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The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-10-14
(To BE CoNTINUED)
Advertlslna That Counted.

An Oklahoma boy put up what he
considered good joke on his mother
by advertising in her name for hus.
band. He is now being walloped by
a good, stout stepfather, the surprised
but not at ell frustrated mother hav.
ing annexed the first man that came
along, and doing VOL et that. as the
neighbors all allowed. You can do
anything this world that is doable
by proper advertising. Let our Mr..
49, talk with you about it.-Minne-
apolis Journal.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-10-14
IRANKH.SpEARMAN.

not girl any longer-I never can be
again. | am a woman. What | was
before | married you | never can be
again, and you have no right to ask
me to be a hypocrite and say can
love you--for that is what it all comes
to--when | have no such thing IN my
heart or life for you. 1t is dead and
gone, and ] cannot help it."
THAT sounds pretty hard. Marion"
1T is only the truth. 1t sounded
fearfully hard to me when you told
me that woman was your friend-that
you knew her before you knew me
and would know her after | was
dead; that she was as good as I, and
that If | didn't entertain her you
would. But it was the truth! you told
me the truth, and it was better that
you told it-as 1t is better now that
l tell 1t to you"
Il was drunk | didn't tell you the
truth A man is pretty tough animal
sometimes, but you are woman and
pure enc, and | care more for you
than for all the other women in the
world, ard it is not your nature to be
unforgiving."
ut is to be honest"
He looked suddenly up at her and
spoke sharply: Marion, l know why
you won't co.
Il have honestly told you"
mo; you have not honestly told me-
The real reason is Gordon Smith"
IF he were l should not hesitate to
tell you, Murray; but he is not" she
said, coldly
Sinclair spoke harshly: do you
think you can fool me? Don't you sup
pose | know he spends his time loaf
ing around your shop"
Marion flushed Indignantly. 1T is
not true!"
Don't you suppose know he writes
letters back to Wisconsin to your
folks?"
What have to do with that? Why
shouldn't he write to my mother? Who
has better right?"
Don't drive me too far. BY God!
| il l go away alone I'll never leave
you here to run off with Whispering
Smith-remember that" She sat in
silence. His rage left her perfectly
quiet, and her unmoved expression
| shamed and in part silenced him.
Don't drive me too far" he muttered,
sullenly. IF you do you will be re.
sponsible, Marion"
She did not move her eyes from the
blue hills on the horizon. 81 expect
you to kill me sometime; l feel sure
you will. And that you may do" Then
she bent her look on him. You may
do it now If you want to-
His face turned heavy with rage
Marion" he cried, with an oath, do
you know how close you are to death
at this moment?"
You may do 1t now"
He clinched the bench-rail and rose
slowly to his feet. Marion sat motion
less in the hickory chair; the sun was
shining in her face and her hands
were folded in her lap. Dicksie rocked
on the porch. In the shadow of the
house the man was mending the
saddle.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-10-14
mol 4 VIII Not Go with You'll"

