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wall which curved out and around. ERATE HAA a 3 ---- RA Tv 4 SYNOPSIS Hank Hayes, Aorempn, of the Star Ranch, ~ffers Jim Wall a job. Wall inti. nates he has been forced to leave Wy- ming. "They arrive at the ranch, owned dy an Englishman, Bernie Herrick. Hays and his gang plot to rob Herrick of cattle. They are opposed by a second- Ary gang on the ranch, headed by Heese. man, Jim Wall goes to Grand Junction lo 'meet Herrick's sister, Helen. She de- He finds {Rands his escort while riding. imself falling in' love, but she angers him by her supercilcusness. He kisses. her and she strikes him with a. quirt, Later she asks him not to leave the ranch. A quick getaway becomes imper- ative after the latest drive of cattle: Wall goes ahead with the men. Hays says he will join them later, Hg ire! rives with Helen Herrick, who is to be held as ransom. Heseman is sighted in pursuit, hd - CHAPTER XV.--(Cont'd.) "Fellers, grao your rifles an' take to cover," yelled Smoky. Hays made a dive for his horse and, mounting, leaned over to take up a rope halter round the neck of the horse Miss Herrick was riding, "You lied to me," she cried, angrily, "You acgured me that if I'd come without resistance you'd scon arrange for my freedom. Here we are miles Trom Star Ranch." i Hays paid not the slightest atten- tion to her, but started off, leading her horse. "Jim Wall, are you going to, per- mit this outrage?" "I'm "powerless, Miss Herrick," he replied . hurriedly. "If Heeseman ratches us you'll be worse off." | The leader headed down the slope, dragging Miss Herrick's horse. Jim sould hear the girl's protestations. The other riders made haste to line the pack horses. Smoky brought up the rear, : No doubt about Hays know:ng his way! He rode as one familiar with this red clay and gray gravel canyon. The pack horses kicked up a dust like r red cloud. ; Jim kept unobtrusively working ahead until there were only three pack horses in front of him, and he could see Hays and the girl at intervals. Hays yelled back for his riders to hurry. He pointed to the left wall as -if at any moment their purs .ers might nppear there. . - The next sign from Smoky was a rifle shot. Jim espied something flash rlong the rim, high up and far back, out of range. f "Rustle!" shrilled Smoky. riders. They ducked back. ap seen They'll aim to head us off." Hays bawled back an order and pointed aloft. : Suddenly riders popped into view back or. the point of an intersecting canyon. Hays and Latimer opened fire with their revolvers. The riders began to return- the fire with rifles. Jim saw Latimer knocked off his horse, but he leaped up and mounted again, apparently not badly injured. He raced ahead after Hays, who rode fast, dragging the girl's horse, and at the same time shooting at the riders until he passed around a corner of the canyon. Latimer soon disappeared after him. Then the riders above turn- ed their attenticn to the rest of Hays' outfit. . ' Jim had a quarter of a mile to ride to -pass. the corner ahead to safety. The pack horses were scattered, tear- ing up the canyon. Jim gained on them. Then he began to shoot.. One of his first shots hit a horse, end his seventh connected with a rid- er, who plunged like a crippled rabbit back out of sight. The others of Heeseman's outfit took alarm, dodged here and there to hide, or ran back. Jim emptied the magazine of his rifle just before he passed round into the zone of safety, Jim hauled Bay to a halt, and soon the pack horses galloped by, every pack riding well. Lincoln dashed into sight first, closely folowed by Mac, Happy Jack and Jeff, all with guns smoking. And lastly came Slocum, hatless, blood on his face. | "Jest ~ barked," panted "Load yer guns--an' ride on!" Around the next turn they came upon Hays and his two riders. With another big intersecting canyon on the right, it looked as if their pursuers were held up." Deeper and deéper grew the canyon. Mid-afternoon = found the fugitives entering a less constricted area; where sunlight and open ahead attested to the vicihity of a wider canyon, surely the Dirty Devil. And so it proved. Hays waited for his riders and the pack animals to reach him, "Hank, air you aimin' for thet roost you always give us a hunch about but never produced?" asked Slocum. "I've saved: it up, Smoky, fer jest some such deal as this." Jim, over the back of his horse, watched Miss Herrick, She was tir= ing and her head drooped." ~~ The robbér took up her halter and, straddling his horse, he spurred into the muddy. stream. Hays led into the Jule of the river and then turned 1, » ' 3 eh iia xhiiia An h os he turned into a crack fag when SIR amazed to seo the robber leading up another narrow gorge, down which] ran another swift, narrow stream. "Jim appreciated that a man would have had to know where this entrance was, or ho could never have found it. Tha opening was hidden by a point of ROBBERS" ROOST by ZANE GREY Slocum, .