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Show THE EPHRAIM ENTERPRISE. EPHRAIM. UTAH By-- DAVID ANDERSON I 73he a i 3 cA Tale of the Flat woods CepyHffct hr th BobWUerrill Coaptay VL did not appear to come from any tree, hut from some place down close to the water of another pool another spot Just ahead where the water stopped to WILD ROSE. ynopala.-Nev- r having known hie father, and living with his mother on -a houseboat on the h river,Pearlhunter the only name he has learns from her a part of the story of her sad life. The recital is Interrupted by a fear-fu- l fit of coughing. But Pearl-huntlearns how and why his mother left his father; also that be has the best blood of Virginia In his veins he, a pian without a name, a ffeahwater pearlhunter In tl,e Indiana flats of the Wabash river. rest. Parting the bushes with the utmost cuution, he crept up to the edge of the pool and peered forth. A woman a girl sat on a flat rock Jutting out from the opposite bank, her bare feet swinging In the water, her body bent slightly back and propped on her Wt-bas- er 'V.. CHAPTER I Continued. 2 Iler eyes opened ; she looked up at him with feverish quickness. Ive lived twenty years without the world. I'll not go back to It now. "But, mother. If we Just keep on this he hesitated at way, youll youll the next word , finally let It fall d!e." Die she seemed to fondle the A small thing to die! word. She sat musing as If she found a melancholy comfort In the thougl t. But I shant die, she continued, with a hasty glance up at Ids face. My cough Is worse today because my medicine Is gone. The young man started. Your elecampane gone! I took the last of It yesterday." Mother He went to the cook stove and lifted the saucer from a small Jar In which the roots were 'usually steeped.. It wus empty and Off. There was a great voice as he came hack and bent ovec. her chair. You Khali iqive your elecampane tea," he said "if the roots are to he found In the riatwhodj and jmu tonight in the oldcIiTjTn upThere under the cool trees." A ripple of pleased expectation, of Interest, broke the drear surface of the weary face like a faint glow back of a curtain that never raises. He refilled the cup with cool water, rummaged a spade out of the locker under the forward deck, and was Just on the point of leaping to the bank when he heard her speaking, lie poked his head hack Inside the curtains, and she repeated wlmt she had Just said : Isn't the Flntwoods where the Wild Man Uvea? Seems to me I once heard that there Is such a man In these shijJP-slee- d A woods. He felt carelessly along the rusty hit of the spade with Ids thumb, I believe this Is the woods." May tie lies I mean hes uot dan- & gerous? "Dangerous! A gray ghost of a man with a pitiful face. They say he goes through the woods as still as smoke, and leaves as little trail. A minute later he had leaped ashore, climbed the bluffs and plunged Into the deep woods. The root of the elecampane was much esteemed as a remedy for coughs, but It was by no means abundant. No one knew this fact better than the Pearlhunter. The small stream that feeds the waterfall at Fallen Bock Is known as Wolf run. Following up along Its course the Ienrlhunler. presently came to a tiny thread of water that Joined It from the west probably the outlet of some small pond tucked away among the hills. It is along the open margins of swamps and ponds, and never In the thick woods, that the elecampane Believing from the warmth grows. and dullness of Its water that the tiny stream came from a pond, rather than from a spring, the 1enrlhunter followed It. It had grown so small thnt the pearlhunter began to fear It would disappear altogether, when there came a break In the forest line Just ahead. A scramble through a dense fringe of hazel, and there It lay a little pond In the midst of a narrow glade In a locket of the hills, a delicate Inlay In the forest. The man glanced at the sun; turned, and hurriedly looked about for the elecampane. Along the east edge of the glade, not far out from the fringe of hazel, he found It a clump of some dozen Btalks, three or four of them ready to bloom. The rusty spade was soon at their roots probably the first ground ever broken on the margin of that pond. Three plants he digged, cut their stems close to the ground, shook the dirt from their clusters of fleshy roots, and hurried down the tiny outlet back to Wolf run. It was upon the gravelly margin of a pool that the Pearlhunter stopped to wash the elecampane roots, and cut them loose from the clusters In which he had been canying them. He had finished the task and was storing them away In the pockets of his blouse when the song of a thrush from somewhere up the stream gradually worked Itself across his consciousness. The song puzzled him. There were notes certain little foreign flights; a deeper witchery that he could not have believed possible to a thrush's throat The Pearlhunter had a nice ear for the