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you RGR NR SN ERE nm ~ Sr " en - {3 X 3 oN TA the + lows two of Hays' men are killed. Hays - deft z I SYNOPSIS, Jim Wall, who admits he has been forced to leave Wyoming, joins a gang of cattle rustlers and -desperadoes on the Star Ranch, run by Bernie Herrick, an Englishman, who has two gangs of rustlers in his employ--one led by Hank Hays and the other one by Heeéseman. Jim Joiug the Hays gang. Matters are complicated when 'Helen Herrick, the ewner's sister, comes to the ranch. Jim fan. 'n love with her. Hays' desper- adoes » «nl Herrick's cattle and sell them. Hays, orders them to go to a certain canyon where he will meet them. When he arrives he is accompanied by Helen," whom he has made captive for tansqm. Heeseman's riders are seen ap- proadning and Hays' desperadoes pre- ré to fight, Helen is taken to a cave. fm jo'ns in the preparations to defend "roost." In the fighting that fol- Is in bad ,with the rest of his outfit: CHAPTER XXIV. The rifles cracked in unison, "Jim's mark sprang convulsively up, and plunged down to roll and weave out of signt. The man Smoky had shot at sank flat and lay still. Next mo- ment a volley banged from the cliff and a storm of bullets swept hissing end spanging uncomfortably close, Jim slid and leaped to the floor of the cave below. Smoky, by lying down, lowered the rifles to him, and then canie scrambling after, Hays had slouched back to them, followed by Happy. "Heeseman ain't havin' a walk- over," said Smoky. "If we can kill two or three more, an' particularly ROBBERS' ROOST by ZANE GREY Mae, furiously, after another leaden missile had chased him around the cave, ry He laboriously climbed out of sight, and presently Jim heard him shooting. Other shots pattered out from the cliff. Jim heard a scuffle above, then the clang of metal on stone, dropped his rifle. A sodden crash did not surprise him. Mac had fallen back into the hole to lodge upon the shelf. His shaggy head hove in sight over the edge. It dripped blood. . Then he slid heavily off the bottom of the notch. An instant later, before either Jim or Smoky could comment on this fur- ther diminution of their outfit, another spanging, zippirg, spatting ounce of lead entered the cave, "Jim, the only safe place from thet is hyar, huggin' this corner," declared Smoky. "An' there ain't room enough fer the two of us." "Keep it, Smoky. I'm not going to get hit, This is my day. I feel some- thing in my bones, but it's not death." "Huh. ...TI feel somethin' too--clear to my marrow--an' it's sickish an' cold....Jim, I'll sneak out an' crawl back of them. Thet's my idee. I don't have wrong idees at this stage of a fight." That was the last he spole to Jim. Muttering to himself he laid a huge roll of bills under the belt Hays had 1 Mac had |- three of them, scattered. A fourth appeared from behind a bank, and he was crippled. He waved frantically to the comrades who had left him to fare for himself, They were headed for the cave where the horses still] slood. And their precipitate flight at- tested to the end of that battle and as surely to the last of Heesempap's outfit. (To be. continued.) The Humble Carrot Has a Past Long before the Christian era the merits. of the carrot as a medicinal plant were recognized. As the inhabi- tants of the old world gave up nomad life and settled down to rear plants, the carrot was one-of the first to come under cultivation. Theophrastus, the Greek philosopher, in 820 B.C., men- tions a plant which he calls Stafylines, but it is: not certain whether he nieant carrot, parsnip, or some other related Jani, Whether the purple carrot was own still earlier it is impossible to say, but Theophrastus is the first author, of whom there is record, to use the name Stafylines. The first author who distinguished carrots from parsnips was the Greek medical 'writer and surgeon, Dioscor- ides, who on his many travels during the continuous wars of his time, had the opportunity of seeing and deserib- ing a large number of medicinal plants, He uses the name Stafylines for the carrot and elafobosken for the Heeseman, we'll have thet outfit licked!" "Yes. But how, Smoky? We're stuck here. , risks now." "The thing Is we can't let night overtake us in hyar." ) "Why not? It's as safe for us as for them." - "Safe nothin'. We can't make no Light. 