slower. But by the time we heard Jacks hoarse voice and his tired oxen clicking their hoofs up the trail on the evening of the second day I had succeeded In making a hole which we agreed to call a cellar. Next day we set about our buildThere were no union ing in earnest. hours with us. We worked from early morning flntll after sunset, arid laid down our tools at huff with affectionate reluctance. We were stiff und Rore In every Joint and muscle; our hands were calloused and our finger nails were battered with misdirected energy, but our hearts were with the I relate only absolute truth gods. In snying that when our shack was finished we moved Into It with a sense of accomplishment such as perhaps no king ever knew amid the luxury of his palaces. As soon as our first building was finished we started a similar one for Jack and Jean. Then we built a little stable down In the gully for the oxen, the cow, the pig, and the hens; we Improved the crossing of the stream ; we dug a well; we plowed a small area on each farm an.ij planted It to outs, and then we went on plowing for next k homes. CHAPTER V The morning was another the outline of the shack the sod with my shovel and began gorgeous burst of sunshine. The girls where early about. As I came up from the stream where I had washed, I mpt Jean going down, wearing a blanket, Indian fashion, for lack of a bathrobe. A week on a dusty trail had made the presence of snow water, as deep as one wanted It, a peculiar luxury. Gee, but It's good to be alive! she exclaimed, swinging her arms, to the peril of her costume. Does one always feel like this on the prairies? Always mildly Intoxicated, so Jake says, but those are not his words. Thats why westerners are more optimistic and more reckless than easterners. Always an atmosphere Jag under their belts. Heres to Jake, she cried. Have one with me ! as she took a great cheatful of fresh air. See you at breakfast If I'm sober enough ! y That day, and those that followed, were busy, busy days. The oxen were tired and footsore with their long Journey, and we decided to let them root, but Jack and I took no holiday. I was determined that on the very first day I would plant some crop on my farm, so I started at once to spade np land for a garden. By I had spaded quite a sizable garden plot. Then I broke the clods aa best I could and planted a few rows of potatoes. The following day I continued my digging, and thnt evening, with assistance from Jean and Marjorie, planted onions, carrots, beets, lettuce and radish. We agreed that by the third day the oxen should be ready for the road again, and Jack was away soon after sunrise of the bright spring He took the trail for the morning. railway station some thirty miles to the south, and the sound of his wagon ambling over the soft earth came oatlng back on the breeze as a sort of accompaniment to the bellicose voice which Jack affected when he n . was My next effort was the digging of a cellar. The location of our shack bad to be decided upon, and for this I called Marjorie and Jean Into council We agreed that It should be ciose to one brow of the ravine, and thnt Jack should build his close to the other, so that- each would command an unbroken view of his neighbor. Perhaps even then we had some premonition of the specter of loneliness creeping down npon us through the night mists of the summer or the s of the blizzard, and ' nlready we were planning our lines of defense. IIow many rooms will there be? asked Jean. Let me see reception room, living room, parlor, dining room you mt.Rt at least have that. We shall, I said, and one door will lend Into them all. A room ts anything you call It. We can change the name as we change the purpose. One moment It is kitchen, the next, living room, and so on. Draw a plan of It, said Marjorie, turning up the planed side of a board. So I sat down and drew a plan, while the girls watched over my shoulders with rs much Intentness as though I were an architect designing a palace. The house will be one story, I explained, and long, and nurrow, that Is the simplest as well as the cheupest way to build It, and we are to be our own carpenters. The walls will be of shlplap, covered with matched siding, with tar paper between. The roof will be of two thicknesses of boards, bent to a gentle oval over a stout ridge-poland again with tar paper between. You have no Idea ?ow murh the West owes to tar paper. Wherever the new settler goes, goes tar paper. I would almost sav, I continued, warming up to my subject that If a flag Is ever needed for these western prairies It should be a banner of tar paper, nailed between' two laths. Oh, say, does the m paper banner still wave? you see. It has possibilities." But Isn't it awfully smelly stuff? snow-wralth- be-au- He Saluted as He Brought Hit Horse to a Standstill. season's crop; we bought a mowing machine and rake on credit and cut an ample supply of wild prairie hay for our winter needs. We had