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Show PUBLIC OPINION By-A- Copyright by W. O. Chapman WNU Sarvlca SYNOPSIS On ht-- way to a faculty pnaitlon In lioalland Academy, Janet Mercer meet. Irof. Arthur Firming, also on hla way lu lha Academy. At the achoul they are atruck by an air of myatery pervading lha placa. Gordon lluakall, proprietor. welcome! them. Wilton I'aynea foinpleiea the Academy faculty In ai'hoolrooin Janet Hilda a 8 roup which the teacher, had auiipoRed wera schnl-arara wax fluurea. liaakall explains unuaual circumalaneea connected with tha conduct of tho Academy. Among the pupils is Uerenics Bracebrldge, owner of tho daughter of lha lata school. Tho atory of tho tragedy of a Ijoatland Academy la that of two and two brother, of Berenice, who Inal their lives In the water, aoma years ago, Tha wnx figures wera modeled in the likenesses of lha four, and Doctor Bracebrldge's will provided that they muat be preserved. Payne learns from Berenice that an uncouth giant wh.nn Janet had seen with Hank-e- ll la named Balder, and Is a valuable servant. From Jerry Muure, tha only witneaa of the drowning of the children, Payne learns particulars of the tragedy, lie beglim to taka an Increasing Interest In Berenice, aa Fleming does In Janet. Bending diaries kept by Doctor Braeebridge, Payne aenaen noniethlng sinister in tlie drowning of Ilia children. In the belfry of the old church he Hilda a long discarded CliriKt-iiiu- a tree. iirenciiee piixxlen him. Balder makea a halting explanation of its preservation. Jlaxkell proponcM marriage to Berenice, hut she teila him alia doea nut lua him enough to marr a. sls-ter- There's Mthiag thsts Bert trlam to a lini iliiUr sr liartltr than high das HOTEL arsaaiBalatiaaa at raaaoaah'a ntn. get Iks advertise ai rat fa thla calaaia. On Being Crazy A young man thinks everybodys erozy except himself. An old man 1 knows everybody's crazy, including himself. EXCELCIS BEAUTY SCHOOL ry him. I Lrara Mtin fcraatg plrasaut, prnfilabla walk. knaara natianallr. affrra jsa saw atiaslam. Ear frsa catalog gixing fall partiralan. address ENROLL NOW raltars BKAtTV KXCKLtIS "Me" SCHOOL Salt Uki Clip The Andes Mountain Chain The Andes mountain rhain is , 400 miles long, averages 13,000 feet high, and at some points is 100 miles wide. TIMS WEEKS PRIZE STORY AH the warlds a .Let" and baring tiring caaiaMditirs la lha ataat gigantic act plaprd cn that slag. Let aa aal make this "Ilradlinrr- - a tragedr af paar pnducta, ar a barlraqaa ml rheapnna; but a ataattrfal draaia vhirb rads with the satiafnetian that caaira with baylag Intrrawantaia H rad acta and Pa making llama Industry I MISS EUNICE JOHNSON. Yamal. 1L At 400 Utah Oil Refining Service Stations in Utah and Idaho Marriage Greatest Problem Marriage ia one of the most vexed problems the contemporary world has to handle. WMMtSlCKLEtf First State to Aid Mind To Ohio goes the credit for establishing the first stale institution for the care of blind children. It was built in 1837. New Grand Hotel Salt Lake City, Utah Oppaaila Nan Past Offiaa and Eadrral Bnilding Salt Lakes Most Popular Medium Priced lintel Ona Black tram Tkratra and S bap ping District New Modern Coffee Shop in Connection (Open Day and Night) M. II. THOMPSON. Maaagar Policy of Free Trade The policy of free trade was first introduced in England in 1846. Word Cherokee" Banned The word Cherokee has no meaning in the language of the Cherokee Indian!i, who prefer to call themselves Tsalagis. din nn IJI) per wwk will ha paid lac articta lha baal ra -- why yaa ahaald aa Similar Inlarmaaalain made Ibadi la ahave. Band year stars in prana ar Jh.S fans la Inlerawaniain Prsdarta t'al-aa- n. P. O. Baa IS6S Salt Laha City. If yaar alary apprara thla ealama yaa crlra (bach far Wark Ns. MU W.N.U. Salt Lake City Animal Acrobat ia probably the ugThe wart-ho- g liest animal that nature has created, and every time it leaves its burrow it docs a double somersault in the air outside its front door! Incidentally, it lives in o burrow made by anotlicr animal; it doesnt