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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH trator of Scott or Bulwer. Even now you ccuhl see she had come as near being romantically beautiful as was consistently projier for such a timid, gentle little gentlewoman as she was. Reduced, by her husband's Insolvency (coincident with his demise) to "keeping hoarders, she did it gracefully, as Infants and Children if the urgency thereto were only a spirit of quiet hospitality. It should be added In haste that she set an ex cellenf table. Moreover, the guests who gathered at her board were of a very attractive description, as I decided the Instant GENT- - g my eye fell upon the lady who sat op .ALCOBQL-- 3 per posite me at lunch. I knew at once I AVerfahlePrcparatiOiiJrAs-- f that she wns Miss Apperthwaite, she went so, as they say, with her mother; nothing could have been more suitable. Mrs. Apperthwaite was the kind of woman whom you would ex!ffierehyPromotinP pect to have a beautiful daughter, and CliCCfiulrssafidRcstC Miss Apperthwaite more than fulfilled in'll ! SI CA) Iii'in (I.( Jtejf her mothers promise. r.citlvcr I guessed her to be more than Juliet Mineral. KoxKahcoticj Capuiets age, indeed, yet still beCOYIOMTY HAHMR frCKOe, tween that and the perfect age of Jhuupk&Sei woman. Jenna, , She was of a larger, fuller, r. JbtiMSM exclaimed, and turned to address some more striking type than Mrs. Apperinvisible person within the room. Hes thwaite. a bolder type one might put Tiie street wns as right there underneath the window. it though she might have been a ttam Sml Btill as a country Sunday ; so e (kn'fudStgttt1 He leaned great deal bolder than Mrs. quiet Ill bring him up. t that there seemed an echo to my foot out again. Wait there, Simpledoria !" without being bold. Certainly 6teps. It was four oclock in the morn he called. Ill be down in a jiffy and she was handsome A hel pful Remedy fcf enough to make It lng; clear October moonlight misted let you in." difficult for a young fellow to keep Constipation and through the thinning foliage to the I Puzzled, stared at the vacant lawn from staring at her. She had an shadowy sidewalk and lay like a trans- before me. The clear moonlight re- abundance of very soft, dark hair, parent silver fog upon the house of my vealed it brightly, and it was empty of worn res5thetefrofflinl5W almost austerely, as if its pro& I admiration, as strode along, return any living presence; there were no fusion I and necessitated Si( repression; Ing from my first nights work on the bushes nor shrubberies nor even am compelled to admit that her fine Waimvright Morning Despatch. shadows that could have been misa distant contemplaeyes I had already marked that house as taken for a boy, if Simpledoria was tion expressed habit not of mood of obviously the finest (to my taste) in Wainwright, a boy. There was no dog In sight; so pronounced that one of her enemies TVTftVYURlC. though hitherto, on my excursions to there was no there was nothing (if she had have described might this metropolis, the state capital. I was beneath the cat; any) window except them as dreamy. hot without a certain native jealousy grass. that Spencervllie, the county-sea- t Only one other of my own sex was A light shone in the hallway behind present at the lunch table, a Mr. Dow-dewhere I lived, had nothing so good. the broad front door; one of these was an Now, however, I approached Its purlawyer and politician opened, and revealed in silhouette the of whom elderly I had heard, and to whom lieus with a pleasure in it quite unal- tall, thin figure of a man in a ion THE CENTAUn COMPANY, NEW YORK CIYY. Mrs. .Apperthwaite, coming in after loyed, for I was at last myself a residressing-gown- . the rest of us were seated, introduced dent (albeit of only one days standSimpledoria, he said, addressing ing) of Wainwright, and the house the night air with considerable, sever- me She made the presentation genSPOHNS DISTEMPER COMFGUND though I had not even an idea who ity, I dont know what to make of eral ; and I had the experience of reis indispensable in treating in slow a a lived there part of my possessions as nod and glance, You might hne caught your ceiving you." estiwhich there was a sort of dusky, a citizen. Moreover, I might enjoy the death of Influenza, Distemper, Coughs and Colds cold, roving out at such an so prevalent among horses and mules at this season of the year. warmer pride of a hour. But there, he continued, more mating brilliance, from the beautiful For nearly thirty years SPOHNS has been given to prevent for Mrs. Apperthwaites, where I had me. these diseases, as well as to relieve and cure them. An occindulgently; wipe your feet on Ihe lady opposite asional dose conditions taken a room, was just beyond. It 'might have been better mannered your horse and keeps disease away. mat and come in. Youre safe now! As a remedy for cases