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27 ir ' : Be! .Mshman, Bernie Herrick, "of cattle, melt falling in love with her, ~ dlsmisses him. " rick"s cattle. ~ the steps. - drew. a dark green bundle from a _ Wall, I took thet an' eaid I liked RHEE + SYNOPSIS. Impressed by the courage of a stran- ger whom he meets, Hank Hays, fore- man of the Star Ranch, offers him a ob. The stranger, Jim Wall, -ihtimates has been forced to leave Wyoming. Wall throws in with Hays and goes 10 the ranch, which is owned by an Eng- Hays and his gang plot fo rob Herrick of 'thousands They are opposed by a sec- ondary gang on the ranch headed by one Heeseman. Wall goes, to Grand Junction to meet Herrick's sister. Helen goes riding with Jim and he finds him- She angers him by her superciliousness. He kisses her. "She strikes him with a quit, and : Later she asks him not to leave the ranch. Jim finds that one of. Hays' lleutenants, has smoky, after driving off some of Her- returned, NOW GO ON. THE STORY. pp INSTALMENT XIV. Hays stood out in front of the cabin, bareheaded, his: legs spread apart as if to anchor him solidly, his hands kt his hips, his sandy hair standing up ruffled like a mane. "Huh! The boss isn't mad. Oh, no!" soliloquized Jim. "Small wonder. Smoky's outfit hag busted loose or is going to----Well, now, I've a hunch here's luck in this for me." Jim turned off into the corral, and look his time unsaddling. Jim made for the bridge then and, crossing, looked up to see the horses of Smoky's outfit standing, bridles down, and the riders up on the porch. Jim mounted Hank Hays sat upon the bench, his shaggy head against the wall, -his ' pale eyes blazing at-the row of men leaning on the porch rail.' : Smoky was lighting a cigarette, not In the least perturbed, but his eyes had a hard, steely gleam. Brad Lin- coln sat back on the rail, eyeing the chief with a sardonic grin, Mac ap- peared more than usually ghoulish; Bridges.and Sparrow Hawk Latimer betrayed extreme nervousness. "Hello, men, What's the mix? Am I in or out?" returned Jim, sharply. "] reckon you're in," replied. Slo- cum. "Hank is the only one thet's out. .-. . Hyar, Jim, ketch this." He bulging pocket and tossed it to Jim-- a large, heavy roll of greenbacks tied with a buckskin thong. "Yours on the divvy, Jim," wen! on Smoky. "Don't count it now. There's heap-of small bills inside an' if you untic them hyar there'll be a ness. But it's a square divvy to the last doHar."' : "That's a hefty roll, Smoky, for a ma. to get for nothing," observed Jim, dubiously. . Jim then noticed that a roll of bills, identical with the one he had just received, lay on the floor. "You double-crossed me!" burst out Hays at length. "Wall, thet's accordin' to how you look at it," retorted Slocum. "Things tame up at Grand Junction. We seen some of Heeseman's--outfit. They're onto us, or will be pronto. So we jest took a vote, an' every one of us stood for one big drive instead of small drives. An' we made it. Your "buyers swore they was short of money 'an' would pay twelve dollars a.Head. ®,.,Y "You disobeyed orders." . "Put it up ito Jim, hyar. What _ do you say, Jim?" _ Thus appealed--to, Jim addressed Hays point-blank: } "Smoky's right. 1f you meant to clean out Herrick, that was the way to do it." "A w--shore, you'd side with them." "I wouldn't do anythin of the kind if 1 thought they were wrong," Te- torted Jim, angrily. Here was a chance to inflame Hays that he jump- ed at, If the robber could be drawn into a fight, when his own men were against him, the situation for the Herricks could be made easier for the present. "You'd better shet up." g "I won't shet up, Hays. Someone bas to tell you. And I'm that fel- low. There's no hand out against jou in this outfit. Never heard of a nch of riders who'd work like dogs while the boss was twiddling his thumbs and talking mysterious." "I ain't ready to leave Star Ranch a' now I'l have to!" "Why ain't you ready?" queried Brmoky, curiously. "Our work's all gone. We've cleaned out the ranch, except a few thousand head. We've t the Jong green. You ought to be kled to death." "I'm not through here," replied the robber. "Smoky, why don't you ask Hays what this mysterious deal is?" queried Jim, sarcastically. i : ~ From a cornered lion Hays' degen- erated into a cornered rat, Jim sank a little in his boots while his upper 44 les corded. . can, what's got into you?" quer- Sed Smoky, TIL RE OB , "Smoky, the boss is up