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Show V UTAH THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK. UP OF THEIR EMPIRE TURKS OBJECT TO SPLITTING ll,WWWWWWWWW Bt Robert J.C. Stead crm Author of Kitchener and Other Forms " Illustrations bf , IRWIN MYERS Copyright by Dsrptr M Brothers wiWAWiwAwM WWwWWWWWWW WiWAiwiWiWir7ir THE COW PUNCHER (wuwwywwwwwwman. tact, and the hoy rode back, muttering and disappointed. He reasoned with his horse us he rode: : Tulnt no use, you ol a fellow cunt get the bead if be uln't got the fllllu' cooked meals an decent chuck. I could plug em six out o six you know that, you ol Jion't you argue about it, neither. When Im right Inside my belt I smash em six out o six, but 1 ain't right, mi you know It. You don't know nothin' about It. You never hnd a father; leastways you never hud to be responsible for one. , . . Well. lame Its coinin to a finish a 1 finish, you know that. You know Rut he had reloaded his revolver and set up two more bottles. This time he broke four and was better pleased with himself. As he rode hack his soliloquy was broken by a strange sound from beyond the belt of trees. The horse pricked up his ears and the hoy turned In the saddle to listen. Jumpin crickets! Whats loose?" he ejaculated. He knew every sound of the foothill country, but this was strange to him. A kind of snort, a sort of hiss, mechanical In Its regularity, startling in Its strangeness, it came across the valley with the unbroken rhythm of n watch tick. Well, I guess It won't eat us, he ventured at Inst. We'll Just run It down and jierlmps poke a hole In It. So snylng, he cantered along the road, crossed the little stream, and swung up the hill on the farther side. He was half way up when a turn In the road brought bin) Into sudden sight of the strange visitor. It was the first ho had seen, but he knew it at once, for the fame of the automobile, then In Its stage, hnd already spread Into the furthest ranching country. The horse was less well Informed. He bucked and kicked In rage and terror. Rut the boy was conscious not so much of the horse as of two bright eyes turned on him In frank and surprised nilmlrntlon. What horsemanship! she exclaimed. Rut the words hud scarce left her lips when they were followed by a cry of alarm. For the car hnd taken a sudden turn from the road and plunged Into a growth of young poplars that fringed the hillside. It half slid, half plowed Its way Into a position among the young were The two occupants trees. thrown from their seat; the girl fell clear but her father was less fortunate. In an Instant the boy hnd flung himself from his horse, dropping the reins to the ground, and the animal, although snorting nrnl shivering, hnd no thought of disgracing his training by breaking his parole. With quick, ungainly strides the hoy brought himself to the upturned machine. It was curious that he should appear to such disadvantage on his feet. In the saddle he was grace personified. For a moment he looked somewhat stupidly upon the wreck. Had it been a horse or a steer he would have known the procedure, but this experience was new to hts life. Resides there were strangers here. He had no fear of strangers when they wore chaps and colored handkerchiefs, but a girl In a brown sweater and an oldish man wifh a white collar were creatures to be approached with caution. The oldish man was lying on the ground, with a leg pinned under the car, and Rrown Sweater raised his head against her knee and pressed his cheeks with siuull white fingers, and looked nt the boy with bright gray eyes und said: Aren't you going to do anything? That brought hint back. Sure," he said, springing to her side. Wbada ye want me to do? I am afraid my leg Is broken," said the man, speaking calmly notvvlth Cnn you get the standing his pnln. jack out of tho toolbox and raise the car? The girl pointed to the box, and In a moment he had the jack In his hand. Rut it was n new tool to him Slop-eye- Heres an story of the ranch country, the city and over there. Its a love story the story of the master passion that drives a man onward to sue cess for the sake of the woman he loves. The hero is a maverick of the foothills. The heroine is a city girl born to the con- flop-car- s. ventions. As the boy was practicing shooting with his cayuse on the dead run along came the first automobile he had ever seen. It obligingly tipped over right behind the ranch house and broke the owner's leg. So there was time for Dave and Irene to get acquainted which was to fall In love. They parted with a kiss she go back to her city life, he to win his way up to her. to :S CHAPTER I. The slindnws of the spruce trees fell northeastward, pointing lone, cool fingers across belts of undulating pmlrie or leaning lazily against the And among the brown foothills. trees It was cool and green, and clear blue water rippled over beds of shining gravel. The house was of round, straight logs; the shingles of the squat roof were cupped and blistered with the suns of many summers. Refuse loitered about the open door: many empty tins, a leaky barrel with missing hoops, boxes, harness, tangled bits of wire. Once there had been a fence, s sort of picket fence of little saplings, but wild broncos had kicked It io pieces and range steers had straggled nnscarred across its scattered remnants. Forward, and to the left, was a small corral, mill slabs on end or fences of lodgepole pine; a corner somewhat