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PIaJL] OPIE READS? |t, TIM Ml Syndic*** NADINE LA VITTE i 6TNOPS18--The time is the IMs' or early '708 and the aoene a samboat on the Mississippi river. |l the types of the period are i «nd the fte&tin# pala.c« i« diSUacwbihed by merriment, dancing mad gallantry, There are the customary drinking and gambling, also. Virgil Drace, a young northern man. ia on his way south on a mission of revenge. He meets an ecoentrii; character in the person of one Liberty Shottle, who is constantly tempting the goddess of chance. They agree to a singular pact. Drace, seeing an opportunity to use Shottle, confides to him that his mission Is to find a certain exguerrilla, Steplie ,1a Vitte, who had murdered Drace's father. It is his determination to hang La Vitte as high as Haman. Drace f&U* ln love with a striking ycung beauty on the boat. The steamer reaches New Orleans, at that time in the somewhat turbulent throes of carpetbag government. The young men attend the French ball and Drace unexpectedly meets the girt She is accompanied by one Boyce, apparently her fiance. Shottle learns that the name ot the girl is Nadine la Vitte. Drace passes an uneasy night torn by the suspicion that Nadine is the daughter of old Stepho la Vitte, now an admitted outlaw. Now, more than ever, is he resolved to find where the girl lives and to And Stepho. Drace and Shottle begin a search of the city Drace takes a hand In a carpetbagger riot. He catches a glimpse of one he is sure is Nadine. Drace and Shottle get Into bad standing with the authorities, and are given until the next day to board a steamer bound north. Returning to the house where he thought he had glimpsed the girl, Drace finds the place abandoned. Shottle discovers that a case of wine on the steamer is addressed to Stepho la Vitte at Farnum's Landing, Mississippi. It is the next •top below Bethpage's Landing and General Bethpasre is Liberty Shottie's uncle. They decide to visit him. Liberty goes broke again and Bwears oil again on betting. They are cordially received by the General and his wife. CHAPTER VI--Continued. nut very much. I am fond of hid! too, and I believe be la going to be of much help to me." "(Veil, Pve lost five hundred this mottling, bat I can stand It I have ordered the males hitched up, and am golfeg to drive with you about the plantation. I am going to show you a government here in the delta." During the drive the old gentleman was talkative, sometimes with the school man's hesitating precision, but more often as the free companion, agreeable rather than discursive. Drace evinced in everything a keen interest, but it was not real. His heart was'not with him. It was in New Orleans, in a narrow street where boards were nailed across a door. From what he had been able to gather from the General and by talking In seeming ^Idleness to boatmen and to men along the River, Drace confirmed the information snatched by Shottle from the label on the Frenchman's wine case--namely, that old Stepho had a haunt sotnewhere in the neighborhood. A shrewd old negro had said that the outlaw lived In the swamp, ln a house built of periwinkle shells. On the opposite shore, and several miles below the General's home, there lay a great wood of cypress and a thick tangle of salt cedar, «T sort of everglade, a marsh with hundreds of knoll-islands here and there rising among the bayous. Here wns indeed an outlaw's paradise, for Drace was told that not nearly all its lanes and crooked "byways of brown water had been explored. Herein he began his search for old Stepho, day after day penetrating farther and farther Into this moss-hanging wild. He did not confide in General Bethpage, for his mission was sacred onto himself alone, and by himself alone most It be aeeetnplished. At his feet in the canoe lay a rope, end of It a hangman's noose, and fee smiled at it, grim and firm of faith. Sonetimes his canoe would stall In the carpet of scum. But he forced lii^ way through into a narrow and unobstructed Channel. Now he- paddled swiftly. In front of him a great alligator arose and sank, the canoe gra ?.- Insr h!?* scsIt hnck. With a shriek grr* * birds flew, flapping low, their long legs StrAched out behind them. Drace was armed with a revolver, but did not wish to fire it, caution warning him. When he ceased for a time to paddle, how still everything was! , The adventurer liked to feel that no one had ever been there before. But now suddenly something caught his •ye. In the green tangle on a low bank he saw a pole with wires strung t# It, a sort of gate. The wires were rovered with vines, miined about them. l$nt for what purpose, here In this hffishy tangle? He caught hold of a weed and, pulled the canoe up closer, took hold of the pole and now he found a lower slat to which the wires were also attached. Farther along he discovered a sort of hinge attached to "H jttiag almost hidden by briers. i fTll open this gate and see what lies hfeyond," he mused, drawing the canoe fmck to the