'This green brush wouldn't . burn. An' Heeseman has us located. He'd be slick enough to station men after dark. Behind the cerf(re an' the rocks. In thet wash, an' shore above us watchin' our hole. Then when day- light come we'd be snuffed out. . No, if we don't end it before dark we phore gotta sneak out of hyar after And they'll take less © dark." Hays swaggered closer, "Thet's a good idee, Smoky." "You wanta talk, huh?" "Course I do. I'm boss hyar, an' what I say: 1 "Hey, fellers, the boss wants talk," interrupted Slocum, fiercely. "You, -- Happy an' Mac, talk to the skunk who used to be our boss. An' you, Jeff, air you able to talk to Hays?" The dying man raised a haggard, 'relentless face, which needed no speech to express his hate for the fallen chief. k "Hays, when I--meet you in hell-- I'll stamp your cheatin'--brains out!" whispered Bridges, in a terrible effort to expend all his last strength and passion in one denunciation. Then he sank back, his head fell on his breast, and he died. : "Gone! Thet makes three of us," ejaculated Mac, twisting restless bands round his rifle. : "Jack, gimme Jeff's gun an' belt," Hays said, and receiving them he buckled them over .is own. Next he opened his pack to take out a'box of rifle shellz, which he broke open to drop .ke contents in his coat pocket on the left cide. - After that he opened his shirt to strip off a broad, black money belt. This was what had made him bulge so and gave the impression of stoufness, when in fact he was Jcan. He hung this belt over a pro- jecting point.of wall. "In case I don't git back," he added. "An' there's a bundle of chicken-feed change in my pack." 'There was sometning gloomy and splendid about him then, Fear of God, or man, or death was not in him, Rifle in hand he crept to the corner on the left and boldly exposed himself, drawing a volley of shots from two quarters. Then he disappeared. "What's Hays' idea?" asked Jim, "He must know a way to sneak around on them." A metallic, spanging sound accom- panied rather than followed by a shot, then a sodden thud right at hand thoked further speech, Happy Jack had been cut short in one of his low whistles. He swayed a second up- HEY {hen uttering an awful groan, ell. Wiis SAE go Smoky leaped to him, bent over. "Dead! Hit in the temple. Where'd thet bullet come from?" TT -- "It glanced from a rock. I know the sound." i Spoww! The same sound--another shot, and another heavy lead, deflected ite course, struck the stone above im's head. "Thet rock thar," shouted Smoky, pointing. "See the whité" bullet mark «...Jim, some slick, sharpshooter has Bggered one on us' : Twenty feet out, a little to the left of the centre of the cave, lay a huge block of granite with a slanting side acing west. This side inclined slight ly toward the cave. On its rusty sur- ' showed two white spots close to- [ES F Another spang and shot followed, with a banging of another heavy bul- lef from wall to wall, ""Acome on, Jim, it ain't healthy hyar no more," said Smoky, hugging the wall and working to the extreme hand corner. : "Pm gobY' op in thet hole," declared Aes RA posited--on--the--little--shelf--of-rock Then he vanished. : : Scarcely had he gotten out of sight when Jim thought of the field glaas. Smoky should have taken it. Jim risked going back to his pack to secure it, and Lad the fun of dodging another bullet. : : Jim returned to his safest cover and waited. Sitting against the wall he used the glass to try to locate Smoky across the oval. Manwhile the sharp- shooter kept firing regularly. Next he attempted to locate this dil- ligent member of Heeseman's outfit. This man evidently shot from béhind the rim, low down, and not even the tip of his rifle could be seen. Jim had a grim feeling that.this fighter would not much longer be so comfortable. Before this, Smoky must have passed the danger zone below, What had become of Hays? Waiting alone amongst these deflecting bullets wore on Jim's mood. He decided to peep out of the hole again. To this, end he climbed to the shelf, rifle in hand and the glass slung around his neck. ; He could command every point with the aid of the field glass, without ex- posing his head. The sharpshooters had eased up a bit on wasting ammunition. Jim sought for the owl-shaped piece of rim rock and got it in the centre of the circle. An instant later a far-off shot thrilled Jim. That might be Smoky. Suddenly a dark form staggered up, flinging arms aloft, silhouetted black against the sky. That must be the sharpshooter. Smoky had reached him. Headlong he pitched off the cliff, to plunge sheer into the wash below. Smoky had at least carried out his' idea. : The rattle of rifles fell off, but still | what was left was not the scattering, desultory kind,. It meant a lessening of man power. One at least for every two shots of Smoky Slocum's! And those on the cliff grew louder, closer. Heeseman's gang, what was left, were backing from that fire out of the west. Suddenly Jim espied Hays boldly] mounting the slope. But it appeared that he had mot been discovered yet.