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lift ION THE LORD AV_TALE OF TfIL OLD WEST C4K HAORV LEON WILSOIM TiS^EwnSn* i caw/»G<vr mesa films mmftf Camvurr CHAPTER XXXI,--Continued. ' When Follett came riding back that evening he saw tfit Prudence had been troubled. The candle-light showed sadness In her dark'eyes and in the weighted corners of her mouth.' He was moved to take her in his arms and soothe her as he had seen moth­ ers do with some sorry little chil­ dren. But instead of this he ques­ tioned her father sharply when their corn-husk mattresses had been put before either side of the fireplace for the night. The little man told him frankly the causa «f her grief. Tbere was something compelling in the other's way of asking questions. When the thing had been made plain, Fol­ lett looked at him indignantly. "Do you mean to say that you let her go on thinking that about her­ self?" "I told her that her father and mother had been rightly married." "Didn't she think you ware fooling her in some way?" "I--can't be sure--" "She must have, or she wouldn't be so down in the mouth now. Why tldn't yott tell her the truth?" she could go on .ther--only a little "If only--if onl; thinking I am her while--" Follett spoke wttti the ring of sudden resolution inNfctis voice. "Now, I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Man, something has got to be done by some one. I can't do it because I'm tied by a promise, and so I reckon you ought to!" "just a little time! Oh, if you only knew how the knives cut me on every side and the fires burn all through me!" "Well, think of the knives cutting that girl--making her bellevfe jshe has to be ashamed of her mother^. You go to sleep now, and try to lie q\ffet; there ain't anything here to hurt you. But I'll tell you one thing--you've got to toe the mark." CHAPTER XXXII. The Mission Service in Bex Canyon la • Suspended. Follett waited with a new eagerness next day for their walk to the canyon. But Prudence, looking at him with eyes that sorrow was clouding, said that she could not go. He felt a sharp new resentment against the mah who was letting her suffer rather than betray himself, aud he again resolved that this man must be made to "toe the mark" to "take his need- Ings;" and that, meantime, the de­ ceived girl must be effectually reas­ sured. Something must be said to (take away the hurt that was tug­ ging at the corners of her smile to draw them down. To this end he pleaded with her not to deprive him of the day's lesson, especially as the time was now at hand when he must leave. And BO ably did he word his appeal to her sense of duty that at last she consented to go. Once in the canyon, however, where the pines had stored away the cool gloom of the night against the day's heat, she was glad she had come. For, better than being alone with that strange, new hurt, was it to have by her side this friendly young man, who somehow made her feel as if it were right and safe to lean upon Up--despite his unregenerate condi­ tion. And presently there, in the zeal of saving his soul, she was al­ most happy again. Yet he seemed to-day to be impa­ tient under the teaching, and more than once she felt that he was on the point of interrupting the lesson to some end of his own. He seemed insufficiently impressed even with the knowledge of astronomy displayed by the prophets of the Book of Mormon, hearing, without a quiver of interest, that when at Joshua's command the sun seemed to stand still upon Gibeon and the moon in the valley of AJalon, the real facts were that the earth merely paused in its revolutions upon its own axis and about the sun. Without a question he thus heard Ptolemy refuted and the discoveries of Copernicus antlci pated 2,000 years before that investi­ gator was born. He was indeed de­ plorably inattentive. She suspected, from the quick glances she gave him, that he had no understanding at all of what she read. Yet In this she did him injustice, for now she came to the passage: "They all did swear unto him that whoso should vary from the assistance which Aklsh desired should lose his head; and whoso should divulge whatsoever thing Ak­ lsh should make known unto them should lose his life." This time he sat up. "There it Is again--they don't'mind losing their heads. They were sure the fightingest men--don't you think so now?" As he went on talking she laid the book down and leaned back against the trunk of the big pine under which they sat. He seemed to be saying something that he had been revolving In his mind while she read. "I'd hate t<» have you thfnk you have been wasting your time on me this summer, but I'm afraid I'm just toflf downright unsanctified." "Oh, don't say that!" she cripd. *'I couldn't even join your church--" Her face became full of alarm. "--only for just one thing;--I don't care very much for this ̂ having so many wives." <® She was relieved at once. "If that's all--I don't approve of It myself. You wouldn't have