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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH i' ... STOP YOUR COLD nuuu wiih iw CP . John GreshamY Girl I shall have n resolution. strength against you. . . ." Too never should hove strength against me, Jim. Tha rebuke was very gently made. He turned and saw that her arms were stretched out toward him. . . . 1Jreak' Drive "v ... a cotd in 6 Tiourjj, it away m 12 hours. Relieves ". ' ., Headache Pain.; Neuralgia African Province Found to Be Flealess Oasis A plague prevention survey of Af rica resulted In the discovery of a spot which Is absolutely free of fleas and the incident was regarded as so remarkable that the Investigators tar- rled for some explanation of the un usual situation. This favored spot was the town of Prieska and the country immediately surrounding It Fleas are notoriously good carriers of the germs of this disease and therefore the entire wide reaches of Africa were systematically searched for animals carrying Infected speci mens of "pullex irrltans." Hence 11 happens that certain dogs at Prieska, which lies on the Karroo prairies of the Cape of Good Hope province, were searched for fleas by the medi cal men. a solitary Jumper could be cur, even the most neglected and mongrel native-owne.brutes, was absolutely devoid of 3j Jcvad. Every d - them. The theory of some residents Is that the nitrates In the barren lands surrounding this particular settlement act as a natural disinfectant. ... ..." ... ..." ... . . ..." by using Memholatura regularly. for cracked, lore skin. Jars or tubes. . World' Slowest Animals d A rare sloth was picked up by C. S.. Webb, the explorer. It was swimming In a Brit ish Guiana river, two miles from land. Day Dream is estimated to be about five years old. "It took her," said Mr. Webb, "exactly 3 minutes , 47 seconds to climb from my boots A tjwmy' shoulders, and I am not a Qmt" She was said to be at the top "bf her form. According to Mr. Webb, she and her mates Hve in per petual twilight, more than 100 feet above ground. Sloth eyesight is so feeble that Day Dream wears a star ing target pattern between her three-elftwe- kVflhoulders, or prospective suitors would never be able to "find the lady." Rapid Printing of Braille Reading matter for the blind has not been generally available for the reason that under the older system of Braille printing It was necessary to make every dot by hand, so that reading matter for the blind was not only scarce, but often prohibitory to price. A great advance in this matter Is in a recently Invented rotary press for the printing of Braille type which has been Installed at the National Institute for the Blind in London. Sixteen thousand pages of Braille reading material are being turned out In an hour, a speed five times greater than has ever before been possible. Hiccough Remedy attack of hiccoughs can be "popped by the use of an ordinary paper bag. Dr. L. A. Golden of Boston has cured cases which have persisted as long as two continuous days. The opening of the bag Is held tightly over the patient's mouth and nose. s As he breathes, carbon dioxide and this frequently brings I'ener. At any rate me treatment Jean do no harm unless kept up so long that the patient faints from lack of oxygen. World's Work. An accu-mulate- His Status has-bee- thinks-he-was.- London Tit-Bit- s. Qfft Lake City's 'fewest Hotel i ...sOS&. 5 1,H a HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Bathi Radio connection la every room. RATES FROM 1.50 Juil oppeiilt Mormon ... ... ... two-seat- ... isn't he?" "No; merely a "A ..." Tabmaclt ERNEST C. ROSSITER.Mfn ... ..." I'll begin the New Year with a Solemn vow No mail order goods, or there'll be a row. We'll furnish our larder, wardrobe and farm, With Intermountain Products, from house to barn. MILTON" D. SMITH, Roosevelt, Utah. night Close unto You. FOR MORNING Let me not look behind night' pause of peace. Now it is day; With courage and with joy let me go forth Anew, 1 pray; Resolved that I will strive, at my strength is, To do my part, Each hour with kindness, and sincerity, And a high heart! Ethel Arnold TilJen in Good Housekeeping. Drum-Be- Old Time New Year's rub-a-du- b. Hot tamale! here, again, It's Leap year I Rush the extra And tell what lovely wives you'll be, To Patronize Home Industry. real conversation among Men and acquaintances. young women of promise spent the several hours playing silly games and New Year's calling was hailed with delight as the time for making new friends and Incidentally, for making "matches." There was little for girls to do outside the home and, as a matter of coursa they were supported. Mothers saw the point and persuaded the fathers to furnish means that they and the girls could visit the few stores In quest of suitable adorning for the great event A half dozen girls here