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iff oj" Opie IL H. Livingstone .an OwfriBht. the M K -YOU 8CORPIOK1" STNOPSI&--The Urae W the late "90s or eatly TPs and th» scene * eteamboat on the MlaSlsslj.pl rlv«r. All the type® of the period are present and tlie floating palace to distinguished by merriment, dancing and gallantry. There are the customary drlnkftig and gambling, also. Virgil Drace, a young northern man;' is on his way wmth on a mission of revenge. He meets an eccentric character In the person of one Liberty Shottle, who i» constantly tempting the goddess of chance. They agree to a singular pact. Draee, seeing an opportunity to use Shottle. confides to him that his mission is to find a certain exguerrilla. Stepho la Vttte, who had murdered Drace's father. It Is his determination to hang La Vltte as high as Hainan. Drace falls In love with a striking young beauty on *he 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 girl. 8he Is accompanied by one Boyce, apparently her fiance. Shottl^learna that the name of the girl Is Nadine la Vitte. Drace passes an uneasy night torn by the suspicion that Nadine Is the daughter of old Stepho la Vltte, now an admitted outlaw. Now, more than ever, is he resolved to find where the girt lives and to find Stepho. Drace and Shottle begin a search of the city. Drace takea a hand in a carpetbagger riot He catches a glimpse of one he Is sure Is Nadine. Dr^ice 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 stop below Bethpage's Landing and General Bethpage Is Liberty Shottie's uncle. They decide to visit him. Liberty goes broke again and •wears off again on betting. They are cordially received by the General and his wife. Drace penetrates into the wilderness, dlFCovers Periwinkle House and finds Nadine alone. She is much alarmed and warns him her father will shoot -^llna He makes love to her and to get him to go she agrees to meet him again the following Thursday. On his way home Drace Is accosted by three men who ask to te set across the river. They overpower him and bind him with ropes. Led by Tony they throw Drace Into an old cabin. Tony taunts Drace and avows his love for Nadine, while the others collect fuel. Tony sets Are to the cabin and the three go off laughing. cheek against tin colt of twr Mir. They sst-where the Home flaw It* cool shade. Slowly h* rocked hi Ms big chair, looking up at the cane that hid his home. "This air, he good. He cornea through salt marsh from the Quit, with not the malaria. ¥otr ttoom always like the flower." "But, Father, when do we leave here? It must not be that ws art here to live all the time?" "Ha! The Uttle bird wish to leave the nest, to try her wings? That Is the way of birds and women. Soon, I suppose, you will wish to marry some line man and leave your old father.** "No--It is not that. I love you . . . But It Is lonely here, and--'• "Mr. Boyce, he Is a fine young man. If you marry him, you would.not so much leave me. I see him often. He buy from me the mules and cattle which I bring down from the hills. Why you no wish to marry him I" "But I do not love him." "You would soon learn; he Is a line young man. I owe him much; and he know much about my business that he would keep quiet about if--if he was of the family. And he would take yon often to the city and give you rich dresses and diamonds." "My dresses they are fine enough. 1 have the diamonds, too.. But yon must know that I get lonesome here. I cannot play with the book all the time . . . You are going again ty buy fiattie In the hills, are you notf* . "I will buy them, yes." ' "And you must on Thursday go to the hillsr "Yes, on the Thursday, I will go." He fell asleep, for he was tired; and when the sun came about, she drew his chair into the shade. He opened his eyes, patted her hand and slept again. She heard a slight sound, and looking, saw Tones coating through the CHAPTER VII--Continued. . "I t**y wwli"•#'%*)§• Thursday, and I gave hfan ««r %MM that rd be on hand. Moat semarkabl* old man, full of fun; quite a character." "You moat mean old Spence. But ate you sure It la not that pretty daughter of his that attracts you? You'll have to be a Uttle careful, mjr son. We may associate with men out of our social running, but .not with women. . . . Ah, Tycie! Mr. Drace has Juat consented to five me his company to Marches.