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It costs twenty-fiv- e cents a month to carry one of our $7500 watches If It only wears twenty-fiv- e years Without abuse It will wear twice long 170 SALT LAKE CITt St UTAH Why Not Own rm H !1 r Thousands of acres choice agricultural land belnpr brouRht under cultivation ifl Millard and Heavereouuties by irrigation C Fifty Thousand Acres In Millard county will be disposed of under Carey Act rules- Drawing at Lynn Utah (Lynndyl P O) Monday April 11 See the Agent at Mam Street (Phone Bell Exchange rates lfij for excursion and literature T C Peck J H Maxifrfieu Gen Puss Agt Asst Gen Pass Agt seed are tie true foundation of large Our big Catalogue tell all about tbe Good crop bet eed that grow Send for Free Copy VOGELERSEED CO Sail Lake City TESTED SEEDS It costs hundreds of dollars every year to n m TEST OUR SEEDS mmmm But when you buy them you can depend Write for our they possess The Quality Fro Deaeriptivo Catalog CO Salt Lake City - RUBBER STAMPS CHECKS Etc Full line Rubber Type Outfits and supplies in stock Mail orders receive prompt attention SALT LAKE STAMP CO Salt Lako City Asking Too Much The mother of little Mary had told her a number of times not to hitch her sled to passing sleighs a was dangerous pracfeeling that It tice s It was such fascinating sport however that Mary could not resist saw her go one mother her It and day skimming past the house behind a farmer’s “bobs” When she came In from play she was taken to task her mother saying severely “Mary haven’t I told you that you must vnot hitch onto Besides bobs? you know It Is against the law" “Oh” she Mary tossed her head said “don’t talk to me about the law It’s all I can do to keep the Ten Commandments!” — Woman’s Home Companion His Discovery The small son of the household had Just been Initiated into the art of cleaning his own teeth with the soft little brush his mother had bought for him Hearing the baby cry lustily a few minutes later the mother ran into the nursery only to find the nursing bottle on the floor and Johnny toothbrush in hand leaning over the cno of the screaming infant fc0n muvver!” he cried anxiously “baby must have been horned wifout any toofs” — New York Times Pretty Long Mrs Gabbel — “What do you think George? When the doctor called the other day heasked me to put out my tongue and when I did so he quite hurt me He Mrs Gabbel (Interposing — “Did he step on it?” — Chicago Examiner The Trouble With It “There is only one trouble with your play” said the manager “What’s that?’1' asked the eager “Isn’t there enough acdramatist tion in it? Does it lack situations? Don’t you find the dialogue bright enough? Or do you find that the moral is brought out as clearly as you could wish?” “Oh it’s all right in those respects but I’m afraid it couldn’t be novelized If It should make a hit" Three Versions “How far Is it between these two towns?” asked the lawyer “About four miles as the flow cries” replied the witness “You mean as the cry flows” “No” put in the judge “he means as the fly crows” And they all looked at each other feeling that something was wrong— Every body’s A Princely Gift "What was the bride’s father’s present to the happy couple?” “An order on the butcher for our pounds of slrlpijx sjeak” curious Mr Blake but I assure you I did not look inside though — ” “Let me — give It here — quick!" gasped Blake Startled by his tone and look Misk Leslie caught an oval shaped object from the side pocket of the coat and thrust it into Blake’s outstretched hand For a moment he stared at it unable to believe his eyes then he leaped up with a yell that sent the droves of zebras and antelope flying into the tall grass “Oh! oh!” screamed Miss Leslie "Is it a snake? Are you bitten?” "Bitten? — Yes by John Barleycorn! Must have been fuzzy drunk to put it in my coat Always carry it In my What a blasted Infernal fob pocket Idiot I’ve been! Kick me Win — kick me hard!” “I say Blake what is it? I don’t quite take you If you would only — ” By "Fire! — fire! Can’t you see? We’ve got all hell bfcat! Look here” He snapped open the slide of the ROBERT AMES BENNET supposed locket and before either of his companions could realize what he would be about was focusing the Illustrations bj lens of a surveyor’s magnifying glass RAY WALTERS upon the back of Winlhrope’s hand The Englishman jeiked the hand away — by A C iicClurg & Co) (Copyright “Ow! That burns!” SYNOPSIS Blake shook the glass in their bewildered faces of The story opens with the shipwreck "Look there!” he shouted "there’s the steamer on which Miss Uen'vieve Lord heiress Leslie an American fire water there’s birds’ there’s an Englishman and Toni Maker were passengers eggs and beefsteaks! Here’s where we a brusque American The three were tossed upon an uninnab-IteWe’ll smoke trek on theback trail