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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH WOMAN BANDIT quite companionable. He roused out of his timidity about dusk. A Physician who RULES HER BAND "I'll relieve you at the wheel." he reache, 0flf k benefit humanity feavei , observed. "Wish I hud your splendid BY LURE OF SEX wvj..m mm uwi worm ii while. $, and nerve, my friend," and physique . a man . 5?i i he spurted up the machine, quite pleased ft gaining courage from the Polish Woman and Gang His Study ai proximity of Earl. medical Aftiia;: Into Starved .lust at dusk they went whizzing Capture Br ALVAH J. GARTH on by a farmhouse. Earl had turned ed of tL er Many Crimes. the reflectors and Short, quite roused remedial nUl' ies of hct (Copyright by W. a. Chnpman. ) up with his valiant efforts at the Berlin. American women gangsters n was on planti i, wheel, when the speed Fran-ziskputting well hack home, are you take lessons from 10 might ( 1 """""'I- OIN'( th; dii; Karl?" Inquired Clyde I'or- - he suddenly drew back with a posiuotorious Polish bandit. Tyka, tive fecrenm, rest of his cousin. derful herb; The Bobbed Hair Bandit was a piker reat heavens!" he gasped "I "Yes," fame the sharp, to t her. But ambitious "medy, Doe, compared have killed somebody!" vomewhat Irritable response. "I'm goAmerican women criminals who might Ite Prescription. It u just thMon' Only a flashing glance Earl had of like to receive instruction will have to quired ing back to Dunham thoroughly cured a if a woman is borne prostrate figure in the middle of of my fancy for roving. I'll put what She been has wait sentenced by paui and sufferings at regulardownw Just the road. Then the swift machine or i 1b left of my $1!00 In the bank. I wish the Criminal court at Rybnik. in Po regular intervals, by nervousness t' I had never drawn It out. I'm going passed over It. There was an unearth to lish seven headache dtrzy spells, or backid.' Upper Silesia, years' to buckle down to work and keep ly yell. Earl's flesh crept. Short had Favorite Prescription can be hadk' hard labor. It was proved that in the from wheel the and dropped away form as well as liquid atroi right on my old plodding sensible pro- sat huddled back In last five years she aud her gang of tablet the seat, his neighborhood store. gram. My high and lofty ideas have hsnds over his 20 men commltteed 31 robberies, about eyes and chattering taken a drop, I can tell you !" and they are suspected of countless in an excess of wild terror. Earl P.artley irted and felt some- madly more. YOUR SKIN Earl If had l fit not seized the wheel what ruffled. ITIs story was a simple Franziska was no ordinary robber in ttie ruck of time, the machine just disfiguring blotches and one. He had lived at Dunham all his chieftain. For her life was a pleasant would have gone over the aide of the Use irrigations. Me. Ills father had left him a small varied but interwoven, round to ly road closely sure destruction. , Mil hut steady real estate and Insurance of love and loot, or,, rather, loot and lie a man !" he adjured his frantic business. There were no big profits, love. Franziska's motto was "busiand ran back up the road. companion hut the regular collection of rents for He ness first, pleasure afterward." Dur' returned almost instantly. clients and some notary public busithe last ten years she and her was a dummy figure, a trick of "It ing in Workmen's Huts the In Belgian Congo. a fairly good added ness resulted were the terror of Upper Silesia, the farm boys to scare race fiends," gang Lost Will Used to income. be explained. "Come, coum?, brace up I" and she was both the terror and idol National Gewaphte the by (Prcpnreii seat of for administration Inland the Karl "had a girl." Mary Evans was lie of Buttei Siiciciy. W'HKhttiKton, n. C.I Wrap urged the abject, nerve-rackej At the meeting place of of her gang. pretty, popular, and. best of all, pracEYING over the sands of the provinces. a How will A Falsa Halo. was found Short. wraupef two great rivers. It was, too. the door tical. Earl earned enough to dress .Sahara h?sert. the jungles of a pat o'f butter was a stori' round "I can't oh, this excitement will A false halo of wild romance surto the north. way of this well and take Mary to the occasional Something wildest Africa, and the lake function still told before a Paris (France) court, a kill me.'" chattered Short. "Get rae survives, but the com- rounds her crimes, which- outshine the entertainments Dunham afforded. His ... , M .,1 French of widow died in 1005, leavit, East Africa,' country una most wealthy of vui never the vi an efforts miu tvui enter imaginative i a of witers in pletion recent father had left him the family horse, years, railway crossed the continent wv,aur! her of a million francs to hp