to." "Oh, that's what you say now--" he spoke with ah air of shrewdness and suspicion--"but when I got in you'd throw lip my duty to me con­ stant about building up the kingdom. Oh, I know how it's doaal I've heard your preachers talk enough." "But it isn't necessary. I wouldn't --I don't think it would be at all nice of you." He looked at her with warm sym­ pathy. "You poor ignorant girl! Not to know your own religion! I read in that book thete about this marrying business only the other day. Just hand me that one." She handed him the "Book of Doc­ trine and Covenants," from which she had occasionally taught him the Lord's word, as revealed to Joseph Smith. The revelation on celestial marriage had never been among her selections. He turned to it now. ^ "Here, right in the very first of it--" and she heard, with a sinking heart--" 'Therefore prepare thyself to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law re­ vealed unto them must obey the same; .for behold! I reveal unto you a new and everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned, for no one can reject this It in both his own. He went on. ap­ pealing!?: "Now, you try to tell me right--like as if I was your own brother--tell me as a sister. Try to put yourself in the place of the girl I'd marry first-- no, don't; it seems more like your Sister iff! hold it this way--and try to, ti^ink how she'd feel when I brought home my second. Would that be do­ ing square by her? Wouldn't it sort of got her oh the bark? But if I join your church and dont do that, I might as well be one of those low- down Free-will Baptists or Episco- pals. Come, now, tell me true, letting on that you're my sister.** She had not looked at him since he began, nor did she now. "Oh, I don't know--I don't know-- it's all so mixed! I thought you could be saved^without that." "There is the word of God against me." "I wouldn't want you to marry that way--if I were your sister;" 'That's right now, try to feel like a sister. You wouldn't want me to have as many wive%tas those old codgers down there below, would you?" "No--I'm sure you shouldn't have but one. Oh, you couldn't marry more than one, could you?" She turned her eyes for the first time upon him, and he saw that some in­ ward warmth seemed to be melting them. "Well, I'd hate to disappoint you If you were my sister, but there's the word of the Lord--" "Oh, but could you anyway, even if you didn't have a sister, and there was no one but her to think of?" He appeared to debate with himself cautiously. "Well, now, I must say your teach­ ing has taken a powerful hold on me this summer--" he reached under her 3 / C2T/ " ' *0%, He Took Her Small Brown covenant and be permitted 16 enter into my glory.' "There, now!" "I never read it," she faltered. "And don't you know they preach in the tabernacle that anybody who rejects polygamy will be damned?" "My father never preached that." "Well, he knows it--ask him." It was proving to be a hard day for her. "Of course," he continued, "a new member coming into the church might think at first he could get along with­ out so many wives. He might say: "Well, now, I draw a line in this marrying business. I'll never take more than two or three wives, or maybe four.' He might even be so taken up with one lady that he'd say: 'I won't even marry a second wife-- not for some time yet, that is--not for two or three years, till she be­ gins to get kind of house worn.' But then after he's taken his second, the others would come easy. Say he marries, first time, a tall, slim, dark girl,"--he looked at her musingly, while she gazed intently into the stream in front of them. "--ifind then say he meets a little chit of a thing, kind of heavy-set like, with this light yellow hair and pretty light blue eyes, that he saw one Sun­ day at church--" Her dark face was flushed, now im pained wonder. "--why then it's so easy to keep on and marry others, with the preachers all preaching it from the pulpit." "But you wouldn't have to." "No, you wouldn't have to marry anyone after the second--after this little blonde--but you'd have to marry her because it say£\ here that you 'shall abide the law or ye shall be damned, saith the Lord God.'" He pulled himself along the ground closer to her, and went on again In what seemed to be an extremity of doubt: "Now, I don't want to be lost, and yet I don't wanf to have a Whole lot of wives like Brigh&m or that,, old coot we see so often on the road. So what am I going to do? I might think I'd get along with three Or four, but you never can tell what re­ ligion will do to a man when he really gets it." He reached for her small brown hand that still held the Book of Mormon open on her lap, and took arm and caught her other hand. "You've been like a sister to me, and made me think about these things pretty deep and serious. I don't know if I could get what you've taught me out of my mind or not." "But how could you ever marry an­ other wife?" "Well, a man don't like to think he's going to the bad. place when he dies, all on account of not marrying a few more times. It sort of takes the am­ bition out of him.'