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stt half r activities youn» girl, accompanied by a negro woman and a amall child, dr{n past in a chaise, and she waves to him. He sees two sinister looking men watch the girl, exchange"mysterious signals, then follow hHer. . He recognies in the barber a fellow American. YVilsks Wast Imnauwn as 4o the aueer liitle South Americas town of Porto Verde, in west centra‘ Brail, a townm fringed by dark, forâ€" bidding f’ungle, comes an clderly Amâ€" erican, Lincoin Nunally" A beautifol bhing behind ifu by fever or other tropical . bad wasted until it was a t its former seif, IHe was clad ny white linens but in strange t to his tropical garments was NOW BEGIN THE STORY THIS HAS HAPPENED und his thin emaciated unusually high collar. He CHAPTER bbed the t by mandi~g ders, bu *# in the barber a fellow ilaka West, known as young lady Nun chaise, own the ‘Qm‘ pmert Co. and have sent! at the root of a mystery dy cost several lives and sir own. Vilak fiwork-; ber :o conceal his rea!l to the geniai saiu 1, but taking a new basket in his hand isappeared round : IH a man orlgâ€" height and whose bodv. wA berea,. aAdays, 1s a purély economiic one. Elise He‘s the sent for me because it‘s getting very i. Doesn‘t difficult«to hire labor at the fazend*: this place / Incidentally, it‘s toward Prentiss‘ idividuals, | place we‘re heading. Elise‘s men often resting to | use this as a short cut to town. .Now .'don't start talking again," he flashed until the as the other‘s lips parted. "Save your them, but breath, wo must be running," newcomer| \ They sped forward again. For a man origâ€"| short distance the high.way skirted the ight and antiquated railroad paralleling the ose body,|stream. A short distance farther on r tropical| was a siding on which stood a few it was a|battred freight cars. (Here they left| Ben Lucien Burman pa ‘the road and*took a narrow lane which |led up the higher ground above the stream. Their path grew constantly wilder and more dismal. Great vines hung down from a dark canopy of 'fn}iz-gn overhead and like huge black serpents knotted themselves strangâ€" , singly about the somber trees; swollen brooks murmured in doleful, incessanti chorus as they ended in the myriad tiny lakes and ponds which spark]ed.‘ { everywhere. » The" travelers rounded a tangled | bend, then saw a crowd clustered about ‘a lofty parasol pine a hundred yards ‘ ahead, a motley group made up of negro laborers in muddy but brilliant ip:\ckets or torn overalls, a few broech-! clouted. Indians wearing huge straw ih:tts, and two or three gaping children staring furtively from behind ‘ the trees, Above them all towered one of the huge blue and"red uniformed neâ€" groes who form so large a part of the ! _ "Ask him, men ‘cher, ask him*‘. . . several have. .. . And been politely knocked down for their pains. Can .you run again for a little® We ought ‘to hurry." + +% L "In .a..,. er .‘, .minute." The old man. breathed heavily. "Horrible looking . . . horrible, ~ What is he ‘doing . . er . .here. . here?" _ > 4. i "That‘s one of the things I‘m interâ€" ested in finding out. The natives beâ€" lieve he‘s the center of,jall the apparâ€" ently diabolical thing which have been happening. Elise has tried to talk to him and failed miserably. She took an interest in him naturally, because he‘s a fellowâ€"countryman, but particuâ€" larly because there‘d been a lot of bad blood between his father and her own, | when old Prentiss lived on his Qunda' near here, and she hasn‘t any use for sily family fouds." X Nunnally glanced at him qauizzicallv C bike fram forehead .~ . Ask him, men saw a crow id man had found the matches ning of hts coat. *"What‘s the . .. matter with him? How retâ€"that .â€"... er .‘. .