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OPIEREAD & * . SYNDICATE. INC LLUSTRATED BY LIVINGSTONE COPYRIGHT, ^ENQEANCEi f-i^rO'PSTS--The time tt'the late '60s or early '70s and the scene a steainboat on the Mississippi river. All the types of the period are present and the floating palace Is distinguished by merriment, dancing and gallantry. There are the customary drinking and gambling also. Virgil Drace, a young northern man, i» on his way south on a mission of revenge. He meets an eccentric character in the person of one Liberty Shuttle, who is constantly tempting the goddess of -chance. m: W • • CHAPTER I--Continued. . --j>-- ! J call me Liberty. CiH m ^ Lib--just Lib; that's enough. But let 1^2" me tell you something. Never In all ».» 4 my life have I ever come as near be- 1^8 a rich man as I was just now. I ' '1- had won--by George, I had so much > money stacked up In front of me that ^ f* a mulatto from the North called me *•' 'marster.' And then a cog slipped. We could have split and had a small for- % -*•* tune apiece." "Blundering fool again?" Dtace ln- !$f&, quired. ^' "Yes, sir, and I was the fool. I pp^ wanted to be a rich man--and came within one of It. Ton know, soroetimes Fortune hesitates as to whether * - she shall crown you or slap you.'* v \ "In your case, she didn't seem to 'J- hesitate long. Lib." "No the hair-tangled hag"! And then do you know what she did just ^ as I was forced to get up from the table la as hot a fever as ever I scorched a man's blood? She smiled at me. Now, I'll swear to that. But it's " all over. A fellow has his little1 day, and then stretches out and lets the undertaker measure him." "Yes, Lib. and Td advise him to - bring along extra tapewhen he comes after you." Shottle attempted to smile, but the fever within him was still so hot that : his effort ended in a grim tightening of the mouth. "That's all right, Virgil, bnt you most remember that you are one out of a million. How a fellow can lose $200 at poker and get up from the table with money still in his pocket is beyond me. However, it means that you haven't got poker in your blood, which of itself is a marvel. But I want to tell you that every man is food for some sort of desperate passion. If It isn't gambling, it may be love. How about that?" "Hasn't caught mo yet," answered . Drace, stoutly, even though the pic- * tuse of the girl in the passageway was 5' *,v the moment floating bright before fd! >,' his mind's eye. "Of course," he add- |TvJ. * ed, "I may marry. Liberty; that sort of thing runs in our family, you know. * " But I don't think the subject very lnr teresting." "I grant jrou. In this we walk shoulder to shoulder. Bat there Is something of vital Interest Just now --I lost" , "Yes, and a very natural thing," Drace agreed. "No, it wasn't natural. It was unnatural that I should lose just at that time. It was an accident. Listen to me for just a minute. Anybody can do the natural and expected thing. A dog or a cat or any other animal always does. It Is doing the thing that nature dldriH Intend that marks the progress of civilization. Now, I have a proposition to make that may seem unnatural. Perhaps no man you ever met before would make It But you never 'met such a man as I am, before. You couldn't look forward and see me. Could you?" "I didn't" Drace cheerfully admitted. "And It would have been hard for jrou- to believe that I exist, which I don't according to the belief of some of my folks. Now, then, what are we gelling at? Another stake? No. I am not going to ask you to risk any more of your money. But this Is. my proposition: You let me have $100; If I win, I'll pay back all I .owe. And If I don't I'll belong to you--your property, body and soul -- but with this understanding, I am not to perform any menial service In public. And It Is further understood and agreed upon that If by any chance I can raise $100. I am to have the prlvl lege of buying my freedom. The first $100, you understand, was a stake and not a loan. Before you decide, weigh the advantages of owning a man. will be your Greek, your enslaved philosopher. be your Eplctetus and turn your mill. We will revive the ethics of .ancient society. Won't that prove that history really does repeat itself?' . "Yes," answered Drace, "but I don't •rare any more whether history repeats herself than I do that a stammering man repeats himself." "Now my dear friend soon to be my master, I hope--I ask you; isn't It something to own a companionable Slave?" "Yes. By the way. do you know Hew Orleans very well?" "What! Does a bloodhound know the scent of a darkey?" *All right. Lib--here's $100. And believe that within an how from 'p*m-Jpn'U be my