In view of the widespread attention - that has been directed to the matter * 'of motor accidents during the past - | ceason, it 1s interesting to note that jout of 864 deaths so caused during i the year 1927, only a total of eighty, ik. i | { 2 * or nine per cent. occurred at railway 2 'crossings. While the number is de- HERE TODAY battle shouts of men, which drive all jifcless bodies of his animals into a frenzy of fear and at their gold mining excitement. Gloster flees southw. It was done at once. They led out will be accused of the the stamping, rearing, snorting horses crime, On the way Gloster is jailed ong gathered them four abreast in the after getting into a fight with sev- dri f the stable. Their lead eral men over a girl, , driveway o e stable. Their le Joan Barry helps Gloster to escape. TOPes were tied together, which would Joan falls in with a bandit gang in keep them from scattering." In seven the mountains. To be near her, Glos- ranks they were ranged. In the centre ter casts his lot with the gangtoo. the riders would take their station Joe Macarthur, the chief, confesses to and move with the mass, although at Bloster Shab Rie filler the ive, pros the imminent danger of having them-| 5 , cashier of | the Wickson Bank. hy Macarthur Selves bumped out of the saddles. aol two partners plored, as being too many, there fis reason for encouragement in the fact that government reports recently fis- sued note a marked tendency towards a decrease in this percentage of cross- ing fatalities, ; The year's total of 864 motor accl- dents compares with 606 during 1926, the increase largely reflecting the tre- mendous increase in the number "of motor cars travelling on Canadian roads. Despite this fact, railroad crossing fatalities for the two 'years were exactly the same, numbering disregard safety. Motor @ciitients ar lrogard splot frequent. Every sane motorist deplores this. If accidents Denied | : eighty. Thus, while the percentage are to be lessened, the sans motorist id Rg : the combination to th | There was only one thing left, and; J The : are to De lessheq, the § : § -- ; 'ion e safe, then re-| : of such fatalities In 1927 was nine, e 7 ligent| ~. . . % g pents of his deed and tells the presi-| that was to say goodbye to Joan. Shei, joc", 00" 00 Spiel per cent. oaeats Xhe culpably. negllg City Situation Bad, But No!Forest Officer dent of the bank what he had done, had not stirred or spoken since she ™y "y, 4 ieiocting to note that the in coiBerat Unrest; Famine is Eas An i At the bank the robkers ere greeted took p her place at the side of the| An, ' ay, 2 : NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |early: There's only one smooth Way yng percentage' of 'crossing accidents by day the automobile driver "ignored | UBTest were termed absolutely ub-|r, gion Forest Ranger. ~ |mot permit this, in i Rainey was trying to persuade|f wavelings and Pape wo keep SI Candda may be set down to the | warnings. Broke through the gates"; founded and having no Justification [2 yyy oon a foiir i the: jingle, :A. mgkine iwany pledges 3 Daniels that it was foolish for "him |the herd, the way they go. I ain'tiyougug safety" campaigns that-have|"Did not. logk. for the approach of |in fact. Wimbush, Conservator of Forests for 8. Socaived with a storm 'of bullets. Macarthur and Gloster das: through a broken B 1 ? American - press of revolts ferment| A. extraordi i door. Then Macarthur, with a gasp, | « bi 3 Hs amd + hundred thousand of population, and with wig-wags and other devices the f : 3 n extraor re ith a is fatally wounded. Rainey and gash, Jeans! he said, "onight, Will SHOW vor 1926 it was 6.5, In the United railways are doing a great work to- ing hit Hiraine ere Sategorically tigress, which an unofficial visit! 