â€"mark on y glanced at him quizzically. k very highly of your ... er " he murmured. ~"Are you . . in love with her?" it, innocent as a babe. Woâ€" criminologist are an unniftiâ€" ance. They arouse emotions p the machinery. The really tective should beborn like , without father or mother. he‘d have no emotional traâ€" affect his judgment. My re, as most things are now-' e stut c 0 T.0 J (Bye Professor A..C. SEWARD ,1';"] rounded a tangled| Is there good reason to suppose that per crowd clustered about‘ the climate of the world was in tor-‘ wh ine a hundred yards| MO" times diferent from what lt' !s{ the group made "‘p of( now? How do we set about tryih8 | fg1q : muddy but brilliant| t0 find out what sort of climates there | thq veralls, a few breech-[ were at different periods of the s wearing huge straw | WOTld‘s history? In order to obtain dou three gaping chi!dren,mc" likely to throw light on what now y from behind the! 44% happened in the course of hunâ€" of ( m all towered one of' dreds of millions of years before man larg d®red uniformed ne_’came into the.world, and therefore up 0 large a part of the| loOng before there was any written | wq razit, i history, we have to search among the | ang elbowedâ€" his way | rocks which form the surface of the ; alon kers who, with their| carth and can be examine@=in quarâ€" sam athy, let him pass! ries, in cliffs, in ravines and in mines! the c. He stepped for_' and other places. Rocks are of many | and d Joao had told the| different kinds and of many dlflerent‘ The ound, near a thicket | ages; they are the documents from ; then etched the body of a| which it is possible to follow in some | anq in.* Tony Barbetta,| Mmeasure the successive events which serv dler in Providence,| make u& the history of the earth. sort ie to South America| Geologists have classified the rocks est of the most valued" Into soveral groups or systems, each knov Marberry‘s fazenda,| Of which ‘represents, as it were, a whic worwâ€"â€"â€"nâ€"â€"wzâ€"â€"â€"»â€"p«, |Clhapter of eartiâ€"history: these chapâ€" wide ters are known as geological periods sout] 0’ and are called by various names, We Glela P gather information from the nature| ____ _ _®*jof the rocks themselves as well as| Mina f Ad from the remains of animals and| ___ TR /7 plants which they contain. 6. * ,./,/fl/l‘/’//‘ Deserts .in the Heart of England |.. L/A * ‘Near the centre of England in the ho A Charnwood Forest district of Lelcesâ€" e tershire, there are low hills made of | .A F Â¥4%,, [ hard‘ rocks like gtanite, which beâ€" s / |long to a very remots epoch when "_ s | there was little or no life. Soms of | ‘ j //;‘:_‘T | the granitic hills of Leicestershire | $ d @Auistere: ~ But is there any dthaor eveidente, arex there any other kind of evldoqce, are | there any otfer facts which we can | | »Cr0 once covered byâ€"softer material | belonging to a later period and con | sisting of sandy mrad whitch was orâ€" | iginally spread out in layers® as~ sediâ€" !n'lent from . muddy water which had | covered the â€"country that is now ‘(‘ham“ ood Forest. In course of time | these newer lay®rs of rock were reâ€" ! moved by the action of air and water, | by rain and frost; and parts of the buried granite were gradnally exposed to view. In the hills thus exposed we have a glimpse of a very old landâ€" scape, a piece of the earth‘s surface as it was before the days when the mud and sand levelled the uneven floor ‘of the older rocks. , We gan} therefore form some idea of the state } of the country which for long ages bhad been hidden. It*was found thltl the exposed surface of the older rocks was smoothed and polished and in some places had been worn iuto broad grooves and rounded r‘dges: surfaceâ€" features which remind us very strongâ€" y of those sean on hard rocks in deâ€" serts of the présent day, and produced by stormâ€"driven blasts of sand; ‘This comparison _suggests that at‘ ore perlod there may haye beew a desert In ‘the region that" is now Eéfcesterâ€" | shire; CA N( B9 !“’01‘8 ()llCQ coverer | belonging to a la lsistlng of sandy iginally spread ou ment from . mudd: covered the cou Charnmnwood Forest these newer layt: enuswnnl uw 41000048 ' The native took a thoughtful puff ‘of his cigaret. "Half an hour, threeâ€" quarters, maybe he is thees way, I think. Eet is ver‘ strange how a hit on the head hWave do thees. He eos dead an‘ he ees also alive." He shudâ€" dered and crossed himself. J j "Pedros! Go to the fazenda of Senâ€" jorita Marberry and fetch the doctor | m;ick.” Vilak snapped to one of the ‘ tanders he knew, then turned to }Nunnafly, who had joined him. ~"I |should have known better fhan to deâ€" |pend on these chaps. I could curse ,myself for dawdling the way we did conring out here. "Lift up his head." tThe old man obeygd. Vilak took the rigid wrist and felt‘the pulse. 