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Show il T HOW IT HAPPEN- - fYd into IMG thr room. The woman J'feamed slightly and stepped toward It had been when he entered the cabin, while the other mans, similarly snow wounded, was red with rage; and, though he waa covered and even drunken man could nrarrely mlsa at such range, be nevertheless drew his own weapon. But before he could raise It there was a sudden movement back of him. The man In th doorway turned sharply. What! he cried to his wife "You would, you At that Instant the hoy wa conscious of e sudden flash of light and a The room was sharp detonation filled with noise, a little cloud of smoke blew down on him. Standing with his own pistol butt clasped tight lu his hand, he saw the m&n in the doorway reel. The arm that held his weapon With a comul dropped to his side sive mot eiuent he pulled the trigger The bullet buried itself in the floor, 1. a while man sank down on his knees, swayed a moment, a frightful look In his eyes, and then pitched forward on his face and lay still "Good God! whispered the boy turning to hla companion, you've shot him' He stared at the woman, who ht!ll ( litll stHer mounted lasped the weapon sbe bad um d with such ter rible effect 'It was his life, or jour life or mine, was the answer. '1 did it for you." she said quickly , seeing a luoU of horror and repulsion spnadtng oer the face of her companion I know," b Yea yea! replied; but Come, we must get out of here , immediately "Of course, of course." w hlspered the boy nervously, we can't stay here Birthdays and Weddings figure. Happen Eyery Day young man forced the door shut. ned and faced her. He tore off his Our store is the great piece for cap and threw it on the floor. He Last longest end cost rresents. fetched out his icy gauntletted ittle. Write for suggestions. Good jewel ryz silver tableware, toida toward her. To reach the cabin watches. b had been compelled to face the Wisard Hie face was white yet bkedlng The woman shrank back INCIDENTAL jptai him. ns this my welcome T" be said in a THE WOMAN fdee manly enough In spite of hie y kithful aspect Cyj?Lr3 Tb You're so wet snd so cold. said u4Mrfno3 fy Dcswoof Mavtu Ub woman. cormrwr "The horses" 4rwir mm rmtr .Theres a Reason. "They're outside," returned the , , Boatman Ieter an mell "Hut you dldu't think of ventur-I-n holiday and had lingered on througl PROLOGUE take able to Poor mail! How did you boconio a ye out flshin this blizzard T Why, It's like the winter, fascinated by her exubei but Feters mam; nephew 'ramp? hdl If ant attractiveness, and flattered b hell was itself, or would be I unz u war correspondent In Man A QUARTER OF A CENTURY BE- her bold afiher takin je uv ye like. fokH" and artful of him. pursuit FORE. iiuria.nium I pot so used or doing Lady Well, 1 hoie Peters nophew I'd risk anything," said the woman She had thought herself uu'l'io d.it I l.aint been no pood ts cleaner than Peter is. her dreary, wretched, sordid life b fiwculy, to get away from him! You Within. slme." Boatman He is, main; hes youngn't me fall now?" his admiration. Th fresh, frank, open The torm was one of the worst er. Punch ltut, my r.od girl! answered the that had ever burst from the moun- woman's drunken husband had care, PIMPLES COVERED H'S BACK tains and boy with that little at of but under first; rlur th lately, assumption supt swept across the plains. Hat Authority. S which so satisfied his The wind came In wild bursts of tre- jibes, sneers, and Innuendos of h! pride, "we 1! Mrs Bacon In Dresden tta mall " In this blizzard "My lioub es begin alone 'u the mendous Even In the lulls, companions, he had become fiercel; hped authorities make special provision for uiiin.r in li.e liutu.-- t weather an I which were only comparatively such. Jeaous Then In maudlin fury he ha ' "No. persisted the woman See, the transportation of millinery and took t!m 'n'u. of eri:;'oiis uua It blew perhaps 20 miles an hour The forbidden the boy the house, and hai lb storm minis straight from the huts In boxes " north Our way is due south; iti'iiip .itij a kind rl nn tr .g ;a!n fierce basu were lad,n with fine sworn that he would kill him Mr Bacon "In this reiuntry the fe't to. k p inie-tlall oer i,n bark snow frozen only to kiip It at our backs Bight. ri (iidrift from a white ft V.l am! k t.. o male i s wot The authorities have to do with milwoman uni y ocean of cold! Needles of Ice shatp-e- r thereupon swiftly mad right,'' said the boy cheerily. gei ,jp my ha. k w.is love'ed with