8.3: or, ho two survivors, with Joan and! Jo a 2 thing an uns into, | States during 1926, the latest year for wards the still further reduction of en ay Bilis Srbpos Ti the! io a forest oiffeer in the Na amalais oh a. y uc aniels, take refuge in an old ; which figures are available, the rate ¢ , but they cannot ANEW 3 4 A Xo FEF It! Ph anal stable while the wounded Macarthur | When a gent tries to run free and| yg, go" nearly three times our ig adoute as Prins The rumors that the Soviet Gov-'(Kurnoll) district of Madras, is de-Imade to have him is in the hands of the townspeople. to throw in his destiny with .theirs . great black horse. Buck Daniels came to her first. take his own way, he runs into hell saying this with the hope of chang-! €0-0] ng in the elimination ital of rade aes in sup ing death -ratée in Canada from { motor "accidents in 1927 was 9.1 per recognized and standard warnings own. This fact, and also the diminish- | by the report which shows that day --Reports appearing in the ernment was in danger because of the Gegrge Lubarsky, Chief Agrono- scribed in the current issue of the nter wi 'cedents. Agents of his ./] permission enida Bagdad, his father, by that time, be- [sTorm sasH . f : 4 p been carried on, and to the efforts 5 aughter killed"; | i when he had taken no part in the|iM8 Your mind, but give it a think, that 'have hbekn ut forward: both Ja tein, lather dnd. dsught Fined §10| mist of the Agrojoint, who returned' Madras . Presidency, alo with an- ing dead, » ey Fe attempt on the bank, but it was not|J0an. Theres something in it! the way of crossing protection and |1g court", These 'actual quotations |from an inspection in the "Ukraine, other conservator 'and district In Bagdad Hamdl Beg purchased hard for Buck to prove to Dud that| She had listened impassively, her|y. tno publicity in which latter direc- from the Iist of "dangerous practises" |told the ~ New York World corres- forest officers, was staying in the Iit-| 20,000 'acres of land 'on the right he was wrong. There would be a|%d® eves fixed ppon his face. ~. ..|tlon they have been greatly aided by are from the report of the Board of [Pondent here that he visited the dis- tle forest rest house, Noo bank of the Tigris, opposite the pity. mob trial and mob justice for every| 'It was all for my sake, she said | yo puplicspirited attitude of the | Railway Commissioners. tricts most affected by the crop fail-| One evening, after sundown, when | Herg he raised fancy fruits and sold unwounded man taken from the stable| at 18st. "There would have been none| pragq (owards the matter. A report issued by Dominion Bureau |Ure, in the vicinity of Cherson, Meli- some of the party were enjoying their part of the land to the Bagdad Rail- that night. of this if I hadn't left. And, oh--|" mqyq report of the Board of Rallway of Statistics states that in the Prov- topol, Odessa and Nikolsiev. baths, Mr. Wimbush was informed by way Company at a great profit. + It They turned back to their captive, dad--' Commissioners shows that forty-five ince of Quebec, Montreal is respon- The situation 1 found was good. a villager that "a large striped ani- was sald that he possessed the se- whose fear had a little abated. They] She paused there on that old word,|s4cidents occurred at protected cross-|sible for one-half of all 'automobile|Satistactory winter and spring crops |mal had just jumped on to the ver-icret of irrigation known to his an-. demanded to know the two best horses] 2nd it shook Buck Daniels as if she ings, and also that during 1927 there 'deaths. Toronto's contributions in [Seem to be certain, causing a more andah. 4 bo) Nyy cestors when Mesopotamia had "blos- in the stable. He took them at once|nad been a man and struck him heav-| wore seventy-four accidents as a result | Ontario was only about twenty-three Cheerful mood Puig the Yeasaits, Thinking that it Be nothing |gomed like the Garden of Paradise." to the stalls. The prosperity of the ily. : -- oH of motor vehicles running into the |per cemt. of the total, It is to bo. The Sendition is gh towns. is Dad fume # ® Sy ie was amazed ' Just before the British troops oc- town of Wickson was amply attested| DON't say that, honey," he answer-|gigeg of trains, and twelve unfortun:|noted, however, that in the case of ls i». Fh Eh ih ao Sins Of | to find a tigress 3 com bly in! dupied the region fn 1916 he had se- by the condition of its leading livery ed gently. No matter what COMES | ate attempts to beat the train, In the |fatalaties oceirring outside the city | MAT Te," OB ociare J 5 +fone of the Joos, ul ble, on | cured from Stamboul, it is alleged, a stable. For there were fully thirty out of this break to get away, it don't preamble the report states: "Notwith- | limits, the injured are frequently hui-| iy 1 took ition, a