The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-12

marks he paid her a compliment on her
good looks. and put one or two rather
personal questions to her "No,' she
replied, as she blushed with her eyes
bent on the pavement. "No, monsieur,
am widow More compliments
followed, and at last off they went arm.
ln-arm to n cafe, where the convcrsa-
tion was prolonged. This incident hap
pened few weeks ago, and the pleas
ant meetings had been renewed at in
teryals, the young people being on the
best terms, when the other afternoon
as the hero of the adventure was en-
JoElng walk he espied his handsome
widow tripping along on the arm of a
smart looking man. Excited by zeal
ousy, he hurried up to the couple, and,
planting himself before his fair friend
exclaimed, "Now | have caught you;''
and seizing the widow by the arm he
tore her away from her companion,
who. in utter bewiderment, cried, "Do
you know tins gentIeman?'
The woman had turned deadly pale
and was trembling. She had lost her
presence of mind, SO she put no obstacle
IN the way of the speedy and inevitable
development of events. She was NOT
a widow at all, but married woman.
and her companion was her husband,
but being under the impression that she
was what she had represented herself
as being, her friend had naturally
jumped to the conclusion that She had
taken up with another man under the
same circumstances as those of the
bench episode He reproached her in
bitter language for her fickleness, in
Farlably concluding every sentence with
dIscourteous allusion to "this gentle.
man." AT last the husband s patience
was exhausted, This gentleman, for
sooth, he cried. ''Why, this gentle
man is the lady's husband - and he
brought heavy stick down, on the in,
truder s head with such force that the
man fell lnsensible on tho ground The
injured individual had TO be conveyed
to the nearest hospital while the wife
went off into the inevitable fit of hys-
terics.
A small village near Ramboullet was
one of tho quietest spots in the world
until very recently when young WON
an of great beauty happened to make
her appearance there bringing with her
strife riots and death. She was the
sister OF very respccta BILE shopkeeper
In another town who had requested her
TO leave that place because all the young
men had their eyes on her. Things were
no better in tho village where she took
refuge, very respectable farmer and
ms wife took her in and gave her
shelter but it was not long before all
the workmcn round about also took Il
fancy to the modern Helen They ac-
cused the couple who were shelterlng
the young woman of keeping her i'm
prlsoned in their house and Il crowd of
them gathered Mt night and called on
them to surrender her. The farmer S !
wife went out and told them that the
young person was no longer in her
house. They believed her aud went
away but convinced that they had been |
dupcd they returned after about an hour !
and threatened TO storm the house, |
Meanwhile the farmer had secured
revolver with which he threatened the |
men, But they were determined to |
break INTO the house and on seeing this /
the farmer fired and killed one of them (
shooting him straight through the .
heart This cooled the enthusiasm Of .
the others, who scattered in all dl-
fections. The farmer explained the mat
ter to the authorities. and so far he
has not been molcstcd, as he is as
sumcd to have acted in legitimate de.
Tense,
NJ. Marcel Provost, the novelist, and
he latest elected Academiciau, seems
to be something of Lucullus. In fact.
y equals his, He is Gascon, and is
quite sure that cit is only in Gascony
that one knows how to dine. - A de.
scriptiorr of few of the dishes of
which NJ. Provost babitually dimes is /