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Show stii! Titers aat the little Iuk at them with dumb itaihos. The three aucceeded In rolling the aafe with all Ita precious documents arranged within, out into the afreet. Nothing else mattered much to Gor-doHut other things were saved, and Jim gallantly tossed out everything he could lay his hands on before Gordon ordered everybody out for good and all. It was no longer aafe to bn within. Gordon was the last one out. He carried a battered little teakettle In bis hand. He looked at it in a whimsical atiriirlse aa if be bad not known until then that he had it in his hand. Obeying a sudden Impulse, he held it out to Louise. "Please take rare of nty poor little dream," he whispered with a strange, Intent look. Before she could comprehend the significance or give answer, the Judge had faced about. He bore the girls e SERIAL STORY ft LANGFORD the o THREE BARS By 3 KATE AND VIRGIL D. v. lUlMfngfct Sr a. U ScCIUI Ca., JM. J SYNOPSIS. fire-bug- of Cattle tlilevM diwpolling ram-lie- aiiiall Wllllstuii, Dakota. (Irene of runs Into midrsvuus ranchman, thlMVM on Island in Miasmirl river. They ranch. Slave etolen cattle fmrn Three Kar dnugli-KeIsnigford vialta Wllllalim and hla lie Inisr wliat and WIIIImKiii aeen to LaiiKtnrd, who determines tn rid 'country of tliievea. Jeaaa lilack liettilaWlllls-tun- 's Lanxfnrd falls in hive with so. dsuahlar, hut does nut tell her and Ijoulas Data, euurt steriiiaraiilier, K at email nines of Judin I title, visits of eounty aiterney, tlurdun, tn taka testimony In prellinliiary hearing. (Jurdun In lova with her. After preliminary 'falls osainl nation Wllllstmi'a lioma la attai-ke- r. wnd datended by his daughter and Outlaws lira biilhllng Just as ford and Ids cnwlsiys arrive. Oulluws rescues carry off Willlstnn but lauigford evhleme the dsughter. Wllhout Willlsllun Ulsck Is meager, and rase seems against (lnniiin to bo going agalnat the aisle, takca a night ride and llnda Will Injun, from raptnra. The .who haa recaped 'rourthouBA at Kamali tuisns at night. Wllllalnn hohla a tea parly in Ills rainm following court house Ora, and Mary and Louisa Itala attend. s Jfciuth iiut-law- s. at hlm-asi- 102-10- Wil-Jlst- CHAPTER XVI II- - Continued, cur. A strange elation took possession of him. She wae here. He thought of last night and seemed to walk on air. If he won out maybe but, fool that lie was! what was there In this rough land for a girl like Louise? "Oh, no, that will be too much trouble, gasped Louise, in some alarm and thinking of Aunt Helen. "Thanks, old man, we'll atay," spoke "He makes up Langford, cheerfully. excellent tea really. I've tried it You will never regret staying. Silently he watched hla friend in the Inner room bring out a battered teakettle, fill It with a steady hand and put It on the alove In tho office, coming and going carelcasly, seemingly conscious of nothing In the world but the comfort of hla unexpected guests. True to her sex, Ijoulae was curiousarly Interested In the house-keepin- g rangements of a genuine bachelor eslie-for- tablishment - Woman-like- , Plated Silverware o'cluek sharp ia the meeiiag note he said. Ws sell the best brands ef Plated Table-war- s LouIks was looking white made ia tha warld. Mars silver, beterable. ter patterns and the leagMt guaraatMB. I Prices aa lew as the aheap stuff. "You are not contemplating runn! sway, are you?" atiked Gordou. "Th ia unuwual weather really. She looked at him with s pitlf ( smile. "I should like to be strong site brave and euduring and caimble lilt 170 Mary. You don't believe it, do you. IAIN SE It's true, though. Hilt I can't, i'a weak and homeairk aud cold. 1 ought SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. not to have come. I am not the kind. You said It, you know. 1 am gidni NEW ROCHELLE TWELVE HOURS home Just as soon as this court aii over. I mean it." Waa Csrtalnly Isepy PaMsnger There was no mistaking that, fior Booked for Long Trip. don bowed his head. His face1 war white. It bad come sooner, than hr A man boarded a New Haven local had thought train about ten o'clock one night at All the records of the work yeater the Grand Central station and promptday had been burned. Therq, was noth' ly fell asleep. Nor did he wake until he had bad s nice, refreshing, lengthy i. It waa discouraging, uninter nap. Then, however, he sat up, g. But it had to be done. Dais alarmed, and took a look at the sured positively to adjourn. The rounding landscape. It seemed to uen were all here. So the little reassure him. He settled back come church was bargained for. If fortably in his seat Jnst then tho s had thought to postpone conductor