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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION! UTAH .wood' By FRANK H. SPEARMAN WNU Service. Ive helped pull a wagon out of that STORY At FROM Sleepy Cat THE START Doctor tells Wentworth, freighting Carpy boas, in tiartoe's of a shooting scrape Rambling den, ' lit which John Selwood, gambler, In defense of Dave hla wounded partner. Tracy, shows remarkable skill and nerve. Continued CHAPTER II ; it he said probably wont be the last. I had to he pulled out of there once, myself; nobody uses this ford thut knows It. Where you heuilcd for? Sleepy Dot. Where you bound?" Looks as If the whole United States Is heading for Sleepy Cat. Give me a hand with that buekboard, boy, and Ill be moving." The three men pulled the hyckhoard across the creek without difficulty, helped Selwood to hitch his team and put back bis chain. Selwood explained In answer to pointed questions thut he wus In the freighting business nnJ looked ufter the Itussell and Wentworth outfits through the mountains. Fyler, In turn, said he was tuklng some merchandise out to open a store In Sleepy hole, 2 "You'd have saved time hy. going half a mile higher up," commented Slwood after he had heard the story. All I he freighting outfits go there for the rock hot tom. This Is all right when Its dry enough. Its a mean lilace after a shtjwer. And If you dont get thut lead team out of that sand pretty quick, youre lluble not to get them oui at all." What should you do. stranger?" asked the settler, u urently realizing that the buekboard man knew more than he knew about the sliuatlou. For answer, Selwood spoke sharply to tbe teamster, an overgrown hoy, who was geeing and hnwlng the pole team wflh the- sole effect of setting the fore wheels of the wagon deeper Into the sand. Drop your lines where you are, cried Selwood, "and get that lend team ashore. Don't you see the near horse Is going down?" and Perceiving the awkwardness stupidity of the young fellow, not walling to see his order executed, walked Into the creek and, followed by the settler, splashed across to where, struggling to free their feet, tluv hend horses were floundering. Hastening to their heels, Selwood unhooked the singletrees, threw them over the backs of the frightened horses, and, slapping them by turns smartly on the huunches, got them, splashing and struggling, ashore. Then bidding the teamster follow, he recrossed the creek, turned up die seat of' his buekboard, took out, hand over bund, a length of heavy chain, passed It to the teamster to carry over, nfid, unhooking Ids own team, walked behind fliem, doubletree In one- hand and relink In the other, across the creek. It was the work of but few minutes to fasten tne end of the chain to the tongue of the stalled wagon and give directions to the two men as to where to stand ami what to do. The settler vwim put with the team still hitched Mo tbe wagon. From the end of the tongue the chain drawn taut fvou readied ashore, where, on the sandy approach to the ford, Selwood had hooked Ids own team Into the chain .and. rneslng it between them, had looked the rescued team to the chain's end. With everything ready, Selwood save final Instructions. "Now If your king-boholds," fie said, well yank Shat wagon out; If It gives, youll tiave to wait till you can rig another theres a freighting outfit coming along about" two' hours behind now everybody all together!" Selwood loosed a stentorian yell ; the six horses, galvanized by the shock, bent to the Job. The boy 'lashed with his lines and the 'settler f, ' lt Cut. Selwood, answering luconleally a rapid flow of questions, was glad to he reiidy to drive on. He gathered his reins to step Into the buekboard. As1 he lifted his foot, with one hand on the dash and the other on the .seat, to do so, his eyes fell on Fylers .first wagon, standing twepty yards away. The canvas opening at the hind end was parted and to his great surprise he saw that ut the moment It framed the fuce of a girl of eighteen or twen ty years. She did not see SpI wood, and he stood motionless, staring at the unexpected sight She was bareheaded, with her hair parted In the middle and drawn plainly over-htemples. On her neck a simple kerchief rested loosely ubove Women-fola simple dress. were not uncommon In emigrant trains; Indeed, they were the rule. Yet Selwood paused ns if petrified at the ordinary sight. Unluckily for him, his horses, less ' Interested In the situation, champed at their bits and tried to start. More even than the clear profile hud promised was revealed In the full face; It was mere girlhood simplicity and frank Innocence but It made Selwood catch bis brentli. When her eyes