not Island and were the only ones out that leopard In short order!” drowned Blake recovered from a drunken stupor Blake shunned on' the boat “You don’t mean to say Blake — ” became a hero because of his roughness I mean to do! Don’t worry “No as preserver of the helpless pair The was suing for the bund of You can hide with Miss Jenny on the Englishman Miss Leslie Blake started to swim bark to the ship to recover Uiat was left point while I engineer the deal Fall wasted Blake returned safely Winthrope in” his last match on a cigarette for which The day was still fresh when they he was scored by Blake Their first meal was a dead fish The trio started a ten found themselves back at the foot of mile hike for higher land Thirst atHere arose a heated debate tacked them Blake was compelled to the cliff of weariMiss Leslie on account between the men Winthrope stung carry ness He taunted Winthrope They eninsisted words by Blake's jeering tered the jungle That night was passed roosting high in a tree The next mornupon sharing the attack though with to the open again ing they descended Much to Blake’s no great enthusiasm All three constructed hats to shield themselves from the sun to came They then feasted the supMiss Leslie on cocoanuts the only procurable food surprise port of the Englishman Miss Leslie showed a liking for Blake Led by Blake but detested his roughness “But Mr! Blake” she argued “you a home In some cliffs they established safe for us be will perfectly say it Blake found a fresh water spring Miss an unpleasant Leslie faced situation here If so it will be safe for myself They planned their campaign alone” “I can play this game without him” CHAPTER IX— Continued “No doubt Yet if as you say you Blake and Miss Leslie turned to to keep off the leopard with a expect movof animals stare at the droves ing about between them and the border of the tall grass Miss Leslie was the first to speak “They can’t be cattle Mr Winthrope There are some I do believe they’rfc with stripes zebras!” “Get down!” commanded Blake “They’re all wild game Those big fellows to the left of the zebras are eland ' Whee! wouldn’t we be In it if we owned that water hole? I’ll bet I’d have one of those fat beeves inside three days” “How I should enjoy a Juicy steak!” murmured Miss Leslie “Raw or jerked?” questioned Blake “What is ‘jerked?’” “Dried” “Oh no I mean broiled — Just red inside” “I prefer mine quite rare” added Winthrope “That’s the way you’ll get it damned rare — Beg your pardon Miss Jenny! Without firer we’ll have the choice of raw or jerked” “Horrors!” “Jerked meat is all right You cut your game In strips — ” “With a penknife!” laughed Miss Leslie Blake stared at her glumly “That’s You’ve got it back on me — Butchso "Bitten? Yes by John Barleycorn!” er a beef with a penknife! We’ll have to take it raw and at torch would it not be well to have Mr Winthrope at hand with other " that” of “Haven’t I heard bamboo torches should yours burn out?” “Yes if I thought he’d be at hand said Winthrope jtnives?” after the first scare” "Bamboo?” Winthrope started off almost on a “Im sure I can’t say but as I rerun At that moment he might have member it seems to me that the faced the leopard Blake sh-like glaze — ” “Silica? Say that would cut meat chuckled as he swung away after his But where in — where in hades are the victim Within ten paces however he paused to call back over his shoulder: bamboos?” “Get around the point Miss Jenny “I’m sure I can’t say Only I remember that I have seen them in oth- and if you want something to do try braiding the cocoanut fiber” er tropical places you know” Miss Leslie madeno response but “Meantime I prefer cocoanuts until she stood for sometime gazing after we have a fire to broil our steaks” rethe two men There was so much that marked Miss Leslie “Ditto Miss Jenny long’s we have was characteristic even in this rear the nuts and no meat I’m a vegetari- view For ail his anger and his haste an now — but maybe my mouth ain’t the Englishman bore himself with an His trim nicety watering for something else Look at air of all those chops and roasts and stews erect figure needed only a fresh suit On the other to be irreproachable running around out there!” at first careless observer a hand “They are making for the grass” observed Winthrope “Hadn’t we bet- glance might have mistaken Blake with his flannel shirt and shouldered ter start?” But there “Nuts won’t weigh so much without club for a hulking navvy was nothing of the navvy In his swingthe shells We’ll eat right here” There were only a few nuts left ing stride or in the TeBolute poise of came up with WinThey were drained and cracked and his head as he The thrope scooped out one after another last chanced to break evenly across Though the girl was not given to reflection the contrast between the two the middle “Hello” said Blake "the lower part could not but impress her How well of this will do for a bowl Miss Jenher countryman — coarse uncultured When you’ve eaten the cream but full of brute strength and courage ny put it in your pocket Say Win have — fitted in with these primitive surWhereas Winthrope — and roundings you got the bottle and keys and — ” herself — “All safe— everything” “Are you sure Mr Winthrope?” She fell into a kind of disquieted asked Miss Leslie “Men’s Her eyes had an odd pockets brown study seem so open Twice I’ve had to pick look both startled and meditative — ueh a look as might be expected of up Mr Blake’s locket” “Locket?” echoed Blake one who for the first time Is peering “The ivorv locket Women may bo beneath the surface of things and I SERIAL STORY zees the naked Realities of Life the real values bared of masking conventions It may have been that she was seeking to ponder the meaning of her own existence— that Bhe had caught glimpse of the vanity and wastefulness the utter futility of her life At the best it could only have been a glimpse But was not that enough? "Of what use are such people as I?” she cried “That man may be rough and coarse — even a brute but he at least does things— I’ll show him that I can do things too!" She hastened out around the corner of the cliff to the spot where they had Here she gathered spent the night together the cocoanut husks and seating herself in the shade of the overhanging ledges began to pick at the coarse fiber It was cruel work for her soft fingers not yet fully healed from the thorn wounds At times the pain and an overpowering sense of Injury brought tears to her eyes still more often she dropped the work in Yet aldespair of her awkwardness ways she returned to the task with renewed energy After no little perseverance she found how to twist the fiber and plait it into cord At best it was slow work and she did not see how she should ever make enough cord for a Yet as she caught the knack of (he work and her fingers became more nimble she began to enjoy the novel pleasure of producing something She had quite forgotten to feel injured and was learning to endure with patience the rasping of the fiber between came her fingers when Winthrope clambering around the corner of the “Hello!" he sang out as he heard their footsteps “Just in time Miss Jenny Your broiled steak’ll be ready in short order” “Oh build up the fire! ‘I’m simply ravenous!” she exclaimed between Impatience and delight Winthrope was hardly less keen yet his hunger did not altogether blunt his curiosity “I say Blake” he inquired “where did you get the meat?” “Stow it Win my boy This ain’t a packing house The stuff may be tough but it’s not — er — the other Here you are Miss Jenny thing Chew it off the stick” Though Winthrope had his suspicions he took the piece of flesh which Blake handed him in turn and fell to eating without further question As Blake had surmised the roast proved far other than tender Hunger however lent it a most apended petizing flavor The repast when there was nothing left to devour Blake threw away his empty spit and rose to stretch He waited for Miss Leslie to swallow her last mouthful and then began to chuckle “What’s the joke?” asked Winthrope Blake looked at him solemnly “Well now that was downright mean of me” he drawled “after robbing them to laugh at it!” "Robbing who?" “The buzzards” “You've fed us on leopard meat! It’s — It’s disgusting!” “I found it filling How about you Miss Jenny?” Miss Leslie did not know whether to laugh or to give way to a feeling of cliff nausea She did neither “What Is it?" she exclaimed spring“Can we not find the spring of which ing up and hurrying to meet him He you spoke?” she asked “I am thirsty" was white and quivering and the look "Well I guess the Are Is about burnt in his eyes filled her with dread out” assented Blake “Come on we’ll Her voice shrilled to a scream: see” “He’s dead!” The cleft now had a far different asWinthrope shook his head on pect from what It had “Then he’s hurt! — he’s hurt by that their first visit The presented largest of the savage creature and you’ve run off trees though scorched about the base and left him — ” still stood with unwithered foliage “No no Miss Genevieve I must inlittle harmed by the fire But many sist! The fellow is not even of their small companions had been scratched” killed and partly destroyed by the heat “Then why — ?” and flames from the burning brush In “It was the horror of it all It actu- places the fire was yet smouldering (TO BE CONTINUED) ally made me ill” “You frightened me almost to death CUPID RED TAPE MUST FIGHT Did the beast chase you?” “That would have been better In a Law in Ludicrous Mistake French I’m was it horrible! way Really Hard to Correct still zlck over it Miss Genevieve" “But tell me about it Did you set Curious