al a which a pe ol a 3 ag! full title to the land, with a map animals in the stalls and most of them ; standing safety devices and. caution- ried to city hospitals and thus unwar-(*¥ 0 I 2 i y gon S Retreating ic! § aised | showing its situation. This is said were excellent mounts, ary signals, people take chances and rantably increase the city death rate." sondit oat ne Spent the alar s fi lignes endorsement of the local There was no nead for him to point a hi rat ce A n Tolles a ya ous wens through department of the British collector of ' out the best of the lot. A tall, wide- kick open a door and begin to blaze tami i ET ie Panden internal revenue. ay SC ; shouldered roan, apparently capable away into the 'outer night. a grees 3 eh Recta | According to the briet. that Hamdl""- of bearing even the bulk of Harry There was an answering roar of a hd SY Rised head of th Jamp, whichy out. Beg's lawyers hava lodged with the Gloster, and a slender limbed little guns which 'quite drowned hit. Then AE Some Ett I ree he le do ty court, part of his land was occupied brown mare stood out head and shoul- came a yelling of a hundred men iE mie settlement work oe Re osed : I 1y | DY military forces; his irrigation en- 3 ders above the, rest. They saddled swarming back to meet the rear at ie es interviewetl stated that pol OUSLY | gines were commandeered or destroy... these and brought them back in sil- tack. That was the moment for pe was no danger of faniine, as hen, iL. She Sd; a8 Wero his Hult irees, and hig ence. For it was plain that they had which they had waited. Gi the Government has distributed ne until o1 een =a whole estate was rendered a desert only one chance, and that chance was Rainey came racing back and leap- 4 R= i seed and food : had Bw ind the d S| by the closing of the Khirr canal really a delusion. They must attempt ed into his saddle. And all three, 3. ong Se Crone ring @ ladder the d which he had built. to break out through the front or the yelling like wild Indains, turned the 2 3 \ % roof and made L that. y Tews ent Panes to the stable and ride stable horses loose. Out they thun- | tli 7% Emde Silver Foxes {thatch through which Ww Aen oT Big rol ish Te deed worse Wan hopel { dered! The din of their hoofs turn-| ed y i Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib): The shot « Cl ss + Had clined to do on the foll balk for the race a 1 ; pe ess, | ed the stable into pandemonium, and YY 7 development of silver fox farming is| The § 1g ty 5 "All good K rds wish 6 A Hi a it of the stable from the street came the blaze of re- AN 12TH) somewhat leisurely because of the conditioegd es , tion of fot, "Chis he de- was lined with fine marksmen,. all | volvers and rifles. Vo Se lack of knowledge of the treatment {)rough ting; { canni grounds: grouped within easy ranpe of the Yet it was not a third of the vol- { EN which ilver foxes demand in captiv- | heen driv tte LAT or the proteé- door of the stable. Rainey went to! ume which it would have been a little ' oP RG by o g this is know, rearing the Mrs. i [ # date, but they the rear of the building. to explore before. Many a score of good men | gy, ise Yifficulties which do | wife) was . 4 rdship of an and came back with the report that | had Tun toward the back of the stable. Ir gy, Layo) a case of ang other | Ganjam Aistiy er 4 hing to gain the roof of every shed near the stable | when it apeared that the attempt 2% © ap > r kind? domes- | panied by an avg, = > LC or fa, and they was thick with armed men. Whether | i would be made in that direction. Those! teay, %, ) with care | children. gp dof op o.4 flair on the lon Hep tried the front or the rear exit,4 Rainey leaped into his saddle. who remained were enough to have | yt ountless.t .. DPS oo; 7 " ¢ monkey's. tail." ere was sure to be a flood o Re i Nd % i? imes as many yitives | " oe J dl a, Ol.t Trpossib! poured at them. "flood of lead ionic much difference to me. You see, 3 ullets Mee han cad NE, io 7 i Myf tasheq off fn. Be Be anete v prin o the It Was agreed, that the best thing 087 1 been tired of living for a con:| "p10 "}ad no fair mark. Out] He by A ; Havin. *hoy Caliphs and having a% great admira for Joan was to leave her behind in siderable stretch now, It took some- jo. the stable rushed a mass of 3.2 