trouble to build its own home. Horses Called Barbs Some horses are called barbs because they are a breed imported into Spain from the Berber country in northern Africa by the Moon m CHAPTER VI i 18 Slut looked That Has Chic nna McClure Sholl Z2I Ra. W. Traipla Cape Ensemble EBONY WATERS Sully Soz Continued at him suspi- ciously. "1 want lo know why you're nut ruining hack to the scadriiiy?" She flushed. She was a pri'tly girl, with rather handsome ryes inn an In'Mother has too dependent mumier. much to do. Site needs me home. Wult, I'll fetch her niul Top or maybe you'll dime Into the kitchen. It's warmer." Farmer Wolford anil his wife received him cordially, hut seemed disinclined to talk about their daughter's desire to give up the pursuit uf uu education. "Sully thinks she'd better stay home," was all the satisfaction Payne could got; so ho switched off to crops, and, thinking that he had quite fulfilled his obligations of Inquiry, he rose to go. "I'll step a piece with you," said Mrs. Wolford. Wilton wus surprised, hut glad of this turn of affairs. "I have to take some niusli to the black pig on the lot, she explained to her huslmnd, hut she-- would in no wise permit Wilton to rarry the mash. When they were some distance from the bourn', Mrs. Wolford slackened tier pact'. 1 didn't have to feed that pig; lie's overfed uow. Hut I knew well enough Sally would never tell you; and her father thinks It all nonsense. Hut she has a qmvr faculty the wts things Unit ain't there.'' Mrs. Welford turned her bright eyes Upon him, then Inuked toward the dark muss of the academy In the distance. "I don't expect you In Iwlleve It any more than her own father does but twice while she was at school she says she saw the four Itraeebridge children once in one of tho halls, oiiee on the grounds. Shes awful sensitive about her wny of seeln things Invisible to oilier people. The second time It happened she come can't go home and she says, '.Mom, hack again. There's someihlng wrong over there. 1 hate the place. I can't go back. 1 coaxed her to tell me what was wrong, and then she told what she had seen." "Mrs. Welford," Wilton remarked impatiently, if a story la once started It never dies and the step from believing a rumor, and llieii actually imagining ghosts or noises. Is exceedingly short." The wild grunts of the nearby pig Mrs. Welford now filled the air. emptied I he mash Into the trough, and then and only then answered Wilton, you see. Sully Is what they call It's a long word" "Clairvoyant?" "I'liiit's It." It's a pity," Wilton coninicnted, thinking It best not to argue the hIiiL Your daughter is very Intelligent, and learns quickly; It's a pit.v to give up the chance for a winter's education because uf silly stories. "Hut them wax figures. You ran! talk them away," Mrs. Welford remarked shrewdly. Mr. Haskell has locked the figures In. ".So I hear but wbut Sally sees la nut wax." "I'm sorry! That's all I can nay." He I aide her guodhy and departed thoughtfully. e a a a s a A Sunday calm brooded over the academy. Arthur and Janet had gone for a walk. Mrs. Denver was seated with I'ayne In the library, knitting and glancing from time to time out of the high, narrow windows toward the lake. Haider waa out in a boat flshing, and lluskell was watching him from the shore. "That's a lonely man a queer, lonely man. Some days I am afraid of him and some days I'm sorry for him. He's going to lose everything In a year or two." "Who Hume one passed the door. was that?" Mrs. Denver asked. "I wasn't looking." "Some one passed the door." "Yea, I half saw them." Haskell came In after a while, "It's raw out," he commented. "Well, did you see Sally?" "Yes. She wont come hack." "Why imt?" "She saw the Rracebrldge children twice, she says." Haskell laughed nervously. "Payne, you'll have a chance to study rural psychology. The country people about here are very foolish over thla old tlian Bailors." place. They "So it seems." us go down and see that the t figures are safe. I get rather fidgety over them. With ali these stories