property." . ,, soon his mind flowed down another channel, far different from a whim or an amusement--his mission In the South, secret, grim and desperate. But life on a river steamboat In that day left little time for brooding for, a few moments after Shottle left to risk his liberty and Drace's hundred, a roustabout thrust his head in at the door and announced that down on the deck there was to be a throwing and tying match. The big fireman of the Leona was about to encounter Vlcksburg Joe for the championship of the River. In an instant Drace was on his feet all his instincts keen and ready to jump. He was something of a boxer and wrestler, but he had not been tuught in this peculiar art of tying an adversary once one has throwp him. And there was that in his mind which made the acquisition of this knowfedge seem to him <Jesirable indeed. As he joined a group of men making their way below, he overheard the Colonel, Miss Lucy's admirer, explaining the gentle pastime. "Tying a man once you have throwp him," the Colonel was saying, "Is the climax of prowess. I saw Cal Blodgett throw and tie Nick Pavin at a barbecue at Mount Zion campground, and I have cause to remember it, for the young lady I went with deserted me for the hero, sir--actually stuck flowers into his hair. Here we are." Two enormous fellows were struggling, while nearby lay a convenient wMffet int. If w. And on His Breast Was Pinned t. Card That Read: "Alfred Drace, With the Compliments of Stepho La Vitte." •M: \ rope. Finally Vlcksbtrrg Joe tied the fireman, and he lay helpless, unable to get up. "I will give you five dollars if you can throw me and tie me that way," called Drace to the victor when the excitement had a little subsided. Joe looked at Drace a moment. The young man looked powerful enough to be dangerous, but--five "dollars was five dollars. He smiled, bowed, spread out the wrinkled rug and took Drace by the hand to lead him forth. To the astonishment of all, Drace threw Master Joe; but be could not tie the champion. 'Show me how It's done," said Virgil, "and I'll give you the money." For a long time, and until the Colonel and \ Shottle were worn out with waiting, the two struggled; and so apt was the student that he succeeded finally in turning the master over and tying him. But it seemed that the burly, champion was too willing, and Drace insisted on another fall. And now, though the struggle was genuine on Joe's part, Drace tied him. Still more, another five promised, and Virgil was willing to quit. "Finest sport I ever had!" tfe said as he turned away to the upper deck again to avoid the questions and felicitations showered upon him. . Drace was musing--not. It must be confessed, upon the serious purposes which had brought him to the South, but upon that girl of the red roses-- when Shottle appeared again. Liberty stood In his presence, not with a droop but straight in the manly resolution to discharge the duties an adverse fate had thrust upon htm. In the belief that It would make him look more like into you," he remarked, said Drace. "But turn your coat. I want my slave, the frtifller of my mill, to appear respectably clad. You may sit down." • , "I thank you, sir." "You' didn't last long.^ "Jfo, master. The tftttgred-hairwl hag kicked me sldewlse, like a cow. In only two pots! But what can you expect of a man that has ah ace-full beaten? How long can a man preserve his freedom at that rate? And a fellow with a spindle chin and a nose no bigger than the average wart beat me with four jacks. Crushed me! And he would have-crushed Julius Caesar just the same. Well, after All, freedom has many responsibilities. As a slave I'll cultivate what virtues I can get hold of, and look toward old age and a cabin on the hillside. And now, as It is natural for every man to hide his degradation, .will, you permit me to call you Vlt-gil In tBft 'presence of other people?" "I thought yon didn't believe in the natural thing! But all right; I grant your request. And now I suppose I'd better give you some pocket-change. It isn't well for even a slave to be broke." The slave's face brightened with hope. rtYou couldn't make it as much as live dollars, could you?" "No, thirty cents." Shottle took the money ahd sat drooping. Drace gave him a cigar, and they smoked for a time in silence. At last Shottle looked toward Drace, ^iis face guiltless of the whimsical humor that had hitherto possessed It "Master," he said, "I don't Want to be Inquisitive, and if I'm prying Into what's ribne of my business, i won't mind your saying so. But I want to be a faithful slave, and I can serve you best If I know what--what at* my master's purposes in life. For example, was there any