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thursday march islh 1s3 the acton free press mm ip jrr rpfia sljnrt tnrg the famous flying dutchman by john scott douglas mklhb biplane carrying the two youngest memben of the cail aoola airways incorporated wat huodag high over the parched aa of tb gnat jmojave desert shlmmcrja heab waves roeo from the purple wpsteo of ac heat from flaming aun flayed and blistered the 4tock twoheaded pilot and the jean redheaded youth the fore cockpit suddenly whipping tongue or flame sprang out on the motor head lashing the lean redheaded passenger and caus ing the color to drai fro hi fac crimson flames caught on ihc doped facrlc of the wings causing them to crackle choking on the oily fumes of amolu which poured back into his face corey sawyer fumbled for the catch for his safety strap he know it would bo lilil for his friend norton mantle to at tempt landing for they were flyintf five thousand feet above the dtucrt and the aeroplane would separate into flam ing fragments long before it readied thj ground tile biplane suddenly lurched and staggered like wounded do corey darted glance to the rear and his heart grew cold within him norton mantle was not in the rear cockpit he had leap ed first leaving his poffienger to gvt out of danger as best he mlghtr oorey rav red his friend hod dis obeyed the first rule of good pilot wulph is always to consider the passenger first he had balled out with his parachute without to much as tak the precaution of shutting off his motor tven considering that norton mantle had been terrified it was cowardly act corey stared with smarting eyes through red cloud wlch hissed and roared about mm ho was about to clamber over the side of the cockpit when the nose dipped and the aeroplane started to go into spin white car nation seemed to leap up to meet him and oorey realized disilly that it wis nortons parachute if the spinning crate tore through that chute his support would be removed and norton would plummet earthward to certain death itd serve hun right for leaving his ship without shutting off his motor and for deserting his passenger muttered corey in choked voice he did not suit his actions to his words however flattening himself to the slippery turtle back he started to crawl backward to ward the tall while tile aeroplane nosed down more and more clinging with strained muscles he worked his way along oh ood he prayed tflvc ma the strength to bflve him even if he la unworthy with supreme effort corey tdld his body along surface as glassy as ice and tumbled into the rear cockpit ilia ears were ringing as the subdued bellow of the motor rose to shrill wall hj heart pounded madly as ho clambered to an upright position he had not yeb passed his pilots tests for license but meroplane jerking backward on tho stick to bring up the nose he waited with pounding pulsed expecting every rnlnut that the wings would be sheared off by the sharp pullout something white dashed dually post him and he realised dimly that lie had pulled the machine out of the 4ibi just in time to sv nortons parachute from being ripped to ribbons the fear whkh had been tugging at his heart saw realization when one of the badlyburned wlnjp crumpled the biplane relieved of support on that aide listed precariously sideslipped and started to go into another crazy bpin the youth managed to find his rip co the aeropla reeled ove on on ft aide with breathtaking suddenness he then felt himself thrown violently into apace through smarting eye lie uw tho earth rushing up to meet him he could wait no longer he jerked hfe ring forward and the rip cord did its work the parachute had hardly opened when send mountains corey felt the earth strike turn with dizzying impact waves of pain flowed over his body and he struggled blndly against the folds of linen which engulfed him ho managed to rip hole in the linen before the oblivion of unconscious ucss smothered hun corey sawyer gained consciousness to flndhis erstwhile friend leaning oven him can you ever forgive me corey demanded norton in voice which wa unsteady with emotion corey climbed out of tho tangled para chute his blue eyed snapping its nne pilot who forgets his passenger and thinks only of himself ho sold sharply if dldn know how to use chute id have killed know it sold tlic oilier brokenly nicnfi nothing pan say to condom hiy action just lost my luad you certainly did jose your head uuld corey coldly his eyes like blue ic if hadn crawled bock over the turue buck to cut the gun the planes spin would have hit our chute hi 1u fall wondered why you didnt leave the ship sooner said norton slowly it certainly tock nerve to climb back there precogtilxed as distinct rebuff by every member of the group norton was the youngest pilot at tho airdrome he did ills work faithful and well but there was always tliat slight at corey iomotlrrca corey felt almost of sadness in hju eyes when ho looked likfc weakening but when he thought of those tcrrbllo momenta in that burning aeroplane not knowing whether or not ho coukl get out of it alive his feeling hardened finally coreys training at the air drome was completed and the young man successfully passed his tests cor license to become the youngest pilot at the