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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH f Another frond way to get $1,000,000 is to save 3o a month for 8,333 years. flmiimiuimimiiiimiMmniiiimimiiiimiiiniimiiummiimiuiiiiiiMuiumntiitmuiiiimiuHiiiHimmimumiimmninmi: THE RED LOCK s something sun A popular son by half the world to annoy the other half! I Queer, how people can drive cau-- I tlously on icy streets and not on clean ones. It is proposed to add another month to the calendar. Let it not be another March. I niiiiiiimiiiiimimiiiiiimiiimiimiiirr,... CHAPTER XII B Continued. 15 The sitting-roodoor opened, and the portly form of the housekeeper appeared on the porch. Theres Mis Curry, the girl cried, seizing her fathers arm and inviting Breakthe preacher with her eyes. fasts ready, and our bouquet not half Chew Flatwoods r DAVID ANDERSON every meal It stimulates with a single small patch of white In her forehead, hearing the girls voice, came trotting up out of the pasture lot the same through which Jack had Author of The Blue Moon" Ca Copyright by The Bobbs-Merr- it after appetite and aids digestion. It makes yonr food do yon more good. Note how trailed the unknown prowler the night before. A tall, gelding, bright bay, with one white hind foot, followed her almost up to the gate, w liere he stood back and half Jealously watched the girl caress hls mate. Come, Rex, the girl called, reaching oui her hand and coaxing the tall bay. But the horse kept his distance. It was only after the two men had drawn back a few steps that he came up to the gate and put hls nose against her face. Do you ride, Mr. Hopkins? she called over her shoulder. Not especially well, he answered, though I do like a good horse. You ride, of course? Everybody rides In the Flatwoods you must learu. Wy, yes, chimed in the old bank- was over and he was able to breathe It relieves that stuffy feeling again, bis lips were blue, and clammy sweat stood heavy on his craggy brow. like mood. alter hearty eating. Still clutching liis side, he opened Wbltens teeth, the locket, with its secret, trying not Mexicos ruction is not only disorfinished. breath and derly but it may interfere with the gasShe was the life of the little group to see the beautiful face, lest it turn Its the goody oline supplies. that assembled a few minutes later in him from his purpose; took out both tbst the gloomy old dining-roowith the pictures; struck a match, set them them wmtehed burn to Leap year is only one in four, but candles flickering over its bare walls alight ana the insidious porch hammock swings and waging a losing battle with the ashes. As he sat staring, gradually he through them all. shadow s lurking in the corners. Only for her, the scene and setting might seemed to grow aware of the envelope Somehow it seems as if the more have been somber enough the stark lying in his lap. He picked it up and there is done for traffic the harder it walls, stiff old furniture, decorations gazed at it absently, as if his mind is to get across the street. and ornamentation severely in keep- still dwelt with the dead ashes of the the past with its disappointing with the taste of a day long gone; past its misunderstandings, its The American cigar was born 125 the grim gray figure that presided at ments, tragedy. the but present large family the head of the table. years ago, In a bold hand that wavered has many foreign connections. Banker Colin was a man out of the hand of an old whom life had squeezed most of the man the big envelope was addressed, His the Honor Arms are being shipped to Mexico, finer sensibilities' and coined them Into er, theres Rex jist spilin fr work, Does your wife always have the it is said, which is about on a par gold. The dreams of boyhood, the ro- curiously enough, to Jack Warhope! now that I dont ride any more sence Not to be opened mance of youth, the glory of manhood with the legend with wheeling wind to Chicago. these blasted fainty spells got t com-- last word? until his twenty-firs- t birthday. a for No, indeed. I have It. It's yes. gone bargained away price. ' lers nothin t bender yu from After a Rather a sad winter for the old' Sitting there at his gloomy breakfast bled some moment the old man fum- takin u ride every Judge. day I reckon papers out of we te still time meanest man who put ashes table, a disappointed, weary old man, the got my saddle an things, them