other end. He pulled at •; the pole, and it yielded. The gate " opened, and through the weeds that appeared to have been bent by the passing of a boat, he saw a narrow innel. It was easy enough to shove through the weeds and1 to enter the new canal, goon it broadened, winding about BnKvr.g the enormous cypress trees. Now he came upon a widening that looked like a mHlpond, except that In |j|e midst of It arose an island of tall iffine. It was an attractive sight, and lit ceased paddling to look. Slowly he drifted toward the tslaad's sliore. lie took hold of a cane root and pulled Hie nose of tlie canoe hard Into the Then he got out. parting the stubborn cane In a shade as night. But now through this illway he could see sunlight knew that he was about :#• ' • „s to cone Into an 7>peo space. And fut Into It he looked with & start; for there, a few feet from the edge of the fringe of cane, stood a small house made of minute shells cemented--periwinkles. Its roof was of thatch, the long rushes gathered from-the swamp; and about the door was a cypress vine, its red blooms daszttng In the sun. And then ft bended cane Drace held was crushed In his hand, for through the door and out beneath the vine came the barbaric rose-maid, Nadine la vitte. a, CHAPTER VII . ^ - aoftafce flight sho saw him. She was startled, but did not run into the house; she stood daaed, her marvelous eyes In wide st;ire. Slowly he came forward, gasinp, his hat in his hand. He dropped the hat, stooped, caught It up and now stood before her. * If she were agitated, he could not discover it. She stood where the red blooms brushed her brow. He held forth his hand, and slowly she shook her head. "Monsieur, how foolish to come t If you do not go now. In a short time you wilt die. , My father! He will shoot you. I should like it not to see you dead, you are so brave. My father, he will think you come for him." "But I will tell bixa that I did not I--" He moved nearer, but with her hand raised, palm toward him, she motioned him away. "You do not know what you talk. Nothing could you tell him, for die gun fire, and you will ho no mora. Please go away now." "Oh, it is because you want to get rid of me." "No, no, no. It is not that. I like you much. You are so brave --1 and handsome. It .is because I fear for you. My father would be angry to have me talk with a northern man. Go now, and for my sake, come no more." "Mr. Boyce," said Drace than. Ms not a northern man?" * She'shot a sudden startled look at him. "Mr. Boyce--but he is my father's friend. My father expects me to marry Mr. Boyce. And if my father should come back and find me here talking with you, he would--Please, Mr. Drace, go at once, before it is too late. See, the sun Is almost set. The stars come soon, and then through the cane he come. Oh, won't you please be kind to me and go at once!" "Kind to you? God bless you, I would die for you." "Oh, you make love soon t But won't you please go now! Quick, I hear something." "You hear my heart. Let me stay ten minutes, and then I go." "Ah, but why would you give me ten minutes of fear?" He saw that her anxiety was real, and his heart smote him for 'cruelty to this dazzling creature whose father he would hang with a &pe brought from the North. "Yes, I will go. I wanted to tell you something, but my regret at going Is so deep that I forget what It was. But I must come again when the sun is not so low. No, tell me please, when that shall be?" "Never would a man before talk like this to me . . . But tf you must come &hen I beg you no, let It be next Thursday. My father then will be in the hills to buy cattle." "This is Friday, and" that will be a week, lacking one day. You have set doomsday for my return." "If you come before, you will not find me. And now it is the good-by." She drew back quickly through the door, and down Into the fringe of tall cane he went, parting his way to the canoe that lay nosing the mossy bank. Only now that she was gone and night bad come did he irmnmhftr n talked. oti* fix^TOPfi -99 on a bushy shore where the watlrffii ®o shallow that the canoe was ffillMf stuck ln the ooze. With his pnddkl Drace propped his craft steady* tor them to get out. Tone* got oufc~HU»A with the quickness of a cat snatched a rope from beneath his coat and threw a noose about Drace's arms. Then the two men in the boat threw themselves upon him. There was a hard struggle In the canoe and then out into the water, but they brought him ashore, wound about with the rope. Now they made haste to tie him securely., The canoe -was dragged ashore; Drace stretched out in it, and now they took it on their shoulders and hastened through the tangled underbrush. He had fought hard, but had not cried out. But as he was carried along, he swore bitterly at himself for not looking at first with suspicion on the brutes who now had him in their power. "Ah, you would steal about and spy," said Tones. "But you steal about no more. The carpetbaggers, they say, *Xo« bravol*.nm1 ,vou say, 'Yes, I am m This is the first authorized photograph of the "floating graveyard" for destroyers of the Pacific fleet at Sab Diego, Cal„ where 60 have been deccmmlsptontd and 15 more will soon be added to the roster, leaving only 87 on active duty. The^jjrect number of warship® lashed" together in Idleness Is an imposing sight. "--^ -- :--, * 1 ' (TiV 1 • ^ ii iii ass® lffr 210 8th St, So., •TV" !."