Show Around the a Compass Popular Stock Stories of the North South Sou t East and nd Vest West WestBy VestBy VestBy By VEX WEX JONES THE TIIE WORTH SOUTH ff HEAT BEAT fakes Bakes of ot snow Inow were falling a as 1 relentlessly and silently ag as bullets M from troma a Maxim soundless gun Ever and anon and sometimes in be between between tween teen Pierre Lapage looked anxiously at atthe atthe atthe the heavens only to receive a snowflake ake in inthe n the eye i I muttered mu Pierre striding with renewed speed along the fast I Ins In nc trail which led to the village of Cham Champlain Champlain Champlain plain No wonder Pierre hurried d He was to marry nose Rose Casserole at C G that evening and It was now with twenty long miles to be traversed and the snow now falling falling like Inter Met et What was to be le done The worth had hardened its beart heart against this solitary voyageur and 2nd what can one one man do t the tho Great White World But Pierre did not Dot give up Chopping down a tree with 1101 wf h his knife he hastily JIt a e 0 HaM r constructed a rough roun sled lIed Ie J and pulled him himself himself self rapidly over the snow Fifteen miles from the Tillage he be captured a large larbe moose moos and bitched hitched It to the sled aced with a string of strong French words Then he clambered up a tree and obtained a 8 large Canadian r lynx which be he b held beld ld behind the moose terrified brute leaping forward like an air airship airship I ship Thus Pierre Plane arrived In Champlain Cb at just Jest in Ume to prevent Rose R se from be becoming becoming coming Mr Mrs r Jacques Cartler Cartier I thought you verent coming explained Rose simply sim Pr ply And Aud up in the Lapage cottage they will m show YOU yon the moose bead upon tie the e wall WAil as proof of ot Grandpa Pierres famous ride THE SOUTH S JuanIta was 1 U very beautiful Not ot one of the young yoong men In the lied Mexican can village but loved lored her bar be Every evening one might be found at her window seren adios her he in passionate pa song Not on 00 many evenings however would it be bethe bethe bethe the same caballero for tor cousin Francisco had a way of remonstrating with witha a knife and Vend the little cemetery was waa al already already ready becoming uncomfortably crowded One evening a new voice Tolee rang out be beneath beneath neath Juanitas window It melted in the tender lovesong loveson of Jf f Oa ba Mexico Tamale Mia lIa and cousin looked out In to time to see Juanita drop a rose to the singer hlf ed Francisco It Is that Americano I will kill him And the tiers fiery Mexican proceeded to sharpen bia knife on a pat nat of 0 butter flutter The Tte following evening FrancIsco heard beard h rd the strains of of Tamale Mia Ula beneath window Knife In n hand he crept around the corner and threw himself upon the singer It was a phonograph The Americano fell upon the startled Francisco and bound him hand band and foot toot and then the other hand band and the ether other foot toot Juanita Is now the rl h wife and ani Francisco works upon the Americanos rubber plantation lie Is s the best I they have THE EAST EASTwo No wo you yon can NOT merry marry my mT daughter The speaker was old Jay wh own owned d the Midland Idland Pacific c iI I think your statement is III inaccurate Mr HurlbUt said young Ed Binge Blago who was poor and therefore probably honest Inaccurate shrieked Yes I married Beryl Deryl this morning Then out you both get It was ten years later that Midland Udland Pa Pl Pacific cine dropped like Ilk a n busted airship Old was wall dumfounded The rhe Interests Int had almost completed a subway running across acron the continent exactly unde the M P I Ruin stared him in the fat f face e which showed that ruin care Bare much what It looked at In a week 1 eek the two sections sec sections I 1 of or the subway s would be Joined in Dakota It was at this juncture that Bingo was announced Ah you have haTe come to gloat over my misfortune said aid the financier No So replied Bingo to save saTe you Impossible Easy answered Bingo In my mr Dakota home I 1 have bue been digging far tor gold In I ten years I have havo dug a bole hole l feet fet deep and aud miles mile long Iou It ia is my hole bole and the subway cannot erase s it Consequently the work the have done dono ia is worth worthless less leas Saved gaTed cried the old railroad kin king I quick to grasp the tho possibilities We wil get the subway for nothing run it through this hole bole and be a billionaire In a II year You mean we will wUl be billionaires said s d Bingo Kt yes I 1 mean we of ot course and Bingos Midland Idland Pad Pa CI c Subway shows Increased earnings cv ev e year and In a II short time will ne De connected with their San l and Ne New tunnels tunnel As for Beryl she resist the bar bargains bargains bargains gains Dakota offers oTers in TUB T oJ WEST WUST There is something in the wild lid open spaces of the West that makes for tor liberty Everything la is free in the West except the drinks and cigars Jack Shelley Sheller felt something of this free tre freedom dom data as liS be he rode slowly over the desert rt Its different from Bridge be hI said to himself as tie de blew a pull of cigarette smoke In the face of ot a II rat rattlesnake ratI I ke keI I Looking around In surprise as ag be he heard several footprints Jack was astonished to toi tolee i I tee see a t beautiful girl spurring her bronco i i madly to escape the rush of a I huge tiger tl tI er erI i Ha Ta Ji cried Jack to the rescue and she j he be made his horse houe clear olear leal the hedge of ger which stretched as far tar as the eye could roach reach As the horse rose roan r to clear the Jump Jomp Jack Jark was horrified to discover a n 1 deep lake nn in inthe the other r file sae I Jr and he ff struck ti t with i i MJ K pl jest a Ail as a I Cin knocked him from the saddle Reaching up Jack pulled the bell an aM anthe I the motorman promptly prompt stopped the eleva clovee elevator elevator tor with such a jerk that the elephant fell teIl off ell the roof root and alighted on Jacks chest cheat where It napped flapped its wings and began M to t S whistle San SaD Antonio Just a touch of the aunt sun said the C I c tor Hang Haag It said Jack it half b lf fit er exciting ai u any one ODe of ot the WesterI Ive lv read |