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Show THR HELPER TIMES. HELPER. ,TTA" Jwmu m n .... . 'iT'S m FARMER WOMi a u f 1 The Recluse oi c. '.M-r- t 8T0RY FROM THE START torjt , ' V... Perspective View of Victoria Falls. shoot from the seething cauldron (Prepared by the National GeoKrauhtc Society. Washington, D. 0.) low. be- scenic attraction View From Danger Point. is undoubtedly the But the most thrilling scene is from on the the eastern falls of the Zambesi, extremity of the Itain Forline between southern and northest at Danger point, where the treachone the of three erous vines ern Rhodesia. This la and grasses, clinging to treatest waterfalls in the world, the rocks with hungry, desperate root, with and with rank to Niagara worthy tempt one to the very verge of the Igoazu In South America. precipitate cliffs that seem to tremble From immemorial times an atmoswith the terrific shock of the cataract. phere of mystery and superstition has So dense here at times is the mass of hung over these African falls, so provapor hurled from the seething caulfound that Livingstone, who discovdron that the sun's rays can no longer ered them In 1855, had the greatest penetrate it, and complete darkness difficulty In persuading his followers as he is deluged by the to accompany him, as they believed envelopes one downpour, while the terrific thunder the region to be the home of monsters of the falls drowns all other sounds and devils of destruction. Vestiges and makes his own voice inaudible. of these traditions still exist, although Occasionally a violent blast opens a o the railroad, which rift through the blackness and mist, crosses the river less than half a mile a momentary view of the below the falls, is rapidly dispelling disclosing waters in the boiling caullashing them. dron, whose heaving, battling surface Going by rail from Bulawayo one and pyramids of emerald foam change Bees, some 10 miles before reaching the with kaleidoscopic rapidity. falls, five enormous columns of vapor An interesting spot is the kloof, or shafts palm garden, hidden in the first of the shooting their roseate-tintehundreds of feet heavenward. This serpentine curves of the canyon below Is a marvelous scene In the early the falls and reached from the bridge morning. With the first rays of the risby a zigzag pathway, which descends ing sun comes a picture of color of In comparatively easy stages through a wondrous loveliness. Delicate tints tangled primeval jungle to the rushing of violet, crimson, and beryl play waters of the Here gorge below. through the mounting spray as it again nature, with lavish hands, has shoots higher and higher, ultimately shown her prodigality. Palms of enordisappearing as virgin clouds in heavmous size and variety, bathed by thunder eternal spray, en, while the with mingle so of the waters lends an added solem- - j other forest'growths as densely completely to nity to the view shut out the direct rays of the sun and Notwithstanding the magnitude of form a safe refuge for the richly Victoria Falls, the first view of them plumed parrots and monkeys that is disappointing. Although nearly a frolic in their branches. From the mile In width and 4(H) feet in height, of the waters of this tropic jungle the grandeur of their proportions Is edge an upward view of the falls enables eclipsed by the sudden disappearance one to appreciate them in their fu'l of the river as It plunges into a narheight and beauty, and to carry away row, rocky fissure extending across Its a lasting Impression of their majestic entire width. Only at a single central as seen from below. grandeur point is there a breach in this fissure The lip of the falls is broken by through which the falls can be seen four Islands, which interrupt its flow and appreciated in tiieir full proporas Goat island divides Niagara. just tions, where the converging waters The natives appropriately named the rush madly to the zigzag canyon befirst of these I'.oruka Isle "divider of low. So restricted is this view that waters." Between this point and the there is an entire absence of that shore the river channel is deep and and almost paralyzing effect and the leaping waters of which strikes the visitor dumb with shelving, the cascade rush with fearful impetuwonder and amazement when Niagara clear from the prebursts on his near vision. On first osity, shooting walls in their mad flight to cipitous sight of the Victoria falls one Involunthe abyss 250 feet below, while the tarily exclaims, "Oh, how beautiful!" echoing woods ring with the thunder but they lack the majesty of Niagara. of their boisterous glee. Must Be Seen Many Times. Formed by Erosion. No single visit can adequately reLivingstone, who discovered the veal