about, ou never knows what depredations uilgft be attempted. I believe I'll have Iron that window ; then I'll 'sr I'ayne nodded. He rathf the expedition to the baaetu? followed Haskell reluctantly. The head of lawilaml academy bad already taken the key from its hiding place. He drew It from hla vest pocket, and opened the door with what Iayne thought rather a shrinking manner. The four wux figures were at their eternal tasks, with their little, secretive smiles which would never fade aa long as they endured, llaskell and I'ayne stood looking at them In the chilly room. "They're all right," Haskell said nervously, "t'ome, let's be going. Its as cold as a vault here. Yes, I'll have bars put on that window, and then I cun rest easy at night. Sally Welford is a fool," he added bitterly. I'uyne made no answer, but when llaskell had gone from him again on some errand, he started down the hill for another visit to the belfry of Lost- land church. That night he told Arthur Fleming that he thought he was at last on the track of the mystery which hui.g like a cloud over the academy. PATTERN The Man Who Hit tfc Bulls Eye flourished long amendment was made to the Constitution of tlie United Statei. Twenty years ago It was carried on In the mountains of West Virginia on a scale that made the government authorities gasp for breath. The general Impression of the moonshiner Is that of n poor white man who la wiping to take big chances in order to make a little Illegal money. This Is true of some sections, but at the time mentioned there were bold and unscrupulous distillers who csr-rle- jl it on as a business In a big way who made fortunes by the opera- ton. Wayne Gooch was one of these men. He was called "the King of the and there la no reason Moonshiner, i doubt that he was entitled to the distinction. The scandals grow to such proportions that the commissioner of Internal revenue at Washington determined It would have to be stopped at all hazards. The ninn he assigned to the Job was a fearless agent named Tom Kennedy. He laid several advantages. One was that he knew the mountains of Wc!t Virginia. Another wus that he wus a crai-shot. These things were Important, he- cause the iiinonxhlners placed small value on human life, Mlst of them boasted that they would not lie taken alive, and by tlie some token they would kill anyone who attempted to Interfere with their business. Kennedy determined to confront the Hon In his den. He made tip Ids mind to go to the Gooch stamping grounds In the guise CHAPTER VII of a government forester. When I'ayne drove to Hirndale sevMerely to he known as a person eral weeks later the expedition had who was connected with the governbeen twice sistpoiied Berenice, Janet ment in any enpnrity was taking a big and Arthur were with hlin, all of them chance, hut Kennedy was a man who In' rather high spirits at the prospect had been taking chances all his life, of a trip over the hills and back un- - and one additional chance meant lltttle to 1dm. He had two capable assistants with him, and he went direct to the cabin where the king of the moonshiners made his headquarters. He Introduced himself by his real name, niul he wanted to know what the authorities could do to help tlie cultivation of trees In that part of j the country: Gooch, who was a big, e bluff fellow, received him cordially enough, even though he kept his weather eye on this curious stranger. He said the soil In that part of West Virginia was not particularly adapted to forestry, hut he cheerfully offered to escort Kennedy about the country. It was Just whnt the revenue agent wanted. He kept his eyes and his ears open, and at the end of 24 hours was forced to confess that there was not even the sign of s still in operation. During that time the king entertained the agent In n royal fashion. One day they had a shooting mutch, with a dg target set up near the "I Didnt Have to Feed That Pig; cabin. Kennedy participated, and to He's Overfed Now." the great delight and ndmlrntlon of shadowed by Haskell's the king the visitor hit the