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Show I SERIAL t and al could ha bfn I had never l j of nature's foreseen thia Kind nor had I ever. heard it spoken of liy eliln-- r It u.m a umriH. thia ilia- or Karri and grz'--- ! intnid dear basin. t in a a Homan touiiialn. at tree nd turf. of gr gem tin ria they alho heliiuaeil. not lu hilt In koine U at'iid haunted forest of ! Krance, nheie mus gro n marbles III dllli glHilr-l- . and the Mtand III tw niyilit of Ilie forest shelters fairies and slender Hliie fiuin shadow-hilml- . I iay and wa'rhed the sunlight show- i fiins the funded thicket where masses of rrlmaim cardinal llowera (flowed, orj where one long dusty sunbeam tlppeil j the edge of the floating leaves fu the' Kilt. pool, turning I hem to palest Then were birds, ton. passing through I ,h lik, of di,n au',1" cardinal bird (tame the goigeous that gave to the woods, to the village IS miles away, to the whole county, the name of f'ardinai. 1 rolled over on my bark and looked up at the sky. How pale paler than a robin's egg -- It was. I seemed to b lying at the hoi torn of a well, walled with verdure, high towering on every side. And as I lay, all about me the air became sweet scenled. Sweeter and sweeter and more penetrating grew the perfume, uud I wondered what, stray, breeze, blowing over acres of llllea, fould have brought It. Hut there was no breeze; the aly was still. a A gilded fly alighted on my hand I as was troubled as It fly. honey ; i by the scented silrip e, Im-fii- i STORY . ! i Il-rp- ; THE MAKER! gli-rle- . OF MOONS ?r : . 3! ROBERT ur " CHAMBERS Z J; Illustrations by J. J- - Sh ridan s. w it t tCopyrlght, W - ! t-- 1. Iulnam'a thins j SYNOPSIS. U. f ! I The story opens In New York. iVy t'ur- a queer srnlnie. the story-telleOwlfriy of Tifreptile o wind by fany's. Hoy, ami Harris snd I'lerisiiil, two friends, depsri on a hunting trip tn Cardins! Woods, a rattier olsu-urHarris revealed the fai-- Hist he lisil joined flip secret Service for Hi purpose of running down a gang of gold milkers. th 1'rof. I jiOrange, on dlmnverlng gang's formula, had been mysteriously hilled. Harris i waived a telearam of CHAPTER IV. lla and IdeiiHint set nut to Then, behind me. my dog growled. locate ilia gold making Rang. A valet reI sat qulfe still at first, hardly breathiported seeing a queer l.hlliuiuan In III supposedly unleiisnted woods, iloy went ng,' but my eyes were fixed on a shape hunting. that moved along the edge of the mhI among the meadow grasses. The dog . CHAPTER III Continued. Krowllng and whs now starThe dog sprang to the front, circled i hftd the ferns nK- - alrt am trembling. once, zigzagged through At last 1 rose snd walked rapidly around us and, all In a moment, stiffened stock still, rigid ss sculptured down to the pool, my dug following bronze. 1 stepped forward, raising my close to heel. The figure, a woman's, turned slowly gun, two paces, three paces, ten perus. bluntoward before a haps, great She was standing still when I apdered up from the brake and buist through the thicket fringe toward the proached the tool. The forest around deeKT growth. There was a flash aud us was so sllunt when 1 spoke the puff from my gun, a crash of echoes Mumd of my own voice startled me. "No." she said, and her voice was among the low wooded cliffs, and through the faint veil of smoke some- smooth as flowing water. T have not thing dark dropped from mid air amid a cloud of feathers, ' brow n us the brown leaves under foot. "Ketch !M Up from the ground sprang Voyou, and In a moment he came galloping back, neck arched, Ul stiff bu waving, holding tenderly In his pink mouth a mass of mottled bronzed feathers. Very gravely he laid the bird at my feet and crouched close beside It, his silky ears across hit paws, bis musile on the ground. 1 dropped tbo grouse Into my pocket, held for a moment a silent caressing communion with Voyou, then swung p,J0 my gun under my arm and motioned mm mi the dog on. - 11 I liawr r'"r1 ti I walked Into a little opening In the "I Saw Her Eyea woods and sat down to breathe. Voyou Forehead."" came and aat down In front of me. I "Welir Inquired. lost my way. Will he come Voyou gravely presented one paw your beautiful dog?" which I took. Before I could speak, Ve will never get back In time for to her aud laid his silky head again! dinner,1 said I. "so we might as well her knees. take It easy. It's all your fault, you "Hut surely, said I, "you did not know. Is there a brier In your foot? come hers slune." Let's see there! It's out, my friend, "Alone? I did come alone. and you are free to nose about and "Rut the nearest settlement Is lick It. If you loll your tongue out Cardinal, probably 19 milea from you'll get It all over (wigs and moss. where we are standing." Can't you lie down and try to pant "I do not know