decided that, as fall came on. Jack and I, with the yoke of oxen, should make a pll-- . grlmage Into the more settled districts with a view to getting work with some farmer, and so replenishing our resources. It was a hot day In the middle of July when, up the trail from the south a speck grew out of the distance. Traffic did not often come our way, and Jack and I both stopped work In the field to study Its approach and to conjecture ns to whom or what It might be. As we watched, the figure took the form of a horse and rider of heroic size charging dowu upon us literally out of the heavens. As it approached the mirage lost Its illusion and horse and rider came back to earth. By this time we were sure that the glint of color which had seemed to dance vaguely about the figure had a basis In fact; there was no longer a doubt that an atom of scarlet was approaching along the trail. Leaving the oxen to their midday meditations we walked over to my shack, where Jean had already Joined Marjorie. It could now he seen that the figure was approaching at a rapid gait, and Its outline, no longer blurred of the mirage, by the shimmering stood out sharp ami clean against the distance. It was a mounted policeman. As he drew up beside us I had a sense of being In the presence of physical perfection. Ills horse, although wet over the flanks, showed little sign of fatigue; the dust of travehvluug to the rlders sunburned face, hut the smartness of his bearing and uniform was unimpaired. He saluted as he brought his horse to a standstill ; then sprang lightly to the ground. "I see 1 niu right. he said, addressWon't you ing Marjorie and Jean. introduce me? Marjorie was the first to act, although I suspected, even then, that he had spoken more particularly to Jean. she said, and "My brother, Frank, Jean's brother, Jack. This Is Mr. Brook." We shook hands cordially, and Jean asked our visitor If be had had dinner. I have not," be confessed, but please By ROBERT STEAD Author of m The Cow Puncher The HometUoden , 'WNU by Robert SteeS dont But the go to any trouble. girls were already In the house, making preparations. Theres a stream around here, If my maps are right." the policeman continued, speaking to us, and both Dick and I could do with water. We led him dwn to the stream, and to the well, and although I was disposed to be prejudiced against this strapping young fellow who seemed to take more than a casual Interest In Jean, I lost much of that prejudice through a little Incident that happened when we reached the water. Although Brook was undoubtedly suffering from thirst be removed his horses bit, so that he could drink in comfort, before be. accepted the proffered cup of water which Jack hrouglit him from the well. Jack and I spoke of It afterward and agreed that a chop who did that sort of thing was a good bit of a man. After a hearty drink Brook took off Ids lint and tunic, produced towel, soap, comb and brush, and cleaned up even more thoroughly than seemed necessary. As I watched him parting his hair by the reflection In the waten I realized that Brook had fiot forgotten what so many of us pioneers often did forget the value of personal apWhile we walked up the pearance. bank together I admitted to myself that altltougli I was ns good a man as lie" was, I didnt look It. " The meal which the girls had prepared loosened all our tongues, and before It was over we were chatting merrily. Brook had the latest gossip from Iteglna, and Interesting news about himself. At last he had escaped from barracks, temporarily, at any rate. He was detailed to two months' relief duty at a point farther west ; he promised himself another meal at our' triraTd on his way back, a prospect which Jean and Marjorie and Jack received with much satisfaction, and I trust I showed no smallness about It At length Brook Insisted that he must be on his way, but before going he laid a dollar bill on the table In payment for his meal. We objected most strenuously to accepting money for our hospitality, but as he pointed out that It was the government that footed the bill, we allowed ourselves to be persuaded. Governments, like railways, are legitimate prey. Also, from somewhere, the policeman produced a small box of candy, which he presented impartially to Marjorie and Jean. But most important, In so far as this story is concerned, was a bundle of letters. They were tied together with a stout string, with only the backs of the envelopes exposed, and on them was written in a bold hand tile single word Spoof. . Theyre for a young Englishman who Is to be a neighbor of yours, Brook explained. He left word at the Iteglna post ottice, asking to have his mail sent out If there 'TP&s any chance. It seems he had some local fame under the name of Spoof, and the clerk In the post office readdressed his letters that way. Thats discipline for you! My word, what they wouldn't do to a .jnan In the force " I know him, I broke In; at least I have heard of him. Jake, our land guide told us about him. Where )oes he settle? . "Northwest quarter of Two," said the policeman. Two miles due south of you, as the crow flies, or would fly If he had occasion to. Spoof Isnt there yet I came by the quarter this morning. 