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Show THE MIDVALE MESSENGER, MIDVALE, UTAH Thankful for Small Favora. The other evening a young matron was scolding her husband for having forgotten to observe their fifth wedding anniversary. Her single sister, a town schoolteacher, happened to come to their house iu time to Lear a great part of the lecture. At Its end she turned to the defense of her brother-in-law- . I think you should be thankful enough for having had the wedding without expecting anniversaries," she told her sister. Jacqueline of Golden River By VICTOR ROUSSEAU 8 XV Continued. 12 went on and on through CHAPTER And so I the darkness and with each step toward the chateau my resolution grew. My elbow grated against the tunnel wall. I stepped sidewise toward the renter and ran against the wall opposite. The light of the stars was dear In front of me and the cold wind blew uion my face, and I' squeezed through Into the same scooped out hollow which I had entered on the same afternoon during the course of my journey toward the chateau. The little river gurgled at my feet, and in front of me I saw a candle flickering in the recesses of a cave, so elfinllke that I could distinguish It only by shielding my eyes against the moon and stars. I grasped my pistol tightly and crept noiselessly forward. If this should be Lerouz, as I was convinced it was, I would not parley with him. I would shoot him down In his tracks. As I stepped nearer him my feet dislodged a pebble, which rolled with a splash Into the bed of the stream. The man started iad spun around, and 1 saw before me the pale, melancholy features of Philippe Lacroix. -- CHAPTER XVI Louis dEpernsy. Tie uttered an nnth and took two steps backward, but I saw that he was unarmed and that lie realized his helplessness. lie flung his hands above his head and stood facing me, surprise and terror twisting his features into a grimacing grin. I have something of importance to say to you, monsieur, he began. "I can believe that I answered. It is about le VIell Ange, Is It notr By God, I did not mean I swear to you, monsieur listen, monsieur, one moment only, be stammered. Lower your pistol. You see that I am unarmed!" I lowered It. Well, say what you have to say," I said to him. Leronx Is a devil I" he burst out, with no pretended passion. I want you to help me, M. Hewlett and I can help you In n way yon do not dream of. M. Hewlett how much do you think this seigniory is worth T Some half a million dollars, perhaps." He came dose to me and hissed Into my ear: Monsieur, there Is more gold in these rocks than anywhere in the world I Look here! Here I" He Btooped down and began tossing pebbles at my feet. But they were pebbles of pure gold and each one gf tlu-iwas ns large as the first joint of my thumb. And I bad misjudged his courage, I think, for it was avarice and not fear that made him tremble. It Is everywhere, monsieur!" cried In this stream, in these Lacroix. hills, too. You can gather a mortarful of earth unywhere and It will show color when it is washed. We found this place together " You and Leroux?" No! I and" He broke off suddenly and eyed me with furtive cunning. Yes, ys, monsieur, Leroux and L And we two worked here together, with nothing more than picks and shovels and mortars and pestles, Leroux ami I. There was nobody else. It Is the richest gold deposit in the world, M. Hewlett, and neither Baoul nor Jean Ietitjean knows the secret only Leroux and I. One cannot light upon this place save by a miracle of chance, such ns brought you here. God put this treasure in these hills, and he did not mean It to he found." I grasped him by the shoulder. Do yon see whnt this means?" I shouted. It means a glorious life I be cried. All the wealth in the world " No, it means death! I answered. It means that If Leroux succeeds In killing me he will kill you tool Do you suppose that he will share his hoard with you? No, M. Hewlett," answered Lacroix quietly. And that is precisely what I wanted to say to you. You are not a hog like Leroux; I can trust you. Gome with me, monsieur. I dont know how you got Into the wrong passage but It Is simple straight ahead. Come with me t I will precede you. I followed him into the darkness, sad very soon heard the sound of the cataract again. And then once more I was standing at the tunnel entrance, under a brilliant moon and the chateau was before me. I strode steadily across the snow and opened the door In the dark wing, entered the hall and ascended the stairway, took the turn to the right and passed through the little hall. I heard Lerouxs harsh voice within, and If I stopped outside It was not in indecision but because I meant to make sure of my man this tmie. I want you, Jacqueline," I beard blm say In a voice which betrayed no throb of passion. And I am going to have you. I always have my way. I am not like that weak fool Hewlett It was I sent him away, not you, Do you think he was she cried. afraid of you? I oninx looked at her lu admiration. OUTrilkl, W. U. Ula You are a splendid woman, JacqueCHAPTER XVII, I like the way you line, he said. defy