fortune automobile 'ran-zisk- a recently most lurid Please the ask fiction. of nlease When again. but slow arid old now. Also a buggy running from Lagos on the coast to the farm people to get a steady rls at its wl(3est P"1"1 1,4 seniilane. the The will, however, coui godchild. In stood before the . Judge liybnik of seen had that its best days. Mary relatively healthy uplands and drive me home! I'll nv the LaKls: the air near Marseille, the northern not be found, and the natural Item Nigeria, and passing far west declared that she enjoyed a drive on two French the skirted took possession. A year later a work ; navy planes of Lokoja, has decreased the Impora safe basis. Whenever some of the price." west const of Africa, landing "But Spanish man bought a pat of butter at a m the machine?" tance the of more fortunate young bloods of Dunlatter town. Lokoja is at Dakar, the westernmost city of the "Yours take it, keep it. I vow nevket. It was wrapped in paper wliir, hot and unhealthy. The white hnm dashed by with their automo damp, er to enter one again! If you don't "Dark Continent." to be the missing will. la proved small and mostly men. population biles, however, Earl felt chagrined ' They found Dakar, port of call of take it, I'll send my man after it and of how it came there hi mystery From and behind the times. flew Lokoja the aviators up vessels between have it plying sunk in the river. I'm in European, the Benue river never been cleared up. The godchild', "It's not Justice to a nice girl like and into French equaearnest. It's yours oh, get me home!" South African and South American parents started legal proceedings, w torial in Mary to ask her out with slow-pokAfrica, the heart of which And that is why Earl Hartley drove ports, a thriving city of about 25,000 were obliged to borrow 30,000 from.' old Dobbin," ruminated Karl. "Wish another stopping place, Archam-baullay laid-out with Into Dunham (hat same evening the people, well streets, from a friend to carry on the fight' I had an automobile. I could get There the flyers had passed schools, hospitals and workshops. received a million francs In" around fast and double my business. proud possessor of a two thousand Dakar owes from Mohammedan territory into a re They ' its importance as a port dollar touring car. It built up his bustrust for their daughter. The frien Wish I was making more money." or fetishism. A Beet of gion this priminess as iie planned, and there came an to the bearnesis to South America. who advanced the 30,000 francs Then he had a visit from hia cousin itive people has some unusual feaopportunity to sell some property for While Liverpool is more than 3,000 tures. Its members now Clyde who lived at Rowland. That Mr. suing the heiress for the return spurn clothes, miles from New York, Dakar is only Short, which squared the deal. of the loan. town was having a boom. There were a thin strip of cloth and only wearing more "And half all our good fortune because than slightly that distance a bead belt. possible grand openings for an enterOchre clay is daubed over followed a kindly impulse to help from I'ernambuco, Brazil, the easternprising: young man, so Earl left his you their bodies, and they adorn themmost of a In South America. When port fellow poor trouble!" said Mary business temporarily in charge of an necklaces, mettrade between the two southern conti- selves with glass-beaassistant and went down to explore sweetly the day they were married. al bracelets, and ostrich-feathe- r headsufferers nents some Dakar develops, rival may conditions at Itowlnnd. find grateful relief in X Etj of the larger European ports in volume dresses. Each member always carf "id the It took him a mouth to And out that River May of conmwrce. Dakar is also the seat ries a small stool, and much of his Actually exclusive menthol blend whatever there was of good property time is seated on it in solemn Seem to Run Up Hill of administration for all French pos- dignity. spent in latSen's chances had been already cornered Their secret communications in sessions West Africa. Coast' The e aud Geodetic survey savs residents of the town. by are Cough ,m through prolonged guttera! coughs. It took him another month to discover that the foundation for the statement In The Berbers and FuJas represented the southward on Turning Btssps were met with city's Fort leaving population that the cause of the boom, the re- that the Mississippi river runs "up at every stop in the Sudan and N- Archambuuit, the flyers again left port that two large Industries were hill" is that the mouth of the river is after the flyers turned inland, French territory at the Ubangi river igeria farther from the center of the earth going to locate at Rowland, was false. for both races are scattered over the and entered the Belgian