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Show WHY NOT WTO Hi Enjoy the iiIeaMiiri of bet Tea on the market ? In jour next the order, Kroeery but lirnily insist gently on Jiy ROBERT HEWLETTS TEAS 7UPIC BEMET SYNOPSIS. Tlie story openu with Hie shipwreck of the Mleuiner oil wliirh Mina Genevieve Leslie, an American lieliemi. Ixinl an Kiiglistunan, and Tom .Rlake, a lirumpie American, were The 1 irix were loaned upon an uninhabited laiand and wen- the only ones not drowned. Klake recovered from a drunken stupor, lilake. uhumied on the boat, becauae nf hia nmalineiie, liecaiue a hero as preserver of the helpless pair. The KiiKliahiiiaii waa aulng for tlie hand of Hluke alarted to awiin back Uim to the ahip to recover what waa left, lilake returned safely. Wlnthrope wanted hia laat match on a cigarette, for which ha waa scored liy Rlake. Their first meal wss a dead fish. Tlie trio atarted a ten mile hike for higher land. Tliirat atKlake waa compelled to tacked them. carry Mlaa lawlie on account of weariness. lie taunted Winilirope. They entered the jungle. That night waa passed roosting high in a tree. The next morning they descended to the open again. All three constructed hats to shield themselves from the sun. They then feasted on cocouiuits. tlie only procurable food. Miss showed a liking for Rluke. hilt detested Ids roiigluieaa. by Rlake they established n home In some illlYs. HIhIic found a freslf water spring. Miss I .exile faced an unpleasant situation. Win-tlirup- e. If you carry a $75 watch twenty five years the cost is twenty-fiv- e cents a month. You cant smoke xiuch on that. Be fair with your eelf. Buy a better watch. We sell - 170 IN SL cm una CHAPTER VIII. sea-bird- centrated malaria. 'Tin'll we iiiiisl They'll bo tjry In a day or two. Bay, Wluihrope, you might fetch gome of i hose sioiies size of a hall. I used H to be a fancy piiclter when 111 hrins brought Xlillanl mvt find wuier elseMiss rcKimndcd where." "Might we not Kiiectcd If we went on totlie oilier ridge?" riiat's Ihe ticket. You've got K hendphuv, Miss Jenny! It's Ion late to start now. Bui first tiling I'll take a run down that way, while you two lay ii round camp and see if you can twist some sort of fish-linoiii of eoconnut fiber. By braiding your hair, Miss Jenny, jou can for books." spare tm your hair-pin"But, Mr. Blake, I'm afraid I'd rather you'd take us wilh you. With that dreadful creature so near " "Well, I don't know. Let's see your feet ?" Miss 1.0811c glanced at lilin, and thrust a slender foot from beneath her Continued. Why Not Own 141 uUnit r3rm 1 was a kid. and we might scale up a rabbit or ThmisainNiif duller nuni'UlliiiHl noon iu liy irricnliou umli-- r Bonu-tniiig.- " Fifty Thousand Acres I play cricket stones uf unIn Uillunt rniinty mill lx- der L'an-- r Aei rules. limning ul l.ynn. Utah. (Lynmlyl P. (.) Muniliiy, April II, Seethe A cent at IfKiltaiii Snvi-t- . li'liune Kell Exchange JOj (or excursion rati-- " myself, lint these half-.mlle- 's skirt. "Uiii-n- i TESTED SEEDS TRUNKS CASES BUTT SEND foh catalog. MEREDITH'S TRUNK PACTORV Halt Lake Cily. Utah US B. Main Street LEATH FK HOODS. SEALS, lAIlli line Bubber Type Outfits, and stencils KK. TKADK ILCKS, Etc. Full suiilii-.- s in tuck. Mall ordeni receive pmiiipt atli'iitlun. SALT LAKE STAMP CO., Salt Lake City Crept Back k seemed In earnest. First call. Will you be my wile? Second call, Will you be my wife? Third and laat call, Will you be my wife?" Hia hand waa ready to fall; but at that Instant the young lady remem- bered that her suitor was an auctioneer by profession, so site answered Yes. The Dangers of Hair Dye. really tuink It's dangerous to dye the hair? I knew a fellow about Oh, very! your age who did it, and the first thing he knew he was married to a widow with six children. Something Really Important. Husband, what shall we call the Do you baby?" Oh, I dunno, said the professor. Dont bother me now. I'm trying to think up a name for a new microbe. Kansas City Journal. Ix-sll-e. -- j re Not to Be Intimidated. Papa, you simply must give your consent. Arthur Rays his blood will be on your lmnds If you don't. His blood on my hands? Why, that whltellvered puppy ain't got enough red blood in him to make a stain on a postage stamp." Behind the Scenee. want Aciress Tin1 kind of a lint Is one that will s- u- my complexion. Proprietor of Millinery Srore Tm sorry, but we haven't a liniidpafuied hat in the si ore.' 1 Mountain Colloquy. your husband get (lint terrible p-- nose working out in the asl.ed one woman. "No." answered the other. "That ain't Runslilip'. 