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Show '' F ITAII CACHE AMERICAN. rolvea a manufacturer of forbidden frtrlti who paid on hundred ihou and dollars In kidnaper. Tile, men actually m irclo-h.ta into h hank and aloud hy, piMula conceal l in their liockets, while Hie xlrtl, got the nmury and handed It over I the prcM'iuw of the ylce pretldei i of the bank, unaware, of rourse, i the w hole In lit true si, udlctuce. -Why md light baikr I askid thla vlcliim -- loll huiided over the looney but you know who got it. Why not tight I've a wile and children," be tiinply. "What'a money, with I heir lives at slake I" Jack "la g." Diamond wat t bootlegger. lie was an Interesting one In that to the het of my knowledge he wat the first of the tnhe to tny the urban problem on the suburban doorstep. Ilia trip Into the ("atsMIl mountains wrought Dot only hit own death but a terlea of Save Vegetables, Caeeariaa. startled by Ciby acreech and feeling th sting of lb lash, shot ahead. Corky left foot scrolled against the top roll of th were Infleld feuce; but they 88 UK. M hh through, sad . . , aawt Charles Francis Coa Simple Screen Set in Sun ly C Th roar of th stands its Ilk I5y George ( -' in Kloc t I and Author In a thunder ears or Modern Cabinet Get faraway Corkys f Mi. 1m " Goi'., three borora and their riders flashed Good Results, VMa . 'Km itoitl n under th wlr with a last j W M Ftf tllG Cf HOIM. won? ft? feftfiam effort Had b totitUnu, IIE biggest Icuiun as over Corky didn't know, It was clone, I M S II (wtkhf ou a face track." Uortly rQ rlose. mighty KIDNAPERS AND la a altnplv and economical Diylng Zippy" Tanner, Hit Sunrise Knurling and shaking his brail, method of r stable s Irsiiier, Indicated a chestRACKETEERS prcKi-tig vegetables and Caesarian, gulping air with wid fruit use. Dried prod for nut gelding breezing along th rail extended nostril wluirr slowed to a walk, AHTH-I.ucu keep writ, refresh and rook Kin. on Lalunla race Hack. turned and ranlered back to th urno oml I'lilillrlu'il at "Yes." grinned Ial Calhoun, the easily and ara usually of good The pagoda In th Judge' stand. l l rlmraor nnw and fiat or. stable cuutrset Jok. and with Infleld showed nuruher three. CaeThry ar easily n l Ailauu Crky Milam on bis back It' a lemon sarian's number, to the one hole and stored ainrt they ar about on lli It ili iHiliirlout s'tr-Ilfifth of th frrsh product In alt rode by a Jinx." Hie number above read 1 :38 ent to (iriMin not for and weight. Thera I no question Jiii i nothing," Zippy shook hla Fondly, exultantly. Corky palled of bootlegging. or for racketeering, or heed sadly. Corky can rid But the lathered neck of hi mount. vegetable being wf for narcotic Irjlllcliig, or for heo they ar dried. hla gnl sent In a spill and now he The winner's circle once tour Provided vegetable needs aa and fruit gamMing and vice ring or for murRivtr Transportation In British Guiana. big enough for a knew Corky. He raised his whip der. Ila wont to iiriton because he ar quickly and thoroughly dried cavalry troop." and Caesarian the osaluting Judge rri-itz Some of the great tree tr most !(?. and stored away from Insect ther muwl lo d, villa with lit federal Crimea that left that Tbe trainer aaa right, and DO looked n Wal)itMlun, II, C. VIM; Kriir, straight Into their eye la do doubt aa lo their keciln qualone knew It better or more bitterly of the govrrmoent Ilia HUH IS1I expedition recently arresting. There Is the stilted Ire In Ihe ihroet of terror. Dismounting, Corky grinned at or awaxnkull, whose route thrust Ilian Kinil iiod rn actlviile n othor word, Itle Men were tortured on the highMilam, otherwise Corky, Slim. explored a new region a lilt crime ii evading the Income ways; others were kUlnaiu-d- . of themselves high shove the ground a nickname bolding over from the Equipment for drying may vary The aoo-oamong the "You a said Slim, gun," you and Incline lo form a pyramid sup lax. day before tbe apll! which bta cry. sure did It, but, boy, you blame near from th simplest screen act In th country was roused to fever pitch. I0U to 2t0 feet forest giant lu Bruporting on Its aiiex the tall, straight It It common knowledge that t Ills That section preferred applcjuck to Hull over or Ill cork you," did nol sh Guiana. gav me heart failure when you sun, Ukid boxes or chair to