bull's eye eye. lie had wild no more to Hcrenlce ' nnP tnirR 011t 0f ten. on n subject which she had made very Gooch wild Hint was Ihe best record clear to him wus distasteful ; but he ever made In that locality. hud watched her and Wilton Iayne as He parted with his guest with apa caged animal might watch two runreluctance. parent ning in freedom. He was seeing what Kennedy had played his cards so Arthur and Janet saw, too that well that he was not even suspected "Hamlet and Herenlce were treading by the king of the moonshiners. very close to the magic borders of They parted one night with expresromance. Iayne had even forgotten sions of mutual esteem. Kennedy had that the academy was nut like other no misconception of his man. He knew that If hla trre character places. It had become, indeed, merely a background for Herenlce's beauty, had become known he would have fur that tender yet strangely solemn been shot down like a dog. charm which Invested her and gave to This thought keyed him up to the her the quulity of a winged creature game he was about to play. who might at any moment vanish. She He left the cahln and the vicinity, seemed to have grown taller, quieter but he had proof that distilling was as if seeing In the distance the bea- going on on a great scale. Her guardian no cons of womanhood. He discovered that the stuff was longer wore his gurdenin, but 1nyne sent to the deiot In a truck at about often saw him pacing up and down midnight each night. the shores of the lake. So he Iny In wait with his two men niriulule wus a little, straggling and when the team arrived nt a certown; Imt after the loneliness of Lnxt-hiitain part of the rond he appeared In academy It seemed a populous the highway with a loaded and primed Wilton had the revolver. and exciting place. The driver and his assistant, taken key niude; and Juliet executed some emu missions for Mrs. Denver. They unawares, surrendered. lunched In a small restaurant, and In the meantime. Kennedy sent for and before another then Arthur pnqaised the movies. The waitress who answered their questions day had gm.e hy the king of the moonwas regarding the party with some shiners and Ills men had been taken Into custody. curiosity. WNU SrvlcL "Are you the teachers from Lostlund academy?" Counterfeit Wampum They said they were. Counterfeit watnpuin rame Into be"I heard the principal's goln' to maring with the white mnns arrival In ry Miss Hracebrldge." 1 am Miss Hracebrldge, and I as- - America when a family of European sure you there's nothing In the re-- Immigrants of Pnskack, N. J.. with the aid of steel drills and lathes, became port. "1 ask your pardon. The hired mnn proficient In making wampum from over there that great tall fellow-t- old the cheap, plentiful shells of the common Rusycnn conch of the Gulf const. my brother It was Haider. I suppose. He talks far This counterfeit Indian money as far west as the Mississiptoo much." Herenlce looked earnestly at the glrL "I wish you'd deny this re- pi valley. port wherever you hear It." Hawaii's Temperature "I will If that's your wish," ths waitress answered warmly. "I don't Hawaii, lying In mldocean Just like to he tulked about myself." wltliln the tropics, has a warm climate In tho motion-picturtheater, Hen throughout the year, though high enlce, who was seated beside Wilton, temieratnrca are prohibited hy the "I hope this report will north cost trade winds, which blow for whispered: go no further. It's Just like Hahler about nine months of the year. The to talk nud about things he Is Ig- mean annual temperature Is 71.5 denorant of. 1 wish be could be sent grees. The extremes are 54 degrees and 80 degrees. away." MOONS1I1NING are-wors- e "l-e- cock-and-bu- ll ViarJMn j j ever-watchf- ul ul j so' e TO BE OONTlNUm d 1SZ7 Twice ae much chic that's the fashion secret of tills cape ensemble. On the street, one likes a wrap of some sort, and a snappy detachable cape will do the trick I When removed, there's a truly smart frock. We'vo made a large sketch of tho frock so that you can study Its