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'^e^c^cti^ "SAIAM EA BAGS ^ J A C I OF REVENGE B Y KSON-COLE svNorsm ('IIAI'TIOIl I. Mlclmcl Valdez. nan oC « Simniitli nobleman hiiJ iiti Irish beauty. ridca the oullaw trail in acarcb of tb« men reHtmnsiblo for Iha murder of hia mother ^nd lorluro of hia father fiv» yeara HCo. ilp finda an nui'd roiiple. the woman tl'*a<i iinil the ni;in dyini,-. Chapter II Slowly the yoiilli in tnttcred over- alls and battered Mexican Iiat rode nearer Valdez. But though he had not as yet seen the pitiful bodies, there was terror in his handsome dark eyes. He did not speak, though, and \'al<lez reassured : "I'm a friend of your father, • niigo. Don't be frightened." The youth, still mounted on his crowbait horse, looked at him sus- piciously, plainly not reassured. "1 do not think my father, or any peon in this valley has a friend," he said coldly. "Where is my father? My mother?" * ♦ ♦ He looked sadly at the smoking pile, and there was pain in his large dark eyes. "Get down. off your horse," Val- dez said kindly but firmly. "I need your help. There has been much trouble here, and we must both face it." The youngster slid easily from the liaddle. His dark fearful eyes fast- ened on Valdez' stern-set face. The tall man with the Spanish cast of features took him by the arm. "What's your name, son?" he ask- ed. The boy glanced at him sharply. "1 thought you said you're a friend of my father. Then you should know . . ." In a moment he said, "My name is Juan. Juan de Cuevas Mon- tez." "Juan," Valdez said firmly, for this was not news that could be broken easily, "your home was not burned down accidentally. And the men, the human coyotes, who set fire to it wereâ€" were killers! Cold-blood- ed-" * * * X'aldcz felt the youth sag, luaid his faint, choked cry. His hand lightened on the boy's arm. Juan drew a deep breath, closed his eyes for a long, agonizing moment as he swayed. Then with courageous self- control Juan de Cuevas asked in a husky voice : "You mean, my padieâ€" my niadrc â€"theyâ€" they're dead ?" "I'm afraid so, Juan," Valdez said in a low voice of deep sympathy. "I think maybe you'd better not see .hem, they're . . ." But already Juan had violently pulled away from Valdez' restrain- ing hand and was racing toward the smoldering ruins. Valdez watched, with pain in his eyes, as the boy dropped to his knees beside his dead mother, sobbing in anguished grief. With lips compressed and a leaden weight in his heart, Valdez turned away, * » * Michael Valdez found a rusly spade that had esc.iped the flames hack near the small patch that had been the woman's kitchen garden He went to work. He kept at it steadily, and had just finished dig- King two graves bcnealli a willow tree when Juan approached him. I here were dark rings under the boys eyes, and in llicm was trag- ••'ly that would forever remain '"JHcn in their depth.s, but the tears were Kone. And now the face of Juan dc Cuevas was im- passive. "I am ready now lo help vou, aiuigo," he said. "I am grateful to yi'ii, and will do what you say." 'I'oKt'tlu r the tall rider in the char- ro vest iiiid the boy in the tattered overalls wrajiptd the two bodies in Valdez' own blankets from his blanket roll, and Icndcrly placed them in the graves. Then Michael Valdez y O'iJrien drew from the pocket of bis tight-filling trousers a Bible. Willi one arm held roinfortingly •lM)nt the slight shoiililcrs of the boy who slood straight and brave beside liifii, he opened its well-thumbed pagei. Selecting the page in the bonk th«t h« well knew, lie read from it in â-  voice that was charged with emotion and reverence. As the verse came to it* end â€" "Dust thou art, and to dust return- eth," Juan de Cuevas swayed a littU again, and before Valdez could tight- en hit hold, the boy fell to th« ground beside the graves with a singie heart-rending moan, and lay still. N'aldez lifted the inert form and carried it toward the stream. He started as he looked down at the un- conscious face, for the first time getting a close-up view of it. That face was not handsome â€" it was beautiful! - ♦ ♦ ♦ And from beneath llie tattered, jammed-down hat, long hair that glinted blue-black in the afternoon sun had become loosened, and fell in a cascade across Michael Valdez' arm. The features were as delicate as fine porcelain, those of a girl â€" a beautiful Spanish girl! He laid the slight girl down be- side the clear stream and revived her 1 with cold water. She opened her . eyes and lay still, saying no