field instead of norton mantle one day norton flew passenger east ward over the gila dcccrt and the gila to phoenix arizona canadian buftalo to europe mornlnsfound him still absenc the manager of oallxonla airways called up the airport phoenix only to learn that norton hand safely landed hte passenger and had turned westward that some night the manager was worried he must have metr with some engine trouble men he said he might be killed or injured in th mountains there no him to get out on foot that country teems with rattlesnakes and the tem perature is that of blastfurnace on its busy day well havo to and him corey felt painful constriction about his heart and hi dislike far norton mantle vanished he know what it meant to be out there on the desert without water or food he felt ashamed of having held feelings of petty nature toward norton mantle norton had last his head when tliat aeroplane caufht fire it is trill but he hud been big enough to admit lili mistake nuw perhaps hi was dead and it was too late or corey to make amends go cory sawyer went out with tho other aeroplanes which busstcd over the parched aiui of the gila dcirt wac un hoping that he would be the one to find norton tliat lie might beg forgiveness canadavt success in saving the buffalo from extinction has been heralded on quo of the oulutandlng achievements in tho preservation of native fauna and now the canadian buffalo is to be used in the perpetuation of tho european bison ar rangements liave been made to ship twenty buffalo from tho dominion na uonal parks to germany where uu will bo used in breeding experiments with the european bison tho shipment or nineteen cows and one bull will bo selected from tlie national herd buffalo national park at wainwrlfiht alberta and will go forward at an early date the story of the saving of tho buffalo from extinction is one of the moat in teresting tn the annals of wild life eon while the crate was spinning ukelyo wc creased tho undulating brown carpet blow up at any moment cantr tell you iuw rotten ted about the way acted corey never thought had it in hie to be tuch coward it all hap pened so suddenly that dldn reahzo what was doing ive always prized your friendship corey and if you could forgive me forgive you exclaimed corey with brittle laugh vou don expect much of friendship do you nort7 yod let me go down in burning ship without chance of getting out alive and then calmly ask me to forgive you tho only way 111 forgive you is to treat you tu like fashion if ever liave the oppor tunity corey turned on hu feel striding out ucroa the baking desert which supported no life save purple sage spiny and bar rel cactus and giant yucca plants some thing within urged him bo play the harder part to remember that it is greater achievement to forgive than to hold vengeance he steeled himself against yielding to the promptings of his onsclence however and strode out across the porclicd fiontfa his blood boiling with ojuftr and resentment he wasconsclous tluit norton mantle wot following him trusting ptrluips to the sureties of dir ection ulileh hi friend displayed cor ay did not turn his head nor give any in dication tliat uas aware of norton presence toward nightfall mail aeroplane which luul cipled tlie burned wrcckugc and was consequently watchful for the lost pllou came roaring down out of tlie iky to land on the dcert san the two youtlii were effusive hptheir uian to the mull pilot far rescuing tluni but neither spake to th oilier until they reached tlia aeroplane destination at lea angeled an they left the field together corey turned coldly to korton you vers bringing me liere to take car of the arm business th do that and ou may return wlienever you choose corey sawyer successfully concluded the company business in los angeles and returned to yuma in one of the caihumla airways ships two days later he was popular with the other pilot tit the field and stood talking and joking with tl until nortou approached tha group corey then turned his back and ue chill of thki greeting between tiro ho liad once been close friends was scotts scrapbook by scon couhibizi coumou mkthop at uurju las paaiomca ofkomtl joicickf fuwpflaji moajcoim shomm fhli modaj to the point where it merged into the serrated red crags of the gila bend mountain but he taw nothing of the lost aeroplane the other men met with no better suoccu5 wvc days passed and nothing had been licard of norton six days passed and still those man mud ogles soared above the wasted of sun baked sand crag and orroyo and saw nothing of the fallen eagle who was thoir companion evcii days lapsed eight nine on the afternoon of that ninth day corey was sent pick up paasejoger in phoenix he had to buck strong southerly wind which drove him con stantly northward it did not concern him particularly that he ws being drlveir out of his coune however for it would delay tlia climb over the glhi ttend mountains puially however tlie tawny desert began to flow into the redder crags and crcvsbcs of the lowlands then occur red one cf those phenomena of nature not partiiucuirly rare in this region which are the bane of the airmans existence in tiie morning the wind currents are usually down toward the cooler floor of the desert now with