cuptrunk. Another striking kind Is man had a revenue lu good board Ilk arrangements with sevthe Here, Indeed, was a place worth prevent. liquors of their urban went through that knothole on th jeart the fluted tree or yuniru, with thr not far from f iro.onti.ouii. Three mouths later doctors a eral Of tliia brother. Jtck tried to coutrol the tray using artificial best. very effort lo Investigate a mll--nroll." he ki'it va-- t turn and paid rant tpplejack Irulllc. Iieprlved of bootChief consideration ar protection set of green ex- whole length of Its trunk marked b) sured him he was again Ilk new. was "It chuckled clone," Corky, longitudinal groove as If It But th old iVirky was gun Tolo'". It It the exHrience of tlilt leg money, be bad to replace It tome tending for several thousand square deep but the old screech startled Dunk from dust and (lie high tempera were composed of a thick bundle of erant horsemen wrl!i-- r Unit Hie rrook who an vet 0 him to Into giving us room." lures and free circulation of dry sir, War broke out. Jack died ml let, and teeming with a life which way. expected r More abundant rent of hit groat revenue la a broke. Only recently bit widow was was biologically unknown. Lured smaller sapling A doping roof with a heat reflectout of It, but when bl riding snap but none the less attractive la thr showed no fortunate rrok. No rrMk operates found murdered lu tier bed. bv It promises, a group of men desurface makes for a higher trm ing Improvement, mounts b Two hours later the bale of straw llhout prot iii Ion If he oieratea Hutch" Schultz, beer baron of cided to examine an area of forest mora, the Immense trunk base of came few and far between for lo front of Caesarian's stall was pern tu re than a horlxoulal surface. Is which drawn out Into buttresses with Miceesi. The cot of that pro- New York's Bronx, found things ou the right hunk of the Kssequlbo Fairly mature vegetables and supporting the forms of Corky and like the witches' teats of Channel Corky. tection It Inwirmhly hit largest In- slipping in his busines w Inner' Th fruits with a high augur content ar circle had ouce Slim. The old river. The had out cooled getdlng hduml some of them known Corky but that chimney dividual Item of oN'rntlng cost, My profits of bootlegging vanished. He They were equipp'd with a variety territory waa nlrely and was now contentedly easier to dry than the quick growoften following a sinuous course guess would le that It will average wat so often mentioned In connecof climbing apparatus, such as unknown to Caesarian, the munching bay out of a rack In a ing. Immature kind. Green vege The they reach the ground. 70 per rent of the grots. machines and rocket firing which (Virkys friend. Slim corner of hla stall, while the drone tallies such at green peas and apln tion with crimes of violence that hush are of all varieties and Sander had ropea now he la a fugitive, a cringing With ttie passing of this ach deteriorate somewhat during r guns for propelling ropes over high acquired for 73 In tbe a patterns designed to give them paddock sale of two weeks ago. The of voice he knew came to hla one m..a was reported to craven In fear for lilt life and a branches, thousands of feet of cordafter drying, although green giiiig-iiestorage ear twitching Some are twisted with chestnut have his place In the sud- man for whom the world, uptier and age for making hauling construc- strength. by gelding Caesarian, Aa near a I can figure It out," eiqieclallj retain their fresh color such one can scarce that regularity Trumieter, dam. Golden Bell on said Corky, Oiesarian Is under the when dried quickly. Many consider under, has little but scorn. Hut he tion pulleys for use lu block and denly darkened sum This man ly tell the difference between them workout should have won .No. many a Impression a rare must be run close dried greens suerlor to canned puhiu at tiMin at aa a millionaire when the booze tackle, iron spikes for building spike and the nqieg made by man. dried the original race, but finished out of the money to the rail. And working him out In green ladders, und wooden mailing ladders of that du- bouncing was good. Vegetables to b In each. Six furlongs In 1:11 or a the Soma Peculiar Tree In prime condibious There la another trulllc In the un- capable of extension. It