the fullness of their charm, but falls, believed that some geologic catarepeated excursions must be made to clysm had opened a crack in the basalt their Islands and precipices, their grot- plateau over which the Zambesi flows and that the river, pouring into this tos and palm gardens, their rain forests and projecting crags, their raincleft, worked its way out on a lower level, leaving the great falls In the bows and cataracts and many-sideTiews of their exquisite setting in the narrow gorge. emerald framework of tropic forests, Geologists of the present day, howbefore their Indescribable beauty can ever, deny Livingstone's theory rebe appreciated. The fascination of garding the phenomenon of the formanew hidden charms tion of the falls, claiming that it Is and discovering from different points of view grows due entirely to the processes of on the visitor and becomes one of the erosion, and that the river, by Increasing friction through Innumerable greatest attractions. As the rainy season commences in ages, has gradually frittered to granuRhodesia In November and continues lar atoms the dense rock and engraved the deep channels of the tortuous canJn the form of tropical showers until April, the most advantageous time to yon. The basaltic rock which forms the greater portion of Rhodesia Is of fee the falls Is In May. when the seethvolcanic origin, proof of which Is ing torrents are at their flood. November also has Its attractions, when the evidenced in the great river is low, for then the chasm Is which have been poured out lu successive waves, covering the country in comparatively free from mist, disclosing vistas and views Of the great nbyss differing strata of varying porosity of rare beauty which before were hundreds, if not thousands, of feet wholly obscured by the whirling deep. Through this the percolating waters have deposited in the cavities columns of spray. the beautiful agales, chalcedony of vaThe bridge of the railroad Is the favorite point selected by rious hues, quartz crystals, and zeoartists, as the picture through the nar- lites that are found In abundance row gap at Danger point exhibits the along the projecting surfaces of these full extent of the angry waters as they awygdaloidal rocks, many specimens leap from the precipices to the abyss of which are found in the exposed below. gravel of the river bed. It Is said that these Katoka lavas. There is a hotel near the raiiwav. In consolidating, created a system of From Its verandas a magnificent i ;ir rama of the canyon and Butoka j shrinkage crack", with occasional long ,'"-,'or fractures, "faiililniiK," gorge can be seen.. A wain of half ' ni'n constituted planes (lf weakness mile brings one to "the kIu'e where the rain is born," as the natives mil j ,ui,t materially J.iciiitMert the erosive the Rain Forest. This Is a phenome- - action of the river. t,,corv Eon of rare beauty, especially to the correct, it Is pos- botanist, for here the tropic heat and 8'1,1r ,,iat t,ie fi':!i:r into which the ( constantly falling spray produce 9 i r'vir p.nnges i't tho falls Is due to a wealth of vegetation of wonderful i fauM plane, wher a vertical belt of luxuriance and variety. Every living ' compara lively soft material breaks the thing bursts forth spontaneously her ' contlnrliy of the h;;r!er basalt, nnd or v,"!(1' ('"niiecting with from the delicate maidon-halfiTtI to' f or same or similar charac-- i the the feathery-leafeotbers nnd u,e palm tcr, has l.c.-- wa.fu-i- out or hoary baoboh, 70 feet in eimnnM. j by th once. undermining .ction of the river, From the western extremity of t),,. thus explaining the complex plienome-and zigzag ennrons Rain Forest the leaping waters of the na of the cascade can be seen to best advantage, while lis entire front, bordering Willing to Hear on the great crevasse into which the Jerry You buw heard of the fight rher hurls Itself, furnishes a scp.-.:"tweee David lit;.! Iloiiath? view of the crest of the fall from 'hie I mm t read the sport page. end to end, except when lnterni:.t;d If It's some mo' s ..mlal lot by tve whirling masses of spray (hp. best-know- n THE Cape-to-Calr- d g d lava-flow- Cape-to-Cair- ! " I j j From the comfortable financial situation to which he had been born, Peter Mllman, American gentleman of the old school, and last of his family, is practically reduced to penury through the misfortune of a friend unwisely trusted. Learning of Brewer's suicide, which means the destruction of his last hope, Milman engages a French butler, Achille Lutry, who speaks no English, and is to replace Sneed, servant of long By Lutry. Mllman standing. sends letters to Prof. Fleming d Bradney, Floyd Malet and Barnes, men once of high In response, the three position. call