came by. the events to gain time by last night's "When does this train get to' New work, they would find themselves very Rochelle?" asked the man. The church wsz The conductor smiled. greatly mistaken. morn"About ten o'clock long and narrow like a country school-housand rather roomy considering ing, he replied. that? the sixe of the town. It bad precise "This train gets tar New Rochelle at windows also like a country school-hous- e morning. We four on the west side, through ten o'clock which the flue snow was drifting, four leave New Haven at eight oclock, yoq The storm kept few at see. In other words," said the conopposite. home with the exception of the people ductor, pitying tho man's helpless befrom across the river. There were wilderment, "we passed New Rochelle enough staying In the town to fill the half an hour ago and dont hit It again room to Its utmost limits. Standing till were on our .'way back to New N. Y. Press. room waa at a premium. The entry York waa crowded. Men not able to get In The new law offices of State Repreploughed back through the cutting sentative Harry J. Robinson are in wind and snow only to return present- rooms Mercantile Block, Salt ly to see If the situation had changed Lake City, Utah, to whom all who So any during their brief absence. are In need of legal advice are re-- ' all the work of yesterday waa gone ferred. over again. So close was the pack of people that Sweet Temper and Bsauty. the fire roaring In the big stove In the Beauty of grooming, correct poise middle of the room was allowed to and ability to make ths most of one's sink In smouldering quiet. The heavy good points count for more than a air had been unbearable else. The beautiful face. Any woman with a snow that had been brought In on passable face may be attractive and tramping feet lay In little melted even be considered beautiful, if sha pools on the rough flooring. Men for- will cultivate the art of being well got to eat peanuts and women forgot groomed. "There are so many great things to chew their gum except one or two extremely nervous ones whose Jaws that go toward making a beauty moved the faster under the stimulus woman, said a of hysteria. Jesse Black was telling culturisL "The first thing we teach our patrons Is the proper use of tha his story. of 1st last toward the July, mirror. We teach women to look Along I took a hike out Into the Indian coun- hopeful, how to wear their clothes, how to make eyes shine, to lift try to buy a few head o' cattle. I the corners oftheir their lips, and to obs trade considerable with the around Crow creek and Lower serve what a pleasing effect is oblirule. They're always for sellln and tained. andAfter a time this becomes Isa the mirror watchfulness never hag- habit, If It comer to a show-downo longer nfccessary. Good nature is all lucre It about much goes the gle au essential to a woman who would for snake-juic-e anyway. Well, I landed at her best. Grouchiness, or appear at John Yellow Wolfs shanty along ill temper, is her own worst enemy. was 0th: noon and found there about Good nature depends, of course, very ers ahead of me. Yellow Wolf alryq on being wall dressed, and a was a papular cuss. There was Char- largely woman is nearly always lie Klghtblrd, Pete Monroe, Jesse Big Delineator. Cloud and two or three others whose 'TYPEWRITER onto. be I to did not PAPER8 for all happen mugs After our feed, we all strolled out to Typewriters. .Write to largest dealers the corral. Yellow Wolf said he bad for bargains. bought a likely little bunch from some PEMBROKE STATIONER? CO., Sak Lake City. English feller who was skipping the Ycomsna Homes. country starved out and homesick The housing problem In Elisabeths and hadn't put em on the range yet. He said J R was the English fellers day may have left the laborer in very brand. I didn't suspicion no under- primitive dwellings, but it gave noble hand dealin's. Yellow Wolfs always mansions to the great and to farmers treated me white before, so I bar- and country craftsmen pleasant homes of such durability and such charm gained for this here chap and three or that y to many of them stand four others and then pulled out for us shame Into less a contemptible home driving the bunch. They fed at of building than that which the home for a spell and then I decided to mode nineteenth century produced. CounOn I on the 'em the range. way put Life. fell In with Billy Brown here. He try was dead set on havin' the lot to fill in Lore of Vegetables. the rhlnks of the two car loads he was Garlic, onions, chalots and leeks shippin', so I up and lets him have have long been cultivated In almost 'em. I showed him this here all