read envelope; through with aint we, daughter? his soul cried out to rue the bargain; where the children slid down hill. .v : : - i . to trade back with fate. But none great care; replaced them; sealed the v'' 4 Saddle and bridle and all, she anand put It in his pocket. Then There are signs that the jazz age had learned the lesson better than he envelope swered. And it will be such a pleashe walked to the safe; dropped the ure, she went is weakening, a Philadelphia woman that fate trades not back; that there on, turuing to the locket behind some papers at he was doomed to sit, a hopeless empty having been convicted of murder. t show yu around joung the preacher, back of very closed the door; over our It; mourner over the dead ashes of the beautirul Flatwoods. locked it and strayed aimlessly out to Funny, no one ever thought of getWith such a guide, I am impatient the porch again'. The forenoon he spent in the small to ting more mileage out of the old boat go the earliest The shadows of the fine old trees In possible, by moving mile posts nearer together. room, busy with his papers, or in the t(,le preacher exclaimed effusively, were yard well eastward. creeping meeting people Who came to pay him The this afternoon now if you wilL preacher, still a truant from hls It is to be doubted whether a commoney or borrow it. The girl glanced at her father. In the afternoon he tried to take a studies, was with Texie at the spring. plete digging up of Sodom and GomorWhy not? he nodded. Just over rah will disclose much that is novel. nap, but so long had his mind beeu set wnere the the brink of the decline I dont like to leave you. e to the park-likyard dipped to its daily grind that it now ran on The old man tossed up his Land and orchard, he could see them the Every time the suns light goes into In spite of him a sort of mental en- girl on the a raspy sort of laugh all laughed rustic seat, the tall form that eclipse, the scientists hope it will gine whose clutch could no longer be of the the years had left him. ' minister young lounging against throw some more light on the Einstein released. The girl turned back to the a fork of the huge preacher. maple. Best ; a quiet nap they were no IV theory. y, yes if you wish, she said The drone of their voices carried up his. He longer had sord them part to the lonesome old man, at a loss how only you must- promise not t run Filipino Kills Girl, thus showing of the price he had paid for what? to spend the hours of his enforced aw'ay from me ; Rex is ever s much that understanding of American ways the privilege to pocket interest money ; faster than Brownie. to collect rents; to vrite his check. idleness, and the splintered ruins of which marks him as ready for Tlie preacher turned to look tvhat had once been a smile for a moagain Cheated again. The devil never loses ment chased the weariness from his at the tall bay, standing a few feet in a trade. back from the gate, where lie had old The poor old English language is beIt would be a hopeless task to trace craggy a battlement of a face. He withdrawn step by step as the minisdragged chair to a sunny spot of ginning to weaken under the strain of his thoughts as he thrashed about over the ter advanced. and sat down. porch keeping up with new wonders of King the bed and fidgeted the hours away. He certainly appears to possess The girl, hearing (he scrape of the Tuts tomb. His business; the farms; his squangreat speed. , sprang up. dered years all passed in review. And chair, the old banker repeated, a Speed! Father! she cried. Hes up. Fame often lies dormant. It took what was left? To sit by a musty winnote In his voice common to the throat over the Springing gnarled, exposed 3,000 years to let most people know dow and pile up wealth for somebody roots of the great maple, she hurried of every man in the Flatwoods when that there ever was such a person as else to spend. He couldnt spend It up the yard, half laughing back over speaking of his horse or dog, next t himself. He didnt know how. He had her shoulder at the preachers minc- Jacks Graylock at the homestead yontoiled so hard to make It that he had der, hes the fastest In the as ing he steps followed. In these bandit days, the poor pedesnever learned how to spend It an InShe flew to the porch, and In a motrian is much perplexed whether the finitely finer thing to know. ment her arms were around the weary