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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH 1 suppose er sharply, The in the Light Clearing of A of TALE the NORTH COUNTRY in the TIME SILAS WRIGHT By IRVING BACHELLER. Author Of EBEN HOLDEN. D'RI AND I. DAR.REL ISLES. KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE. Etc Of THE BLESSED Etc. Copyright by tiring BaehcUor BARTON LEARNS OF THE EXISTENCE OF A WONDER. FUL POWER KNOWN AS "MONEY. Bynopsla Barton Baynes, an orphan, goes to live with his nncle, Peabody Baynes, and his Aunt Deel on a farm on Rattleroad, In a neighborhood called Llckltyspllt, about the year 1820. He meets Sally Dunkelherg, about his own age, but socially of a class above the Bayneses, and is fascinated by her pretty face and fine clothes. Barton also meets Bovtng Kate, known In the neighborhood aa the Silent Woman. Amos Grimshaw, a young non of the richest man In the town ship, la a visitor at the Baynes home and Roving Kate tells the boys fortunes, predicting a bright future for Barton and death on the gallows for Amos. Reproved for an act of boyish mischief, Burton runs away, Intending to make his home with the Dunkelbergs, He reaches Canton and falls asleep on a porch. There he Is found by Silas Wright, Jr a mao prominent in public affairs, who, knowing Peabody Baynes, takes Barton home after buying him new clothes. Silas Wright evinces much Interest in Barton and sends a. box of books and magazines to the Baynes home. A short time later the election of Mr. Wright to the United States senate is announced. " dles and high oven and the shiny edge on Its hearth! It rivaled. In Its novelty and charm, any tin peddler's cart that ever came to our door, John Axtell and his wife, who had seen It pass their house, hurried over for a look at It Every hand was on the stove as we tenderly carried it Into the house, piece by piece, and set It up. Then they cut a hole In the upper floor and the stone chimney and fitted the pipe. How keenly we watched the building of the fire. How quickly it roared and began to heat CHAPTER V. I God o Israeli I'm sculrt," said Uncle Peabody. Down crashed the stick of wood Into tbe box, What about? It would be like him to put the screws on you now. You've got between him an bis prey. Youve taken tbe mouse away from the cat 1 remember the little panic that fell on us then. I could eee tears In tbe eyes of Aunt Deel as she sat with her head leaning wearily on her hand. If he does Ill do all I can, said whatever I've got will be Barnes, yours." Rodney Barnes left us, and I remember how Uncle Peabody stood In the middle of the floor and whistled the merriest tune be knew. Stand right up here, he called In his most cheerful tone. Stand right up here before me, both o' ye. I got Aunt Deel by the hand and led her toward my uncle. We stood Stand stralghter, he facing him. demanded. Now, altogether. One, two, three, ready sing. , He bent time with his hand In Imitation of the singing master at the schoolhouse and we joined him in singing an old tune which began : Oh, keep my heart from Badness, God. This Irresistible spirit of the man bridged a bad hour and got us off to bed In fairly good condition. A few days later the note came due and it owner Insisted upon full payment There was quch a clamor for money those days I I remember that my aunt had sixty dollars which she had saved, little by little, by selling eggs and chickens. She had planned to use It to buy a tombstone for her mother and father a ambition. My uncle needed the most The Great Stranger Some strangers came along the l ri i id those days hunters, peddlers i A the like and their coming filled .'t with a Joy which mostly went with them, I regret to say. None tray 1 these, however, appealed to my ,3 But ( .agination as did old Kate. v i ere was one stranger greater than i e greater Indeed, than any other o came Into Battleroad. He came r rely and would not be long detained. I aw curiously we 'looked , at him, the room! ' owing his fame and power! This When the Axtells had gone away Aunt Deel said: eat stranger was Money. Its grand! It Is sartln but Pm I shall never forget the day that f ancle showed me a dollar bill and 'frald we cant afford It ayes I be I We cant afford to freeze any little shiny, gold coin and three ices of sliver, nor can I forget how longer. I made up my mind that we refully he watched them while couldn't go through another winter sy lay In my hands and presently as we have," was my uncle's answer. 