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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYRUM, UTAH - tlip senator received an lntinmtlon that read the letter of. Judge Fine brought he would be put In nomination if Van the blood to my face. It seemed to Buren failed. Immediately he wrote puncture my balloon, so to speak, and to Judge Fine of Ogdeqsburg, chair- I was falling toward the earth nnd so man of the delegation from the north- swiftly ray head swam. He laid the ern district of New Vork, forbidding letter on his desk and, without looking such use of his name On the ground up and as coolly as if be were asking that his acquiescence would Involve dis- for the change of a dollar, queried : "Well,, Bart, what do you think we loyalty to his friend the He gave me leave to go to the had better do about it? on my way home to meet Sally. "I I was hoping you you would I had confided to Mrs.- Wright the delake it, I stammered. tails of my little love affair I had to Thats because the excitement of and she had shown a tender, sympa- the convention Is on you, he anthetic interest In the story. swered. "Let us look at the compass. The senator had said to me one day, They have refused to nominate 'Mr. with a gentle smile: . Van Buren because he is opposed to "Bart, you have business in Canton, the annexation of Texas. On that subI believe, with which trifling matters ject the will of the convention is now like the choice of a president nnd the clear. It is possible that they would Mexican .question cannot he permitted nominate me. We dont know about to Interfere. You must, take time to that, we never shall know. If they spend a day or two at the convention did, and I accepted, what would be exIn Baltimore on your way. . . . Repected of me is also cleart They port to our friend Fine, who will look would expect me to abandon my prinafter your comfort there. The experi- ciples and that course of conduct ence ought to be useful to a young man which I conceive to be best for the who, I hope, will have work to do In country. Therefore I should have to lover. Jts air was sweet with the breath of the meadows. The daisies Her Engagement Ring and tie clover and the cornflowers and the wild roses seemed to be wavIs a girl's most treasured gem. it ing a welcome 'to me, and the thorn be a good one. should native of ornament my trees shapely It will cost less than you think lulls were in blossom. A cloud of We have all sizes each one pigeons swept across the blue deep per. Modest prices. feet. of choir The head. great above my the fields sang to me bobolinks, bluebirds, meadowlarks, A of warblers, wrens, and far away In the edge of a spruce thicket I heard the MAKERS OF JEWELRY sparrow. flute of the SALT LAKE CITT 6 MAIN STREET I bathed, at a brook In the woods silk and tie clean shirt and put on4a out of my snddjebngs. I rode slowly then to tbe edge of the village of Can- SKETCH OF By ton and turned at the bridge and took IRVING BACIIELLER the river road, although I had time to Author of Eben Holden." "Drl and spare. ITow my heart was beating as Early Painting Proves That Thousand! 1, Darrel of the Blessed Isles" of Centuries Ago Humanity I neared the familiar scene The Etc. With Lizzie, Etc,, Keeping Up Walked on Four Feet. rfver slowed its pace there, like a dis- i the to traveler, beauty enjoy cerning The Paris Figaro gives an account of its shores. Smooth and silent was (Copyright, by Irving Baeheller) the water and in it wTere the blue of of a recent remarkable discovery of CHAPTER XVIII Continued. cave of paintings in a the sky and the feathery shadow-spire- s 18 South France. In particular, a sketch ol' cedar and tamarack nnd the reflectJTe liatl a priceless and unusual talfuture conventions. accept it under false pretenses and ed blossoms of iris and meadow rue. has been found of a man who went ent for avoiding school-readEnglish I took the stage to Baltimore next take their on all fours and possessed a tall. The , was a lovdy scene. yoke upon me. Would you and (he nrts of declamation and for day the twenty-sixtof May. The think the needle pointed thatway? There was the pine, but where was Recount runs, In part: preparing a difficult subject to enter convention thrilled me the flags, the Count Begouen and his sons dimy lady? I dismounted and tied my No, I answered. ' the average braih. The underlying se- great crowd, the bands, the songs, the at my watch. It scovered on the walls of the subterrImmediately he turned to his desk mare and looked cret of his power was soon apparent speeches, the cheering I see tind hear and wrote the telegram which fixed lacked twenty minutes to eleven. She anean galleries some engravings estto ine. Ho stood always for that great it all in my talk. The uproar lasted his would come I had no doubt or ,u imated to be 30,000 years old, and In In place in history. It said no. America which, since then, for twenty minutes when Van Burens thing neck nnd and face hands washed such quantity and variety that tbe einyj men has such Into the lives of lew Whitman has called "the divine aggre- name was put In nomination. cool water. Suddenly I heard the xtraordinary ensemble of with at him a moment looked fallen. I gate," nnd seeing clearly how every Then the undercurrent The South voice I knew singing:' "Barney art work constitutes ,a veritable mcalma awe. sublime What of measure would be lilfely to affect its was against him as feeling I turned and useum. Wright had fore,enve the Girls Alone. welfare, he followed the compass. It seen. The deep current of Its power ness and serenity was in his face ! As saw son, my (These mother, your The animals figured