** \ ; 4»V>" '»•' *V EKraw Men In Serambte 4or L* cations in Oatman District Arizona. And then Something touctfiw! his something cold and swift A knife cut the ropes that bound him; and In his great and sudden joy Drace almost lost his reason. But he did not cry out;, no word was spoken. Just one look, and then he screened her from the flames as they fled through the door, out through the light, into the shadow of the trees. And then he -gpoke: "God bless you, "Nadine!" He had held her hand, leading her as tfcey ran,^>ut now in the shadow safe from danger, she withdrew It from him, and when he reached again to .take it, she shook her head. "No, It must not be. I told yon to f» quick, but you did not go quick fnough. Then Tonez he see your boat, - Mid with the others, he wait for you I run around and I watcli him, with the knife 1o stnb him if he hurt my brave friend. Then in dim light I see ffifm carry the boat, and I think they .have killed you; and I steal along to •tab, but then I know you are In the .bout. All I do then was to watch till Ifcey Ro. and then I go in. -It'Was not ftnrd to do. No." "You are an angel." She laughed, shaking her head, "Angels do not go Into the fire. They not belong there . . . Now, I tell «fou. I show you the crooked way. -through the woods and eot to the |Sver. The moon has come, and we can Ajpee. If you know the way, you are 5 <fafe; hut if you do not, yoq mire down and die In the ooze, and not In the flame. You would pleas* follow me ;*ow." He followed her, hoping that she -jnight be slow, to prolong the Joy of • 3" • |tls being with her. hut she was agile, talking "swiftly. Sometimes she would ffcurn slightly about to warn him of dangerous place, and once site smiled v " .the raooa full in her face. "Tell me" -- /vtie Inquired then; "What has passed • J ^ tonight, 1 hope, does not change what ™" >\was set for Thursday." The land was beginning to ria«t g»d •he was walking faster. "Thursday you may come," She halted In an open space and pointed toward the river. "The bird, I hear him sing now. The 'magnolia trees are over there. ' And now it was again good-night." She gave hlin no chance to detain 1 her, for In an inatant she was running; - and lie stood looking till in the deep •hade her form was lost. J Old 8lithera, S«I4 and Wrinkled, Came With His Home-Made Fiddle. cane. Swiftly, she advanced toward him, With hand upraised, cautioning him. "Yon must make no noise. He is ssleep." 'But I have come to tell him that the carpetbagger spy he gone to come back not again." "Go away, and yon can come back and tell him." . "No, I stay and talk to you." Stepho's voice called out. "Tomb, come. I am here." She did not wish to hear them talk. She looked at the Portuguese and mused as she walked away: "You do not know, you scorpion, how close you come to the stab. Your ' time Witt come, and I watch you." CHAPTER Vtn "if" long time found a boat to set him over to the: opposite shore, It was so late when he reached the Bethpage place that he did not go up to his room. The house was so quiet, the hounds themselves asleep, that he stole into the garden to pass the remainder of the night on a couch in the summer house. The air was heavy with roses breathing In through the lattice, and as he straightened out, grateful for repose . this thought came to him: "'Pale they call death, but to me tt will ever be red. And I have looked Into Its red countenance, and was not afraid. I thank God that He gave me that strength. . . . But what & melodrama!" At the breakfast UAH, ¥ycie, with mother tenderness, upbraided Drace. for sleeping out for fear of arousing the house. Afterward Drace and the General strolled out under the trees. "By the way," the General said presently. "I have an engagement to deliver an address before a