special reason £or your learning to throw and tie tTOt way? Is there anybody In particular I could help you to put th£ rope on?" Drace made no answer for a moment, but bent a searching eye upon his new servitor. Somehow the man's soul seemed to shine transparent in his face. "Liberty," he said, "did ytra ever hear of a man named Stepho la Vltte?" Liberty nodded. "Yes, I've heard of him; they say he's an outlaw, a smuggler." / "And worse," said Drace. "He's the man Who--Liberty, give me your word, your oath, that you'll keep this a sacred secret!" Liberty gave his word and his oath with a certain quaint dignity, and Dra% went on: "Liberty, before the war my father. Alfred Drace, was manager of a line of steamboats on the Ohio. In his employ was the creole Stepho la Vltte. After a time It came to my father's knowledge that Stepho was not only dishonest In ordinary dealings hut had been guilty of piracy along the Gulf coast. And so my father dismissed Stepho from a position which the Creole's dishonesty had made lucrative and valuable to him. "Just after that," Drace Vent on. "the wat broke out. La Vltte became a guerrilla--one of the men of Quantrell'a stamp, who kept out of the army but who gathered In bands and liven by rapine along the border. I was ottly a little boy. Liberty, when La Vitte's band of guerrillas crossed the Ohio near Cincinnati and raided the little town where we lived. But the horror oif that night still burns like a flame lfi my brain. Liberty." Drace stopped, drew from a breast pocket a card and handed It to Shottie. On it was written In bold black characters: "Stepho la Vltte, with the compllnjenta of Alfred Drace's son Virgil." Shottle read the card, then looked Inquiringly at Drace: "Liberty," the young man explained, those guerrillas under La Vltte burned our little town and killed nearly every grown man In it For word was brought of their coming, and the men--nearly all of them married men or old--who had not gone to the war seized weapons and. went out to defend their houses. "They were massacred almost to a man. . . . And It was not plunder alone thatt led them to choose our little town fbr outrage, Liberty, but a passion for revenge. For next morn ing my father was found hanging to a tree. And on.his breast was pinned a card that read: 'Alfred Drace, with the compliments of Stepho la Vltte." Liberty looked again at the card he held in his hand, then handed It back to Drace "I reckon I understand now. master," he said. "You are huntln' this Stepho to--" « "To hang htm as high as Haman and to pin that card on his breast," declared Drace passionately. "While my mother lived, Liberty, I could do nothing. You know how women are In such matters. But--she died this spring, Liberty, after long years of grieving for the man that d--d outlaw foully murdered. Now I am free to strike for nfy honor and my father's memory--to carry justice to that murderer." .•m Equipped With MO*#* «It than Human Pilot MOST EFFE6DVE III Army Air Servioe Declare* ftsswtts ef ' J|xperi merits Constitute "Most ;>• : ImportantJfcsat-War Washington* D. Gr-Ths pllotless army airplane, equipped with an automatic control deviee-sfcld to be more accurate and dependable than any human pilot, has been developed 4o a point where it has made successful flights of more than ninety miles. It was announced by the army air service. The announcement declared the results produced after a long series ot experiments constituted, the "most important post-war development of the many novel Ideas of new engines of war." Experiments had shown It possible, it was said, to shoot bomb laden planes, without pilots, at targets on or off the ground • with a» founding accuracy. ' Gyroscope Mir Brains, i- •'> "Of the automatic "pilots bef^g perlmented with," the statement continued, "that which has proven most successful to date can be described as using a gyroscope for its brains and bellows or pneumatics^ similar to those used In player pianos, for its muscles. "The ability of a balanced rotating mass, moving on frlctlonless bearings to maintan its position In space, so long as it Is not acted upon by out* side forces, is called a gyroscopic force. This force Is made use of In the stabilizing and directing of the airplane on a tj*ue course. Two separate and distinct gyroscope units are used for this purpose. The function of one Is to direct the lateral and longitudinal variations In flight and the other to maintain direction. "These gyroscopes are electrically driven from a generator geared to the airplane engine and run ^continuously during the flight The sense of direction, whether it be vertical, horizontal, or fore or aft 4s taken from Its respective