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Show li i THE SALT LAKE TIMES. WEDNESDAY MAY. 28. 1890. BIRTHDAY8. Lfct the .dded years Tbatoometome, Ro)bckltothpMtiofr That memory mily fl'"1 "" th ,bor perfect shells and Bothing more, 1 And pebble. (W. , eut of tight tatoth. tea. for them to stay be to cherish grief lid pais , "ould not. must not, feel .gain. lam content Tbit none of lift nn ever be u,ed o'er vith self same throb and ttariUt jior more to me Will former song, or book, or toy, rai tie measure of my Joy. luncontent ,m all of today ; And"henldream Lrt fancy revel in the light Taut hope had won , v,nni the present, and afar, fiwadfast. sweetly beck'ning star. Inn conten- t- ForgeuPOI,tnell'a Can neter creep; in stIUest ind nen, at last, ntghl I seem to sleep, blrthdav comes to me In truth; fhf rift it brlngs-immo- rtol youth. -P- hiladelphia Times. i J ' AVhen You Can Buy 4 Lots in Davis, Sharp & Stringer's CORNER OF SECOND WEST AKD TENTH SOUTH, On small Cash Payment, and within 30 days after Electric Car Line, already commenced, on Second West, is completed, sell 3 Lots for Profit sufficient to build nn remaining Lot. If you prefer to move into your own home today, "' we have Six New Modern Style Houses just com- - plctcd, six Large Rooms, Fine Closets, Three """ """" !EEZEEEEEEEEE: Verandas, City Water, Klegrant Location, close in, ' splendid view, near electric car line, ()XLY $.'800 ' EACir, and Five Years to pay out at only 6 per cent interest. Don't Fail to see Watkins' Addition cijoiningr XJ."bczt3r SParl: on tlio SovLt-b.- . DAVIS & STRINGER, Tthe?ncnHo?iof 23 West Second South. , Railroad Contractors anfl Bniltlers, U js Fustic 0,"0" Grading, Ditching and Eicavating, cydl,b 121 S. Main St. Street Grading a Specialty. Pafmpr ESTIMATES furnished. ; I I , CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. --EXCLUSIVfl DEALERS IN Sole Agents for SmesMeans' $300 SIlOS Spencer & Kimball, , , - 160 Main Street. SOUTH M MEM. Now On the Market. - LOCATION: Cor. Tenth South and Ninth East. ON THE CITY LIMITS TWO MILES FROM V. O. LOTS FROM S100 TO SG00. THE SITUATION IS GRAND. Overlooking Hid Vallojr. Call Early and Get Choice of Lots. CHOICE RESIDENCE. BL'SINE.SiJ AND ACREAGE I'ROI'ERTY. BURTON,Sill& CO., Sole Agents, 269 S. Main St. GEORGE A. LOWE, Dealer in All Kinds of Fint-Cla- -- Agricultural Implements.-- s R'HL'TTLER Y.KVU AND FREW 113 WAWN5, Golilms lim tons ai Boai Carts of every tlffKrijHion. Steam Engines, Leffel Wheels. WAREHOUSES STATE ROAD HKT.VKES FIRST AM) SEt'OSD .SOCTH. Etaii ai Montana Mm Cow C. P. MASON, Manager, Headquarters for all Classes of Machinery. Kcine anJ Boiler from i)Wfr anfl cpwarl In stock lit lmm diate Steam Pump, Inj-cto- Home Whims, Hoitinj? Engine Rock Breaker. Wail's Roll. In nj'i Air Compror ami Drill, Lubri rttin Oils, Mine, .Mill ami Smeller Supple, Silver, Gold ami Coaeentrmt il g Mill erected and delivered in running order. Mains Office ani Tareroaas 259 S. Mail Street. Salt Lab D. S. AGENCY, BUTTE. MONTANA. Gko. M. Scott, Jas. II. 8. HuMrrum, President. ' Secretarjr. GEO. M. SCOTT & CO., (INCORPORATED.) Hardware and Metal, Stoves, Tinware, Mill Findings, Etc. AGfcNTS I'OK the Dodge Wood Pulley, Roebling's Htln Wire Itne, i Vacuum Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercules Powder, Atlas Kngiw and Boil era, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Kcales, Jefferson Horse Whim, Bljke Pump Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc 168 MAIN STEEET, Salt Lake City. - - Utah ' AVE HANDLE Business, Residence aafl Country PflprtF, i Improved. and. TTnimprcvod. j i Psrtie whdiiue to Imy r vH Realty had better ee Our m'V.: Small Profits and Unlet J arm." t errenpomif nc Solicited. W. L BARRET & CO.,! 207 S. J.iu St., Salt Lake City, Hah. i disappointed in Flicker ,. v nets and language since he had known ?riend Mr I 8'08019 t0hand: and the nne where he had once before been PHofcdrdhad been barged quite made up his mind lrM?NrYr,k Sentlenla S Kennedy gome boy well knew it was because shewed nt wrallWedtoreturtthe both Mr. Kennedy and his Mexican part- - ner.Senor Miguel Hernandez. .;TI KT' who was a instant visitor ,enUedy s house was al- calde San Luis, a little town about which ! 