sounds of the woods. He stole cautiously up the bank. The sound when be had drawl quite near. IS The languid eyes of the turned toward him as he sprang In over the sawing gangplank, pushed aside the rumpled curtain, and entered the tiny cabin of the houseboat. There was not so much fire In the eyes. The fever was going down with the sun. The thought his returning step had brought came out In her first words. They who own the old cabin might not like us to move In. They can only make us move out again, was his cheery answer. And, mother, you never saw such a view as you get from up there. And you can drink right out of the spring. Something came to the face of the that had long been stranger there. Not a smile a ripple, like the swath a chance breeze ruffles across still water. But you cant carry everything." Everything. And the first load shall he you." ten-Id- s p The Man Flattened and Held Breath. Hie hands, her face uplifted, her puckered lips pouring forth the song that had drawn lilm to the spot. A sunbonnet swung from her arm; her shoes and stockings lay upon the rock beside half an armful of wild roses. A twig flipped back Into place as the Pearlhunter strained his face a little closer. The song stopped ; the girl whirled her eyes toward the swaying twig. The man flattened and held his hreuth. But the woodland song was done. She slid back on the rock and reached for her stockings and shoes. Such feet I The rough shoes she picked up dishonored them. It would be giving the Pearlhunter uncertain praise to say he didnt look. Besides, It wouldnt he true. He did look. It Is but simple Justice to lilm to state, also, thut after the one glance a glance he could no more help than the branch could help flowing he dragged his eyes away and held them away till he heard the girl scramble to her feet on the rock. As she gathered up her armload of wild roses he had leisure to observe her. With the mass of color close to her face, It was hard to tell the one from the other the (lowers from the face; where the roses left off and the face began. Her hair hung loose, soft and wavy the kind of hulr a roguish shaft of morning sun can change to spun moment ago gold ; lips like the song upon them; eyes like the little patch of sky at the bottom of the pools eyes that opened wide; that had nothing to conceal. She was turning to spring to the hank when the Pearlhunter rose and qnletly stepped through the bushes. She whirled; and the two stood staring at each other across the pool. The flowers straggled from her arms and drlngled down upon the rocks. The Penrlhunter's eyes were the first to fall. Dragging off his battered hat, half awkwardly, he bowed his head and strove for a word to Justify his Intrusion. But he was slow of Words came hard to him. speech. After a time. Ids eyes traveled hack across the pool ; past the patch of sky at the bottom; up the side of the rock where her feet had dangled. The rock was hare. The girl had gone. CHAPTER II. The Red Mask. Amazed at the woodcraft that had enabled the girl to disappear under his very eyes, without so much ns the quiver of V leaf, the Pearlhunter crossed the branch on the riffle at the lower edge of the pool, by springing from Btoue to stone, and went up to the rock. There lay the flowers In scattered confusion a tumbled mass of refreshing color; the half an armful of pink and white and red wild roses. He picked up three a pink; a red; a white and stood gazing The true woodsdown upon them. man Is Instinctively a gentleman. He did not know he did not try to know that the girl watched his every move from behind a big oak a few yards up the bank. Like her somehow," be muttered. Wild Rose I It might be her name. A camel I wonder what It's like to have a name! Editorial Hilites Cg-ur- Pearlhunter? Selected for Western Newspaper Cnton The gray eyes of the man addressed W. HOTEL .Service by It. A. C. and C. B. were blazing; his fingers manifesting an almost uncontrollable Inclination Tli.-rare all kinds of men in the to tuck themselves intc his palms; A Colorado man heat his wife but he held himself and answered would not dance the civilly: him. Helper ( L tali) me with do that" call They lmmy cabin? What are you doing In this Tune- -. Is It yours?" a No difference whether It Is or 'Jhe-- e days when a man accepts e from a stranger, whether It isnt It's no place for river dni.k of scum to wash ashore. know if he is getting the l,e doe-n- 't A stranger ought to be pretty sure real article or a wood alcohol concocof himself before he says a thing like tion, hut at that, lie doesnt have to MOST MODERN HOTEL WEST OF CHICAGO that, especially when he says It the wait long to find out. Butte (Mont.) 30 Rmu Btk Ok return $1.50; Tw, said p,rlwi j, a way the Miner. 