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Show Ill, M MM I RESCUED BRIDE 63, -- FROM BY VAULT TELEGRAPH i3 CODE . TCIITU TIMFI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 ' L TEL CLERK FROM A TER' Wrecked the Train RIBLE DEATH StLouis.--Cor- a Benson, a telegraph MRS, POLLY W E E BA K ER ADOS operator Trt'TjeTIantersL hotel, with rare presence f mind and resource SHIPPERT TO LONG STRING ' S. 15. fulness," rescued Bonneville, OF NAMES. vfrom clerk, imprisonment in an air-- '." C.F. Decker -- D. D. Houtz Ilowhe SAVES "HO GlfiL QUICK-WITTE- I ' -- - BUSINESS CARDS PROFESSIONAL - A pfttind - Not. 1, 2 and 8, Farrer Slock, Prove CItj,'Ulab. . Co prod ucer J,Beckc r .Watches' and Jewelrjjr -- By EDITH MORGAN WILLETT -- Graduate . " -- -"- - s Mrar-foHrrr-W- d. aw-parit- es between husband is that she married one man twice. . Mrs. Shipperfdespiie her yearala - agile as a girl and she docs bat-loo- k like a woman'who has seven husbattds In the grave, one divorced and one yet alive. She owns considerable property In Newbur- g- She haarefused. to hare help in her bouse to assist: In the and nerjwork preceding tB'eceref Jork won y -- was to milk her sow, leed chickens and then adorn herself in, a te plain-whidresr she had made with-he- r own needle. Asked why she did not use. one of- - her previous wedding gowns she said she feared bad luck. The ninth husband la a man of good appearance and is the owner of real estate in Burlington.. He has no children, hut has been married before and lost his wife by death. - The bride has no children.- - either, to show- - for .her eight previous husbands. A re- - vorced, one husband died In a mvtri- ous manner and another killed himself by poison. Mrs. Shippert can not re- - 'J. 6y st - The dinner was rearing when the conversation took on a adventurous tone, Jtlalt way down the room a white-- , haired general began to indulge In reminiscences, which led toniodera cowbo anecdotes a-- per- sonaLbottt wah bttgandH. dffscrlhpd by a Sicilian traveler, and finally the discussion of s recent daring robbery.. This last was occupying the attention of the table when ..the-- . &osvbeot toward his rlght-baajafelghbor,- noia-uon t or tnat speaking R.. and P.," he remarked, dropping his voice confldentially, reminds me of a little personal experience of my own many years ago. Now. would you ev"er inragine, raf dear lady; tharyour humble servant Jiere, -- once caused wrecking of a train?" - "You!" the" baroness ejaculated Incredulously as he simply nodded. 'Ah, then- - she drawled In her pretty broken English, "it was an accident, sure- ita-clo- dla-tlact- ly wild-wester- d e "Not a bit of it!" the Judge assured her with an emphatic tug at his white mustacbe. "On the contrary! "it "was premeditated.-I- n old blood with tbe fullest Intention I deliberately wrecked thattralnr - -- His last words, spoken unconscious ly In a -- higher key. carried half the lengtb of the- - long table, producing-- a sudden buslLandL the. Judge, looking nptounoT"to bis dismay that a dozen pairs of eyes were focused upon ' him-- . "A compromising statement, upon humorously-e- x a - Message "t ' the' Inv my. word, MrJustlce, an postulated attorney general two prisoned Man. seats down. "One of our lawgivers a My dear air, doesn't both laughed off, saying they could see nothing " especially heroic In the that call for a life sentence?" . A mysterious twinkle danced In bla incident Bonneville waa preparing to leave host's eye. "State prison, undoubtr at the end of his watch," about " mid- ly." he agreed. " "But if one considers the provocation" He hesitated a night, and Btepped Into the large vault moment, noting the vivid Interest and behind the counter to place some valastonishment m every iace-r.r,:- j;uables in It 'Jack Shannon, the-ma- il rweii, wen, jl believe I'll have to tell clerk, did not see Bonneville enter the you: that story and let you decide for and It vault closed and turned