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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH gled emotrons experienced by the supreme few; and stories of adventurous young royalty; tales of American manhood; and some thin volumes of rather precious verse. Twas amid these romantic scenes that 1 awaited the sound of tbe lunch-bel- l (which for me was the announcement of breakfast), when I arose from my first nights slumbers under Mrs. Appertb waltes roof; and I wondered if the books were a fair mirror of Miss Apperthwaltea mind (1 had been told that Mrs. Apperthwaite had a daughter). Mrs. Apperthwaite herself. In her youth, might have sat to an Illustrator of Scott or Bulwer. Even now you could see she bad come as near being romantically beautiful as was consistently proper for such a timid, gentle little- - gentlewoman as she was. Reduced, by her husbands Insolvency clean-limbe- Business Woman WLDOUGLAS d tRiHG CITY MONEY TO FARMS Along Every Important Improved Road in the Country Are Signs Offering Produce. Mothers pin money, the odd dimes and quarters that the farm wife gleaned from a precarious market In the old days, has blossomed Into a fund to send the boys and girls away to agricultural college or put a new (coincident with bis demise) to "keepmower on that south forty. ing boarders, she did It gracefully, as No longer need the Saturday trip if the urgency thereto were only a to town be marred by last minute efspirit of quiet hospitality. It should forts to tuck In the last dozen eggs be added In haste that she set an exor the butter crock. The era 6t spring " cellent table. wagon pilgrimages to trade In the sm Moreover, the guests who gathered plus product of the and the at her board were of a very attractive milking shed, has vanished. Tbe David description, as I decided the Instant Harum of today operates in his own my eye fell upon the lady who sat opfront yard and at a greater profit. posite me at lunch. I knew at once Good roads have linked the city conthat she was Miss Appertbwaite, she sumer to the farm. Along every went so, as they say, with her hard surfaced highway In the mother; nothing could have been more country are signs offering everything suitable. Mrs. Apperthwaite $as the from Ice cold buttermilk to pork on bind of woman whom you would exthe hoof. Where the housewife used pect to have a beautiful daughter, and to bargain for hours with the crossMiss Appertbwaite more than fulfilled roads storekeeper for a return of perher mothers promise. haps 15 cents a dozen on her eggs, I guessed her to be more than Juliet she now delivers them to a passing Capulets age. Indeed, yet still be- motorist for double that amount. tween that and the perfect age of A week of churning to buy the promwoman. She was of a larger, fuller, ised silk dress has given way to a more striking type than Mrs. Apperthwaite, a bolder type one might put It though she might have been a great deal bolder than Mrs. Apperthwaite without being bold. Certainly she was handsome enough to make it difficult for a young fellow to keep from staring at her. She ' had an abundance of very soft, dark hair, worn almost austerely, as if Its profusion necessitated repression; and 1 am compelled to admit that her fine eyes expressed a distant contemplation obviously of habit not of mood so pronounced that one of her enemies (if she had any) might have described them as dreamy. Only one other of my own sex was present at the lunch table, a Mr. Dow-den- , an elderly lawyer and politician of whom I had heard, and to whom Concrete Roads Unite the Farm ProMrs. Apperthwaite, coming In after ducer and the City Consumer. the rest of na were seated, Introduced me. She made the presentation gen- good days salesmanship at the roaderal ; and I had tke experience of re- side market. Many young boys and girls are payceiving a nod and a slow glance, in which there was a sort of dusky, estiing their way through college with mating brilliance, from the beautiful fnnds raised during the summer and fall in this manner. The photograph lady opposite me. It might have been better mannered Illustrating this article shows a Cook for me to address myself to Mr. Dow-decounty, Illinois, farmer disposing of a or one of the very nice elderly , robust. turk to a city housewife. women, who were my fellow-guestthan to open a conversation with Miss MANY CRASH CROSSING GATES Apperthwaite; bat I did not stop to think of that. One Barrier on Long Island Railroad Tou have a splendid old house next la Broken Every Day Drivers door to yon here, Miss Appertbwaite, Want to Beat