a'tree," gaid * Jtm, caustically. "He means to rob Herrick all right. But that's only 'a blind. It's the girl!" "Thet gold-headed gurl we seen you d hyar?". ( ha rrick's sister." "Haw! Haw! So thet's what's eat fn' you, Ha mm. i ° Hays reached his limit and probably, but for. Smoky's mirth, would have "started hostilities. He hesitated, but there was a deadly flare ROBBERS' ROOST by ZANE GREY Smoky "got between them. "See hyar, Hank, So thet's the deal? An' you'd do fer pore Jim hyar jest be- cause he's onto you? . . . Wal, if, you're s0 keen as thet to draw on somebody, why, make it me. I start- ed this. I dragged Jim into it. An' 1-ain't 'goin' to let you take it out on: him." ; Then Hank Hays came back to him- self, ' "Jim's right. Smoky, you're right," he declared, hoarsely. "I'm bullhead- ed. . .-. An' I've lost my bull head over Herrick's sister." EE was it bet Brad thet Hank wouldn't show up?" a Bn "Nobody," replied Lincoln, "Jim, suppose you take your rifle a. sneak down an' knock over a deer," suggested Smoky. Three hundred yards down the slope Jim There were no riders on the winding, white trail, , : Stealthily working back into the timber he soon" espied two deer about 'gixty paces distant, long ears efect. He killed the buck standing. Upon his return to camp Smokp greeted him with a grin, "How far to Red Canyon?" asked Jim, : : "1 don't know. About fifteen 12iles. Don't you - remember thet heavy grove of cedars' leadin' down into a red hole?" ; "Reckon I do. If Hays. joins us UThere. Spoke up like a man," de- clared Smoky, heartily relieved. "Why didn't you come thet clean long ago? Neither Jim nor me nor any of us blame you fer admirin' thet gurl? And if you'd gone crazy, an' dragged her awdy into the brakes with us, we'd quit you cold." Hays bent to pick up the bills. "Fall to, men. tall thinkin'," he said. Before they were half finished with their supper Hays entered. "We're shakin' the dust ofy Star Ranch tonight," he said, deliberately. "Pack up an' leave at once. I'll come later, I I don't meet you at Smoky's camp at sunup I'll meet you shore at midday in thet cedar grove above the head of Red Canyon." No one asked any more questions or made any comments. Whatever they thought about Hays' peculiar way of leading his band they kept to themselves. Jim Wall was not great- ly relieved, still, he concluded that Hays must abandon any plot he might have concocted toward Herrick's sis- ter. At any rate whatever was in Hays' mind Jim could not further risk alienating him or his men. Jim would have to ride out with them, If he stayed behind to spy upon Hays or 'frustrate any attempt he might make to call upon the Herricks, he would l.ave to kill Hays. : Dusk was mantling the valley whea Jim went out. Under the bench the shadows were dark. "From the shel- ter of the pines he looked for Hays, expecting to find him standing guard. But the robber was not on the porch. He was stalking to and fro along the brook, and he was no more watching for Heeseman than. was Jim, His bent form, his stride, his turning at the end of his beat, his hands folded behind his back--all attested .to the mood of a gloomy, abstracted, passion- driven man. Whereupon Jim repaired to. his covert, rolled his bed: and made a pack of his other belongings. What to do with the two packages of bills, this last of which was large and clumsy for his pockets was a ouzle, By dividing the two into four pack- ets he solved it. Then he carried his 'effects down to the cabin, "All was cheery bustle there. The -men were glad to get away from Star Ranch. They talked of the robbers' roost Hays had always promised them, of idle days to eat and drink and gamble, of the long months in hiding. "Wal, you all ready?" queried Hays, appearing in the doorway. ' "Yep, an' bustin' to go." "On second second thought I'd like oue of you to stay: with me. How about you, Latimer?" , "All right," declared, Sparrowhawk. In a few more minutes all the men leaving were mounted. The pack ani- mals, with packs gray against the darkness, straggled up the trail. "Wait at your camp till sunup," said Hays, conclusively. "An' if I'm not there I'll meet you about noon shore at the head of Red Canyon." Without more words or ado Smoky led off behind the pack horses, and the five riders followed. Once across the brook all horses took a brisk trot. Jim Wall looked back, Then he saw a bright light on the bench. "That was from Herrick's house. An unfamiliar gensation, like