* "Oh, it couldn't be right!' * "Well, now, I'll do as you say. Do I forget all these things you've been teaching me, and settle down with one wife--or do I come into the Kingdom azjd lash the cinches of my glory good and plenty by marrying whenever I get time to build a new end on the house, like old man Wright does?" She was silent. "Like a/ sister would tell a brother," he urged, with a tighter pressure of her two hands. But this seemed to recall another trouble to her mind. "I--I'm not fit to be your sister-- don't talk of it--you don't know--" Her voice broke, and he had to re- if as a r»«»r hand. Whereupon he ptit his own back up against the pine tree, reached his arm about her, and had her head tipon siioiilderv , "There, there now!* ; "But you don't know.** "Well, I do know---so Jttitt' straighten out that face. I do know, I tell you. Now, don't cry and I'll fix it all right, I promise you." "But you don't even know what my trouble *3. "I do--it's about your father and mother--when they were married." "How did you know?" "I can't tell you now, but I will soon. Look here, you can believe what I tell you, can't you?" **Yes, I can do that" "Well, then, you listen. Your father and mother were married in the right way, and there wasnt a single bit of crookedness about it. I wouldn't tell you if I didn't know and couldn't prove it to you in a little while. Say, there's one of ©or wagon trains com­ ing along here to war# Salt Lake next Monday. It's coming out of its way on purpose to pick me up. I'll promise to have It proved to you by that time. Now, is that fair? Can you believe me?" i " She looked up at him, her face bright again! "Oh, I do believe you! You don't know how glad you make me. It was an awful thing--oh, you are dear--" and full upon his lips she kissed the astounded young man, holding him fast with an arm about his neck. "You've made me all over new--I was feeling so wretched--and, of course, I can't see how you know anything about it. but I know you are telling the truth." Again she kissed him with the utmost cordiality. Then she stood up to arrange her hair, her face full of the joy of this assurance. The young man saw that she had forgot­ ten both him and his religious per­ plexities, and he did not wish her to be entirely divested of concern for him at this moment. "But how about me? Here I am, lost if I do land lost if I don't. You better sit down here again and see if there isn't some way I can get that crown of glory."f She sat down by him, instantly so­ bered from her own joy, and calmly gave him a hand to hold. "Well, I'll tell you," she said, frank* ly. "You wait awhile. Don't do any­ thing right away. I'll have to ask father." And then as he reached over to pick up the Book of Mormon-- "No, let's not read any more to-day. Let's sit a little while and only think about things." She was so free from embarrassment that he began to doubt if he had been so very deeply clever, after all, in suggesting the relationship between them. But after she had mused awhile, she seemed to perceive for the first time that he was very earnestly holding both of her hands. She blushed, and suddenly withdrew them. Whereat he was more pleased than when she had passively let them He. He approached the matter of sal­ vation for himself once more. "Of course, I can wait awhile for you to find out the rights of this thing, but I'm afraid I can't be baptized even if you tell me to be--even If you want me to obey the Lord and marry some pretty little light-com­ plected, yellow-haired thing after­ wards--after I'd married my first wife. Fact is, I don't believe I could. Prob­ ably I'd care so much for the first one that I'd have blinders on for all the other women in the world. She'd have me tied down with the red rib­ bon in her hair--" he touched the reid ribbon in her own by way of Il­ lustration--"just like I can tie the biggest steer you ever saw with that little silk rag of mine--hold him, two hind legs and one fore, so he can't budge an Inch. I'd just like to see some little, short, kind of plump, pretty yellow-haired thing coive be­ tween us." For an instant she looked such warm, almost indignant approval that he believed she was about to express an opinion of her own in the matter, but she stayed silent, looking away instead with a little movement of having swallowed something. "And you, too, if you were my sis­ ter, do you think I'd want you mar­ ried to a man who'd begin to look around for some one else as soon as he got you? No, sir--you deserve some decent young fellow who'd love you all to pieces day in and day out, and never so much as look at this little yellow-haired girl--even if she was almost as pretty as you." But she was not to be led into ren­ dering any hasty decision which might affect his eternal salvation. Moreover, she was embarrassed and disturbed. "We must go," she said, rising be­ fore he could help her. 