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Show BEAVER PRESS Tke Plains of Atralna: "Conscience Fund" Adds to Nation's Revenues By James Oliver Curwood . the late 1i there was James Oliver Curwood that mora fact than fiction tn thia novel; Antoinette that the heroine,fierceMarts old father lived Tonteur, and her h In story; and loved aa described that Catherine Bulaln and her valiant blood of tbeli and flesh day; on wera Silve- - Heels and that Tiaoga, Shindaa, mora of the other important several charactera were not creatures of fan"The Plains of Abraham." like cy that other tale, "The Black Hunter," to which It Is closely related, la largely a romance of life as It was lived and not as It might have been lived The author 'also asserted that th hud been gathering of the material bis the most thrilling adventure of over font life; the traveling foot by read the hallowed ground, the6Vad ainn of hunletters written by hands dred and fifty years or more, the manusrtlpts dreaming over yellow written by priests and martyrs and. Hid hates of loves lastly, the unveiling and tragedies and happiness of the almost forgotten period embracing the very birth ot both the American and Canadian peoples, and weighted witti happenings that shook the foiemoM nations of the earth and largely made tbem what they are todny The story passes through romances adventures and other stirring phases of life In the Chitmplatn and ttiehelifu on the regions orand reaches at its finale in that Abraham yiiehic. Plains historic ptruggle which cuibcd the ambitions of the French, established the ascendency of the Engllfb and drew the first crude boundaries of the future United States and Canada tym .. A. WO" tMllmnof of by Doubleday Dftran Co.. Inc. WNU Service. - afterward an agent of the Penns down In Pennsylvania. It was on the frontier of that far province that Henri had found and married her. ture, he hud taken him home to Jeems. Tonteur was aware, itosslbly even It was a star cut deep by clubs and more than Henri itululu.' that Cathkicks, a wound that had never healed erine's adoration of her men folk aud and that made the dog what he waa of thnt went with them, a tireless and suspicious burner of eveneverything to the primitive discomforts of scents and sounds hi Hie woods. the wilderness life which had claimed Of the four who were tiling westher, was built up agaiust a backward, he seemed to lie the only one ground of something more than merely who watched and listened for danger being the mate of a man and the to come out of the beauty and still mother oi a son. Culture aud learnness of the world about tbem. Now ing and broadness of vision and anil then he glanced up at his master thought, nurtured in her first by a Trouble lay In 'he hoy's face and eyes, gentle mother, and, after her death, and the dog sensed It after a little developed and strengthened by a and whined In a questioning way In schoolmaster father, had given to her his throat. a medium of priceless value by which Oatiicl .lames Ittilnln was the hoy -to measure happiness, name, hut front hni. ImmmI bis iiwiilier . Ilecause of her adroitness In fash had called him Jeems. He was twelve ionlng beauty and perfection out of and weighed twenty pounds more than simple .and Inexpensive things, and his dog Odds and Ends, called Odd also because she was of the spawn for short wel 'hed .nxty if the scales of the despicable English. Madame in Tonteur gristmill were riuht. One Henrieite Tonteur had conn to rewould h:i known the dog atid the hoy gard ber with much the same aversion belonged together een had they been and dislike with which she would have in a crowd, for If tidd was a haltered looked upon a cup of poison. old warrior, the boy. on the other Tonteur knew this and cursed In bis hand, gave every evidence of an am honest heart at the woman who wus hltlon to achieve a similar physical his wife, with her coldly patrician condition. face, her powdered hair, her Jewels and gowns and her platonic Ignorance "Why he's dressed up like a bold bad of love and then thanked his God to coine abduct little pirate I my CHAPTER that little Marie Antoinette wus growgirl and hold her for ransom." Tonteur had roared., down in the valley, ing less like her with each day that On a sunny afternoon In M;iy. ami Jeems father bud hdt.ed the passed over her pretty head. For a dog, a hoy, a man. and a wun:tii litol baron In his laughter'; then, to7nake Marie Antoinette was tempestuous, like crossed tlie wtk opens of Tniiieur the thing worse, Tonteur had turned himself, a patrician without doubt, hill and were trailing toward Hie him round and round, slowly and a- - but with a warm and ready passion to offset that curse, and for this. loo. he deeper wilderness of the French frontier westward of Hie Richelieu blessed the fortune which in one way and Lake Champlain the ring first hud been