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Show After giving these Clrectlons, the American, desperately fatigued and "Yes where?' mightily sleepy, Jogs his steed In the "We must take the back track," says direction of He Konsse, 20 miles to the the American. "We rode too rapidly northwest. In the moonlight, the dis this morning, thinking Marina was tracted man, though he dismounts just ahead of us, tor a critical Investi- often, dlsoovers no cyclamen flowers lylug in the road. But ho doggedly gation." "Get under way," answers the lieu- keeps on, hoping to find some of the tenant, and the two ride out of Bastla, flowers that may Indicate he is follow " making inquiries at every village and lug Marina. we have now to v clew the It's nothing. only learning In fact, the peasants, as they get Marina, and it may lead me to Cipri nearer are too ano, he mutters, as tie struggles to much excited over the election of the keep himself In the saddle morrow to talk about much else. Finally, arriving at Belgodere In the Is to be enlivened by a early morning and learning from the Voting-darace riot of the Lucchese," says one Innkeeper that no carriage has passed whom Barnes Is questioning on the through, exhausted, worn out and dis By highway Just where the Morosaglla appointed, even Barnes succumbs to road leaves It leading to the. Tuscan nuture. He has been 48 bours under Archibald Clavering Gunter sea. headway, 30 of these on horseback and A Sequel to Edwin has dismounted and is slouch eight of them climbing precipices; and ing, morosely about the road to ease despite despair and anxiety, slgep Mr. Barnes of New York claims him the terrible sleep of utter his tortured legs. 'Why don't they wipe out these mu exhaustion. It is late when he opens his eyes tinous Lucchese?" says the officer in Author of "Mr. Barnes of N.w York." quarterdeck tones as they get on their again and with a start wonders where "Mr. Potter ef Teus." ' he is. He looks over the brilliant horses again. ThU Frenchman." .Etc "Then the native Corslcans would mountains, be sees the vines and only have to work. These Lucchese come a few miles away, the waters beside over here from Italy and do the man which stands Isola Itossa. The InnCopyright, WW. Dodd Mead Co. M. If. ual labor for them, But I can find no keeper says "Breakfast, Slgnore," and SYNOPSIS. trace of your loved one or of mine," serves him with crabs and lobsters almost despairingly, as from the Gulf of Florcnzo. Mine host's Burton II. Barnes, a wealthy American adds Barnes, touring Corsica, rescues the young Eng-lla- h they ride along the road, their In little daughter places a bouquet of llHutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruthmore close and per- wild flowers on the table. In It er, and his Corsican bride, Manna, quiries growing sistent till they reach Corte. gleams the red cyclamen. Barnes redaughter of the J'aolls, from the that hi vendetta, understanding members and orders a fresh horse. the poor disconsolately, Together, tlie he be hund of the reward la to girl While this is being saddled he forces loves, Knld Anstruther, sister of the Eng- o fellows force themselves to try to eat, lish lieutenant. The four fly from AJac-ciThe election excitement is growing himself to eat "Anstruther has not to Marseilles on board tlie French steamer Constantlne. Tlie vendetta pur- higher, a brass band comes past, at its followed me," he reasons. "I'll have a sues and as the quartet are about to head a placard, "Vote for Sallcetl!" long ride to overtake him and when board the train for ixjitrlon at Marseilles, we meet Cipriano Danella I want to be note and Barnes gnashes his teeth.' Marina la handed a mysterious which causes hex to collapse and necessBut turning 'from this, he rather fit to kill." Mounting a fresh steed, itates a postponement of the journey. he gallops of!, retracing his steps, all Boon curiously says suddenly: "Anstruther, Barnes and Knld are married. after their wedding Barnes' bride dis- you've got a flower in your button the time in his heart one question: she has discovers Barnes appears. "Where is my stolen bride?" been kidnaped and taken to Corsica. hole." The groom secures a flailing vessel and The night before, Edwin, turning to "Oh, yes, I was so miserable I hardly 4a about to start in pursuit of his bride's was doing. I picked up the east, begins to climb the awful hill what I knew scream from a he hears when captors the villa and rushes back to hear that this crimson thing in the road when leading to the Morosaglla. A few minAnstruther's wife, Marina, is also missto the peasant who utes after he has left the Corte road, ing. Barnes la compelled to depart for you were talking 'Corsica without delay, and so he leaves was telling you of the