70 Khk WA Buk 0k ktim $2.00; Tw, it. He didnt know the Pearlhunter 125 bK. wa return $2.50; Tw ZtZ list! Is 100 Roms Wkk not as the river men knew him or perm $3.00; Tw perms The New Jersey gentleman who 75 Rom. Wkk he would have considered a long time perm $4.00; Tw perm, jyj a on him with trip food his first Almost any river man along the currjing Popular Priced Cofe Shop ud Dining RMB to Florida is merely extending a pracWabash could have told him that la convenient found for Utah, IdAo, Wyoming, Nevada Headquarters person.tice iminv people things would happen. Things did the days of government operation of have would it shoe-bohappen. Still, probably cars. The been Just the same anyhow. A wildcat railroad dining a A GOOD ALARM CLOCK costs v, ijto, stranger outside the long luncheon, couldn't have dodged the yet so much depends upon its serviceInto moved triumphantly coach, antee each one we sell. Reasonable eeUar day fist that stabbed across the candleprices 1918. Touopah in car Pullman light It caught the intruder flat In the the mouth and pitched him back (New) Bonanza. against the door, which slammed to can JEWELERS Funny how optimi-ti- c politicians the wall, and thus saved him from gois And it election? just an BOV D PARK BLDG ICO MAIN srnrry before he ing clear to the floor. ironclad alibis He was np In a flash, nis hand as funny how they have election on night. sets sun althe before dropped toward bis hip. That is Tribune. Caldwell (Idaho) In make ways a dangerous motion to FIT WELL ARTIFICIAL LIMB CO. Writs the Flntwoods; never more so than for catalog. 195 W. Hurd South, salt Lake Cit yj A lot of New Plymouth girls nowaJust then and there. The Pearlhunter CLEANERS AND DYERS had anticipated such a move. Ills days know too much about coffee of and SERVICE QUALITY own hand reached his hip the flash and too little about skillets CLOTHES INSURED WORK OUAKAMLKU a second ahead. The two stood eyeing pots. New Plymouth (Idaho) SentiWe pay return postage. Price on renuesL ' MYERS CLEANERS AND DYERS each other, crouched and tense. nel. East Broadway Sal t Lake City' the scream from There came a She had risen Fourteen hundred and thirty Irish from her chair. The Pearlhunter girls arrive in America, and that is STANDARD MARBLE AND GRANITE CO. dared not look, but he saw the eyes of female news. It is good Write for catalog. 117 W. Broadway, Salt Lake!! the man lie faced turning Irresistibly news, not as some imagine, because it toward the sound. With the first means servants for those that can t do Distributors Corona Portable Royal. glance a startling change came over t heir own work. It is good news for All other makes sold, repaired and and exchanged Utah him ; his eyes strained ; stared ; his the Co. 14.'10 Salt Lain? Typewriter Exchange country, because it means hand left his hip and went to his face. of FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS mothers for large families He straightened and shrank back good The country needs mothers, children. MORRIS FLORAL CO. r against the cabin door. The Jerome (Idaho) 59 East Second South Street Salt Lake City.? not servant girls. he dared not look around, yet N ew's. MILLER FLORAL CO. i knew his mother was coining. With 10 E. Broadway. salt Lake City' a step he would not have believed It Shakeups may come and shakeups ART EMBROIDERY CO. possible for her to take she was beD'Ango, but apparently "Cap Immay tween them, her face ablaze with Embroidering on Ladies Apparel. Out be to jarred from Machinery town business solicited. Room 9ul Brooks Arcade.perious dignity ; her eyes like the pan- nunzio isn't going ther before the door of her den. She Flume until he feels like Jarring loose. RUBBER STAMPS AND STENCILS had shed her weakness as a mantle. Not even an Italian earthquake lias also manufactured. Rend for The Intruder cowered ; his lips moved. any such effect on him. Butte (Mont.) Seals and Ear Tags samples, prices, etc. SALT LAKE STAMP C0 She raised her hand and pointed to Miner. 95 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah. 8 the door. Again he tried to speak. LAXE BUSINESS COLLEGE Her body stiffened; her arm grew The complete breakdown of indus- CALT '"Save lodging; work after school; enroll anytime' rigid. Like a man compelled to re- try in Russia proves conclusively the treat before a blaze, he half turned fallacy of the plan of confiscation of AHFNTS 300 percent; $lapkg. Every body buysA nui.lt lu Sample Free. Dodge Bn'. Salt Lake. and backed away. property with the idea, genuine or The Pearlhunter followed him, otherwise, that it could be managed CREAM BOUGHT trailed him up the bluffs, through the by the confiscators for the greater pub- Best prices. Western Creamery Co 41 W. 4th So. woods and out to the river road, lic good Salt Lake Telegram. VULCANIZING where It came down from the north, Vulcanize it now. Retreading. Quality, Serrii laright angled east and led away up the AVhnt's the use of knocking the Standard Tire Works, 961 S. State St., Salt Lakt river to the village. or wear e becau-of what they dies When he hurried back his mother wear? They are pretty, anyhow, WELDING, AUTO and MACHINER dont was again In her chair, the Imperious with or without, and us they rig up to Auto Radiators built and repaired best amf outburst over, spent and trembling. Potter Welding and Repairing Co we ungrateful men we ought to cheapest. 