fell on Selwood she looked rather quickly away and the parted canvas flap softly closed. stepped gingerly up Into the buckboniM and settled himself In his beat. The Impatient horses leaped nhead. He did not attempt to look hack. Selwood reached Sleepy Cut late that night. His tired team headed without guiding hnnd for the Itussell and Wentworth horse barn. Selwood threw his reins to a waiting hostler. He got stiffly down after his long ride, tipped up the lazy-bacscat, took out and stuffed Into a side pocket of bis coat the good-lucgirls shoe, and walked forward. As he passed the opeu door of the office he saw the barn boss, McAlpIn, In confab with a little woman sitting In the chair at the desk. Near them, listening, stood nn overgrown boy of twenty. The woman was talking earnestly and rapidly. Selwood was hungry, and tired, and without speaking to McAlpIn he passed out through the gangway doors and started for bis room at Doctor Curpys hotel. McAlpIn In the barn office stood prtv foundly attentive to the story of the little woman sitting nt the desk, with a handkerchief, much knotted, In her hands and with great trouble exeyes. pressed in her The barn boss was plainly Interested In the tale the strange woman was pouring into tils ear. Of the men that profess they have no time to listen to other peoples troubles, .lames McAlpIn never was one. He had almost a morbid flair for other peoples troubles; and the worse they were the more he 1 ought not to say enjoyed them but the more closely they, held him. He had come from far across the sea and crossed forbidding deserts to reach the Great American West, penniless but thrifty, and fortified with ttie resolve to weep with the weepers and rejoice with the glad. As a Scotsman, nature had fitted him for the difficult role of being all things to all men, and ns he listened In the cluttered-ustuffy, strong-smellinlittle offic of the big division barn of the Itussell and Wentworth Freighting company the first ham, by the way, ever bulb, In Sleepy Cat as he looked from the little wisp of a woman, weeping and pouring out her woes before him, to the husky, overgrowu twenty-year-ol- d son at her side sheepish In looks McAlpIn now and liang-dyfelt that In coolness and confidence in himself he was pretty nearly master of the situation; and he looked his part. Whats that, Mrs. McCracken?" he the demanded, suddenly eyeing woman,' und throwing more emphasis into ttie words as lie repented ;the purely for effect. sharp question "Whtts that you say? Moses was gambling? Why, no! I couldnt : say the boy was gambling when he lost that money. If its gambling, two men hav got to have a chance don't you Mcknow that, Mrs. McCracken?" McMrs. because fast, AlpIn spoke Cracken herself bad hardly checked her own sorrowful tale in the Interval; she was, in fact, though weighing under ninety pounds, the first woman he had ever met that could talk faster than he could. That boy didn't have er k Sri-woo- k k dust-covere- tear-staine- d g This Is All Right When Enough." Its Dry shouted. Th ndred wagon creaked violently, groaned, and with the wheels ploughing through the gripping sand moved uncertainly. A fresh roar from Selwood signalized the success and spurred the horses to renewed efforts; and the partly released wagon, plunging ahead, was rattled ungraciously and Jerked through the sullen quicksand and up the fold approach, to' dry land. The emigrant turned to his rescuer xvitn a joyful breath of relief. Stranger," he exclaimed, thats a big lift! My names F.vler whats yours? he asked, boldmg out his hand. Sts benefactor was taciturn. He took tne extended hand, but without enthusiasm- - Thats not the first time - . a chance," Insisted McAlpIn, he was Just plain robbed thats what I call It, robbed. Wus the six hundred nil ttie money you had, Mrs. McCracken? Every cent In the world, wept the woman, and Moses knew better than to go near a gambling house." As a distributing point for a widespread mountain territory, Sleepy Cat even at this time boasted trading and supply houses out of all proportion In size und Importance to Its population, anil these stores, with frontier disregard of fire hazard, were housed mostly In one long block. In thnt block could be found the widely" known establishment of John Cole-r-thtall, spare brother- - of the town blacksmith ; the long, rambling store of Alexis Ilouhldoux, the French trader, witli nearly all the business of the Gunlock ahd the Falling Wall reservations Iloubidoux with the squaw the gray wife, the brown toupee, glass eye, and the dyed mustache and goatee. h In this row, too, were the brothers, Chris and Otto big men with bristling mustaches and perspiring