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Show DOMESTIC TROUBLES. ribbons, and with aft old Bhoe conspicuously fastened to one of the handles, The was unloaded from the sleigh. next Instant they all made a mad rush for the Btatlon, as the door was flung by open and the Inmates were ttarti-oa breathless cry of: "Have they escaped?" "Not on your life!" came the quick response of the complacent agent. The officers were about to enforce .their authority, but made a hasty re treat as they were struck by a shower of rice. The prisoners were at once surrounded by a score of laughing friends, all talking at once, each anxious to tell the story. "The boys had Just put the finishing touches on your trunks, when It was discovered that you had given us the slip. Not wishing to be outdone after all our trouble, we determined to take them with us and hunt you down. Imagine our chagrin when, on reaching the depot, you were not to be found." "Somebody suggested," put in another voice, "that perhaps you had cut across country to this static n. We were In a ferment lest it was too late, for we figured that you could have taken the seven-thirt- of UopHi. d as A woman ofproud her tlrdcalled the aa old J.uetfer husband's abueiferj police, Who compelled him to clce By crying: "You villain! Let luclfer!" Then, no longer producer than Lucifer, Forgetting her husband's abuclfer, Slw promptly forgave him, Swore falnely to save him Thus woman lets love make a guelfer. Btlll the officers, seeing the ruclfer, Refused to take an excucifer; Hut she made Hilling no hot That they tied from tho spot Aa a witness they ne'er could maka uclfer. Then, once more an proud aa old Lucifer, She thrnshed hubby well for abuclfer. And the louder he wallrd. Why the harder she whaled. Till at length he ablectly tCRRed truelfer. Baltimore American. Orew So she A PERSECUTION FRIENDLY By CAKOL RICHMOND lxa. 6 Tht Authon Publishing CopyrighUd, Capital Surplus CITY BARBER SHOP. $50,000 S9 0.000, and Profits Gsneral Banking In' all its branches. Special attention given to out of town busiMCO.0.WHITMORB, President. W. S. MnflORNlOK.VIca-Preelden- Three doors North of Ymt O. M. WHITMORE, Cannier. OMblif, KUUgN OILK.8. Office,. iiilitut Denver & Rio Grande R. R. "Scenic Line vf the WorltL " Tb Beat Una to OLINWOOD SPRINGS, LEA.DVIl.LJt, CM PLE CHEEK, PUEBLO, COLORADO SPRINGS, DENVER AND ALL rOINTS EAST. TUB LOMAX BAIiBElt SHOP XrXJVTX) Two door Bouth of P. O. Shaving, and shampooing done in first clasH style. Hair-Cutti- y OAZtB Between Grand Junction and Daavar EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 2S. "BOO- - ng "But away we raced as If chasing a pair of decamping criminals," added a i Ofdm It Salt Lake Train No ITralnNoltTralaNa Denver Chicago I Atlantis Express I Limited I Ba ores 7:19 p .....7: Oaml :1pm Proo 8: 8: :l .Id n U: l:U "" 4W .' t mm Ar Grand Junc'n.fl:0pml " 0:80 fl:lM Olenwood I !M0 12:20 ami " I pat Leadrllle " 1410pm Cripple Creek. 7:0 " I:: am B r2I pm 7', Pueblo " i Colorado SpfsiO t:S pm :1 " 40 :0 Denver oa ear all New and elegwnt dlilng thrones trains, service a la carle. Through Pullman and family sleeping ear to Chleaeo. Three persouallv conducted tourist or faaitly weekly excursions to New York City and Horn Inn via Chicago or St. Louis. for rates, descriptive pamphlets aad all at formation apply to any Ticket Agent or to third. "Which has had its psychological The man effect, for we have been detained as pocket," she answered. bent over her, and to the agent it such, while the seven thirty departed looked very much as if he kissed her. without us. But for the kindness of The suspense seemed interminable. these gentlemen, dear friends, we At last the low rumble of the ap- would now be out of your clutches. proaching train loosened the tension. Are they In your empioy?" asked the The agent waited until he could see prisoner, sardonically. Meanwhile the officers had been the gleaming headlight in the distance. Nearer and nearer it came, ruminating, and the crestfallen agent Wheelwright and Carriage DINING CAK8 into his office, out of sight For penetrating the darkness. In no ap- slunk to were and Cart on all through train a a once la bride Service groom glad Painter. parent haste he walked out on the branded. be thus For descriptive pamphlets or platform. Once outside he clutched the handle of the door firmly, hanging other Information, Addrosa CAN'T STAND CIVILIZATION. on like grim death, expecting an onHalf Block North of 8. P. V. from Inside, which would test slaught of to the Ailments Kaffirs Succumb bis