8Way' for undcr " treaty by New Mexico was ceded to the United States many of the Mexican laws and customs remained in force, and San Luis, among whose population of 150 not more than three were not Mexicans, continued to elect its alcalde, an official whose power is much more despotic than that of any American governor. There were many stories told of the senor's harshness and cruelty, and these, with his cold, hard face and forbidding man-ue- r, made him greatly feared. For many weeks Flicker worked stead-ily and told his friend that he was saving his wages, as she advised, and every-thing seemed to be going smoothly .when one evening he presented himself in re-sponse to a message, looking gloomy and disturbed. He did not seem inclined to talk, but when, after awhile, she ques- tioned him gently he shamefacedly con-fessed the truth. He had been gambling the night before. She looked at him incredulously for an ms. The only signs of life were at the hotel, now apparently a roadside inn. A number of horses stood saddled and tied to the fence, while their owners talked on the porch so excitedly that they did not notice the newcomer until he called out a greeting and asked: "Is this Sykesburg?" "Waal,-- "drawled a tall man, evi-dently the proprietor, comiug forward, 'it s whafs left of if. Was yer pertike-lerl- y anxious ter find Sykesburg?" ho asked, looking up inquisitively. "Whv " he exciaimed; "ef it ain't Flicker-lit- tle tucker! Shake hands, sonny. Don't yer remember Long Jim? Sav, bub," he continued, growing grave and speaking rapidly, "hev yer struck luck? Becase ef yer hev, ye've come in the nick o' time. There's a friend o' yourn in trouble." "Yes, I've had luck," said Flicker, lav-ing his hand on a leather pouch that hung from his belt. "Who needs help?" "That thar Miss Kennedy," Jim re-plied, as somehow Flicker had felt that he would. "Git on yer horses, boys," lie shouted to the men, setting the example by jumping on his own, and in a few minutes a cloud of dust enveloped the party as they took the road to San Luis at full speed, Jitn explaining to Flicker as they went. A year and a half ago the mine had suddenly ceased to produce anything; the company disbanded and the camp was deserted. Mr. Kennedy and his daughter shortly afterwards removed to S.iu Luis. Mr. Kennedy had been utter-ly ruined by the failure of the mine. He nnd Senor Hernandez had quarreled be-fore tliis and were not on speaking terms, and, knowing the senor's character, every one was surprised when he now came forward and renewed his friend-ship with Mr. Kennedy, advising him to open a store in San Luis and insisting upon loaning him the money needed; and Mr. Kennedy accepted gratefully, little dreaming what a terrible revenge the wily Mexican was planning for bis fan-cied wrongs. FLICKER'S DEBT. kesburg was a mining camp in New co and a perfect specimen of its Like the mushroom growth of a tit sprung into existence on the dis-- r of silver mine there, and it was ediately stocked with the usual b and in many cases desperate char-- s and a generous allowance of drink nd gambling placesi front of the principal boarding -f-ondly termed a "hotel" by Wing ils Chinese proprietor a crowd of i stood one afternoon, waiting for irival of the stage. This was even eater event than usual today, for rnrl one of the owners of the instant; then, to his utter consternation, she burst into tears. "Don't! don't!" he bogged her, in dis-tress. "Please don't cry." "How can I help it? she said. "1 thought you'd be angry and give me up for a bad lot I never thought you'd cry," said Flicker, wonderingly, as the tears still came. 'I am so dreadfully disappointed," she said, after a while. "I hoped better things from you." "How did you know I lost my money?" Flicker asked. "I didn't know it; it's the loss of your honesty and right feeling that troubles me. The money is a very" small part of it." "It's a good deal to me," answered Flicker, ruefully. "I was a fool just at the wrong time." And he explained to her that a party of Sykesburg men were about to go into Mexico on a prospecting trip and had of-fered to let him accompany them if he would undertake a small part of the ex-penses; and his profits, if any resulted, would be in proportion. Anxious to make his share as large as possible, he had gambled in the hope of increasing his capital, and had lost every dollar of his savings. "And served me right for a donkey!" he concluded, vigorously. "I won't get was expected to arrive, bringing augbter, whom he had gone all the to St. Louis to meet, men were seldom seen in those at that time, and it was rarely, in that a delicately reared young lady ired there, and from all accounts ras what Miss Mabel Kennedy must Many of the men had never seen a person "not a real high roller; them that can't do nothin' but look r and read these here novelties and .shay," as Long Jim, one of the rs, expressed it landsome, bright faced boy of about as sitting on the fence, hearing the and whistling softly. He now stop liis latter occupation long enough to lout you 'spect 6he'll do nothin' law, I tell yer. That's all any on ioes." e boy's eyes grew targe at the thought us ornament ! Sykesburg society, ic uttered none of the thoughts, for then the stage turned the corner of ml and rattled up to the door. The ner in which the men watched Mist iedy alight was perfectly respectful, rery eager, and as she raised her eyes net the admiring gaze of the crowd blushing a little, she attempted to i the sidewalk into the house, but Among the old Mexican statutes was the infaniousbne which enabled a person, if he could not obtain money that was owed him, to make his debtor a peon that is, a servant until the