actually suffering, HPOflNS Is quick This was the quietest part of He closed the door, and I heard him for me to address myself to Mr. Dow-deand certain. Sold in two sizes at all drug stores. SPOILN COMPANY i ; business GOSHEN', INDIANA or cne of the very nice elderly stopped short of it, call to some oneup-stairs- , as he arand the fashionable residence sec- ranged the j, who were my fellow-guewomen, 'JBEMWy - nr iduarrinrrt fastenings: Miss tion had overleaped this forgotten Simpledoria is all right only a than to open a conversation with but I did not stop to backwater, leaving it undisturbed and little chilled. Ill bring him up to Apperthwaite; think of that. unchanging, with that look about it your fire. which is the quality of few urban You have a splendid old house next I went on my way In a condition of quarters, and eventually of none, ns a astonishment that door to you here, Miss Apperthwaite, Take a good dose of Carters Little Liver Pills engendered, almost, I said. town grows to he a city the look of a doubt of a privilege to find it in Its ; for if my my eyes then take 2 or 3 for a few flights after.They sight "view from 4my wh?5ow. f sjjill being a neighborhood. This friand-linewas unimpaired 'and thyself not t cleanse your system of all waste matter ana of appearance was largely the There was a faint stir ns of some to optica! or mental delusion, neemanation of the homely and beauti- ither boy nor Regulate Your Bowels. Mild as easy to dog nor bird nor cat, nor consternation in the little company ful house which so greatly pleased my any other take as sugar. Genuine beat signature object of this visible world, The elderly ladies stopped talking abfancy. had entered that opened door. Was ruptly and exchanged glances, though Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. It might be difficult to say why 1 my finest house, then, a place of call this was not of my observation at the thought It the finest house In Wain- for wandering ghosts, who came home moment, I think, but recurred to my Amenities. Reassuring. wright, for a simpler structure would to roost at four in the consciousness later, when I had permorning? Gentleman First Proud Wife (to nervous friend in be hard to imagine ; it was merely a (with heat) Unceived my blunder. It was only a step to Mrs. derstand, sir, that Im not to be moved automobile) I feel so safe with brick house, painted big, I let May I ask who lives there? I purin with the key myself brown and very plain, set well away that by a fools opinion. George driving, now that he has sued. Ditto Second reaThe from the street among some splendid to good lady had given me, stole up (ditto) very joined the Red Cross. He Is learning Miss Apperthwaite allowed her nomy room, went to my window, and first aid, and knows where all the hoson, forest trees, with a fair spread of flat stared sir, attention why nobody pays across the yard at the house ticeable lashes to cover her eyes for to lawn. But it gave back a great deal next door. yours. spitals are. London Opinion. The front window In the an instant, then looked up again. for your glance, just ns some people second A Mr. Beasley, she said. I story, decided, uecessnrily kiss comes undo. It was a large house, os I say, yet Also the Being Ignorant Is not so much a Not the Honorable David Beasley! to that room in which the It looked not like a mansion but like belonged as shame farewell to perform learn. being unwilling der the head of had been lighted; but all wns I exclaimed. a home; and made you wash that you lamp ances. "Yes," she returned with a certain Benjamin Franklin. dark there now. I went to bed, and lived in It. Or, driving by, of an eve- dreamed that I was out at sea In a gravity which I afterward wished had No funny story should be over three A womans tongue is the Important ning, you would have liked to stop fog, having embarked on a transpar- checked me. Do you know him? In minutes your car and go in ; it spoke so sure- ent vessel whose long Not in person," I explained. telling. You part of her running gear. preposterous name. ly of hearty, people liv- Inscribed upon glass see, Ive written a good deal about depending there, w'ho would welcome you ing here and there from on invisible him. I was with the Spencerville merrily. Journal until a few days ago, and rail, was Simpledoria." It looked like a house where there even In the country we know whos were a grandfather and a grandwho in politics over the state. BeasII. mother; where holidays were warmly Mrs. Apperthwaites was a commoleys the man that went to Congress kept; where there were boisterous dious old house, the and never made a speech never made of it greater part family reunions to which uncles and of about the sume even a motion to adjourn but got evage, I judged, as Its aunts, who had been born there, would erything his district wanted. Theres but the late Mr. return from no matter what