on him at his home. Each relates the circumstances that wrecked their careers. Milman convinces them that their misfortunes were all due to one man, Paul Raxon. He explains how. rhlt'fy through his belief in Floyd Malet as a great sculptor and the victim of malevolent circumstances, he had subscribed to g a bureau and kept a detective on Haxon's track, learning much to Raxon's discredit, though nothing by which he could be reached legally. Nee-lan- press-clippin- CHAPTER IV Continued "I have none now. That Is hardly true. I have enough to live on in this house for three months. Then the mortgage will fall dfie. There will be an auction sale and an end of the New York Milmans" he paused unless " "Unless what?" Bradney demanded. "You complained a few minutes ago, and Justly, that I ha.d listened to your confidences and given none of my own. Very well. You shall hear me now. To begin with, I am prepared to abandon the conventions and habits of a lifetime In order to keep this home of mine. I was born here, and I wish, when my eyes are to close forever, to die here. I have suffered disappointments in my earlier life that have not made me nnxlous to go about and be pointed out as the I'eter Milman whose wife ran away from him. My life is here. I cannot face the world with equanimity after these solitary years where never an unwelcome person came to disturb me." Of the three wa'tching him, Neeland Barnes was conscious of the deepest depression. Milman had brought him here under false pretenses. All those dreams of future prosperity were idle ones. The man was almost as down nnd out as he himself. He must go back and try to persuade Lippsky to let him live rent free until something turned up. There was always hundred to hold against the bad day. "Well," said Neeland Barnes, almost sympathetically, "what are you going to do about it?" I'eter Milman's answer amazed them all. It w:is given In a way where doubt had no part. He was confident without being assertive. "I am going to get my money back from ltaxon," he said. "Rut you have said he's above the law," Bradney retorted. "And I mean it. I had not thought of Invoking that sort of law. There Is an older one." Malet looked at him In sudden comprehension. Long since he had seen something Iron behind the smile of host. This was not any the well-brelonger merely a quiet, middle-agegentleman who faced them. It was an avenger. Malet wondered the others did not see Milman as he did. Captain unver conic to lire ngain. "Don't you see," he explained, "Mr. Milman means that he Is going to get Ilnxon sonehow, law or no law?" The whole thing was now plainly discernible to til ni. To Barnes It seemed trat madness had seized upon the recluse of Fifth avenue. Peter Milman represented to him all the conventions of an established order, an order which frowned upon the ways of adventurers. "One man wouldn't have a chance against ltaxon," be exclaimed. "Besides that, Mr. Milman Isn't that sort of a man." "My dear sir," 'said Milman, nnd there was a queer smile on his face, "for what purpose do you suppose I have Invited to my house three men who might, but for I'aul ltaxon, have been rich nnd famous? Was It merely coincidental that you three should have been his victims, while I made up a fourth?' Peter .Mllman was by all odds the calmest of them all. Even Bradney, the slowest to be Influenced, experienced an emotion of excitement. "The only point now to be decided." Peter Milman went on. "is whether or not you will Join me." lie looked from one to the other of them with tlint curiously teady gaze of his. It was the expression that Captain r rinii lent him, an expression which would have been a puzzle to thoe who hnd known him well In other days. "Well, gentlemen, what Is It to be?" d ITe guests with no undue eagerness. a game of been have proposing might billiards or auction bridge. For the moment none of them could estimate with any exactness just what risks he was asking them to run. man of They knew only that this blameless life, distinguished family and assured social position was calmin a conly proposing to engage them some Paul Ilaxon from to take spiracy of those many dollars his unscrupulous conduct had won. "Naturally," Milman continued, "you are too much surprised to have your answers ready. You cannot believe that I am serious. Or you may think for unguessed reasons that I am trying to trap you into damaging admissions. I repeat in all seriousness that I have some inconsiderI am ruined. able assets which may be untouched, but all the things in this house of value and there are many will be sold because Paul Ilaxon ruined my closest friend. And he murdered him, was Milman's voice gentlemen." sterner now. "ltaxon has brought me to an