rellminlKhed mornings I noticed whenever I should be fresh and for regul.it Ion clot lies and a less fat- derworld which has spread Immeasspray punqis were procured for The expeditliHis chief trouble In mile In 1:3$ was nothing unusual was pulling him up enough to make tion for the laid for the gelding In the morning; but him change hla stride, he took that So. tening d.el. the urably during prohibition. It la the shooting poisons at Insect warriors the forest came from dampues t ew public enemy No. I should now vilest, the most despicable, the most that would obstruct Invasion of When It arrived, the wet season the races which pn; off are run In to mean work was done Tor the day. Colorado Fanners Find he a linam-la- l was at Its height Every day rain the afternoon. It la their homeland. giant, lie should, lit- Insidious of ail Illegal racket Seem funny no one noticed It," Trench Silos Valuable The area selected was Ideal for fell In torrents; the air was 80 per He narcotics. Corky, trainer and Jock of Slims Corky grinned, but most exercise-boy- s erally, lie rolling In million a It was as nearly cent saturated with for a on Several eat hundred Colorado farmtook tlie place of Croesus Al Casurvey; stuhle, racing In a It do millionaire's stable differs from moisture; every Fundamcntally, primeval forest as could be found. leaf In the forest dripped. A step bale of straw by a stall door In pov- what they're told to do and let It ers will dig trench allot on tlielr pone. booze In two major features. First, Hut prohibition la Just about gone. the average citizen abhors It and Here everything wns In an unalInto the hush meant getting soaked erty row ; stables where the owners go at that But If Jockey pulled farms this year, according to pres tered state, with all the trees In to the skin; and. once wet clothes of one or two selling platers found him The galloping gold of the alky will, aa a decent citizen, do what np during the race and." ent Indication their natural associations, as they never dried. One had to become quarter More Ilian 500 farmer who apIn bis hand was a tele- Corky chuckled, They fountain a missing. Wlint becomes he can to stop the traffic. So naturly would had no doubt existed for a thousand accustomed to the value of slluge In feed of the successor to the millions of gram. off preciate on Caeoar each laws are enforced with comrunold the rail duy starting being or more. In the sodden clothing of the evehla majesty the Srurface? laite re- parative ease. Genial Doctor Wird, the Jockey ning nice and smooth It looked to lug live Block dug silos last year. Second, a modest years The forest was composed of tall, ning before. As a consequence of club's official veterinarian, ambled then was the thing to do but If A plow, a slip or fresno, a spade, ports had him Hoeing toward Mex- fortune In the poison may be transa team and a farmer's labor ar all ico while lo Ills clutches writhed the ported In a fountain pen. Cadets." straight trees. Some were monsters, this continual moisture, boots and slowly down the shed row to make they did the race wa over as far victim of a sensational kidnaping, aa narcotic peddlers are called, with broad buttressed bases which, everything else of leather soon were a call farther down the line, when as Caesarian was concerned. that are necessary In digging a like pillars, supported the overhead covered with a green mold; animal Corky' yell halted hla step lioollegglng falls of Its old profit. travel In fine trains, use light lug"And a little thing like that sold trench silo. The king bootlegger turns to kid- gage, and attract no attention. That roof. The vast mnjorlty, however, skins and specimens rotted; photoMany farmers have found It cona good horse for seventy-fivOh. Doc; read thl will you? smacwere of smaller size, crowded to- graphic plates refused to dry. Much It seems rather obvious la a lot easier than venient to dig their silos when Old toc, towering above the ker" Slim wondered. naping. transporting that our earlier suppositions are bottled goods by the case or beer by gether by thousands, all competing, has been written of discomforts In rider's small form, took the mesSure," Corky nodded and smiled tlielr labor and equipment were not borne out hy the facts. the keg. struggling. Jostling with one another a tropical