distances; neighbor; talk of him for governor. had the Mansard caught fever a house where big turkeys would be Indeed?" of the late Seventies, and the building on the table often; where one called And so its the Honorable David once fastened upon hm, hnd disease, the hired man, (and named either never known a convalescence, but, Beasley who lives In that splendid Abner or Ole) would crack walnuts a series of relapses, the tokens place. How curious that is! upon a flatiron clutched between his rather, Why? asked Miss Apperthwaite. in the nature of a cupola and of which, knees on the back porch ; It looked It seems too big for one man," I a of frame turrets, were terricouple like a house where they played cha"and Ive always had the answered; These misromantic rades; where there would be long fyingly appsfrent. Mr. Beasley was a bachimpression to me seemed placements not inharstreamers of evergreen and dozens of elor. with monious the library, a cheerful wreaths of holly at Christmas time; Yes, she said, rather slowly, he shabby apartment where there were tearful, happy wed- and pleasantly Is. I where found a (over dings and great throwings of rice after substratum of But of course he doesnt live there history, encyclopedia, little brides, from the broad front all and some alone, I supposed, aloud, probworn Bible) volfamily old steps: in a word, it was the sort of a umes of he has ably Godeys on Book," Ladys the of to make hearts house spinsters No. Theres no one else except a and bachelors very lonely and wist- early edition of Coopers works; Scott, ful and that Is shout ns near as I can Bulwer, Macaulay, Byron, nnd Tenny- couple of colored servants." What a crime! I exclaimed. come to my reason for thinking It the son, complete; some old volumes of If SAY InsistI Victor Hugo, of the elder Dumas, of there ever was a house meant for a finest house in Wainwright. The moon hung kindly above its Flaubert, of Gautier, nnd of Balzac; large family, that one is. Cant you Clarissa. Lalla Rookh, The A- almost hear it crying out for heaps level door in the silence of that OcUnless you see the Bayer Cross on tablets, you are lhambra, Beulah, I Uarda, Lucile," and heaps of romping children? I ns checked my gait tober morning, not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by should think along the picket fence; but Uncle Toms Cabin, Little She, Lord I was interrupted by a loud ; suddenly the house showed a light of Trilby," cough physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for and of a later decade, there from Mr. Dowden, so its own. The spurt of a match took nnd artiabrupt my eye to one of the upper windows, were novels about those delicately tan- ficial that his intention to check the then a steadier glow of orange told gled emotions experienced by the su- flow of my innocent prattle was emHeadache Colds me that a lamp was lighted. The win- preme few ; and stories of adventurous barrassingly obvious even to me! dow wns opened, and a man looked royalty; tales of young Can you tell me, he' said, Rheumatism Toothache leaning American manhood; and some thin forward and out and whistled loudly. the Interfollowing up I stopped, thinking he meant to at- volumes of rather precious verse. as possible, what ruption as Neuritis Lumbago Twas amid these romantic scenes the farmers hastily tract my attention ; that something were getting for their I awaited lunch-bethe that sound of be somethat the wrong; perhaps might wheat when you left Spencerville?" Pain, Pain one was needed to go for a doctor.' My (which for me was the announceNeuralgia I of ment when was howmistake arose from breakfast), Immediately evident, ever; I stood In the shadow of the my first nights slumbers under Mrs. I Accept only Bayer package which contains proper directions. mean he's a man of no trees bordering the sidewalk, and the Apperthwaites roof; and I wondered Imagination, None In the world. Handy Bayer boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggist man at the window had not seen me. If the books were a fair mirror of Miss Not one ounce of imagination. Anplrln is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of BaUcyU I he called, softly. Apperthwaites mind (I had been told Boy Boy! one grain Not Where are you, Simpledorla?" that Mrs. Apperthwalte had a daughlie leaned from the window, looking ter). Mrs. Apperthwalte herself, in downwnrd. Why, there you are! he her youth, might have sat to an Illus TO BE CONTINUED wish For Mothers Know That Genuine Gastoria Always Bears the Signature ;'' lb1 of -- maple-bordere- d Apper-tlnvaif- rC Jl ;$siJ '!; y&c-Slmil-c pM close-cropped n, Wain-wrig- n, ht MET-XCAI- st wh - ss iub-jcc- IITTLE , IVER PILLS Apper-thwaite- good-nig- life-belt- s, Apper-thwait- down-stair- ht e s, BAYER when you buy. Ben-IIu- r, to-loit- er Fnunt-leroy- clean-limbe- d ll 1 Saves Need Buying a New Skirt Putnam Fadeless Dyes dyes or tints as you |