lata afternoon tlie wind current were reversed the desert fl3or baked all day in broiling sun was bending up its lnat waves to jmeet tlie cooler air of tlie mountains the wind from the south met thee wind currents to form whirling cddln and currents which caught the sand particles in their mighty grip carrying them up ward in swirling columns which rase for hundreds and wnncthncsfo atlioufiandi foet orcy saw the columns tpringlng up into tlie air ahead of him signifying tlie battle of conillctuig winds suddenly his heart seemed to fitop beating ale snatched off his dustcloud ed goggles and stared with narrowed eyi at ti kllvec something on the brown carpet writhing beneath him something white was moving heckle tlie aeroplane for which it woj corey knew with sudded quick beating of his heart that the moving speck of white was kvirton signalling to him something hocmd to snap in coivyj brain then back came uit bccne of red aeroplane spinning to earth in flamed like one ot uiom weird chinese tops tiia resantnvwnt thai fearladen moment swept back over the young pilot he turned his hcd away so lie could no longer see uuu fapeck of frantically waving while no one would blame him for noi attempting landing in tliat sand storm so he stilled lib conscience as lie sped toward phoenix howev corey wondered if enother aeroplane ooub and nortons nine days in tho dosert without water would norton live another day ivrhaps hours would bpell his death he was going away to leave norton to buch fate corey fiawyer youre mad to tlunk of such uiingl he muttered to himself in sudden anger he stalled thoughts or wtiat might luippcn to him should he be last in this outoftlieway place with norton with roaring motor he banked for the turn and cent tlio biplane walling downward in ftliorp dive piinilly lu missed gigantic cactus as tall as five men thruting itself outjof huge mound und managed landing ills face was working strangely norton never knew could be siicn rotter he soul huskily actually caul mplated leaving jou re und ending ijinu one chus back norton manugtd to form smlk through cracked parched lips rot ifr he imittcrihl in voice ko dry it rasped hi iu tliroat coming down through tliat sand storm was uie whitest tiling twr saw one fellow do for an other twenty limn though you wre going to ovrrturu and yovi did it fur folio who had treated vou as did his voice broke uudeuly his bloodoliot eyes jlstened see tlie remain of that ucrvatlon over sixty years ago ttu buffalo inhabited the western plains canada and tlie united states in count less thousands the advance of civiliza tion and the improvidence of hunters however brought about one bf tho great est slaughters in wild life history wlien more than million buffalo were killed off in lc5 thftnjtwityjcararboutjwlpiug out of existence this most interesting species in 1007 tho government of canada had an opportunity to purchao pure bred herd of buffalo from ons michael poblo halfbreed of lionnn montana who hud developed lurd ot utmost 000 unlmulf it required almtut three years to round up und lost or buffalo of which 631 weru placed 111 buffalo national park und tho ual ince in 11k island national lurk tho growth of the herds ut both parks was rapid and in 1bj324 the numbri had in creased to iuch an extent tliat tlio grac ing capacity of buffulo park wus in dun ktr of being overtaxed policy of annually til posing of number of animals was adopted and in tho inter vening years h73 animals were ulipped from buffalo pork at wnlnwrlght wood buffalo park near hort smith 111 tlie northwest territories over 13 000 buffalo have bui slaughtcrid their meit and hides disposed of by sale and the unlmalei donated to zoological gardvns in different parts of canada in tlie united statct and in countries overseas number in the hundreds dinner stories not that bad ii mrs joyner ild the uelihbor so your por husband sn jiind the great innjorlty oh don tny that sir said mrs joyner sure ho was not it hid iis ul thut til ats one wav miniitfr do wish could thlnu of inmo way to make tho members of tho congrcgatiop iy nttcnllon to me when preaching son why dorit you put the clock right behind tho pulpit nummu ptkasfc much has been said and written about tho wrong numbers given by telephone optraions but this utory hao to do with the cprrectf ones according to telephone statistics released by tho dominion bureau of statistics tlio number of com pleted conversations on canadian tele phones during 134 is estimated at 20fl 607i8drandlhafcisa lot tofrlght huni bers tiib is an average ot 1926 cox vernations per telephone or 213 per capita no other country has as high an averuge number of convcriatlons pe capita and only the united states an japan report greater total number of telephone convcr ation perliaps th rowui that canadians are particularly loquacious over the telephone may be attributed in bome measure to tlie fact that the telephone is canadian inven tion tlie worlds flrit telephones having ben set up and operated in canada by alexander oraluim bell tlio number of telephones in canada at the close of 1034 amounted to 1103 720 compared with 102 330 in 1d33 por each of the jears 1d31 1032 and 1033 dtcreaues from tlio previous yiar were recorded and in 103 while