me by heaven, I do! But you The Little Dagger. are quite at my mercy. And you are Leroux staggered back against the going to yield 1 You will yield your wall and sfbod there, scowling like a will to mine ' devil. It was evident that my answer Never! she cried. I will fling had been totally unexpected. myself into the lake before that shall Did you know this, madame? cried Ah, monsieur her voice Leroux fiercely to Jacqueline, happen. took on a pleading tone why will Yes, she replied. you not take all we have and let us You lied to shield yourself? go? We are two helpless people; we No, to shield him, she cried. Beshall never betray your secrets. Why cause he was my only friend when I must you have me toor was helpless in a strange city. You Because I love you, Jacqueline, did not steal my money, did you, he cried, and now I heard an under- Paul? she added, turning swiftly upon tone of passion which I had not sus- me. No, you have paid me. You were keeping it for me. pected In the man. He caught her in hla arms. She utYou lie, d n you I yelled Le tered a little gasping cry and struggled wildly and Ineffectually in his grasp. I was quite cold, for I knew that was to be the last of his villainies. I entered the room and walked up to the table, my pistol raised, aiming at his heart, and I felt my own heart beat steadily and the will to kill rise dominant above every hesitation. Leroux spun round. He saw me, and be smiled his sour smile. He did not flinch, although he must have seen that my hand was as steady as a rock. What, you again, monsieur?" hs You have come asked mockingly. back? You are always coming back, aren't you?" I have come back to kill you, Leroux," I answered, and pulled the trigger six times. And each time I heard nothing but the click of the hammer. Then, with his bulls bellow, Simon was upon me, dashing his lists Into my face and bearing me down. My puny struggles were as Ineffective as though I had been fighting ten men. He had me on the floor and was kneeling on my chest and in a trice the other ruffians had come dashing along the hall. Jacqueline was beating with her little lists upon Lerouxs broad back, but he did not even feel the blows. I heard old Charles Duchalne's piping cries of fear, and then somebody held me by the throat and I was swimming In black water. Bring a rope, Baoul 1 I heard Simon calL Half conscious, I knew that I was being tied. I felt the rope tighten upon my wrists and limbs; presently I the Features of ippe Lacroix. Saw Before Me Phil- i opened my aching eyes to find myself trussed like a chicken to two legs of the table and Leroux was standing over me, perfectly calm. Ah, Paul Hewlett you are a very poor conspirator Indeed, he said, to try to shoot a man without anything In your pistol. Do you remember how affectionately I put my ann round you when you were sitting In that chair writing your ridiculous check? It was then that I took the liberty of extracting the two cartridges. But I did think you would hove sense enough to examine your pistol and reload before you returned. He picked up a scrap of newspaper from the table and held It before my eyes, deliberately turning up the wick that I might read It I recognized It at once. It was the clipping from the newspaper, descriptive of the murdered man, whir I had cut out In the train and placed in my pockelbook. You dropped tills, my friend, when you pulled out your pockutbook," said You are a very poor conSimon. spirator, Paul Hewlett. Well? Well? I repeated mechanically. Who killed him? he shouted. He shook the paper before my eyes and then he struck me across the face with it Who killed Louis dUpcrnny? he yelled, and Jacqueline screamed In fear. I did, I answered after a moment. oil-la- roux, and he struck her across the mouth as he had struck me. I writhed in my bonds. I pulled the heavy table after me as I tried impo-tentl- y to crawl toward him, sending the wheel flying and all the papers whirling through the air. I cursed Leroux as blasphemously as be was cursing Jacqueline. And at the door was the pale face of Philippe Lacroix. Leroux turned on me and kicked me savagely and dragged the table to the far end of the room and struck me repeatedly, while I struggled like a madman. The oaths and execrations that streamed from my lips seemed to be uttered by another man, for I heard them indifferently, or rather something that was L deep In the maze of my personality, heard them not that pitiful, puny, goaded thing that fought In Its bonds until it ceased, panting and exhausted. There followed a long silence, while Leroux strode furiously about the room. At last he stopped ; he seemed to have made up his mind. I saw Jacqueline looking at me. I would not meet her gaze, but at last her persistence compelled me. Then I saw her glance toward the walL The two broadswords hung there within arms reach, above the broken mirror. My heart leaped up at the thought of her valor. She had no mind to yield. But I shook my head Imperceptibly in answer and looked down at my bonds. I had been trying hard to devise some method of freeing myself. My struggles