| camp fire, This gash wound like a snake into t e bowels of the colored overhanging | earth. Two long hours later Hays led up out of the boxing canyon, A hum- ocky, lonely, black and gray landscape rolled away on every side to the hori- zo of stars, Then abruptly they be- gan to descend into a black, round hele the dimensions of which were vague. Presently they reached the bottom from which weird, black, bold walls stood up, ragged of rim against thé sky. "Hyar we air," called out Hays. "Throw saddles an' packs. Let the Losses go. No fear of hosses ever leavin' this place." Jim's night-owl eyes discerned Hays lifting Miss Herrick 05 her horse and half carying her off toward the rustl- ing cottonwoods, Jim, makjig pre- tense of leading his horse, fellowed until Hays stopped at the border of what appeared a round grove of cot- tonwood impenetrable to the sight. - "Oh, for God's sake--Ilet go of me!" gasped the girl, and sank down on the grass, : gd "You may as wal get used to thet," replied Hays, in a low voice. "Do ru want anythin' to eat?" "I'll fetch some an' a bed fer you." Little did Hays realize, as he strode back to the horses, that Jim stood there in the gloom, a clutching hand on h': gun and mad lust for blood in his heart. Jim knew he meant to kill Hays. Why not now? But as before, he had the sagacily and the will to resist a terrible craving. With nerveless hands he unpacked his outfit. Then he sat down upon his bed roll, exhausted, and gazed 'around him. The place fascinated. An owl hooted down somewhere in the canyon, and far away a wolf bay- ed bloodthirstily. CHAPTER XVI. Soon a crackle of fire turned Jim to see a growing light and dark forms of men. - Jim waited until he saw Hays go to the camp fire, and then he, too, j.ined the men, - "What kind of a roost is it, Hank? Anythin' like the Dragon Canyon?" "No. -1 seen that place once. It'z a cave high up--forty feet mebbe, from the canyon bed. Only one-out- let to thet burrow, an' thet's by the same way you come, This roost has four, We could never be ketched in a hundred years." "Hank, how'd the lady stand the ride?" ' "She's all'in." . "Gosh, no wonder. Thet was a job fer men." r] , "Reckon I'll put up the little tent fer my lady guest." : 'Hank, how air you goin' to collect thet ransom now?" x "I dunno. Heeseman shore spgiled my plan." er AE Jim watched the robber chief min- ister to the wounded Latimer. While he was bandaging the wound Jim stole away in the darkness toward where the chief had left his prisoner. It was dark as pitch toward the grove of cottonwoods, which were shadowed by the bluff, here very close. The rustling of the leaves .and the tinkle of water guided Jim. At length Jim located gray objects against the black grass. He stole closer. "Where are you, Miss Herrick?" he called in a tense whisper. "It's Jim Wall." He heard a sound made by boots scraping on canvas. Peering sharply he finally located: her sitting upon a half-unrolled bed, and he dropped on one knee. Her eyes appeared un- naturally large and black in her white face. : 3 "Oh, you must be careful. He said he'd shoot any man who came near me," she whispered. "He would--if he could. But he'll rever kill me, Miss Herrick," Jim whispered back. '"I Want to tell you 1.1 get you out of :this some way or other. Keep up youre ourage. Fight him--if--" "I felt you'd save me," she inter- rupted, her soft voice breaking. "Oh, if T had only listened to you! 