a weight of cold lead in his breast, baffled Jim. He knew he was glad never to see Helen Herrick again. The spring night waxed cold as the hours wore on and the viders took up to the slope. . About midnight Smoky turned the pack animals up the slope into the woodsg, and after a mile of rough go- ing emerged into an open canyon head. : wr "Hyar we air," said Smoky. "Throw things an' git to sleep. ll stand first guard." : } Evidently the horses were not to be turned loose. Jim overheard Brad Lincoln offer to bet that Hays would not show up at sunrise. . Jim unrolled his bed beside a rock, roll of ling his gun belt he crawled under the blanket" Crack of axe and Happy Jack's Voice pierced his slumber, both féec- Jim eat up, stretched, and reaching for his boots he gazed around. The camp was an open draw with level floor narrowing to a timber belt be- low. Behind rose shrubbery limestone gush of water. The men weré stirr- ing, two around the campfire and others among the horses, I've got to do some|" and pulling off his boots and unbuck-|. ognized before he.opéned his eyes. The sun was topping the eastern range. walls, in a crack of which poured a! there it'll mean he comes by another trail, doesn't it?" "If! So pou figger he might not? Course he'd come around the moun- tain, or mebbe over another pass. He shores knows trails thet we don't." ~ "Aw, Hank'll show up on time." "Wonder if he stayed back to plug Heeseman? He hates thet rustler. (To Be Continued.) 2, ' Portrait of Summer Nine great hawks circle low in the cloudless sky. ) ; Under the bronze and burning sum- mer sun, : The golden children race the hawk- "dark shadows, And their shadows' blow like flowers as they run. Boys with straight limbs colored by sunlight whistle To a white foal plunging into the knee-deep grasses, And girls with blown hair bend to a blossoming thistle Whose blue will go with the wind when summer passes, Nine great hawks climb and drift up- on the wide And amber day: and where late their shadows were, . The shadows of brightlimbed child ren brush the meadows, Braver 'than summer -- than hawk- wings, lovelier. ~--Frances Frost, RENEE SLR Gems from Life's Scrap-book ! Glory - "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time e fall.'--Goldsmith... conquest of ourselves; and without 'that the conqueror is nought but the first slave."--Thomson, : "When we recognize man's spiritual being, we shall behold and understand God's creation--all the glories of earth and heaven and man."--Mary Baker Eddy. Gi N id "rue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and bet- ter for our living in it."--Pliny. "We rise in glory as we sink in pride."--Young. : "True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flow- ers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."--Cicero. - Remember: The fall of the glory of the Roman Empire, and the perman- ency of that true glory which is of God, RSS mn ---- A skylight . made of special-glass which takes the glare and most of the heat out of sunlight is a feature of the new post office at Dagenham, Essex. po : NPR WY Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind. Desire con- ceals truth as darkness does the earth, --~Senkca. emerged into the opemyf +. "Real glory springs from the quiet | 'closed but the whole Wonian's ess Is Reviewed Point to Time When They 'Had to Work in Secret to Escapé Ridicule Chicago,--Surveying' the progress women have made in scholarly and natural sclentific fields since, not so long ago, many a one had to study "in secret at night with a candle by ber bedside so as not to: 'shock the sensibilities of mankind," two emin- ent women delivered : lectures - here at a Century of Progress, the Chicago World's Fair. . a Dr. Annie Jump. Cannon; Woman f astronomer of Harvard Observatory and. Dr, Marion Talbot, first dean of women at the University of Chicago, spoke on different days under aus- pices of the Chicago Woman's Club, in the coure of 'a series of 21 lec- tures on woman's achlevements, "When one sees . the crowds of careless and free college girls of to- .