a uti-- - of linery. than their prototypes of steel cut up her mind to break the thraldom o; Ho turned and stared out of the win In i.i ur.d itch at the ,dti.;'.s hi. h w i bowl, and In th 0o "oute no idea how terrible It bare flesh of those whom evil for- her matrimonial could night s that aullj stand It tune kept abroad an such a night, young stranger's company or by hi e, though " I don't care " This roo-- i tion Sh iM'ting witie am! bringing the blood to the freezing rgency to leave the country. oi-- e Get until my b.u k was a s.lnl teas, skin. The nor neither desired b Intended to read) tie u " onslaught of the screamof b.g rotes vi li u h would break open 'I'm ready" she replied "Sic!" ing tempest drove the hapless cattle tied to the boy a half dozen year Sh lifted the ssirt of her dress and and run My under.- oil. ilk would be tnad with terror. The thick younger than she and pain a c'ot of blood Once In civilization It would ha thowed lilui a pair of horseman's now compelled them to huddle to- ! tt ed van, us r. medics and selms gether at lwtV and" sheltTrlesVto suf- easy to break away from him, she boots with a pair of her husband's fer ikmiB nr.e tucked tightly in them Its ad I was not for freeze and dle th(J )tllesa hur. Knew Thereafter she had no fear trousers but with her beauty, her wit. and her a food thing be has a small loot." she gett.rig at v lu neht h seemed I was ricane !n etrnai misery ..n ! could not sleep now Just where the foothills lose them- - eourage, with her utter unscrupulous-nes- s, snoertd r on niv hack or lean I on a chair a Curse hlui" said the boy she could make her way in tho "I'd "Drag him Into the room and shut In the prairie lay huddled a lit- Ires ilk to settle with him before we go. Anally given a set of the Cutieura tie town or east which she had never seen. the door! And camp. Every door and winRemedies and inside of two weks You'll settle with him enough, The lad hesitated. dow was shut and barricaded against this was the night on which they had could see and feel a great relief I said tho woman cynically, when you Are you afraid T agreed to take their depsrture. sneered the the searching storm, kept on using Ottiuira Soap, Ointment Since her husband's wild outbreak take me away from him. woman, making aa if to do ao herself. In one of the poorest and most misand also the Resolvent, and In about She turned and took down from Certainly not," was th answer; erable shanties on the outskirts of the of Jealousy, she bad seen the boy only rbree or four months' tint my back town once. In that surreptitious Interview one of the pegs a heavy fur overcoat. but the loy nevertheless waa afraid a woman A comwaited alone. was near!;- cured and 1 felt like a new The mest rtoK fragrant and Her Tho boy assisted her to put it on. afraid of death, with more fear than mon kerosene lamp stood on a table they had concocted their plans deUaiees Tea es th market. being X jw I am in good heai'h end before the husband From the wall a on one he ever of holster tho had felt for any the spent greater part hanging Itvtng Year greeer will be else window, set (hero as If in no sign of ariv skin tliseasi s anj Yet something had to be done and at nights, whenever he had any money. aho drew a small to eupely yee with iignal am fully satisfied that Cutieura RemeIn once revolver. The house, a mere shack which loon.gambling and drinking at the sadies are the best ever made for skin I'm ready, she said again By a lucky chance a short time . Forcing himself to the task at last, shook and 1 quivered under the tre- before In an all diseases woull not be without 'Let us start, then, cried the boy he stooped down, seized the man by night trial with Formendous of assaults the and them TEA storm, LUNETA i A. (Signed W. tune he had won something over stepping forward. Armstrong the shoulders, turned him over on bit have been blown down If it had Corbin, Kan., May 2d, Tt Although wight On the instant a whirl of wind dls- - face, and dragged him farther into the f 1,000 The bulk of It in hard cash not been buttressed and protected by Cutieura Soap and Ointment are sold room Then he abut the door. The heaps of snow yet threatening to overby druggists and dealers everywhere two stared a moment at the prostrate whelm It, contained one but In room. a sample of each, with 32 page book, At the Prune Club. figure. the corner farthest from the door will be mailed free on application o is a baseball umpire like a not said dead the lie's "Why boy yet," stood a tumbled," frowzy bed. Arick-et- y Cutieura, Dept 27 K, Boston mother-in-law?