1 t them back Into his wallet That now much did It cost? she asked. iHJiiULLU Not much dlffernt from thirty-fou- r long before tbe time of which I ; dollars In sheep and grain, be i writing. I remember bearing him ( t, one day of that year, when 1 answered. zed him to take ns to the Caravan Rodney Barnes stayed to supper IVlld Beasts which was coming to and spent a part of the evening with us. t village: Im sorry, but Its been a hundred Like other settlers there, Mr. , todays since I had a dollar in my Barnes was a cheerful optimist. EveryJlet for more than ten minutes. thing looked good to him until It have his old account book for turned out badly. y years of 1837 and 1838. nere are . He told how he had heard that It ue of the entries: was a growing country near the great Balanced accounts with J. Doro-- f water highway of the St Lawrence. and gave him my note for $2.15 Prosperous towns were building up be paid in salts January 1, 1838. In It There were going to be great Id ten bushels of wheat to EL Miner cities In Northern New York. There were rich stores of lead and Iron 90 cents, to be paid in goods. ''Sold two sheep to Flavius Curtis In the rocks. Mr. Barnes had bought I took his note for $0, payable In two hundred acres at ten dollars an acre. He had to pay a fee of five Ms on or before March the first Only one entry in more than a per cent to Grlmshaws lawyer, for mdred mention money, and this was tbe surveytand the papers. This left sum of eleven cents received In him owing fourteen hundred dollars on his farm much more than It was Jance from a neighbor. So it will be seen that a spirit of worth. r itnal accommodation served to Our cousin twisted the poker In great bands until It squeaked as 'p us over the rough going. Mr. his his he stood before my uncle and aald trnshaw, however, demanded My wife and I have chopped and I in cash and that I find was main burnt and pried and hauled rocks an' the habit of the money-lender?e were poor but our poverty was shoveled dung an milked an churned One, Two, Three, Ready Sing. until we are worn out For almost of It to S like that of these days In which help pay the note. We drove - Jn writing. It was proud and twenty years weve been workln days to Potsdam on that sad errand and an nights an Sundays. My mortgage what a time we had Our fathers inly and well-fegetting there I I owed six hundred do! and back In deep ihud and seen heroic service In the wars was over-dusand and lars on I thought it all over one : we knew over corduroys! jolting was twelve years old when I be--' day an went up to Grlmshaws an Bart, my uncle said the next took him by the back of the neck as I took down the book to i to be the render for our little and evening, shook him. ne said he would I rend, ally. Aunt Deel had long com-tne- d wed better talk me o out the country. He things overguess that she couldn't keep up with drive a little tonight. These me six months to pay up. I had are a. knitting and read so much. hard times. If we can find any We gnve J not seen Mr, Wright for nearly t pay or lose the land. I got the body with money enough to buy em on the note that you signed I dunno but we better sell the years, bnt he had sent us the' money Nobody in Can sheep." el8 of Sir Walter Scott and I bad over In Potsdam. ton would a dared to lend it to them heart If you hadnt been a fool," my Into tbe creed me." , ' ties of Old deep annt exclaimed with a look of great Mortality. "Why?" my uncle asked. distress ayes I If you hadn't been -- Tien came the evil days of 1837, 'Frald o' Grimshaw. He didnt a fool. the ln our lives of to story began Idstr want roe to be able to pay It The Im just whnt I be, an I ain't so fken Its pace and excite our inter- wvoitf place Is worth more than six hundred big a fool that I need to be reminded In its coming chapters. It gave dollars now that's the reason. I In of t-It, said my uncle. Enough to think of, God knows. tended to cut some timber an haul Ill stay home an work," I proIn land Iflbl the and speculations Up, J-it to the village this winter ao I could posed bravely. : paper-monehnd friran system bj! o' the note an git more pay a You aint old enough for that," 1 Wtht us Into The time aspart And rough going. told I ye, but the roads have sighed Aunt Deel. 8 th dtj of