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Show PTN1 ')TW HEBE1FL FIElSAEvI!).. VOL III Heber Wasatch Countv; Utah, Monday, April 30! THE HEBER HERALD. of any Jr Editor and Manager. Entered at Heber .Posioffice, as sec- A. Hatch ond class mail matter . SUBSCRIPTION PRICES. 1S03 No. South-Africa- n language. At sunrise, however, when I placed a cup of coffee to his lips, he looked up sullenly and in excellent Arabic asked: Is it poisoned ? I laughed drank a litttle and he drank the rest. -- You had better kill me," he mutter It is all you will ever get from ed, me. H ' One Year. . . ........... Six Months "'a . t ..... Three Months i80' I'm not sure that I care to take the $1.00 trouble, :I replied till I know why $0.50 you tried to'kill me. You do not know 40. 25 me do you?" t - THE KAFFIRS BEQUEST. :t;. sh. to a 3V X He was too powerful a man to allow us to run any risks, and before I investigated to see how badly he was hurt we bound him hand and foot. He revived during the operation, but with the dogged resign a ton to the inexorable which is always so well developed in the barbarian, he realized that he was trapped and offered no re- ' sistance. . f When he was Secured I sat down on the ground beside him .and tried to talk, but he was sullen. Indeed, I was not sure that he understood what I said for spoke in arabic knowing very little i i A savage fire gleamed in his eyes fo r a jn oni ent, as he - answered: You are Abd cl Ardavan. Oh, yes. I know you." You evidently know my name, I replied, but what do you know that should tempt you to kill me? Why there are not Kaffirs enough in all Africa to injure a hair on the head of Abd el Ardavan. If you know me you must haveimown that too.- , Such a sentence' does not bristle with conceit when spoken Arabic as it does when put into English. It is an Oriental custom to blow one's own horn in that fashion, and there was a look of real honest admiration in the African's eyes as he replied: I heard it long, ago, but I did not t ' |