Graylock the tired Warhope small sum he carries will arouse the Sleep he was never wider awake gray figure In the chair. eyes pinched together thoughtfully In his life. He floundered off" the bed holdups wrath or pity. a remarkable young man. Frgive me, father2 know at last, less rested than when he lay y u was up r Id a comeI didnt Scarce as hens teeth, his breed, sooner. Whatever became of the down, and stormed out to the porch-o-nly EconoiTy BJutima powam Aw, thats all right, he drawled. the old man returned warmly. Im to stand drumming a restless boy who found a thrill in turnCant expect young folks t waste doubtin if thers anybody along the ing sheet music while the Only Girl tattoo upon a post with his long bony ther time on old ones. Wabash that knows the woods like he ' played the parlor organ? fingers. No, no! Not waste. She smoothed does, unless it might be ol Nick The voices of Texie and the preach- his hair. Ive alwys ben glad he tuck to Im so sorry I frgot your er were borne to him from the rustic good day at home, too. em the way e did, and Ive encourinseat under the giant maple at WhisThe old man patted her face and re- aged irn. Thers nothin like the pering spring. He mildly wondered at assured her, In a voice that the people woods t make' a man of a feller. it; reflected that the genial day had who sorrowed his money had never Some prfessors came up her fom probably for once lured the young heard. down the river t study what they world's To assure prompt service and quick returns man from his studies, and sauntered theJ3AKINO Wy, child, I got up only a little called Native Flora on the homeotead powder to these advertisements mention the name of to back his bit in chair an the sitting ago, easy this paper. thought Id jlst set out on last year yu know, thers two thouroom the porch a while. Its kinda lone- sand acres of it, most of It layin jist A BARBER IN EIGHT WEEKS As he sat there, with the pulse and some in the house. as the Indians left It, and he keeps Write Moler Barber Col., 114 Regent St., S. L. purr of the wonderful May And do yu feel better after day borne yur coaxin me not t low an ax laid to a In through the open door, his mind nap? the girl asked, glowingly happy single sound tree. Therell be a forBUSINESS COLLEGES groping back over the distant past, a at his endearments endearments that tune in that oak and walnut some day. L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. g memory held him In retro- had been all too rare. Jack, hed ben writin to these School of Efficiency. All commercial branches. was his answer, with a prfessors, and theyd ben sendin im Oceans, Catalog free. 60 N. Main St., Salt Lake City. spection. Minutes long It held him; until It smoothed the lines on his face grimace at the Idea of the nap a books anyhow, they come up and BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES grimace that he suppressed just In tramped around fr nigh a week. and softened his hard old eyes BOOKS Anv book you want by mail, C. O. D He rose from the chair at last; time to keep her from seeing. One day one of em was talkin, t Good Deseret Book Co. 41 East So. Temple paced back and forth across the as new, I ben wonderin why yu me, and he said Jack knowed more floor a time or two; went into the never tuck Mr. Hopkins hossback about the woods than all the rest of SONGS & SHEET MUSIC small west room to hls safe, unlocked ridin. Yu aint even showed iin yur em put together. Well, thats him, SONGS new an(l old. All kinds. Sheet music by new saddle hoss, have mail. COD. Beesley Music Co. 57 S Main It; with a noticeable effort swung the yu? every time. I never did know im t r Brownie? heavy door open; fumbled Inside and But this Is Fr a wonder, I halnt. try anything but what he got it down CREAM WANTED SHIP DIRECT the first time hes ever about as fine as the next one." drew out a large envelope of stout ben at night and hes here, except Direct Cream Shipments Pay Most Money manila paper; unsealed; The old banker glanced up at the fumbled traveled s times much much and knows s much sun Send a trial can and out a small brought deeper slipping down the west and turned locket that ' I didnt low Blackman & Griffin Company, Ogden, Utah hed care about of gold; closed the safe, without lockto his daughter: Jhranct hosses. Weve jist ben talking about Well, if yure goln, yu better be ing It, and went back to his easy