Cardinal," the said. less? No. there Is no use In sniffing "Ste. Croix In Canada la 40 miles and looking at that fern patch, for least how did you come Into the we are going to smoke a little, doze Cardinal Woods?" I asked amazed. a little, and go home by moonlight, "Into the woods?" she repeated a Think of Ilowletta despair when we little Impatiently. are not In time! Think of all the "Yea." atorles you will have to tell to Gamin She did not answer at first but stood and klloche! Think what a good dog Voyou with gentle phrase rareaslng been! have are There you you tired, snd gesture. old chap; take 40 winks with me." I am foud of, "Your beautiful He but I am not fonddog Voyou was a little tired. of being quesstretched out on the leaves at my feet, she said quietly. "My name la but whether or not he really slept I tioned," Y sonde and 1 came to the fountain could not be certain, until his hind hero to see your dog. legs twitched and 1 knew he was 1 was proiierly quenched. After a dreaming of mighty deeds. moment or two 1 did say that in anNow 1 may have taken 40 winks, but hour It would be growing dusky, the sun seemed to be no lower wben 1 other but she neither replied nor looked at sat up and unclosed my lids. Voyou me. "This." 1 ventured, Is a beautiful pool you call It a fountain a delicious fountain! I have never before seen It. It Is hard to Imagine that -nature did all this." "Is it?" she said. "Don't you think so?" 1 asked. I haven't thought; I wish when you go you would leave me your dog. "My my dog?" "If you don't mind. she said sweetly, and looked at ms for the first time In the face. For an Instant our glances met, then she grew grave, and I saw that her eyea were fixed on my forehead. Suddenly she rose and drew nearer looking Intently at my forehead. There was a faint mark there, a tiny cres"Tha Figure a Woman's Turned cent. just over my eyebrow. It was a birthmark. Slowly to Mo." "Is that a scar?" she demanded raised ha head, aaw In my eyes that drawing nearer. I was not going yet, thumiied hla tall "That crescent-shapemark? No." half a dozen times on the dried leaves, "No? Are sure?" she Insisted. and settled back with a sigh. "Perfectly," 1 replied, astonished. 1 looked "A a birthmark ? lazily around, and for the first time noticed what a wonderfully "Yes may I ask why? beautiful spot I had chosen for a Aa she drew away from me, I saw nap. It was an oval glade In the that the color had fled from her heart of the forest, level and carpeted eheeka. For a second she clasped both with green grass. The trees that sur- hands over her eyes as If to shut rounded u were gigantic; they formed out my face, then slowly dropping her one towering circular wall of verdure, hands, the sat down on a long square blotting out all except the turquoise block of atone which half encircled the blue of the l above. And now baaln, and on which to my amazement I noticed that In tbe center of the I saw carving. Voyou went to her gain and laid hla head in her lap. greensward lay a pool of water, crystal dear, glimmering like a mirror In "What Is your name?" she asked at the meadow grass, beslda a block of length. r, (h-or- t - cock-grous- diitn flies I Mrut TRAVEL AFFECTS ll,M on the aton, tha. Ifce lla and butterflies yi u fcw. BALL You! 1 hy mo wonderful!' drll- cate lint thou are not Ararft's dragon Hla. No-th- ey ara ruor beautiful. fir. LONG RIDES BETWEEN CITIES CAUSE FATIGUE AND OFTEN I hat my hammer and chisel i,h m RESULT IN DEFEAT. She d rew from a queer imm-- il kr k'.iIh a Kiuall hammer and ehlbd x held tliern tonard tn. FORM REVERSAL EXPLAINED You ate very talented, I said ; "where did you study V "IT 1 never studied I knew ko I saw Things and cut them not Men Unable to Perform Their Beet stone. Do you like thorn?- - Burned After Weary Journeys over HunJ w ill show you other things ifczl 1 dreds of Miieo In Wlrm Weather have done. If I had a great In up of Some People Believe Players Lucky 1 hiunze could make your dog, butl-fu- l and Like to Travel on Same Traine. as he Is. Her hammer fell Into the fouaui In connection with the splendidly orand 1 leaned over and plunged my it ganised system of professional baseInto the water to find It. ball there la one feature to which the It Is there, shining on the unA" she said, leaning over the pool vitl public seldom gives a thought, and yet it is one of the moat important me. matters that has to do with the pas'Where. said I. looking at our i time. fleeted faces lu the water. For itvss It Is (he travel. Offhand, one seldom only In the water that I had deed, thinks of the long journeys which the as yet, to look her long In the fax teams of the country are compelled to The ikhjI mirrored the exquilie make to fill their schedule engageoval of her head, the heavy hair, th ments. Tbe extension of territory 1 