word, exhausted by what she had gone through. He spoke to her softly, but ahrupt- . l.v. "Is your name not Juan, perhaps â€" but Juanita?" There was an inslaiilaneous flash of fear in the depth of her dark I eyes then, but she answered simply: , "Yes." She liegan to gel swiftly to her \ feet, but not yet had her strength returned, and Valdez gave her a helping hand. When she had steadied herself he turned and started in the ' direction of his horse. Without •. question the girl walked along be- , side him. They had almost reached , III Cielo and the girl's crowbait, which stood with hanging head near- by, when the tall rider said suddenly: ' "Your father mentioned one name to me before heâ€" he went. He spoke the name 'Garvin.' Did this Garvin know that you were a girl ?" Juanita de Cuevas flushed, bit her full red lip and shook her beail. « « « ".\Iy padre," she said in a low lone of confession, "did not want this Senor Garvin and the evil men who follow him to know." Her small head, with the ripples shoulders, lifted proudly. "My of blue-black hair falling over her padre was not a peonâ€" he was Don Pedro dc Cuevas . Roniercz. Once our family owned all this valleyâ€" until this evil Senor Garvin came to it one day, and little by little, with burnings and stealings, and other terrible acts, drove them all out and took the land from them by force. My padre had to go also, but he never meant to give up what was his own so easily. So finally he came backâ€" no more than a year ago, senorâ€" to prove this Garvin is a thief and a killer. She broke off, choking, then threw back her head defiantly and managed to go on hastily. "If my padre had not become a victim of this so terrible hombre be would have proved" all he knew about Senor , Garvin 1" she flung out. ♦ ♦ » "He knew how that sciior steals the land from all the poor Mex- icans who have been persuaded iu come and settle here by that bad senor himself, on his promises of a new life for them, a new chance to live .n other than the poverty they have so long known on other ranges nearer the border. J3ut the ^ Mexicans lose their lives when they can no longer pay liia ex- orbitant interest â€" and then lie get* the land back I To offer it to some other peon foolish enough to believe hit vrpiiiiscs. "Hut what ••» «i cy ilo? Senor Garvin owns !><< ••v.-U be owns what law there i: ••. rS.n out-of- the-way place. He i.i |:if ia vv, be- cause be ha' made biiiiseif that ill the five years since he came here tf> take away all that belonged to us." (To Be Continued) Marilyn Solves Hesrt Problemâ€" The heat t-i' u l<iy; c.iy Is something out of thi.s world. So two-year-old Marilyn 'O'Conneli did somethinfj about it. She took off her clothes and h-ere we see a policeman taking lier home. The big man and the little girl strolled along hand in hand to end the week's heat stor\-. ANN£ HIRST Stand by Husband Against the Family • Many a girl starts her marriage * under a cloud because she marries ♦ against her family's wishes. Once * married, however, she should stand * by her husband in the face of all • criticism. .When she can take this * position loyally, convinced of his * goodness, her lot is easier lo bear. /4 K'i/f of 18 months asks me ivhtlhcr slir is right io slick by her husband. Her mother formed her o^ inion of him be- fore she ever met him, and based it on gos- sip K'hich prov- ed to he witrue. Noiv she has pre- judiced her children against him, makes piiblit charges which seem ridiculousâ€" yet she resents the fad that her daughter doesn't hrin(j her husband to see them! And adds lo that the comment that her datighter should he on her side instead of her husband's. "WONDERFUL H USB AMU' The girl tells me her husband is one of the best. He has provided her with a beautiful howe.uon'l let her do any heavy xcork. is kind and devoted: "All his friends think he is wonderful." This girl 7ftm/rf behave like a daughter if her mother behoved like a mother. If that mother were in- terested only in her daughter's hap- piness, she would have the grace lo admit she 7t'n.f mistaken, apologise for her slurs, and see that her son- in-law is received in her ht-me like a son and a brother. Until she does, it seems lo me the girl is right to keep them apart. IF/i.V should she "start more troti- blc," as she puts itf 'these ttvo have been married long enough lo convince any normal pa- rent that their marriage is good and fine. If her mother will practice a little humility, she will prove her right to be a mother and add a great deal to the happiness of the tvhole family. TO "D. W. S.": Yes, I Ihiiik you * are doing the right thing. Your * husband has been pretty fine â€" he * even hid the fact that your mother ♦ had written him unpleasant letters. ♦ Stick by him, and without bitter- ♦ ness if you can. Your mother and ♦ your family will learn, finn11> . how * wrong thev have been. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ To "I.OVKSICK IVID": If ♦ this gossip has no foundation in * fact, your boy friend should write * your mother and ask for the ♦ chance to prove he is innocent. ♦ You are lieadstrong, and all ♦ wrong, to see him while she ob- * jccts. How can she trust you? ♦ To "ANGRY." "MAKCIA," » "BIG GIRL NOW," ETC: I im- ♦ plore yon to use more common ♦ sense. Why should your parents ♦ object In boys unless they had Very Strange 1 he viinisler was asking one of his flockwhy he had not aellndcd church lately. "!(''(•/(, you see, sir," said the «iin "I'm troubled with a bunion on mv fool." "Strange," said Iht farson, "that a bunion should impede the pilgrim's faraaxut!' and You ^o you suffer HOniHY Hii* fii» tnedicina Ii very t/fectiut to niMva pain, narvoua diatreai and WMk, cranky, "dngmed out" feelitifa, of auch days â€" whan due to famala funclioiul monthly diaturlMDcea. Worth tryingl IS8UK U~'«4T Snndoy School Lesson Wise Words Concerning Honesty Proverbs 3:3-4; 11:1; 12: 17-22; 14:.'^; 23:10-11; Mallhrw 5: 37. * good" reason? When you arc ino- * thers, you will understand. C)l>ey * vour parents now. You can't lose * by it. â-  » » • * To "SPEARMINT": Don't von * know that the best way to attract * such a popular lad is to be hard * to get ? He's being pursued enough * now by girls who are obvious. Be * different. Let him alone, and per- * haps later on he will begin won- * dcriiig why you do. That may be * the beginning of a fine friendship, * In his position at school he has * to respect scholarship and good * conduct. You can show him what * you are by excelling in your stvi- * dies, and cultivating a modest de- * meanor. 1 think that is the imly * way you >?ill attract him. * Boys are natural pursuers, and * they resent any girl who usurp.* * that right, * * « "â€".ind cling to each other as long as you loth shall live." It is hard, somclinics, to stay loyal, but Anne Hirst can help you to. Address her at o.v A, room 421, 7,1 Adelaide St. West. 'I oronh). Vour Handwriting By Alex S. Arnott 111 a previe us article, we learn- ed to recognize the meaning of small, medium and large capital letters â€" low capitals indicated humble prid^; medium size capit- als, modest pride; and high cap- itals, a sign of over-confidence. If you loo1c for .the letter "M." you will learn much about the writer for this capital is used more fre(|uently than the others and the letter formation, with its straight and curved lines, expresses the writer's character as s comb- ination of traits. The first example of a capital "M" illustrates a shy and self-con- scious nature, timid and unassum- ing, 'i'his is shown by the first stroke of the "M" being lower than the last two strokes. When the tops of the letter "M" are of even height, the nature is inclined lo show good taste and refinement ant^ not in any way over-expres- sive in action or thought. Such "M's" indicate trustworthiness, simplicity in taste, and are general- ly a good indication of a nature that lias a gentle pride. Anyone Wishing a more compUtt analysis please send self-adifesui stamped unrlcpe to Hox B, room 421, 73 /V,/r''r St West. Toronto. There 1.1 .Iu I. (,/_•â-  jot this service. GOLDEN lEXl - Prove all things; hold fast that ivtiich is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. â€" 1 hessalonians ."1:21-22. Tbce are certain things, acconling to the Book of Proverbs, that are "abomination to the Lord." Among these are "a false balance (11:1), and "lying hps' (12:22). Whatcvei the Lord abominates is bad for man. The dislmnest or lying person sins against his fellow man as v.ell as against bis Maker The fact that so many i)Coj>le arc honest enables society lo ro on, dut it is Itcriuse so m.i.y people are di.s- holiest that we hnve 50 many menac- ing pidlilcms and -id little world sccurit.v. ' * • * Honcity begins wi.li the indiviiUial in more ways than one. It has ils rise and beginning in hom^sty with one's .self. .Many [leoplc are not honest with themselves. They live in » world of illusion, or of self delusion The dis- honest man would despise himself if he faced up honestly lo what he actually is. He avoids that by the ex- cuse "other people do it." "you can't da Iiu.'