covered In, offering vague protection from the weather. The upper poles were worn thin with the eribbing of many horses. The desertion seemed absolute; the silence was the silence of the unspoken places. Rut suddenly it was broken by a stamping In the covered part of the corral, and a niuus voice saying: nip, there! Whoa, you cnyusel Get under your saddle! Sleepln against a post all day, you Sloppy-ye- . Hip! Cotne to Itl llorse and rider dashed Into the The boy for he was no sunlight. more than a boy sat the beast as though born to It, his lithe frame taking every motion of . his mount ns softly as a good boat rides the sea. With a yell ut his horse he snatched the hat from his head, turning to the un a smooth brown face and a mnn of dark hair, and slapped the horse across the flank with his crumpled The anlnmt sprang into headgear. rmij Tha Animal Sprang Into the Air, Then Dashed at a Gallop Down the Road, way. single-cylind- semi-vertic- nnd he fumbled with It stupidly. The hnndle would not fit, nnd when It did fit It operated the wrong way. the air, then dashed at a gallop down "Oh, let mo lmve it," she cried lm the roadway, bearing the boy as un patiently. concerned ns a flower on Its stem. In a moment she had It set under Suddenly he brought his horse to a the frame of the car nnd was plying atop, swung about, and rode back at the handle up nnd down with rapid a gentle canter. A few yards from strokes. The boy looked on, helpless the house he again spurred him to a nnd mortified, lie wus beginning to gnnop, and, leaning fur down by the realize that there were more things anlmal8 side deftly picked a bottle in the world than riding a horse und from among the grass. Then he circled shooting bottles, lie felt a sudden about, repeating this operation us desire to be of greut service. And often as his eye fell on a bottle, until Just now he could be of no service he had half a dozen; then down the w hutever. But the foot of the Jnck began to road again, carefully setting a bottle , and the girl on each post of the fence that skirted sink in the looked up helplessly. It to the right. "It wont lift It, she said. "What Again he came back to the house, tut when he turned hts eye was on shall we do?" It was his chance. He was eighteen, the row of posts and his right hand lay on the grip of his revolver. Again and his wild, open life had given 1dm his sharp yell broke the silence and muscles of steel. "Here," he sub the horse dashed forward as though roughly, "move his leg when I get It shot from a gun. Down the road they clear." Ilo turned hts back to the Vent until within a rod of the first machine und crouched down until he bottle; then there was a flash In the could get his hands under the steel sunlight and to the dntter of the frame. Then he lifted. The cur was In a somewhut poised position, und he horses hoofs came the crack-cruc- k of the revolver. Two bottles shivered was able to swing It up fur enough to fragments, bub four remained In to release the Injured leg. soft-earth- "Very good, my boy, said the "That was a wonderful lift. The leg Is broken compound. Cun you get some way of moving tne to shelter? I will pay you well. The lust words were uufortuniite. Hospitality In the ranching country Is not bought and sold, "You cant pay me nothin," he said "Rut I can bring a light rudely. wagon, If you .can ride ,ln that, and put you up at the ranch. The old mans soused, he added, ns an afterthought, "hut its better than sleeplu out. I wont be long." He wns Imek at his horse, and In a moment they heard the clatter of hoofs galloping down the hillside. The girl rested her father's head In her lup. Tears made her bright eyes dividing up sultans pulme in Constantinople to protest Turks gathered In front of the the Turkish empire. Of cniwii d p FUNERAL OF YANKS WHO DIED IN RUSSIA brighter still, "Dont cry, Roenle," he said gently. "We are very lucky to be so close to help. Of course I'll be laid up for a while, but It will give you a chance to see ranch life ns It really Is." He winced with puln but continued: I fancy we shall find It plain and unveneered. What a horseman! If I could run au automobile like lie dms a horse we should not be here." "Hes strong, she suld. rude." "Jut hes "The best fields for muscle are often poor schools for manners," he answered. The hoy was soon back with a wagon nnd a stretcher. He avoided Ihe eyes of his guests, but quickly nnd gently enough he placed the Injured nmn on the stretcher. "I gucs youll have to take the feet," he said. Tho words were for the girl although lie did not look at her. I could hustle him myself but it might hurt ini. Rut the Injured man Interrupted. "I beg your pardon, he said, "that I did not Introduce my daughter. I am Doctor Hardy; this is my daughter Irene, Mr. ? They dont call me mister, said the boy. "Misters U scarce In these woods. My name is Elden Dave Elilen. The girl came up with extended hnnd. He took it shyly, but It made hlin curiously bold. Tin glad to meet you, Mr. Elden, she said. "Im glad to meet you. too," he answered. "Misses Is scarcer than misters In this neck o the woods." Carefully they lifted the injured mun into the wagon, and Ihive drove to, the ranch building with an unwonted caution that must have caused strange misgivings In the hearts of his teum. "It alut much of a place," he said, as they pulled up at the door. "I guess you can see that for yourself," You see he added, with a