amountowed was worked out, a servitude that is noth-ing but wretched slavery. Hernandez, therefore, had pressed his loans on Mr. Kennedy, knowing that they could not be paid and intending to make him a peon. Just as this was about to be done his unsuspecting victim died suddenly. It was an easy matter to make his daughter responsible for the debt, and before she realized what had occur-red she found herself threatened with this terrible fate unless the money could be produced on this very day of Flicker's return. "These fellers," said Jim, indicating hia companions, "just come from thar, an' they sez ole Hernandez is sayin' as he means ter send her inter Mexico. I hope we git thar in time ter stop that off; she'll be skeered half ter death. We was think-in- ' wot to do wen yer come up," he con-tinued, "but we ain't got much money an' thar ain't enough on us ter take hei out o' that nest o' Mexicans by force; 'sides, the ole feller's got the law back of him." Flicker's blood rushed like fire through his veins; ho was almost beside himself with pity and indignation; and he could not even think of her having perhaps started in captivity for Mexico, for, though, of course, they would follow and bring her back, he thought the anguish of terror would be enough to kill her. His horse was a swift one, but only wings could have carried him fast enough. They were in time, however; the crowd of Mexicans in the street scattered before the flying hoofs and Miss Kennedy saw a figure spring toward her and heard a voice cry triumphantly: "Don't yea know nic? Vm here to pay my debt!" And in a few minutes the senor's intended peon rode away with her friends. She had written to Mr. Lanyon some time since, but he did not receive the let-ter at once and it was several weeks after her rescue that he arrived at Sykesburg. Very soon afterward he and Miss Ken-nedy were married and went east to live. They did not go alone, however, and when, in after years, they were ques-tioned about the promising young man who made hia home with them they were always glad to tell the story of how Flicker paid his' debt. Helen Keene in Philadelphia Times. another chance like this in a hiury, though." .,, .. .. .. ,.; "None of the gentlemen at the mine would advance you any money, then?" she asked, knowing what the answer would be. "No; they'd they'd think it'd go as the other did. They don't take no stocV-i-me," he said, flushing hotly. "No, they don't," she replied. "And now you see what it is to lose your goot' name." There was a long silence. Miss Ken-nedy seemed to be thinking of something else;- Flicker thought she was tired of having him there and he had better go. Still, when he left sho made him prom-ise that be would come again the next evening. He went away greatly puzzled over it all; he could not make out why she had cried. To be sure, she had often told him how she abhorred gambling, but he had supposed she meant when people were unsuccessful; but she had cried before she knew whether ho had lost or won and had told him that the money was of no consequence. She had shed tears for him; it gave him a feeling he had never had before in his life. Meanwhile Miss Kennedy was also thinking hard. As Flicker had said, it was a good chance. She knew the men to be steady and respectable, and though Mexico was a dangerous country, it was better for the boy to try to make his way there than to go to ruin in Sykesburg or whatever similar place he might wander to. Sho made up her mind that she would make an effort to save him. When Flicker came the following night she told him of the plan she bad for help-ing him; it was that she herself would give the necessary money, for her father was very generous to her and gave her more than she spent. Mr. Kennedy warned her that she was only encourag-ing the boy in bad habits, and that the but she felt money was thrown away, suro that it would not prove so. 'You see," she said to the amazed and overjoyed Flicker, "I don't intend to lot. I want to give you up for a bad help vou to be an honest, industrious this money because I man I offer you m your friend, and I don't make any stopped at the first step. It had been !ng and the, ground before her was ind muddy; the men could manage enough in their high boots, but her ty shoes must suffer if she crossed. me of the men had ever heard of Sir tor Raleigh and how the gallant tier laid his cloak down in the mud lueen Elizabeth to pass over, though rould gladly have done something arif they only had thought of it As --S some one came to the rescue with "it, which he flung clown, and Miss aly walked over this impromptu :e into the house. f it ain't that everlastin Flicker!" liated Long Jim. at everlasting Flicker was the boy had been sitting on the fence, and baring knocked off the loose plank e young lady's use, now proceeded pair damages, grinning good natur-"- i response to the friendly cuff by Jim, who was disgusted no had not received' the smiling ks bestowed