heard the silken rustle olber has been eyes. on for no long, and going glrdlo. I caught the flash of a white the fact that a team may play In New arm, and the hammer was drawl !' York one and In Cleveland or day dripping with spray. Pittsburg the next, baa come to be Th troubled surface of the pool so much a matter of common kuowl grew culm and again 1 saw her (?m edge that It attracts no attention. reflected. Yet It should. In spite of the com"Union, she said In a low vw. fort with which the Americans travel "do you think you will come a?ln and the great distances which they anto my fountain?" nihilate In a night, there Is a certain "I will come," I said. My vdee amount of bard work in connection was dull; the noise of water filled ny with railroad life which does wear on ears. the players. Without the facilities Then a swift shadow aped across lb which are at our command to go from pool; I rubbed my eyea. Where her oue section of the to another country reflected face had bent beside nine the baseball circuits would be much there waa nothing mirrored but ike more circumscribed than they are rosy evening sky with one pale Mr now. Jumps to St. Louts from Boston, I drew myaelf up ud the glimmering. route that la traversed, turned. She waa gone. I law the faiot wouldlongest be out of tbe question. Tbe star twinkling above me In the afire Intersections! leagues would be great I saw the tall trees motlonlcn glow. In the still evening air. I aaw my dig Impossibilities. As It is, players, when making the slumh'-ln- g at n:y feet. long journeys, are less likely to do The aweet scent In the air hid themselves justice than when they faded, leaving In my noatrlla tbo hava shorter rldea to fill their engageheavy odor of fern and foreat mold. ments. A blind fear seized me, and I caurtt The athlete, and tbe one up my gun and sprang Into the dark- who observes moat carefully the reening woods. The dog followed M, quirements of health, hardly perfect crashing through the undergrowth it feels at hla beat when he arrives In my side. Duller and duller grew tin SL Louis after a long night ride over light, but I at rode on, the sweat pow-In- the flat bottom lands of southern Infrom my fuce and hair, my mild diana and southern Illinois In mida rhaos. How I reached the aplnnty summer. I can hardly tell. Aa I turned up tbs Occasionally there la a reversal of path I caught a glimpse of a humu form on the part of teams from the face peering at me from the darkening east which play at SL Louis, which is thicket a horrible human face, attributed to the carelessness of the low and drawn wlthhlgh-bo- r heekf playera, but, aa a matter of fact, la 1 and narrow angly Imply the result of physical wearii ness and nervous worry after a railroad ride of hundreds of mile. jtn3Wd uO ul S3JJH i U WJljl An Instance of travel T snfijy waa ga M evidence this sprnfcj&hen the New AN33JdiaJu-paNOSma 6HW lonsL lwTu.fiub waa. 4 Its and PLAYERS xin beat-traine- d g wynet e Texas training quartera. The players had been on the road almost every night for a week. The first time that they enjoyed n thorough rest waa in Richmond, and even then they were called at an early hour in the morning to take the train Hr-r-- i" i 65 Q Viw sky-ova- ch In hla cj? fad for Newport News. Another intereating fact In connecJulceltma. tion with baseball clubs la that some David brought the dogs In after they live who choose to go on a hrfd had their supper, and I drew my people on which n hall club la traveling train chair before the blaze and set my ale in preference to any other, because1 on a table beside me. The dngt are curled up at my feet, blinking gravely they believe that the playera at the sparka that snapped and flew lucky traveler!. In eddying showers from the heavy PITCHER ED WALSH. logs. Dnvld," said I, did you say you saw a Chinaman T did, sir." "What do you' think about It now?" I may have been mistaken, air" "Hut you think not What sort of whisky did you put lu my flask tostanding day grouse was r The usual, sir." "Is there much gone?" "About three swallows, sir as usual." "You don't suppose there could have been any mistake about that whisky no medicine could have gotten Into it, for Instance?" David smiled and said: No. sir" "Well," said I. I have had tn ex- self. "An extraordinary dream." I repented ; "I fell asleep In the woods s trout five o'clock, in that pretty glade where the fountain I mean the pool Is. Ton know the place? I do not. sir. I described it minutely, twice, but David shook hla bead. Carved elone did you say, air? never chanced on it. You dont mean tho New Spring "No, no! Thia glade Is way beyond that. Is it possible that any people Inhabit the forest between here and Somo New Definitions. Girls In a fashionable seminary not a hundred miles from town, In examination papers, recently