'When they had picked their way down to the mouth of the canyon, he walking be­ hind her, she turned back and said: "Of course you could marry that little yellow-haired girl with the blue eyes first, the one you're thinking so much about--the little short, fat thing with a doll-baby face--" But he only answered: "Oh, well, if you <get me Into your church It wouldn't make a bit of difference whether I took her first, or second." (TO BE CONTINUED.) K ^ WmARadfobd 3L-ST EDITOR The first important work in build­ ing is the excavations for the founda­ tion walls. All complete plans speci­ fy that trenches should be left with natural bottoms, level and smooth for the reception of walls, piers, etc. Not long ago a workman in digging a trench for a center wall in a large city block misread the directions and got the excavation a foot deeper than the specifications designated. The contractor called the owner's atten­ tion to it, as an honest man should, and offered to build the wall from the bottom up if the owner would pay the bare cost of the extra stone, but this the owner refused to do, whereupon the contractor very naturally dumped in loose-earth enough to fill up to the original depth. The building was com­ pleted aud accepted by the owner, but after a lapse of five or six months the center wall settled sufficiently to crack the plaster in every room above it clear to the third story. It was a block of fiats occupied by six families. Three of the families moved out because they thought such a building was not safe to live in. This led to a law-suit between the owner and the contractor which is not yet settled and which may last for a term of years In the courts and cost each party a good deal more than the excavations and walls for the whole building. I mention this simply to call atten­ tion to the necessity for the exercise of a little common sense in connection with the different parts of the build­ ing reaching all the way from the bot­ tom of the trenches to the peak of the roof. It Is not always best to stick hard and fast to the Btrlct terms of the contract, even when you know you are right. Of course, a man don't want to be run over by anyone. Every one in business finds out early In life that he must stand up for his rights or have them taken away from him. The old Bible admonition which instructed everybody to accept a whack on both cheeks won't work In this country as society Is constructed at present. Another, thing the owner needs to have an eye to Is the excavation for drains, catch basin, cess pool, etc. The workmen are not Interested In the very pleasant experience to come in contact with a great many such men in the building trade. I think 99 per cent of the mechanics that have work­ ed for me are upright and honorable men, but I am all the time looking for the one-hundredth man because I have a deep-seated conviction that he is tricky. You might happen to meet him first go off. The little rascal might be the first pea out of the pod when you open your building contract bids. This house is 35 feet wide and 45 feet I5ng, exclusive of porches. NEWS OF ILLINOIS. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST PROM ALL OVER THE STATE, * RE TO BE REINSTATED Peoria Policemen Discharged for At* lowing Eddie Tate to Escape Be Given Their Old Positional, It is Said. m Peoria.--It is said that * Oficers |R„. Brennan and Barrett, who were dis- I missed from the police force because Iff their connection with Eddie Tate, are to be reinstated. Brennan was dis- 7* ! charged because he permitted Tate r to get out of his sight at the St. Fran- cis hospital, thereby enabling Tate to ' Officer Barrett took Tate tor *•,«»; escape. a street car ride and this cost him fa suspension of 30 days. Rut the real vV* cause for the suspension is believed to be the statement Barrett made that 4 *i Tate had upwards of $100 when he had him out on the morning of the day r he escaped. This statement nettled /*;>, Chief Wilson considerably, for he eon- tends that Tate had only a five doUar- v-;<- IV LAND BRINGS HIGH PRICE; '$$• SECOND FLOOR FLA* Where everything is favorable the house could be built without furnace, mantel or gas fixtures for about $2,300, say $2,500 complete and ready to live In. The house has many features to rec­ ommend it. You will notice that the rooms are especially large and that every room'is bright and sunny. Of course, it Is expected that the houqe will face the south or the east. If I should build such a house on a lot fac­ ing north or west I would reverse the plan because I think the best rooms In the house should be continually used by the family and they should be t * s . -J. > 41 •! 5.£- >, •<> * i <f > , "V McLean County Tract of Eight Acres Sells for $3,700. Bloomington.