=iness and lie honest," and similar by-words of the weak. A man has 'to settle ivith his tiv.n mind and will what sort of man be is going lo l>e â€" a man of integrity. or a cheater and grafter. « « « When Zacchaeus. the Jewish tax- gatherer who clim{>ed into a tree to see Jesus and dimbcd down to re- ceive the Master as his self-invited guest, heard the Master's declaration, "This Any is salvation come to this house," he slood and said, "If 1 have taken anything from any man by false accusation, f restore him four- , fold." That was the portion that a ctMivicted thief was by Jewish law under obligation to resiore. That plain sort of honesty with himself was the sure evidence of the really ni Zacchaciis" conversion. In a somewhat different way the Prodigal Son's salvation began when he "came to himself," and was honest with himself. So, honesty, like charily, begins at home, and like charity it docs not stay there, it readies out into every sphere and relationship of life. And it is :hc only t>as>s U|xni wliich life can be sound and wholesome, and even .sali. Home-Made Paste How Can I? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I make moth paper? A. Melt together 4 ounces of naphthalene and eight ounces of parafiin v.-ax. Get some unsized pap^r and whfle the solution is still warm, paint the paper. Then pack paper away with the goods to be stored. Q. How can 1 remove spots of machine grease from clothing? A. Try using clear ammonia and soap. ^ Q. How can 1 make poppy seed stick lo rolls? A. Before sprinkling poppy seed on home-made rolls, spread a lit- tle unbeaten white of an egg on the tops. After baking, the seeds will adhere to the buns. Q. How can 1 keep woolen blan- kets fluffy whei< laundering? A. After washing and drying woolen blankets, whip them with a carpet beater. It will make the wool light and soft again. Q. How can I make a starch paste A. Take one-half cupful of lump starch and mix thoroughly into one quart of water; then boil slow- ly for a few minutes. Three parts baking soda and oo« part salt makes an excellent homfr- made tooth paste, say the «- pcrts. Shortage of tooth-paste, there- fore, is no excuse for an unclean mouth. While teeth should be cleaned after every meal, if possible, this health - ensuring practice should never be neglected before retiring at night. The ideal way is to do the teeth five times dailyâ€" early in the morninc, after each meal, and before going to bed. 04 ST R 1 BU r Oft s â€" HAROLD F, RITCHIE. COMPaNV LTD. » Sciatic Pains? u It^jS!:^ d'Jl At one tune, man /^^> -^ ""^y"^ people accepted A^ _ \Z.^ eciatic pain â- â-  aa (/ ,^=-.^^^1 unkind trick of fata • • -C_ â- > /^- „d let it go at that But modern men and women figure thers is a cause somewh^ra in the body and seek to remove that cauask They find Kniachaa . a big help. KruscfaeB is a balanced saline treatment â€" gentl% thorough, efTective â€" which aids tha organs of elimination and also supplies nunnrals which may Im deficient in the diet. Start with KrusclieD tomorrow, and aaetbacft- â- ulta for yourself. Begin b^ taking a amaU doM of Kruactien every monung for tlie next faw weelia. Kruschen ia a truatworthy tcvatmaok •o Ut it lielp you get relief from Sciatis paina. Rheumatic paina, Backaclie and Coa- atipalion. At all Druggista; 25c and 7Sc. KRUSCHEN H't thelHiU morning dose fborf does SI ,W ># ^ a. ^;^ APPLE CAKE /I5 RECIPE Add I envelope Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast and 1 tMspoon sugar to Vi cup lukewarm water, and let stand 10 minutes. Then stir well. Scald % cup milk, add 3 table- spoons shortening, V« cup sugar and VI teaspoon salt and cool to lukewarm. Add 1 cup sifted, flour to make a batter. Add yeast mix- ture and \ beaten egg. Beat .well. Add 2V& cups sifted flour, or enough to make a soft dough. Knead lightly and place in greased bow^ Cover and setin warm place, free from draft. Let rise until doubled in bulk, about 2 hours. When light, punch dough down and divide into 2 equal portions. Roll dough Vi inch thick; place in 2 wcll-greascd pans (SVi x l\t/, x2" deep). Brush tops with melted butter or shortening; sprinkle with V* cup granulated sugar. Peel and cote 12 apples; cut into eighths; press into dough, sharp edges downward; close together. Mix IH teaspoons cinnamon with 1 cup granulated lugar; sprinkle over cakes. Cover and let rise in warm place uotil lif;ht, about >/< hour. Bake io moderate oven at 400°F. about 33 minutes. â- v t '4 'A y . -:• ^1