New York had been so bad I couldnt do any haulI want to keep you In school, said arro'w pended payment of their notes. in." Uncle Peabody, wlib sat making a s cou,(l n longer meet their My uncle went and took a drink at usual, the burden fell the water pall. I saw by his face splint broom. While we were talking In walked murr,r,est on the poor. It was hard to that he was unusually wrought up. Orlmshaw the rich mnn of Benjamin tuoney even for blnck salts. to My heavens an earth!" he ex- the hills. He didn't stop to knock, mine1! tlnele Peabody had been silent and claimed as he sat down bnt walked right in as If the house ne "It's the brain colic, again. lng K pressed for a month or more, I aald to were his own. It was common gos-? signed a tote for Rodney Barnes, myself as I looked at him. is," cousin, long before and was afraid , Mr. Barnes seemed to have It also. sip that he held a mortgage on every acre of the countryside. I had never he would have to pay It. I didnt inser Too much note, I whispered. liked him, for he was a stern-eye- d re bk!nor whot n note was and I remem-don- e "Im awful sorry, bnt I've done mnn who was always scolding somethnt one night, when I lay think- everything I could, said Mr. Barnes. body, and I hnd not forgotten what his jHJ bout It, I decided that It must "Ain't there somebody thatll take son had suld of lilm. 'nethlng In the nature of horse another mortgage? It ought to be et. f "Good night he exclaimed curtly, My uncle told me that a note safe in now," my uncle suggested. ns he sat down and set his cane bea trouble which attacked the y, an'0? Money Is so tight It can't he done. tween. his feet and rested his hnnds Instead of the Btomach. I, The hank has got nil the money an upon It. He spoke hoarsely and 1 ne autumn e one day In Canton Cnele Grltnshnw owns the bank. I've tried remember the curious notion enme to tb of eabody traded three sheep and twen and tried, but I'll make you safe. I'll me thnt he looked like our old ram. 'vcs cy bushels of wheat for a cook stove give you a mortgage until I can turn He wore a thin, gray heard under his of Ir-r brought It home In the big wngon. round. rhln. Ills mouth was shut tight In Ihey Bnrnea came with him to help a slit So I saw how Rodney Rarnes, like n line curving downward a lit,he 8fove- - Ne was a big giant other settlers in Llckltyspllt, hnd gone tle long at the ends, My undo used to rest t man with the longest nose in the Into bondage to the landlord. sny thnt hls mouth was made to keep - township, i have often wondered how How much do you owe on this his thoughts from leaking and going l!1" npMr.would solve the problem of place? Rarnes asked. to waste. He had a big body, a big lu, Barnes In the Immediate Seven hundred an fifty dollars," chin, a big mouth, a big nose and of 1,s nos' the 8nme l'Ing In said my nncle. big enrs and hnnds. Ills eyes lay 1 attire of a defense. Is it due? small In this setting of bigness, t'vpnllR I was chiefly Inter- fts been due a year an If 1 have "Why, Mr. Grimshaw, Its years m ,h0 8tovp 'Vhnt K to pay that note I'll be short my since you've been In our house-a- yes Jy with Us damper and grid 1 said Aunt Deel. 3l ! ' I J .it long-cherish- f t s. d. e, it it Jt 1 y en-A- ?t 1 f Tfag .r 1 to get it la," he answered rathI dont have much time 1 have to work. around. Theres some people seem to be able to git along without It. I see youve got one o these newfangled stoves," he addid as he looked It over. Huh Rich folks can have anything they want" Uncle Peabody bad sat splintering MEMBERS CLAIM THAT WITH the long stick of yellow birch. 1 obHALF OF SESSION GONE, LITTLE served that the jackknife trembled la HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. hls hand. Ills tone hnd a touch of 1 unnaturaluess, proceeding no doubt from hls fear of. the man before him, as ho suld: "When I bought that stove I felt richer than I do now. I hnd almost enough to settle with you up to date, but 1 signed a note for a friend and had to pay It Ayuhl I suppose so," Grimshaw answered In a tone of bitter Irony which cut me like a knife-bladyoung as I was. "What business have you signin notes an glvln away money which aint yours to give Id like to know? What business have you actin like a rich man when you cant pay yer honest debts? Id like to know that, too? If Ive ever acted like a rich man Its been when I want lookin," said Uncle