'But I wasn't afraid. I left both my door and windows open. That's how they got in. I ordered them out. But he made that Sparrow man point a gun at me. He jerked me out of bed-- throwing me on the floor. I was half stunned. Then he ordered me to dress to ride." ; : "Keep your nerve," interposed Jim, with a backward 'glance toward the "But I'll not deceive you. Hank Hays is capable of anything. His men are loyal. Except me. I'm with them, though I don't belong to the outfit. I could kill him any time, but I'd have to fight the rest.' The odds are too great, I'd never save you that way. You must help me play for time--till opport ity rel 0 a8 ° y-- 4 trust you-- I'll Oh, fhatik you" . ou gald he robbed you?'>went on 'Jim, with another look back at camp. Hays was standing erect, : "Yes, I had four thousand pounds hawk man found it--also my jewelry, Another thing which worrfes me now ' ¥ --he made me pack a bundle of ¢lothes ~my toilet articles" . Rs, "Water--only water, I'm choking." other motor transport duties. in American currency: - The Sparrow- "Ahub. But where was Herrick all this while?" "They said they had tied himwup in the living room." i (To be continued.) RE EE I "This is Not the Time" By MacFlecknoe, in The New Stated: man and Nation (London). Dedicated to Critics of Disarmament, Revision, and the World Economic Conference, 4 Whenever proposals are made for re- duction 3 i In thé cost.of preparing for mutual destruction; » curing, By pacts and concessions, a peace more enduring; We are told that while Russia or Ger- many's arming, While the menace of war grows; each day, more alarming, While bitterness, fear, and suspicion increase, It is hardly the time to be talking of peace, When proposals are made for remov- ing the fetters : ; On the free flow of trade and on pay- ments by debtors, : For giving exchanges a greater sta- bility, And helping demand to keep pace with fertility, g We are told that the state of the world is appalling, That shipments diminish are falling, And that while each new quota fresh . chaos produces, 4t is hardly the time to be talking of truces. : and prices When a patient's near death, I suppose -. his prostration Increases the risks of a grave opera-| tion; Yet no one, 'about it When 'tis clear tifat the patient must perish 'without it; : And we shouldn't think much of a doc- tor whose aid to us Stopped short when our symptoms were fully displayed to us, And who told us, in short, "While your sickness endures, It is bardly the time to be talking of cures." BR Princess Alice Heads Ambulance Car Corps Princess Alice (Countess of Ath- lone) has consented to be the presi- dent of the First Aid Nursing Yeo- manry (Ambulance Car. Corps). Ma: jor Gereral Even witb has been .ap- pcinted honorary colonel of the corps. The corps is a voluntary organization of women for motor ambulance or It has placed its services at the disposal of the War Office for service in any national emergency, and has been of- ficially recognized by the Army Coun- cil as a voluntary reserve transport unit. I fancy, would haggle ---- Not one male recruit has entered the postal telegraph service in New- castle (Eng.), for the last fifteen years, while gixty-seven girls have been enrolled jn _the same period, SEED 5 An_ Italian statistician calculates that every minute 200,000 matches are struck throughout the world. Hope of FluCure Seen in New Tests Experiment on Ferrets is Held in Britain to Be a Step in Isolation of the Germ of Drs. Wilson Smith, C, H., Andrews and P. P, Laldlaw in inoculating fer- rets with influenza germs obtained from humans has aroused By sccatet interest among medical en "and scientists' here, as it is held to be a [further 'step toward actually isolating the germ and finding an antidote. It is suggested that as a result, of these doctors' discoveries, in combina- tion with results recently. obtained in the United States, it may well be that mankind will never again "ind {itself the helpless victim of the dread gcourge of an influenza epidemic, "It is almost impossible to overesti mate the importance. of the discovery that the ferrét is susceptible to infec tion with human jnfluenza," The Lan- cet comments, "Taking advantage of an epidemic beginning this year, these doctors tried to infect many different species of animals, using filtered throat washings obtained from human patients as early as possible after the onset of the symptoms, EY "Negative results were obtained un- til they tried infecting ferrets, which, two days after nasal instillation of the filtered throat washings, became ill with fever and nasal catarrh." The Lancet continued. "Transactions from