and there met at houses most convenient lor the group and the young men of the town clubbed and hired what no casual say3 to you: "Do your work do the duty nearest you!" Keep step and the dullest in that drum-bea- t, march is taking you home. Exchange. Old Expression Akimbo is a contraction of in keen bow, meaning at a sharp bend. It is an old expression meaning with hands on hips. SEEMS strange to remember ITthat before the Civil war there was Funeral Eulogies Barred A pastoral letter issued by the bishop of Avranches, Normandy, forbade all eulogies of dead people at funerals. Good people do not need to be eulogized, he wrote, while the bad ones do not deserve praise. The bishop, therefore prohibited them all. Auk Tonr Druggist APEX-K-HAK- AN For LOTION D INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT Source of Birdlime Birdlime is a sticky substance prepared from the inner bark of holly, the berries of the mistletoe and other sources. It may be made by boiling linseed oil. It is used in Europe for trapping birds, the substance being spread on twigs. CLAUDE NEON LIGHTS Electrical Products Corporation Salt Lake City 1048 So. Main Odd English Weathervane Perhaps the most curious weather-vane in England is the one over s. the old deanery at It depicts a clergyman preaching to a row of empty chairs a former rector of the town is said to have driven away his g while by hi3 gown is blown by the wind. NEW dffrasi MOTOR OIL Ffee From Carbon Fragrant Herb Waldmeister is the German name for the herb Asperula-odorat- a (woodruff), and is used in May wine and other summer drinks. The dried leaves have a lasting for haylike fragrance, years, and are often kept with clothes. It 'haa many small flowers, produced freely from May to July. "Harmless" Liar A popular term for a person who telk pointless lies is inveterate liar. The technical term for a person who lie3 without apparent object and for which he seems to have an irresistible impulse is pathological liar. When You Come s . to Salt Lake Sonning-on-Thame- fault-findin- Western Made for Western Maid Always ask your dealer for v if 1 Intermountain Made Brooms Nan Blue Ribbon Black Beauty Gold Crown By The Happy Day. then known as hacks and there were private tandems which lent a dashing effect The happy day having arrived, what bliss there was In discussing the beaux and belles and the tinsel "fixings"! The party dresses of that day were of Swiss muslin with a double skirt and also of a material called tarlatans, of varying degrees of quality, often displaying long trains trimmed with satin ribbon and braids. The men were busy making a living and the day's pleasure often emptied their pocketbooks, but It was considered well worth while. Now and then a pair of shoulder straps loomed among the callers and tilled to the climax a day long to be remembered. These recurring gayetles naturally gave the country village something to talk about and there was a demand for better raiment for men and women. Information concerning It was well met by Peterson's and Godey's magazines with colored plates and fine suggestions, which had never before been shown and on which the Imagination might rely. Indianapolis News. newkouse HOTEL P" were Tolo Ponies American polo ponies are usually about 15 hands high and weigh in the neighborhood of 1,000 pounds. In this type of horse a short back and big barrel are encouraged, since these give wind and endurance for a horse which must carry weight at speed. Polo ponies usually have some thoroughbred blood. 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AMBASSADOR HOTEL Just step from the hualnesa center. Quiet Pop-nt- ar and Homelike. priced meals. Just Like Us Katu (1.50 and np. Commercial Ratea ..." ..." of Duty at One sound always comes to the ear that is open; it is the steady drum-beof duty. No music in it, perhaps only a dry Ah! but that steady beat marks the time for which the whole orchestra of earth and heaven. It at men, . ... Johnie's train has broken track, Ma's mirror a flaw, Jennie's doll a crack. The blankets are faded, the harnea broke The whole darn'd order's a practical joke. Gee-whi- z! WMM, FOR NIGHT my heart free from bitter- ness, O God, Now it is night-F- ree from those unlaid ghosts of hurt and pain That haunt the light; Forgive my faults and let me fall asleep, Now day is through, And in unbroken peace abide this . ... lit) Jtnttm CET heart-to-hear- ... bands in good condition for outdoor work It U indispensable He came plunging across' the by CONCORDIA MERREL room to her, crying out. "Lucy. . . . Lucy. . . ." And was WNU Service. (Copyright.) on his knees before her, his arms around her girlish sllghtness, clinging to ber as a man might cling CHAPTER XIII Continued "Jim. . . ." to bis one hope of salvation. One word, but It brought him "Is it true, Lucy?" he said pres19 A little