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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION, UTAH to enjoy that hag sol And so. did she I My heart sank like lead and 1 suppose my mouth dropped open. I knew I stood spellbound. I couldn't have moved or spoken to save my Ufe. (When I told this to Josephine she Insisted that It proved that I was Just And 1 dont having a nightmare.) think she meant to Insinuate that for me not to be able to speak would be a nightmare In Itself. It wouldnt be a bit like Josephine to insinuate anything like that. Josephine Is always sweet and nice. Its 1 who am the spiteful member of the Dlnsmnre DlNSMORES By . CRITTENDEN -- MARRIOTT 8? family. If Illustrations ly Irwin Myers the ghosts were not; or, If they were, they came from under the spell mighty quickly With one accord they flung them selves at Mr Braxton and the, minx It was the oms he was hugging. I ever saw men Jumping at one. thirty Braxtun didnt wait for them He was too wise for that, lie Just dived between the plants and disap And he look Miss Labert pettred. with him The bussyl And Perkins dived after them Fan cy Perkins diving! But be did. This broke my spell, too. I burst thiough the doors with a shriek. All (he ghosts faced toward me. For an instant I saw all their faces trans fixed with rage and fury transfixed Mr Continued - 13 were spellbound cowaidly ;tbit)g ' Copyright WNU Service CHAPTER VIII - I ' The music started up again, and the whole tbroDg began to dance They danced In the oddest sort ol way, too. I dont mean that the danced In an old fashioned way An way but old fashloued would have been odd even odder than the fact that they were dancing at all Fancy an Eighteenth-centurghost dancing No! the turkey trot or the tango They danced the right dances, even 11 they did dan-- e them to ragtime. Bui what I couldnt understand was the care they seemed to take to keep within a sort of triangular space They did it almost as accurately as it they were following lines on the Hoot Tm mentioning nil this now Just as I mentioned It to Josephine latei when she said I had dreamed the whole thiug Fancy anyone dreaming a triangular dance. It Isnt done, you y n AARY GRAHAM BONNER covsi-h- T BLUE v lime Detroit Mrs. Jane Lantz, fifty-onwho lived alone In a house furnished in what was the grand manner of 30 or 40 years ago, was found murdered recently, and tn her death the police are confronted with a mystery. She was the widow ef Frank EL Lantz, who died about a year and a half ago. Before death he had retired to live on the Income from a fortune amassed as a real estate broker and dealer In oriental rugs. Airs. Lantz was found in the basement of the home at 600 West Grand boulevard. She was kneeling near the furnace, her body bent forward as if in prayer. In the back of her bead was a targe wound. Rear Door .Open. A rear basement door leading to a flower garden of blooms was open. A heavy Iron furnace shaker lay near the body.. Police took Jt to headquarters for minute examination for blood stains or 4 finger print! Every room of the Victorian home was searched. Detectives peered under four poster beds covered with patchwork quilts. They GRANDMOTHER e, two-roo- They are 'annoyed and angry when see me, said the white deer. they What nonstnse, said the mother You are so beautiful, my deer. and so perfect and your white coat is so exquisite. You are, I am sure, the most beautiful deer In this land or in Europe. I came from Europe, you know, and so did jour grandparents. I am glad, mother, dear, that you thipk I am beautiful. But It is true what I said. They do get annoyed and angry when they see me. Do you mean chi'dren and grownups when you say they? asked the mother deer. forget It all Yes, answered her child. But I tore myselt loose and stood 1 have named you said A dreamt" I cried, hysterically. up mother deer. Is it my fuult? Dont Nonsense. Dont you suppose I know wbn I'm awake I I saw these ghosts they like your name? Its not my name they mind but as plain as anything, and Mr Brnx ton was among them. He was I He, me myself me! cried the deer. said mother deer. was I" Impossible, But tell me about it I will worry If You He couldnt have been dear know yourself that Mr. Braxton's you dont tell me. I cant bear to have you unhappy. ankle Is sprained. He couldnt dance to save nls life. I don't know how he Do tell me