551 S. State Street Salt Lake City, utaU She looked up at him curiously. He please and look pleasant, instead of smile thought she was about to speak. She DISTRIBUTORS OLDSMOBILE displaying our natural grouch. There hesitated; looked down. a Cars and Trucks. Used Car Bargains! I havent seen him for twenty 's nothing on earth so nice as is A. E. Tourssen, 447 S. Main Street, Salt LakeLityf skirt the whether woman, years. He's the the other man." slit up one side or down the RUBBER HOSPITAL The Pearlhunter started; glanced or both, cut bins, hobbled We cure quickly at her. She was rocking back other, rubber articles Boots, Sho or sawed off where the garter used to Hot Waterinjured Bottles, Tires, Tubes, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Return charges prepaid. Wetter be. Brigham City (Utah) Journal. 194 NEWHOUSE he a 1 Inter-Mounta- in -- A thought shadowed his face the old thought that always brought the cloud. Ills eyes narrowed; the lines of his mouth drew tense. Drawing the sterns of the three roses through a buttonhole In his blouse, he strode away down the branch back to Fallen Bock. 1 roused bad an uncomfortable knaca of seeming to see everything In sight. They were Just now flitting furtively e a bit contemptuously, over the tall of the young man facing him. Youre the fellow they call the Me ! It would set you coughing to climb the slope." The woman dropped her eyes. After all, weakness Is not a pleasant fact to face. The loss of power, the lnnbllty to do accustomed things, always comes as a shock. Life had brought little enough to the pitifully little enough. But though life he ever so bare and gray, no one likes to sit helpless and watch It go. Haply the young man sensed nothing of this, but was already busy gathering together such of their meager slock of household goods as It would be absolutely necessary to carry up to the cabin under the cliff If the coming night was to be spent ashore. Nothing remained but the actual going ashore. His mother came first, as he had said. While packing, he had planned to help her up the hill to the spring and leave her there while he swept the old cabin, aired It out, put up the cook stove, and otherwise made the place as sweet and Inviting as possible for her occupancy. Just before passing through the rumpled curtain of the houseboat she stopped and gazed over the tiny cabin. Just one look before I go, she said. moon-lim- Witfc Bak-- 0K Bstk-- x d BOYD PARK ,4. lion-tong- s Si W1 li- -t 1 first-clas- s Fearl-hunte- Be was nstonlslied at the wistful-aes- s In her tones. Why, mother, you can come back any minute." "It has been my home for twenty years. she said ns she turned away, her tone more the voicing of a reflection than the statement of a fact. Across the gnngplnnk and up the slope among the trees he led her carried her with all the tenderness due from a man to his mother; for had the manthe ners and speech of a lady of high degree; and she had taught him all she knew. He had brought along a cushion, which he spread for her upon With the rock. a In the waterfall of the air, with spray the cup In her hand, the cool spring within roach, lie left her and hurried hack to the houseboat. The sun was dipping low toward the distant bend In the river when the last of the moving was done, A purple twilight had given place to dark before he hud the cabin put to rights, his mother In her easy chair, and supper on the table; a hnss. taken from the nets orly thnt morning; fruit from the woods; baked potatoes; toast, crisp and brown; and ten. which she had left her chair long enough to draw. In the contented silence that often falls after the evening meal, the man sat covertly studying her face. rr fever had gone. It was a face almM serene. She appeared, as he watched It Caught the Intruder Flat in the her, to he listening to the sound of Mouth. the waterfall floating In through the open window upon the pulse of the and forth, the fingers of her thin her good. hands lacing and unlacing night. The move nervously. He thought how beautiful she must The breeze from the door was gutstill. how beautiful been have tering the candle. He crossed the Her words thnt afternoon came floor to close It. As he brought it hack to him the only word that had around. It scraped a small packet ever come to him out of the past. The ahead of it along the floor. He picked desire to larn more grew In Mm. and It up and, after closing the door, carvet he dreaded to speak. The ried It to the candle. It was not was not one to Invite ger than the length nnd width ofbig-a confidences. And yet a man ought to mans two thumbs, and was wrapped know something of the manner of his In brown paper. He unrolled It. The world. Into the Coming