turned out a new hatch of delightful definitions. t 's evident from their answers that several of them, while they may not be trained thinkers, have more or leae logical recesses of thought. One defined "red tape" aa the Inability of any one holding a political position to do anything necessary without special orders." showing she hid read her Little Dorrii" to advantage, to aay Another nothing of Bleak Ho-r- e. girl, asked "Why does a ship float the right way up?" replied, "Because If It did not the people In It would tumble One Ingenious girl vuggeteJ, out "foxlet as a noun for a young fox. which certainly is more specific than puppies. And a young person, evidently determined not to let herself said be Humbugged, meant Bad science." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. Paradise for the Trapper. Aa game preserves, It la claimed that Ih northern regions and forests of Canada furnish the finest animals In the world. ROMANCE IN SCOTCH HISTORY. TO UTAH EDUCATORS. house-cleaning- The Salt iJike Route, Utah's moal Curse Pronounced by Mother of Great popular road, announces many rates Soldier Seemed to Have Ade- ex and dates for east and quate Fulfillment. These excursions Include cursiona. The widow of the great Viscount attractive water and rail trips, ocean Dundee married shortly after bla death voyages and side trips to the Alaska William Livingston of Kilsyth, wbo Yukon Exposition and other notable had long been In love with her. Dun- places. dee's mother, who considered LivingFcr tbe N. E. A. convention at Den ston virtually her son's murderer, pro- ver, July 5th to 9th, all slallons In nounced a curse on her daughter-in-laUtah will Bell round trip tickets, also and her husband, praying that God on many other dates low round-tripwould show the unworthy couple to Denrer, Cheyenne, Pueblo aud Colsome swift token of bis anger. The orado Springs. wedding day of Livingston and Lady On May 29th all stations In Utah Dundee was fraught with bad omens. will sell low round trip tickets to The bridegroom gave the bride a ring Missouri river, Chicago, St. Louis, etc., Inscribed, "Yours Till Death," but tbe also on many other dates during the ring waa lost before the day waa over, summer. and the vengeful old Lady Dundee The round trip to Ixis Angeles on aent as her wedding gift a nightcap, a pair of white gloves and a rope, all days especially suited for teachers gothese articles typical of a condemned ing on their vacation Is 530.00. Tickmurderer. .In October, 1695, It seemed ets also sold returning via San Franas though the unhappy fate ao desired cisco and Portland, Ore., and good by Lady Dundee fell on her daughter-in-law- , for ocean trip to Portland. Every who died at Utrecht through a teacher in Utah should call on the terrible accident She. her Infant son, nearest Salt Lake Route agent for full and her maid were crushed to death particulars or write to Kenneth C. through the root falling in, her hus- Kerr, D. P. A., Salt Lake City, who band being rescued with great diffi- will cheerfully give full Information. rww r ,q culty. The bodies of Lady Kilsyth sad Asking Too Much. her baby were embalmed and brought Jensk (ringing up the theater gets to Scotland, and In the year 1800 it waa the common practice of tbe in- the wrong number) "Can you let me Bonea habitants of Kilsyth to go to the vault hare a box for four air. I'm afraid not, and aee the bodies, which were aa per- (the undertaker) . fect as the hour they were first I only make em to hold on." In the coffin. placed west-boun- d I s i Tit-Bits- TREASURE HIDDEN The secret la out. The reason you can get a special Priceless Rellea So Concealed Must design made in jewelry .and difficult Some Day Ba Restored to repairs done on fine piecee In our tho Light of Day. shop is we know how to do IL Skilled goldemithe, modern facilitiee and exThe actual prosaic Instances of perience. A email order from you treasure trove and the Old World will have the came particular cars at ceremonial involving "crowner'a quest a large one. law to decide the legal rights are to be found in any text book on the ubject. More Intereatlug, with a certain fascination of romaqce, la the reflection that even in our own country, there are probably .numerous buried hoards, says the London Chronicle. 170 One cannot always Ignore tradition, and throughout and the length SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. breadth of the land are to be found old legends of hidden treasure, seme-time- s guarded by a curse, sometimes by a special warder. There Is probability almost amounting to certainty that valuables were hidden by the la especially prepared to meet the Romans, and even more probably by most exacting Government requirethe Romano Britons. The treasures ments, snd it use is permitted in of the Incas and of pirates such as ALL official dippings. Kidd are still existent In theory; the Pure, concentrated, A perfect Sheep Dip. A guaranteed buried wealth of India Is among the remedy for Scab, Ticks and Lice. rudimentary facts known to all stuMixes with hard or brackish water. dents of the east Never injures the animal. 