- " asked the thin boardslowly. chest of drawers, a kitchen table, a to breakfast without e will be.' The down food er, "No;but coming rusty cook stove, a few uncertain Exhibition of Real Faith. woman over unbuttoned and his collar. stooped of chairs the and plainest William Spills little girl, who bad cheapest the man's coat and waistcoat "There! Because they both watch the game," been playing at making mud pies, quality, were all the rest of the furahe said, pointing to a ghastly hole. suggested the fat man. aided by a tiny sprinkling can for a niture. A few clothes hung from pegs "I struck him fair in the breast In the boarded wall. A saddle Nix," replied the thin one. reservoir, ran to her father as he driven Would to God itd been In his black In one oorner, a pickax and shovel, a "Because they both put a man out slighted from a car, bearing a pack heart!" sh added. "Don't you set unjustly, came from the shoe clerk. and a rifle hanging from age of wearing apparel heavy quirt, that w must go now end qulckl beneath pegs a shelf Good, but not tb right Answer," sufficiently Pointing to her muddy little boots Fa Come, we cant delay any longer.1 cam from th thin one. Ite really toe ther Spill Brfnjunl.Swl M- tiny dsupk-- pointed out tbo avocations of the V P"M rt te- bw-v-.sto rv .we. hot, mSA t, . aaciii'it wUr, lapwlM kar vtsa neat appearance. Tb aCs noble of you.Veiurnis! IU ever her outward circumstances, offered That night the young lady woman Indifferently; "but we wont b She showed no poverty of spirit her usual prayer with great earnestcaught up and down the room as a raged And dont forget, dear Lord, th It bank has ness. Well, then. I'll eave your reputa fiolfd. oturdr. strong snd relish!-narrow conrears, and Is broom-ln-g been growing lor our prisoned tiger pace the othei she prayed fervently, to tb continued I before tion go, she fines of his cage. Sometimes KVHitmrli yetp, Binibenbf niii. wnd street, and my shoes, for Jesus sake, paused and stopped by the window, to II or more TODAY to open s sarlnge account quixotically. (tart It earning t per cent. Cleveland Leader. linen ! Ther were e tow tattered hooka on and rest her head beneath her hand on WALKER BROTHERS BANKERS, tore on took He down, shelf. th tho sash and peer eagerly, passionUk City Branch of Booking. out the flyleaf, drew e pencil from Every Dying by Organs. out Into the falling snow. She ately, a If few It has been discovered that his pocket scribbled on It a could see nothing, and after having human being dies afteran ordinary stared with Increased disappointment words, Signed It held it to the woman Before sending your boy twiy illness and not a vloleut death he and further mutterings of angry to read, laid the leaf down on the then and does not die all over and all at once. words, she would resume her restman, the of dying to body a boarding tchool, investigate He may have a diseased liver, heart less backward and forward march. turned to the door. He opened it and cause The Into th this or lung, and maybd the woman followed him out Had there been any spectator when of Ills death; but it has been found night. position assumed that she picturesque that if the diseased organ could have The room was very still. Except the at window, where the light, howlife one a been replaced by healthy the long, alow, faint and falntei for ever it failed to Illuminate the snow, of the man, there was not might have been maintained lndefl threw her own face and person in high breathing within the hovet sound a nitely. This Is no imagination or been have would observer It has been confirmed relief, the over him the long A hovered speculation. Death surprised at the coarse and yet not ALT LARI CITY, UTAH The morning .found by the most careful experiments by through. night and face her of unattractive beauty the ablest medical scientists in the him still alive, yet barely breathing figure. She was full lipped and deep Applleetlsn Catalogue Sent Pro country Leslies Weekly. He was trembling on the eternal bosomed, tall, lithe, strong. Her Rev. J. J. Ctrl nan. President when men seek in the later day verge hair her were of full color, cheeks The Ultimate Limit. lng him buret Into the room. They black and coarsely crisp and curly. Is so work pain Dentist found the letter of confession still My First Her hands, which she clasped and unless that my patients often fall asleep clasped nervously, were large and lying where It had