at once. You see, that said ever got in 'here." Josephine turned outside our yard. they have a sign on to Mr Biaxton. How did you get the post which says : In here. Mr Braxton? she asked Bed Deer.' That means that the Air. head Binxton shook his Heaven knows, be said 1 'Just bad Red Deer family are within." There is nothing the matter with t to come. Aud I got here somehow said Mother Deer. We are the that, Oh crutch dropped my aomewjiere red-deHe stopped and picked family. here it la They are quite right In letting up the crutch from the floor Teen he staggered. If youll excuse me folks know our correct name. But. mother, you see, f am white. ladies," he falyred. 1 think .Ill get I ,1 feet pretty hack to my room. queer He just toppled Then he fainted down on the floor and lay still And dar-Jin- m WHAT DR. CALDWELL LEARNED IN 47 YEARS PRACTICE A physician watched the results ef eenstipation for 47 years, and believed that no matter how careful people are of their health, diet and exercise, constipation will occur from time to time. Of next importance, then, is how to treat it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always was in favor of getting as close to nature as possible, hence his remedy for constipation, known as Dr. Caldwell as promptly. Eo not let a dsy go by without s bowel movement. D not sit and hope, but go to the nearest druggist and get sue of the generous bottles ef Dr. Caldwell's Syrup PepBin, or write "Syrup Pepsin, Dept. BB, MonticeUo, Illinois, for free trial bottle. Millionaires Owm Less , One out of every thirty persons In the United States Is a capitalist, If ' we niay believe the statisticians. Re has invested in bonds or other securities. Millionaires .own les3 than 7 per cent of outstanding corporation stocks. Large numbers of men who live In tittle homes are the principal stockholders. Nowhere else In the world will you find anything like if this. That settled It I I cume out ot my hysterics right away' and set to work new to Avoid INFLUENZA half-craz- Screamed. a Whole Covey of Ghosts 'Happened? I Happened; Happened the word, I think Then the lights out and I was left In uttei daikness without a soul near except the ghosts; of course, and they werent what youd call real company I This was too much - for me. shrieked again and fainted, for the Hrst time In my 'ife. When! enm? too I was lying on a sofa In the ballroom and snmehndi wus bending oer tng I did not open my eyes at once, hut I could see through mV eyelids thnt the room was dimly lighted with a soft golden glow that was very different from the harsh white refulgence that Had tilled oefore. It was vert It a moment soothing; and for a moment I to He perfectly still lust as It I were asleep Then very close t me. I felt some one stir and heard a Is went under vnlee his man's Pent little girl." he mnr bream It was an outrage to frigid mured. en you so. Oh. you little darling! Then the first thlifg I knew a pair of rnustached lips swept my forehead Naturally I began to open rnv eyes Then I It seemed to be nigh time. Never ndnrt decided to wait a little I Just wlint I decided to wait for waited. 'Then I heard Josephines voice away off. as It at the ballroom door, and I knew there wouldn t he So I opened my eyes any em-orslowly and looked up Where am I? I asked plaintively this As nearly as I could recollect was wtml one ought to say when one comes out of a faint. Mr Braxton oh yes. It was Mi Braxton who was standing beside tin -- Mr Braxton turned quickly hack from the' door toward which he was Don't he frightened he looking It's all right said Not Im not frightened." I said though I was for a 'imw anyhow while " Then I sal up and looked about me Tin room looked lust as It had looked the day before , There was Mi no sign of a ghost anywhere Braxton - In his shirtsleeves - was standing .by me. and losepbine ready- ' . s yet I Life, as everybody him known for time Is lust one darn thing af ter anotliet But sometimes It really seems us It It were a whole hunch of darn things, one on top of another It did this time I once got slept like a log after lo sleep hut I waked op early to a brand new set of trinities. a tong Josephine was still sleeping and Mrs James seemed to ho doing the I I didn't mind same wanted soil So. as quietly as I could Hide. I slipped Into my clothes and hurried downstairs nnd out on to the lawn and straight