foreheads, always hustling, who controlled always sweating most of the supply business from the mining camps at Horse Head and Thief River, north and south. Last of all in that block was the man whom nobody knew, not even Ids own clerks, Van Tambel, the silent Dutch truder, tall as a Pomeranian, ungainthe man who ly as a Hollander heard all and said nothing. He had (he Mormon trade. A riot of celebration had been loosed on the great duy to greet the advance guard of the coming railroad. The pioneers and adventurers within a radius of two hundred miles hnd congregated In their picturesqueness ' to do the occasion honor. Patiently, McAlpIn waited again for Moses story of how that morning his mot tier hnd given him six hundred dollars to pay for and bring back the team of mules. Moses, on Ills way, had met an entertaining man who had come from ttie same town In Iowa ns the McCrackens at this point McAlpIn ground his teeth.- The maj had volunteered to g6 with film 0 help bring back tbe team. He had offered, Incidentally, to show Moses was to where the new round-houshe built. They had stopped In at nn different place - where Interesting games were being played, and Moses, In earnest and repeated endeavor to pick the right one of three cards, had gradually wagered and finally lost the six hundred. hnd already heard the McAlpIn story once; but It was his custom. If he could manage it, to hear a particularly harrowing tale twice. He listened to the second recital with the the same same sharp ejaculations, screwing and twisting of his features and his heels, and the same angry Jerking of hts head, with which he had absorbed Moses story the first lime. "Now lit tell you," he said domineeringly and to rut off further disIll go with you to where cussion. they took your money and see what can he done." Calling a hostler front, McAlpIn, witli Moses, walked rapidly down the rngged highway that was to serve as Sleepy Cats principal street. In the direction of what was already known as the River quarter, which had gained an evil precedence In mountain story as ttie resort of hard men and scenes of violence. McAlpIn had a very definite Idea of the general direction in which Moses had parted with his money, and took him directly down toward" the river, talking and gesticulating as fast as he walked. Reaching the suspected district, McAlpin slowed and pointed from a conservative distance to one disreputable Joint afttr his asking another, companion whether this or that place looked like the one he had been taken Into. Moses, confident at first, found himself hazy when it came to Identifying the precise scene of his disaster. With his guide he walked clear to the camping-ground- s without success, and McAlpin, on the way back to the stable, was growing very impatient when Moses, of a sudden, stopped his companion and pointed to a man Just going into a large and quite pretentious frame saloon. Thats the fellow," he exclaimed , eagerly. What fellow? Just going In there he dealt the curds. And thats the place ! whispered Moses with excitement. McAlpin looked at the place polnti ed out und turned a hard stare bn "Man alive! his companion. he cried, what kin of a fool are you to pick out the worst place tween St. Joe und Sacramento to leave your money in? Come along to the barn!" Aint you going to talk to im, as you said you would?" asked Moses timidly, hut dreading to face his mother again. ' "Talk In there? echoed McAlpin "Do I want to get Scornfully. knifed? Not yet. Come along. You're lucky yon didn't get knocked on the head mid thrown Into the giver, That's Dunty Bartoes place-- " Klck-busc- look here a minute. I want yon to I hear tills '" Lefever saw there was no escape, and he was forced. to hear the whole story. "Well. he asked, at the con elusion, "what are you going to do about it?" What can I do? Its Bunty Bar-toe- s place. John. Can I afford to get dumped Into the rlvr?" Lefever, as If disclaiming personal responsibility, moved out Into, tbe barn. But McAlpin. bung on to ..hm. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons. Then Lefever said something, what ever it was, in a low tone that caused McAlpin to lower Ills tone. A whisDo you pered conference followed. to the out returned McAlpin barn, think It would be all right to ask of humor. He wasted little time, him, John?" urged McAlpin, as when he got back to the office, In exturned to get away. plaining things hut, ledvlng Moses to If he doesnt want to do ltjv he take the brunt of the storm, became won't do it, will be?" snapped Levery busy with some mule! Just bping fever. ; brought Into the barn by teamsters Would he get angry with me askputting them up for the night. It him, dy think?" called McAlpin ing was nearly supper lime." too, and Mctils retreating friend. after In to avoid further discussion AlpIn, If he does Ill get your Job. wont the office, dodged out the back way I? No! He won't get angry." for something to eat. A hearty meal Lefever was half way down to the restored pretty well his naturally stalls. McAlpin stopped long enough on outlook but he when life, placid at the office door to tell the Mrs." got back to the barn this was upset Moses to bide speaking sternly and ugaln by the spectacle of. Mrs. Moses. Then grabbing his cap he to sitting alone In the twilight hustled Into the street of the rough office, silent and woeHead and only 'glancing begone. Another long talk resulted In without down, lifting it, from under the an opening of Ms heart again, and men in ended In his telling her to go get her short visor of his cap at the twos and and scattered threes groups supper and come back. He would see, frontiersmen teamsters, emigrants, meantime, whether something more" adventurers that loitered in the might be done. aitnlesslj spaces or movedopen "If only my poor brother William middle of the street, McAlthe along William Pardaloe was here, Mr. above hed make these thieves pin made straight up the hilla " McAlpin River toward the large quarter hunt their holes," sobbed Mrs. McCracken. Id not have to ask nobody for help if I had William." , Well, if William, whoever he is, was here, Mrs. McCracken," retorted McAlpin tartly, he could have the Joh for all of me!" Mrs. McCracken could eat no supper, but she spent thirty minutes hack In camp weeping, and then rose to a resolution of tier own. With Moses as a guide she resolved to seek ttie men that had robbed Moses and Le-fev- ' did so. r, west-boun- d. Weeds are the wound dressers of Whenever man or nature makes a scar, the vigorous, coarse-fibere.weeds find out tbe spot and straightway mend the Injury. Hated and much objurgated, the weed, of whatever breed. Is one of the most useful forces In nature. The farmer regards It as a foe, the gardener as a nuisance. In truth, It Is a friend that persists, regardless of ill treat inent and attempts at extirpation. Soil, to preserve its strength, must be protected with some sort of nature covering, otherwise the rains leach it. or wash away the precious particles of mold that make It reproductive. Man neglects this factor in Ills dealings with the earth. Plowed fields are allowed to go uncovered after the crop is harvested. Washouts are left So Is to take care of themselves. d Franklin a Good Swimmer Franklin was. a great swimmer. I one occasion he swam for four miles performing on the In the Thames of feats activity, both upon many way He obtained and under the water. such a reputation as a water dog that he thought seriously of becoming a teacher of swimming. Even at forty he still swam for two hours at a stretch. He astonished his fellow printers by carrying two forms of type to their one, and. In his old age, he was fond of displaying his strength Scientific by lifting heavy books. Month! v. - -- - Fletchers Castorla hit Motherl - been In use for over 80. years to- ro Ileve babies and children of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea ; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by . regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep without opiates. The genuine bears signature of . 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Your druggist can supply you at any time. . - J Ambitions .. motor engineers 10, electrical engineers 13, navy 12, army 10, cojmiierce 6, law 5, stage 4? politics 3, Journalism and literature 3, private detectives 3, architects 3, exp'rorers 2, civil engineers 2, painters 1, church 1, schoolmasters 1. 21, . In fiooaier .Een No! He Wont, Get Angry." frame structure set some fifty ' feet back from Jhe street below the brow of the hill and isolated. A broad sign,' high above the large double, doors of the building thrown wldq,..open now. reading John Selwood, Gambler,"; left no doubt as to the. nature ofjhe. owner's business. David Tracy the old' '"pajtnef, afterward so seriously wounded whom Selwood had originally-set- ' up-ithe establishment, had beeiuglven carte blanche and used spehdt ing money to make his gambling ball a western place to be talked aJout. With Tracy disabled, young Selwood had assumed entire responsibility for the place. And as a further defiance to any aggrieved enemies o the Sangeo-Boyfollowing, Selwood1 name, at Tracy's behest; though aguinst Selwoods wishes, had been conspicuously placed above the dqors. Selwoods was known from the Missouri river almost to the. Siejras at an exceptional place and one of repute where