Peabody. What business have you to go enlargin yer family takln another mouth to feed and another body to spin for? That costs money. I want to tell you one thing, Baynes, you've got to pay up or git out o here. lie raised hls cane and shook It In ' the air as he spoke. Oh, I aint no doubt o that, said Uncle Peabody. "Youll have to have yer money thats sure; an you will have It If I live, every cent of It. This boy Is goln to be a great help to me you dont know wbat a good boy be Is and what a comfort be's been to ns! These words of my beloved uncle uncovered my emotions so that I put and leaned my elbow on the wood-bo- x my head spon It and sobbed. I aint goln' to be bard on ye, said Mr. Grimshaw as he BayDes, rose from his chair ; HI give ' ye three months to Bee what you cau do. I wouldn't wonder if the boy would irn out all right He's big an cordy of hls age and a purty likely boy, they tell me." Mr. Grimshaw opened the door and stood for a moment looking at u and added in a milder tone: Youve got one o tbe best farms In this town an if ye work hard an use common sense ye ought to be out o debt In five years mebbe less." He closed the door and went away. Neither of ns moved or spoke as we listened to hls footsteps on the gravel path that went down to the road and to the sound of hls buggy as be drove away. Then Uncle Peabody broke the silence by saying: Inform Joint Committee That Utah Has Too Many Lawo Now and That a Few Should Attorney Bo Killed Off. Salt Lake City, Piling up more work In the shape of ton new bills, the house of representatives adjourned 4 without aetlng agnin on Felu-unrupon any legislation. Despite the fact tlmt the session Is now nearly half oi er, the lower branch of the state legislature has not heeded the periodical speed up request of more ambitious members anil continues Us lethargical career toward whnt promises to be frenzied, overcrowded uml overworked closing days. These ambitious members are complaining loudly at the lack of Htced and are trying to prod the slower ones Into action. That the state of Utah would be better off if tbe legislature killed a few laws, Instead of enacting more, was the opinion expressed by Attorney M, E, Wilson, In discussing the proposed workmen's compensation luw before the joint senate and house committees, A new workmans compensation bill, designed by the author to be a conservative substitute for the radical Olson bill now under consideration by committee, was Introduced in the senate of the Utah legislature on February 4 by Senator W. J. Parker of Weber. Eight instead of nine-hou- r days for women employed ft laundries, hotels, restaurants, telephone or telegraph offices Is provided for In house bill No. 58, Introduced by Mrs. Piercey of Salt Lake. The measure also provides that females must not be kept on the job hours a week, longer than forty-eigexcept In periods of emergency. An Increase of $000 per year In the salary of the clerk of the supreme court, together with the appo'utment of a deputy clerk at a salary of $2700, Is provided for ft a bill Introduced ft the lower house of the legislature by . . Representative Ileppler. Provision for the compulsory establishment of kindergartens In school districts where they are requested by or more parents of children twenty-five MAKES IT UNLAWFUL TO COMPEL EMPLOYES TO WORK SEVEN DAYS IN WEEK. I Senate Pastes Joint Memorials to Con-gro- ts Asking That Returned Sol-- diere and Sailors Bo Provided With Homestead. Balt Lake City. The house was ft session less tlimi half an hour on Februury 3, Four members were absent because of Illness. Hut two bills were Introduced, and one of them carried an appropriation ; It was for stock killed under tbe direction of the state livestock board, the stock being afflicted with anthrax; for hides condemned on the same account uml for medicul attendance for one of the owners of the stock and hides who had Infection from uiithrax. The hill appropriates $533 for the relief of V. A. llnulter of Pleasant Grove. The other tneusure was hy R. K. Currie and Its provisions are for one duy's rest in seven unit making It unlawful for any tmployer of labor to cause or require bis employe) to work more than six days dn seven. This, however, not upplylng In ense of emergency where life or property Is In Imminent dunger or to employes working six hours or less per day. - Two Joints memorials , to