In the cave ar had led him to a height of power had undermined certain of the north- if it were a mere detail in the work of to his were dictated lines son.) considerable in number, and include last falmoments a above nil others nnd was to lead him ern and western delegations. Osten- the day, and without was in the stern of a birch canoe, reindeers, bisons, horses, both isolated upto the loneliest summit of accom- sibly for Van Buren and stubbornly tering, he had declined a crown, for he She in white with roses in her and in all dressed would have been nominated and groups; bears, elephants and plishment in American history. casting their ballots for him, they had elected.surely I hair. raised my hat and she threw rhinosceroses. The representation of stood and rose He looking Not much in my term of service voted for the s which rule, Old Kate sat in the bow felines are very rare in there Is important to this little task had accomplished his defeat before tlie out of the open window. Always I a kiss at me. handkerchief. her They art, but MM, Begouen have photwaving the with him there of think ot mine. I did my work well, if 1 may balloting began. It continued for two standing in a tone of believe the senator, and grew familiar days without a choice. The enemy morning sunlight falling upon his face stopped and Sally asked ographed in their cave a genuine lion, . seriousness: playful had observed He and shoulders. my executed in with the gentle and ungentle arts of stood firm. After adjournment that They have made Young man, why have you come out, also, several birds, including' emotion and I think it had touched the politician. evening many of the Van Buren dele- him a little. There was a moment of here? swans and ducks, as well as three One great fact grew In magnitude gates were summoned to a conference. To get you, I answered. silence. A curious illusion came to me and sullen portent as the months I attended it with Judge Fine. predatory night flyers. She What do you want of me? as if I heard the It The human figure is likewise reprinThe had withdrawn and then, forof seemed music. passed: the gigantic distant Looking was looking, at her face in the watgr. esented In terests of the South viewed with grow- requested his friends In the conven- sound cave, which, in recognI want to marry you, I answered ition of thethe out he of window the thoughtfully sons of Count Begouen, lias ing alarm the spread of abolition sen- tion to vote for Silas Wright. My emo- asked : , , bravely. been baptized the Cave of the Three timent. Subtly, quietly and naturally tions can be more readily imagined Then you may help me ashore if Brothers. do you know when our first Bart, A silhouette is particularly they were feeling for the means to de- than described when I heard the fathers turned out of the trail of the you please. I am in my best, white remarkable, almost baffling. It reprfend and increase their power. Straws shouts of enthusiasm which greeted huto be very care- esents a man in motion a man of powere coming to the surface in that my friends name. Tears began to roll beast and found tie long road of dis- slippers and you are think it was when they ful. I manity? werful body, whose head and shoulders session which betrayed this deep un- down my cheeks. Judge Fine lifted covered She was the spirit of are the compass in their hearts. Beautiful dercurrent of purpose. We felt It and his hand. When order was at last re'joined by an enormous neck; a So now at last we have come to that the fields of June then and always. man whose upper and lower limbs the senator was worried, I knew, but stored he began : I helped her ashore and held her in high and lonely place, where we may held his peace. lie knew how to keep "Gentlemen, as a friend of the look back upon the toilsome, adven- my arms and, you know, the lips have nnd whose hands and feet are perfechis opinions until the hour had struck learned senator and as a resident of turous tly human,' but whose vertebral column we have traveled with the a way of speaking then In the old, conis prolonged in an exterior appendage that summoned them to service. The the county which Is the proud pos- aid of way candle and the compass. vincing, final argument of love. They senator never played with his lance. sessor of his home, your enthusiasm Now let the resembling that of the anthropoids a us stop a moment to rest and left no doubt In our hearts, my son. man at last, who walks on four feetT" By and by Spencer openly sounded the has a welcome sound to me ; but I hap- to think. How sweet the air is here! When do you wish to marry me? note of conflict. pen to know that Senator Wright will The night is fulling I see the stars in she whispered. The most welcome year of my life not allow his name to go before the the As soon as possible, but my' pay Is HONOR MARTYRS OF NIPPON sky. dawned on the first of January, 1844. convention. t Just below me Is the valley of Eter- only sixty dollars a month now." I remember that I arose before day-He read the letter of which I knew. nal silence. You will understand she anWe shall make it do, my Japanese Catholics Have Set Aside light that morning and dressed and Mr. Benjamin F. Butler then said : haste now. I have sought only to do swered. and and father My mQther February 5 as the Holiest Day went out on the street to welcome It. When that letter was written Sena- justice to my friend and to in Their Calendar. ' my your aunt and uncle and the Hackets give I had less than six months to wait tor Wright was not aware that Mr. country a name, long neglected, but and the minister and a number of our for that day appointed by Sally. I