4Twenâ€" ty," he said in perplexity, "and getâ€" ting weaker dlythe time." He looked toward a young peon whose face. _bore the sign of moreâ€"intelligemce than his fellows. â€" h When Greenland Was Tropical "How long has amigos?" he asked ISSUE No. 51â€"‘29 â€" The gendarme grinned amiably and thrust out his hands in expostulation. "Deus; am I tke \imighty God? I cannot all do." Changes of Climate in the World‘s Historv Vilak touched the arm of the huge ebony gendarme.. "The doctor, you have not called for him?" he asked in quick Portuguese. {â€" Near his outstretched feet, handâ€" cuffed to the gendarme and staring sulkily at the groupd, stood a hearyâ€" set man of the English colonial type, ‘wbo supervisa the gangs that n;xk {the mines of Kimberly or tap the K1 lb" trees of the Congo. His face was hard, like the faces of most of those | who command in the primitive places of the world; like Prentiss, he had tatâ€" ;loo marks. ° But these were on his arm and about them theto was nothing 'extraordinary. They seemed merely, the tattooing such as is to be found | on every sailor; a ship ‘@ howlitig | monkey and a skull and crossâ€"bones. Vilak instantly recognized him as "Limey" Potts, Bargetta‘s longâ€"time enemy and fellowâ€"worker on the faâ€" zenda, Not far awoy was a heary i wooden clab. _ â€" & t | His His cotton breeekes. wore torn ‘aml stained with mud; his hands ‘and slightly "pockâ€"marked face â€" were seratched and stained with blood; in his scalp was a jagged red hole. Yet though his body was rigid as a statue, seemingly in the paralysis of death, his eyes were gleating and appeared to express intensé bodily anguish, (To be continued.) red by he been this way . _ ine «photogmple here show‘s a portlon o by power boat. 8 Minard‘s Liniment for Dist:mper. ‘the peighboring mainland are sand. stones and shales, which, were no doubt formed at a time when what is now high ground on the western part of Greenland was the estuary of a large river. The river gradually built up a dolta of sand and mud and,â€"as | we see in our rivers of toâ€"day leaves | and branches of trees being swept ‘along in streams, so in former times ,samples of the vegetation growing on“ the banks were carrigd by streams and buried as fosslis in sand and mud. The Greenland fossils are many of them broken bieces of fern leaves, and some of them are well enough preâ€" served to enable us to recognize what sort of ferns they are. The commonâ€" | est agree / very closely with ferns, known as diferent kinds of CGleichenia which are members of a family now widely spread in tropical countries south of the equator. There are no Gleichenias in Europe at the present TORONTO Let me take as an itlustration plants collected in Greenland: the rocks which furnished them belong approximately to the stage of geologiâ€" cal history when our chalk was being formed on the ocean €oor; this period is known as.the Chalk or Cretaceous period, from the Latin word Creta, which means chalk. Halfway along the west coast of Greenland in Disko Island and in the cliffs and valleys of â€"] us by their shape of the weu.mmded' ‘Fres m|&raing in presentâ€"day deserts. ffere, g j then, we have an example of the way | gnmmaemsmeppesememtqueemme y | in which it isâ€" possible, by piecing toâ€" day. What does this m d | gether different sets of facts, to\r€â€" that at one timeâ€"som 5 | construct the past: we feel spre thit yoars agoâ€"there lived .