'i nat's moonshine. Washington Times. A Did cun-shine- Remarkable. "And how do you find that Waiter chop, sir?" Fat Customer T really don't know how I happened to It was pretty I: ?" wasn't Tonkin small, now, Statesman. Down then-- . 1 heard a growl, and thought it about lime to clear out. "By Jove, we'd better withdraw around the point!" "Withdraw your aunty! There's no leopard going to tackle us out here in open ground this time of day. The If only 1 had a sneaking tomcat! match. I'd show him how we smoke rat holes." trampled bare as a floor. Mr. Winthrope spoke of rubbing "By Jove," said Wlnthrope; "see the tracks' There must have been a drove sticks to make Are," suggested Mias of sheep about.' "Deer, you mean," replied Blake, "Make sweat, you mean. But we bending to examine the dee mm- prints may as well try it now, if we're going at ihe edge of the pool. "These ain't to at all The kiiii'b hot enough to fry sheep trucks. A lot of them are eggs. We'll go hack to a shady place larger." and pick up sticks on the way." "Could you not uncover the brook? Though there was shade under the "If animals have clilT within some BOO feel, asked Miss they had been drinking here, one would prefer to go some distance to the nearest dry cleaner wuier." Here they wood a dead thnrnbush. "Sure." assented Blake. "If you're g'.thered a quantity of branches, even game for a climb, and can wait a few Miss Leslie volunteering to carry a minutes, we'll get it out of the spring load. Itself. We've got to go up anyway, to All was thrown down in a heap near get at our jKmltry yard!" the cliff, and Blake squatted besld" it, "Here's a place that looks like a In hand. Having selected the penknife path, called Winthroiu. who had cir- dryest of the larger slicks, he bored a of to the pool the hole in one side and cled about the edge dropped in a farther side. of powdered bark. I eying the pinch Blake, ran around beside him and stick in the full glare of the sun, he slum! at the tunnel-lik- e passage which thrust a Into the hole and began twig wound up the limestone ledges be- to twirl ft between his palms. This neath the overarching thickets. movement he kept, up for several min"Odd place, is it not?" observed but whether he was unHble to "IBooks like a fox run. utes; Wlnthrojie. twirl Ihe twig fast enough or whether only larger, you know. the right kind of wood or tinder was "Tiki low for deer, though anil lacking all his efforts failed to protheir hoofs would have cut up the duce a spark. moss and ferns more. Iet's get a to accept the failure, Unwilling look." close insisted Winlhrniie uimn trying in As he KK)ke, Illake stiuqied and and pride held him to the task climbed a few yards up tlie trail to an turn, sweat. until he was drenched wl'h overhanging ledge, four or five fee' The result was the same. over trail ran Where the up high. "Told you so, j erod Blake from this break In the slnjie the stone was hare of all vegetation. Blake laid Ills where he lay In the shade. "We'd club on the top of the ledge, and was stand more chalice cracking stones tie about to vault after 11, when, directly geiher." "Hiii what shall we do now?" asked beneath his nose, he saw the piint of "I am hei'oiulii'g very Miss dried in a great eallike paw. outlined mud. At the same Instant a deep tired of coroaniiis, and there seems to lie around here. Indeed. growl came rumbling down the rnx I nothing think iliis is all such a waste of rim." Without waiUng for a soeond If we had walked straight along warning. Bl.ike diew his club to him. time. the shore this miming we might have IBs mini crept hack down tlie trail. reached a town." hack ami furtive inevcinenis stealthy We might. Miss Jenny, and then, ward giar.c s tilled his companions iwiih vatu" tenor. He himself was again, we mightn't. I happened to overhaul tlie captain's clini - (Jui!i-nninhardly less alarmed. Mo.iimhi'pi"-- - that's til fur hun"C.et out of the trees ino the oiieli!" lie exclaimed in a bourse whisper, and dreds ef miles. Towns im this mast as i hey crept away, while with dread are about as thick as Leifs iccth." 