laugh jarred from ber. It starting up to nis feet, a smotnerea ently, his voice very low and shaken. "True that you can love me H'as a great relief to him to hear cry breaking from his lips. She came toward him slowly, after all I've done? True that yoo It The sight of her pale, strained . . .?" face; the sound of her lifeless half shyly; but at a closer sight can let me love you. "There was never anything of his face, pale and ravaged with roice, cut him badly. "As for his being away now," be the emotional turmoil he bad gone truer," she answered bim. "But I've been so unpardonable added cheerfully. "I don't honestly through, ber shyness dropped from think It means much. Just that her, and she saw something that to you. So brutal. Pve even tried be wanted to be by himself . . . out the confusion of doubts and fears to cheapen your love, . . . Oh, Lucy, night at Newchester will take of towa Or something. . . . had obscured from her; something that a lot of forgetting!" Really, you mustn't worry about she had not been sure of. since she She raised a quick hand, and had last seen bim. . . . that . . "You love me, Jim; don't you?" covered his mouth to stop the "No," she said, as bravely as she could. "1 suppose 1 mustn't. It's a she asked softly, her lips curved words. "Jim, when did you know first little difficult, sometimes. . . ." She to the tenderest imaginable smile. . . . well, that It was going to that for stood He the motionless space a and little stopped, caught sharp breath. Then added. In a new tone: of a breath, then turned away and be awfully difficult to go on hating put the length of the room between me . . . ?" 'Did he mention Jocelyn?" "Looking back, I don't believe I "Not In detail. But enough to them before he faced her again ever did hate you," be confessed. make me think she'd been busy In and said: "It was always easy enough to take "Yes." her own rather infernal way. I T love you, too," she answered. you In my arms; easy enough to saw her yesterday and had a talk kiss your lips. . . . Ah, God, how There was silence again. Then: t, with her. It was a "I love you enough to know that ashamed It makes me!" with masks well off, I can tell 1 mustn't let "Don't let It Face It as someyou love me," he said. you. "And I love you enough to know thing that has been a . . . mighty "I shall leave it at that then. said. bad dream, Jim; and then, cut It Goodby, Perry ; and . . . and thanks that you can't stop me," she out and begin again from now. . . . He went on quickly: for coming back to him . . ." Her "I've done some things that you But tell it all, so that everything voice shook badly, and be suddenoverlook. Never is squara . . ." ly couldn't trust his own. They could never really "I know I was Just sheer mad . . . Looking back, forgive. really in silence. parted When she got back to her father, It's like a dream, and a mighty bad when you wouldn't come near me, I felt Just He drew a deep breath, those first few days. ber white face and unhappy eyes one. told hi in that something had hap- and squared his shoulders slightly utterly outcast, and yet fought before going on: "You may think against your power to make me pened even before she broke out: . . feel so. . . And when you told ma he's He went yes- that you would forgive them. . "bad, gona I don't believe that you ever to . . give way to it ." he drew terday, .and Perry doesn't know But a breath, and added: "You were where he's gone to, nor when he'll really could. "Suppose," she said, very quietly, thinking of Jocelyn, I suppose....'' be back or anything. . . Tears "Yes, she'd told me that you had threatened but she forced them 'that I have, already?" Just for a back. "Oh, i knew I ought to have fleeting moment their eyes met always loved her. . . "And me, that you had gone to the room. Then she added: stayed with him that day I" she across I cried out, after a moment Sir John "Or supposa rather, that I realize Ames 1 can't tell you what that I stood it for two was startled. Jim had promised that it has been a dream and a meant to me. not to go away without letting him . . . Oh, a mighty bad one, Jim; whole ghastly days. . . ." but suppose I know that being a "And then came to ma . . . Jim, know. to 1 don't know whether to be angry Somehow, he had thought that he dream, it therefore has nothing life? with do Nothing, with her, or thankful to her . . ." real, waking would keep his word. "At least she "He promised not to hide away. I mean, that could possibly come she whispered. me for and mine showed me that you loved me. . . ." between love . . Not to bolt, as he expressed It for you. your is like If yours anything . . Lucy, I believe him, somehow. "Lucy," he said, out of a tiny sias big as mine. . . . Suppose I lence. "Be young again. Be that . . . He won't . . bolt, dear. . . . He's done a lot that I'm furious