strength to the utmost As the Ou Main Street. White Races. Oen'l Agtw Parts. Dept.. Salt Laka. Dial train rolled Into the station, the perlike of South Africa, Kaffirs 'The as almost spiring agent, puffing vigor appear ously as the engine, felt the door tried your American Indians, do not from the Inside. Ordinarily the to thrive under the refining Influences Hubert George of stranger could have worsted him with of civilization," tosaid a Washington Post one wrench, but in extremes strength Johannesburg "Before the civilization of is given us, so the young athlete, pull reporter. this generation appeared the Kaffir ing, pounding and swearing, struggling to get out, vowing vengeance and de knew nothing of consumption, typhus, other ail Main Street manding the meaning of "this out- measles, scarlet fever and wake of the la ments the followed for while egress, rage," vainly fought Choice line of Drugs. Patent Medicines, Drug-gist?- , his companion mounted a bench and white man. Sundries, Totlet Articles, Perfumery, : "The savage Kaffir was a robust In tried to raise the window. Cigars and Tobacco : : : : The officers of the law bounded dividual, with no knowledge of orStationery, himself He rubbed sickness. line of LEATHER PURSES See swell our from the train before it came to a dinary standstill and rushed to the exhausted all over with grease and red clay and aonv Our stock Is entirely new and trash and none bat pure drugs are used the shirt he put on remained until he station agent's relief. doctors' preeeripUoae and family recipes, which are oar s peel ait pounding In another moment the train was wore it into rags. He never bathed. speeding on Its Journey without the If exposed to rain he stripped off his waiting couple. The astonished pris- kaross, folded it very tightly, strapped oners were confronted by the tri- It up and blithly went on his way, umphant Jailer and several burly off- naked as he was born, never a bit the worse for such exposure. Nowa icers. "I spotted 'em the minute I set days, thanks to copying after the An the Kaffir wears clothes, eyes on 'em," he exclaimed, giving but hasn't sense enough when he gets vent to his pent up excitement. The girl, who was exceedingly wet through to change his garments. pretty, clung In terrified amazement suffering for his lack of wisdom later. to her companion, who appeared far As a result of their changed habits from calm, although he demanded an maladies that were unknown to them explanation in a very dignified man fifty years ago are now common with ner. But the officers of the law are the natives and they will cpeedily denow hired to enter into details with cline In numbers just as your red men have," those whom they aprpvhend. CHICAGO EVERY DAX VIA "Now, don't get gay, young fellow; HE SOLD A BOTTLE. you know what you've been up to. so don't give us no trouble and the Truthful Man's Story Secured Him a better it'll be for you." someI assure Is Customer. 'But you there "I'd like to show you my new elasmistake," urged their victim. man "Oh. yes, there always is," laughed tic cement." bald the one of the men; "never knew It to In the shiny black suit. "I make it fall; Invariably struck the wrong mvelf. and I'll warrant It to inend " party, but he had to stand trial, all anything that ever "I don't need any." Interrupted the the same," chuckling at his own wit. "and generally done time, too." man at the desk, "but if you will tell The Impatient prisoner was about me the biggest lie about your cement to remonstrate once more, when the I ever heard. I'll buy a bottle of It, 0, WILLIAE3, Commercial Agent, glad round of approaching revelers merely to encourage you." 100 W. Sod South broke the stillness of the place, claim "I wouldn't lie to sell 1.000 bottles 8tret, Sail LakaCitj In I'll "But of tha the attention other. the the group of It." protested ing station. The wild shouts and gay tell yon one thing I really did with laughter of commingled voices, to IL You have heard, I presume, of the gether with the merry Jingling of froir that tried to swell Itself up to the size of an ox. The skin of that 13 11 frog, as you remember, was not equal The Burlington station In to the strain, and It burst all to I on be to the pieces. Sir, happened Chicago in In the heart of the spot, and I gathered them up carefully it city. You land within a few together with my cement and made new as as better, good the creature minutes walk of tho principal In fact, for It Is a wl.er frog. To prove I absolute am the .A business houses and tho best to you that telling and exact truth. I will show you the hotels. You can board a streetI have here In my v fro, which " car right at tho door for any "You needn't show It to me," said 11 part of tho city. On arrival In it, the man at the desk, gloomily. "I'll Jt: take a bottle of your cement Here's a large city thess thing count. 