forest, but few writers sage and stepping toward the light dreamily, it's the little things that needed for other farm work. There la Chicago. There Is Bos-to- . Then came bis count on the racetrack. And I figSlluge from trench alios has But the narcotic traffic Is great. In their efforts to get their heads Impress on their renders that the read Ita content A look at Detroit Is InterestIt la growing greater. ured If Id let him run hla own rare proved to be fully as good a feed aa Every tree exam- real trouble la persistent dampues laugh. The more Into the The expedition had, of course. Its ing. Detroit became a gang center Insidious of the bootleggers of old ined was perfectly straight. Hard"My congratulation Corky," he and found enough guts to go through slluge from upright silo according because of the proximity of Canada are turning to this to one had a branch until near the share of Insect pest of which the boomed. la ly to when an opening showed np there to H. B. (island, associate In animal There revnothing supply and handy liquor. The Infamous enue. This Is the most vicious crime canopy, where, at a height of about chief were the ticks and the bete worry about In this." would be nothing to the race but Investigations for the Colorado Ag rlcultural college experiment staBut It says they bad to per Caesarian." I'urple gung took root there and I know. If there should be a death 70 feet, occurred division Into a rouge. These minute creatures live freely on the forest vegetation. form some kind of operation." gave to history some of Its most penalty It should be for the sale simple fork. Well, yon sure found the gut" tion, and C. A. Smith, extension Bush ropes of every degree of While wandering about they collect desierate bandits and killers. Whut of that? Doesnt It My Slim exclaimed fervently, and got dairyman. of narcotics. These cadets operate Detroit's real start as an underunder an organized ring. More and thickness spread about In this thick- on clothes, underneath which they also the operation was sucessful? us a sweet purse and a nice bet et of straight poles. Some swung soon found their way to the tender-es- t Mother and child doing fine. world haven was the business of more they become killers. If both, mind you, there waa a snap Long Beekeeping running booze over the roads to Chi- terms are likely to be the order for across In pendant loops, or hung part of the skin. The bete rouge, there was any danger the hospital to Sllma voice, to be divided Swarming should be modernized cago. Then, as organization and conviction of this crime. Long terms down like loose, swinging cordage; an almost Invisible harvest mite, staff would surely Inform yon." as much as any other branch of beeHe turned to go, but stopped once protection conspired to the more do not deter the criminal; they others twisted themselves round the was much the more annoying of the I aint arguen," laughed Corky, keeping. The old method of climb in rout two. tree of law trunks serIt burrowed enforcement. Into makmore. complete the skin, T can nse the dough. make him more desperate. strangling, The operaThis Is great of a tree with a baslug Into the It ceased to be necessary to run , not an a red Irritation that felt like pentine coils. Mosses, epiphytes, ing Slims gelding Is entered In to- tion the sawbones performed on my ket at the top argument against long-terof helng severely risk an attack of nettle rash. The only morrows 6take, the Quickstep, Isn't wife la called Caesarian, and I the booze. In Chicago they cooked i sentences. It merely guess slung or being Injured by fulling explains where lichens, and ferns crowded the alcohol In tenements and brewed the violence comes from In the nar- tmnks and high branches In trop- way to deal with these tiny crea- he? he asked. that kind cornea high. from the tree, should be a thing of ical profusion. their own beer. Almost ImmediateOverhead the tree tures was to go over the whole body He l But affirmed Corky. cotic traffic. Dont ask me," chuckled Slim, the past. The risks taken in such a made each and ly the Iurple gang became a murtops the carefully green roof, day and pick them Well, you at least should make ask the bookies who are paying off cases far outweigh the value of the New York city today Is going der trust. They hired out their