been placed. They while I am at their teeth. revived the man sufficiently by stimreddened by toll, but they were shapeTO TRY OUR B. A T. TRUSS Dentist Thats nothing Second ulants to enable hint .to speak a preg neithwas But there nevertheless. ly Shoulder Brsnes. Abdominal Bup- Mine all want to have their pictures er refinement nor goodness in her nant word or two before his Up W fit Tramea, Elastic Hoelerr. The kind that plesw. Krtera. taken to catch the expression of de face. There were great possibilities forever. closed or moner refunded. Mall orders given prompt attention. light on their faces. The confession, the bullet that had of evil which experience could have DRUQ CO. Cut Rat Drucgiet killed him, the empty revolver, and REXThird detected. Hers had been a hard lire, Bo. nod Went Tempi. Ball lets City Oor. attestSTRONGER THAN MEAT the mans laat words, solemnly and It had made her a hard woman. A Judges Opinion of Grape-Nued bj those present, were carefully years She was perhaps twenty-fivpreserved by the leader of them all old, but looked older. A gentleman who has acquired a Ju in had woman welted For hours the They might be useful some day; who knew? For th real It wnf evident diclal ktumof mind from experience that hut aione it had been otormlng You Are Going on a Longer Journey Than You Planned," Ho Ponted. on tho bench out In the Sunflowert badT when oho began her vigil, and what bad happened. The bpy and the nr mtum ar., mL.t umo o trfnworo-were gone from the camp. No State writes a carefully considered tbe violence of tho tempest had Insud woman had door closed the to that them In uto Mtirav waa non still of drawers. t the Grape-Nuchest of eeoert.KMU. for value buto made reposed as waa the them; search opinion creased untll oho feared that no consveeuis iifigr om mm nsmM denly opened. They turned to face possible. The bUggard bad apent lb as food. He says: man soul could brave It. That she That, with what the boy could would provide for th expenses a drunken. Infuriated, leering figure. self by that time; but th prairie waa For tho past 5 years Grape-Nut-s very much wanted some one to at- tribute, our in of 8he had got It out Ho bad on a short, thick fur Jacket covered deep with drifted snow. A the A POSITIVE sad has been a prominent feature tempt It, that ahe very keenly, ardent- end tiedJourney. In e little canvas bag. which left his hip completely un It It CUU F0I cold up Intense supervened. of was bill of faro. evident for quit that, ly, longed covered. A heavy revolver had dan period was hardly within human possibility and The crisp food with tho delicious, Dnralenness Great la the power of love. Even It lay on the table near the lamp. It indisFifteen miles south th Ualon Pa gled In hla bolster. He dragged counterfeit that which passes for that the two fugitive could have got nutty flavor has become anfamilys-everydits the on Diseases. It trained out snd ns be ay Opiin spoke pensable necessity In my safely away. They muit be burled it in the eyes of the Ignorant and In- eifle railroad ran across the continent - Petal a.thither boy. Ihmh ae life. omewbere to the southward In the EnT-experienced may stir men and wom- It bad been her plan to ride CuTm uiufiin for Journey Youre longer going It has proved to be moot healthful en to mighty deeds. This woman and take th flrat train eastward, vast drifts. Spring might reveal theig tmVT4 nt . tmfk Tamb Item. M LaW Chr. thickly, and beneficial, and has enabled us to waited the arrival of on who fancied losing themselves In Chicago, end than yon planned!" he panted It might remain forever a secret. fate. snd as be strove to tho weapon So far as the denizens of tk country practically abolish pastry and pies himself n modern Pereeus about to re- thence by whatsoever route pleased cover tho other.steady HifiUSI N ESSTC0LLECE from our table, for the children prefer lease another bound and helpless An- - them making their way to New Tort. were concerned, the tragedy one of The boy was fumbling at the fasten- the numberless ones of tbs frontier Whether her husband would pursue Barton Malldlng. SnM LohotHy and do not crave rich and 4rome(ja from a devouring monster, Grape-Nuta- , Bent In Wert by Tert Behool an year. He ing of bis cost Hie own revolver unwholesome food. was over. In a day or two It wa for Whether the man who fatuously her or not. sbe could not telL Pull Bo. Ineea and ghofthaad Coareea. aa wee I not instantly, Write lor Information la K. C. Davis. Erie. "Grape-Nu- t keeps us all