first glance, as the folds fell apart nnd The cabin had settled to deep quiet ; a bit of cloth dropped upon the table, the lap of the waterfall had swelled brought a startled exclamation from to full strength upon the silence; him. It was a red mask. when the cabin door hanged open and The left her a man stormed In. The Pearlhunter chair and came to the table. The two whirled up out of his chair and faced of them stood staring down upon the him. bit of flaming cloth. The Intruder was a man of forty, possibly more, lacking somewhat of the Pearlhunters height and massive build, yet still what would be called a big man tight and well set shaven, except for an aggressive mustache faintly shot with gray. pro BE CONTINUED.) He wore a slouch hat, top boots, frock coat, and a very fancy and Although truth Is stranger than ficvest- - nis blue eyes the tion to many people, they dont seem kind of blue that turns black when to caro for sn Introduction. d 0K Bak-- Ow - 2 t I ti K well-groom- skin-tigh- t, Many a man looks with complacency on his own dishonesty because he did East Broadway. Rubber Sales Co PIPE AND MACHINERY. Western Machinery Co., Judge Building. QUALIFY AS BARBER in few weeks. MOLES BARBER COLLEGE, 49 S. W. Temple.SaltLak not take as much as the other fellow, Pocatello nor in the same way. CANCERS, Tumors and Eczema Removed A. M. Free bairn, 906 Utah Savings & Trust Bide (Idaho) Tribune. THE VANITE SHOPPE to Mlt Sugar men, and many other dealers Marcel permanent wave. Color restored transform! and scientific Switches method. by befor that matter, who are crying tions. 969 S. State Street, Salt Lake City. cause quotations are coining down, and En Hemstitching, Pleating. Machine and Handwon point out how much they are "losing broidering. Buttons made. Expert Bead by the return to more normal levels, The Embroidery Shop, 994 Clift Building. are in somewhat the same situation as MUSIC CO. Salt Lake on: the little hoy who lost his penny. A Everything known in music. not unlike consumer the kindly person, WALKERS BEAUTY PARLOR of today, gave the boy another penny. transformation or hair by mail; cut npy For a moment tears gave way to Switch from center of head. Switches worth $7.50 lor DAYNES-BEEB- E i smiles, then came the deluge. Well, Transformation worth $19 for $8.50. you have a penny, what Is the matter BUSINESS COLLEG. now?" was asked. Between sobs the L. D. School of efficiency. All commercial branchy youngster replied. "If I had the oue I Catalog free. 60 N. Main Street, Salt Lake I now would have two. lost, CaldKID FITTING CORSET PARLORS well (Idaho) Tribune. S. Corae Man may even forget his own birth- day, hut he always remembers that time when if something hadnt happened he would have made a fortune. Iriee (Utah) Sun. When the bride discovers that the is practically always hungry the honeymoon begins to take on a sickly pallor. Gardnerville (Nev.) hu-ba- nd had-don- Record-Courie- r. Wild asses of the asphalt, is what speeders. variety here, and a Pennsylvania judge calls' We have tiie top-so- It's just a! dangerous." (Idaho) Enterprise. Malad If the truth were known, it is probable that a good many Winnemucca men have been voting for years as their wives told them to. Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State. Hie Iniversity of Chicago report only one atheist among its 2000 students, and only two agnostics. But what do they expect to find among the students of a Baptist college? And what is even one atheist doing among the saints? Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune. up-sm- ooth Specialists in designing, making, id?lting Hemstitching, embroidering, bru in K. and side pleating. Buttons made. 40 b. Breaa , Iron Ores Formed by Bacteria. ft Geologists are realizing more the studies as they extend their a nltude of the work done by plants tea and animals In building up ea dovya parts of the crust of the per01 Even microscopic organisms a large part of this work. P long ago showed us the deadly their and of bacteria In disease clency in promoting fermentation, their Influence on the fertility 0 and their work In expediting roc cay are still subjects of study. Felt He Wasnt Wanted. My young son had been about an occasion on which be felt greatly wound up by Mother, I never felt so unnecess1 In all my life." Chicago Tribune? j t J0r Eugenie Invented the Crlnn E Among the late Empress the numerous claims' to fame not Interesting was her Invention crinoline skirt, which she l have been the first to devise a few months before the birth Prince ImperlnL S k6 ( . Many the candidate who the day after election finds comfort In New Ferrule for Crutches.. the declaration that "I know A new ferrule for crutches. v -just exactly w what I overlooked In en legs, or canes Is tipped my campaign that caused my defeat. a colled P t Butts ber and contains (Mont.) Miner. side of tubing so It revolves M being resilient , much-he-flower- 2 ,, - . i. & HL Seve foe t |