teachers' meeting In Natchez, and I Should much' like to have you bear- nte' -company. We can leave this evening on the Black Hawk and reach there early in the morning." "I'd like very much to go," answered Drace. "But can we get tack before Thursday?" "Easily by Wednesday mirfilc.g. Anything Important for Thursday^ "Oh, no. An old fellow down at Jthe The Black HaWk*S bwwl * welcome, and the captain came down the plank to conduct the General on board. From a quiet, lazy and almost deserted landing the place leaped Into the full throb of life. Negroes and shiftless whites came from their hovels to gaze upon the magic splendor o# this Journeying palace, and the threeshell man stepped ashore to gather up dollars. Dinner was a state occasion, and after it the ball. Then their staterooms-- then morning, and Natchez. The address was to be delivered in the afternoon, and when the time came the General led him over to the hall to hear the speech, imprisoned feim without bail in a corner, and there he bad to sit. The address was long, academic and dull, and the sufferer mused: "I don't see why Shottle ever called yon a remarkable character." Everybody came about the General to take his hand. Young women told him that they had never been so thrilled. Drace lied to him, too, swore him an orator. "LetT ns walk off alone," said the General. Slowly they w^ked at torst, but after a time the old gentleman struck a brisker pace, toward the River. "Now, my boy, as we've* got through with .those beaters of dust out of old carpets, we'll have some fun. Old Colonel Pemberton wanted me to go home with him, and he has a delightful house, a gracious wife and handsome daughter, but I had to decline. Pve stood about as much now as I can. We'll go down to old Tobe Mason's tavern, under the hill. Tobe is a gentle old fellow, never killed but three men." | The tavern was as tough a place as river men could make It. Built of logs, bricks, stone and clapboards, It looked like an architectural stagger, trying to climb the hill. In the main room was the bar. "Well, Til be knocked In the fcead for a steer!" old Tobe cried out, stumping toward the General. "I havent seed you since the River tuck Are. Well, well! Thlpkln' about you the other day. ... Glad to shake your hand, Mr. Drace. Set right down." "Tobe, I'm glad to see you," said the General. "And fetch us about two quarts of that summer-grape wine. Let me tell you about It, Drace. We have a wild grape here that gets ripe along In August. It's much larger and is not sour like the fox-grape, and its vine likes to climb about a sassafras sapling. And then you see an umbrella of grapes. Now don't say a word till you've had a good taste of It. Tobe makes it himself, and he'll fetch us some that's at least twenty-five years old. Here we are." The wine was as red as blood, cool and yet warm. Its flavor was the ripened sweetness of the spirit of autumn, it was as mellow as the scent of the apple at harvest time. "What do you think of it, hey?" "Uncle Howard, are you sure that this was not made by Bacchus instead of Tobe?" "Good, my boy! Enjoying yourself?" •'Yes, Tin doing fine, General. You S&, I can't express myself as well as you can. I haven't as much to draw from. You've not only book-knowledge but experience, Worth more socially tjuin all the liberies is the world. . , ,,, , "Yon hit it off well. But what la better than it all? Moral freedom. This table here is rough, with one rheumatic leg slightly drawn; these chairs we sit In, bottomed with strips of hickory bark, would be scorned at a sheriff's sale; but sir, Mark Antony, In his first triumph, his chariot drawn by Hons, was not more regal than we are at „this moment, enthroned and scept^red with moral freedom. Pour out, for as that same Antony said: 'Scant not my cups.'--Tobe, where'« that old scoundrel who used to play The Ark an saw Traveler'?" Tobe stumped his way over from I he bar. ; ^ "You mean old Slithers?" "That's the man. What's become of him?" "Nothin'. And I reckon he's playin' right now down at Oadman'g joint, that ought to be wiped off the earth. Want himr. • ' "Need hfcn, TObia* jlTboj, after him.