chair. Ken startin'. A long time he sat, with hls elbow Up to the minute Cleaning and Dyeing The old banker bent his head and Return postage paid chair-aron the Long years of active business life up his chinv propped fumbled with a loosened screw of the Kegal Cleaning & Dyeing Co., 156 E. '2nd So. had taught Banker Colin the value of in his palm; finally with fingers that chair-arThe girl out across promptness and decision had so trembled, he pressed in the catch of the wide bottoms to gazed the river. The ground these traits into hls nature It locket. the sprang open. There With it Flowers' Say preacher took out his handkerchief; that were two pictures inside a woman nervously brushed they had come to function autoFresh Cut Flowers at A11 Times away a speck of matically. and a man. But the face of the wom- dust from his coat sleeve; Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum 25c. put it back. an was not the face over the mantel Talking as volubly about the relaBrownie, the girl repeated after a Hobday s Flower Shop tive merits of Rex and Brownie as if In the sitting room; It was the face time, her eyes turning back from the KEEP EYES WELL! Keith Emporium Bldg. he were an agent trying to sell them, Hr. Salt Lake of the woman beneath the draped river to the Thompsons Eye Water will piously pensive face of and rubbing his bony hands In delight ?,t?1Ftheni.hemAtdrugKlstsor ling In the cabin under the crimson the preacher, would yu care t see U57 River. Troy. N. X. Booklet. at having his restless mind set once rambler what It had been in her girl- er? to more a definite hood. And the face of the man In the task, he led the It would give me the greatest pleasway to the lot and turned the horses locket was not the upstanding soldier ure, was his answer, in the studied BOSCHEES SYRUP above the sword and spurs, In the and faultless though somewhat stilted Into the barn. Allays irritation, soothes and heals throat The saddle and bridle were someof a colonel of Mounted Rangers ; diction of the period. and lung inflammation. The constant what stiffened from disuse when he irritation of a cough keeps the delicate Simon It was face Colin of the what I could talk yu t death about er. Our seeds tested and proved mucus membrane of the throat and tried them on Rex, but he had them It had been In the days of his young I should die happy, he answered. lungs Dealers in field seeds, seed limbered ins came and congested condition, which BOSCHEES up out manhood. leading the The girl was so artless and unSYRUP gently and quickly heals. For this grains, seed potatoes, The old man gazed at the beautiful, spoiled that the flattery, trite as It horse almost as soon as Texie had reason it has been a favorite household Brownie garden seeds in bulk, etc. ready. highborn face of the woman In the was. half pleased her. The native remedy for colds, coughs, bronchitis and (TO BE CONTINUED.) and again laid It to hls cheerfulness, subdued for a moment locket; again We solicit especially for lung troubles in millions of your correspondence homes ail over the world for the last grim old lips, held It close against hls by thoughts of her hapless brother, Carrier Pigeons. fifty, Write for Price Card seven years, enabling the patient to obtain breast suddenly, with a gasp, brightened again In her eyes. She Carrier pigeons normally fly at the Ifood nights rest, free from threw her arm about her father, rate of about thirty to thirty-siCache Valley Seed & Prod. snapped the locket shut. Co. miles with easy expectoration in the coughing A mighty spasm of pain had gripped dragged him up out of the chair and an morning. but when homing they can hour, You can buy Boschees Syrup wherever his side. He clutched It with hls led the way to the barn. reach a speed of sixty tail aa hoar itmithfield, Utah medicines are sold. bauds; fought fer breath. When Ul Brownie, a beautiful dark sorrel, or more. The Eok peace prize award no doubt left some of the contestants in a war-- I clean-limbe- d ly sweetens n legal-lookin- g , . , might-have-bee- I - wltat Millions Flat-wood- s. ofworaen have dost with - , Wlf-fie- Salt Lake City Firms Bi uniform, and dependable it never spoils any of t1 used gredients on balseday greatt far-flun- BIST BY TEST as Sate$2 cs that of any other Cuticura Soap Clears the Skin and Keeps it Clear - Save money on purchases tfni-for- m x W. N. II., Salt Lake City, No. 4. |