to tell. THE only story" said Whis.
pering Smith, as the men climbed into
their saddles, lis in the one from the
hoofs, and the sooner we get after IL
the better"
The country around Tower w, which
is itself an operating point on the
western end of the division, mere
speck on the desert, lies high and
rolling. To the south, 60 miles away,
rise the Crosse Terre mountains, and
to the north and west lie the solitudes
of the Heart range, while in the north
east are seen the three white Saddle
peaks of the Missions. The cool,
bright sunshine of far and lonely
horizon greets the traveller here, and
ten miles away from the railroad, in
any direction, man on horseback and
unacquainted with the country would
wish himself--mountain men will tell
Ter to ride out OF.
To the railroad men the country
offered no unusual difficulties. The
Youngs were as much at home on a
horse as on hand car. Kennedy,
though large and powerful man, was
Injured to hard riding, and Bob Scott
and Whispering Smith in the saddle
were merely a part-though an i'm
portant part-of their horses, without
killing their mounts, they could get
out of them every mile in their legs.
The five men covered 20 miles on a
trail that read like print One after
another of the railroad party COM
mented on the carelessness with which
it had been left. But 20 miles south
OF the railroad, in an open and COM
paratively easy country, 1t was swal-
lowed completely up in the tracks Of
100 horses. The railroad men circled
far and wide, only to find the herd
tracks everywhere ahead of them. I
This is beautiful job murmured
Whispering Smith as the party rode
together along the edge of creek
bottom, Now who is their friend
down in this country? What man
would get out bunch of horses like
this and work them this hard so early
in the morning? Let's hunt that man
up. like to meet man that is a
friend in need
Bob Scott spoke: Il saw man
with some horses in canyon across
the creek a few minutes ago, and |
saw ranchhouse behind those buttes
when | rode around them"
stop! Here's man riding right
into our jaws" muttered Kennedy.
Divide up among the rocks" A horse.
man from the south came galloping up
the creek, and Kennedy rode out with
an ivory smile to meet him. The two
men parleyed for a moment, disputed
each other sharply, and rode together
back TO the railroad party.
Haven't seen any men looking for
horses this morning, have your" asked
Whispering Smith, eying the stranger,
squat, square-jawed fellow with a
cataract eye.
I'm looking for horses myself I
amt seen anybody else. What are
you looking for?"
rs this your bunch of horses that
got loose here?" asked Smith.
mo"
Il thought" said Kennedy, smiling,
you said minute ago they WERE"
The stranger fixed his cataract on
him like dash-light Il changed my
mind"
CTO BE CONTINUED)
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CHAPTER XXI.
The Man on the Frenchman.

Sinclair's place on the Frenchman
backed up on a sharp rise against the
foothills of the Bridger range, and the
ranch buildings were strung along the
creek. The ranchhouse stood on ground
high enough to command the country
for miles up and down the valley.
Only two roads lead from Medicine
Bend and the south into the French
man country; one wagon road fol-
lowing Smoky creek and running
through Dale canyon; the other a
pack road, known as the Gridley trail,
crossing the Topaz Topaz hills and
making short cut from the Dunning
ranch on the Crawling Stone to the
Frenchman. The entire valley is, in
fact, so difficult of access, save by the
long and roundabout wagon road, that
the sight of a complete outfit of build
ings such as that put up by Sinclair
always came as surprise to the trav-
eler, who, reaching the crest of the
hills, looked suddenly down 1000 feet
on his well-ordered sheds and barns
and corralS.
Over the Gridley trail from the
Crawling Stone Marion and Dicksie
Cunning rode early in the morning the
day after McCloud and his men left
the Stone ranch with their work done.
The trail is a good three hours long
and they reached Sinclair's place at
about ten o'clock. He was waiting for
Marion--she had sent word she should
come-and he came out of the front
door into the sunshine with smile of
welcome when he saw Dicksie with
her Dicksie, long an admirer of Sin
clair's, as women usually were, had
recast somewhat violently her opin-
ions of him. She faced him now with
a criminal consciousness that she
knew too much. The weight of the
dreadful secret weighed on her, and
her responsibility in the issue of the
day ahead did not help to make her
greeting an easy one. One thing only
was fixed In her mind and reflected
in the tension of her lips and her
eyes: The resolve to keep at every
cost the promise she had given. For
Dicksie had fallen under the spell of
a man even more compelling than Sin
clair, and felt strangely bounden to
what she had said,
Sinclair, however, had spirit enough
to smooth quite away every embarrass-
ment. Bachelors quarters" he ex-
planned roughly and pleasantly as he
led the two women toward the house.
"Cowmen make poor housekeepers,
but you must feel at home" And
when Dicksie, looking at his Indian
rugs on the floors, the walls, and the
couches, said she thought he had little
to apologize for Sinclair looked graft
fed and took off his hat again. Just
a moment" he said, standing at the
side of the door 1--WE never been
able to get Marion over here before,
so 1t happens that woman's foot has
never entered the new house | want
to watch one of you cross the thresh-
old for the first time"
Dicksie, moving ahead, retreated
with laugh. you first, then,
Marion"
mo, Dicksie, you"
Never! you first" So Marion,
quite red and wretchedly i'll at ease,
walked into the ranchhouse first.
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CHAPTER XIV.
Pursuit.