had Van Burens' nomination could not be equal in The Catholics of Japan have set glory to those of , Washington friends are coming in a fleet of boats. no doubt that she would be true to me. accomplished, nor was he aware, that and Lincoln. . We are prepared either for a picnic eslde February 5 as the festival of I had had my days of fear and depres- bis own nomination would be the al Come, let us take one last look to- or a wedding, was the whisper of the martyrs of Nippon. This day is sion. but always my sublime faith in most unanimous wish of this conven down the road we have trav- Kate. gether their holiest day of the year. St. her came hack In good time. tion. I have talked with the leading eled, now dim in the to It I make shadLets both, proposed Francis Xavier introduced Christianity' evening Oh, yes, indeed, Washington was a delegates from Missouri and Virginia ows. Scattered are the little Sally. to Japan early In the sixteenth ceit along fair of beauty and gallantry those today. They say that he can be nomi- houses, of the poor of which I have there couldnt be a better ntury, but it has not made much proSurely days. I saw it nil. I have spent many nated by acclamation.' Is it possible written. See the lights in the s place than here under the big pine gress among the population of 70,000,000 years in the capital, and I tell you the that he a strong party man can rethe lights that are shining into its so smooth and soft and shady, people, who follow Shinto and Buddha. girls of that time had, manners and sist this unanimous call of the party the souls of the young the eager, said she. There are about 115,000 Christians in knew how to wear their clothes, but with whose help he has won immortal open, Nor could there be a better day or Japan, of whom 75,000 are Catholics expectant, welcoming souls of ngain the magic of old memories kept fame? No, it Is not so. It cannot be the young and the light carries many better company, 1 urged, for I was and 40,000 Protestants. my lady on her throne. There was so. We must dispatch a messenger tq but best of all a respect for the not sure that she would agree. A number of Jesuit missionaries foone of them just one of, those others him by horse at once who shall take things, The boats came along. Sally and I llowed St. old, unchanging way of the compass. Francis to the east, and no who, I sometimes thought, was almost to him from his friend Judge Fine After all that is the end and aim 'of waved a welcome from the bank and as graceful and enarming and opposition to Christianity was encoud frank statement of the imperious de- the whole matter believe me. she merrily .proclaimed : ntered until 40 years after the pioneer's as Sally, and she liked me, I mand of .this convention and a request Its to be a wedding. My life has lengthened into these death. Then a rigid persecution was know, but the Ideal, of my youth that he telegraph a withdrawal of his In from a the boats, cheer Then most of our tasks are acwhen days begun and thousands of Christians glowed in the light of the early mornletter in the morning. complished by machinery. We try to which I joined. were murdered. All Christian rites ing, so to speak, and was brighter than I shall never forget how, when the The suggestion was unanimously ap- make men vast in the by thousand, were forbidden. all others. Above all,, I had given my proved and within an hour,; mounted Japanese convertsof company had landed and the greetings word to Sally, and well, you know, or. one of the best horses in Maryland educational machines, and no longer v ere over. Uncle Peabody approached banded together in a confraternity by the one as of old, It was the lovmartyrs, for the purpose of dying for the Yankee of good stock was so his groom informed on ing your mother and said : the forgiving, forbearing, patient, fairly steadfast, whatever else may my way to Washington with the mes- ceaseless toil of mother and father on Say, Sally, Im goin to plant a kiss Christ. Many little children joined were as All, of as many be said of him often h little too sage of Judge Fine in my pocket. Yes, the tender soul of childhood which on both o them red cheeks o yours, organization. caught, were put to death. Noblemen do it deliberate, too. an steadfast, as were Ben Grimshaw and I had two days to spare on my schedsame quickened that inextinguishable sense Squire Fullerton. He did it and so did Aunt Deel and as well as the poof shared the left ule of travel aqd reckoned that, by re- of God and man in to and responsibility The senator and I went calling tlidt turning to Baltimore next day I should these old Kate, and I think that, next to fate. Some were buried alive people whom I now leave to the while others were New Years day. We saw all the reach Canton in good time. your mother and me, they were the to die of starvation, ' of my countrymen. judgment beheaded. The festival of Nippon great people and some of them were happiest people at the wedding. It was the kind of thing that only a If one to follow is. he the compass commemorates these martyrs deaths. more cheerful than they had a right lithe, lad such can have but one king his God. supple, to be. It was a weakness of the time. as I was a in There is the lonely grave up in the days of mpr youth, Undoubted Truth. I shall not go into details for fear of could relish speeding hills that of the stranger who died over a dark I am near the end. I rode back to A party of tourists were taking wandering too far from my main road road by the light of the stars and a long ago on Rattleroad. One day I of St. Baltimore that forenoon. l?hey had Let me step aside a moment to say, with