Lucchese riots in the faint glow of the coming moon the search for Marina to her husbanti down at Orezza." light, he springs off his horse and while he goes to hunt for Enid. Just before Barnes' boat lands on Corsica's "There was no tree bearing the flow utters an exclamation of delight shore Marina Is discovered hiding In a er where you picked it up?" asks the As he pulls himself sailor fashion corner of the vessel, fthe explains her action by saying she has come to help American suddenly. into the saddle, he has a branch Barnes rescue his wife from tlie Corel-canbelieve I not. I don't of crimson flowers in his hand. think "No, Marina When Barnes and arrive In Corsica he Is given a note written by there was a shrub of any kind within He Is not certain even now that Knid Informing 'him that the kidnaping Is fer the purpose of entrapp'ng Karnes a hundred feet of It Why do you they indicate Marina; though they so the vendetta may kill him. Barnes ask?" for the other's tone is excited. have fallen from no overhang Mid Marina have unusual adventures in "Why, because that's the cyclamen ing bough, only beech and Larrlccio In their search for Enid. They come eight of her and her captors In the Coral-ca- n flower, one of the kind of which Ma firs being near him, he knows cycla mountain wilds just as the night ap- rina bore whole branches in her car men flowers are very common in the proaches, in seeking ashelter from anda there a branch attached Island, and the little barefooted boys storm the couple enter hermitage riage. Was ' there to their amazement they discover to It?" and girls sometimes carry them In Tomasso, the foster father of Marina, "I think there was. Hang it, I re their hands. who waa supposed to have been killed by De Belloc's soldiers, and for whose death member, I pulled it off. I what are In the group of hamlets on the hill Barnes had been vendettaed. Tomasso sides called Morosaglla, Anstruther learns that Marina's husband did not you driving at?" Icill her brother. Many wrongs are right "Well could that flower have been does not pause. ed. Barnes Is surprised in the hermitage But as he reaches the confines ol dropped at the entrance of the Moro-sagll- a y Rochinl and Romano, the two detested bandits, who had been searching for road with design by your wife the village, the young husband starts him to murder him for hi money. The and hrs eyes, which fatigue had dulled, bandits attempt to take away Marina. out of her carriage?" Barnes darts out the door. The bandits The English seaman gasps for breath, glisten with hope. Here are two paths, alart to pursue, but as they reach the but tired as he is and stiff as he is he a trail leading to the north, the othei door both are laid low by Barnes' revolver. Members of the Bellacoscla enter staggers , up and says hurriedly: and broader one pointing east toward and Barnes Is honored for his great service to the community in killing the hated "Come!" and the two, through the the Tuscan sea. Along the latter, cyc The release of night again, for it has grown very lamen branches have been dropped Knrhinl and . Knmano. . . r.niu is nrumiseu.i ioarnen iis winrjmi m several times In a short hundred yards. to Marina Boccgnano. acquaints dark, ride down to triumph Hellacosrta with Ballceti's plot the I wish we ad hope of Their number is significant, they heaven, "By are galnst her husband and the people instructed to vote against him at the my sister also," says Edwin as they have been strewn quite continuously from the forks of the road. "My dar coming election. Barnes Is taken to the manslod of the I'aolia to meet Enid ling's message to me," murmurs An Marina receives a telegram. She starts for Hunt la to meet her husband. Enter struther, and rides as hastily as his is ing the room to greet his wife Barnes La tired though wiry little horse will take bewildered to find the adventuress Bella Blackwood, but not Enid. She had him. been substituted for the American's bride The branches of the "by a shrewd plot. Lieut. Anstruther arrives to find Marina and learns that she he still encounters on the trail posies has been lured away by the telegram hurry him up hill and down hill, over which had been sent by another without .his knowledge. The two start in search of running mountain streams, through Marina. wooded vales. Yet at least Nature must have its meed despite all efforts CHAPTER XVI. Continued. So they spring off their horses and of the rider, his bead droops and bis dear old Monsieur Staffe, recognizing figure becomes lax In the saddle. Hla steed with a whinny of joy al the American. Is about to offer them most runs down into a little valley and rooms when they both suddenly ques tlon him and learn to their concern drawing suddenly up before a high that no