the bolt. I and yourselves if don't deserve to be in Knowing the vault was air-tigservitude at thie penal wag thehlyperson Whereupon, - leaning back ;ln rbU In -- the hotel at thaf tlme who knew chair., and fixing- - a reminiscent' gaze the combination," Shannon' became on the ceiling, the judge began: greatly, alarmed. He shouted to Bonme see. I must have been a "Let neville, whom he could hear pounding of 25 or thereabouts the time I chap frantically against the steel ; doors, speak of, In Charleslaw 'practicing asking him the combination,' but neith- ton, for thisOa.pi)cnedln..tlielatfi. er -- could- anderstand 'fo de wah.' The situation. was becoming desper- fifties, ate when Miss- - Benson recalled that of Jim Blake, a chum of mine, one the best boys that ever breathed Bonneville bad been a telegraph operManassas)---ha- d fell, in second (he ator In bit- youth and was proficient In some of us fellows to a Christ-mlslpart-y asked the Morse code. Taking" anrtrob at his place up the Ash weight, ahe rapped a message to ao one cold evening a dozen young ler, him on" the steel doors. Almost imsports piled into' two 'double buggies mediately bid reply, rapped back with we .caU.em).and. drove, - down the handle of hi penkn.ife.iwaa beard, (as) there, reaching Medway Just" as the and the combination wacr translated sun waa'-'settibehind -- the by Mies Benson." It was then but a few seconds until Shannon had opened -- "In the doorway stood the colonel to the doors and released the almost ex- welcome us and when we lad shaken -hausted prisoner.' 7 V: " bands with the old gentleman there .None of the participants .were was- - a general- - stampede upstairs'- - to diicuss thelnclden-an- d dressed for after whtcb we get when questioned, laughed It off as a were booked for dinner, a dance at' a neighborJoke, "I can't see much to it," said Bon- ing plantation. "Gad!" be chuckled, "I ran Just aee neville,: "Anyhow, the experience did Jim's room that. nlgbU xrowded - witb not hurt me." Miss Benson laughing- men Into tight waistcoats, partgetting ly saldt'EveaJf JLdld tap the mesing their hair, smoking, talking, and sage to him, that was tot anything while outside the door you laughing, ' wonderful, was It?" could hear the darkies running up and aown.wua and hot drinks. CHILD HOLDS UP TRAIN. Every other yaiises moment too there'd be the sound of wheels coming, up : to the Dragging a Battered bouse, girls voices, "the swish of sklrta and Falls Toy, Wanders along the hall, and glgglesoh! those- to Hear the Engine. giggles! 8h-Rap- ped train-wrecker- !, ht very-moment- -- thfr-oth- j er. - .paper-- ... 'Big-House- ,' ng .- : The Justice Married Her for the 8ev- ' enth Time. call all the names of her husbands and dates of marriage fnd divorce without referring to a scrap book. Her last husband, William Baker, aged 40 years, deserted her after two weeks of married life in the fall of 1006. Sha secured a divorce from him. fhe accused him of. marrying her for hor money. To a friend Baker admitted that he thought she would Soon . 11 &waj jnfl. Lpm.hlm. her P.rPBrl After living with her for two weeks he said he was convinced she would live to be-- lOOyeara old. -ller first marriage was to a farmer boy, Henry, Fuquay; After seven years he left her and secured a ?fvorce. She went back to her father's farm and vowed to shun; men thereafter -- .and norer marry agajn." : .' . In a few months James Fuquay, cousin to the first ! husband, came marching home from the civil war and w oa bJr teart r Nta Months later lie cams home drunk, shot atter'three itimea end left. She divorced him. Again she went fi -- , . Three-Year-Ol- New York. A bov held up a passenger train . on the Greenwood. Lake branch of the Erie railroad In the Silver Lake section of other day. The Belleville, N. lad, a son of Antonio Steffanelll, a leader In the Italian colony of that - hla place, had wandereda way home and" was walking along the tracks