tlie number of residence telephones continued to de crgojjy lprreafie in nia and public pay telephones were more than sufficient to offset this decrease with an average of 11 01 telephones per 100 of population canada was second only to the united states wliere there is an uvtruge of 13 20 telephoned per 100 of papulation in addition to playing an important port as medium of communication in tlie builnss and social life of tlie do minion tlie telephone also provided em ployment of 17 201 persons to whom salaries and wages totalling 21107 83 were paid during the year uktktisu woftfkn buying can adian silk hosxeuy milad in britain wh mip nutto buvher pure silk hosiery looks with favor on the canadian article widen has mode nama for itaelf in uie british market on tlie grounds of quality and elasticity of some h50 0m pairs of silk btocklngm which it is estimated were imported into great britain last year canada jaippllod well on to luilf that quantity according to the industrial dcpartmeiit of the canadian nutloual hallways in tho cae of artificial silk hosiery miese coma meetly from germany and cotton varle tlii mainly from japan and germany in fullfashioned silk hosiery is where the canadian slocking makes rw appeal while the decorated heel the swugger toe fancy top shading of color and all the otlur gadgets and adornments whlci are dear to mlludyi heart are added iittractionu and bring hlglnr price und larger raits as long as the feature is new adobe shack and thu excavutlon corey imw the mains of prusikc tor hack and tlie evidence of old dlg gliu that wild norton his voice houne with rxclttment is the famous plying dutchman mine which praju havo betn looking for tliee last sixty ycaw we re coming hero by plane und we re going to work it together corty corey was siluit monieut his face worklnu ttgangiiy vnigiancd would fauvt been expnslv he said finally would liave lait half of this richest of gold mbveri and you would have lost your ilia iu udditloii wouldn have ivad any belfrtanxct with which to face the wurld for the ret of txiy life vi thath vbvatx1l it little six year old harry was ked by his sunday school teacher arid hurry what aro you olng to clve your irling little brother for iiij birthday this yeiir dunno ild hurry hit year iv hun the chicken pox maktt job bipck itywood in kltltaix llyvood for piuicllinf doors furniture and other forms of interior decoration is being ured to an increasing extent in great britain tlie principal sources of uupply in order are finland russia latvia united statee germany japan poland lithuania htonta und sweden according to the industrial department of the canadian national railways 3tost of tlio the plywood from vluland and russia and fair pre portion of tliat from latvia is of birch while tliat from tho united tales conslslu almost exclu sively of douglas fir very little is sup plied by canada lb felt there is an opening for largesized highgrade can adian birch plywood millers worm boudcri aro sweeti and palatable to children who show no hesi tancy in taking them they will certain ly bring all worm troubes to on end they are strengtlwmlng and cumulat ing medicine correcting tho disorders ol digestion bliat the worms cause and im parting healthytone to thesybtcrrt most beneficial to development table manners for new delight in tea try salada orange pekoe blend facxographs tho qu intity of nicotine contain ed in tob icco varies from to per cent the coir er kinds contain ing uie inrjjer qu intity more uian id 000 000 eggs nre de posited by the ling during tho spawning season as compared with more than 000 000 by tlio turbot which ranks second it is believed that lavender one of the most lypicjl of ngitd riouprs may have been introduced the urcs tonmpe of vessel is floured by me isurini the interior of the ship to its intermit volume mid then diwdinj the total riitrt by the roman by 100 to obi nn the tonnnj one hundred cubic feel fi ured nr bluinj is classified urn dye bc cordmi to thi iv lem of nr ur in it neutralize the yellow ut hili beinj equil to one ton clothes thus making them white tim sleeping sickness victim buck famous canine hero of tlie illvcr screen has become quite habitue oi popular restaurants here is buck handling himself like gentleman at th tabl with overside bone for hi meal he takes wouotheoatrrhlrlthohy wood loukdaaiqqjtii sales books arc the best counter check books made in canada they cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction we are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required you hoot prlnu flnt two ardonehalfycorold mnxinv yanlnulon of fcalrvlew pd liuwn in her crib nt an exjo hospital has ben aiccp for fivo months victim of encephalitis latliariiici sleeping sicknciis altliouih elm fast asleep little marines hm blue eyes arc wide open and nho lias tha appeurancc of normal child when first admitted to tle hospital mnxinc waj fed by hypodermic necdlo under uie skin now however cic eats in normal manner cross word puzzle achoss lit ilnly ahipu rtllll 11 iii rv for milut hi imi viruin iu ti win tun ll it of umiirj mill iiyi pnni si lluiny lllli of li irom ply in ifiit ulllrmativo of tlio npturj iintji ifis or church vti 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