lady has arrived from the In campanile stone building, Anstruther falls off his horse into the arms of a terlor this day at hla hotel. "She is drawn by two horses driven good Monk of the Convent of Pledlcroce, who mutters; "Thank the by an old Corslcan with a beard sev eral weeks old, says Barnes. Saints, you got here alive In time to drink the water of Orezza." For An"It doesn't matter how she was driven ; no lady has arrived here, gen struther's appearance between fear tlemen." ful fatigue and racking anxiety is now "Then Marina must have gone to in that of a man nigh onto death. The hospitable friars put the Invalid quire at the steamer offices as to when to bed and at high noon the next day I'll arrive," cries Edwin. "Mon Dleu!" ejaculates Monsieur the Invalid, after another glass or two of the famous youth-givinOressa wa Staffe, his eyes lighting up, "you are Was She Matter How Doesn't which here springs bubbling from the young English naval officer whose "It ter, Driven, No Lady Has Arrived Here, the wedding to Mademoiselle Paoli created earth, eats the noonday meal the Gentlemen." such an excitement in the island two good friars set before him, rises, gives weeks ago.. Believe me. Monsieur, hurry along, though the poor sailor them the blessing of a strong man and your wife Is not in Bastla, or I should has difficulty in keeping himself In the hurries on. have heard of It. Everybody here bon saddle. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ors the name of Paoll and your sweet "I have a little," answers Barnes. Bootblacks In Livery. "You think Enid might be with Ma spouse is very much loved for her own Is a new office building In There self." dear rina?" Wall street that Is piling luxury on Despite Monsieur Staffe's assertions, "Yes, if Cipriano Danella has her. the two young men stride out of his He apparently wants a chance at my luxury in the way of fittings and gen hotel, and though desperately fatigued, life If Sallcetl misses It. He may have eral accessories to the point where It make inquiries at the offices of the taken Enid to some out of the way bids fair to be a close rival to the marand the Florlo Ruballlnlo place, so that striving to find her I ble and plush palaces of hotels up Fralssln town. The latest outbreak In this companies, but no lady asking for ar- may die In his vendetta." direction is the uniforming of the boats has been all at So there, he and Edwin walk their horses official riving bootblack of the building In a events, none answering Marina's de up to the Junction of the Morosaglla pages livery, blue trousers with road. scription. piping on thi teams, a page's "We may have passed ber on the "Did you find that flower here?" be gold snort tunic with ever so many round road," remarks Darnea sympathetica!- asks Edwin. gilt buttons down the front and ly, his anguish making him feel for his well toward the middle dark blue "Yes, pretty straight vtsored cap with companion. "We'll give her two hours of the path." the name of the that owns to come in and overtake us two hours Thov h the moon has Just risen they the structure In company gold letters on the of rest," the poor fellow stretches his can fluS no more cyclamen blossoms Of course, this bootblack limbs wearily. "I'm floBh and blood and here a sudden complication con Is an Italian, and he looks ex page Anstruther. You didn't climb tnoun fronts them. Another road leading totremely hot and uncomfortable In his tains all yesterday, as I did." . ward the northwest and running to coat But Edwin, being unaccustomed to Novella, Belgodere and the He Ilousse, padded horseback leaves exercise, though wiry also the Bastla roud at the same Yes, Why Not? . enough upon the ship's deck, is stiff point. . Not long ago a play and sore. Compelled from very fa "It is Just as probable that Marina's wrlght decided that he would like to to men contrive tigue, the young limp course was directed toward the north have a theater of his own la which back to the Hotel de France, where west as toward the east. In fact, it Is to produce his own plays. He dldn'i which way your wife went," have money enough to build it, but he hey are very well taken care of, and a toss-ufwo hours' sleep measurably revives remarks Barnes. "Now, there Is only hnd a wealthy friend In "Wall street them. Dames has had a shave and one way to settle It, If this cyclamen As soon as the Idea set to on him, would look almost debonair when he flower means anything. That Is for the playwright visited Wall street and comes down to breakfast at noon, but you to investigate one road and I the laid the scheme before hla friend. The the cavities which hold his eyes ab other." Wall street man put hla feet on his So it is arranged that Barnes takes mahogany desk and listened