| day it is hard to conceive of the time when mathematical -or other sclenti: fic study by girls was shocking. to the conceptions of manking," tald Dr, Cannon, _ "One smiles at the accounts of 'female students' who were allowed to experiment in the chemical lab- oratory of the Massachusetts Insti: tute of Technology on certain even: ings in 1869, but is jmpressed by the fact that the renowned former presi: dent of Harvard University, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then professor of chemistry there, was probably one of their instructors." Dr. Cannon, who has herself made distinguished contributions to astro nomical science, praised the ploneer 'work of three: eminent "astronomical women," who began the Century of Progress. They were Caroline Hers- chel, Mary Somerville and Matla Mitchell, : 8 : Taking up the story of women's progress in halls of learning as. well as in the college laboratory, Dr, Tal bot summarized it briefly, "In 1877 the first degree was con. ferred gn a woman in the British Empire," she sald, "There are now tederations of university women in 38 countries, including. Iceland. The American. Association of University Women numbers over 40,000. The future will surely bring interesting developments, for the intellectual hunger which has been the motive power will go on, "The methods used in the edu- cation of women are not yet entirely gatisfactory--the same is "true of men's education, There is no dif- ference in thg object of men's edu- cation and that of women. The gifts and talents, ambitions. and ideals should be the guiding principle. "Not only should no door be ) world of hu- man activity should be open to men and women alike, "The contributions women may make through their intellectual pow-| ers will be an ever greater factor in the world's progress than it has been in the past and fairer treatment in promotion and demuneration will be given to scholarly and efficient women than is customary now. L ------ Summer Rain "@olden rain! Golden rain! out of the ; sky!" fie Children sing out and run after the rain, : "Quiet, my children, welll reap it again-- °° : In.the full granaries fragrant with rye." Ra gp --From "Modern "Russian Poetry," chosen and -translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. _ (New York: Harcourt Brace). - --eT Taking a Dip in the War Zone, 5 "Wal, long past sunup," said Sko- in the eyes he had fixed on Wall. cum, a8 he approached the fire. "Who . / Se . - aS I Fp. Lost -- Mkwawa Yon Ss One of the strangest 'clauses in the Versailles Peace Treaty, requiring Germany to hand over to England the skull of an African sultan, came up again for discussion the other day in in the British House of Com- mons, Major Miller, Socialist mem- ber, asked the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, whethér Article 246 of the peace treaty, providing for the sur- render of the skull, had been complied with, ; : . The native ruler whose skull ulti- mately became of international im- portanee, was the Sultan Mkwawa. He was paramount chief of the Wah- hehes in German East Africa--now Tanganyika--in the closing years of the last century. For seven years he and his people fought a losing fight against the Germans, In 1898; rather than surrendey, the Sultan committed suicide, According to another story, he was killed by one'of the Kaiser's soldiers. At any rate the Germans de- «capitated him and sent his skull to a Berlin mugeym. Wak How the Sultan lost his head is not the thing, that matters, Since the magic relic has rested on foreign soil, the Wahhehes assert, nothing but dis- aster has befallen the tribe. So, after German East Africa had passed into British hands the British promised to have the chief's skull returned to his people. . Hence article 246 of the Ver- sailles Treaty. 3 Gi Successive British foreign secre- taries have been badgered about {he skull ever since. The failure of Ger- many to give the relic back to the Wahhehes has also been solemnly de- bated by the League of Nations, When Major Milner propounded his recent query in the House of Com- mons 'Mr. Baldwin, replying for the Foreign Secretary, explained that, in spite of repeated investigations by the German Government, the present whereabouts of the relic has not been traced. And thus, prosalcally, the] thirty - five - year - old mystery was shelved, ; Found in Cambridge, Mass.--Harvard archeo- logists have discovered in Ireland an ancient Viking game that no one knows how to play, a "parlor" game antedating parlors ay ihn years. 