--A new record has been set in McLean county for the price of farm lands. Heretofore $200 and $215 was considered , the top - notch, but by a deed filed for record here these figures appear Insignifi­ cant. William Polhemus, a nephew of the late Abraham Brokaw, purchas­ ed of H. Nelson Harne a tract of eight and one-third acres and paid therefor the sum of $3,700. This figures out at the rate of $444 an acre even. Decatur Wants Sunday. Decatur.--At a meeting of minis­ ters, laymen and business men held in the Y. M. C. A. building it was unanimously decided to invite Billy Sunday to come to the city and hold a revival meeting. An invitation to be signed by a least 100 churchmen and as many business men, will be sent to the evangelist within a week. Elevator Blown Over on Train. Lincoln.--During a wind storm pre­ vailing in this section a strange acct-r dent happened in Atlanta, 12 miles' north of this city, when the wind blew down an elevator, which fell on a passing freight train. A single box car was derailed and badly broken, while others were damaged and the train stopped for several hours. , • New Illinois Railroad Liccntedr ; 4^ Springfield.--A license to Incorpor- a t e w a s i s s u e d b y t h e s e c r e t a r y o f , state to-the Rockford, Oregon & South-fi ern Railway company, with principal:." ^ offices at Oregon, and capital »ipck-; \-j*p nominally $10,000. It is proposed to .re­ construct the road through the coun- ties of Winnebago, Ogle, and Lee, to Dixon. . .>*2* ..u ! Railroad Is FlaeST"/?• Pana.--The Chicago & Eastern Illl- nois Railroad company In Shelbyville j were fined for blocking two crossings in that city. The fines in the two oases were $10 and costs. The com- "Vfv pany made no defense and paid the ' money the city charged up against *v ^ them, Vnf' r ••• •_ Celebrate Founding of Library^ Taylorvllle.--^May 9 marked the "'y>- third anniversary of the laying of the > * little details the same as the owner, and the health of tfte workmen and their families is not at Btake after­ wards so the escape of a little sewer gas here and there does not mean the same to them that it does to the own­ er of the property, especially if he ex­ pects to live there himself. You may make a solid contract and the contrac­ tor may live up to It, but you have no guarantee that he will do so and you can't get at the underground de­ tails after the trenches are filled, so the only way to know whether the Job Is done right or not is to inspect It as the work progresses. Of course, you can hire a man to do this and 8en" as bright and cheerful as it is possible to make them. The unfinished attic room over the kitchen is a convenience that every house-wife would appreciate in the winter .time when she is obliged to hang the^family washing jinslde be­ cause of snow and rough weather. A good many conveniences ̂ re required in a modern house and/ some of tK¥* things are never thoir^t of until after the house is finished. Then it Is easy enough to see how things could have been different. Thought it Time to Stop 4#«e • .j « Wonders of the Telephone Too Much for Sitting %ull. C. J. H. Woodbury, the engineering expert of the telephone company, told the boot and shoe men the other night the true version of the Sitting Bull and telephone story, says the Boston Herald. Sitting Bull had been cap-, tured by the United States troops and was held in close confinement. So also was another obstreperous Indian, held in confinement at a post about 100 miles away. The officer in charge of Sitting Bull had been chasing the Indians for two months, and was won­ dering what he would do with the cap­ tive. In an inspired moment he de­ cided to arrange an interview between the two Indians over the telephone. After the necessary ringing up Sitting Bull was asked If he cared to talk into the machine. -He talked into it for several minutes and did a heap of listening also. He put down the instrument finally, and for hours was even more gloomy than usual, at last beginnning to talk to himself, something very rare for the Indian. Asked if he was dissatis­ fied with his accommodations or if there was anything they could do for him he broke forth at last: "No. I'm finished. It's all right when the white man's plaything talks the white man's language; but when it learns to talk the red man's tongue it's time to stop." It is believed in the west, where the incident ts fairly well known, that this talk over the telephone between the two Indians had a considerable in* fluence in shortening the Indian wars. Harry Lehr's Witticism, A "Lehric," as the witticisms of Harry Lehr are called, recently went the rounds of Newport. At a dinner where Robert Goelet said of a young millionaire: "He drank entirely too much. He was ruining his life. I am glad to see that he has sworn off. He drinks nothing but soda water now." "But he wears yellow glasses," said Mr. Lehr, "to make himself thiak that's it's champagne." FIRST FLOOR PLAN erally you can depend a man hired for such an especial purpose, especially if he is not too intimate with the contractor or foreman. I pre­ fer to have an inspector who Is a stranger in the neighborhood, a man who is not personally ficquainted with any other man on the job. I am not a pessimist and have not last faith in humanity, but there are so many different opinions of what constitutes right and wrong that I prefer to be on the safe side at every stage of the game. I once stood In the doorway of a cooper shop where slack work was being manufactured; flour barrels were being turned out in great quanti­ ties. One cooper working directly in front of me fitted a hoop very careful­ ly over a knot-hole in a stave. 