Impoverished and friendless end. Unless I struggle against it, I shall Join those unnumbered victims his career has created. My proposition Is most certainly a reasonable one. Since Paul ltaxon by Illegal means or, let means has me say, InequitTible brought us to what we are and driven friend to a suicide's grave, I my purpose to pool our abilities and enthusiasms and make him pay something in return." Milman's remarks were addressed mainly to Bradney. He was assured of Barnes, and he had seen an eagerness about Floyd Malet. It was Fleming Bradney who was frowning. "This is too important a thing to "You settle offhand," said Milman. will, of course, spend the night here. Your rooms are ready for you. I will sny only this: if you want proofs that ltaxon Is the cause of your troubles I cannot give them. He Is not the sort of man who can be convicted by any If you want my ordinary process. word of honor as a gentleman that I am certain he is to blame, I give it to you readily." Milman pushed the button that summoned Achille Lutry. It was plain wished no further discussion. Only Bradney made a protest. "I'm In evening dress. I can't go back to the works like this tomorro-.morning." "I do not think you will ever go back there," Peter Milman said, smiling. "It may be that you think otherwise and will miss a day. If so, 1 have provided you against monetary loss. Come, gentlemen, be my guests tomorrow." "I wonder," said Neeland Barnes, "If I could have just a little brandy? I'm a bit excited with what you have said, and I'd like to make sure of a few hours' sleep. "Thank you," when Achille had been sent for the cognac. "Count on me tomorrow nnd the day after and as long as you like. If any moralizing coward tries to persuade himself that he hasn't got a grievance against Paul ltaxon. let him go home, set the alarm, get up at daybreak and punch the clock when the whistle blows." At the moment Neeland Barnes felt there was nothing he would so much like as swinging his right across to the point or P.radney's Jaw. Barnes considered that he stood in the li"ht of Milman's champion, lie owed ?t duty to so generous a host. "Gentlemen, gentlemen," said Peter Milman. "Please do not quarrel. Professor Bradney has risen superior to He has forgiven personal enmities. Raxon. I confess that I have not." Bradney looked coldly at Neeland Barnes. "Mr. Barnes," he said, "has courage and a tendency to quarrel. Most men have. It requires greater courage to estimate the risks of such an undertaking as this and then enter it without heat or rancor. I am not a coward morally or physically; and If Mr Barnes thinks so, he is as poor a judge of men as he Is of the consideration he owes a fellow-guest,"My fault, my fault entirelv," Barnes murmured. He had seen in Bradheys eyes no trace of r,.P. Ue was 5topjrlK Peter Mllman, "so better arrange to breakfast together at nine. You will 7Cm V .Strnnrrofii toW4. 114 uumeo most unusual form of greeting is the one accorded visiters by the Hvaks of i.orneo. as described by William Bi be, the noted mitiimiitt in . l ' h r- tide in Liberty. This I (yak holds true to the old primitive(jreet'ii,' Ll... that a guest must be v elcoilled With a gift," Beehe explains. "This gift Is a very modest one the writer continues, -- hut It is ,ko ery valuable. It is an ec- - Thrmi-I- ,. out the whole country, if v.mi tiii f.,vn, In the eyes of a tr:h.. . are for-many presented with an eg the CHAPTER V day of your arrival In a vin And lu the heart of ltnrni 'o, when. f, "1 ?i:imnn I ""n noil against the In the Hal ure of t It ;s, a in. .re (,r U't Colonial mantelpiece of undetermined amiutitv the uriier ni tuii.1, ..t.. Bud Of ft'-UU ut U l(ni!.e( r, .,! . a UlHtti.r for . , blj i.rii A ?.1 tnem. off sv.' 01 w th8 dairy ?as tired of' uuiucuo uie seemed her failing health. Sh8 fidence la herself 01- & L'' think I r and dressing gowns In rooms." your He shook them each by the hand. Bradney had the feeling of being sent to bed like a child. He did not get into bed when he had changed. He lighted his pipe and flung himself into n big chair. . He was no less excited In bis own way than Neeland Barnes. There was something under the courteous exterior of Peter Milrnnn which he bad not yet solved. Was the veiled promise to reinstate him the result of sane belief or a madman's vision of victory? He knew nothing about Peter Milman. Bradney's room was separated from that occupied by Floyd Malet by a He rapped at the door, bathroom. and was bidden to enter. "Sorry to bother you," said Bradney "but I'd like to discuss this thing with you. I'll admit the thing obsesses me entirely. Selfishly, I'm bound to say My life has only one love, and that's my work. If I thought there really was a chance of being able to get control of a physical laboratory again, independent of outside interference and subsidized to insure continuous experimentation, there Is nothing I would not do." Floyd Malet did not speak for a little while. Very much the same thoughts had passed through his own mind. "I don't mind saying," he remarked, "that my present existence Is so distasteful that prison has no horrors for me." "Exactly," Bradney said quickly. "Will it lead to prison? Y'ou see, we should not go to prison as heroes, but as miserable little blackmailers, or something of that sort.