to the (ilace where log plilne and I had seen (lie two ghosts 4 wanted to know he night before bethel they hud left any material sign ot their presenee- - whet bet they had blighted the grass where they trod or the Itmhs of the tree from li.lhe white efTulgenre had shone town u ion them From a distance everything looked quite as H had the last time I had no tlced the place; hut as I drew nearer I noticed something white on the ground and when I was quite close I saw It was a bunt h of Eastet Hites e I broken and crushed renietnhered then that the woman of the night be fore had worn lii't smh a bouquet at bet breai and that I had seen it drop when I lie man hugged her The lilies were crushed as If trampled beneath a good hard solid foot -- not a ghost I v I looked foot, hj any means up Into the tree and though did not see any signs ot burning I did see that ihe tiark was ripped and Hie branches more 'oi less broken Somehoily m had been up there some thing real not a ghost (TO BE CONTINUED.! , Great Novel Writers Dubs in Limericks 4 glimpse of that great old novel 1st and poet. George Meredith, amns lug himself at the end of his days and cheating Infirmities by composing limericks" In the vain hdpe of win ding. one ot the prizes offered by vend ors ot commodities for the best lim erlcks advertising their goods. Is glv A Hope, In bis book 'Menutirs and Notes. Hope, Israel Zangwill and Herberi Treucb Were appointed a deputation representing the Society of Authors to go down to Box Hill and congratu en by Anthpny late Meredith, president of the society on his eightieth birthday In T.1U8. The then limerick" craze was mentioned during the conversation, and Hope confessed that he had tried Ids band at writing them without success I've sent in some, too," said Mere 1 sent them In dith. unexpectedly my nurse's name. But I've never got a prize either." Earth1 . As the kiw name ac Gnpp m kaepmg yoor f and elimination octivo and roar free from poieoaoee aceamnlatioea Nntnre'e Kemedy (IR Tnblete) dam mom thro merely eaooo plement and aaay bowel aetk. tacmao- It tanoa and otrongtbano tbt 1 lac roaiotaan aeaiaat diaoam aad jafoohma asc Taar a at Sat las Bnggbrtt erst To be sure, and proud, Indeed,- - It hqk made rge? To think that I should-- , have a white deer child. Its wonderful thats what It Is. But people don't think so, said She Was Kneeling Nfar the FurAace at if in Prayer. poked among old trunks In the attic, bits filled with memories of years-ol- d of finery, old gowns and- laces. There ... Why pother about people?" asked ' were many valuable things in the his mother. I dont want nhyone to hate me or house, including diamonds and money, be annoyed with me, said the deer. but nothing had been disturbed. I am gentle und I love people, and Bobbery, police said, 'was not the children are the nicest kinds of peo- motive of the murder, in admittilng that they do not know what the motive ple, I think. I might have been. Every detective atSo do I, said mother deer. agree with you thnt children are quite tached to the homicide squad is try the nicest people in the world. lng to find out. ' I cant believe that they have anDeputy Coroner George A. Berg There was murder. it agreed that noyed you. What has happened? Some children came along with the eould be no other conclusion, he said. keeper the other day and they said: Mrs. Lantz was last communicated with the day before her death by a Do tel! us why there Is a white deer in there where it says there sister, Mrs. Alexander McFaW. Neighbor Discovert Murder. should be red deer. t She told me,- - Mra, McFall said, Td tell you, said the keeper, but I cannot explain IL Its beyond me. "that the house was chilly and that That white deer la the child of she was going downstairs to fix the she was Mr. and Mrs. Bed Deer. He belonged furnace fire. Then, s to the Bed Deer family. going to dress and go out 1 1 called later In the evening. She think his mother must have answer. I called early this beaudidnt hard a wished so for and hoped tiful white deer child that this one morning and I kept on calling until came to her as a joyful surprise. finally a neighbor discovered what bad happened. For it is the first time Ive known final call was to Mrs Airs such a thing to happen. a next-doo- r Selmis. neighbor Priscilla as bat for a white red Hes deer, She Lantz. Mrs of explained she had a name Ids