| during a certain stage in the PAS¢ ferng which were mem! s| history : of this country there were what in the course of e | desert conditfons where. now there :ar to the south ffom â€"| is a typical English scenie. . _ â€" and eventually ugbdv "/__ . Fossils as Thermometers ‘Sonth America, Africi , Let us next look at the fossil plants ‘ Archivelago, and farths * which hare been folnd in rocks, es. Several thougand miles ‘| becially in. such rocks as‘ sandstones Original home in the 4 ‘| and shates, which are simply beds of most of the living me | sand and mud or clay hardened by family of feras are no pressure in the course of avlong sueâ€" We to«onciude that, wh | cession, of ages. â€" It is common knowâ€" rglated ferns lived in C |ledge that in our climate it is impos. country enjoyed a tro sible to grow out of doors utkny of It would be going too [ the plants sent to us from Awarmer the question by a simg countries; they must be growri in kot. Can only say that the houses. Can we then make use of to suppose that Greenla fossil plants as tests of climate, as taceous period was mucl! thermometers.to engble us to follow it is now. changes in temperature in the past? _ With the fossil&erns ; We can to some extent, but only parâ€" twigsâ€"of many other ki tially.In the first Blace, the phnts’f"me of the fossil twi obtained from rocks belonging‘to ne "are vory like those of C of the more. ancient periods, such as trees in California, a 4 | the Coal Age, are very different from Ooften grown in our park: any» that are now living; and thouzh 48 Seduoia and is someti we can learn something of the conâ€"| &Rardeners Wellingtonia, ditions in which they grew by ex'am.'grows wild only in Cali Ining their‘structure, we cannot say|is certain that trees ve much, with any great confidence,‘llmd to it once flouris} about the climate which they requir.| land. © There are also ed; they are too unlike any liviug!preserved in tho same plants with which they can be com.| can be closely matched â€" pared. But when we look at collec.|th@ living plane trees tions of fossil plants from rocks which [ leaves of Magnolia, and were formed during periods of the déep!y buried under perp earth‘s â€"history nearer to the present, | flowering plants. Witho: we find a much closer resemblance to | detail, it may be said 1 plants which are living now, and it is | Jority of the trees whict therefore safer to make comparisons |Nearly in their foliage with regard to climate. which have left traces o When Greenland Was a Tropicat |®20° in the rocks of G Country . Inow living either in the : v to" " w1 .. xuoto in. support of the existence of esert condition? In Cheshire, Worâ€" cestershire, and in some ‘other disâ€" tricts there are beds of.saitâ€"and other substances, such as gypsum, remindâ€" ing us very strongly of «leposits being formed now in the Dead Sea and in other very salt waters in dty counâ€" tries. It is important to note that these salt beds of Cheshire and Worâ€" cestershire belong to the same period of the earth‘s history as that which is recalled by the old srooved and stormâ€"lashed granitcs of Leicestelr- shire ‘Some sandy rocks in various parts of England, which also belong to the same geological; period, are made of sma‘ll particles which remin iperature in the past? â€" With the fossil&erns are leaves and e extent, but only par. twigsâ€"of many other kinds of plants. first PBlace, the plants® fome of the fossil twigs and cones ‘ocks belonging ‘to »ne "are very like those of one of the big cient periods, such as trees in California, a tree which is re very different from ‘Often grown in our parks; it is known )w living; and though 48 Seduoia and is sometimes called by omething of the conâ€"| Sardeners Wellingtonta, This tree now 1 they grew by gxam.:grows wild only in California; but it cture, we cannot say is certain that trees very nearly r6. Ships That Pass and Those That T * IMC NyiNE plane trees; there are h l leaves of Magnolia, and many other o ‘ deeply buried under perpetual ice and . | fowerine plants. Without going into o | detail, it may be said that the m?- s | Jority of the trees which agree most s |nearly in their foliage with those which have left traces of their existâ€" ence in the rocks of Greeniand are now living either in the south of Eurâ€" ope, in the Southern United States, \{or in tropical countries, : I Greeniand Toâ€"day [ _ Let us next look at Grpeniand as | it is: by far the greater part of it is E is .