|. Those on top were facing the unseen peril to the west. ; Jim marveled at the purpose of the robber chief. Still another shot from Smoky--the last! But Hays had reached high enough to sée over, Lev- eling the rifle he took deliberate aim. Then he fired. "Heeseman!" hissed Jim, as sure as if he himself had held that gun, ° Hays, working the lever of his rifle, bounded back and aside. Shots boom- ed. One knocked him to his knees, but he lunged up to fire again. Again he was hit, or the rifle was, for it broke from his hands. Drawing his two re- volvers he leveled them, and as he fired one, then the other, he backed against the last broken section of the wall. Jim saw the red dust spatter from the rock aboVe, The shots thinned out and ceased. Hays was turning to the left, his re- maining gun lowered, He was aiming down. the slope on the other side. He fired again--then no more, Those who were left of Heeseman's outfit had taken flight, Hays watched them, strode to the side of the big rock, and kept on watching them. : 'Soon he turned back and, sheathing one gun, took to reloading the other. It was at this moment that Jim'xe-| linquished the field glass to take up his rifle. With naked eyes through the aperture in the brush he could see Hays finish loading his gun. This moment, to Jim's avid mind, was the one in which to kill the rob- ber, He drew a bead on Hays' breast.] But he could not press the trigger. Lowering the hammer, Jim watched Haps stride vp among the rocks tol disappear. : Jim leaped up out of the hole to have a better look. Far beyond the ved ridge he discerned men running | along the white wash, "There wére parsnip. In the original Greek, the word -Stafylines means resembl grape, and so remarkable is the des- cription given by Dioscorides that there can be no doubt the violet or purple carrot is being referred to. While the white-fleshed carrot seems to be the only type apart from the purple that was known in the early ages, the yellow carrot seems to have been the most common from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth century. The red carrot is. mentioned for the first time in 1471 by Petrus de Crescentis, and latter in 1692 in an English publica- tion by J. Parkinson, a red variety is especially recommended by the author. Mention is also made of long and short types of carrots and light and deep colored yellow varieties. A hun- dred years later, in 1740, a German both with regard to color, shape and time of maturity, It is estimated that the varieties Champion, Rhinsk, Sur- rey and James were put on the market some time between 1840 and 1860. The violet or purple carrot, which maintained its existence from the earlier ages, throughout the Middle Ages and up to the beginning of the 19th century, has entirely disappeared after more than 2,000 years of culti- vation of which we are cognizant. The present day cultivated types of carrots all appear to have descended from a variety which can be found growing wild in most districts of Europe and the Western parts of Asia. _---- Large acreages of land in Eastern Canada are in need cf lime and can be made to produce more profitably writer refers to different varieties |- Romant.: Story Of "Lost Girl" Wedding bells will soon provide a Lappy ending to the strange wander: ings of a beautiful 22-year-old girl. She is to marry the lover for whom she left her parents in Southend, Eng- land, who had only reeently found her after 20 years. 