*" fxt- 'if. Federal Bureau Investigations May Revolutionize Motor : Fuel Business. f- Through the Door and Out the Vine Cams the Barbaric Rc Maid, Nadift* La Vitta. member that this girl who had bewitched the swift minutes with him 'was the daughter of his sworn enemy Stepho la Vltto. A voice called him as he was cursing himself for a traitor to his father's memory. On a point of land he saw three men standing. One of them beckoned him. and he turned In toward them. One of them spoke : "Would you he kind to net us across? The night he comes, and we would not be lost in the swamp. We will get to the river. Would you, please?" "Yes, but I don't know that my canoe will hold four. Wo m#y get a ducking." He pulled alongside and steadied the canoe while they got In. Nqw he paddled carefully -The Ma "who had • - "We Leave You Now. You Will Not Need TKIs Candle to Lieht You to Bed." brave.' Then they say, *You find old Stepho.' And you. go to find him. He is not at home. But his men, they come just In time." "You are liars. I was--" , "Ah, you come with the joke. T* morrow, we will laugh. Will you? No, you will nOt laugh.* " ' • • • • • .• ,7V Drace lay quietly ropes that bound him. If he could spring out free, what a scattering he would make of them! They stopped, entering some sort of doorway, and rested the canoe on the ground. Tonez lighted a candle, and Drace saw that he was in an old cabin, almost ready to fall. They rolled him out on the floor, face down, and beneath his arms they passed the paddle of the canoe, so that he could not turn over. Then the others went out, leaving Tone* holding the candle. "Does the kind gentleman know why they gone? They go to get the dry rushes and the dead bark. For why? To make fche fire. It is not cold, no? But they will make the fire of the cabin, and when the morning come, there will be the ashes of the kind gentleman; and the people they will say: 'Ah, he lie down to sleep, and bum up.' " Drace heard them piling their murderous fuel Into a. corner. Again he appealed to them, tried threats, told them that his frjends would hang them; but they laughed. Tones bend* lng over him witlythe candle. "In a few minutes I light the blaze and take the candle away . . . Yon talk of Stepho's daughter. Remember she may love me some, too." "You Spanish devil!" "The kind gentleman he come doae. Tm Portuguese. But no matter. When Stepho come, we tell him what we dOk and he pat us on the back and give u« money. But the light would hurt the kind gentleman's eyes when he lie that way on his jaw. I will not stoop so low with the cattle . . . Oh, what a fine pile they get! It will make tho blaze beautiful. All ready, yes? I will touch It off." Drace could not see htm, but he heard the first crackle of the dried rushes, saw the flame dim the candle light. Now he cried aloud, the men laughing, the mounting flame crackling louder. Tonez came back to him. "We leave you now. You will not need thiB candle to light you to bed: so I blew it out, see? And I take It with me." They hastened out, and he heard them laughing as they ma through the underbrush. With all his harnessed might he strove to break the paddle so that be might roll toward the door, but It was strong, and he broke only the tip of the blade. A louder crackling told him that the dry boards above were catchtng. Soon the roof would fall ln; great sparks would fly upward, fall and hiss in the water. Why should he lie there, seeing alt this in his mind, he wondered. He had read that men approaching death sometimes speak foolish words, and here he lay. with his mind on trivial things. Soon he would writhe In a furnace. How all about him glared! He wondered how long It would be before a tongue of flame should lick htm w i t h I t s a g o n y . . . Experts Find a Cheaper Grade, 15 to 28 Per Cent Coarser Than Now Brings th^.-Sempewj^ • Mileage. . Washington.--Efforts to have congress appropriate sufficient money to permit completion of the work have centered attention upon highly significant gasoline experiments by the government bureau of standards, which Indicate the possibility of revolutionizing the motor fuel business and saving millions to motor car users in fuel costs. Dr. W. James, one of the experts engaged in the investigation, was authorized by the director of the bureau of standards to give an outline of some of the results. In brief, while many phases of the inquiry are far from completed, Doctor James disclosed that one outstanding result is the definite determination that, at least ln summer time, gasoline, which Is 15 to 25 per cent coarser than the average grades now In common motor use, can be