5 The game consists of a board, about nine inches square, smooth, set inside a square, ornately "carved wooden frame which surrounds the board like the frame around a painting. The smooth innerSsurface is perforatell by forty-nine round holes, evenly spaced, | seven on each side, the magic number seven multiplied by itself no matter which two sides are used as the fact- ors for mutiplication, : - The center 'hole-is surrounded by a ring, cut in the wood. This ring fis double, like a child's drawing of a cir- cular road. ' . The archeologists suggest that the Game Board Used by Vikings | vate motor cars registered !n t July Jottings In every four ases of murzer, there is one in which the guilty person takes his own life. SR ; Cases of bag-snatching In &) Britain have increased pinety-two per cent. in the past five years. % ore than half the total population of Canada is less than twenty-five years of age. : a There are now well over 200,000 pri he Bou don (Eng.) area alone. ~~ The most important word fu the Bri tish language, according to one auth ority, is "set." s Butterfly brains, each about the size 80,000 airtubes, °° "One of the difficulties of the ascent freezes so that written records are dif agate, : . Escalators which travel at the speed of 180 feet an hour have been install ed at the-new Holborn Tube station, London (Eng.) : Wonderful models of airplanes which are often used for official tests, are made by a Reading (Eng.) man whose workshop is his kitchen, ! What is regarded as the largest life insurance policy in the world is based on the lite of a man resident in Dela ware, U.S.A.; he Is insured for $6,000, 000. Passengers carried © in Londen't trains, omnibuses, and trams during 933 totalled 2,236,000,000; this is a decrease of 47,000,000 on the figures' for the previous year. : .» At Shakespeare's birthplace at Strat. tord-on-Avon is kept a register for i visitors to sign. Last year, 57,644 sig: natures were entered, representing seventy differént nationalities, Certain areas, Including London, mingham, and Coventry, are regarded as "black" by insurance companies so far as motor-cycle policies are con- ° NER pads ° Irish Lake Dwelling. ancient board might have been used, for some form of cribbage. The mys. tery is not clarified by two handles of } wood attached to -the frame arcumd: the board. Mach handle Is rounded, | much Jike a door knob, one "nearly: twice the size of the other, ~~ | . The big handle is carved rudely In the Jikeness of a human head; 'the lit- tle one an-animal's head. : This gaming'board was found by the Harvard expedition under direction of Professor BE. A, Hooton, now engaged in a five yoarsurvey of gneient Ireland, It was in a tenth-century lake dwell- ing in Ballinderry, County Westmeath. The board contains also Christian crosses of a style common to the Isle of Man, .The ancient dwelling was found by Dr. Hugh O'Neill Hencken, curator of European archeology, and Hallam L. Movius, both of the Peabody Museum, Harvard. Sg The Latest In "Howlers" Transparent means something: you c.n see through--for instance, a key- hole. Bay: The masculine of vixen is vicar, The words "Would God I had. died for thee," were uttered by David after he had murdered Uriah and married his widow. The Minister of War is the clergy- man who preaches to the soldiers in the barracks. I» : Esau was a. mighty hunter who wrote fables and sold them for a bot- tle of potash. . ; Lollards were lazy people who al- ways wanted to rest against. some- thing. . , Joan of Ark was Noah's wife. Julius Caesar was renowned for his great strength. He threw a bridge across the Rhine, Average means something that Jay their eggs on. ~ Hens is very useful for laying eggs for plum puddings. : The Mediterranean and the Red Sea are joined by the Sewage Canal. A vacuum is where the Pope lives. An Abstract Noun is the name of something which has no existence, as goodness. Marconi is the stuff out of which you make delicious puddings. In 1620 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean. This is known as the Pilgrims' Progress. A dirge is a song a man sings when he is dead. hens day through the streets of Coventry, was surprised to see a naked lady rid- ing upon a horse. He was about to turn away, when he recognized the rider as being none other than Queen Elizabeth, Quickly throwing off his richly embroidered cloak he placed it -reverently around her, saying as he Which meant, "Thy need. is greater than mine." Thereupon the Queen thanked Sir Walter, saying, "Dieu et mon ~droit,' meaning "My God, and you're yet" RR Evolution is what Darwin did. mountains, The people of Iceland are called Equinoxes. , A grass widow vegetarian. A total eclipse forever. is the wife of a dead is one which Jasts "Sub