â€"practically destitute of life. Durâ€" |ing the short summer, in June, July and August, there is a comparatively | narrow strip around the coast with little or no.snow, where flowers are abundant. In that part of Greenland where the fossils occur there are now no trées, onl stunted willows and the‘ dwar? â€" birch growiug,clcse to the' ground and rarely reaching a height of more than two or three feet. The hill slopes are in places covered with a vegetation reminding us of our own moorland, but there are no trees, and the familiar heather of the British Isles is replaced by another member of the heather family; there are many | small gpyyerin_g plants on the hills and; in the valieys which are free from | snow .in the gummer, and some of / them are well known f16nds at home.’ especially on the Scottish mountainll and in the English Lake district, In| P the Chalik period there was g rich vegetation made up of many different kinds of trees and shrubs instead of the lowâ€"growing ‘plants of toâ€"day; 1 there were many ferns differing wideâ€" C ly from the few which now grow in n Greenland. In a word, the contrast [ betwen â€" the forests which ave left their scattere@fragments in the focks N lated to it once flourishedAin Greenâ€" land. © There are also many leaves preserved in tho same rocks Whl,l can be closely matched with those of day. What does this mean? °It means that at one timeâ€"some millions of yoars agoâ€"there lived in Greenland e salmon fishing fleet at Skeena "CALADA" This unquestionably is the finest green‘tea â€" <«TAPMLK TEA Niommmmmmndionr commmmemmmmmzmmmememmmenpecomeceaans i 0 "" 00 a 0 ‘Fresh from the gardens‘ °* rail Behind (CGREEN) Minard‘s Lin‘ment tor "You know, dear, it‘s but whenever father o catches dear Algernon my love fliles out of the ‘"The that his It is, however, hard to believe that changes in the position of land and sea and in the height of land above seaâ€"level would make enough differâ€" ence in climate to account for the conâ€" trast . between the present and the past. s t jot the earth‘s history sinco the days | when life first became abundant, and there is no good reason for believing that the world, as a whole, received much more heat from the sun millions of years ago than it does no. How, then, can we explain differences in climate between the past and the preâ€" sent? It is impossible to discuss this difficult question briefly: we know that from time to time the land has both risen and sank, places where there is now dry land were once unâ€" der water, and regions now below the séa were at one time above it Al terations in thh position and size of contineats change the flow ‘and direcâ€" tion of ocean currerits which, like the warm gulf stream and colder currents{ flowirg from the polar‘seas, have a‘ great deal to do with raising or Iower-! ing the temperature of con.inents and islands. The gradual lifting up o!' land by some gigantic force acting on the crust of the earth to form mounâ€" tainâ€"ranges also makes a considerable difference in the climaté, , and we} know that there have been ‘many such uplifts in the course of geolGgica! hisâ€"<‘ tory. * SHIP3 duces attractive fowers in the short summer and lies dormant during the tong, dark winter period, is about as great as it could be. » What Makes cmpm.cmue_r There have been very many and great changes in climate in the course and the vegetation whiqh now eall of the wild reminds best friend is his doge, being towed out lather comes home and Algernon calling on me, gut of the window." it‘s a funny thing Coughs. of harhog Trtme mauge sume L TT muues that | in __2 20_ 0@ °2 CHpIOFCE 1§ rude to his office boy, and takes adâ€" vantage of his position to make sarâ€" castic remarks about him in front of his clients, then that man is a vulsar man even If he holds .an entire inâ€" dustry in the pailm of his hand, Any» body, in fact, who indulges in that erueliest form of blow, the saub, is vÂ¥ulear" vulgar.