1 to 120 alBut perhaps most startling and is the official strength. luring of all Is the theory that among the treasure trove to be at some time WILLIAM C08PER & NEPHEWS recovered from Persian sands or ruins Manufacturers 177 lllineis Street, Chicago, lliiuele are the Sacred Breastplate and the mysterious Urira and Thummlm of the Jewish priesthood. Advice u te EARTH. IN St hvctdn snd Prompt Service. Walsh has mada hit peace with President Comlskey and la again regular member of the White Sos pitching staff. He won the first game he pitched this season. High Praise for Stallings. Clyde Engle, Tom Hughes and Ray Demmitt, who played under the management of Stallings with Newark last season, never atop talking about their chief when hie name la brought up. "1 don't know any better In the game to work for than Stallings," aya Clyde Engle. "He Is a wonder,4 ays Demmitt "He is tbe most orlg Jnal man on the bench, and will stick with bla players through thick and thin." saya Tom Hughes. Wo Orders took Handled on Dependable Information I Birthplace of Vegetables. Turnips and radishes came originally from central Europe. The beet root and tbe beet, which have been greatly Improved by cultivation, are considered ss the same specie's . The beet, only the stalk, of which la eaten, grows wild In the Mediterranean, Persia and Dabrlonla. Made Costly Bonfire. Mrs. Christian Kabb of Hartland Hollow, Conn., a farming village, told her children to take their father's old felt boots outdoors aud burn them up. , She was doing her spring and could not bear the sight of them. The children did aa directed and the high wind blew a spark from the' bonfire Into a dry meadow nearby, Igniting the grass. A calf grazing In the lot caught fire, ran Into the barn and set some bay ablaze. In a jiffy tbe building was in flames. The barn, with six head of stock, waa destroyed. also a tobacco warehouse. The fire spread to woodland and burned over 0 acres belore villager! conquered It. Word's Meaning Modernized. Literally the word "rajah means "king"; and maharajah," the "great king," or ruler over several kings; but. generally'apeaklng, the titles "rajah," "maharajah" and "nawab" have no greater significance than the words "feudal lords," as used in medieval times In Europe. Many of them bave been made by the will of the reigning chief; many bestowed for meritious acta and deeds. FREE Peculiarity About Hot Springs. The distribution of hot springs In Seed dutch sad deserialise af year kveetiau. the United States coincides very close- Harry J. Robiueo, Attorney at Low and Solicitor of Patents, 304-- 5 Jsdgo BaiMiog, Soil Loho City ly with that of the mountain uplifts the Canada line?" "Nobody short of Ste. Croix; at least (TO HE CONTINUED.) y Coopers Fluid Dip traordinary dream." When I said "dream." I felt comforted and reassured. I had scarcely dared to say It before, even to my have no knowledge of any." "Of course, said I. "when I thought I saw a Chinaman, it was Imagination. Of course 1 had been more Impressed 1 than was aware of by your adventure. Of course you saw no Chin man, David. "Probably not, air," replied David, dubiously. Madstona. At the Dessert Interval. The madsione U a stone popularly Tarson Iratcr (at dinner i "At this uppoaed to cure hydrophobia. Such season iliere Is no teaching of the atones, usually of the size and ahape Scriptures that is more tunely than of an egg, are auperstliiously prethe sentiment: 'The Lord loveth a served la parti of the United States, cheerful giver. The Parson's Prodi-fbecause they are believed to absorb Please pass me another piece of venom. ' Tbe madsione la a light, por- pie, pop. Boston Courier. ous atone of greenish color. They are The Reason. , quite rare, being only occasionally "One-hal- f of the world does not found In tbe south. know how the other half lives." Essential. "Well, it Is gratifying to think that Musle la to the mind as la air to the one-hal- f of the world attends to Its own business." Puck. body. Plata Want Executed In all Your Basinas. Mirknie. Marais. Child, Cole & Company a 343 BROKERS MAIN STREET, SALT LAKE CITY BRANCH OFFICES I EUREKA AND PANE CITY Our Prlvats Wire Connect! us With th Offices of ths Western Development Co., American Fork, Provo, Sprlngvllle, Spanish Fork, Payson, Nephl and Ephraim. FBEE UPON APPLICATION How To Trade In Utah Steaks. Mop of the Tintie District. Map mt the Parti City Camp. REFERENCE! ANY BANK Hlgi and Uw Prices Utah Stocks First Four months ISOS. IN UTAH. |