so kind to him. the boy following, the man next, and Behind her husband and boy Cath the woman last. erine had been thinking of Tonteur It was a reversal of proper form. and of his wife, the aristocratic Tonteur had prowled as he' watched ( For a long time she had known them go. . A fool's way of fating a of Madame Tonteur's hatred, hut It no that had savage-infestecountry was not until this afternoon that the end. The man should have marched other discovery had come to her. for at the head of his precious column in spite of his most heroic efforts. with his long gun ready and his quest Tonteur had betrayed himself when ing eyes alert; Hie woman next. In suddenly she bad canghl him looking watch and guard wlih hint; then Hit at her. Catherine hail seen the shad boy and the dog. If such nuisances ow of his secret like a ghost swiftly were to be tolerated In travel of this disappearing. Up over the hill she ha t kind, with evening coming on. added many twos and twos together, Tonteur was the one legged warrloi until, In tlie sure way of a woman, seigneur from whose gristmill down she knew whffr Tonteur was thinking In the valley the four were going and did not fenr or distrust him for it. home. And Madame Tonteur hated her. Ui8 eyes had followed the woman Disbelieving whatever good might have with a subdued and appraising hunger been said of Catherine, she hated her in them. Henri Itnlnin was a strange first as a deadly enemy ot her race, man. he had thought. He might he a and haled her then because she dared little crazy, might even he a fool. Hut hold her head as proudly as a baron's he was also a very lucky husband to lady, and hated her last ot all because, possess a womatrWlth the sweet face nothing more than the wife of a worthand form and the divinely .. chaste less backwoodsman like Henri Hulain, heart of Catherine, his wife. she was Impudent enough to be the Jeems was a fortunate boy to have The Man Should Hava M prettiest woman anywhere near the ber for a mother. Tonteur seignenrle. the Head of Hie Precious , Even the dog was a scoundrel for And, so far as It was in her power, A An Indian dog at that luck. praislngly. with lovely little Marie she had planted and. nurtured this Antoinette looking on. her dainty nose hatred to growth In the heart arid A dog. sneaking, in patrician disdain and mind of her wreck of a dog without a soul, to be upturned proud daughter Marie fed by her, petted by her. smiled at with I'uul Tache, hei detestable cousin Antoinette, until Tonteur blind to the from the great city of Quebec. otenl feline subtlety of a woman In such by her as he had seen her smile. Tonteur was first of the long siring leering and grimacing at him from matters, wondered why It was that his her back. And this after he had glrL whom he worshiped above ail of heroic fighting barons settled by himself with raiiiistaklnu other things on earth, should so openly prepared France along the Itlchelleu to hold care for Marie Antoinette's eyes should display unfriendliness and dislike the English and their red barbarians I He was Iioorkeeper back. to the she happen to see him That win the whenever Jeems came to Tonteur of It. lie had put on his manor. waterway that led straight to Hie tragedy new doeskin suit. He carried a gun New If of the English France. Of this same thing Jeems had been hpart came with their scalping fiends, the which was two inches longer than as he walked ahead ot hi thinking himself. A big powdet horn swung at fathei and mother. His mind at Mohawks and the Senecas. they would pres have to pass over him first of all. No his waist, in bis belt was a knife, and ent. was busy with the stress of fightthe most treasover his shoulder hung anil physically In a general could be given greater distinctMentally ing. ion than that. Honor. Wealth. A ured of his possessions, a slim ash way he was everienclng the thrill of how and a quiver filled with arrows wide domain over which he was king sanguinary battle. Half a doze.i times lie had worn his coon kin cup of fui since And yet the long climb over in spite of the warmth of the day. beTonteur's hill he had choked and lie envied Henri Hulain. cause It looked tiettei than Hie lighlei beaten "ail. Tache. and in every mo"" one. which was stripped, and In this ment of these mental triumphs Marie It was mida rierniHin. Mayiiine shad was a Jong turkey feather odd. Ant ilnette looked m with wonder and rap ows were growing longer toward the the dog. was proud of his martial lookhorror as he pitilessly assailed nod east, it was the hour when birdx ing master hut he could ooiv under-- i vanquished her handsome young were singing softly Morning hail and the chiinne that hail come over cousin froti. the nig city if Quebec heard their dellaiice, a glorious xnd the hoy or why he was going home ,iven In the nest ot ibese vivid fearless challenge ot feathered