kill on Caesarian." a series of murders at once fallen vegetation covered the floor off. The penalty for neglecting this an effort to win that race after this. through swarm. a In with thick, soft carpet of mold. ers to pull Jobs other cities. duty was a sleepless Old Doc tapped the paper In Corkys and grotesque. In the metroghastly Swarming can be largely conof scratching. Take St. Paul, Minn. There Is a politan area some ten Formed Roof With Windows. night I a horse believe the dont finger Motive for Engravings trolled by modern methods of better killings have Is I'Uy never accused of harboring orIs no Indians but there good enough, occurred In a month. Four of the Helped the Climbers. Throughout the forest were glitmanagement. The percentage of colon Rock Long Mystery onies ganized gangs ss we have come to men killed were to have been wit- tering lights, bright spots, streaks, Members of the expedition antici- harm In your trying. that attempt to swarm U know them. Yet one of the recent nesses In the Squaw rock, located on the west greally reduced hy clipping the trial of a gang leader and luminous patches, where shafts pated difficulties of many kinds, for sensational kidimpings took place charged with tax evasion. Each of of sunlight, breaking through the they had been Impressed upon them Latonia, dressed In green and bank of the Chagrin river at wings of queens prior (o the swarmthere. Whyf Mark my words, It was them has since been as engraved by ing season. Those who cannot he Ohio, Identified with roof, were reflected from the under- before they sailed for Guiana. The white, entertained the usual Saturnot local talent that perpetrated the nnrcotlc traffic. lying foliage as from a multitude trees, they had been warned, were day throng of devotee The horses Henry Church, a native of Chagrin present when swarms issue. In which The hoys" were called that crime. For several years the question of suspended mirrors. On every side too tall and straight and branchless entered In the fifth race, the Quick- Falls, born In 1S30. He was a nat- case clipped queens may be lost, In for that. These hoys were s most often asked me has been: wag the richest fertility; and, con- for climbing; their timber was too step handicap, and ural, though untrained artist, and may put a queen-androne trap recruited from the ranks of the trastingly, In the prostrate trunks hard to take climbing Irons; their up, distance one mile, were milling made a hobby of painting and carv"What over the entrance for a few days difference does it If make hungry bootleggers of Chicago. He and crowns leaf earned his mold was equal eviwere too full of dangerous In front of the grandstand at the ing grotesque figure rotting when a colony Is found preparing Their appearance In these new gangsters murder, so long as they dence of death and living as the Chagrin Falls village to swarm. decay. The si- rotten branches to afford footing; post. The best policy, howcrime centers proves that. They murder only each other?" There you lence. the gloom, the blacksmith, his father also being a ever, Is to treat such colonies so the the foliage, everything, swarmed Then theyre off are commercial criminals. They will have the best answer to that ques- luxuriance were most stillness, with armies of venomous ants; am? The horses shot for the clubhouse blacksmith who came to Chagrin that no swarms will Issue. This is Impressive, tion I know. These victims, all purpull a Job at a flat rate. The heads of the even If they did get Into the can turn urged on by bootheels and Falls from Massachusetts In 1834. criminals of the done elthpr hy making an artificial worst order ported Kansas City Is a ease Id point. Henry Church was a hunter as swarm or by removing the queen. to be a narcotic trees came close to one another opy, they would be able to see very whips, each Jockey trying for a conand each Pretty Boy Floyd, who terrorized addict andpresumed constitute well an as artist, and It was while Montreal Herald. Such tending position. the and interlaced their branches, and little In the dense vegetation. peddler, the West as a Jesse James In modcreepers and hush ropes linked them were the difficulties that had been "Sure enough, going for the rail. hunting that he came upon the large ern dress, started as a petty booze only