used as effectively in engines as the present grade of fuel. When this becomes generally known. It is predicted that a heavier grade of gasoline will be manufactured for motor use, with a consequent lessening in the cost of production equal to the difference in the amount of petroleum required for its manufacture. Four barrels of petroleum would produce the same amount of the coarser, but equally efficient, gasoline for motor purposes that five barrels of oil now produce. Unless there should be a marked Increase in production and refining costs, therefore, the use of the heavier fuel for motors would mean a saving of millions in the gasoline bills of 'motorists throughout the nation. Outgrowth of War Experiments. Information as to performance conditions of internal combustion engines, Doctor James explained, was requested of the bureau of stard&rds from' many sources In the war, and the French commission particularly desired data on the performance of aircraft engines in high altitudes. Investigations along this line were undertakes, and developed valuable information. Dr. James gives an interesting account of how the. investigation was conducted which led to discoveries about coarser gasoline. He explained that the objective was to, ascertain how many miles could be obtained from a gallon of gasoline of each of various grades of volatility. Two factors entered into this Inquiry, the first being the number of miles per gallon of a given fuel and the second the number of gallons of gasoline of that grade produced from a barrel of oil. Four grades of gasoline were used ln the investigation. The first was representative of the average grade of gasoline now being sold. The second was representative of the grade sold five years ago. The third and fourth were representative of heavier grades than have been sold heretofore for motor operation. * Four Test Cars Used. One barrel of oii. he continued, woul# produce only 80 per cent as much gasoline of the grade that was sold five years ago as it would produce of the grade sold today. On the other hand, one barrel of oil would produce anywhere from 15 to 25 per cent more gasoline of the heavier grades, which made up the third and fourth types of fuel used ln the inquiry, than it would produce of the present grade of gasoline. Four test cars used ln the investigation. Doctor James said, were representative of about 75 per cent of those now on the market. These cars, each using a different grade of fuel and equipped with an instrument to register theu, number of miles per gallon of gasoline consumed, were driven over all types of roads and then the results of this practical experiment compared. From these comparisons, the surprising fact was developed that the heavier grades of gasoline would produce the same number of miles per gallon In motor engines as the lighter grade now sold and the still lighter grade which sold about five years ago. This, of rooriw, #*11 mean that 45 |>er cent more gasoline of equal efficiency can be produced from n barrel of oil than wits produced five years ago and that 25 per cent more gasoline than Is now produced, of equal efficiency, so far as motor car use is concerned, can be produced from a barrel of oil. $ETH IS NOT CHILLt Not many of us are taking' dips ut the ocean these wintry days, but Beth Allen, movie actress, doesn't find the Atlantic too chilly at Miami, Fla., judging from this photograph just received. Gets Back Long-Lost Ool(af. ? • O.--W. G. Minshall Is In possession of a silver dollar which he owned over twenty years ago and which had been lost to him for all that time. It was while Mlnshell was en' ployed at the Hotel Marion that he dropped the dollar, and it found a resting place under the stone steps of the State street entrance. When the work of removing the steps started recently Minshall recalled his loss and informed the workmen. On removing the steps they, found the dollar and returned It to Minshall, who In turn gave them another dollar. «. /• ^ Jbm&er lferrait Womb Fn& tpBal Flnrt tiuniii Wck-- " I sufleMd for twoy ears withpafasin m y si«k,*»d if I worked very mttca I was norm* and just as tired in Ah* morning in when K fveat to bed I w*s sleepy ail the day and dkbit feel like (MOT anything and was so nervous I DrodblbUe my Qiger nails. Oneof myfriendatokl Lydis E. Pinkham's V< ' ' pound, aad it helped me sooo felt fine.' 1910 Elk Street, Part Huron, •bout Com- •jf i; "J. J&sfi f'Mr. 1 0-t- WS V.. V .?• " An art crank is. one who takes art too seriously. .. " <*" DYED HER SKIRT, DRESS, A-VV SWEATER AND DRftlftlES WITH "DIAMOND DYES" Mkch package of "Diamond Dyes" eentains directions so simple any woman CjUi dye or tint her worn, shabby dresses, •kirts, waists, coats, stockings, sweaters, coverings, draperies, hangiras, eveiything, even if she has never dyed before. 