‘ "At 5,000 feet, the mean aititude of Byrd‘s 1,600â€"mile fiight, the camâ€" era‘s focal plain was 2,800 square miles. Of this, however, perhaps only :|800 square miles in the foreground would have any useful detail With 660 expostures, which Photographer Ashley C, McKinley was believed to have taken, this would give Byrd camâ€" era coverage of 1,848,000 square miles of Antarctica. "Pieced together, these photos will constitute a huge pictorial mosaic of the regions over which he flew. In a stereoscope, they wourld be lent a third dimension, bringing into accurate proâ€" portion every minute slevation of the terrain," It is this closeâ€"knit patchwork of air views, revealing topographical feaâ€" tures beheld neither by Byrd nor the British adventurers who went before him, which would be of inestimable value in estalishing | or discrediting t eir rival demands. Byrd already has officially claimed for the United hhho two vast ranges at the edge of Britishâ€"claimed territory, chain. *40 a stock Kâ€"3 camera, standard lwith U.S, Army, we added a hlueâ€" minus filter to eliminate the excessive glare of the snowâ€"reflected sun. We lined the camera with balsa wood as Insulation against the eold and lubriâ€" cated it with a special oil which is fuid at any temperat .re. To carry off static created by movement of the metal parts, the camera was grounded to the plane with a heary, detachable From a mere adjunct to his exploit, Byrd‘s camera became an indispenâ€" sable factor in it, for he relied on x lens to see for him msny things whi speed, distante »r glare rendered inâ€" visible to him and his three companâ€" ions as they sped from the Little Amâ€" erica base to the pole and back. OPERCOME SNOW‘S GLARE. "Our experience with aerial photoâ€" graphy in other subâ€"zero territories enabled us to supply Byrd with the best possible equipmcnt for his South Pole undertaking," Fairchild explainâ€" ed. ® ] Fairchild may not have had potenâ€" tial international consequences in mind when he suggested to his friend ,Dick Byrd that aerial cameras be inâ€" cluded in the elaborate equipment he was assembling for his South Polar venture. Thinking of the advantage Byrd lost on his North Pole flight by having neglectetl so to equip himself, he foresaw only the scientific value of such pictures of Antarctic regions, VALUABLE BEYOND®*EXPECTA. t TIONS. ~â€" â€" Thus was developed the camera now in use by the United States military services, and a science which soon atâ€" tained proportions beyond all expectaâ€" tions of its young originator, As Reir to the fortune of a millionâ€" aive New York Congressman, Fairâ€" child devoted part of his patrimony to the hobby of amateur photography. The development of aviation turned his thoughts aloft, to equipment that would accurately picture what the birdman sees. _ High up in one, of Gotham‘s lithie business buildings, remotc from the cold of Antarctica ar mounting heat of diplomatic pigq is not unaware that the first photographs of the South Pole tory may determine whether D or the United States is to have < ion over the frozen wastes, Fo child made these pictures possib l‘]’o‘ _ Statesmen on boihd'?ldes of the Ai lanttic, it seems, are alive to the possi ility that fl.‘!- deposits of coal, oil and .other minerals may lie buried beneath the Antarctje‘s centurics of ice and snow. THE CAMERA DOESN‘T LIC * While they are framing circgumspect notes to one another, Sherman M Fairchild, still 4n his early 30‘s, goos about the daily routine of directing the varied aeronautic entorprises of which he is the head. ~As Commander Richard E. B successful South Pole flight ce wide attention upon "the bottom: o world" and its commercial pos ties, the prospect grows that ( Britain and the United States come .to diplomatic blows ove» question of sovereignty there. New York â€"A wealthy youn; Yorker‘s hobby, now avalued i ment of sclence, may play the d role in an international compli over Antarctica. * Camera Aids in Antarctic Disputs Inventor TellssHow Pici _ Will Map 2,000,000 â€" SBquare Miles On Vuligarity BRITAIN‘S CLAIM is â€" rI 63 tt ty 1t Je: th ) Christ