evidence the government can use In court to destroy the vast together to form a sort of roof, predicted for them. Fortunately Thats you, boy, Corky's chuckling rock on the west bank of the river Slump in Farm Lands peddler In Kansas City. He attract- criminal not such a perfect thatch they found that they had been con- voice and a very light pull on the south of the Miles bridge, which he rings that raeketlze the though ed the attention of local police and value per acre of farm Average on as decorated books the with of a forests often siderably exaggerated. figure equatorial reins steadied the chestnut Fast left town. Shortly after he took to nation. The underworld will tell yon lead one to Imagine. In land In the United States March 1, The first tree they attempted to Mails In front; Traffic Lights squaw and the snake which encirplaces the all these were that meD murdered the smoking pistol and went violent this year, was 73 per cent of the for what they knew; for what they tree crowns stood out somewhat sep- climb was one that they had left seeon and we're third. No, were cles her. He worked at night, sefor the years 1912 to 1914 by way of replenishing a vanished average The for the dura was of the lantern no In means by sky the arately. cretly, by center light purpose comes here of their Blue In White. Thats not; court that would h.v the Department He kidnaped might testify of bootleg exchequer. is reported summer the hidden. of tools Here and 1885, there ing camp completely using clearing. lend Itself to corroboration. Confidently they the baby, Corky, crouching way up The corresponding Insheriffs and used them as hostages tgriculture. mowere In from his blacksmith canHis into action the windows, brought on Caesarians withers, crooned Into shop. skylights their rocket apIn this article I pointed opening to enforce his maddened will upon dex a year ago was 89, and two gun, the twitching ears of his mount, Let tive for keeping It secret Isnt out that the federal charge was opy, through which the sunlight paratus and the vears ago 10ft. Values for the entire the people. streamed lacelike to illuminate the but both proved virtually useless. Tm go. known. His work was discovered themrun Those the wire over which Scarface sapsll are about 43 per cent of country Police In many cities, alarmed by comcellar" floor. and sent before he had their They missiles Interrupted selves In run was half ; that dizzy forcibly In the high record year. 1929. those the spread of violent crime, are tripped. It was the only one he was It too so and aroused much It, pleted enough From in not or someone .59, the ground Im a Dutchman, and fact could catch forcibly unable to beat Cook county. Illinois, Greatest decline occurred In Iowa into the canopy but far above things going to crack." equipping to meet this condition. was his embarrassing curiosity and Interest The state was only passing glimpses of the life In only paradise. Armored cars, trained machine gunIt! It was he did not go farther with It. where this years value Index Is that If to the And went aim the Impossible crashthat foliage. Monkeys happened Corky him. The United with 80 a year ago, 58, ners and radio equipment are being helpless against ing through It now and thpn. The rope over the branch selected and nodded grimly to himself he was But the squaw and the serpent had and compared States put him Into prison. 213 In 1920. The figures Indl to been finished, and on another rock the end adopted. These will win In the long back to sure to find bring such as to next earth. and birds, parrots tight quarters I want to make a point of that larger ente that average value per acre In run, not because they are efficacious The devices of civilization thus the rail, unless he took out while above them an open book. toucans, were seen here and there, that state Is only about a fourth In the extreme hut because violent again as a predicate for statements In there was still time. But this was its shadows. falling them, they engaged the servsplashes of color that of 1920. The to follow. Knowing literally hun- Smaller songsters were evident crime always defeats itself. ices two of Life Arawak Indians, who supposed to be the geldings day on Mara? only dreds of criminals, I say earnestly willingness to protect violent crime Hiram