1 suppose hes traveling by ox team and will arrive some time later In the season.' Youll see his sign up on Two when he gets here, and perhaps one of you wouldn't mind dropping in on him with this mail, if lie doesn't call on you' within a few days, wait for an lies English, and Introduction." We shook hands with the policeman and parted with him, and the girls stood watcliing the scarlet figure as It faded to a speck In the distance. Isnt he wonderful, Frank? said Jean, turning to me with an enthusiasm dancing In her eyes which, under any other circumstances, H would have been good to see. "Dont ytm think that he thnt ail o the mounted police are very wonderful?" "All of the mounted police are wonderful, I agreed, catching at the impersonal noun. Two mornings later we saw the white gleam of a tent on section Two. We quit work early that afternoon, hitched the oxen to the wagon, and went down en masse to call on Spoof. He saw us when we were yet afar off, and, when It was evident we were headed for his tent, he came striding out to meet us. He was tall and slim und sunburned; lie wore leggings and corduroy trousers and a belt, and he took off his hat when he saw the girls. he said, in his My first callers, clear, English voice. "This Is jolly decent of you. Wont you get down, ladies, and visit my farm this is It, all around here while we unhitch the I bullocks and turn them to grass suspect you are my neighbors from Fourteen? Fourteen and Twenty-two- , said 1, acting ns spokesman, and Introducing our little party. We have heard of you, but only as Spoof." "Spoof is good enough. In fact, I think It Is rather a ripping name, dont you? And I know enough already he-ma- i 1 SICK WOMEN 1 ATTENTION! Read this Remarkable Testi- Results from mony Regarding gone better since I discarded my comTaking Lydia E. Pinkhams pass. The bullocks never took kindly to the compass. No doubt It was a Vegetable Compound foolish notion of mine that a furrow If you only Norfolk, Virginia. should run either east and west or women have north and south, seeing that the whole knew how many taken and girls your medicine farm has to be plowed anyway. I now by hearing my testilet them veer and tack as they please, mony, it would seen wonderful to you. and we are making considerable headEvery day and every way." chance I have I adIn? Any crop vise some one to try Not this year. A chap In Regina it It was in June, advised me to plant a sack of rolled oate 1904, when I had and raise my own porridge, but, thank given up to never get Heaven, Im not Scotch. No reflection well, tnat I wrote to you. My husband on the Scotch, he added hurriedly, went to the drugnoting a warning flash in Marjorie's store and brought eyes. They are a very wonderful the Vegetable Compound home tq me. old P. O people. They eat oatmeal, and thrive In a few days I began to improve and I Spoof made us come Into bis- tent. on It. A very wonderful people. Oh, have often taken it since. I am now The furnishings were not elaborate, I say! Cant we have sqme tea? through the Change of Life and passing hut they hud a little air of something Beastly dry business, homesteading; still stick by it and am enjoying wonthat seemed to tie missing In ours. no afternoon tea. I must speak to my derful health. When I first started with There was a tin trunk, which had been man about that. He's the same man vouf medicines I was a mere shadow. My health seemed to be gone. The sat on until it had a great depression as mixes my whisky and sodas, accorddoctor I had said he would give me last in the top, and a leather trunk, genering to the governors Idea of it, Spoof no more local treatments unless I went ously plastered with labels. There explained. to the Hospital and was operated on. was a great box, which he used as a The girls went inside, and In a short That was when I gave the doctors up. Now I am a healthy robust woman. I while brought out tea and sandwiches. table, and dishes of Inappropriately wish I could tell the world what a wondelicate china. There was --a "frdding Do you know, said Spoof, when derful medicine Lydia E. Fmkhams cot with steamer rugs. Quite a handthe girls had cleared ifp the tea things Vegetable Compound is. I will be only some shaving set was strapped to a and were out of hearing, the thing too glad to answer letters from anywall of the tent, and a great cartridge of which I stand most In need at the where. I wish all sick women would belt with a prodigious revolver hung present moment that thing which is Mrs. J. A. Jones, 317 Colley take it from a tent pole, while a rifle leaned so essentially English, and from which. Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia. ngalnst It. Spoof evidently meant to I have been divorced for more days sell his life dearly, if there should be than I care to number that thing for His Attempt any demand for It Three or four Eng- which I would gladly give half of my least My hoy, Bearcat, got sorter lish magazines lay about, and a to- kingdom, ffi&ffhlng the northwest quarriled, as it were, at his brother. Runt, bacco jar with pipes stood in the center of section Two? No? Observe ter of the table. But what caught the blushes beneath my sunburned ylsted'y and hit him on the head with Jeans eyes were the pictures on the cuticle as I admit that for weeks I fhe ax, related Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. walls. Spoofs tent was up less than have not had a bath. For weeks, litGreat guns:" ejaculated art aca day, and there were pictures on the erally. If my poor governor could W'liat was lie doing with quaintance. walls. know that, not even the hide of a polar ax. anyhow? This Is my diggings, our host was bear would reconcile him to leaving qie tiie make Runt Trying to saying. "A little crowded inside, but to live tlie life of a savage. eat acif, or something that-a-waof room of law The outside. We can soon fix that I mean, we plenty to the what rest of the kids cording compensation, you know. Have to do can furnish the wherewithal, said I, Kansas City Star. for the present. add I will expect the deed of eighty .said afterwards. Beastly expensive business farming. Well have some tea acres In return. So we led Spoof presently, if theres any spirit left In down to the pond. the spirit lamp. Sorry J cant offer you My word, my word I said Spoof. So he rattled on anything better." Why didnt Jake tell me about this? and made us feel very much at home, I will have that land guides gizzard even while I found rising In my heart for this omission! My word. If only i some yearning of sympathy for him. I had a bathing suit I I say, do you AmoDg the thousand who have publicly The sun was setting when our little think there would be any great danexpressed indebtedness to Tanlac for caravan started homeward, casting Its ger any danger at all, that is of an normal weight, health and strength, is A. mammoth shadows across the soft, interruption? R. White, who recently said: warm prairies, and bearing Spoofs Not a bit. We have that all orThe foundation for my present excellent health was laid by Tanlac. For months promise to return our visit at the ganized, and I showed him a red earliest opportunity. had been I had lost all en joy- handkerchief tied to a stick. 1hen n Iment for food and suffered discomthe pond Is In use banner-othis fffly fort from indigestion. My liver was slugCHAPTER VI the bank of the gully, and were as gish and that tired feeling was on me all safe as Sunday. The girls usually tke time. Spoof was as good as his word. The have their plunge In the middle of the "Three bottles of Tanlac relieved my following Sunday we saw his ox team afternoon, for that matter, and leave troubles and started me off with a system us undivided slowly-growineveas a so thoroughly toned up and renewed that , possession' in the speck on section I soon found myself feeiing like a new man. Eleven, and a mile away we heard re- ning." marks to the "bally bullocks which, Spoof was already half undressed. . JEniac is for sale by all good druggists. My word, and do the young ladles presumably, were Intended to be confiAccept no substitute. swim? dential. I just brought the bullocks for exJean Is the best swimmer I ever Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation .made and recommended by the manufao- -' ercise, he explained, when he drew knew," I confessed, modestly. We turers of Tanlac. I could have lived beside a river at home, and she up before our shack. walked much easier, and much quicker, had a way of bagging ail the prizes at but they keep my arms and voice in our swimming races." fprm. "She bagged bigger game than that," The girls were waiting In the shade Jack put In. "She stored up a lot of YO UR at the eastern side of the shack; in trouble for herself and the rest of us their Sunday dresses of flimsy stuff by pulling our worthy Frank out of the appropriate to the hot weather they millpond one day, after the bubbles looked very sweet and charming. had begun to come. So then I had to "Ah, here are the ladles," said tell Spoof about that incident. But I and healing AS a safe, toothing tor cuts, scalds, burnt, Spoof, and in his manner there was a avoided reference to the pledge that and chapped skin dry roughened, touch of gallantry that In some way had followed It. and tor all common skin troubles, Vaseline Petroleum Jelly has seemed foreign to either Jack or me. been indispensable to medical men Real prairie roses, and no mistake, and mothers for over half a cen or a tube handy tjiry- - Keep as he took their hands in 'his. This girl Jean seems to be Its CHESEB ROUGH KFG. COMPANY a over. decent to ask to male