mill with such a strangely set hiu) solemn imaginings Jeems was sleg ti heart, to all ot the strelsy ihirknms; spirits face. and It was the shadow of this lck but with lute afternoon, sunset eve From het position behind the dou aui.'hl when be ness which Odd nlng, these same lint throated song and the man. Catherine Ku looked up Into Ills master' eyes the hoy. iters found a note of gratitude and lain looked upon her world with a JoyFrom tlie day Jeems had tlrsi seen of prayer In their chastened voices ous and unafraid pride No Imi.v. in Marie Antoinette, when hs was seven Flowers crushed underfoot In the could equal leenis and no 'Hid be was nine ne had dreamed of open spaces they carieted the earth ueCopinioii ue could see and husband bet man tier, and bad anticipated through with white and pink and blue Flow and as roiueei bet happiness, leer and motif lis the tourneys which weeks ers and birds and pence-- a wrli tiiiill up Ihe lire ot his yearn tils father iiermllled him to make with filled with a declining sun n smiling secrctlj him to Tontetll manoi On these rare iiig when lie was alone, so she loved to heaven of blue over the rrectops exult In hei own pimsexshuis when liei occasion lie had gaied with childish and with them a dog. a hoy. a man men folk were ahead ami could not adoration at the little princess of the and a woman advancing westward see all that ti me and went In hei face seignenrle and had made het present" Three of these, even the dog. Ton This desire to hold within herxelf of flowers and feaHirs and nuts and tear envied. w.nic smell and sacred pari ot her maple sugat and queer treasure This dog bad a name which lllieil which lie Drought from the fores' rejoicing was bemuse she was Eng him, Tonteur had thought. Thai was why For lisli and not French These tolceti ot bis .loinaiie hail never a wreck of a dog even more n Oatilel Jame had an English name. served to liitild a tirldve across th wreck than the splendid seigneur blm Inherited from hei father, who had abyss which lay oeiween thein. self, with his si uh - a shot-of- t ITO BE rviNTINt'Klt t leg been s New England schoolmaster and and a breast thai nore sword murk which would have killed an onlliiarj man. The dg. first of all. was a j homely dog. so lintiicl thai in one could not help loving him nt slgl.i Ills hair was nrlstly and 1) unkempt that Indian rorrrwa first ml.?. .tied In the republic of paws huge Al OuIHgua. lle (mf Tlie cornenke ot the in tJuateniala which left him outy a stub to Hitaieniiila there exists a numlro wag Indians He walked with a the weie Mayan probably the first ruins. upireitlly a limp, heavy mosl Interesting to cook corn hi maize, and hver falling limp thai seeme.l i.. leimi'tm of letnlles and other public attempts Ihe staple Jhnke his long body from end to end buildings There are many Individual these cakes are still loda.t of of tlie Mexhuu aud diet. monuments Hoaieoialap as big ,f frt, pu w like Toiileiir'a monoliths, erected foot-whuman in missing A cl.eer dllTeient sorts, sculptured with InMrt'silc. lovable do to whom faces and figures and .animal designs, Scedleis Oranges which urche nioment well us r.lerogl.vphh-s..f as vil..tilrig The seedless oranges were original Ihe fitness ot things had been able to given the ologlsts have not as yet In I'.razll by means of hud produced stone such one fmie of udds-MnEnds. .te lpher accurately ding nnd the orange tree nf this type So Tonteur was Imlf l,e;iri( n date In Mayan chionology right In think In the Fniled Stales all descended coincide to of him 'g as a wreck ot a dog. bill m which has Im'ii coinpiiled two Imported firaxillan Ireeu from cat nne other rhli,R t,P g wrr,K with KS5 A. I. of the Cteg.-rlaTlie r.uds or budding sticks are taken from Hi mot this g did have a soui- -a of .mil that eiular. The carving seedless orange trees In sprlnu or fall to tlie boy. his master Thai which is the largest of the surviving and Inserted In two year old seediiim oul had a and perfect, elear mill Is great mar seared upon It remnants. orange trees of ordinary type When of ten 1 hunger and abuse In an Indian despite Hie long procession buds send out shoots the seed in us "nip Wlvre ,,nr uuD Sq f jr)(J turies that has ,'assed ovei IL In the are nit hack so that only the buO ilii this on fo,1P 2"m yenr, XwUr 8m, fn(( script Ions and .eprcsentatlons belief portions develop. h,rh- - ou of pltj for a dying crea and other ilones tend to the , Hen-riett- j d : g A Maya Indians Have Been "Pioneers" Iiim-I-skI- cr-ok- e.1 -- d Corn? Salt Lake City Directory CRISMON A Nl( IIOI-- S The government's conscience fund dates bnck to Hie year 1811, when ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS Otflre and a Went during the administration of James Temple St., Laboratory Salt Lake City, Utah. P. O. ana price Madison the sum of $.1 was received liox list. onMiillliiK