dragging a battered tin horse when the engine approached in the three-year-ol- d Jthe i direction. - The engineer saw the boy and blew hiaiwhrstle, but the child kept on between the rails. Several timoa a era In the wTirsTIeastwirbut withouTSi? .''J'lnk. A?. suit on the -Juaiea- Henry Robinson, a "dashing brakfSTandrbrongB stop.: The trainman got down from 'joang widower." She married him her ;faiher1Iked him; Three his cab anffjinei;th.tti"jto.!iii' ;(3: dlaf.'r tho sheriff of Warrick coun-f- 8lde, ; The little fellow was belliger''njnderarreBt on a warrant ent and fought against bl rewvalr? t v u u out by a neighboring girl. She '"The train contained a large number rcrJ him. of passengers on. their war from New George S. Hoyden, a" traveling sales' York, and they got out of the coaches uj f,r an Evansyllle firm, was hus-n- when the train "was. stopped, believing had a morbid dlspo1 that there vraa disaster- - ahead.-- " There inn and after ton years she di- - was great merriment 'when the cause him Ltx'ause he adopted a child of the trouble was seen trying to whip -- the engineer. in) tlie orphans-, home. Four years later she married SjR. - , be-raii- fs . d Ko.-ir-- 1 - -- - 1 Abe ttrrmfnarcd four years of bliss. i It'H :N. then hunted up Boyden, fccr husband. In Evansvlllo .and ' .: i M:n egaia." They lived to-- " t f!,;ht years. lie ended his life i '.' .'..". jHilaou and Jumpir:gfnto t . ; 7i''st-(if- hr death after - lifs-- , in-fe- ll :er " r -r, married R.-B-. cf r.'ewjliurg. They were .dl-- ' r yrars ajro. When sho went I ' r tkrto years s;:a the ."-r''5 i ' to per- itet-ab- 3 : 1 . ; ;' e 1 B.- - Uppincott "opposite - O Co.y my arm something instinctively told me that she was the owner of the note, y "Intuition Is a wonderful thing, and there was a certain suppressed excite. berra slight nervousness, TOent-abo- trt tfaafmarlft me positive before we had exchanged half a dozen words thatI was on the right track. ' "She was one of pur dashing southern- beauties that put a man on his mottle, and added to thleytn my case, was tbe tantalizing consciousness that in a few hours she would belong to an1 other. "By the time those ten courses .were ended I was. head over heels, in love with - the girl beside-- me by. fair that, somehow means or foul, I would prevent that Every Evening 7 to 11 p. m Saturday Matinee 2 to 5 p. m.. Entire change of Program every Monday and Thuraday BEI.Ii PHONR 73BLK ... T. T. DA VIES. - . Architect Craftsman and TBungalew-Heuaes- -a jjpecialtyj OFFICE: 231 South Firat East -- PROVO ": .: Admission, 10c UTAH : "The Best"Not - - - our-continua- 'But how to do it? Outside In the yard where bonfires were -- blazing I could see the horses i eing bitched Into buggies end- - knew- - that my ' " time was irhortr "After ourwlne and cigars eomeone Suggested dancing" till, the traps came around, and they got an old fiddler In from the quarters to play- - the 'glide1 . for us...... ., doors I "Through the big, half-opewatched her while she danced, the thought of that midnight elopement making me almost beside myself with fury7 while I vainly" cudgeled my brain for aome stratagem, to keep ber.away from the ball. .. a 9-- 2 A i 4! made of a-- and moonbeams, spider-web- s COAL! and as I watched her long, trailing skirts, float, round her (she was dancing with a certain excited recklessness), a fiendish idea took posseslson of me. "The hour was growing lateand whke-cloake- tlgures--- -. bad 5JanJL passed down the steps and. driven oft with their escorts when my chance , ,:, came. knew she, was te go In one of the last- - carriages, and waited until Jhe trap was actually on its" way around the' drive before I dashed Into the hall and peremptorily demanded one last dance.