Trains. In find to I said. it Its a privilege view from my window. Thousands of motorists annually There was a faint stir as of some smash through gates at railroad consternation In the little company. in the United States. This crossings abThe elderly ladles stopped talking fact Indicates two sides to the graderuptly and exchanged glances, though crossing argument this was not of my observation at the On the Long Island railroad, which moment, I think, but recurred to my has only 400 miles of track, one grade consciousness later, when I had crossing gate la blroken practically lay plunder. every day in the year by motor drivMay I ask who llvoo there? I pur-- ers who attempt to "heat trains to sued. crossings. Miss Apperthwaite allowed her seIn the last year there were approxittceeble laslteo to cover her eyes for 800 of such, accidents on this mately an Instant, then looked np again. line alone, according to T. P. Brennan, A Mr. Beasley, she eeid. , agent From August 15 to 2p Hot the Honorable David Beasley t safety of this year there were 15 such mis I exclaimed. haps on this road, resultlag In tnju Tea, she returned with a certain riea to many persons. One was killed. gravity which I afterward wished had Railroads of the United States are Do you know him? checked roe. In a campaign to cut down accidents Tou of all kinds. Not In person, I explained. Including those at grade see, Ive written a good deal about crossings, ifotorlsts are asked to enhim. I was with the SpencervIUs ter this campaign and aid In making Journal until a few days ago, and our highways safer by constant vigieven In the country we know whos lance. who In politics over the state. BeasHow in the name of heaven, said leys the man that went to Congress Mr. Brennan, can the Long Island or and never made a speech never made any other railroad render safe and even a motion to adjourn but got ev- prompt service to Its patrons when the erything his district wanted. Theres public highways are Infested with talk ef him for governor. motorcar drivers who refuse to exerIndeed? cise caution when approaching railAnd so Its the Honorable David road grade crossings, who gloat over Bensley who lives In that splendid the fact that they beat the train to hese Intersections, and who are dally place. How curious that Is! Why? asked Miss Apperthwaite. willing to sacrifice not only apparently It seems too big for one man, 1 ihelr own lives but the lives of those answered; "and Ive always had the Intrusted to their care? Impression Mr. Beasley was a bachelor. PLAN FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS Yes, she said, rather slowly, "he Is. Per Cent of Roads Are Ninety-Tw- o But of course ha doesnt live there Dirt-- Why Not Improve and I supposed, nloud, "proball alone, Save Transportation? ably he has No. Theres no one else except a Although- - good road building Is makcouple of colored servants. ing progress In every state in the What a crime I exclaimed. "If Union at the epd of another five-yethere ever was a house meant for a period not more than' 8 per cent of large family, that one Is. Cant you the roads of the country will be surNinety-tw- o almost hear It crying out for heaps faced. per cent of the I roads over which the 'and heaps of romping children? products of the should think farms must be hauled will be dirt I was Interrupted by a loud cough roads. That being the ease, why not have good dirt roads and save transfrom Mr. Dowden, so abrupt and artificial that his Intention to check the portation costs? flow of my Innocent prattle was emCost of Canadian Roads. barrassingly obvious even to met Fifty million dollars will have been Can yon tell me, he said, leaning forward and following up the Inter- spent on improving Canadas highways five-yeperiod terminates ruption as hastily as possible, what when the fall in the of 1923. thel. for were farmers the getting wheat when you left SpencerviHe? Plan National Highways. The Associated Highways of America are planning a system. of national "I mean hes a man of no trunk highways throughout the Uni world. In None the Imagination. ted States. ounce one of Not Imagination. hen-hou- a boy. There was no dog in sight; there was no cat; there was nothing d The street was as beneath the window except thick, still as' a country Sunday; so quiet d grass. that there seemed an echo to my footA light shone In the hallway behind steps. It was fonr oclock In the morn- the broad front door ; one of these was ing; clear October moonlight misted opened, and revealed In silhouette the through the thinning foliage to the