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WOMAN IS MADE CHIEF OF TRIBE #- ; -- Wife of White Man Becomes Head of the Kaw Indians, Hot Prtnclpaf Task Will Be'lteesing Large Claim Against the Government-- Was Adopted by Old CMsf and Became Nurse. ' Ponca City, Okla--The Kaw Indians not only have given women the right to vote, but have elevated one to the highest office In the tribe, that of elective chief. The voman is Mrs. Lucy Tayiah Eads, now Chief Lucy to all her tribesmen. Chief Lucy is the first head the Kaw Indians have had since 1908, when Chief Washunga was froten to death. She is the wife of John R. Eads, a white man. The two with their children live on the new chiefs allotment, an Inheritance of 800 acres. They are among the few who have not disposed of any of their property. They raise "And then he spoke: bless you, Nadine!'" 'God tTO Ult CONTINUED.),, • Rural. Preecienoe. ~«i»eeftsh<ir<i Journal--"In a' Mill town folks know when a marriage Is going to occur sooner than the persons that «p» to tt."- Ataiw Transcript.*' r ' ' live stock of all kinds, are thrifty and send their children to white schools. "The best material for the job," is the, way the Indians describe Chief Lucy. John Gads, who is a cousin of James Buchanan Eads, who built the Eads bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis, proudly takes his place as husband of the chief. "She (s an excellent wife, a fine mother, the best nurse living and understands the needs of her people." he says- Lucy Tayiah, with her brother. Bra* mett, were adopted years ago by old Washunga, who led the Kaw Indians from their lands in Kansas In 1873 to a new settlement in Oklahoma territory. He sent fhem to Haskell Institute, after they had completed the tribal schools. Here Lucy distinguished herself as a student and became interested In nursing. After her graduation from Haskell she went to New York city and became a graduate nurse. She remained there several years before returning to her people. The Kntar, ifke tnatiy oftw lndttfhi. have sold and dissipated their holdings and are now reduced to poverty. Although their lands join those of the rich Osage, and oil derricks can be seen rising In the distance, the Kaws have reaped no mineral benefit as yet. A number of tests have gone down, but oil in paying quantities has not been found. Chief Lucy has annpunced that the principal task of her administration will be pressing a claim of her tribe against the government for $15,000,- 000 which the Kaws allege is due them as payment for lands they owned in Kansas before their migration to the Oklahoma territory* \ ' tabor At Thirty-Five is Mother of Fifteen. Mouline, France.--"Come, it's time to get up, Pierre, Louis, Cecile, Georges, Lucie, Marcel, Gabriel, Jean, Henriette, Alice, Marie, Gustave, Georgette, Francois and Suzanne!" .This is the first of the many morning duties of Mme. Cellan Cheminot, who, at the age of thl?t&av«, i# the mother of IS kiddies. - > CORN IS UNDER FEDERAL PROBE United States Chemists Are Making Thorough Investigation Ink to Know Why Europe Prefers Argentine to United States Prod* l^fe»_yegetabte Proteins Being Analyzed. * I?: Washington.--In an effort to determine the reuson for the preference of European Countries for Argentine or lllnt corn to the corn- produced ln the United States, the Department of Agriculture, through Itfc bureau of chemistry, is undertaking an extensive investigation. According to W. O. Campbell, acting chief chemist, the investigation will he conducted through a laboratory on crop chemistry, recently established. which frill determine if there are any fundamental chemical difTereit^f« In the ompositlon of flint or ' ••••m and the dent corn largely yiduced throughout the United States. "It Is known, 'or instance," saya Mr. Campbell, "that the application of certain fertiliser to a crop like corn <wiH increase the yield quantitatively. "However, practically nothing Is known about quality relations; that is, whether the proteins, vitamines or mineral componentr of the corn fertilised ln such a way are better suited to animal and human nutrition than those of unfertile "1 corn. Varietal differences will ho studied from a chemical standpoint. "One of the moot important researches now under way is that upon vegetable proteins. Inasmuch us nitrogen is an essential part of animal tissue, and the animal cen obtain this necessary nitrogen only In the form of protein in its food. It Is obvious that this das, of seeds is of prime Importance. This research Involves the very existence of sll snl- _i»uls nnd Is Inseparably connected with the field of nutrition. "The anliuo acids of toe proteins of sevesal agricultural products have been separated and studied, with the result that it Is now possible to supplant such basic feeding stuffs as corn with small quantities of other feeds, such as peanut meal, soy-bean meal and coconut press cake, which contain the very anlmo uclds corn lacks, thus making a feed that will supply all the anlmo acids necessary for growth. The practical results of this should be a greater and more profitable utilisation Of oar largest cereal erop, corn." 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