- "She pouted charmingly and Castle d -GOAL! -- Gafeac.c Get it now while you can. We have plenty - Telephone 17 ...... j. i that.it was mnchtoo. late, but I was not to be gainsaid, and. aa the old chap played 'Maryland. My Maryland,' we waltied slowly up to . the end of the room. "Outside came the rattle of wheels. """Well, I set "my teetn and down went . . . ; my heell "Zip! pur-r-"What .a. tevt ObiLwaa, crua. work! and I shall never forget the Lumps of : Comfor- t- INDEPENDENT I cn a i. r n r! wrath and 4lsmayln that girl's face.-- . ."She gave one horrified cry and: sprang back, trying to disentangle her' lYon.'phone J126 D or-5- 9 Red,We l bring the COMFORT- - . sktrtrbut:r-was- r if "now, In "for Opposite Wooien Mills. "and" floundered" desperately ahead, leaving ruin in my tracks fMy dear ladies," the" bavocT made on ber skirt fulfilled my wildest bopes. "That train was an absolute wreck!" The Judge paused, relishing the sudden stupefaction of his audience, anh then proceeded Imperturbably: ' 'They brought down thread and needles, and some of tbe girls" offered H r7J7fnA FOR AN IDEA to stay, behind, and" help her patch it up, but, of course, she wouldn't hear of that, and they all went oflVleaving her behind, . mending away for dear ii ' lie. . d 4flE-l!iTTOf.lONTHL-Y The only magajsine of national importance pabliehed ia the west, (Utah) will issue a special ; edition in August which will be known as lhe.Utah SpeciaLvTbia number wiil deal BTolosively with the history, ' Industries, ;development and other matters of. interest ;n"Utah. Its circulation will exceed 750,000 and will Jrom coast to coast and from the" Great Laies to the GulfrTEvery cily Town and hamlet in Utah inter-mounta- in . -- -- will be oovered. The WesterOlMlI aT ettr for this read In a bold masculine hand atumble-lnto- i- lxJearfi8t.GijrJi.ThttUtell-y-- h all prpartlon are completed, for our etcapet A bujijfy and pair will. t wftlt-In -it Ih BlmonOton'a back gate and you and I musf; lp. away after. th first German. Myf Icrirnl friend Bennt'tt baa promised to pertorm the .. ceremony, ao that air should go mooth1y and we can be off to Charleston By mldniS;hi. .. : . Onlywhatever me at happna, meet ' tbe bftllt- - "That waa the end, no slgnature'and a Rampagejyj stlgbtesfclew to thVsender T01 black" k. New T bull broke A'liig away from his, keeper the other day St or to the girl to whom It was writtesr 1 . "Well, put thaJt.mysterlou8 note in Washington and Bay streets, Jersey City, and went on ar&mpage through my pocket and jrent downstairs, deterthe business section of the town. Iff mined - to keep a' weather eye open the course of his flight he charged a and watch for developments, y?3 J.a,8-ba,de.lhe- l. woman, Jw W wqre.,,. ...ted.;;..waisW knocked her down and 'trampled her, appearancelind; as r.MtS.: Blake pretan over" two" school children, drove a sented us, and couple after couple couple of hundred children back into filed into the dining room, I stood In a school building, wrecked a fish store tbe doorway scanning each lovely face and- - a ailr-s)op,-nd was -- - finally and wondering what It concealed,".! killed after a's-.ua- d of pollrcnen fired ..' The- Jud.se lowered his voice.) "A ' 13 revclvc-t!,vU at hlai fvum' tlie Cousin of Jim's' fell to my share," aitd tboush it Bee ma IncreJ'hle, I "assure a patrol wg of , rife; yandis -- ht -- iotth" DesfeniSuitabllthat la-wb- ar J. f Packing Co. 47 North Academy Avenue,7 ': - Both Phones beautiful, dress," the judge's eyes grew dreamy "one--j of those fragile creations that seem l'.Shfl-hado- -- 1 Provo MeaJ some-fichfim- three-cornere- "Indeed.