attentivenormally brightened by anxiety give the He to any appearance of lightness the road toward the He Housse, and ly. He admitted that he had a few Anstruther Is even more worried Edwin follows the path leading to the hundred thousand dollars lying around than before and now aa the day eut toward Morosaglla. loose, yet wasn't particularly Cnthusl draws on, without his wife appeal ing, "If I find no more of these flowers astlo on the theater project "Why a look of fear comes Into the young going toward the northwest, I'll return write plays?" be demanded, at last man's face that Is horrible. here and follow rou," remarks Burton. "WrIU checks." P?C1 mSTORY I Z NEW MEXICAN AMBASSADOR Gazing at hlin, Barnes mutters: "Are you flood for another wolf Mr. Barnes, n ride" AM! RICA New Haven, Conn. The American citizen of the future is to be a giant, according to the statistics of the athDr. Born, medical letic instructors. director of the Yale gymnasium, lias made public the 1908 statistics of development In the university. For the comparisons 600 athletes from the crew, the football and baseball teams, the track men and the student athletes generally were measured. The general average- is compared with the averages taUen in 1903, and the 1908 averages are generally higher than had been expected. The new college man has grown an Inch and one-hain five years. He has gained 27 pounds In weight and has 72 cubic inches more lung capacity than his prototype of five years before. , The list bears out the assertion, commonly 'made during recent years, that the American man was becoming Rreater physically than any known race of men has ever been. measurements The comparative given out by Dr. Born are: , y i, a $ ic. V lf : 'vmr.m- ' 3 m. K mur-idero- s. ; Ponte-alla-Lecchl- sweet-smellin- well-know- g THREATENED WITH GIANTS. College Boys Growing Larger Every Year, According to Statistics Gathered at Yale Tests of Ten Years Ago, ronte-alia-Lecchi- American IS A RACE OF r y s ... l.uiiK rapacity Shoulders Neck ,. Fbetograph copyright by Cllnertlnrt, Wuhlnaton. D. Clu-s- d t Inspiration WatHt 1903. fii.9 in. 170.5 Ihs. ItelRht WeiKlit 314 , ,. !7 15 8S S W.ln. 149 lhs. ru, In. 272 oil. Ill 5 In. In, 14.1 In. In. In. 35 In. In. S7.S In. 29.7 in. 40.1 In. SI 6 In. Senor Don Francisco de la Barra succeeds Senor Creel as ambassador from 13 1 in. In. 11 the United States. Senor de la Barra has represented his country Bleeps 10 In. Kim-ar11.2 In. as minister to Belgium and Holland for the last three years and before that night thlRh 21 22.9 In. In. 14.2 In. 14.3 In. HlKht ralf he was minister at Buenos Ayres. The most thorough tests made In this country were published ten years ago when statistics were taken from many sources showing the gradual Increase in height and weight of American men and women. Then the average height was found bine can develop speed that will make MAKING FOR DISCOVERY NEW to be about 68 a Inches; chest measthe records of the Lusltania and WOOD PULP PAPER. fade into comparative insig urement, 38 Inches; with Inflated nificance. Mr. Testa, when, found at chest 40 inches; waist, 28 Inches; hip. 32 Inches; thigh, 21 Vi inches; calf, his office, said: Invention of a Minnesota Professor by "I cannot Imagine how knowledge UM Inches, and weight, 160 pounds. Then it was said that a glance over of this. turbine leaked out It is true Which Product Worth S7.50 Is I 20,000 have In college men showed an avsucceeded an developing Made to Yield 180 Like In weight for 40 years Increase enormously high degree of speed with erage Distilling Sugar. a gas explosive turbine, and even of three pounds and an average InI invented it I will say lt'a a crease In height of an inch, with the Minneapolis, Minn. One of the most though corker. It will outspeed anything freshman classes showing two Inches of the discoveries industrial significant Its capabilities are bound-leas.- " better average than their fathers had and afloat, age was admitted the other day by shown. The average was likewise Dean George B. Frankforter of the shown to have gained an Inch In Asked what he meant boundless by college of chemistry of the University and Ave pounds In weight. height Mr. Testa said: capabilities, of Minnesota. The records have not been kept with I am not prepared to go Into the It means, says experts, that the secret of this turbine, but it will drive any uniformity either as to agea and United States will produce a hundred a vessel of any size, no matter how numbers tested, or as to form of rewas as wood as times much pulp paper but the cording the measurements, believed possible. It means that every rough the water, at an Incredible general Indication la that the human rate of This be said of can't speed. cord of fir lumber will yield ten