ferret to ferret by means of suspen- sions of nasal mucosa were.successful; fn fact, with one strain twenty-six | serial passages were carried out." Rigid lsolation Obtained Quite early in the work with ferrets it was found the disease passed from ferret to ferret by contact, so the in. vestigation moved . from the labora- tories of the National Institute of Medical Research at Hampstead to the institute's farm laboratories north of London, where a regime of rigid isola. tion was evolved, Continuing its description of the ex: periment, The Lancet says: : human patients were tested on ferrets. Five proved ineffective, ~ The animals that recovered from the infection were found solidly immune from reinfection, and their serum neutralized the virus, "Of many interesting side issues of their work, the comparison these doc- tors were able.to make between their virus and the swine influenza virus of Shope is worthy of special notice. This virus was isolated by Shope from the disease in swine which arose spon- taneously, during the epidemic of in- fluenza. 5 "By itself, Shope's virus produced a mild and transitory illness, but when associated with Bhaemophilug the in- fluenza was indistinguishable from Pfeifter's bacillus. "To complete the picture, swine in- fluenza obtained by Shope's virus was shown to be effective for ferrets; but what is more interesting, quite a con- siderable cross-immunity was found to exist between it'and the recently -iso- lated human (influenza virus. This cross-immunity was not quite com- plete, for although recovery from the swine virus gave solid immunity to human beings, animals that had re- covered from infection with the human London.--The successful experiment "In all, throat washings from -eight-} ~ of ma -- Shaan ORANGE PEKOE BLEND | "Fresh from the Gardens" ~ el 4 m------------ ~ Seventy-five years after setting her flag upon it in the name of Napoleon II, France regains possession of an island, the Igla de. la Pasion, also known as Clipperton Island. Mexico claimed it as a discovery of the Spanish conquistadors, But the docu- ments alleged to rest in the archives of Seville were never adduced. France agserted ownership because of the landing there in 1858 by a Lieuten- ant of the French Navy, Both coun- tries agreed a generation ago to let the sovereign of Italy decide the ownership, : 4 Award wad rendered two 'years ago to France. since which time the Mexican Senate has been debating whether the Constitution did rot for- bid alienation of territory, One.time the. government favored buyin; fit from France. Then last Winter it decided to abide by King Victor's decision, - : Clipperton Island - lies 670 miles southwest of the Mexican port of Little Clipperton Island ~ Long-Disputed Territory Acapulco near the rogte from Pan- ama Canal to Hawalf, It is a coral feet shaped like an O, with a rock 67 feet high on the. southern rim, As the reef measures a mile and a half by two miles and a half, \the water within the circle could serve as a landing place for flying boats, Mexico would expect to renew her claim if France sought to dispose of the island to an unapproved power, In 'the United States the suggestion has been publicily made that we should buy Clipperton from France in part payment of the French debt and then give it back to Mexico on con- dition that no other power shall ever obtain ft Once. the island had considerable deposits: of guano. But Mexican | phosphate companies have exhaust- ed these deposits, When the French gchool cruiser Jeanne d'Arc: formal- ly took over Clipperton for the- gec- ond time recently it found 'the reef empty of fertilizers and people strain were not completely\immune to swine virus. Relationship is Found "These findings, however, indicate clearly enough the close antigenic re- lationship between Shope's virus and the interesting possibility of swine contracting influenza from man, , "Needless to say, all this work has been most. carefully controlled. The presence of. cultivable bacteria in in. fective filtrates has been excluded, and it has been shown that filtered wash: individuals and one suffering from a common cold are incapable of pro ducing disease in the ferret. "Although the doctors have shown great modesty in drawing conclusions from. their work, there seems little doubt tHat they have succeeded in transmitting. influenza to ferrets and it they have pot finally settled the long controversy between the prota- gonists of Pfeiffer's bacillus and those of the filtratable virus, they have of- fered almost conclusive: evidence, that Is a filter-passing virus." < | -------- . Ancient India Had + . * © Gold Coinage Calcutta.