mother has called hint telephoned time after time without Red White. receiving an answer. "Too bad, said one of the children, Mrs. Selnfls then found the body that he couldnt be called Bed, White io It hy a light In the, and Blue. If he belongs to the Bed She was guided was no other light There basement. Deer family and has turned out to be white himself, it would he ever so In- the house. Airs. Lantz was killed. When nice If he had a little blue Id him kimono and In a sleeveless dressed somewhere so he could be given a fine house slippers. One of the slippers name like Bed, White and Blue. had fallen from her foot Are you suit he li.isal a blue relation? . , They all 'laughed at this. But It Prisoner Would Spend made me very unhappy. For evidentRest of Life in Jail ly I didnt suit them. S. C. Henry Scrlvens, Columbia, I be blue, too, They thought Charleston negro, South Carolinas though I should think Id be mighty n point of service, queer If I were blue as well as white, oldest prisoner the law may force that in fear lives 1 or If hud a blue relation. him to leave the penitentiary which And why did they want me to have home forty-thre- e years. inch a very tong name? Such a has been his was sentenced to life The negro strange name, too! Imprisonment In 1885 for burglary You have worried for no reason," and larceny. In 1924 Gov. Thomas said the mother deer. They surely J. McLeod paroled him. but hardly admired you. Ive often beard people months passed before the oegro three admiring you. to the prison and begged to returned "And the reason they thought of the be readmitted. long name for you Is because red, He Is partly paralyzed and la alwhite and blue are the colors of thla' most deaf. The only time he leaves country, and they meant that as a Ids cell block, except for meals, is d compliment. dally trip to the canteen for clga So after that the deer child was rettes. He knows only one of- - his happy, for he made believe he had fellow prisoners by name, his deafbad a blue grandmother. ness having made,. It difficult for him to learn others nnd the men he knew in former years are either dead or A Lise of Reasoning have left prison . , Little Eva Mother, what Is u bookRed-Whit- , CHAPTER IX Big Bulga earth's crust Is hy no means rigid it rises and falls under the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun In a maimer similar to that of the oceans tide Various difficulties have so far prevented exact measurements. The pressure exerted on spots ot the eurih'a crust by the rising tide of the ocean is another thing that makes It heave and fall. Atlantic tides have caused an observed earth bulge eight hundred miles awav. and it la thought probable that this influence girdle the world, s mild vegetable compound. It can not harm the system and is not habit forming. Syrup Pepsin is pleasant-tasting- , and youngsters love it. Dr. Caldwell did not approve of drastic physics and purges. He did not believe they were good for anybodys system. In s practice of 47 years he never saw any reason fee their use when Syrup Pepsin will empty the bowels just ! white. to look out for him. His faint didn't last long. And about the lime he came to, Perkins came lu. yawning and rubbing hU y eyes and pretending to be with curiosity the vljlulnl However. I let him get away with it I had other things to worry about besides Perkins Something prepos' terous was going on io Dlusmore's Folly and I meant to dad out what It was. But I knew I wjqiliinf find out hy asking questions. , So I Just lei Perkins help Air Brax ton away to his room; and then flet losephlne and Airs. James lead me ' away to mine. Tomorrow would be another day al- , Syrup-Pepsin- is frost-blacken- Bed-Whit- 1 y sudden Then all or 'omethlng happened. Several things happened In fact First; I saw Perkins, Just as natural as when I had seen him a few He wasnt Id Eight hours before. eenth-cery costume and he wasnt dancing Be was watching the dancers and thrusting his long neck out and drawing It buck again as if he were an automatic dull. It was per fectly i reposternus that he should be there, but ttiere ne was. Then suddenly I realized that he was watentng some one among the His oeck was swinging dancers. rythmhaily In tune to the music, hut his head was turniag so that his eyes could range slowly ilong the moving couples It didnt take long to discover who he was