upon Flicker, and more one of the other men felt as Jim did, 'that minute of her arrival Miss ly had awakened an admiration J only increased the longer she re-- i . for Flickle r, it was soon found that young gentleman, having been the be of service to the pretty stranger, 'solved to "press his luck," to quote :;ain. Without being obtrusive or us be found many ways of making useful to her and considered that gave her satisfaction "ought him a word or a smile. ' real name was Philip Ricker, '"s baby tongue had contracted "ie name by which ho was always an orphan in a mining camp 'Wy 2 years old, ho had spent all ,e drifting from one camp to an-- oelf reliant, courageous and mer-effa-great favorite among the a had always associated with '"a learned their ways, and this l0"e him no good. "'afraid he was a very bad boy in- - ut, then, no one had ever shown difference between right and v Miss Kennedy, with her sweet, jUS mann' and her Bhrinkine from 1 was rough and wicked, was a Revelation to him, and he turned a sun flower to the sun. She and was deeply interested in the niauly hoy who seemed so anxious e her: though, at first, she did not we really beautiful and chivalrous m hfch he felt for her, 'Ung aftCr herarriT1. he tad Pecial pains over an errand and ' came to her af terwurda she of-- money, and she regretted it 'Ln- His face crimsoned and wtterly mortified and wounded fmered: uca ' want nothin' ferthia kind o' i p' , S your pardon," she said, sorry ttistake; i see i muBt only a for your trouble. It was just J-- friendship, wasn't it?' . ' he replied quickly, repeat--- lords with a pleased look. "Iu friend-hip.'- 1 ; we're good friends?' 'sho said, - ner hand. !lat we are," he answered r'l, ad pressing her hand eit away as happy as a ; left the hotel and went to e house her father had been X u friendshipstill lasted. Mr. ured her that she would be bargain with you about it. But If you are my friend you will do as I would like to have you do." Then thev had a long talk, and Flicker began to understand how miserable such and why Miss Mabel wan a bad life was, so anxious to get him away from and he told himself that she should never be disappointed in him again. The next few days he devoted to g bis outfit; then one night he came wondering sadly when to say good-b-and where they would meet stain, Jor who should say how long he might be gr'll sav one thing," he said; "this money's loaned ter me. ?m vpMn Jer it back. The first streak o pay come ter you ter pay my deb if fteT ter hunt you all over the Ln.ted hen he tried to thank her and that she should not find her CsTin him misplaced, and, though he find but few words, she understood aid was satisfied. The next morn.ng he 'MorHhan three year, had passl when one day a fine looking young man drew up m front strong pony, o, what bad been Wing Luna hotel .nd confusedI way. Oftta looked about in a was to be Been KSto dieted and deserted cah A Humorlit'a Influence. I am a cripple, but I never think of my misfortune. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Peoplo say, "How Wilder is handicapped." I am not handi-capped. I don't want sympathy. I nevei think about my shape. I make $10,000 a year. I have my yearly trip to Europe and have the entree to all the theatre there and in this city. I go to the thea-tres three times a week on an average. When I appear at a benefit performance even the actors applaud meacd the stage hands stop work and say, "Keep quiet; little Wilder is on." Whenever I go into society it is the same. Why is it? It isn't because it's me. It's because I bring smiles and laughter. I never croak. People don't care for Wilder, but they do care for a good laugh. Why, even the criminals on Blackwell's Island are glad to see me, and although they have sins and trouble enough, they have time to hear a good story, and make the prison rafters ring with laughter. Marshall P. Wilder's Letter. How to Go to Sleep. A curate in London is afflicted with sleeplessness in direct proportion to the mental worry and absence of air and exercise he lias to endure, and finds that "t walk even one mile in a day is a great tiling" in the way of a remedy. At the moment, he says, the best thing one can do is to get up, drink half a glass of water and walk round the room. The slight alternation of cold and warmth has a soporific effect London Spectator. A Comol-.tlT- e Flab. A Wisconsin man bought a pickerel that weighed eighteen pounds the other dav. The pickerel had swallowed a bass that would weigh two or three pounds, and when he dressed the bnss he was re-warded br finding two good sized perch in him that he had swallowed, so ho act-ual r bought femr fish instead of one, as he supposed. Philadelphia Ledger. A Bad Cue. De Smith-Tra- vis is pretty wild, isn't be? Bloodgood-Y- es; dissipates every mo-- caent of the twenty-fou- r hours. The fellow must DeSmith-Pbha- w! ileep once in a while. but be is Bloodgood-Y- es, so he does; t fast steW-J1?- ?-- |