congress, petitioning the nutlonul legislators to afford opHrtunlty to returned soldiers, sailors and marines to obtain honie-steud- s, were passed by the senate. They were senate joint memorials numbers 1 and 2, tbe former by Senator Clyde and the lutter by Senator Orlando Bradley. No. 1 seeks to have opened to homestead entry the grazing lunda ft Duchesne county- - embraced In the Uintah Indian reservation, the homesteaders to pay the ab- -. orlglnes $1.25 per acre. No. 2 asks congress to pass the Lane bill, appropriating $100,000,000 for reclamation purposes, under which It Is hoped to make available and cultivable the great unreclaimed area of the Colorado river basin, embracing more than 3,000,000 acres of land. All parts of the state are represented on the committee appointed by Georgo Dern, president pro tem of the senate, and C. C. Ricliurds, speaker of the house, to select a site and announce an approximate cost of a suitable memorial to be erected In honor or Utah soldiers, sailors uml marines In the great world war and also for Utah veterans who participated In . is made ft house bill No. 63, Introduced by tbe joint committee on education. Declaring that the boundary line between Sanpete, Juab and Millard counties, as defined In section 1304, 1300 and 1302, complied laws of 1917, Is In- other wars. Hes the damdest definite and ambiguous to an extent He stopped, set the AT THE CAPITOL. stick aside, closed his jackknife and that nmkes It Impossible to locate tbe IntroNo. line bill house 64, exactly, went to the water-pai- l to cool hls Salt Lake City. The joint committee duced by Representative Thomas or emotions with a drink. on education had an Inning ft the house Millard defines the county, precisely Annt Deel took up the subject where January 30, when it Introduced nine locution of this line. he had dropped It, as if bills pertaining to the schools of the sentiment would satisfy her, state. Like most state bills, one of LEGISLATIVE NOTES. saying: these measures creates a new office, old skinflint that ever lived In director of health education, and pro10 to Lake a of Salt vote, City. By this world, ayesl I aint goln to vides a salary. The salary would be 1 the senate on January 31 passed Senhold my opinion o that man no fixed by tbe state board of education, longer, ayesl I cant Its too pow- ator Joseph Chez's bill, which makes which would define the duties of tbe the teaching of anarchy and the pracerful ayes !" tice of sabotage ft the state of Utah office. recovered I my composure Having The levy of school taxes In any a The mensure was sent to repeated that I should like to give up thefelony. school district of the first class Is fixed engrossing committee, preparatory school and stay at home and work. to being forwarded to the lower house at 4 mills on the dollar, when the asAunt Deel Interrupted me by sayfor consideration and action by that sessed value of taxable property per ing: capita of school population exceeds body. I have an Idee that Site Wright $8000. A charge of 5 mills Is made In senate also The rules the suspended will help us ayesl Hes cornin' home and passed Representative Days districts where taxables do not exceed an you better go down an see him house memorial to congress urging fed- $8000. The Increase continues until ft ayesl Hadnt ye T' on state post roads on a pop- -' districts where the property of school aid eral "Bart an Til go down basis ulation and an extension of the population does not exceed $2000, the said Uncle Peabody. time of availability of each annual ap- levy Is 10 mills on tbe dollur. Some fourteen months before that Another measure reaffirms acceptday my uncle had taken me to Pots- propriation. ance of the provisions of tbe act of The rules were again suspended and dam and traded graft and salts for to provide for the promotion congress house on the final its upper pussed what he called a rip roarin fine suit of vocational education and the state o clothes with boots and cap and reading Senator Knight's bill authoriz- board of education Is designated as the state to and banks ing encouraging shirt and collar and necktie to match, state board vocational for education. rebecome members of the federal I having earned them by sawing and Still another bill provides for the esserve system. cording wood at three shillings a e schools and Of all the measures presented In the tablishment of