Congo. This The bottom of the boom fell out. Then than is the source. This Is because Belgian possession Is more than came a plaintive letter from Mary. the earth bulges at the equator, due north and northwest portion of Africa. huge to centrifugal force generated bv the The Berbers are believed to have been 77 times the size of Belgium. On their She missed him, she was lonely Dont trfat. sore infiaxued earth's rotation. However, In measur- at one time masters of the Mediter- way to Stanleyville, metropolis of the "come home." aiiuimnk' hjvh with uovfup- the aviators Congo, and over it ranean, forfnl the 'dromer in vast is that drugs probable "Well," said Clyde, "live and lenrn. ing elevations, which determine the by band. A soetbing She Undressed Completely. force of gravity, all elevations are re continent was named for the Afrigha ests. One, the Pygmy forest, You've had a rest and some experiIs best Kocenta ail of the Berbers. Ev- covers 25,000 square miles. Seldom is she lifted ferred to sea level, or zero. Surface tribe, a ence, anyway." her small, soft hands nn In this whole area touched the idence has been ground back uncovered 4 RUCK Eli iiAijL dating "I've had my nonsensical ambition measurements show the Mississippi's Xutu uiy I ito the Stone ase. of the existence of by the rays of the tropical sun, for alluring figure for all of her forty-on- e ly rA" knocked clear out of me," retorted source to be several hundred feet Em.lv;r and begged for mercy for those years the a underbrush race of Berand the the of the of foliage Earl. "I fancy home-farinlife is the above sea level surface, while the bers who people resembling her band who were captured with giant trees are so thick that only here Inherited North Africa. iT Any book you want; mouth is, of course, at sea level, or best Good-by.her. Coquettishly throwing back her. and a 0W, there -- by mail, C. 0. D Unlike other some African stream of zero elevation. Thus, the river runs peoples, All Earl thought of under the Influlight golden blond bobbed hair, she told r. The him: "1 Dcseret Book Ca ence of the pathetic letter from Mary, down hill, or from a greater surface of the Berbers might pass for Ameri- pierces the darkness beneath. committed all these robberies was to get back home aud buckle down elevatiou to a les.-c- r. If the earth cans, if they donned American cloth- jungles seethe with vicious animals in the full confidence of the unshak- 44 East so. Temple, Sail Lake City Utah were to cease rotating, scientists be- ing. Their skin is light, their eyes and insects, und the Pygmies, who sel- able love of to hard work along the old lines. my nun and in the belief dom grow more titan four feet in WE PAY YOU CASH It was two miles from the borne of lieve It would take the shape of a blue, and many are blonds. Although were loyal to me to their teeth, old piat'R, tL'ruon.if;, that they are lnweiri the height, the Berbers Arabs and have been principal inhabitants death." his cousin to the railroad depot. Earl nearly perfect sphere. Then any two Send xmxin lo Witl'I'lMi MOLD UKilNINU CO, of this wooded fastness. But they are Inc.. BC i iiOi Ave., tiow Turk City. associated for closely and on centuries, a sea level surface would be swung along the country road calcu- points Her life of crime began '2'2 years are the two races much like the jungle monkey. They lating he had just time to reach the approximately the same distance from have Mohammedans, when she was i;k a hj'Ai.i srEci.tusT ago. She said GIvb have fixed no remained distinct. treatments. abodes, hop from limb Khe was driven to nineteen. the scalp station for the last train of the day. the earth's center. In this event, some commit first KYS'l'KM her fre.i. Huro insults. 100 to limb with ease, and feed upon tenIS. Selboral, Worcester, M;m. trf.a11tn.nt As he made a turn In the road he was rivers which now flow in one direction Fulas Are Strong. l;it, breach of law. the She conceived an der roots, hailed loudly. might actually ilow in the opposite diThe Fulas were originally herdsmen white ants. elephant meat, rats and intense hatred of society, which she rection. A London Maintains Place in the western and central Sudan, but young man sat helpIndulged by her crimes. She led a life The Belgian Congo. lessly surveying a stalled automobile. in which no demoralization they extended their domain to Nigeria, was Notwithstanding' its many and growOne wheel was stuck In a rut. He That they are a mixture of Berber and Weird Lake Legends About 10,000 of the 9,000.000 to her. Vet still she retains ing rivals, London euntinues to lie the people strange presented a picture of frantic anxiety Four hundred and fifty years ago a negro is the most generally accepted in the Belgian Congo are white. Most her feminine charm. No judge