In perfect flI)ed y,at roie or the boy, rather, for would be without the money, since ll gotten. have would H and should of her. have all with a to meant he take es beep BE CONTINUED.) preventive (TO j be bd not reached physical condition mqna. year of ! native to the KODAKS rSIhTUto disease It is beyond value. I have been would arrive before her hus- - would hardly be' able to follow her been had be beep a waa Modified. beneflwent Mad order, given special attention. If that soon. be But did. the Slightly very filled by the band waa tha problem that particularly Jm pressed Oum plate stock of Photo Buppllea. w heir used WomanrilhTBd; "Fumble at 'em, you fool! cried Little Viola bad dlevotoped tb habit risk ahe must take. of t cial effects of Grape-NutjH .lm..-Parh.- g Hardwar Cm. Balt Lake City horvlc prompt. the man. "Before you get em open. cf bolding her thumb In ber mouth, Engrossed In the present,-tbe-bo- y wondered by ladies who are troubled with face xard raging, she might-harrefubed Mother now; It do the I all It dont ve about efc. at Ill shoot dead. skin nothing thought you eruptions, tTwhntlng. blemishes, whether, in case either of them Sudden Change. j The. woman's predicament cause I went you to t8te death snd ported to all sorts of methods to clears up the complexion wonderfully. o light the bouse, they could find It or ture. child and finally In despere exImagibefore you the Immature hell correct so to aa hla aa bulked possible Uncle John, did you As to Its nutritive qualities, my to large long had sh If K Little alive. Edgar reach stopped " dit-of consider that phase of the posslblli-tie- nation that there was nothing else on go Into 'em. You thought youd make tion said; " ' ' e to little be used boy like me? perience is that one small hori-toand you, Viola, the flrat thing yoe know yoa is superior to a pound of Grape-Nut- s Jobwr'Yes, Edgar." she would have been profoundly th horizon. There wa no other oh a fool out of me, did you, Uncle will swallow ' your thumb, sad then than ahe. In fact. Amd hla too, you" meat for breakfast, which is an Impor- glad bad both ventured and had both "Didnt you feel awfulEd Little rar He flung a frightful, mordant word that rUl Too dor tant consideratioj for anyone. It sat- wandered on In the night until beaten desire was to get her away to Jew after you go days queer $nra at bis wife which stung not leas be- ? "JFjU. mother. 1 should hat to swal- ly isfies the appetite and strengthens the down end mastered by thesplrlt of her. man? to a be Exchange. a beavan of a hava Id undeto And now this storm bade fair low It because cause It was In large measure . power of resisting fatigue, while Its the storm, so that the searchers, after ' ns so far as the boy waa tins without It They Wont Blow Away. involves none of the disagreeable Its violence had ; abated, might find render the whole plan Impossible. served, nt least Why. Viola," said tha astonished that sometimes follow them frozen to death as many another Misunderstanding bis temper the fear- concerned. - , She v consequences (with newspaper) "Another cy hear an expressettle with you when 1 get mather, "where did yon TH a meat breakfast." ,NasAe given by poor fellow waa found frosett there- ed that th boy would be frightened JTV baa swept dose as ? - Tet-therwaa more through with him. Your times upj ston Jib ihetFV .. Poet am Co, Battle Creek. Mich. after. - TOr while the woman loathed by th bustard.'of farms clear of 'everything." little th hesitated gtrt sucveil." tor laat Well, he continued, as th boy at Read the little book. The Hoed to and bated her drunken brute of a bus-bea- In the boy than ah imagined; 111 bet the mortgage Mb didst He U that eneetly beer n didnt I mad up her mind ceeded In reaching hla weapon. WellviUe, In ykge. Theres a reason." A would sound budge aa lech." Boston Transcript yet ahe had no affection for the when ah bed about 'A He was game, that boy. although hi Bother, but thought who had wan- finally that be would not come, the read tk where kttert tenderfoot foolish young Em w lie better." ! They IM appear (raw dered out west to spend n summer door waa thrown open and be stag- face under tts blood was whiter Tto Ant With SOME RELATION lb i whszndBrady - 1 The-Stor- . 1 m 'iu! j ! 1 1,1 , 1 , i 1 i - 1 silver-mounte- HEWLETTS 1 1 d . sht r w. tm lyw Like an old oak tree flltg-lw- dry-clea- n ALL HALLOWS COLLEGE 4 MEN WANTED t. e I get-at-ab- j hr-vie- w e -- a, n trf ' ' ckme-en-we- are wrewttolfrrai - ewd fell el kwa - t, |