Jolly pretty interesting stranger any iCoumUdafd) New York 17 State Street All this who comes along. Is Frank sunsets, Jealous of Spoof? sky, distance all very fine, but it isnt good to be too much alone with it. Rather overwhelms one, dont you to. If. FAT OP (TO BB CONTINUED.) think? PETROLEUM JELLY I have felt that, said Jean, while Marjorie was fumbirng for words. Cheap for $1,200 Look for ths Its too grand; It oppresses one. Its A western young man visiting New iWliiiSW k Vosems.9 York city thought It would be fine to its all soul ; no body. It ia your protection. Thats it thats it!" Spoof agreed. buy his sweethearts engagement ring All soul no body. I shall write thnt there. Entering a Fifth avenue store to the governor. The governor, dear he was waved from one lordly clerk-tanother down a long aisle and at old chap, thinks this country is rather 1 JN vmtdy tor a bit off the map. I have promised to last reached the counter where there 'likSrs shoot him a polar bear for Christmas, was a personage who sold engagement Here are some rather neat and hes quite looking forward to It. rings. one. He writes to know if I find the native rings," saiiT!he distinguished labor satisfactory, and can m.v man Small, of course, but In good Taste. mix a decent whisky and soda. I must Our young friend liked their looks, . set his mind at rest. I let him. .tjilnk but was pained to leHrn they ran Economy I run quite an establishment,, you unfrom $3,500 to $5,000 apiece. He adBut isnt it expensive running a derstand; he sends a check now and mitted, In some confusion, that be country house every summer? . No; I save money? We can't g again, which, of course, bears a rela- wished something a little cheaper. tionship to the position I am supposed Then the mighty one reached into a help to stay out there and my wifs bin and brought up a handful of sparkto occupy in local society." has to do all her own work. "Doesnt your conscience trouble lers. "Take your pick. snld he, polite$1,200 each." Dr. W. F. Carver .broke 1.000 glass ly repressing a yawn, you? Marjorie queried, the conversaThe home-towJeweler sold that balls In 34 minutes, using six repeattion having. pwung Into her orbit. "Not at all. I am doing the gov- ring. Cappers Weekly. ing rifles, assistants to IPad, at HamHe spends rather burg. Germany. August 31. 1S00. ernor a kindness. When Brides Were Bought too much money on whisky and soda Wedding gifts apparently have departicularly the former so I nm merely getting him Interested In another veloped from the earlier custom of exA Younger Sou kind of extravagance. change of gifts between bride and is. a very successful form of extravbridegroom, In turn based upon maragance, don't. you think? What Is it riage by consideration, where the suitor the had to give to the father of his InKipling says By the bitter Younger Son must tread, or something tended wife a bride price or present nd the daughter was provided with a like that? So why shouldnt t5i governor sweeten the bitter road a li'tie, Jewry a a retuna gift The price for bride shnws considand drink less whisky to his sodaT While we were busy thinking ef erable variation, according to the some appropriate remark Spoof re- wealth of the Interested parties and the accomplishments of the bride. membered ms bundle of papers. I ventured to bring these over, he Among certain tribes a couple of pigs Just or goats seemed to be sufficient capsaid, tendering them to Jean. 254 and 75$ Pkgs.S0ldEverywb.er9 ital necessary for Investment In one some old copies of the Illustrated London News and the Graphic. There are good husky helpmate. Ainnr.g the some sketches by an artist showing his Bedouins of Mount Sinai Westermarch conception of homestead life. I rather tells us the price of a girl Is from $5, suspect the governor has let him read to $20, but sometimes amounts to $:t0 If the girl is well connected and very my letters." A Presently the conversation turned to handsome. Skin agricultural topics, and we were more Insured by Every-daA man with an elastic Imagination at ease. Im of (utinii Sons My plowing, Spoof explained, has la apt t mistake It for his conscience. about the West te know that a catchy nickname, one applied, sticks.- So Spoof I am, to everybody, except the dear folks at home, who, of course, could never understand. When I wrote the governor land raid the people here called me Spoof he answered, Such Insolence! Id have the law on them I Remember you are still an EnglishPoor old governor! man! Here are some letters, Mr. Sppof," said Jean, extending the little bundle. Mr. Brook, the policeman, left them as he rode by a few days ago. "Good old post office!" Spoof exclaimed. Wonderful how they chase a beggar down, Isnt It? They even know me by my Canadian name, pood - - yaw-w-w- n IKE FOliOATIQH OF !!! HEALTH run-dow- n. g TANLAC HEALTH FOR Vaseline trade-mar- asellne B'J n Sure Relief rd FOR INDIGESTION gCnticiira Loveliness Ctear Healthy y |