tall, thin figure of a man In a long, shadowy sidewalk and lay like a transdressing-gowparent silver fog upon the bouse of my "Slmpledorla, he said, addressing admiration, as along, return- the night air with considerable severing from my first nights work on the ity, "I dont know what to make of You might .have caught your Walnwright Morning Despatch. you. I had already marked that house as death of cold, roving out at such an the finest (to my taste) in Walnwright, hour. But there, he continued, more thongh hitherto, on my excursions to Indulgently; wipe your feet on the this metropolis, the state capital, I was mat and come In. Youre safe now! not without a certain native jealousy He closed the door, and I heard him that S pence rville, the county-sea- t call to some one as be arwhere I lived, had nothing so good. ranged the fastenings: Now, however, I approached its pur"Slmpledorla is all right only a lieus with a pleasure In it quite unal- little chilled. FU bring him up-- to loyed, for I was at last myself a resi- your fire. dent (albeit of only one days standI went on my way In a condition of astonishment that engendered, almost, ing) of Walnwright, and the house though I had not even an Idea who a doubt of my eyes; for If my sight lived there port of my possessions as was unimpaired and myself not suba citizen. Moreover, I might enjoy the ject to optical or mental delusion, neiwarmer pride of a ther boy nor dog nor bird nor cat, nor for Mrs. Apperthwaltes, where I had any Other object of this visible world, taken a room, was just beyond. had entered that opened door. Was t; This was the quietest part of my finest house, then, a place of call business stopped short of It, for wandering ghosts, who came home and the "fashionable residence 'sec- to roost at four in the morning f tion" had overleaped this "forgotten It was only a step to Mrs. Apper-t- h backwater, leaving it undisturbed and waltes; I let myself In with the key unchanging, with that look about It that good lady had given me, stole up which Is the quality of few urban to my room, went to my window, and quarters, and eventually of none, as a stared across the yard at the house town grows to be a city the look of next door. The front window in the still being a neighborhood. This friend- second story, I decided, necessarily liness of appearance was largely the belonged to that room In which the emanation of the homely and beautiful house which so greatly pleased my fancy. It might be difficult to say why 1 thought It the "finest house in Walnwright, for a simpler structure would be hard to Imagine! It was merely a brick house, painted big, brown and very plain, set well away from the street among some splendid forest trees, with a fair spread of flat lawn. But It gave back a great deal for your glance, just as some people do. It was a large house, as I say, yet It looked not like a mansion but like a home; and made you wish that you lived In It Or, driving by, of an eve- nlng, you would have liked to stop your car and go in; it spoke so surepeople livly of hearty, ing there, wko would welcome you merrily, It looked tike a house where there were a grandfather aad a grandmother; where holidays were warmly kept; where there were boisterous family reunion! to which undee and aunts, who had beta bern there, would return from no natter what distances; would' be ; a house where big turkey en the table eftes; where one called the hired man, (and named either Abner or Ole) would crack walnuts upon a flatiron clutched between his knees en the back porch; It looked Uke a house where they played charades; where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas .time ; where there were tearful, happy wed- Mrs. Apperthwaite Was the Kind of Woman Whom You Would Expect dings and great throwings of rice after little bridee, from the broad front to Have a Beautiful Cughter, and Mlse Apperthwaite More Than Fulsteps: In a word. It was the sort of a filled Her Mothers Premise. house to make the hearts of spinsters and bachelors very lonely end wistall was ful and that is abont as near as I can lamp had been lighted; but some to my reason for thinking It the dark there now. I went to bed, and dreamed that I was out at sea In a finest house In Walnwright fog, having embarked on a transparmoon above Its The hang kindly level door In the alienee of that Oc- ent vessel whose preposterous name. dependtober morning, as I checked my gait Inscribed upon glass to letter along the picket fence; but ing here and there from- an Invisible suddenly the house showed a light of rail, was "Slmpledorla. Its own. The spurt of a match took II. my eye to one of the upper windows, was a commoMrs. Apperthwaltea of then a steadier glow orange told me that a lamp was lighted. The win- dious old house, the greater part of It dow was epened, and a man looked of about the same age, I judged, as itse out and whistled loudly. neighbor; but the late Mr. bad caught the Mansard fever I stepped, thinking he meant to attract my attention! that something of the late Seventies, and the building fastened upon U'm, had might be wrong; that perhaps some- disease, once a convalescence, but, one was needed to go for a doctor. My never known mistake was Immediately evident, how- rather, a series of relapses, the tokens and a ever; I stood in the' shadow, of tbe of which. In the nature of cupola terriwere turrets, frame of a couple frees bordering the sidewalk, and tbe misman at tbe window bad not seen me. fyingly apparent. These romantic seemed to me not Inharhe placements called, softly. oy! "Boy! monious with the library, a cheerful , Where are yon, Slmpledorla?" apartment Be leaned from the window, looking and pleasantly shabby where I found (over a downward. "Why, there yon are! be down-stairencyclopedia, exclaimed, and turned to address some substratum of history, worn old volInvisible person within the room. "Hes and family Bible) some of Godeys Ladys Book. an umes window, underneath the there right ni bring blm up." He leaned early edition of Coopers works; Scott out again. Walt there, Slmpledorla 1" Bulwer, Macaulay. Byron, and Tennybe called. "Til be down In a jiffy and son, complete; some old volumes of - let Victor Hugo, of the elder Dumas, of you In. Flaubert--o- f Gautier, and of Balzac; vacant lawn the at stared Trusted, I Rookh. "The. AlClarissn, before me. The clear moonlight reGarda, Lneile." vealed It brightly, and It was empty of hambra," Beulah. any living presence; there were no Uncle Toms Cnbln, Little Lord Fnunt-leroShe nor even Trilby, bushes nor shrubberies a later decade, there of and shadows that could hove been mistaken for a boy, If "Slmpledorla wa were novels about these delicately tan maple-bordere- close-croppe- n. s, Waln-wrlgb- ed life-belt- -- Apper-tbwait- s, Ben-Hu- " f r. 56748 SHOES ftB. Feared She Had Heart Trouble nt s, d v - IV. L. Douglas shoe1 Since Tanlac has overcome a bad case of indigestion and nervousness of three or four years standing for me, my work here in the store Is a pleasure, and I am certainly grateful for the good health It has given me Said Mrs. J.- - W. Picking, of 516 E. 15th St., Los Angeles, who owns and operates the book store at 219 Mercantile Place. "I was so run down that I felt miserable all the time. My sleep was broken and restless, I had no appetite, and the gas from undigested food caused my heart to palpitate so I thought 1 had heart trouble. For a time I had a swelling In my legs, too, and It was an effort for me to get about. "It is wonderful bow Tanlac has given me such perfect relief from these troubles. I eat heartily now, sleep Uke a child at night, and just feel fine all the time. Tanlac Is sold by all good druggists. Advertisement JUST NOT AT THAT are actually W.L.D0UCLASir: Serial amt workmanship ant ODfrqottled for tbe price, itln worth while for yoo to knon that when yon buy W. L. Douglas shoe you are getting tbe benefltof his 40 years expertoooe in maklugthe bent hoes possible for the pnee. W.LDOUGLAST.! worthihe price paid for them. Wear them and Bare mouey. Protection Rgainst unreasonable profits ft guaranteed by the price stamped on every pair. W.LDOUGLASfY: 110 of our own stores in the is the largeeltieeand by shoe deal- best portrait shoe ers everywhere. Ask your Trmdeknown 4n the Mark shoe dealer to show yon w A. world. It stands for exshoes. the standard highest Only by Dougins the lowquality atcost. amining them can you ap- qf The possible preciate their value. Refuse est is name price on substitutes. Insist upon bav plainly and stamped with shoes W.L Te. lng Douglas tbe retail price and the name H stamped on the sole. The id hr ak to ym retail prices are the same jrikfwototog, everywhere. TO MERCHANTS : dealer in your town LSS W.LJhuglas shoes, write to day for exclusive rights to wa s--viu CMC. handle tins qntek teUm JO ton-se- fahUruo&t jpwS(rH hne ffmcA A TRUE RAT STORY MOMENT Aspirant for Office' Decidedly Was Running for 8ome Other Purpose Than Desired Position. In a western city. Just before an election for city officers, one ef the candidates, a Mr. Grow, a very fat man, who aspired to be a councilman from his ward, made a canvass, soliciting