a horse that loved to nominated Mr. Polk of Tennesse for found old Kate sitting beside it and on stroll through the ancient city stranbe to All a stone lately erected there was the Andrews. however, that there were two, clouds kick up a wind. My brain was in a happened in the sky of the Washington society fever, for the notion had come to me president, nnd Silas Wright for vice name, Enoch Rone. gers to the city, and were naturallyto president, the latter by acclamation. I of those days. - One was strong drink thht I was It is very Sorrowful, she whisanxious for information. Coming making history. knew t,hat Wright would decline the nnd the other was the crude, to was He find me a massive archway adorned with sculpered. trying The lure of fame and high place hur- honor, us he did. the ptures, spanning the street, one of aggressive democrat from the ried me on. With the senator in the when he died. was I hurried northward to keep my apwho man frontiers , of the West, These latter a to We walked on In silence while I reparty went up I should be well were often seen In the holiday regalia presidential chair pointment with Sally. The boats were called the circumstances. How strange working at the side of the arch an in the highway of great suc- slowed started of farm or village at fashionable funcby fog. At Albany I was a day that those tales of Wood and lawless asked : Can you please tell us wha cess. Then Mr. H. Dunkelberg might In hind I should have 'daring which Kate lmd my schedule. tions. Some of them changed slowly this is'? Without turning' his head, to Amos given me better than the .egney of nnd by and by reached the stage of think only an hour's leeway if the boats on Grimshaw had led to the slaying of the man replied: .This? This is 8 A relay awaited builthe upper lubes and the stage from her own son white linen and .diamond breastpins Benjamin Grimshaw. Yes, yes ; but Its this Yet, so it happened, Wall twenty-thre- e miles down the road. I on were to like feared time. nnd waistcoats of figured silk. It me Ilattsburg and the old wives will tell you the ding, this arch, we would Well, I reached Washington the west- story up there in the hills. trust them. So I must be said, however, that their tno The nativ know something about. but otherwise in good form, soon bound train nnd reached Utic three tives were always above their, taste. the stree of The ends middle as out came the to Is the play just night The wiuter wore away 'slowly in after daybreak. I was trembling with hours lire There I bought a good falling with Kate and me entering the where the visitors were standing and hard work. Mr. Van Buren came down excitement when I put my horse in the horse and his saddle and bridle and little home, so familiar now, where she looked perhaps more attentively 8 to see .the senator one day from his stable and rang the.lieU at our door. It hurried up the north road. When he lives and is ever welcome with Aunt the arch than he had ever done in h seemed to me .that I was crossing the was near ep;mt I traded him for a country scat on the Hudson. The Deel aiid Uncle Peabody. The latter life' before, Though willing, he could had been solicited to accept divide between big and little things. A Morgan mare up in the little vil- meets us at the door and is saying iu a give no Information; he didnt sea steps more and I should be look- lage of Sandy Creek. Oh, I knew a cheerful voice:the nomination again. I know that Weel, to know its name even. Senator Wright strongly favored the ing down into the great valley of the good horse as well ns the next man nae doo Come in to supper, you rovers. theres at said length, sagely plan but feared that the South would future. Yet, now that I was there, I nnd a better one than she I , never How solemn ye look! Say, If you exit Is a very ancient place defeat him in Convention, it beingwell began to lose confidence. owned never. I was back in my sad-- , pect Sally nnd me to do ail the laughin The butler door. the VunT.uren was opposed to known that opened die at six in the afternoon and stopped here mistaken. Theres a lot of Eagle Is Threatened. which Yes, the senator was up and had for feed and an hours rest at nine and it to youre the annexation of Texas. However, be done right now, an its time of the bird The existence a from returned walk and was in rode on through the night., I reached be advised his friend to piake a fight just you Jined in. We aint done nothin emblem of America is threatens the for the nomination nnd this the latter his study. I found him there. soon after day- but laugh since we got up, nn were An Alaskan law the hamlet of Richville of places a bounty T "Well, Bart, how does this happen? resolved to do. Thenceforward until break and put out for a rest of two In need o help. Whats the matter, cents on killed. bald eagle every , . 'fiddle May I gave my time largely to he asked. hours. 1 could take it easy then. At Kate? Look at the light in Coils result Is that in 19 months over 5, the Inditing of letters for the senator Its Important business, I said, as seven oclock the mare and I started winder. How up ha bright It slilpes tonight eagles have been killed. The In Van Burena behalf. I presented the letter. again, well fed and eager to go on. feel bad I always look at the eagle Is charged with destroying I When The time appointed for thecouven-- i Something In his look and manner It was a summer morning that short- stars." toon, young deer and game birds. lion In Baltimore drew near. Ouo day as he calmly adjusted his glasses and ens t&e road evpn that of the young (THE END.) 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