BIN You picked up d trail Sunday
morning at Tow w before the spe-
ciai from MediciIJ Bend reached
there. The wrecked express car,
which had been set out, had no story
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
For License to Sell Real Estate
In Re Fred J. Wainwright, minor.

GTATE OF VERMONT,
\ oDIsTRICT OF ADDISON, IS.
The Probate Court for the District OF Addi
son:
To all persons interesd in the estate of said
Fred Wainwright, minor. OF Salisbury In
said District, GREETING:
Whereas, application hath been made to
this court in writing, by Henry Kinsman,
guardian OF said Fred ]. Wainwright, minor,
praying license to sell all of real estate of
said ward TO wit, an adivided fourth part OF
about two acres OF land in Salisbury village
IN said Salisbury, which said ward has inheri
ted as an heir of his mother, Ida Wainwright,
late OF said salisbury, deceased representing
to SAID court that il would be conducive to
the interest OF SAID ward to sell said real es
tate and convert the same into money for
proper investment.
Whereupon, The said court appointed and
assigned The Goth day OF November 1909, at the
Probate Office in Middebury in aid district
to hear and decide upon said application and
petition, and ordered public notice thereof
10 be given to all persons interested therein,
by publishing said order, together with the
lime and place OF heari z. three W eeks sue
cessively in the middlebury Register, a
newspaper which circulates in the neighbor-
hood of those persons interested in said es-
tate. all of which publications shall be pre-
viOus to the day assigned for hearing.
Therefore you are hereby notified to
appear before said court, at the time and
pace assigned. then and there in said court
to make objections to the granting OF such
license, II you see cause
Dated this 9Th day OF November, 1909.
As WIN. II. BLISS, Probate Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
Estate of Elvia b. Smith.
Order of MOTHERHOOD of WIN

CTATE OF VERMONT In,c
oDIsTRICT OF ADDIRoN, So. rrooa'e court
Be il remembered, that at a session OF the
Probate Court, holden at hiddlebury, within
and for the District OF Addison. on the 18th
day OF November. A. ID. 1919.
PRESENT: WIN. fl. BLISS, Judge
Whereas. a certain instrument OF writing,
under seal, purporting TO be the last will and
testament OF Elvia b. Smith late OF Middle
bury in said District, deceased, having been
this day Pr esenied to said Court for Probate,
ana duly filed In the Registers Office: There
fore, II Is ordered. that all persons Interested
in the estate OF said deceased be notified to
appear before said Court. al the Probate OF.
fee IN Middlebury, in said District, on the
9Th day OF December. AID. 1903 bY publication
of this order. thee weeks successfully pre-
vious thereto. In the Middlebury Register, a
newspaper printed AT Middlebury, VT, to
show cause, II any they may have, why said
instrument In writing should not he proved
and allowed, as the last will and testament
of the said deceased.
A tue record,
AZ mabel A. BLISS, Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
STATE NEWS.

Charles II. Davis of Brattleboro. first
lieutenant of Company l, LIST Inf, V. n.
g., has rendered his resignation to Col.
j. G. Estey. He has been in the service
fifteen years and was at Chickamauga
After the war he was offered commits
sion in the volunteer service in the
Philippines.
The proprietors of the four moving pic
ture houses in Barre have protested to the
city council against the 50 day license
fee levied against them. They claim this
is ten times as much as is charged by any
other city in the state. At Montpelier
the license is $50 year, at st. Adams,
Burlington, and Rutland, $50, while at
Bellows Falls and White River Junction
no fee is charged.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
Women Not Spared in the Schlu-
esseiburg.