--A gold coin 1,700 years old has been found at Mahanad, a ruined village on the Hooghly in South Bengal. The coin is of the reign of the Kushan emperor Hubiska in the second century A.D. i [ Cunard Celebrates Its" Ninety-third Birthday 7 4 a Nex the ed en | Halifax, N.S., this week on York arrival will mark the ninety-third anniversary | in ence i % Bh Voyage of the pioneer Conarder "Britannia' Siri Samuel Cunari from Liverpool to America. Z Halifax and Boston, covering the made the same voyage in Il days the Atlantic. ; Semel Her ards Sir) Cupard the maiden yoyage and on his arrival at Boston 05 vila, aa 4 x ine NAZI NTANNI NN IAN TANNIN ENN INN ENN TAN INIA, NNN INNTISNTINNT LY os Pr Ansa > re V " a The "Britannia" left Liverpool on July 4th, 1840, for route in 14 inavguiatal the first regular steamship service across 7/ANNY [NNT INST 7NNTINT 7 nia 'cruise from: New | commemoratin days an and 4 hours. year was a Passenger on Cc was Cel 20, A aA A presented with a silver cup by the merchants of Boston, the achievement, a Hophy which is still valued at over $50 ig x ' d was born in Halifax in 1781 and even before founding the Cunard Line in Eng by the year 1830 ama i days and |of a fleet of sailing-ships plying between' Nova Scotia 8 hours; in the same year the "Acadia," her. sister up: and : e West Indien, ' the Crimean War and died in In contrast to the 1,100 ) tannia," js' the 45,000-ton liner "Aquitania" of to-day. TE and, had * vas h ssed a huge fortune and was head n 1650 for outstanding service in . ndon in 1864 in his 18th tons of the 1840 "Bri- human influenza. virus, and open up|" ings from the throats of four normal the primary cause of human influenza. Advance Autumn Styles Are Shown Colorful Shades, New Use of Oil-cloth, Small Toques Are Among Ideas ~ Introduced Paris.--Fall Flower colors, oilcloth novelties and bright-hued velvet toque and cape. sets were launched as ad- races. ; Style scouts, to whom the big meets mean 'fashion forecast," noted strik- ing shades of dahlia .and nasturtium in the smart crowds which paraded the paddock between races. One-color costumes were rarely worn, the smart- est combining two hues suchas plum brown and-dahlia pink, petunia and navy blue. Dahlia purple and grey, nasturtium and brown, pale blue and navy: ! . NT In the midst of the zoloyful scene scores of black and white costumes appeared, indicating the prominence of black in the mode. \ Black oilcloth toques worked to give height to the top of the crown were a practical wet weather fashion, They were generally accompanied by black oilcloth capes or scarfs closely stitched in black thread, used as accents to na- fural.colored crash or linen ensembles, New hats were chiefly small tilted velvet toques. with fabric wings, °, X32 'Women Run Business For Benefit of All Chicago. -- Mrs. Geline Macdonald Bowman, of Richmond, Va., president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's: Clubs = of the United States, says she believes women Will do much in helping to solve present economic problems, She expressed herself prior to the opening of the four-day convention of the organization she heads. Woman's gradual entrance into busi- ness, she said, was bringing about a change in the world's "business atti- tude," which ultimately would result in a solution of economic questions. "Men," she sald, "have thought along the same lines for hundreds of bettering themselvs." Buf womer, with their. maternal instinct and their 1ove of iumanity, are interested: in running business for the benefit of all. There will be no excessive profits. or under- paid employees when they finally have their proper 'place in business." vance autunin style hints here at the |- years and have béen interested onlyin WBritdin Warts More " Rockefeller, at Drops Golf ( Usual Nine Holes Not on ~ Day's Schedule -- Motors Through Heavily Guarded Estate Tarrytown, N.Y.