** ^ Old Slithers, bald and wrinkled, came with his home-made fiddle. The General greeted him warmly, introduced him to Drace; and the most comfortable chair In the house provided him, fee sat down to play the famous old tune and to recite the dialogue, improvising where his memory failed him. BLOOM NOT OFF FIRST RUSH Soldiers of Fortune, Young and Old, Fleck From All Sections of the World--Old Mine Resume* ; . in Search for Wealtn. Phoenix, Aria.--Soldiers Of fortune-- yean? and old, both men and women • are still flocking to Oatman, in Mohave county, to prospect for gold, and many of them are finding it. The Oatman gold fields are the most active on the North American continent and the bloom Is not yet off the first rush. Weather-beaten adventurers who got, the word while digging away in faraway parts of the world like Africa are arriving with all the enthusiasm of their first hunt. The old Goldroad mine at Oatman has resumed, and to those who know about gold mining that news carries significance. It means a permanent camp in all likelihood and development akin to that of the gold fields of Nevada. The United Eastern Mining company is cutting a drill station on the. tenth level (1,800 feet) and at the breast of the 1,000-foot crosscut into the hanging wall. The drill will be pushed down an angle 2,000 feet, it being intended to cut the known big vein at a depth of 2,000 or 2,700 feet below the apex. That is one of the biggest operations going on at Oatman, one that may mean millions. j"' . Work on Bla Scalar£. " The Lucky Boy Mining and Milling company has started another hole on Its property which is expected to strike a vein at 600 feet The Lucky Boy Is financed in New York and its campaign is on a big scale. The Booanza Placer company has run across a stiver ledge paying $S0 to the ton and work has been begun to take out the profit. The Frisco mine is pushing its drilling, with pay in hand and more in sight. Other companies, big and little, are scratching and gnawing at the earth in all directions. Not far from Oatman work Is going forward -evenly at Mineral Park in the turquoise mines. among the largest in America, owned by the TUfanys of New York, witicd fim taMftdventturers up into tfct regioti from Headcoss far back «| tno. it u» Ihlstory that at that date several hOSxlred Spaniards and 14,000 Indies lift Hexicc City to find the precioui tteftsure « of the Seven Cities of Cibola, Is the present state of Arisona. and that from 1530 to 1539 Cortes Bent four expeditions up from Mexico, one of which he headed himself. Prlar Marco de Nlza it was who brought back to the Spaniards the wondrous tales of the Cibols villages where "they use vessels of gold and silver, for they have no other metal." But the present prospectors at Oatman are all of the sort of folk who never look back. They live romance instead of reading It; their lives are filled with the adventure of pioneering, unchanged from the days of Corteas except for modern' settings. There's still danger enougfc to make it attractive, what with dynamite and moonshine whisky snd the age-old impulse# th&f follow in the train of sudden wealth. Named After Early Settler^ Oatman was named after Royce Oatman, a settler, who came with his family from Missouri in 1^ and to- «3*enOa! viv^fl aad ww : trodpslfcwsswars East to be eduQ Arizona, where and was a li ever, she ic, for the their tribal lnsi^ds ob lower law. Gold was discovered in Oatman by Unitedstates soldiers to Johnny IfcMK Made the <bj* big Strike. The gold hnnters of Qnlfemia heard of It, and soon <3#eifS Hfarst, at William Randolph Hearst; Ltfi Parsons, Joe Clark and other notatt* figures came over and started a prospecting syndicate. Many a fortune was taken out of the earth in the years that followed. But the real Oatman. boom began with the finding of a fabsWusly rich ledge by the United Eastern la 1914, which shows no signs of ending. Bootblack Is Rich, Says Wife. New York.