envelop-furuliilieii requeat. hy the Treasury department from a STOCK 2IS-J3- 1 . person who did not sign bis nnmo He wrote that he owed the nation that sum. It was credited to "Con science." Before the close of MadiJ. K. Yaang, Manager son's administration this fund hud Meet Your Old Friends at tho reached $250. Of course, there Is no fund known Cullen officially as a conscience fund. Such contributions are listed In the report Cafe and Cafeteria of the treasurer of the United States XV. tad So. St. Salt JUke City, Utah. tt as "Contributions from known and unknown." The money Is entered on the hooks as other public money and . Is expended as though It came from J7V4 Wwt Ind So, regular channels of revenue. STORAGE AND SERVICE Keports of the United States treasurer show that there has never been n year since Madison's administration, with the exception of Monroe's ' ((iarace Across the Stmt) administration and the year 184S. SALT LAKE CUT when some conscience contribution lb! Mala St., was not received. The largest came Roomi,Bln(rleWltlJOiitBtb,perdaT,lU)II.Ja Rooms, Double Without Bath, per day, Sl.dO In during tlie administrations of Rooma, Single With Bftth , p! r da j , J .60 to $2.00 Doable With Bath,pcrday,t2.00tot2-SRoosevelt and Wilson. The total Rooms, All Depot Street Cars I'aas tlie llottl. utuount received during Roosevelt's administration was $100,100.70 and --$100,0S4.C(1 during Wilson's adminisNS.W AND USED FOR, ANY PDSPObK tration. Tlie smallest amount ever i SALT LAKE PIPE CO. received was 2 cents, and tlie largest 475 W. Sixth South St. Salt Like City, Utb REGISTERED RAM WILL PAY HIGH , Cullen Hotel -- Wool and Meat Produced Are Always Profitable. If you have mil as yet secured a flock ram. It Is high time that you did so, says a writer In no exchange. Of course you would not use anything hut a registered ram, and it Is even more necessary in a time like tlds that you rams have a good ram. Good pure-bre- d are much more profitable than scrubs, and in the days of off color prices we need all the profit possible. This Is a good time to weed out the scrubs and keep the good ones. A good sheep will not eat uny more than a scrub, yet the wool oiid lamb produced are more val liable by far. Always build up the Hock by using a ram Hint is superior to your ewes. Breed the best ewes to Ihe best ram. If more than one Is used, and Instead of gel ting a rani for small ewes and a short-leggeram for the big ewes, get a thick, square ram of Ideal breed type for all the ewes, because If a rum conies from s a breeder he will be prepotent enough to stamp his Individuality on most all of his lambs from any kind of a ewe. And right now you should grasp the Importance' of getting a ram with something bnck of him via good ancestors. A lot of people don't stress Hint point strong enough. Recause some one prices "you a rain cheap, and he happens to be a pure bred, you think you are saving money by getting him $10 or $15 cheaper thart a good one. Nothing Is further from the truth. Don't forget thnt in sheep as In automobiles you get what you pay for. The really good rams cost, more to breed and are worth more. CULLEN GARAGE Little HoteO - Pipe Valves Fittings long-legge- d was. $30,000. The conscience fund has grown to more than $r00,000, and Is Increasing each yenr. Last year contributions of this nature amounted to $'20,999.0-1- first-clas- Gas Wells of Felt-rnnr- . natural gas wells In (!er-ninu- y Every farmer should produce leasf meal for his home use. at Use the purchased feeds and save home-growgrains for later use. the n I loirs need a lot of wafer and will show their appreciation through In- - ; Suit Lake City, Utah. PICKLES ARROW BRAND , For Ume who want the lvHt LTAII 1'UKIJS CO., WALT LAKE CITY. k nt nlne-tentl- , -- later. Tea Garfield Was Your Grandmother's Remedy stom-- . For every ach and intestinal 111. This good herb home remedy for C o n s 1 p a lion, Mlomach Ills-an1 other ments in',,,ri31 is Advance in Heating In Philadelphia, many years ago, Benjamin Franklin nnd his friends basked in the warmth of the stove he had Invented the forerunner of the central house heating sysThis was tlie only marked tem. improvement In heating until the advent of radiutor heat 75 years derange- of the sys tem so (prevalent these days Is in even greater favor as a family medicine than in your grandmother's day. 1 HOTEL Newhouse SALT LAKE CITY, UTAII One of Salt Lake City's finest hotels, where guest s find every comfort with a warm hospitality. Garage in connection. Cafe and cafeteria. Each usith Bath 400 Rooms. $2.00 to $1.00 J. II. RAYBURN, Manager New Crop Table Riee. Freh from the Ileitis, 100 pounds lieautlftil clean whlta rirn. In itnulle sackn, 1.1. 