unit and transmitted by means • "fT & of leakage ports in the pneumatic system, which In turn control relay valves= delivering a suction to the power pneumatics. "These relay valves and tubes controlling this supply^ ,of power correspond to the nerves of the human body. The power pneumatics are directly co&tficted to the control surfaces of tfcs atrfmUM and the engine vacuum la snsta|ri0d by a pump gear driven from the airplane engine." "There," the Statement added, "we have the three fkm&lons of the pilot; the gyroscopes functioning ss the brain, the relay valves and tubes as the nerves, and the power pnewpaUes its the muscles." True In Bumpy Weather. In actual work, the announcement said, hundreds of automatic takeoffis tn t|J »lut< less of fog or adverse weather motions. In the tests just concluded the ised was one of tM&l a span of only- ti rse power motor* ca{ carrying 260 pounds. OLDEST GERMAN NOW A POLE Aged One Hundred and Seventeen, Citizenship l« Transferred to Poland With Upper Silesia. Berlin.--Among other things awarded to Poland In the division of Upper Silesia was Germany's oldest inaiv Valentine Paiuschke of the village KfeUa. In the province of Rybnlk, niftr tfgftsh territory. He has celebrated his one hundred and seventeenth birthday. Two hundred and fifteen of his «hU<^ dren and children's children attended the cfremony. ' To Make Man i 'd" - i, Darfng Emancipators 'Selfe Charter Society for Regulat 0, Ing the Houaeholl RUN IT Oft MASCULINE BASIS Promulgatea Bill of Rights for Husbands and Declares for Dljferti and , Sundry Reforms -- Regulates J Visits of Wife's Relations. \- New* York.--If they never do another thing In their lives, the names of Edward Bonns of 424 East Eighty-fourth street William R. Ferguson of 33 West Seventy-seventh street, and Hugh J. Connelly of the Knickerbocker building are likely to be remembered forever as among the foremost emancipators of the married man. Messrs. Ferguson, Bonns and Connelly have collaborated In the promulgation of a bill of rights for married men that seeks to revolutionize the oldest traditions of household management by making the hushpnd the judge and jury Glider Raynham Making a Record . ' i B. P. Raynham In his Handasyde monoplane is here s&en making a record glide of 1 hour IS minutes, while A. Fokker, the Dutch expert* lilxns £be performance. This was at the meet In England recently. *»ot only In the matter of his own life, but also the undisputed boss as to'the conduct and habits of his wife, even to the determination of the question whether the wife should have her hair 1 fobbed and also how long or short her skirts should be. "Brothers Under the SklnJ" * The three men, heretofore unknown to fame, have organised what they call the "Association of Brothers Under the Skin." The association filed an application with Justice Marsh of the Supreme court for a certificate of Incorporation. The trio, who said their headquarters were at 1587 Third avenue, also filed a list of the association objects, as follows: "To establish, maintain and Operate the household primarily as a masculine' institution. "To protect the husband from the performance of any and all household duties, such as sweeping,' marketing, cooking, washing dishes and nursing the kitchen or furnace fires. "To prevent any purchases by the wife, whether for cash or credit, except after consultation with, the husband and with his consent "To prevent the entrance Into the jbome of mothers-in-law and all relatives on * the wife's side, except upon written permit signed by an officer of the association, which permit shall not be issued for use on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. Bars Delicatessen Meals. "To prevent the delivery into the home of all so-called 'delicatessen meals' and to compel the serving of regular food, home cooked. "To prevent any reference, however much justified, by. the wife to any past faults or deficiencies of the husband. Tp establish the right of the husband to absent himself from the home for a specified number of evenings each month to attend business, lodge and club meetings, and to establish his right fo return therefrom at any reasonable hour--to be fixed solely by himself. "To develop 'cave man* methods for the better discipline of jealous, nagging or unreasonable wives. "To establish the exclnsive right of husband to determine the brevity of the back hair and the length of the wife's skirts. "To compel the wife to share In the troubles as well as the pleasures of married life, and to establish the fact that the wife's place Is at home and that her duty Is to co-operate to make the home happy.