3 , This is the roma tic story of Theo- dora: Avgurios, whb has just been offi cially betrothed before a priest in Belgrade. > A FOUNDLING, Theodora wes a foundling living with her adopted father in Belgrade, and knowing nothing of her par- entage. \ daughter by George Argurios, a Greek furrier naturalized as a British sub- ject, who said that the was lost in Belgrade 20" years ago in the turmoil of the first Balkan war, Despite the protests of her adopted father Theodora could not resist her desire to see her mother, She came to England. She met her mother, Mr. Argurios' Welsh wife, at Southend, but found that she could not understand a word of what her brothers and sisters said to her. Nevertheless, she: was happy with her family, and soon learned to speak Erglish, : "CALL OF LOVE. Now, after eight months, she is back in Belgrade. - "I love my mother," she says. "I love England. I am sad to leave the family I have only just found. But I love Belgrade also. "I had to come because--more than everything else--I love my Slavko." - Slavko Gorgitc),, for whom Theo- dora has left her parents and home; is- a 26-year-old Yugoslav, © When 'Theodora so "unexpectedly left for England he was broken-hearted. Letters followed, however. The love which had existed unavowed for three years 'was. disclosed and a wedding was srranged. ' Mr, 'Argurios went with Theodora to Belgrade, and was present at the official betrothal. He'will alzo be at the" <redding. : And Theodora has promised her mother that their first holiday after the marriage shall be spent at South- end. a et me A mn re et Gems from Life's Scrap Punctuality "Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dis- honesty."--Horace Mann, = "Regularity is unity} unity is God- like""--Richter. "In the'figurative transmission from the divine thought to the human, dili- gence, promptness, and perseverance are likened to 'the cattle upon a thou- sand hills'.'--Mary Baker Eddy. "Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes."--Bulmer Lytton, "If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality. I have no right to throw away your-time, it I do my own."--Cecil. "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it hag made by its use. a man of me."--Lord Nelson, greeted by Jack Dempsey. Two Champions Meet - : Primo Carnera arrived In Los Angeles the other day and was He is here to make his film debut in 8 picture now in production at Hollywood, : " Last year. she was claimed as his London Press "The Queen and Mr, Gladstone, 1845: 1879," Letters edited with a comment- ary by Philip Guedalla, receives ex- tended notice in the London press. One reviewer says: "It 8 an-:astonishing drama that Is unfolded in this correspondence be- tween the middle-aged Queen Victoria and the middle-aged Gladstone. The most "human and engrossing part of the correspondence Is that in which Gladstone tries to persuade the Queen to do ber duty as a queen and she with a superabundance of underlined words explains that she is too broken and ill 'J to' do her duty as a Queen. "It was probably because of Glad- stone's well-meaning efforts that he ceased to be one of the Queen's most cherished advisers and became her pet aversion, She obviously never felt the same towards him again after his dogged attempts to coax her out of her retirement to open the newly-built Blackfriars: Bridge. Letters to Gladstone "Her withdrawal from the public gaze after the death of Prince 'Albert was something with. which everyone could sympathize. Her letter about 'her dead husband, written to Gladstone in 1862, is the sincere utterance of u 'broken heart: "!'The Queen struggles and works-- and will devote herself !3 ds what her precious husband wished--and desired and time to do her duty to the last vant and kind friends must not deceive themselves by thinking that her efforts wlll 'carry her on;--for the constant longing--and pining, the void and suf- tering-do never leave her day or night --accompanied by the great amount of work and responsibility which weighs 'alone 'upon her {is telling very visibly upon her health and strength; she gets much weaker--her health worse and her nerves terribly shattered. "'The Queen is much surprised: at being again teazed and tormented "Letters of Queen Victoria Publishes Correspondence Between Wor : man Ruler and Gladstone hour of her life--but her faithful Ser-}- ---- about this Bridge, having three weeks ago--nearly--been asked by Mr, Glad- stone since the Queen could not open the Bridge and Viaduct the fatigue of the whole thing being much too great, and a day commencing in the heat be- ing Impossible could the Queen-on re- turning from Balmoral in the autumn drive to the Bridge? She replied that she could not promise but that it she could she would--but that it could not be 'before the 6th