Percy Maxim, who Inventfor In the gloom It provided much more satisfactory the rythmic play of muscles against their voices, hy Is larking. The same cop who and truthfully that every Intelligent was difficult to locate a bird Agricultural Hints through help, since they had been accus- his legs told Corky the horse was all ed the silencer for guns, autos, and federal raps as he the mass of winked at a bottle of liquor will one shuns In 1931 the number of farms elecfoliage. Occasionally, tomed to climb and tap for Its milky there and Corky swore profane hospital windows, believes that Mars would In old the the plague. days with powerful glasses one stand his ground over a deck of might see gum a sort of rubber tree known oaths hed not show the white Is Inhabited by a race of beings trified was 698.780. heroin or a callous murder for profit. they avoided counterfeiting because through a canopy window a much further advanced than the feather. lofty as the balata. It was a federal offense. They men of this earth. People know nothing of kirtnap-Ing- s with blossoms, about The design of covered tree At a was thunder of By of Alfalfa can be cut three times anusing right Corkys loops rope passed that never get Into the papers. robbed no post offices and they avoidwhich flitted bright butterflies. around their bodies and the tree hoofs, and a sorrel head, Fieldlark's, the canals, he say offers concluif the stand Is vigorous and nually In ed national banks their robberies. This writer knows of three eases of The exoeditions food Is plentiful. knowledge of trunks, these "balata bleeders" could nodded Into view and came on. Fast sive proof that they are artificial, plant The one of fear men confidence has successful snatches" In New York that zone of life was confined to make ascents in any part of the for- Mail in front was all In and com- and for works to be constructed been the mails. city. In each ease the victim of the always a gun could bring down from est A thousand tons of heef are being ing back. Traffic Light, Dunk up, on such a scale as to be visible from Dont write anything crooked vhat kidnaping was a criminal himself. museum 'nr first Of the attacked purposes. the urged on by hla riders whip, was the earth would suggest a race of fed for the fall market by 2.000 They tree, He was caught hy others of his and mall It, I heard the most In- Intimate lives of Its birds and mam climbing it by means of camp on squeezing through on the rail and super-life- , not necessarily In the club boys and girls In Ohio. spikes kind, ransomed for whatever he famous of them say not long ago. mils It Is fair to say that their leather boots, and carrying a Caesarian. Corky gritted his teeth form of man. Into the malls Is Getting angetting had, and turned loose to pile up knew very little; and. so far light line with them up to the first and forced himself Into sitting still, Recent tests Indicate that treat Into a federal rap. That Is the other amount for future considera Tern Like Their Woodwork the doggone old fool, followed him is Its smaller fauna was concerned. fork at 75 feet. Meantime a ing pastures with ground dolomltlc hardest of all to beat. Uncle Sam Each time these criminals, tlon. Its reptiles. Insects, arachnids, and Noddy terns like to sit on wood limestone will Increase the producapparatus had been got lik a pup and the rider's choked-iHis arm goes from well aware of their exact positions never forgets. so well that they will lay and hatch other creatures, the expedition was In readiness. breath sighed relief made It. The upper end of It tion of nutritious grasses and clocoast to He coast. doesnt extradite. nose. the as hostages, paid through was made fast to a suitable branch Then was there a sign of falteri- eggs on a piece of board If they vers. almost In complete ignorance. One said to me: Did I pay? Bay He Just locks you up wherever he One soon finds how easy It Is to to the bovver end was attached t ng In Traffic Light's running? cant build a nest of twigs and bits finds you. your last dime I paid! I had thirty-fiv- e In the forest. of wood, according to an official of On account seat made of straight pieces of stick There was. Traffic Light was hearBy planting a garden and Uncle Sam. and Uncle Sam alone, net lost grand In hank when they took of the sameness