judice" is the bench on which the judges sit. Sir Walter Raleigh, walking "one) did so, "Honi soit," qui mal y pense," |" A glazier is a man who runs down Ambiguity is telling the truth when wo don't mean to. uinine is the bark of a tree, cani is the bark of a dog. nny A damsel is a small plum , Many Crusaders died of salvation. Horses are fed on proverbs. ) Virgil is the man who cleans up churches. An epistle is the wife of an apostle. The van of an army is the carriage they put wounded men into. - An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes and a pessimist a man who looks after your feet. + A synonym is a word used when yo don't know how to spell the one you first thought of. 7% . 'Before a man can become 2 monk he 'has to have his tonsils cut, * "Anything serious at your house? I. saw the doctor call every day this week." "gerious! 1 should say so, he called to collect a bill" ------ As the sensation of hunger presup- poses food to satisfy it, so the sense of dependence on God presupposes His existence and character.--O. B. Froth. ingham. cerned, Built about a century ago, the front of the British Museum, London, is be- ing cleared for the first time. Soap and water only are being used, but the- cleansing operation . will cost about 2200, > 0 SAE One of the greatest needs of the slum areas (in London, Eng.), accord- ing to Mrs, Stanley Baldwin; are mort: uary chapels, where deceased persons can' await burial, as there is seldom' room to spare for them in the'home, ~~ Special sets of perches built tor the" use of migrating birds, at a cost of be- tween $300 .and $500 each, have now been installed on lighthouses at six points where Britain's feathered visit- ors cross her shores. They savgsthous- ands of birds' lives every year. London policemen, who already must car driving, swimming, and-life save. ing, are now to be trained in the work of firemen. This is so that they may be able to face the risk of rescuing persons from burning buildings. Owing to a mistake made in issuing a new birth certificate, the previous one having been destroyed in'a fire, a' young man at Boldogne finds hiniself officially registered_as "female." Now' he cannot get married- until still 'an- other birth certificate is issued, this document being essential to a mar riage in France.- ; --_-- Unemployed in Britain To See the Countryside Birmingham.--A scheme to enable jobless city dwellers to.see-the beauty of the English' countryside this sum- mer is being effected by the Midland Regional Group of the Youth Hostels' Association," in co-operation with Bir mingham social workers, Some 30 members of the club for un- employed at the Society of Friends' Occupation Center, Kingstanding, Bir- mingham, spent a week in June at Kilkewydd. This is one of the more distant of Birmingham's Youth Hos- tels--a large old mill near the foot of Long Mountain in Montgomeryshire, Transport from Birmingham to Kilke- wydd was provided for the men; they were asked to pay only sixpence each - for the week's accommodation in the hostel and 3c. toward the cost of their food. J : Arrangements were made with the Labor Exchange for their unemploy- ment pay to be continued during their absence from home on condition that they return immediately if work was found for them; the balance of the pay was needed for their families to live on during their week's absence. Six or seven members of the Youth a ISSUE No, 27--33 Hostels' Association, students - from Cardiff and Swansea ~ most of. them i University Colleges; volunteered to ac- company them--paying full Youth Hos- tel fees and providing their own food --and to share with them the house- hold chores as well as sing-songs, ram- bles and sports, . ~ It is intended"that this should be | the beginning of a widespread move- ment to give factory workers of the 't industrial Midlands, during unemploy- ment, a taste of the country life of which many of them know so little. ~ I 115 Topographical Surveys' Federal Employes Retired Ottawa.--~Reduced activities of the Topographical Surveys Branch, Interl- or Department, combined with lower departmental appropriations have re sulted in the release on superannuation of 156 employees of that branch, The Topographical Surveys Branch now bas approximately 86 employees left, , 7 J be of a pinhead; contain 80,000 nerves and of Mount Everest 1s the fact that ink Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Bir- have a practical knowledge of first aid, 0)