had relaxed the ropes around my wrists sufficiently to allow my hands two or three Inches of movement, and I hoped, by hard work, to loosen them sufficiently to enable me to get at least one hand free. Then I felt that something hard jvas pressing Into my back, just within reach of my right thumb and foreI let my thumb and finger finger. travel up and down it It had the form of a tiny knife with a heavy, rounded handle. And suddenly I knew what It was. It was the knife with which Louis dTpcraay hnd been killed! I could just get my finger and thumb round the point of the blade. The ropes scored deeply into my wrists as I worked at it, but I felt the lining give, and presently I had worked the blade through and had the knife out by the handle. But it wns made for thrusting more than cutting, and I had to pick the ropes to pieces strand by strand. Jacqueline had been imperceptibly edging away from her father and Leroux; she was now standing immediately beneath the rusty swords. And outside the door I still perceived Lacroix, motionless. It flashed across my mind that he understood the girl's desperate ruse, and that he was waiting for the Issue. I picked furiously at the ropes which bound my hands, and a long strand uncoiled and whipped back on my wrist Leroux seized Jacqueline by the wrists and dragged her across the floor to me. Look Look at him! he yelled. Into his face. Will you marry me If I let him go free?" No! answered Jacqueline. I swear to you that he shall be thrown from the top of the cataract unless you give your consent within five minutes. Never !" she answered firmly. I will denounce your father!" You can't frighten me with such stuff. I am not a weak old man! You will think differently after Charles Duchaine has been hanged In Quebec jail," he sneered. His words received a wholly unexpected answer. The dotard leaped forward, stooped down and picked up the heavy roulette wheel. He raised It aloft and staggered wildly toward Leroux. (TO BE CONTINUED.) A Pianist Why are some folks so set In their ways? There's old Opportunity, for Instance. For countless centuries she bus be jn knocking at people's doors. thing Why doesnt the nse the belt come around to the hack door or else peck on tbs window? Dally Thought Success Is counted sweetest by those who neer succeed. Emily Dickinson Doing a Mans Part What are you doing for our cause? asked a. suffragette worker. Doing?" replied the man. Tra supporting one of your most enthusiastic raeiuliera. One little flower to s living man la worth more than a wugou load of floral emblems to a dead one. Tne pill of experience Is seldom ar coated. sup Don't Poison Baby. Cow 8Hould Be Fed 8o That Greatest Possible Amount of Feed Goes to Supply Milk. (Prepared by the United States Deport meat of Agriculture.) Many owners of cows are confronted with the problem of supplying ecorations for nomical Under these conditions their cows. there Is s strong temptation to cut down on the amount given to each animal. The total quantity of feed must be sufficient, and If the concentrates are cut down, more and bettor roughage must be supplied. The reduction of feed below a certain amount alawys means a reduction In (be amount of milk the cow produces. There may be exceptional cases where the owner la feeding more thun Is necessary for the maximum milk production, but the greatest danger is the other extreme. The cow requires n certain amount of feed to maintain her body. The amount she receives above this maintenance ration goes either to meat or milk production. The cow should be fed so that the greatest possible amount of feed to nctuul milk production. A go.-few simple rules are offered to this s end. 1. Highly specialized cows, which never curry excessive fat and are per- sistent milkers, being dry only a month or so, should receive all they will consume. With such cows economy in feeding Is equivalent to liberal feeding. 2. With general-purpos- e cows, or those which tend to beefiness, the dairyman must adjust his feed strictly to the milk produced, or he will find iiig feed going to form fat Instead Cows of this nature, the of milk. milk from which contains about 5 per YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce and a FEW DBOFS TOO MANY will produce the BLEEP FBOM WHICH THEBE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined far life by piregorio, laudar md morphine, esoh of which is a uorootio product of opium. Druggists are prohibited fcom filing either of the narcotics named to children at oil, or The definition uf narootio them poison. to anybody without steep, but tchxch in poiton is: nAmadfefM tcMe relieves pain and produces cm data prodveee stupor, coma, eoitwmoM and death." The tame and and sold under the namee (mn of ntedinin armtiuning opium are disguised, of Drops," Cordials," Soothing Syrups, eta. You should not permit any wMMlirfiMi to be given to your children without you or your physiols know at what it Is composed. - C ASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, If it beam the signature . of Chao. H. Fletcher. genuine Casterlm always bears the signature of1 