In an article in the December Nc
Cures. describing the atrocities of the
Schluesselburg, Russia's political pris-
on, David Soskice tells of the imprison-
ment of Vera Figner and Nine. Volken-
stein.
"They had trials of their own," he
says, (which are unknown to men.
The constant and absolute exposure to
the prying eyes of men was terrible
affection for them; and every Saturday
a new trial awaited them, when 'Herod
1.-THE keeper] came into their cells with
a woman whose duty it was to search
them. These searches were absolutely
aimless and exceedingly painful. Moth
ing could possibly be concealed upon
them, because of the constant espionage
to which they were subjected Never
theless thorough search of their per-
sons, even to their hair, was regularly
carried out. 'Herod' watched opera
tons through the spy-glass, and when
the prisoners, noticing this, raised a
protest, he answered them brutally:
"Have we never seen naked woman
before?'
after a few months of such life not
one of the prisoners was in a state of
health. Scurvy was prevalent, and
many of them became i'll with lung
diseases and began to spit blood. Vera
Figner described to me the horror she
felt when. during her short solitary
walks in the courtyard, she saw the
traces of this blood upon the snow.
The few minutes of exercise in the
open air became torture to her. Her
own nerves were so unsettled that the
slightest noise caused her to tremble all
over
"When the prisoners, one after an
other, were stricken with disease or
madness, it appeared that not the
slightest care was to be taken of them,
and no hospital was prepared for them.
Those who suffered from scurvy, their
teeth becoming loosened, were unable
to chew hard food. Yet they were
given the same coarse rye bread as be-
fore: and the consumptives were treat
ed in the same manner
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
WHAT'S IN A NAMEi

Drummond wrote of the greatest
thing in the world. We write of the
most wonderful thing in Springfield.
We refer of course to the amazing ag-
gregation of kites without tails, bean
pots without balls, big skimmers with
out holes, cheese boxes on RATS, straw
horse feed baskets, reversed toadstoos,
and miniature smokestacks, each adorn-
ed either with hens wings, turkey tails,
painted shrubbery or mule plumage,
samples of all which may be seen at any
Sunday morning service; and the most
wonderful thing about it is that each, re-
CARELESS of shape, vintage, or previous
condition of servitude, is called, for want
of a better name We suppose, lady S
hat, although the poor man who is
obliged to sit back of them during the
service with his view of the preacher
and pulpit entirely cut off by this Won
derful and variegated scenery, is strong
ly inclined to call them other names.
No wonder the women outnumber the
men in their church attendance. -
Springfield Reporter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

Something like optimism seems to
rest in the Fleetwood camp, if one is to
judge by the manifestations from the
columns of the two Lamoile county
newspapers. For instance, the Morris
vile Messenger last week declared that
the drift was steadily toward Mr..
Fleetwood for governor, the opinion be-
ing formed not alone on the edit S
belief, but by the almost universal
testimony of men who are travelling over
the state on business. 1t does seem
certain that Fleetwood s strength, as
against John A. Mead only, will gain
materially as the canvass comes nearer
to the date when a choice must be made
by the Republican state convention. If
some other man should come into the
field, such candidate would probably
hurt Fleetwood more than Mead. -
Barre Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
ABSURD? OF COURSEl

Here's an even guess that st. Johns
bury has new modern summer hotel
before st. Adams. We have plenty of
red apples and doughnuts! What do
you say psf. Johnsbury.
Don't we bet. Becos' for a ST.
Johnsb'ry man to gamble is wicked
enough, for he sins in a greater light
than the rest of us poor heather; but
for st. Johnsb'ry man to gamble and
lose is worse yet. And that's what'll
happen to We if we risk a cent agin' the
buildin' of our new tavern. Come
away, son. Stroll down to the three
card monte man where your chances are
better. st. Adams Messenger.
Disgraceful, to speak to st. Johns
bury in language she cannot possibly
understand. The idea anyway of the
only two Saints in the state, except
poor little st. George, communicating
the rest of us by all this table talk about
gambling. Bennington Banner.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
Estate of Francis ". LamOrder
Order of NOtice-Proof of VIII.

STATE OF VERMONT, 4 a-.,... 49,.
oDIsrRICr OF. ADDISON, IS. ''O""'' N'Ni'
BE it remembered, that ~ a session OF the
Pr, bate Court, holden al MiddlebuTy, within
and for the District OF Addison, on The 5th
day OF November A. ID. 1909.
PRESENT VIM II BLISS, Judge.
Whereas, certain instrument OF writing,
nader seal, purpOrtlng tn be the last will and
testament OF Francis n. amorder, late OF
ShoI cham in said ID strict, deceased, having
been this day presented to said Court for + 20
bate, and duly rled IN the Registers ONCE :
Therefore, II is ordered. that all persons IN
terested in the estate OF said deceased be
notified to appear before said Court, at the
Probate ONCE in Middle bury. in said District.
on the Goth day OF November. A. ID. 1909, by
publication OF this order. three weeks suc
cessively previous thereto. in the Miodlebury
Register newspaper printed at middlebury
to show cause, II any they may have, why
said instrument IN writing should not be
proved and allowed. as the last win and test
ament of the said deceased
true record.
s6 MABEL A. BLISS. Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