1H your money. Never mind the change. ill Good day." Chicago Tribune. Th Uurlintitoa No: 6 l our crack it? Wail of Despondency. traio Denver to Omaha and Chicatroj In a f.t of despondency a Michigan leaves Denver 4 15 p. tn. Another good editor gets off the following, although ttalo leave 10.31 p. m. of it whether there Is ro way telling la original with him: "We live In Dot. foruat oar 2.00 p. m. and land of high mountains and high 10.55 p. to. Us I Da for Kaoaaa City ad taxes; low valleys and low wages; big Louia. 6L crooked rivers and big r rooked states man; big lakes; big strikes; big drinks; big pumpkins; big men with Tick t Off: Confronted by several burly offtt era. pumpkin heads; silver streams that it In and the mountains pious hilarious bells. rollel nearer and gambol Gvcond Oouth Ot. f9 that gamble In the night; nearer, until the sound of horses politlrians men and faster girls; sharp R. hoofs clattetlng on the ley road greet fast young NESLEN, Ge erftl AgV tr ed their ears, and ths Jolly sleightid financiers and sharp toed tboes; ferSALT LAKE CITY. ers drew up to the platform. A trunk tile plains that lie like a sheet of of thonsnd and water newspapers with red decorated fantastically hearts tied trofuely in white satin that lie like hurHW." that I stuffed thera all in my coat as They looked flushed and guiltytheir bought the station, they entered tickets and waited restlessly foi the train. The agent was "next" In an instant. He had Just finished reading an account of the hold up of an agent on another line not far distant. He was a shrewd fellow and noted the and strange manner of the couple, their evident desire to escape observation. "I'll keep my eye on 'em," he aid to himself, as he peered through the little window of the ticket office. He could dimly discern their shadowy figures behind the stove. The dusk of an early winter twilight was fast descending. The man stood In .front of his companion as if to shield her. So far as the agent could Judge, in the dim light of the station lamps, they were well dressed. "Nothing unusual for rogues In these days," he muttered. N. A. NEILSON, Prop. Courteous treatment, and Brat alaaa work. ness train." Company, ,THB. First National Bank Joseph Lindhart, General Blacksmith. I. A. Benton, LUST'S PHARMACY "A fellow can't alwayB tell when he's liable to be gagged and drugged by the most Innocent looking parties." GEO. W. LUNT, Prop. NEW SERVICE glo-Saxo- EASTBOUND THREE THROUGH TRAINS TO THE They can't overtake us now," he answered. be mused, while the perspiration slow ly began to rise, as a vision of being swooped down upon by there two, the man strangling him Into rubrolssion while the woman held chloroform to his nose, the safe ransacked before help arrived, went sailing athwart his mental horizon. The clock of the Instrument broke bis silence, making him Jump convulsively. "Ah, ha! Just a I expected!" he muttered, as this message flashed across the wire: "Detain suspicious looking pair. If they come your way. Man and worn an. Notorious pickpockets. Sllped through our fingers an hour ago. Sup posed to bo In your vicinity: Man: Tall, light hair and mustache. Worn an: Rather slight, brown hair and Officers eves. Both appear refined. train." arrive on seven-thirt"It was nearlng seven and the man bad purchased tickets for the seven-thirtthe very train the authorities were coming on. Thrilling with excitement, the agent sauntered into the waiting room. Under pretense of trimming the lights he came clone beside the guilty couple, scanning esch keenly ss he passed. The descriptions he had received tallied exactly and h felt sure of his game. The stranger Impatiently contalked In sulted his watch snd th-subdued tones. The elation sent f their concaught a few fragment were these and versation enough to make him doubly sure. "Do you think they will suspect which way we have tome?" she whispered. "Well, we have outwitted them anyway; they can't overtake 113 now." he answered. "I wish we were well on our way." will soon be nervous. "Don't over and we will be rafe. Our train la due in a few minutes. Did you gt what you wanted?" "Yes, but 1 had to art so quickly y y y gt UNION PACIFIC and soft-voice- d CfflCIGO, MlLLWAUKFM ST.PAUL LINE. a 1 In the HEART of CHICAGO V.at f |