grin. theres Just dad nnd me, nnd hes soused most of the time, nnd I handle a lasso bettern n serubblu brush." Ho was already, losing his shyness. "Now you take the feet again. Steady ! Look out for that barrel hoop. Tills way now." He led Into the old ranch house, kicking the door wider open with his heel as he passed. A partition from east to west divided the house, nnd another partition from north to south divided the northern half. In the northeast room they set the stretcher on the floor. "Now, said the hoy, "Im goln' for the doctor. Its forty miles to town, und It'll likely be ttiornln before Im back, but Ill sure burn the trail. Theras grub In the house, and you wont starve that Is If you can cook." (This was evidently for Irene. There wus a note in It that suggested the girl might have her limitations.) "Dig into anythin In sight. And I hope your futhers leg wont hurt very much. "Oh, Ill stand It," said Doctor We Hardy, with some cheerfulness. medical men become accustomed to suffering In other people. You are very kind. My daughter may retnnin In this room, I suppose? There Is no one else?" No one but the old man," he answered. lie's usleep In the next room, safe till mornln. Ill he back by that time. That's my bed, indiMake y ourselves at cating a corner. home." lie lounged through the door, nnd they heard his spurs clanking across the hard earth. The girls first thought wns for her father. She removed his boot und stocklug, and, under his direction, slit the leg of his trousers above the Injury. It wns bleeding n little. In the large room of the house hc found a pull of wnter, and she bathed tho wound, wiping It with her handkerchief and mingling u tear or two with the warm blood that dripped from It. Youre good stuff," her father said, pressing the fingers of her unoccupied lmtid. Now If you could find a clear, cloth to bandage It" Is that you, Dave? Yes, Recnie, wd the doc- tor, too. pro UK Is CUNITM'LU.) in as tb ro ea Ini e s ' PjST1 tatvHsrpyvyr, it to y J ini kaSti Soldieis carrying caskets into the chapel in Hoboken. N. J.. where the seiviees were held for the The bodies were brought back on the nrmy transport Luke Da ruga. soldiers who died In Ru-sl- a. loii Amvricuj coi SHAH PERSIAN ENGLAND IN IV IS AFLOAT SHAMROCK thi ONCE MORE h K E Pi OSCI Ent a ci. v anis v irch : K S tlzu it" . l m dw Dr. iS 'V'-f- reer - , . f A V V ( v - X 1 - t Kr, ,v y vt Dr. i) 'we i .1 Kndjur. shah of Persia, ar riving ut Dover, England, on t visit In the Interests of his country, lb l shown In tills photograph with I.on1 Walden. ice Aliimsl ADVISING Twenty-Fiv- e From CHINA SOFT JOB Persons Draw Salaries Bankrupt Country as "Advisers. I p r s ' s. K V.'.s Jw.w.VA w C.V, nine . Shamrock IV, Sir Thomas Upton's Americas cup challenger, at thj Shew nn yards In Brooklyn, N. Y Just before she took the wuter. The yoo 4LT was put In drydoek five years ago, when the war broke out. WHEN ELECTRICITY CONQUERS STEAM is: JiviC ter Why not be an adviser to Chinn with a good salary ? All you have t do to get such a sinecure, according to Ellen N. La Motto's Peking Dust ' (Century), Is to have your government bring a little pressure to bear on Chlnn. In a chapter of her book written in Peking, Miss l.n Motto Is n quaint custom here, which, ns fuf ns I know, Is unique In the Ids tory of International relations. Thai Is the custom of giving advice p China. Any country iau do It. nppar ently. Any country that thinks China would be benefited by u little dislntei-cstennd helpful counsel ran see that tdie gets It and tint she pays for it too. Any person who wishes a lima tlve position can get bis govormimr to appoint him as an 'adviser' to China, and Ills government will m to It that China pnvs him a salary As far us 1 know, China does not mi for this advice; It Is tlmist upon lm unsought. Rut she must pay for tie privilege, whether she likes It or not. So over they come, these various 'ml visors' from vat Ions foreign nations nnd settle down here In Peking ns tho Olllelnl ndvlsets of this and that, and draw their salaries from this bankrupt obi government. The Chinn Year l.ook foe llilt! gives a list of twenty five sueli ce. Vn i o lm. 3esn lres JO says-Ther- ndv Isers. Lliard Valued as Human Food. In Death valley mid other deserts of California there Is a Ilanl called the "chuck vv alia" wlmh Is most highly thought of ns food. It Is n foot and a half loi'g, v Imlly u vegetable fetder, ind I's meat, which Is white, resen-l- s f sips leg In lluvor. 'A 1 il'liei 'Per, tv 'W Mu .aZS on Hie Novel tug or war ut Erie, Pa.. In which two powerful steam (a ( an electric locomotive. The former were tro1Kn tve m,on electric standstill and then wtre pitted against gradually forced backward, was declared the victor In the contest. St nnd the l"Hi ' Deposits of coal have w ored In Iceland, and efforts Pur easy uccckm nn electric delivery made to develop them. To save life on sengolmf VT'f'itth truck has a folding dashboard und a has pntenled Frenchman In mounted front. step ntnttresses. An English inventor has brought out fr An electrical device has an automatic electric recording turget (W, mtt for Indoor rllle shooting. vented for measuring the los I and minisa Rootldaiy Ilarlmr, Me., has pusses up chimneys ter who Just between times goes fishy, It cost 3,000,000 to brin ing Recently one trip gave Idm, $2W). trie power derived from 8 C01"1 for Ms slit re, ninety miles distant, to INTERESTING ITEMS , Mil. |