'How about native villages?" def ihe unknown danger, lie followed at manded Winthrope. his chib backward, llieir heels, looking "Oil. jes; tn.iybe I'm fool enough to rallied in readiness to strike. Once clear of the trees. Wiii'liroi"' go i to a wild ni.'ger town wiiliout a gua. Muyho i didn't talk with f1'!-caught Miss lA'slie by tl;e band and down on ihe Itaml " iw broke into a run. In tlidr terror they "Bit1 wlni' shall we do?" t p'Ui'e.l 1o command Blake's to heed no paid Lo.-iiM;.--s with a Ii''ie f: igbti-istop. They hail darted off so iim v in Hu' voice. aieli Sic was at la.-- t not them did overtake lie that pecteilv in ginning pi realize what this i nd" -- hurt of B"i yards. ' Hold cm!" lie said, gripping Wln-II- : lucuk in her shelleied, ptinipcied lilt B.'a rope lonelily liy the shoulder. "It's might mi an. "What shall we do? ii's absurd to tlink of lrivlng to life enough here, and you'll knock out stay i.u this horrid country h r weeks that blamed ankle." "What Is it? What did on see?" or pci hups month:- - unless some ship cone s for ns!" gasped Miss Leslie. "Look here. Miss l.esiii hi.sw.ti d "Footprint." nminhled Blake. Blake, hui'ply ye1 net unkind!;.: "supof his Irialit. A lion's?" cried Winthrope. pose you just sit hack and i.sc jour a hit. If you're weir na idy's "Not so largo 'hunt the sire r,f a pumas Must he a leopnida den up ftaiiyhirr. you've pot hiuius sou vU-sli- Sold Again. The lore-elcyoung man dropped on his knees and rained hia hand. '"Elsie, will you be mine? Will you be mine?" he s&ld. The young lady gazed at her suitor In bewilderment. But the young man stocking torn; hut lliuse RlipiK'rs are tougher than I thought. Musi of the way will he good walking, along tlie head. We'll leave the fishing tu Iat er beg pardon Win! With ills ankle " "By Jove, Blake, I'll clianee the I ankle. Dont leave ftio behind. give yon my word, you'll not have to lug me. "Oh, of course, Mr. Win(liroie must go with us!" "Fraid to go alone, eh?" demanded Blake, frowning. Ilia tune start led and offended her; yet all he saw whs a politely quizzical lifting of her brows. "Why should I be afraid, Mr. Blake? she asked. Blake stared at her moodily, nut when she met. his gifze with a confiding smile, he flushed and looked away. "All right. he muttered; "we'll But don't exmove camp together. ited me to park his bids hip. if we draw a blank and have to trek back without lisal 1 - - s Wln-thrope- 's N Chicago. "This hurg is having an unusual number of Jobs by pickiiock ets," said a veteran detective a few I hardly understand rhe days ago. revival of this sort of crime, as the best of the 'dips' have been pretty well stowed away, and the complaints of 'lifted' leathers and tickers have been few until recently." By "dips" the old sleuth meant pickpocket. When he used the word "lilted" he referred to the taking of an article by a pickpocket, in the vernaculur of a pickpocket a pocket book is a "leather and a watch la n "ticker." A diamond is a "spark. 1 don't know where this mob comes from, as I haven't been working on the rases, continued the detective, "but It seems to be composed of a It may be pretty clever lot of dips. necessary to explain again that by mob the old thief-take- r meant a hand of pickpockets. These fellows usually work In pairs, and It Is not unusual for them to clear up several thousand dollars In a few- days. "if one of them falls, that is being e "Better'll a gun, when yon haven't got the gun. Come on. We'll go in a bunch, after all, In ease I need siones. and literature. T. C. Peck. i. H. MAXhKKKlKI.n, With due consideration for A crt. Pass. Gen. Past. Aat. Aat. Ill'll. ankle not for Winthrope Blake set so slow a puce that the walk consumed over half an hour. But Ids smouldering irritation was soon quenched when they drew near the green thicket at the foot of Gei Ntii arc tkc tree fcaaditioa af larga tlie cleft. In the almost deathlike Ik all about tells Oar kif Catalofac crap. or stillness the sound bast cdi that (tew. Sad for Fna Copy. of trickling water came to their