would greatest senport of Die world. I Hiand nervous worry. terrible battle was fought on the theory, yet their reddish brown or of them live ut the numerous stations have suspected, without Hie evidence ring the hist year ships entered London. "Xee here," he called out, "come shores of Lake Morat, near Xeuchatei, light chestnut colored skin, oval faces, established throughout the colony by submitted, that with (hose small and port having u total tonnage of 24,717, this way, won't you? My machine has lu which 24,(HH) Swiss 0,5 tons, and ships cleared having The natives soft hitnds she had horsewhipped banpeasants de even smooth hair, straight even noses the P.elgiuu government. gone dead. I'm In a rut and I don't feated 3(;,kt French under Charles an(1 di'Ucately shaped lips differentiate are black and include many different dits, had led them In crime after total tonnage of L2..l47,i)20 tons. Tin. know what to do." the Bold. The fight was so furious t'"ln from ,lie negro type. types according to their crime, and had herself thrown the ocean trade of the port tluit year hml lo"Why, get out and fix it," advised that the waters of the lake were red Taken as u whole the Fulas are in cation. Some of them geographic torch Into peaceful farmhouses to a value of S3.700,(K0.(K)fl. manufacture Earl, a" little nettled at the usoless-nes- s dened with blood. telligent people with great strength of cloth from vegetable fiber and use start the tire which preceded the exhibited by the owner of the At long intervals since that date character. They are famous for their homemade dyes of yellow, black, red pillage. DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN auto. the lake has been seen to go ruddy all hoisemunship and as soldiers are and brown to color It. When they are Twenty men, between the ages of "I can't. I don't know bow," almost over, and cot being chased by hostile although it is known now mo.stly cavalrymen. neighbors, twenty and fifty, followed her comMarked With "Bayer Crosi" walled the young man. "I'm an invAt Bamako, on the Niger river, one they grow bananas, rice, that this strange change in color is mand in (he fortsts around I'less and Aspirin sorghum, milHas Been Proved Safe by Millions. alidnervous wreck ! Doctor says I due to a tiny water plant, the people of the planes became disabled anil let and tobacco. Uybnik. A word from her and they must be careful. Please help me out, In the neighborhood of the lake all was left for The other plane The resources of the colony have would sally for'h t) attack and pluti repairs. Warning! Unless you see the nam that's a good fellow." believe that It is an omen of war. followed the Niger to Timbuktu, !cr peaceful' settlements. The terror hardly been scratched. Gold, tin, cupon package or on tablets you "Payer" Earl glanced at his watch. He had of "city mystery" which lies per, lead, rubber, palm nuts, palm oil, done, they would hasten back to their nre not no time to waste. A thought of getting the genuine Bayer nine miles from the river proper, on and Iron are Mary Old Scottish Coal Mine Important exports. Iron' encampment1. For ten years they wor- Aspirin proved safe by millions and spurred him on. Common sympathy the of the her her' was This Sahara. her one idgv stone hills in ti,e southeastern re- shiped crimAn ancient mine was discovered by courage, urged him to act the humanitarian. O' the IDOSt IlltHffSfill!' st.innt.wr gions have an estimated inal bruin and herex. For Kranziska prescribed by physicians for 28 yean seven miners of Skares, near of deposit He set at work on the machine. Say "Payer" when you buy Aspirin. At on the flight. ..unions ot tons f bigh jirade ore. had been mistress of them all in turn Imitations Scotland. While digg!.: out- places f the end of may prove dangerous. Adf. hour be had It ( That was her ultimate power over crop coal In the field, they came theWhether Timbuktu is entered from lite rubber supply seems ijievii.-.niIn right trim. south by the "water" route or the Ible. them. j One who knows exactly what nil "I've got to catch a train," he said. Led Band In Person. U'm W north ur pe! r At Stanleyville the aviators found kW the human race ean't account for hi "I suppose you'll take me to the circular mound, which a , The fact was fully established nt the own a stone shaft, with a diameter of me city seems nothing more than a a busy little town. iHJ!lt on both sliP's fallings some! lines. rtation?" j labyrinth of narrow streets with mud of the Congo river. On the trial that before she and her gang about ten feet. Aft er fnnnv il.ive east bank "Yes, but I'm too nervous to run the walls thrown up on both sides withstarted on their raids, after ull prepu, 'H'auuuartvrs of the vice govthey cleared the shaft of its accmmi- i uto myself," declared bis