--Alleging that her husband, Nicholas Leprete, a bootblack, has a net income of $75 a week, owns a handsome houfce and has a bank account besides, Mrs. Katberine Leprete applied* to Justice CaHaghan for $35 a week alimony and $250 counsel fees. The trial of her su»t for separation is pending. Mrs. Leprete charged cruelty. *r; mm* ^-5 are score* Scfentlst ory of Light Arising Through r "*• - Radioactivity r V'v'^r .-•"Vj -- -,f. TELLS OF SOLAR GONOmONS Dead Celestial Bodies May Flame Up yt<|Bin IT They Wander IntoJjlf- , Where Production of - Heat Takes Place. Stockholm.--"The sun can keep on Bhining at the present rate lk>r another 86,000,000,000 years, and if human culture is to perish it will not be for lack of sunshine." This startling and whimsical statement was made in the course of a recent lecture by Dr. Not Used to Their Snowshoes Yet This is what happened when st team at Truckee, Cal.--land of deep snow --struck the first drift While out of practice with their snowshoes; But horses, like humans, require a bit of practice before they can .travel handily on the supwsjboes. ;.T. Svatrte Arrhenius, the Swedish authority on astrophysics, in which he explained certain theories and discoveries regarding solar conditions. "Suppose the sun were a mass of coal," said Doctor Arrhenius, in order to illustrate his problem. "Giving forth heat energy at the present rate, it would then have lasted only 4,000 years, or about half as long as the period of known human history. But since there were living things of some kind on earth at least 1,000,000,000 years ago, and since there has evidently been very little deterioration of the sun during that period of time, any theory of the expenditure of solar energy must provide fqr upward xif 100,- 000,000,000 years." His Theory of Light. > Though it is difficult to Interpret Doetor Arrhenius in popular language, it may be of interest to state his general theory. Heavenly bodies begin as cold nebulous masses of hydrogen, helium and the so-called nebulium. Light then arises through radioactivity. The hydrogen is condensed to form the other two elements, helium and nebulium, and from these develop a whole series of heavier elements, the most abundant of which is iron. • After this stage has been passed, the radioactive elements again resolve themselves into unstable elements and produce helium. Thls"chemlcal process, going on in cycles, accounts for the finish production ot light and heat by the sun. What becomes of dead suns sod stars? Doctor Arrhenius replied to this question fhat celestial bodies which have burned out may flame up again In case they happen to Wander into nebulous regions where condensation and production of Heat again takes place. Thus he eqriained the discoveries of new stars. Doctor Arrhenius paid a tribute to or reasons "YkmBW* iPrtrairtai J«Dy «h*rid be aceoaatsd •heoMhoU A few of m tra**, cat*. It corttts In bott ks--stall draggists and gtNMial starts. CKKSBBROUOM^M£Kgr£CTtnUNO COL •Mta Stract i,*.-' Smt T«iS itauuf/lHgtatm jurist mnJ H GOOD GENU1MC "BUICMMMM TOBACCO He Lost His Cap. A six-yeifr-old, who had Just start? to school, was running frantlcallj., through the halL * ^ "What's the matter, sonnyT aske£ the teacher. He said: "1 can't find my «f|£ "Where did you leave it?" "Oh. In one of these here pantries.1 "That, my dear Brass, was Stepho la Vltte." Tpm*rrow-Alri#kt NR Tablets Stop skk hasdarhes. nBaw bifious attacks, tone MM! .ir , ^ t Gat • Standtad Mid remedy box bearing Mr. Hill At AU Dnttgitf rui riM bMfliL 1 Berlin Is getting accustomed to all kinds of strikes and the latest one to hit the German capital Is that of the actors, The photograph shows pickets U» front of ont of 8^riker8 *1® llon>e tb® n,OBt ttngulshed actors of the country. " >•. •."