ears, V06ELEB SEED CO..Satt Lake City clear untl musical. A spring!" shouted Blake. guessed right lA)ok at those green plants and grass; there's the channel where it runs out In (hi sand and It costs hundreds of dollars every year to dries up. -a TEST OUR SEEDS The others followed him eagerly a a But when yon buy them you can depend he Write The (orour pushed in among the trees. They Quality. they pomieai Pros Descriptive Catalog. saw no running water, for the tiny CO., Salt Lake City rtll that trickled down the ledges was matted over with vines. But at the MEN AND WOMEN to Learn foot of the slope lay u pool, some ten Harder Trade in Eight Weeks. Tuition, with set ol tools, & yards across, and overshadowed by the Tuition, with partial set of tools, SVi. Address surrounding trees. There was no MOHLER BARBER COLLECE and the ground was Halt Lake City, Utah underbrush, U Commeivlal Street PORTER-WALTO- I shape that to-da- panm-nnera- the best. AIT LA K believe my ankle will I could gu back for the string of cocoanuia which we dropiied on the lieach." else well "Ill go myself, have no supper. Now we're getting down to lied rock. If ihosc nuts have not been washed awuy by tlie tide, ; ami for two we're fixed for meals, such as they are. But what next? Kvcn the rain isiols will be dried up by another day or so." s An not good In eat? Inquired Miss Aslle. Bonie." Then, if only we could climb ihe cliff might there not !k another place? No; I've looked at hoth aides. Whai's more, iliat sinitted tomcat has got a monopoly on our water supply. The river may be fresh at low tide; but we've got nothing to Isdl water in, ami such bayou stuff is Just con"By morning lie in such What is your cigar bill? SLY Warns Against the Man Who Folds His Arms Danger Behind a Some Cut Newspaper Your Pockets. V. mrm umTmvm (orrusmT MS sr gw A.cnatic C9. CUARAMLtl A IS Veteran Detective Tells of tha Dips" Tricks. n-,- 0 AMES beiug sent, and refuse all Kiibstitntlon. T.nt PICKPOCKET I e. -- the Trail. wliere down under the hoarding-schoostuff." What do you mean, sir? Now, don't get huffy, please! It's a question of think, not of putting on air. Here we are, worse off than the people Of the, stone' age.' They had fire and flint axes; we've got nothing but our think tanks, and as to Ilona and leoiwrds and that sort of thing, it s rikes me we've got. about as many on hand aa they had." "Then you and Mr. Wlntbrupe should Immediately arm yourselves. "How? lint well leave that till later. What else?" The girl gazed al ihe surrounding objects, her forehead wrinkled In the effort at concentration. "We must have water. Think how we suffered yesterday! Then there is shelter from wild beastB. and food, and " All right here under our hands, if we had Are. Understand?" I understand about the water. You would frighten the leopard away with the lire; and if it would do tiiat, it would also keep away the other animals at night. But as Tor fund, unless we return for eocoanii's Dont give it up! Keep yniir thinker going on the side, while Iat lells us our next move. Now Hint he's got the fire sticks out of his head" "I say, Bluke, I wlsli you would drop that name. It is no harder to rb.v Winthrope." "You're off. there," rejoined Illake. "But look here. I'll make it Win, if you figure out what we ought to do next." Really, Blake, that would not be half bad. They er they called me Win at Harrow. That so? My Knglisli chum went to Harrow Jimmy Xiiirbrldcc." Ijord James! ymir clintii" He st u rled In like you. surf of tojs lofty. But lie chummed al right after I took out a lot r.f his British starch with a guod walloping." Oh, really now. Blake, yuu can't t xpi'Cl any one si'll brains to lielieve that, you know!" "No: I don't know, you know, and I don't know if you've gui any hra'iis. you know. Here's your chance to slur.v us. Wliat's our next move?" "Kenlly, now. I have hail no cxpcrl- ence in this sort of thing don't ire terrupt, pleare! It seems to me that our lil'St emieei n is shelter for the nlglil. If we should leinin to your tree nert. we shmi.'d also lie the eoeiui palms " Thai's one eid- - Here's tpn other. k.