votes. At one place his knock brought forth a young and frisky dog, which leaped through the open door when it was epened by the lady of the house and ran the candidate off the porch and down the frost walk toward the gate. The woman at the" door, knowing the dog to be harmless, called to the fleeing candidate, "What are yon running for, Mr. Grow? And Mr. Grow, with the office in bis mind, even In the presence of dann ger, called back between gasps of this ward, madam 1 Auburntown, Texm., Ml!l Stearns Electric Paste Co.. Dear Sirs: Mr. Robert T. Donnell of Aubumtown, Tenn., came In our storn the other day and wanted something to sold him a box Utearan kill rats, se Rat Paste. And he put some paste on nix biscuits that night and the next mornbig rats. And the ing he found fifty-fosecond night he put out four more bis Cults with paste on them, and the second morning he found seventeen more rats, rats to making a total of neventy-on- e two nights, and there were lots more that he did not find. This la some big vat tale but, nevertheless it te so. Just thought would write to let you know that your rat paste is good house-to-hou- X Respeotfully, KENNEDY BROTHERS. 35ctoBox Buy aKill Today to 50 100 Rat. or Mire ' Enough Dont waste time trying to kill these pestn withpowders,IiquldsandotherexperiroentM preparations Ready for Use Better Thaw Traps. Drug and General Stores sell Coun-rilma- ELECTRIC PASTE STEARNS Ridge. DYED HER DRAPERIES, , SKIRT AND A SWEATER WITH DIAMOND Lameness Stops from a Bone Spavin, Ring Bone, Splint, Curb, Side Bone, or similar trouble, ana gets hors, going sound. It acts mildly but quickly and good results are lasting. Does not Mister or remove the DYES Each package ef Diamond Dyes contains directions so simple that any woman can dye or tint faded, shabby skirts, dresses, waists, coats, sweaters, stock . like no other kind then perfect home is gnaran-yo- a have never dyed before. teed, even ft Tell your druggist whether the material you. wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether it is Bren, cotton, or mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never streak, spot, fade, or ran. So easy to use. Advertisement. . " ludr and hone can ba worked. Page 17 tn pamphlet with each bottle bottle tell. hew. delivered. Bm.BMk.AtrM. V. F. YOUNG, be, 310 Teaple St,Spiatdi, DONT Lacked Cow Touch. A Brown county woman, who could hardly be classed as a connoisseur, or even a dilettante, was looking at one Of Win Vawters bills o Brawn landscapes one day and focussed a scornful orb en a cow In the painting. She said It didnt loek like a cow, and then, to cap tbe climax, she ran her hand over the rough surface of the artlsPs work asd said : Now, see there, that dont feel Uke a cow at SO P Indianapolis News. Cuticura 8oap for the Complexion. Nothing better than OnOcva Beep da and Ointment new and then as needed to make tbe complexion dear, scalp eleon and hands soft and white. Aid to flris (ho' faaeteatlng, fragrant Gattoan Talcum, and yea have the CMteara Toilet Tate. Advertisement . $2-5- INFLAMED LIBS It the irritation. MITCHELL EYfl S Bfcuplft, d pendabl, life remedy, si ill UmgcUU. Increases ALVEI. W. N. U., 8alt Lake City, No. 48-19- 22. Phones In Turkish Capital. Telephone service In Constantinople te operated by a British private company. The service le good and, ah though tbe number of telephones le bow only about 8,000, tbe people of Constantinople are reported to be acquiring the telephone habit and the .bantams of tbe company Is expected to increase materially. It Is necessary that ell operators speak both Turkish and French, and many of them speak as many as seven or efgkt languages. Kaoeklng ones town is resented; Of two evils some people choose n human and knocking the both as samples. race ts perilous. Why should a man expect to get his Trying to blush strains the dru store complexion. price If he has It? well-know- - --M 1MM.I.I MM m sailt Es Pensay WSce and Poiaund FoelioBn Dont think because you can get a big can of Baking Powder for little money that you are saving anything. Theres Only One Way to Gave en BakeDayy Use 1 Not one grain!" (TO UB CONTLNT More Miles for Tires. Good road3 mean more miles car and tires. fo de- ' manded year after year by more people than any other shoe In tbe world. The Economy BAKING POWDER It costsonly a fraction of a cent for each baking. You use less be. cause it contains more than the ord- inary leavening strength. The sales of Calumet are over 150 greater than that of any other baking powder. 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