countries and their origin Is very from Yellow Wolf and made him uncertain. That of the scallion Is betout one from me, and that was all ter known. It grows spontaneously In there was to it. He rode to Yelpen Siberia. One finds chives In a wild and I turned on my trail. state throughout the northern hemi(To Be Continued.) sphere. she saw many things In the short time she was there but nothing that diminished her respect for Richard Gordon. The bed In the tnuer chamber where both men slept was disarranged but clean. Wearing apparel was strewn over the chairs and tables. There was a litter of magaslnes ou the floor. She laid them up agatyist Langford; she did not think Gordon had the time or inclination to cultivate the magazine habit She did not know to whose weakness to ascribe the tobacco pouch and brier-woo- d p!ie placed invitingly by the side of a pair of gay, elaboratemoccasins, cosily ly stowed away under the head of the bed; but she wae rather inclined to lay these, too, to Langford's charge. The howling teniiest outside only served to enhance the cosiness of the rumbling fire and the closely drawn blinds. Rut tea was never served in those bachelor rooms that night neither that night nor ever again. It was a little dream that went up in flame with the walls that harbored it. Who first became conscious that the tang of smoke was gradually filling their nostrils. It was hard to tell. They were not far behind each other In that consciousness. It was Langford who discovered that the trouble was at the rear, where the wind would soon have the whole building fanned Into flames. Gordon unlocked the door quietly. He said nothing. Hut Paul, springing In front of him, himself threw it open. It was no new dodge, this burning a man out to shoot him as one would drown out a gopher for the killing. He need not have been afraid. The alarm had spread. The street in front was rapidly filling. Ono would hardly have dared to shoot then If one had meant to. And he did not know. He only knew that deviltry had been in the air for Gordon that night. He had suspected more than he had overheard, but It had been In the air. Gordon saw the action and understood it. He never forgot it. He said nothing, but gave his friend an illuminating smile that Uingterd understood. Neither ever 8Kike of It, neither ever forgot it. How tightly can quick impulses bind forever. Outside, they encountered the Judge In search of his delinquent charges. "Im sorry. Dirk, lie said. "Dead loss my boy. This beastly wind Is your undoing. I'm not worrying, Judge." responded Gordon, grimly. "1 intend fur some one else to do that." "Helllty damn, Hick, hellity damn! exploded Jim Munson In his ear. The words came whistling through his lips, caught and whirled backward by the play of the storm. The cold was getting bitter, and a fine, cutting snow was at last driving before the wind. Gordon, with a set face, plugged back Into the room already Langford blT Munson followed. fire-licke- Gordon Unlocked the Door Quietly. back to the hotel, scolding helplessly all the way as they scudded with the wind. Hut Loulsf held the little tin kettlo firmly. Men knew of Richard Gordon that ulglit that he was a marked man. The secret workings of a secret clan had him on their proscription list. Some one bad at laBt found this unwearied ami doggedly persistent young fellow In the way. In the way, he was a menace, a danger. He must be removed from out the way. He could not be bought from It he should be warnud from It. So now his home his work room and his rest room, thea first by many hours dally the more In use, with all Its furnishings of bachelor plainness and utility, that yet had held a curious charm fur some men, friends and croules like was burning that he might be warned. Could any one say, Jesse Black has done this thing?" Would he not bring down proof of guilt by a retaliation struck too soon? It would seem as if he were anticipating an unfavorable verdict. So men reasoned. And even then they did not arise to stamp out the evil thnt had endured and hugged Itself and spit out corruption la the cattle country. That was reserved for d well-know- n half-breed- n d sweet-tempered- another. They talked of a match thrown down at the by a tramp, likely when It was past midnight, when the fire broke out with the wind a piercing gale, and when no vagrant but had long since left such cold com' fort and had slept these many weeks In sunnier dimes. Some argued that the windows of the might have been left open and the stove blown down by the wind tearing through, or the stove door might have blown open and remains of the fire been blown out, or the pipe might have fallen