of Nov:---and cer- tainly not in Oct: And quite a short ceremony without any luncheon any- where. "'Pray make this very positive.' ! Another Extract Aga when--she-was asked-te open pin Prince of Wales ' "Favors Checis A ' 'British Courses , Eng, -- The Prince © London | Wales, ordinarily one of the conservative of dressers either on golf 'course or elsewhere, has broken away from his old custom, and now favors sporting checks of Ey and pronounced designs when playing his favorite game, aa Giant The Prince's' new 'golfing. kit' has meant nearly a half million dollars in new business to London's happy kab- erdashers, Most men golfers are copying the sartorial vogue set up by the Prince. where, many of them from this con tinent. SAR : In his latest : golf matches, both tgainst Lady Astor and in the final of the parliamentary golf handicap, the Prince wore vividly checked "plus four" breeches and a brightly cheek. e shirt to match, Had it been soy. body but|the Prince dared to invade the old links so attired, there would have been groans and moans from the old-fashioned "hickory-swingers." But the new costume has the royal cache: and it stands. The links are 4!" the brighter in consequence, Old-timers who "used to putter a ound the corse in an old 'pair of flannel trousers and a tweed coal are now conspicuous and gradually 'they are falling for the new outfits. Apart from the golf _ links, sthe Parliament, she wrote: . pd "After much repeated severe suf- fering which has weakened and shaken her very much and which obliges her to take the very greatest care when she goes out, like sitting backwards when she drives and covering her face and hands with endless wraps--besides avoiding excitement - and fatigue--it would be madness to expose herself to the fatigue of a journey: up in this severe weather and to the great agita- tion and excitement of going to open Parliament, and Above all to the total- ly unavoidable expoSure to cold drafts and heat!' ; : 'She was averse to the idea of wo- men entering the medical profession '(and in this Gladstone agreed). ? " 'The Queen is glad that the Gov- ernment will support Br. Bouverie's motion--but she 'fcels that the danger as regards the subject she attended fo be so very-serlous that she is deter- mined for the salvation. of the young women of this country--and their res- cue from immorality to do everything she can to put a check to it.--She wishes Mr. Gladstone would send for and see Sir William Jenner, who can tell him what an awful idea this is--of allowing young girls and young men to enter the dissecting room together'." csmm--m---- The Neighbor - Time was when I was very small, And {ll "in bed I lay, A kindly neighbor used to call Who lived across the way. Into my room, it secmed to me, She tripped on. fairy feet entel, And whispered, oh so. cheerlly: "Here's something good to eat." So strangely is the mind impressed, That ncighbor seemed to me Of .all good folks the very Lest That I should ever see, For cookies from her pantry shelf, A dish of raspberry jam Or broth which she had made herself All 'grateful still I am, 'Why should I think of 'her today? Well that I scarcely know, But one like her went 'cross. .the way With tray in hand, and so 1 watched her hasten to a door And guessed perhaps that she Was taking jam and cookies for Some child resembling me," Beneath the linen, spotless white, 1 knew was something awect To tempt a sick child's appetite. And driving down the strect Thought I in life there's much that's good * Despite the wrong man tells; In every little neighborhood Some kindly woman dwells, --Barrie 'Examiner. : EIRPEREAY WE To Straight-Line Clothes Shown in Paris Straight-line clothes which here- totore have received scant notice, have made their debut in Paris in a varied winter style picture when Lanvin displayed a new, clean-cut straight 6ilhouette, ( The most outstanding models were wool ensembles with three-quarter length coats hanging loose. in the béck and flaring out slightly from e figure, y They were collared to proaden the shoulder line and often were hand: ed down the front with furs such as beaver, astrakhan and Indlan lamb. The chief colors were light green, black, rolled up on one side and down on forehead. Horse-riding 18 so much in favour in Gt. Britain that there are sald to be 1500 schools now teaching it. bright green, gray, navy blué and|s Hats were small and featured bigh-| 