difficulties occasionally befire to the bushes In the cleft as Mr set young people who wish to marry Blake—” A young Frenchman pro“Yes after we had fetched what we in France Mile Eugenie oould carry of that long grass — two big posed recently to The parents betrusses It grows 10 or 12 feet tall and was accepted and is now quite dry Part of it Blake gan colltctrng the mass of legal pamarriages made into torches and we fired the pers required for French bush all across the foot of the cleft Among the first to be obtained was Mdlle Really one would not have thought when Eugenie's birth certificate and they got it they found that she there was that much dry wood in so was She is put green a dell On either side of the down registered a boy in the big book as a male and rill the grass and brush flared like male she remains legally and admina tinder and the flames swept up the cleft far quicker than we had ex- istratively Her parents pointed out first that pected We could hear them crackling she was obviously de facto a girl and roaring louder than ever after the second that the Christian name of Eusmoke shut out our view” entered In the register was fem“Surely there is nothing so very genie inine and third that if she had been horrible in that” “No oh no it was not that But a boy she would already have been the beast — the leopard! At first we called up for the conscription being of heard one roar then it was that age The authorities replied that none dreadful snarling and yelling — most of these arguments were legally and awful squalling! The wretched thing administratively valid and that she came leaping and tumbling down the continued to be a boy Administrative reports procedure Blake path all singed and blinded fired the big truss of grass and the and a decision of the courts all a brute rolled right Into the flames It the parents’ expense will be required before the law acknowledges Mdlle was shocking — dreadfully shocking! The wretched creature writhed and Eugenie to be of the feminine sex and allows her to marry leaped about till it plunged into the When it sought to crawl out pool Canai That Russia Needs all black and hideous Blake went up Russia’s ministry of ways and comand killed It with his club — crushed in munications has appointed a board' of its skull— Ugh!” engineers to make preliminary surMiss Leslie gazed at the unnerved canal to veys for the Englishman with calm scrutiny “But why should you feel so about connect the Baltic with the Black sea The canal in the making of which sev“Was It not tha it?” she asked eral rivers will be turned to account beast’s life against ours?” will have its northern end at Riga on “But so horrible a death!” the Gulf of Riga 309 miles southwest “I’m sure Mr Blake would have pra of St Petersburg jvhile the southern ferred to shoot the creature had he end will be Kherson on the right a gun Having nothing else than fire bank of the Dnieper and 92 miles I think it was all very brave of him of Odessa When this Now we are sure of water and food project Is completed Russia may move Had we not best be going?” her own ships to and from the Black “It was to fetch you that Blake sea without asking permission sent me” Winthrope spoke with perceptible Things Have Changed stiffness He was chagrined not only No longer do a ring a thimble and a by her commendation of Blake but piece of money answer for a fortuneby the indifference with which she had telling cake for girls No indeed! The met his agitation day is long past when marriage They started at once Miss Leslje inheritance spinsterhood and rich In the lead As they rounded the point were the only careers open to the sex she caught sight of 4he smoke still A cake must have a rising from the cleft A little later bottle standing for either a she noticed the vultures which were tiny glass doctor or a trained nurse a little china streaming down out of the sky from doll meaning a teacher and aa many all quarters other than seaward Their other symbols as the ingenuity of the focal point seemed to be the trees at hostess may devise the foot of the cleft A nearer view showed that they were alighting in the Peril in Rainy Winds thorn bushes on the south border of That rainy winds have a marked efthe wood fect in consumption has been proved Of Blake there was nothing to be by 2U years of observation in Dartseen until Miss Leslie still in the moor and North Devon England The lead pushed In among the trees There death rate from this dease is much they found him crouched beside a less in the sheltered places than in small fire near the edge of the pool exposed localities His eyes were He did not look up No girl ever sees a riveted in a hungry stare upon several pieces of flesh suspended over the young man without speculatively wonflames on spits of green twigs dering whose sweetheart he is ' t'a |