down. Hut It was a little odd that the same people said Dick Gordon's office likely caught lire from flying sparks. Dicks office was two blocks to westward of the and It would have been a brave spark and a lively one that could have made headway against that northwester. GIRL court-hous- e court-roo- court-hous- e CHAPTER XIX. The Escape. The little county seat awoke In the The morning to a atrango sight. storm had not abated. The wind was still blowing at blizzard rate off the northwest hills, and fine, icy snow was swirling so thickly through the cold air that vision was obstructed. Building were distinguishable only aa shadows showing faintly through a heavy white veil. The thermometer had gone many degrees below the zero mark. It was steadily growing colder. The older Inhabitants said It would surely break the record the coming night. An Immense fire had been built In Thither Mary and the Bltting-room- . Isuiiae repaired. Here they were and Gordon. Joined by Dale, "You should be out at the rafich looking after your poor rattle, Mr. Ingford." said Mary, smilingly. She now since a litcould be tle secret had been whispered to her last night at a tea party where no had tea had been drunk, gravitated toward her as naturally as steel to a magnet. He shrugged bis big shoulders and laughed a little. to-da- blll-o-sal- e LAWYER FREES HERSELF. Charged With Vagrancy, Wellesley Graduate 8ecuree Quick Releace. St. Louis. Evelyn Dorothy Clark, graduate of Wellesley, who later studied law at Vassar and whom the police charged with vagranry, so skillfully defended herself in court here that she won her discharge. It was rharged she failed to pay her bill at the Planters' hotel. What were yon doing in St. Isiuls? asked Assistant City Attorney King. "I refuse to answer on the ground that my auswer might incriminate me," she replied. "Objection sustained." pronounced the court. Who is 'Ned,' the Harvard student who wrote that acquaintance with you was so expensive that he had to get a job as telephone operator to recuperate hla finances?" asked King. "I decline to answer on the ground that the question is incompetent, Irrelevant and liumaterinl.' "Object inn sustained." ruNM the court. "Have you studied law?" Have you?" she parried. The Scribe will do everything that "The prisoner is discharged.'' Inter can be done. Honest, now, did you Judge Tracy, who had listened think this trial could be pulled off riipted to the legal duel with Impatience. without me?" light-hearte- d "Hut there can be no trial "Why not?" Cornered at Last! Scientists huve been grubbing ticntly, almost feverishly, for yeirs In the of tracing the etiology or If you did, we are all dreamers source hoji. of the growing scourge of c .a alike." cer, and al hough no convincing dits "Then how can you hold court?" have yet bten brought forward. It Is We have gone back to the time a general suspicion that the raj I? when church and state were one and prevalence due to overindulgetce Inset arable, and court convenes at 10 in Biaats. I rtroit News. dream the last night?" Did I court-hous- e burned His Position. Dean Ramsay once told of a young Englishman who had taken a Scottish shooting, and thought himself quits Next year he met a nationalized. genuine Scot of the old school at a and proceedGerman watering-place- , ed to pose as one himself, talking of Scotland and haggis and sheep's head and whisky, boasting of Bannockburn, professing devotion to Queen Mary, and extolling Scott and Burns over all English writers. On taking leave of his friend he said: "Well, sir, next time we meet, I hope you will receive me as a real countryman. Weel, said the other, I'm jest thlnkln', my lad, ye're nae Scot, but I'll tell ys what ye are ye're jest an lmprulved Englishman." Baldheads as Immunes. It has been said that there are no baldheaded men in the asylums for the insane. We suspect tkis Is true; at least, save for rare and unimportant exceptions. This la an Importo tant thing for the speculate upon; It may well furnish them food for serious and earnest thought . Church In church large Chattanooga, Tenn., has a thermometer fixed upon Its wall, whose highest point numbers Its entire church membership, and whose mercury is set at the number la attendance on the church prayermeeting. There must be something startling about this to look at In black and white If the church prayermeeting Is attended in proportion to Its membership as It Is in many of our Christian churches. It is said that ths church prayermeeting is a sure indication of the spiritual condition of tho church. Prayer-Meeting- A milford utah: The above named springs, while not extensively known to