The Burlington Free Press is correct
when it says that There are compare
lively few things in which we could not
excel other states if we would only
spring to the task and work with in
telligence and persistence combined.
We believe one trouble is nature
has done so much for US we are
Inclined to sit still and complain because
she did not do everything in our be-
half" That's about the size of it. If
the people of Vermont would only take
advantage of the good which has been
bestowed upon us by nature we would
soon be in the front rank of states in
Importance.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
A GROWING TOWN.

Middlebury, our sister collegiate town,
thai Mans are aIreadg IN tb a %aR;ns
for two new business blocks to be erect,
ed in Middlebury as soon as the frost is
out of the ground next spring. The
Register then goes on: These, with
the completion of a substantial addition
to our biggest business building and the
construction of new women's dormi-
tory at Middlebury college, will make
things lively. Watch us grow or ra-
Their watch us continue to grow. Two
new business blocks, factory for hand
ling milk and the erection of some pri-
vate residences the past summer is not
a bad record, and the activity in this
line the coming season promises to
eclipse even that Yes, thank you,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

A bill for increasing the salaries of
all federal judges by from 5000 to
S. 900 year will be introduced at the
coming session of Congress with the en-
dorsement of committee of lawyers
which has been considering the subject
for year or more. The committee,
headed by former Senator John c.
Spooner, former Congressman Charles
Littlefield and Henry w. Taft; recon-
mends the following increases:
Supreme Court, from $l2500 to ST.
500.
United States circuit court, from ST.
900 to $40, 900.
United States district court, from
$4,000 to SO, 600.
Far be it from US to say whether the
raise" is deserved, but the ordinary
country editor, who probably puts in
more hours of good hard work than any
judge in the country, would feel like a
multi-mi lionaire if his salary was half
that of the judges at the present time
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

Middlebury is in very healthy condi-
ton, physically, industrially and in
every other way. Pretty good place
to live in.
Middlebury is to be congratulated and
it is to be congratulated on the citizen
ship to which its growth is due. In a
town which, contains such men as Pres-
dent Thomas, who has infused new life
into its college, and Col. Battell, whose
time, thought and money are so largely
devoted to local interests, and other
public-spirited citizens, things could not
fail to happen. - Burlington News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

The Thanksgiving proclamation issued
from the Governors Office this year has
been very favorably commented on by
many of the state newspapers, some GO
ing so far as to say that it is better than
that issued from Washington The fol-
lowing from the Rutland News sums it
all up: - For eloquence and general
literary excellence, the Thanksgiving
proclamations of Governor George Her
bert Prouty doubtless stand superior to
those of any of his predecessors. They
are in every way worthy of a profess
siOnal man of letters. They are really
gems To all of which we agree, but
there seem to be skeptics among the
state editors, as some of them hint that
our esteemed governor did not write the
document. We agree with them, also !;
in fact we are pretty certain that the
writer of the document in question re-
sides long way from Newport, and al
so that this is not his first attempt in
in the line of proclamation writing. If
Governor Prouty didn't write it, he
picked out good man to do it for him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26

feed did it with shame and humilia-
ton. Finally | got so l would back up
to the mill side and side with hardened
sinners and feel no tinge of conscience.
The road to the gin shop and the feed
store is bad one and we must quit it or
farming in Vermont will end as did
old Ben Wiser's funeral-he said at all
flushed out
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
WOMEN EDITORS.

Various Vermont editors, who are
praising the work of particular women
editors in Vermont, will be getting into
trouble by emitting some of those who,
quietly, are doing good work in the
making of their respective newspapers.
There are at least dozen women edi-
tors in state journalism, some of whom
have not been referred to by name by
the newspapers that have spoken about
the matter. So let it go that they are
doing their part of the work as well as
the men are doing theirs. Barre Times.