«# ~ % y.J Woman Deposit* 2.800 * 7 Cents and 634 Nil BOILING HOT ON MOON AT NOON . (TO B£ CONTINUED.) RAT "BARRACK" WAS GOOD TRAP fold idga Used by Irishman Said to Hwe Had the Merit <1 ; * . Effectiveness. . . Old Stepho had not come heme'wh« * V the Creole gfr! reached the house in the swamp. She sat down to think and to listen to Jits footstep. He did not come; and undressing, she lay down, r o u s e d a l o n g t i m e a n d s l e p t . . . A knocking on the door and Stepho'a voice called her: "The sun be wasirigh, ®*t the leeUe gel she sleep," ^ . Soon she came out. and he drew her ts him and ytrowfd bis aandpaper A correspondent of the Brltlslh Medical Journal has unearthed the following ingenious method of dealing with rats, which lie found in Hall's book, 1 •Ireland," published in 1841: | "Mr. Rusael has a "rat barrack' on bis premises. It is about 12 feet long. feet broad and 4 feet high, witn a coping-stone on the top that projects a couple of feet inside the wall. The inside of the wall Is full of holes that Just admit a rat's body, leaving the tall -•fit*!*!»• The whole Is covered with Temperature Drops Below Zero light, Says Professor* old boards. There are two passsges for them to come out Into the yard, where .they are fed and never dls* turbed. The consequence is they never go into hlsgrtore *here tbe bacon la. "Once* every three months he closes the holes that communicate with the ysrd. He uncovers the walls, an.1 the rats all run into the holes. Their talis are hanging out. A man goes In, takes them one by one by the tails and throws them Into a barrel, where they are all destroyed, to leave roots for • fresh supply." The first thing for a man to do ta gain a woman's trust la not to sssrlt It v ' •• Hsat Measurement Involves Use of - Delicate Instrument Which Will %%&*&*** H e a t e f C a n * ! * i J ( :• •' Miles Away. ^|T-. . Cambridge, Mass.--The temperature on the moon probably ranges from well above the boiling point at "noon" to far below xero during the nightk scientific observations indicate, Prof. Donald H. Me-izel of Princeton said In a paper submitted to the American Astronomical society. The paper outlined hew methods ef calculating the temperatures of the planets, emi haslzlug that the tentative results reached b> these methods were not final. "Whatever the amount of water vapor present In our atmosphere," he said, "the Indications are that the surface of the moon If deflnitelv heated. "The values for Venus and Mars are very dependent upon the water vapor and very little can be got from the observations. Both planets have an atmosphere. Mars' being very thin, and that of Venus more like ours. The results Indicate the temperature at the quarter of Mars during the day may be as high as 20 or 25 degrees centigrade, with a large fall during the night. Venus' temperature la higher than o.ur earth's "For the two larger planets, Japlter and Saturn, they radiate some heat of their own. If they were warmed only by the heat of the sun they would be 100 to 180 degrees below aero centigrade.* "The temperatures obtained for these planets are probably falriy accurate and we have for Jupiter obtained something less than 90 below xero centigrade, while Satttf* Ag, tetter by some 20 degrsst* ~ ••fHttsfleld, Mass.--A deposit of 2.800 pennies and 634 nickels, making a '.otal of $59.70 was deposited in the Great Barringt^n Savings bank in that town hy a woman residing In New Marlborn. The coins weighed 18 pounds snd were Hie accumulation ef nine years' savings. This Is the first time In the history of the <bank that a deposit of this 8ixe in small coins has been received. QREEN MOUNTAIN .\v v,- -v.< The heat measurements as made at the Lowell Observatory In Arisona, tnvol\e the use of a delicate Instrument known as the thermocouple, which Is capable of detecting the heat from a lal.lowjpM^te M-Ji.dfrfcuafla Si many miles. cu 'v a-../ * quickly wllim the dlitu-- fag puroxfMi. rs I »>•>!!. KQftHtML Me*. Ml .YSJSS! K ymmrm m4 et erienee ' ; thn»t l«l( (IImmM by -- - -- -- •-- Yonr Hair g3S MUir MWHlhU SM AM m*<«* Itwl Mac tm an it* . •. Ud| • •IOl Oa I'MI'lLAK MWttk B»d now for our free shM( MMIe ct'tlaMI at lateat hlta OSO H CROSUIT WUSiC 0&, Cronln Bide'. Aldrtcb Ave FI'FF/lU) K. *. Uh AiucIh, S,228-Arr* Stock, Htaart Maaalk. Climate J2I acre; down, hataaae IS jraara. rsx. Owaar. ITS Hcaa, OaklaaS, OlML , 'MSS . W. N. U- CHICAGO. NO. 4-1»2i^