the world, are very well known to the people of Bea- ver county for the Virtue of their curative powers. These springs are to the people of Milford as the spring Silosse was to the people'of Jerusalem in the year one. For the past 30 years there has not been one case of any description of a disease treated by the waters from this spring that has not been benefited and cured. Rheumatism, especially inflammatory, yields to treatment by this water like ice to the August sun. While this water has been analyzed and shows the predominating ingredients to be salt; there is still some hidden virtue that the chemist can not pronounce by the common form of a test in analyzing water. This water, while mineralized, is much different to any other mineral or hot water springs, being a bright blue color and as soft as rain water. Xo matter how intense the pain, caused by rheumatics, it must yield to the first bath the patient takes takes after reaching the springs. The springs are located eleven miles northeast of Milford, in Reaver eounty, and are nicely fitted up to accommodate ten or twelve people. The prices are moderate, being from $2 to $3 per day ; special arrangements can be made by the month. The springs are reached by the Salt Lake Route to Milford and by taking a team from there to the springs. Why these springs have not been advertised and brought to The notice of suffering humanity is something unusual. For years people from the state have been visiting springs east, west, north and south, with inconveniences and heavy expense, when right at home there is a spring withont equal for curative powers in this or any other country.' Ten years "agcnrMTT Jacobs wrote a letter to Mr. Wm. Armstrong, then at Sinyths ranch, that he would send a friend who was suffering with rheumatics for him to take to the springs for treatment. Mr. Armstrong met the patient at the train on a Sunday morning and had to carry him to his house. After breakfast he hitched up his team, arranged a cot in the rear end of his buggy and he and his wife drove him to the springs and left him to be cared for by a colored lady, and drove back to the ranch. The following Sunday Mr. Armstrong and his wife, anxious to learn how the sufferers condition was, drove to the spring to see how their friends patient was getting along, and on reaching the spring found him out chopping wood and the following week the patient walked eight miles to the train and went home cured. Five years ago John Taylor of Frisco, from exposure, was taken down with inflammatory rheumatism and in a few days his entire person had swollen to twice its original size, suffering with pain and helpless. Mr. Henry Osborn of Frisco arranged a spring wagon with a bed, loaded him in and drove twenty miles to the springs. lie was carried and placed in the bath tub, and after remaining in the water 30 minutes was taken out, stood up and with the aid of one person, walked to his room and in ten days was cured and attending to his daily labor. Four years ago J. L. Moore, then assistant freight and passenger agent for the S. P., L. A. & S. L. route, after leing treated by the best physicians in Salt Lake City for two weeks withont relief, was taken to these springs and cured in one day, being able to be at his desk three days from the time he started to the springs, and it has lecn said that the springs did not only cure him of rheumatism, but made a preacher out of him, at least he is now a minister of the gospel in California. There is scarcely a month in the year that just such cases as the above are not cured by these springs, as well as a great many other ailments too numerous to mention. It has been the custom of the people of Beaver county to visit these springs with a camping outfit for all ailments, when they could not find relief from medical treatment. It is known to have cured rheumatics, eczema, catarrh, dropsy, hay fever, urinary troubles, asthma, gout, female diseases, blood poison, kidney diseases, scurvy, delirium tremens, piles, dandruff, lost vigor, and all kinds of blood and skin diseases. It has only been quite recently ihat the springs have been fitted up to take care of and accommodate the public and are now prepared to make an old man young. These springs can be vouched for by any person that has ever visited them for treatment, and there have been very many who have offered to testify to the good these springs have done for people, and any person requiring treatment to be derived from hot springs can in no place find water more curative than the waters from these springs. There is nothing artificial about them and no need heating of water or steam. wwn |