uA FA b \ lig no m "| tion. for British. justice, he determlin- the stable. After the attempt to thing out of me When Dan Barry | horses, their heads stretched out with or Mere ve, the, T led to seek the latter in London, He escape, when the crowd invaded the died. It took a pile more when Kate 1. fury of their speed. And it wats yy apreY do Lag entered | mplaint at the Co- stable itself they would find her and followed him. After that I was SOTt| yard indeed to mark the ones which| C= ) i si v nial Office, which admitted its in- let her go. |of living on the inside of a lie. And | tually carried 1iders an. their backs \ 1 Va 5 cy. to adjust the matter; hence It was Rainey who thought of the that don't' do @-man no. good. for those riders were flattened across A * LOY appeal to the High Court. How- stratagem which 'gave them at least! Sometimes, in the old days, when 4p 0 pommels of their saddles, showing A re ii : er, the. Colonial Office, he alleges, a ghost of a hope. {you called me 'dad,' it used to make] ol ining io the eye. da [BE [2% getales | intimated to him that he would be _ "Whats the worst mark in the things worth while. But I knew that\ yr oiociood on the Tevel of the | WW ; : . lallowed about a two-hundredth part world to shoot at?" he asked. before the end came, I had to tell you! oot' could do nothing. Only those Mi tory We Fmt hing on of what he asked, on condition that None of the others could answer. | the truth. And that took the salt out| co} "Cove" octed in the windows had a : e apd when hi . a stables, he would accept 'the arbitration of a "What about a gang of horees Of life. Now I come to the finally ie ance 'and these, although they 4 | nw mesd 2 Sprig TUS nnd of hol on | British judge in Iraq and would re- stampeding 7" {round-up--and I'm glad of it!" turned loose a plunging fire, were 9, Industrial "Keseuiz. Ju some of the shops, an fund the amount if his claims were They nodded. Any man who had seen a mob of horses running wild, their heads packed full of fear, dash- ing on with a mad impetus which would carry them with equal reckless- ness into a fence or over a cliff, would rave to agree that it was almost im- possible to pick out one mark in the midst of the swirling, racing bodies. "But what's that got to do with tation of a stampede. Suppose we ' get them ready, put our horses in the middle, and then let go their halter ropes and give a yell? ready for fast work. now." For the stable was in a growing turmoil. In every stall there was a fretting horse. They had smelled powder smoke. They had glimpsed Listen to them They'll be, | She bowed her head. | "Say so-long to me, Joan. it with a smile. 'you smile, dear." |. "If I could live it over again!" she breathed fiercely. "Oh, if I had an- | other chance, I'd make you happy, | dad, if it took the last drop of blood in 'my body!" "Things can't be changed, Joan," he said. And say I'm aching to see That day never came, There was a time when I tried to kill Dan Barry. "But when the wind-up comes, what have I beet? Just a tool, Joan. Some- thing else took hold of me and used me to work for Dan and Kate and then used me to work for you, I ain't regretting. But that's been my life. you try to make out of yourself, but his face, and then he 'was gone. She saw Dud Rainey before her. "Wish me bon voyage," he said, cheerfully. "Good luck! Good luck!" she whis- pered. She caught one of his hands. there was the towering form of Harry Gloster. ; Pama She tried to cry out to stop him | but she-could not speak. She 4 down with lead. r mind and : him, x tried to feet were And you'll do the same way--not what shooting wildly. They had expected, at the most, four horses. Here was a herd of wild animals plunging down the stréet. And, indeed, it seemed to the excited imagination of more than one man that there was a rider on the back of every animal--and that the four had been transformed by black 'magic into a host. (To be continued.) That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefit is eternal.--Quintus Cur- tius Rufus. The revenue for Canada for the first half of the current fiscal year ended September 30, 1928, totalled $285,792,712, an ipcrease over the cor responding six months of the previous . 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