FBTY Admirer of Idleness. Canadian Land Grows in Value. In the annual report of the Canadian Dat League of Nations Idea sort rt bureau of statistics, recently issued, gets to my sympathy In one way," reIs appears that the average value of marked Plodding Pete. farm land In the Dominion, Including Whnt dye mean? Inquired Meats-derinMike. Improved and unimproved land and "A lot of people is Bayin It cant b buldlngg, waa $40 an acre In 1918. Tbe average was $44 In 1917, $41 In 1916, made to work. $40 In 1915, and $38 In 1914. If a man Is unuhle to stand prosperIts Kind. ity he should sit down and enjoy It. Cities now have a new sky line." How so? Proverbs are but the offspring of They have a dirigible route. practical experience. g SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY BRINGS -- SURE RELIEF For 200 years GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil hss enabled suffering humanity to withstand attacks of kidney, liver, bladder and stomach troubles and all diseases connected with the urinary organs, and to build up and restore to health organa weakened by disease. These most important organs must be watched, because they filter and purify the blood: unless they do their work you are doomed. Weariness, sleeplessness, nervousness, despondency, backache, stomach trouble, pains in the loins and lower abdomen, gravel, rheumatism, sciatica and lumbago all warn you of trouhla with your kidneys. GOLD MEDAL Hssriem Oil Capsules are the remedy AS IT LOOKED TO BROTHER cent of butterfat, should receive what roughage they will clean up and one pound of grain for every three to three and a half pounds of milk produced. When the milk tests about 3 per cent, the cow should receive one pound if grain for four to four and a half sounds of milk. 3. Dry cows should receive feed enough to insure their being in good, condition when thrifty they freshen. Toor cows drop wonk, puny calves and will not produce properly, as they have to nse a part of the feed to build up the body. 4. Cows of a beefy nature should not be fed enough to make them fat when dry, as the dairyman does not receive returns from such feed, and excessive fleshiness tends to sterility. On the other hand there la little danger of overfeeding dairy cows which are not dry for more than one month to six weeks, as during this period any flesh put on and not essential to bodily vigor will bo turned Into milk when they freshen. miik-prodnci- PART at Mr. Corpulent Newrich offered to finance the performance of Ills daughters' dramatic society, and his announcement was received with acclamation. Bnt when he added tbe provision that he paid the expenses on condition that he wns given a part the Joy di- minished. Mr. Newrich wns well endowed with wealth, but his vucubulary did not include a single h. They argued, but Mr. Newrich stood firm. No part, no money, was hla decision. At lust they hit on a plan. He wan to come on in llie second scene and .'ii'-- t l!e eou'il not go Key fur wrong with : hut. Mr. New rich was witlsfled. lie would be iu evidence at Slli-nre!- the performance. Tlie great day arrived nnd nil went well until tlie curtain rose on tlie second KCPIif. From the wing strode Sir. Neurlch. Holding up his linnd, lie uttered onn word : 'Ush ! London Answers. To a Fault. Cruel but Practical Limit. He's generous to a fault." Mistress Are you willing to serve What do you mean by that? He doesn't care wliat clothes his humanity? two in the family, ife goes without so long ns lie can Bridget-O- nly bead a subscription list muin. 5H5HS25E5HSaSE5E52S25S5HS2SE5HSaS25asaSH Every Tear Sees An Increased Demand for Postum, from coffee drinkers who realize a change in habit will bring better health. EULLS The Original When Six Months of Age They Should Bo Separated From Females Don't Retard Growth. Postum Cereal After the bull is six months of age be should be kept apart from the females. If well grown and vigorous, ho may be used for occasional service when ten months of age. It Is a safer use the young plan, however, not to bull until he Is twelve months of age so that his growth will not he retarded. One rule to follow regarding the number of cows with which a young bull may may be mated Is that the bull serve during a season ns many cows as he Is months of nge. In herds where the services are distributed throughout the year, Instead of during a particular In Season, the number may he greater. necesbull one being but cases some 40 to SO cows. sary for a herd of HIS A Muncie family is contemplating tbe remodeling of its bouse. Several architects have been calling with plana during the last few days all very successful architects, too. Tbe other day one who looked especially good to the younger children arrived. That noon they discussed him at the family table. Oh, hes rich, ventured one of the youngsters. Why?" smiled the eider sister Just twenty. Why he looks so prosperous, came back the answer, to the amusement of the rest of the fuinlly. That afternoon the architect tn-return trip nnd displayed ids p'nus tc the elder slstpr. 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