young, sweet thing that first put her hand into mine. . . . That anabout but he'll keep his word, gel thing I . . . killed . . . with the you'll sea" And he was right Another two telling of those awful truths . . . His voice that first evening. . . days went by, and then Lucy had was badly, shaken. a telephone call from Perry St "How can one ever make repAbb. arations I" he cried. "I've heard from the boss," he "But that's all gone by, Jim. It's told her, evidently very much relieved himself. past and done with. Reparation? "He's gone down 1 knew there was That Is owing from both sides. into Hertford. Haven't we a big, big debt toward some perfectly simple explanation." you? Such a debt as can never be "Bless you. Perry," she said, a paid, for we cannot bring back shake of emotion In her voice. that lost three years. . . Ah, darl"Just stick to him." ing," she broke off to raise ber "Ion can bet your life I will" he hands to his face and bring his answered genuinely. She thanked lips to a level with her own. "Let him, and set down the receiver. me pay back a little. Let me give Her band was shaking, and hot you all 1 can, to wipe out the bittears were running down her face. . . If all the love ter memories. As she turned away, she saw her of my heart, and all the loyalty father coming toward her with a of my life, can compensate a little, letter In his hand. then let them, for they are utterly "From Jim," he told her. "He ." Her voice died away yours. . doesn't give- - an address but tells me that if I want to know where tremulously. be Is I can find out from St Abb. "They are the only things that can," he answered her. "The only So you see, my dear, I was right things that can. . . ." And she tie hasn't . . er . . . bolted. . . . found herself swept up close into "What has he written to you his arms, his lips on hers. . . for?" she asked. There was a great thankfulness In "About my taking over LInforths. ber heart a great peace In her He says that he is not going to soul. . . . Out of the darkness ol have anything more to do with It vengeance she had found the light and Is arranging to make over bis "You Love Me, Jim, Don't You7" that a big love sheds. The past control of It to me. . . ." seemed to fall away, and she stood She Asked Softly. "Anything more?" asked Lucy, there, within the strong circle of who did not find the question of a Doesn't know all It make his arms, sheer away into business the most Important one difference? that? I realize that the clinging Suppose mists of things that are not Just at the moment It isn't a question of forgiveness trua Nightmare things, that love "Only that be has gone away for but just a recognition of had sent a while, as he wants to think at all, scattering. something that has been and Is "I'm a free man at last Lucy. things over, and clear his mind as past . . . ? Doesn't all that make You . . have set me free. Free . to his next steps. He has suf- a difference? Doesn't it wipe out of that self of hate and vengeance. fered, Lucy. of whether 1 will, or . . . My dear, there are more kinds all "les, she broke out passionate won'tquestion forgive In the future?" of prison than ona . . ." ly, "and we went yachting, and let "I told your father that 1 would "But none that love cannot en It happen!" She caught a breath. in It Is love that has set yoa 'Dad, she added suddenly, "I'm do everything as my power to put ter. they may be put, free, Jim," she said softly. going to him. I don't care if he said things hs . right . Do you think "Love and you. a hundred times over that he didn't for you. . There is one thing I the two can ever be separated in I'm going to can give you. , . ." want to see ma "And that Is?" Her face close to his, my mind?" him. Now. This minute. . . . This "Your freedom." she saw the white gleam of his Is Just breaking my heart . . ." "Jim, do you really love me?" smile; heard It too, In his voica She finished on a faltering, tearful and her spirits rose happily. note, that made Sir John say, after sheAndasked, after a moment again he answered briefly: She answered it with a tiny bint a moment: "Yes." of fun. "Very well, dear, If you think It "And yet you can offer me my "You are going to let me stay, . . It is your affair very best. freedom?" then?" much more than it is mine. . . ." he broke out: "1 love "Oh, Lucy," "Let he echoed. "Does It Less than fifteen minutes later. you enough . . . even enough . . . look as youi" Lucy was in her little though I'm ever going to let you go!" to But he did let her go, car, heading for the Hertfordshire Her voice came to low let you go?" house where her disastrous honey- and still, as she said: him, very though. In order to cross to the moon had been spent. A suitcase, light switch and put on the lights; "Jim, do you love me enough . . . all of them, so that she stood with a few