1 watch­ ed him do It and he saw me immedi­ ately afterwards. He excused himself by saying, "There are tricks in all trades but ours, coopers are all hon­ est." •" Well some carpenters are as honest as the day is long and It has been my, Origin of American Coffee. In a recent lecture Charles Barwise, a coffee importer, related a romantic incidenWconcerning the introduction of coffee%« this continent. "Louis if IV.," said Mr. Barwise, "was printed by the magistrates of Amsterdam with a fine specimen of the coffee plant. This was nursed carefully and BproutB from It were sent to Martinique, being committed to the care of a French naval officer named De Clleux. T^he voyage was rough and long, the^ supply of water failed, and all the young plants died for lack of nourishment, except one. With this one, De Clleux divided his scanty allowance of water, and ar­ rived at Martinique with It alive. This little shoot afterward flourished, and, it is alleged, became the parent plant from which the now almost innumer­ able varieties found on the American continent were produced." corner stone of Taylorville's public li­ brary building and the library board v * arranged to celebrate the day. In the evening a program was rendered ,1 r In the library building. , -i ,'*• \ ' < Hyib? r•" Unwritten Law Fails Mattoon.--With the unwritten law as the principal plea of the defense, • Jesse Moore, aged 19, was convicted jOf the murder of Charles Fry in this ^fcttyJast month. Moore claimed that „ /. Fry had made threats year-old sister. » , Diphtheria at Decatur. Decatur.--Ten cases of diphtheria -L and one death in a week is the rec- . .; ord in the office of the board of health. s * '• " *' The malady seems to be especially ^ prevalent among the pupils in the ' schools In the east end of the city. teSl! Lid on at Litchfield. Litchfield.--By order of Mayor Wil- ,. ' lam Wilton all saloons, billiard rooms .. tv and questionable club rooms were closed up tight in Litchfield Sunday for the first time in the history of this city. Big Fire at Sterling. Sterling.--Four buidings of the Nov­ elty Iron works of this city were com- pletelv destroyed bjr fire. The loss is $10,000. The fire Is" supposed to have been started by incendiaries. It Was Still There. The story is told of a clergyman, who, after he bad finished his sermon, heard one of his congregation say, "Yes, it was a good sermon, but he stole it." A short time afterward the preacher called on the man, resented the accu­ sation, and asked him to retract what he had said. "I am not," answered the man, "like­ ly to take back anything that 1 have said; but in this case 1 will, for on re­ turning home and referring to the book whence I thought you had taken your sermon, 1 found that it waS still there." --Sunday Magazine. Fishermen Are Fined. Havana.--Aoe Parker, Jesse Brown and Wilbur F. Duffield were each fined $25 and costs for fishing on the pre­ serve at Owl's Nest in Fulton county. Motor Farming, B'Gosh! The problem of making self-moving vehicles to plow and sow, to reap and mow, has been solved. It has been demonstrated that they can be mad§ to do all the work of this kind under favorable conditions and on all classes of soil at less than half the cost and time and with less than a third of the number of men required to do the work by any other method. And, adds Motor Car optimistically, after these self-moving machines have tilled the soil and harvested the crops they wtB take them to rnarkeL Blow Safe and Get $1,500. Centralia.--Robbers blew open the safe of the Exchange bank at Hoy left- ton, ten miles south of here and es­ caped with between fl.OOO and $1,500. There is no clew. The bank is owned by S. P. Cooper and is the only one In the town. -/ 4, Fraternal Orders to Meet. « «« Havana.--Committees repreeentlac the various fraternal orders have been appointed to select a site and dates for a big picnic to be held some time In June. Caldwell Is Appoints*. Decatur.--Announcement has made of the appointment of Dr. C. Burr Caldwell,'« Monticello man, who for the past year has been located at Bethany, to the position of surgeon la the Southern Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Anna. ; .. * #" V»} ' Killed, In Sight of Mother. ^ Winthrop Harbor.--Ruth Lacoa. * young girl, was burned fatally bqr a prairie fire in s|ght of her mother* who fell unconscious whea she SSHF her gaigghter In flames. ,:MmW