chic lines. The raglnn sleeves have as NO EXCUSE Inverted pleat for added Interest, tlie neckline la cut square and la finA newly rich man who had bought ished with a crisp bow pulled through a country house awoke one night to slashes, rieata lend delightful aniAnd that h!s watch had stopped, mation to the skirt. Print or monotone would be good In one of the whereupon he called the butler. "What time U It, Henry?" "The clocks have all stopped, sir." - "Well, go out and look at the " sun-dlaL- "Its dark out there, sir." "Well, you fool, cant you get a lantern?" Toronto Globe, No Crime) No 5tory lie choked her She was dead there could be no doubt about 1L He bad listened to her dying gasp. Now she was cold cold as the hand of death. All life had ceased. Yet in his anger he was not convinced. Furiously he kicked her. To his amazement she gasped, sputtered and begun to hum softly. "Just a little patience Is all It takes, John," remarked his wife from the rear sent. Knickerbocker. Lesser Evil Her It says here the piano Is returning to popularity and there is a growing demand for them. Him Ieople probnbly have decided crooning, and radio Jokes are after all, a lot worse than kids practicing and the banging of those who think they can play. Cincinnati Enquirer. NOTHING DOING new novelty cottons, In crepe, lines or silk. "I want you to meet a friend of Pattern 1S27 Is available In sizes mine who taught herself to swim In 14. 10 18. 20, 82, 84, 30, 88, 40 and 42. one lesson." Size 16 takes 4 89 Inch fab"If she Is so ugly she had to teach ric. Illustrated yards sewing swim I don't want to meet Instructions Included with each herself to pat her." tern. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) In Ambitious coins or stamps (coins preferred) An excellent chicken formed part for this pattern. Write plainly name, of the fare at a luncheon party at- address and style number. BE SURE tended by two parsons. After lunch TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle they noticed the cock strutting on the lawn. Pattern Department, 243 West SevenOne of the parsons snld : "That bird teenth Street, New York City. acorns very pleased with himself 1" "No wonder, said the host, "conTOO WELL QUALIFIED sidering one of his sons has Just Vancouver entered the ministry Irovinee. Congressman Want a Job, eh? What can you do? Constituent Nothing I That for Him Congressman Corry, but those "Listen, Big Boy," said the sweetie jobs are all taken long be was ueeklng, "1 don't mind being ago I You .must wait for a vacancy. kissed " Brooklyn Eagle. "Well," be retorted, "you're mighty klssablc." TO MATCH THE SUIT? "Yeah? she came back, "well, I'm mighty hungry, too, and I mind being fed even less than I do being kissed." step-by-ste- p 1 high-salari- An Expert Silas My new farmhand thinks that he knows more about farming than I do. Hiram He must be literary guy I One of them magazine writers Toronto Globe. Sunny Jim Blinks He always takes a cheerful view of things Jinks Yes, when our bout tipped over and he fell In the water, be laughed and said it was O. K. by him, as be Intended to take a bath when Wlfey I just can't find word! to describe my new bathing suit. he got home anyway. llubby Then why not try some abbreviations? Brilliant Idea Nurse Now, WlUle, swallow this Trouble powder. Flatfoot My son might hare been Willie Can't I just dah it on my face Instead like mummy? London President of the United States. Yesman Wliat happened to preAnswers. vent it? Flatfoot lie got married and his It Goes to Yonr Head "Yes, I know fish Is bruin food, but wife wouldn't let him go Into politics. Pathfinder Magazine. I don't care so much for fish. Ilaln't there some other brain food?' " Common Opinion "Well, there's noodle soup." Dubb I believe I shall have to give Obstacle Race up amateur theatrical They al"Is your son still pursuing hla ways make me feel I am making a fool of myself. studies it colleger Chubb I know; everybody feels "Yes, but he doesn't seem able to catch up with them." the same way. Pathfinder Magazine. |