part-timcord. How often we looked back to mukes and It classes, for compulsory first weeks tbe of three those better days! The clothes had legislature ft minors to attend these schools. been too big for me and I had had to the session, eight have been passed Provision Is made for establishing wult until my growth had taken up and approved by the governor. These the slack. In my coat and trousers Include the bill that provides for the free dispensaries and clinics, and for before I could venture out of the expense of the present session, $33,-00- this purpose $10,000 Is requested, as and the others are the resolution stute aid for the ensuing biennium. neighborhood. I had tried them on Changes are suggested In the law every week or so for a long time. Now ratifying the national prohibition which pertains to the certificates of one for tbe amendment, providing filled statnie them toy handsomely and they filled me with a pride and appointment of three citizens to confer public school teachers, supervisors and salsfactlon which I had never known with state officials of Arizona regard- superintendents. Life diplomas will be ing the Arizona strip; one ft mem- given and the board will determine the befrre. Now may the Lord help ye to be ory or Theodore Roosevelt ; a Joint scholarship and training required of memorial praying congress to pass the applicants. careful awful, terrible careful o Who may solemnize marrlnges In the them clothes every minute o this Susan B. Anthony amendment; a conresolution current tbe state govis set forth In a bill by Repreauthorizing day, Aunt Deel cautioned as she ernor to one sentative Thomns. a messenger; appoint It provides that looked at me. Dont gtt no horse V. It. Wallace, who was ministers of the gospel or eulogizing priests of sweat nor wagon grease on em." tendered the position of assistant sec- any denomination, Justices of the retary of the Interior; one urging the peace, mayors of cities, county clerks establishment of a league of nations. and judges of the district and supreme Barton gets new Inspiration For the first time In yeurs the lower courts. The naming of county clerks from the words of the great house contains only one lawyer, Itepre-sentatl- Is tbe new feature of the bill. Silas Wright, who plans for tho E. R. Miles of Bmlthfield, Senator Stevens, In a bill which he education of tho boy when ho Cuclie county. Mr. Miles was former- presented to the senate, provides for It old enough to leavo homo for ly engaged ft practice at Idaho Fulls' the regulation of wuges or compensaschool. with former Lieutenant Governor tion given to employes. His bill fixes Edgtngton of Idaho. He Is chulrmun the regular pny day and provides u (TO BIS CONTINUED.) of tlie Judiciary committee. penalty for violations of the law. Senate bill No. 17, authorizing tile Our Wonderful Language, Senator Dern would protect deposiof dis- tors In stute banks A certain merchant died, leaving to payment of traveling expenses through tbe creahls only son ttye conduct of hls extentrict judges when holding court out- tion of a depositors gun runty fund, sive business, and great doubt was ex- side of the county ft which they re- for which every bunk orgunlzed under pressed ft some quarters whether the side pussed the lower house Jan- the laws of tbe state will bo assessed. young mnn possessed tbe ability to car- uary 31. The bill, variously known as the anti--- I. ry out the fathers policies. Using tho Democratic party platform Well," W. W. aud act, Is a said one kindly disposed friend, for as a red flag, A. E. llurvey, a repre- replica of the federal statute ou the ny part, I think Henry is very bright sentative of tho Federation of Labor, snme subject and makes the advocacy and capable. Im sure he w 11 succeed. or Bolsheappeared before tho Joint senate and of anarchy, I. W. W.-Is"Perhaps youre right," si Id another house committees considering tho Ol- vism and the practice of subotuge a friend. "Henry Is undoubtedly a clevson workmen's compensation bill and felony In the state of Utah. Tbe er fellow, but, taka It from me, old demanded ft the name of labor as elec- measure Is a drastic one, designed to man, he hasn't got tbe bead to fid hls tors of the legislators, thut they pass be effective In wiping such forms of Tattler's shoes," the Olson measure as It stands. terrorism out of the state of Utah. . half-splinter- 0, , , |