there was no saloon and no disreputable adjunct, and 'Pont near it; where no one was asked to play, and where no limit was placed on the player. (TO BE CONTINUED.) lt-r--in - ' burned-ove- land. In all three In damage results, 'and much more would follow bHt for 'the energy of the weed family. Don C. Seitz in the Outlook. r stances great The Blue Danube Near Vienna on the Danube at th Iron Gates the speed of the current li from 12 to 16 feet per second and the British monitor the Glowworm got stymied halfway up it, couldnt gc either forward or astern, and hnd to hold down her valves to get a high enough head of steam to struggle hilt of It. It was a question whether sh would go up or blow up. It takes a special towing steamer pulling Itself up on a cable from ont f and to two hours, to go ug this stretch. The Germans used locomotives to flow ship through it during the war. .. Dowr below Orsova these dreaded Iron Gatei are not one-haso sticky as the sixty five miles of rapids and submerged ledges below Drencova. As a mattei of fact, the "Schachlet" by Vllshofea Is one of the nastiest parts of th river. Negley Farson In Adventurt Magazine. one-hal- er lf On Especially Prepared for Infants and Children of AU Ages'r- Schoolboy Weed Has High Rank in. Forces of Nature the soil. GASTORIA FOR A London schoolmaster gives there-- . ballot-fromore than 100 suit of-boys of preparatory sefioot age as't'o the profession or' occupation In life ' ,tirat each hoped to adopt : '"Afr.force quarter. e CHILDREN CRT ' Naturally, she got scant recognition, and was hardly given time. to introduce herself and tell her story, before Moses was thrown bodllyfcInto the street and Mrs. McCracken was strongly, urged, under threat of arrest, out after him. Neither storms nor tears availed; the two arguments that had always "subdued her dead husband had no weight in the River Baffled and disheartened, she returned with her son to pester McAlpin and, having cornered him, told of the fresh Indignities she hnd suffered in her efforts to reclaim her own. To her. ayrpri sa, the ham boss was angry nt- her." He told her flatly she had disobeyed Ills orders, ruined everything; and on this the two joined issue. It was in the very midst of their animated discussion that a well-se- t, leisurely ' man walked unobtrusively Into the office. This was John Lefo-vehead wagon boss for Russell and Wentworth, Just In with a long string With feet of of wagons, small size and notwithstanding the of his frame, Lefever largeness walked gingerly and with hardly any noise. He carried In his hand a long whip; this he placed In the rack quietly In order that he might lose nothing of the talk going on behind him ; and, to emphasize his ostensible Indifference to the subject-matte- r, he whistled softly to himself as he fingered the other whips In the rack and, having selected one to try out, turned slowly around, the prey to curiosity, to see what manner of person was matching Jim- - McAlpin for once In fast talking. Having satisfied himself on this point by a brief glance, Lefever started foj the door leading Into the stable. McAlpin. pressed for help and still Indignant at Mrs. McCracken's new story, was not minded to let him esHe' darted between the big cape.fellow and the door. No stop, John. -- Suing the President There Is no way that a. citizen cal bring suit against the President There is only one way the PtSbluea can be brought to trial and that is U the senate after bo has been li peached by the house of represegtf tlves. Fathfinder Magaina, Recently a North "side family wai passing the West .Washington street bridge. One of the "parents spoke of a huge stone placed at the end of the bridge., to mark, the spot where tlis" bouse of the first Indianapolis .settlor-- ' stood... On hearing the' remark a daughter,, age eight) asked; . . Mother, is that where, Aflam'itfir-Eve lived? Indlanapojis News. ,. " ! ? v- Orders la Order s , mother In a, small' suburb, the proud but distracted another of two mischievous little boys, was overheard by a uelgbbor to calf W the A young older one ; Joe, oh, Joe; go' find Bobby and tell him to stop whatever he is doing I." . Apothecaries deal In scruples, but it may be different with lawyers. No one cap be happy and not hoJ useful. . 1 If Back Hurts Begin on Salts - . .t Flush Your Kidneys. Occasionally 1 - by Drinking Quarts of . Good Water , Ny. man or woman can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a authority. Too much rich food- creates which clog the kidney pores'sq rthat, thdy sluggishly filter or strain only' part of the waste ahd poisons from the blood. Then you 'get kick. 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