8 crowned felt with marrow brims|s the other, and the fabric toques ie | 0 {ng to a high point In the back. They were worn pulled well over the, i "Wouldn't you llke to have deo gift of speech llke some of dese orators?" "Say, Peje, | allus wisht 1 wuz ono of dem after-dinners' speakers. te, hh» ophhL LbLbh, = Question of Custody of Child in Divorce In a recent case' in Edmonton, Al berta, the judge, dealing in general fashion with a question of paramount importance to" women--the custody of the child in a' divorce case, said: "All orders dealing with custody are subject to change'at any time 'whether expressly made so or not, if the = circumstances . or conditions have changed, The fact that a mother has been found guilty of adul. tery hag in many cases in our own courts not been treated necessarily as a bar to her being given custody, and in no case that T can recall have J, as a judge, refused a guilty wife access to her children, In all cases the paramount principle which the court must act upon is the welfare of the child" - Saunt Prince's closely followed. It is the Prince who keeps the derby hat in popularity. - One of the reasons the Prince is 80 cause it is easy to raise in answer to | the salutes he receives wherever he goes. "is The fashion for suede shoes was ~ set by him, Since he first appeared in a blue scarf with white spots hun- dreds of thousands of these have been exported from London and Manches- ter to all parts of the world, Before' then no men's outfitter could sell a dozen in a year. 3 The Raglan coat was made a good. seller - through its adoption by the Prince, and the Scottish 'woollen in- dustry has been stimulated in-conse=- quence. . : Egypt to Dam Government Approves Plan for Huge Reservoir 2,000 'Miles in the=Interior Cairo, Egypt.--It may be stated authoritatively that the government of Egypt has decided upon the dam-~ ming of Lake Albert in Central Africa to increase the supply of stored water for the future irrigation of Egypt. The dam will have the effect of turning the lake into a vast reservoir which will hold 50,000,000,000 cubic meters of water available for irriga- tion, : : ; ~The water thus stored in Lake Al+ bert must flow more than 2,000 miles to Egypt and be conducted either through or around the almost 400 miles 'of vast swamps through which the White Nile flows after entéring the Sudan plains. The work so far performed has con: sisted of a scientific study of the hy- drology of the Nile. - It 'began with the introductions of current meters by Sir Henry Lyons in 1902, and it is far from being completed. But it has pro- gressed sufficiently to enable a state- ment- of the Lake Albert irrigation project to be made. : In 1923 the Ministry of Public Works of Egypt sent a mission up the Nile to the great lakes 'in Central Africa to draw up a program for in- vestigations in. connection with pos- sible irrigation projects in this region. Ths was followed by two missions to the lake plateau in 1924 and 1926, and to the Bahr el Ghazel (Gazelle River) in 1930 and 1931, In the 1930 expedi- tion, the White Nile and its tributar- jes were seen from the air and' the value of aerial reconnaissance in the study of hydrology was established. During recent years the irrigation service. of Egypt has mapped a good deal of cointry to the east of the Bahr el Zeraf (Giraffe River) and from the Bahr el Gebel (Mountain River) via the Vevano River to the Pibor River in connection with pro- jects to train the Nile around the swamp region and thus prevent the loss of water to be released from Lake Albert. It may take from twenty-five to fifty years to complete. EA J a Tea Restriction In April a restriction was placed on tea exports: from Ceylon, India, 'and Java, in order to raise prices to graw- ers, who, for almost four years, had been suffering devastating losses, Higher prices have resulted, not: only af the gardens, but algo here on our \'own markets, and many package teas already cost more than thoy did six months ago. Some of the 'fiver quality brands are as yet unchanged, how- | ever, and are, consequently,' even: bet- | ter value than at last April. "|" It tasestimated that of G: Britain's Vtotal populition of "44.500,00F persons, 'quite half are smokers Gay Golfing Kits Brighten up Orders are pouring in from every faithful to the little 'ard 'at is 'be- = a. ie dressing example 18 stik Ew 5 » od re © African Lake. = ER art i