--tt--was-aT)r- lly ALWAYS n high-celllng- neslto occasional- ly but alway in groceries, HERE. Uniformity in quality-- and that quality of the highest are the main reasons of increasing patron-azcrr- lf you were to favor us with but cenr:patronage,7vye a certain that we will merit it in supplying you only with the best. or-oth- er, runaway tnatch. Illus- trated Songs' off Quality yonthat as aoomfTo-f- eredTTthatglrT t Two-secott- MovlnJPictures'and VetfTibary Cbnege. Office at Probert livery barn ' Pbone 'n J. m - Bell 19C Red "Ah, It was a tremendous piece of work, and after sewing diligently for ' bdlfad-fioli- r ghegave up "in despair, first and went, downstairs ahead of the resigining herself to tbe inevitable and others, for I remember-had.:; just to me'L" (here the Judge smiled conclosed the door behind me and started sciously f retor "stayed behind tool-Mu- ch alone down the hall-t- he bare, clapping of bands with laughhall, typical of a plantation ing applause greeted thle surprising house when I, saw lying on the floor announcement, and only the baroness d ' a small, note which remonstrated. someone must have:: dropped tin the yBuriioW abouj'the pdoFTover.who WayPi-:-rrfi'r- :: 'grLZ--l was waiting for her T" she inquired, - "There was no sign of an address "the other manT ". on the outside when I examined it and "Oh; that turned out all right" her no envelope, so there was nothing for host declared "He met bis it but Iq open the" thing. Well,- - what fiancee at the cheerfully,ball (by the" way,- - she elsetiould I have done?" (This, "with a must have been the dark-haireyoung defiant glance around the table. : MdyEhom the cnlonejaoofc4ate-dit- F after I" was sorry ner), so they ran awav toeether. tat enough I had. ' marrifidandliedappy-TOa- ft bomers so lar as l Know. , v 1 J. erOnCaVid the-vario- ber porterwbq: searched ,the rooms, for pictures could flnd none." ,Mrs. Ship pert said she had never had a picture taken and that she destroyed all of the photos of her past husbands. Mrs. Shippert has had an Interesting "career. Five times ahe-h- as been- - di- tt'W rtsht. J-b- -- ELLEN THEATRE Vetkbimaby Subqbos fignt.v.auit TCBtinrwrWffd8rIt'"fflToT - , STILL AGILE, DESPITE YEARS night. Remembering that Bonneville was familiar with the Morse code, she tapped amessage on the steel door, Marrying Gams Has Had Many Turn asking the combination of, the safe. and Seven Husbsmds Are Under Thean wexcame . bAct Jnjlota juid SodCanY Recall Names""""5" dashes struck by the end of a, pen-"" df Matea.knife, and he was saved from' a predicament which Jhimtamfld-tobe-diEransviliBrind. astrous. in;,..iTrJ:i: " Baker 68 years, Is Friends of the 4 two were showering bfewburgagiahusband. Her congratulations ' aud 'praise, which sappy with her "ninth tenth marriage 'ceremony was performed. the other day when she wedded Bimon Shippert, aged 60 years, a teat f state and - tnsur ince man ot Dur-lington, la. The reason ror tne Dr. D. C. Black. all,. Jim's cousin. proved not to be.the owner or tnat note., wasn't quite as clever as I thought" (this with a rueful smile), "and mistook the natural excitement "of a debutanteiover her first ball, for that of a girl on the brink of an elopement" "AUT fth!Yhere wasV general murmur Of disappointment. . . ydu wrecked the wrong train I " '"No, slree! Tbe host deTftdJhe chafge"emph&tically." "i own," I got the thing'mixed up at the start, but U was a fortunate mistake Here he raised his head and glanced over the American Beauty roses away downihfl table to where his handsome wife MtTIIslenlsg composedly to the remarks of a very deaf old senator. A tender light came into the judge's j Any person sendiDg one dollar for a year's subscription may compete. Artistic ability isotroj uiml.VeWaat' ideas7"nor . drawings or cuts. What do you think would Dea suitable design for a Utah magazine, published for Utah? ""Send us your answer with your subscription and if your idea is accepted we will " ' pay you $100 iu gold. We make the further following offer, with yonr subscription send us the .names of three of your friends and we will send each of "them absolutely free of charge a oopy-othe Utah number of The - r Monthly. "? f Vsn I head-mittedr"th- 'Tc Get Together and. Doost Utali for-m- e! ' . eyes. was a fortunate mistake for ."Yes, It nie," he repeated half to hlwsolf. ."I owe my life's hnrr'n's to the wreck-Si'!- ; . ' of ll.at tialn!" C0VK Agrees: tZSISFf CCrjTEST, tog usGiGnn r.on?nLY, vie is a iu "t W t c"--i |