--John D, Rocke feller celebrated his ninety-fourtk birthday on July 8 at his Pocantice Hills "estate with his son John D, J Rockefeller Jr,, hi§ grandchildren and 4 his two greatgrandchildren. REL It was the quietest birthday he has spent for several years, although if family that Mr, Rockefeller wag in excellent health, LARA It has been his custom to play nine = holes on his anniversary, ! not leave the estate, but in other years he frequently has taken long automobil@ rides through' Westches. ter County... He did take an auto. mobile ride of an hour's duration in the afternoon, however, -without leaving Pocantico 'Hills, whose ap: proaches . were patrolled by camera men eager for 'a photograph of the philanthropist, SERS aie 'Estate Is a Long One Pocantico Hills is so large--3,000 acres--and so laid out that its owner can drive for miles without leaving ft. -Main traveled roads pass' through it at some places, but Mr Rockefeller can pass under them through tunnels or over "them OB bridges, and this he did on bis birth. day. el : The day was passed:in the quiet routine which marks every day in Mr, Rockefeller's life, Except fot' the presence of all the members of the family who are in_or near New York and the birthday inner with - its candle-decarated Dirtiey cake, there was little to mark it, .. = ~The estate 1s valued at $160,000,00 and is Westchaster County's secon largest industry, Five hundred men are employed on it, and at times ad many as 1,400 have been on the pay: roll, Mr. Rockefeller is understood to have spent $1,000,000 on improve mentg 'In the last- year to give en: to nelghborhood men, Tha - ploymen® extent Sad value of the estate Sieg : Ir. Rockefeller the g make N bin taxpayer in Westchester, bill is said to be about $186,000. Traits of the Japanese "Character i The love of nature is one of the essentially - Japanese qualities which muke the lives of the race so happy. The Japanese have a passionate ad- miration for their own country, which they declare to be the most beautiful ¢ in the world, and compare it to vast garden designed by the gods. The seenery of Japan is « exquisite, ; and the Japanese contemplate it with : emotion. The vivid sensitiveness wit v hich they appreciate the charm of their: landscapes; and the originality of both animate and inanimate ob- jects, is admirably expressed in their paintings and engravings. The work of Japanese painters and engraver is delicate and powerful, and they cx- cel in the rewrcduction of nature, They are also -vonderfully successful 'in. expressing in their compositions the most varied and fleeting aspect of their srroindings, +... _ : In everyday life the Japahese ex: hibits a certain gaiety, which does not make him less serious in graver roo ments. Such is the impression fre: quently ganed by visitors to the coun: try. Even nowadays the only excep tion to that cule is to be observad among the proleti.riat of -the towns, who are subjected to the iron sway of modern ind.stry. : What is the origin of this people's almost universal good humor? The secret happiness "which the 'outward gaiety of the Japanese denotes seems to be a combination of several simple - cualities--courtesy, patriotism, love of nature and a sense of humor--F., Chalinie, in "The" Soul _of Japan." (London: George Routledge & Song Lta)) +. - ETE Timber from Canada Jondon, = Purchases: of Canadian lumbér by the United Kingdom, which averaged 5,000 stan'ards per month ' during January, February and March of this year, soared to 11,000 stand. ards during the month. of May, -Tha explanation given here ig that a large number of municipal and other publi¢ cof'porations are now sj ecifying Cana . dian timber in their requirements, Ex perts in the trade believe that the Do: minion_ has éstablished a permanent market here, A feature of the recent increasef demand is the popularity of Canadiaj | timber for paving blocks. Twelve Lon '|'don boroughs ar- specifying Canadiay 'pine in current ¢ontracts and the Lon don County Council is ordering 230,004 British Cofumbian blocks during the | present year, 3 PA Father: (at 1 a.m.)--"Is that youn) man asleep, Marie?' Daughter -- "Hush, father! - He's jist asked my | to marry him"and make him the hay plest man in the world." "Just asi thought, Wake him up." 5 & . Five bables--three boys and tw gris--all alive and healthy, were bor at one birth in Foggia, Italy, to An tonia Coppula, the wily of a laborer, 1 was reported by persons close to the | Mr, Rockefeller did not: glay golf. Ho dd