new ac"DANDELION BUTTER COLOR" were completed, she arations tat ion of stones and rubbish and out any sense of direction. Uegard-les- s ernor and many up e unresidences quaintance, to Earl took the wheel. of what one fUreet a after takes, divided while left the completely and thus led her lmuk is occupied by railA harmless He sprinted, but they arrived at the pumped out the water, on descend few vegetable butter color and left turns, he finds him- way terminals und workshops, palm baud to buttle. Jealousy between the uwd by millions for r,0 years. Druft tug the phaft, they found themselves self right TiiurL-u- i In tin. i.i depot Just In time to see the train disf:ini.nii members of her bund she kepi down stores and general stores sell bottle In a liees th avenues In the. resiminiature mine. l 15 Timbuktu ivna f.,. ,.!..,) lie ex- ixMievetiperfect appearing around a bend. ..,n.. dential lining remind feminine tact and kindness. of "Dandellou"' for 35 eents. Adv. by ttie mine whs one a of ,utu. i l,i H- i- I'l.., i ,,ti, plained his predicament to his comBut fate nt hist overtook FrunJska laborers of the Monastic ngu. iviiiui, UnO era Florida boulevard. All ibis UM)j. too and none has never lost that characteristic, of panion, pleasantly, for Pew people feel called npoit to con through one of tier oldest lovers, ot.e erm.iition ,Hs i.ulH- - t,out ,,.,, Ms mind had been set "n e of (lie S,K)0 Inhabitants many are reaching dense the mik of hummi kindness. her who was gang For when eighties His Supposition fifty. n.mie was little Lome that evening. wlio puss through with cattle or more than a u nStanleyville time be believed he was mainly m.jj v k 't'ui I'cklestnn litis "I'm dreadfully sorrv that I've been nick a eillillL'! Ill tlu crAit village. lt.1,1 f....... lected by her, A! last his Jeab.us.v . .. . " . ""III .,..,1 ...!.... living In n BimiheuMerlv direction drove caused you nil this trouble," remarked a'"1 i,,H lvmrul S"hurnTht him to betray her to the Polish "ll,me folks" ,' , the plane reached the African bis companion. "See here, though, you i r .k m Urea! police. .Surrounded by a cordon oi What makes you think lie's dead?'' Lakes, passed over Its second stretch can do me a further favor a". I ,l.elp vetitrttl lives ami soldiers in their forest re police of British too." territory. m,d came to (he yourself out, Timbuktu I,,,, an annual thrill, last- - Indian Heat, she mid most of her band wort l ocean at Ivlllinmne, a small town "How Is thatr X il coming past there lag several days, once u queried Karl I Hu into surrender. sinned about !,!. seed i- midway the crawling slowly and pain- caravan come to bniMjuely. along coasi .,f MoWilli ibis hPl "Why, I livo at Corjdon. I am LesSonH,,,,,,.! ,,: zambique, IVtng,.fee territory. The around I'less rapture the rohlrcriet S ami Itybnlk have censed Bell-an- s of city lie Short. As I told you, an Invalid, Mozai.ibl.iue, ....... . the next everlastinnly M1ui stop is Thoxe few of the band who Sl ,..iu. Kituated a on and 1 was foolish to venture to tisr into other folks' busing I didn't 6to 1 ,m,ji escaped Mot silUl(i water 1 with btindr-d- s thr of i, have scattered to the four winds. "lies ..IT the coast. !( was ome from home in my condition. This ends i" "sit iptesiions, rmt I 'lowed Relief den by gorgeously robed "sheiks" with thl. Without their fwcei heart and Sure autoriiobilir-bc.iqunrtetH of (he Portuguese Hunt for me; if .you will wife's mother was coming nnd ii captali, their bodyguards. When the it" are helnlcs. Ihcy Tber cttrg .....m..,. consent to drive me as fur n Cory-ri- ' was crawling under there to die In 01 Mill ii niiii govern men t and tl is been dotiDsitcil. it.o ! II... t.v. i! T",0:..of the em! of ""imtleiitly uearv ft. you can get a train there or som. penrn. sete,. n, o tiiiti? i ..in wave trude.. The ..a, tlv!:i,i ate over, anl the csirnvs.n jenrs to conm when hu will be re early (his cveii'ng jltl"1 I'll bo isansns (.it v .star turns nonh with rice ami grain save tuarkeis ms Ckappcm-- l. y- -t' i. Moid to I l it,'." IV and to them. But Kind to settle for your tronh'e." has j chnng-.ittlt. during will she beliberty brotight up from the nyiciiltural n. theoambiijiie Ji iAfitMar , and to able Pkfcs.Sc 5t ciotnu last few "Neter mind (let ,.Mj ir v.." sal;) ImndrM vrars giotis of the mu;1i. Shcpptrg years hence? H;ir!. and H.iWlei! in nt th.n tiim,.1 MaJnm; 'W'btit'i ttie matter with Hazel?" K"t i ort on the tlte Up Benue. arvj Niger rt neelmr. Mary that . evetilni after all .'' rye- -. "( M'l'lU'arr, renmrrd "She want a maiinl li i;,t " l'H"ii ' n j j Ji ..,.1.'i'i n the li:nes fni!iud ':"tm Shocked the Judge lb- ""XI M.lir Purl VeM?" , ?.wt-'.r M..; I ;.-i ,,e ci,,Jmi(I. the .Mger to l,ol:'j:i, Neri.t, ;tt i'.,t. 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