dolfamily, as typified by the American ether things afloat lars' profit on alone, and 1 am boy, Is growing and developing college "When to ready give public that the. greater part of the 60 per In height and In the genin weight, find will trials that you my turbine cent of a tree now wasted, will be will revolutionize eral points that go to make up the sea and travel going turned into dollars and cents. It units of strength. means huge plants and new Industries. cause builders of Dreadnoughts to sit None of the new averages for womand take notice. The turbine will A prominent lumberman is almost up American In speed en has been produced, 'but the last the give supremacy the sole sharer with Dr. Frankforter on the seas. It will exceed 60 knots general record showed an average of the process. So convinced is he of height of five feet seven Inches, hour when I have finished my an the enormous commercial value of the weight of 125 pounds, bust of from 28 to 36 inches, waist of 24 inches and discovery that an experimental plant will be constructed this summer In the neck of 13 inches. . New Rifle Has Electric Lights. west to be followed immediately by Springfield, Mass. A rifle equipped the building of a mammoth plant Needle, Not Neuralgia. with an electric light which will enDr. Frankforter has experimented on able a soldier to aim at Sayre, Pa. After being In her body night Is being these processes for 12 years. The per tested at the government arsenal here. so long that she cannot remember how fected process consists of taking small A email battery ,1s carried on the un- or when It entered, a No. 8 needle pieces of waste wood or sawdust lay der side of the stock and wires con- worked out of the neck of Mrs. D. E. ing It on a steel Incline over a furnace nect with two tiny electric bulbs at Shannon, of Canton. and subjecting It to a chemical process the end of the barrel. By pressing a , For the past month she has had of distillation. Carbon dlsulphlde, or button the shooter turna on the lights severe pains In her back and neck, and thought they came from rheumagasoline, Is poured over the sawdust, and is able to see In the darkness. disolvlng the turpentine and resin Two guns thus equipped recently tism or neuralgia. which pass off aa gases Into a coll of have been shipped from the arsenal, The other day, while rubbing the pipes leading to a tank. and it Is rumored that they went to back of her neck with a lotion, she The process is similar to the distilla President Roosevelt for use on his felt the needle. It was extracted by a tion of sugar. Wood pulp remains free African hunt. physician and the pains at once ceased. from pitch, and eminently suitable for "We row in the same boat," said a the manufacture of paper. The existThere are a great many who aspire, ing method of distillation left the pulp literary friend to Jerrold. "True, my In the form of charcoal. Dr. Frank- good fellow, we do row In the same hut ffwer who perspire in their forter extracted from one cord of Nor- boat, but with very different skulls." way pine, worth $7.50. turpentine worth $41.60 and wood pulp worth $39, or RULER OF BULGARIA a yield of $80 from $7.50 worth of raw material. The story of the discovery reads like a story book. Walking one day in 1890 through the pine woods of the northern part of Minnesota, Dr. Frankforter noted an old atump. which gave out an odor strangely unlike that of the ordinary turpentine. He took a sample back to the university, showed it to a friend In the faculty who happened also to be a friend of Weyerhaeuser, and mentioned his desire to experiment further. Within a week a milk can filled with the pitch of the Norway pine for It was that which he bad taken home--was sent him. He set to work. The then known process of distillation consisted In boiling the wood until the pitch was separated and the wood left as charcoal. Neither of these substances had much commercial value. He then happened upon the present process. Later he erected a small ex. lew 4r . perimental plant near his home, and capitalists Interested came to his assistance. The discovery of the process of making wood pulp came like a flash. Mexico to i WEALTH IN WASTE Mau-retanl- -- . . TESLA INVENTS NEW TURBINE. Capable of Speeding Ships 60 Knots an Hour, It Is 8ald. New York. Nikola Tesla hna an explosive gas turbine which will propel sea going vessels at from i forty to fifty knots on hour. For several days experiments have been made secretly at the works of the American and British company V:--i , at Bridgeport Conn., with a craft having the apitearance of a torpedo-bon- t The experiments have destroyer. Czar Fsrdmsnd of Bulgaria standing Dsfore his rustle armchair on a rock proved, It Is said, that the new tur- - overlooking the sea. |