-ami Bar to wide in 'lien swampy ground 'liiK'iuinnu . thorn Jungle, (iuc-ithe bawls of l.i.'li ol you ate still sum fiiou-'by their In k " If only I hud a pot of col.l l CHAPTER IX. The Leopards vM1 -- : , j ' j err-aui- "If only I ;nl a l.ir.k of j him. "You ask me how to avoid having youv pockets picked. Well, I don't believe any man can give advice on that subject, it is bard to tell what style a )t('kM)ckct. is going to adopt. Usually he works in a crowd. The Jam on the elevated stations is a good place, but then generally Is a pRlr of fly cops on each of the loop stations at night, and the crooks know it. Then they get on the surface cars nnd work Ihe platforms. Several of the recent jobs have been done that way. "tine of the commonest methods nf mealing a diamond stud is tn get them with a pair of jffneers having a imrket into which the stone fails when It is cut off. The dip usually works from behind a newspaper. Of course, you ran'! watch every man with a newspaper on a street car, hut If you hare anything valuable about, you. It is well to do so. "A skllbul crook may use a knife blade to cut away th with razor-likpocket. Ki ep your eye on tlie man Ills lmnds nmy who folds Ills nrtns The Public Eye. be al rest or they may be engaged In in a little more we came to an open pirking pocket We call the mnn who robs women space. ery thronged. tlie a moll buzzer. While the victim Is "The Public Kye!" locking in a shop window or standing nie.'(. hone man of our parly. Tl.i ie were some riirbms people In a street car he opens her hand hag within tlie space, hut even more cc.ii-- : ami g"ls tin leather. There are not many of these jobs any more, for Oils were lliuse Just outside. In come wise" Of these bitter we thought certain women have women especially interesting; they Plum for Pittsburg Firm. were busily iieglfciing their fair.Fles The provim-- of Oniarlo has ordered la order tn g t into tin: Public Ke. A half-incaluminum pathos attached to another group of I.hnnioi) pounds nf women wlni Lad been in Ihu Public wire for the electric power line from Lye Hivl coubl never be happy out of Niagara Falls. The older, worth $400.-puto a Pittsburg firm. goi-it. thoiigli Hu y couldn't In the least t jerked if!" echoed Blake. "I say, why emihlii't we i banco It for tin' iiinht iiioinid on ihe face of die (nil ." a ked Winfliropo. "I no' id'll a pi. no where Ihe bulges Mo a ovtihiHiC ii'n.'-K- ' you think it prohuhi" thill any wild liea-- l Wuuh vetilu'e mi i lose to the sea?" "Can't s:ij. Indii'' s"c any tracks; i.i,-li- t . Next?" so wo'll chance it for 111 d ! ! h. l.isli'. arrested, there generally la a fund out of which bis lawyer's fees are paid, nnd the rest of the gang stands by him, making every effort to clear ; i x Mis.-- Some Methods of Pickpockets. esii-iiiu'in- g niii-laii- Right'd BILK Blake made a successful irip fur the abandoned cocoanuts, his companions leveled the stones beneath the ledges chosen by Winthrope, and gathered along the talus enough dried to soften tin1 hard Isuls. Soul hud by the monotonous wash of tlie sea mining the rocks, even Miss ieslii' slept well. Blake, who had insisted i hat she should retain his coat, was wakened by the chilliness preceding tlie dawn. Five minutes later they stalled on llieir journey. The starliglit glimmered on the waves and shed a faint radiance over i lie rocks. Tills and their knowledge of tlie way enabled them to pick a path along the foot of tint cliff wiiliout difficulty, (luce nn the tieacli, they swung along at a smart gait, invigorated by tlii' eon air. Dawn found them half way to their goal. Illake culled a halt, when tlie first red streaks shot up tlie eastern sky All aloud waiting mil II the quirk y following sun sprung forth from tlie sea. Blake's first act was to glance from one headland to Hie oilier, His llieir relative dislaiieim. grunt of s.'it isf net lou was lost In Win-- t hrope's excliiinutiiu): "By .love, look at Ho.' calile! " Tu I :t : I'fiNTixt'Kii. sea-wee- m-a- toss---s!i;i- Den. I j J ' i j (ell why. Pnsi'iicly funny were a few men who ki pt trying, by a vatiety of droll devices, to break into the Public I've our "Vlce-prsidential candidates" Buck. megaphone man explained Always the Fashions. "Yes; I am going abroad." "And how are you going to arrange ymir itinerary?" "1 understand coronit braids are the latest thing" |