watching. And when I did He wa' discover I nearly dropped. watching the ghosts that Josephine and I had seen on the lawn There they were, dressed to the very minute (in Eighteenth century clothes,', ot I knew the man instantly course) ahd I was pretty sure of the woman I could not be quite sure; for 1 couldn't see her face clearly Almost she seemed to be tdding IL , Then something drew my eyes to where, a little in front of Perkins und to one side, half a dozen big plants In tubs stood close to the apex ot the triangle Some one wus crouching be tween those plants I couldn't see who It was or whether It was a man ghost or a woman ghost, but 1 could see thnt It was some one. As I watched, die couple that Per kins was watching danced up to the very point of the triangle and stood balancing, ns If hesitating which way to go The woman's back was toward Perkins, and he was craning his long netk every which way as If In an ef fort to see her face 1 don't think he saw It He didu t bate time For at that moment some thing happened. The man crouching between the plants was pushing out Into the room. I saw him distinctly and I didnt understand why othet people didnt 8ee him too. But ap parently they didn't. He took one step, then two. then with a rush he fairly hurled blmselt upon the couple Tie tbat Perkins was watching grabbed the man with one hand and Hang him aside. And then grabbed the wotnnn with the of Iter hand and hngged her. And She hugged him hack. For a moment they stool still plainly revealed In the hissing lights: ... . and I saw their faces. . It was Ur. Braxton and Miss about It I fhere eould be Mr i Braxton knew them Instantly. vasnl dressed like the others, exact ly, nor yet as I had last seen him Bnt It was be. all right .. And yet I knew as well as I knew anything tlmt Mr. Braxton was lying In a room ii the other part of the buildirtg with a broken arm. three broken rlhs and an ankle In splints 1 And he seemed - Found Murdered in Attitude of Prayer in Basement of Home. -- I watched and wondered The mush was catchy and my own feet began to keep step to It Wttb terror I realized that In anotliet minute I would probubly find uiyselt out In the middle of the throng On ctmsldera tion I did not mind so very much To dance with Eighteenth-centurspooks at an Eight teen th century ball would be something to tell about 11 I stir me. scream," he explained, and ran In to see what was the matter and found her fainting, on the floor. Mrs. James and Josephine had come up by this time, both very curious. Josephine sat down beside me and What happened, dear? hugged me. she asked. 1., screamed. Hap"Happened? pened? A whole covey of ghosts happened. They were dancing in here and" 1 turned on Mr. Braxton and you were with them I" I finished Then I remembered his expression as he grabbed Miss Labert and tore her away from her partner and hugged her; and 1 shrank away from him What Why, you villain I I cried. were you doing with that girl? This settled things for Josephine and Mrs. James. Looking back on It. I dont wonder. It would have settled Josephine things for most people. There, there hugged me tighter. You hBve been Edie," she said. walking in your sleep and have had a bad dreamt Come to bed nnv. let's MYSTIFIED BY WIDOWS DEATH Red-Whit- know. rived, of course If the ghosts didnt blight me where I stood the minute I appeared. Then I looked down at my wrapper and at my stockingless feet and decided to nave mercy on the ghosts and not scare them to death I was beginning to feel quite flippant about this time. The,Vact was f dldn i ere really truly believe that they ghosts. y Dont ask nte wnat I did believe. I was yxclted 'to believe anything I djf .trouble to bunt for explana Ghosts were good enough for DETROIT POLICE Mrs. James were hurrying across th room toward me. Mt. Braxton turned back to Jose1 'beard Miss Dlnsmore phine. .. she-zai- d, 1 Gaa Math for Housewives Fumes from onions are kept from the nostrils and eyes by a gas mask which has been especially adapted to domestic instead of war use. It Is easily slipped on or off and affords an unobstructed vision through wide lenses. It may also be used by victims to avoid dust Popular ' Mechanics Magazine. bay-fev- er Totties Busy Life The oldest known cat in Great y Britain is said to belong, to a lady living at Oswestry. 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