necessities hurriedly to let nie stay?" where he had left her, blinking thrown into it was on the seat be eveu enough "Stay," he said, shakenly, "with and laughing; adorably small, and side her; and, "Daddy," she had me? After all that has happened?" young and shy. . . . said, "if he wants me to stay with "Yes." He looked at her with worshiphim, I shall stay. . . ." "Remember, I shall not be rich ing eyes. . . . Then raised his head When she turned into the drive, I am over more. suddenly and laughed; a ringing, her heart was beating almost hurt-- any share In LInforths making to your famy triumphant sound: Ingly fast She pulled up at the ther. . . he "God's In his heaven steps, and ran np to the door. It We'll said. we won't be rich. "Then was fastened. When she had rung be instead." awfully happy, She came to him, radiant In her the bell and stood waiting to be Just He laughed unsteadily. "All's right with the admitted, she felt that her heart happiness. You I who let you? "How could finished for bim. must be going to suffocate her. The have In the middle of money world," she lived maid who opened the door was "I'm going to get on the 'phone To say nothing of life! all your surprised to see her, but very wel having a mighty great heap of your to your father, and tell him that, coming. Lucy. Come and add your word own. to mine?" "Is Mr. Lee in?" she asked "1 haven't got It now," she anShe looked up at him with shinquickly. swered qnlckly. "I gave It to dad 'Yes, madam," the girl answered. to help Gresham's along a bit so ing eyes, and nodded her golden "He's in the drawing room, I you see I'm poor, too. . . ." He head. He caught her small hand closethink. . . . I'll go and tell him. . . ." uttered a cry as he turned on his Lucy stopped her. heel and stared out of the window. ly in his big ona "No, I'll go myself. . . . Just see "So you did work against me, 'Rather a little girl he said, that the car Is garaged, and my after all," be said slowly. bending his tall head to say It will to taken my room, things "Against you? No, dear. For you. close to her ear. "Just rather a you?" She gave the girl her hat and 1 couldn't let you succeed. . . . Too little girl. . . ." went and the along coat through THE END a defeat really. . . . Aren't ghastly to the hall familiar drawing room, sure of that yourself?" you went and the door quietly, opened Find Snake Religion "Yes. I'm sure of It 1 didn't In. Lee was sitting by the fire, elTraces of a forgotten snake reon knees, his head In his know that It was your money. . . . bows Ills attitude was one of Doesn't It set an Insurmountable ligion evidently practiced by ancient hands. The winter after- barrier between us?" Inhabitants of the Island of Crete In deep dejection. "Could mere money do such a the Mediieranean sea and noon wos already going dusky, and perhaps It be Could detail-lesthing? powerful the his bowed head made a of the many myths enough? Besides, on the contrary, of bcglnting silhouette against the Breplaca serpent wisdom, "snake mothers," She closed the door softly, raised if you are going to be poor aguin. etc., have been discovered In ex a hand to still the wlldness of her It makes us equal. . ." cavations near the ancient Cretan Without turning he said : heart, and said as steadily as she "You are breaking down all my city of Knossos. could: THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY Sally Sez PRAYERS FOR THE NEW YEAR Serrlce Garare in Connection. JOE II. PEITER, Manager 145 So. 5th East Phone Was. 89G5 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake's Only Family Hotel "Make any New Year resoluMentality of the Sexes tions?" The public health service says "No what's the use? I'd only that mental capacity and intellecbreak 'em again 1" tual gifts of human beings is not restricted to either sex. There are Sacred to Jesus highly intellectual women as well A legendary Itonmn king, Numa as men. It should be remembered, It is said, established the first of however that the mental traits of January as the beginning of the the two sexes are different. year and made the day sacred to Early Chautauqua Course Janus, a mythological dolty who was represented with two races, one The first correspondence course that of an old man peering Into the in art was a feature of the old past, the other that of a youth fac- Chautauqua course and was taught by Frank Fowler in ing gleamlngly the future. 1830-188- 8. Rat Twenty-Nin- e Inches Long A rat found and killed by a native of Bulawayo, South Africa, in outbuildings adjoining an official's residence was found, on being measured, to be 29 inches long from nose to tail. Uncle Eben "Tain't no use expectin' to be puffickly comfortable," said Undo Eben. "When !e climate is pleasant you has to worry 'bout what da unseasonable weather is ginotcr do to de crops." Washington Star, |