75. ED CABAN188, Box 400. Katy. Texas. SunshimeAll Winter Long At the Detert Foremost Retort marvelous climate warm tunny clear starlit nights day dry Invigorating air splendid roads gorgeous mountain) teenet finest hotels the ideal winter horns, tfrrfe Cres A CSsrcy of the Wert II II 4 HANFORD'S Balsam of Myrrh PALM SPRINGS California W. N. Salt. Lake City, No. 30. Lobster Old Delicacy Just Part of It There Is record Unit lobsters were Askuin Was tliat you doing all used for food In undent times in tlie jt'lling In the dentist's ofliceT Bascom No, only at first I Japan, creased gains. IP? (QMur Wism freds are usually the furnish Home-grow- n est whose output contains helium, (Wire J'urnltm-- and Supplli'. Theater and Church Furniture, Killon-l!cMimeograph, Well in IMe Uniselmu, a and KiippUes.Full Line ol Ktntlonnry.Wr&p-pi- n German scientific periodical, but I'apcr, etc. Oldest and Lariat Sohool and Kinilpm-House In the Went. there Is no prospect of the Graf fcupply VTAII IDAHO SCHOOL NI'I'I'LY !0. 135 So. State Street Salt Lake City. Zeppelin or any of her future sister with German tilled airships being helium, for the combined product of all of the four German wells whose gas contains this valuable element would have to be accumulated for 400 years before there would be enough to till the Graf. As compared with this, Ilerr Weil cites Hie great American well nt PctroIIa, Texas, which yields 4'2.r,000 cubic meters of 1',i"t iii pas, with a helium content of 1 of per cent. This would fill Graf Zeppelin in a few days. Live Stock Facts ; VI writes Kurt Cattle Require Shelter for Profitable Results More shelter for fattening cattle against winter's cold Is urged by W. H. Peters, chief of the division of nnl-nihusbandry of the University of Minnesota. Many Minnesota farmers who fatten cattle on grain through the winter months feed silage and grain In hunks nnd hay In racks out In the open In all kinds of weather. Sutflcloiit shelter in many enses Is provided only when the cattle are not feeding. Mr Peters behoves that the lower gains than usual reported by man? feeders the past winter are to be attributed to Ihe practice of feeding outdoors, especially In times of severe cold that characterized January. and early lurch of the present year. on a few feeders leads A check-uto the conclusion," he says, "that those who fed under shelter obtained better gains than did those who Ted out in the open. This is a mutter that Is well worth consideration on the par of Ihe cattle feeder. It Is highly probable that a little money spent In the summer for arranging sheds fot Indoor feeding In the future will pay a worthwhile profit." Monsey Iron and Metal Co. 700 So. Snl Germany-Furnis- h Little Hslium There are Used Pipe, Fittings & Valvea Newly threaded and coupled for all purposes most economical and should Hie basis of the ration. Plenty of snlt. wood ashes, tankage aud alfalfa or clover hay. In addition to the regular corn feed, la a mighty good layout to Insure a good crop of strong, healthy pigs. flavor developed in The cooked soy beans not only appeals to the palate of particular Mrker but Increased nutritive value Is reflected nut-lik- In e faster growth and cheuper gains. Human beings like to drink lee wu ler, but live stock prefer warm water Hairy cattle and poultry will main tain normal production If provided with water of Ihe correct temperature Exercise Is of great Importance to both work horses and growing slock. A few hours In a paddock or small pasture with protection from had of weal her. s worth many pound feed in the growth and care of horses. Too high a percentage of corn or barley and too low a ierecntugp of protein feeds are common errors In feeding. S!ze and quality of the pig crop next fall will depend In large measure upon the cure and feed given briM-sows this winter. thing worth bearing In mind Is the trend of market demand Is for the Inished h,ih highly lightwe!glil ItetT of the yearling class, weighing, from SMI to I.C'Xf pounds "illlishetL, A MRS. CLARA RILEY 2100 Paxton & 4th Are Sioeoi Clrr, Iowa MRS. BERTHA STEPHENS 21 E. Rom St Lancaster, Pennsylvania "I was very nervous and rundown ana weighed less than one hundred pounds 1 felt tired and weak and I often had to lie dowru I took Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound because I read the advertisement in the paper. Now I eat well, sleep well, and have good color. In fact, I couldn't feel any better and I weigh one e hundred pounds lam a wonderful medicine for glad to answer letters from any women. They should give it a woman who want to know good trial by taking about five more about the VegetableConv bottles." Mrs. Clara Riley. pound." Mrs. Bertha Stephens '1 began to take Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at Change of Life. Now I take it every spring and fall and it keeps me in good health, I am able to take care of an eight-roohouse and garden at the age of 71 years. I will praise the Vegetable Compound wherever I go for it is m TT fifty-fiv- 1 |