- - Is this man sane? That's the thing which bothers me. I've never heard of him before. What Is his family history? Is thU a great delusion? Has he brooded so long that he has become abnormal? lie knows about you and me and that ass Barnes, but what do we know of him?" "Let's ask Barnes. They have common friends, as we learned at dinner. I rather like Barnes. You can see lie's willing to be first or second murderer whenever called upon." Neeland Barnes was stretched on a chaise longue. Over bis pajamas was a rich lounging robe of blue silk. "Come in," he cried genially. He had entirely forgotten his temporary annoyance at Fleming Bradney, which had sprung less from dislike of him than a desire to come to the aid of Ids host. "Look here, Barnes," Bradney began earnestly, "tell me as a man of the world what you think Mr. Milman really means." "I think he's got a rilnn sleeve to trim this Raxon and share the profits with us. The Idea suits me down to the ground." "Do you think Milman is sane?" tiaven t a doubt of It. Why should find hair-splittin- s Is late," said we had "It A ture- - him. b-- j old New York had not according to traditional form in the United State W N C Senrloe "Noblesse oblige," he added suddenly. "A little excited." He waved an arm which Included the whole of the luxurious room. "Sudden change from a hovel furnished by a man called Lippsky. Went to my head. Haven't been Inside a decent house for years." He was relieved when Bradney smiled at (L-a- that ML' LjdiaT.,) Praise, HeaJihandSW Fifth Avenue b WTNDHAM MARTYN J night-gea- She took It falthfniw This woman, Mr gS1 Cora 9. Box 337, Oklahoma xvrites: "Everybody now Chr Short, what are you I weigh 135 and ray weife' bottles of the VegeS Other women who have to and keep things going may 1 mart tn rvottoi-- VianUk s w "c""-airs, IC through be faithful use of 5. Ask your neighbor. TV hnita. , 'ura' , R -- Bnsmed, puff. c,n uuneness - ..... inn. uiuua I -- and allays pain. Heals sores, cats, bruisei P1 boot chafes. Does not blister or n. V move hair. Horse can be worked wiita Ij 'am. ur JKt paid. Describe your case for ipedal instructions. Horse book free, found Bwe.ane Rono. W. F. YOUNG. 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"His amazing proposition for one seven successive generations 01 ot the thing. He doesn't belong to the crimi- f.inillw I1QV-- iivf.,1 nnd that is 1 property the nal classes, and to ever deed given yet he proposes to extract enough money from Raxon first settler of w to one that the back his own losses and endow Samuel I'inney, took from tne cabin la my laboratory and start h An Malet again before building his log Tin nnd give you a new chance. We know .all n, very well that ltaxon won't give ui money unless forced to. To use That's That clot EngHs force ?ame s to come under r culture ..,. i..i,i the frown of the PO'Di ciw. aw. I Ki1()rti It ,g fl culture "I don't care to have crImInaI d F the taking." Into tne." "Not as I look at It," said Barnes you?" 0 Iy ..., ,X,,D oSlw." my I,lnl"D 18 the law," Bradney nsls,ed, doesn't admit that. To the rest of the world he Is a great man " "We know he's a B0 wlult crook, d we care for the world?" Barne was evidently not to be shaken. P.nul-netried another tIK,c. lnsnniIthe Milman family?" I IB "''"jt y TO 0 vr MX liV CONTINUED) far trart Up? r uet Strange Velicome " . gan n as You CWt Fed f: Wc? th ;itI ' otigratulation. I'nrtlcularly a rrest vk, iiecause ft tines tin. ii,...!,,. ...... hi w a . Ir lv '" '" 1 ,nR,"-ve- racia by a o "n'"''e, Pu. , al- nnt ensiy '"POrtant 0 '"''ky I'Oltsmen ,,.11 11 Sl "". I ovu 1 . P; oll r DV lb war e , !:, :ir ( v-it- A common warning e- , i,v,u ney action is icanty or in a.M.t PMs lions. Doan 't their eliminative work. Are aj by usera everywhere. Ut, iat Mot ;lir ' p'y ; r" l,'l;N'1'' ': or Tr,;,., taowr. PI, IM bu.dcnson ..f When the kiJnrys .low ,fl blood an poisons remain in the " to make one languid, Hit" .f!fl dull headache.. di'neMan nagging backache. n-- y.. . "OUT tin ' ''.'f day at tl . fi"MrUt - ac- - Oli-vt- Af'T OVERWORK, lack 0 worry and A STIMt'I.ANT PtL'REI'lC e" ruMorM.llH,rnCarCW-P- fj iC.r ''is!, 15 Pi! |