* '<• DISCOVERS SECRET OF LONG LIFE Scientist Finds Fountain of youth in White Corpusofa, ht '. * . Dr. Carrel Describes Work of White Blood Corpuscles, Which Experi* ^ . fnents Had Shown, Stimulated , Orowth of New Tissue , New York.--Discovery of the ttsdue* building activities of the white blood corpuscles, believed by scientists to point the way to the Indefinite prolongation of human life, were outlined by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller institute. In an address before the National Academy of Sciences. Doctor Carrel's statements were taken by many prominent scientists in his audience to Indicate that the secret of longevity might be found through the discovery of a means of stimulating the sctivity of these corpuscles. Doctor Carrel described the work of "The barbaric roee maid--the girl who had touched hie heart with a torch." (TO B« CONTINUED.) •frQ'frOfrO'frO'frOfrOfrO'ftOfrO-ftOftO-frOTftOft'Oft^'frOftOa'Oa'O'frO'frOOrOftO'ftl'ftOftya DISSERTATION ON ONE'S TRUST Wf-l Drace sat musing over the strange jisstiu r who had Just left hiaa, but Belief. In Another's Goodness Well explained as the Sympathetic Affection of Oi<r Own. - Trust Is the belief in another's goodness on the Inspiration of your own. The moment you ask for other grounds than this, and withhold your reliance till It can rest on external proof, you cease to trust and stipulate tot knowledge. On the other hand, tf the contiding temper Is so dominant as to blind you to opposing evidence and refuse the correction of positive expeiience. It tgconies a weak credulity. In b«»th extremes the pure soul breaks with tW clear intellect, becoming its slave In • ;'A: •• •; " . *... ... ' m. 'V .. . -iM.h. Z. h>t K . i •kittle one ease, and Its tyrant tn the other. The genuine sphere of trust Is found Iilr neutral instances, where outward proof is absent or In equipoise, and the presumptions of right affection have the undisputed field to them selves. And even then. It Is not a mere arbitrary hy^Mithesls. pleasantly flung across the gap of Ignorance to veil It with a furtaln of painted cloud; not U. mere willingness to live In a happy delusion till the rougli winds of reality shall dissipate It; hut rather, the quick instinct by which the pure heart recognise* purity, and love catches the eye love.--James Martineau. the, leucocytes, or white blood corpuscles, which experiments had shown, he said, protected the body against infection and also stimulated the growth of new tissue and the regeneration of dormant cells. He told of his experiments with animals which hsd Indicated that the white blood corpuscles stimulated the growth of new tissue "by setting free growth activating substances in the tissues." He pointed out that In extreme old age new tiBue grew to heal wouhds and broken bones.. Uideyo Noguchl, a Japanese scientist, who Is also a member of the Rockefeller Institute, announced he had developed an anti-serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which now has a mortality rate of 70 per cent In the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states. He said bis serum would prevent the disease if the victim was Inoculated within four days after he contracted It Human beings, he declared, caught Worms Dined on Savings of Man Afraid of Banks Two years ago Peter Pulloa, railroad section foreman of Toledo, O., became worried over financial conditions of banks and withdrew his life's savings, $1,350, and burled it In an earthen jar. Recently Putloe decided that banks were all right again and dug up the jar. In the bottom of the partly disintegrated ceptacle was a mass of bill fragments, chewed by worms UtttM they were past redemption. YourSkmb So Fragrant amd. Smooth •'Wmm, Joiw the •hWMrijrwittr and pure map for tMr jmsiplcxkxu. 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When the emigration to Mexico began it was asserted that 30,000 Mennonltes would move, some going to South America and Russia as well as Mexico.' Only 1,000 actually ei grated. Land speculators are said to have started the movement, obtaining concessions of worthless lands from one ot the shifting Mexican governments sad then-offartjuE the head men of the Clerk Had Nose for Cash, Postal Inspectors Say * Post office Inspectors. In bringing charges of tampering with the malls against Edmund F. Donnelly, a clerk In the office at Manchester, N. H., said Donnelly was able to smell money In envelopes. They describe bow, with each of two test letters, he tore a small opening In the edge of the envelope, put the silt to his nose, sniffed, and took bills out. RUSS TO BANK IN SWEDEN •ovist Government Attempts to Establish Guaranteed Bank Connections. 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