of the vegetation on cut In the forest, somewhat after ing out and Corky hunkering closer the Smithsonian Institution. The establishing a canning plant for me. They got It nil. Only a sucker is the hope for law enforcement In side and the absence of both the fashion of a ho'sn's chair. Seated to his mounts neck Inched over toterns, he declares, used to bnilil canning vegetables produced In the this trying era of transition from every would fight them." their nests in the trees, but hurrihorizon and landmarks. It is a prob- on this, one could be hauled to the ward the rail. garden, the city of Pittsfield. Mass-la- st to prohibition me repeal. to and Another case reported "Yeeeeeaaahh! Pull over, Dunk, canes have left many of the small lem to recover bearings once one point of fixation in the crown of th 1931, hjr North American Newspaper year realized two dollars worth lnverified from sources I credit tree. or I'll cork you." called Corky. Islands bare. Allianca, Inc. WNU Service.) becomes confused. of food for every dollar Invested. Call a Cop d OPERATION GUIANA FORESTS i a Iitt i pro-edur- Fruits by Drying e muscle-strainin- g UT r TIIK uii'l-rwor- fcd-ra- a tex-tur- a nou-acl- oia-tiln-g - tec-lio- - A a f wind-tosiK'- e mu-to- arn-altlv- r eiu-ni- Imng-ratig- one-hors- nar-coti- e e tree-roo- f. deep-throate- d fifty-fift- y. M three-year-old- 1 oval-shape- d g biol-igist- s n e The Man From Blaxton By CLARISSA fcjr MACKIE MoOur WNU ftMtric JAMES KENT looked at bta Awith steady eye lii" bv uld deliberately, "did I an you last night at th danr with BUI I linker "Wera you ther dad?" smiled AW mlra Kent. I ecrtaluly waa and ther waa a hoi poke with m" retorted lb aherlff bluntly. Perhaps w wera looking for ao me body that you'd been dancing with, my girl I" Kh flung up her brown bead and revealed glorious dark eyes fringed lib black. Of court Bill took ov you know I bar been out with him beforo." I know It, AIR And your mother and I bars both asked yon nol to bava anything to do with him." If yon would only tell mo wbat Bill hat done " ah hesitated. Well, b baa been mixed op In all kinds of mease Alii Th Urn ha com when b baa got to be ell, suppressed. Ha drinks Ilk a fish gamble morning, noon and night, baa been suspected of severs) holdup and thero wera witnesses to a the masked man prove that b ho bold up tbe bank on Monday. He baa all the bras In th world, daughter, and b mini have cleaned np a lot of gold from that robbery It la a wonder that he hasn't asked you to run away with him b la that kind and Uia neighborhood Is getting too hot for him. I goes" Almiras face reddened deeply. Perhaps her father had guessed the truth for ah had promised to eltqie with Billy lllnger. And now, ber father seemed to understand all ahont It. even to tbo planned elopement I Who Is lhal man, father?" asked Almira with sudden Interest, as a rider swept Into the gale and dismounted from a spirited black hors That? Oh. that' the man from Blaxton," muttered her fnther and went down the steps to greet hint. The two men talked together In low tone and Almira, sewing In her small rocking chair, guessed that It waa "police busines" After a little while the man from Blaxton rode away and the sheriff came back to the porch for a moment before calling for hla own Yon better not elope tohors night, Allle," be Hid tersely. As Almira aat ther thinking busily, she heard cautious footsteps, and then. In the small grove of young walnnt tree she glimpsed Billy Hlnkeris heavy face and moThen he dropped tioning finger. down among the walnut sprout She did not know that Curly Rob, one of the cowboy had also seen that brief appearance of young fllnker, and that even now he waa whispering a message over the house telephone! So the girl dropped her sewing and, picking np a magazine, sauntered over to the walnuts where there was a seat under the largest tree. Here she sat down and pretended to read, but her downcast eyes were fixed on Billy Hinker. Get one of your dads horses for me," be whispered hoarsely. I got to get out of the country right now, see? The sheriff and bis posse are after me see? You want me to get pinched?" he asked acutely. Of course not, Billy I But 1 think if you Just tell dad what yon told me abqut taking the blame for another fellow he will see yon through. I know he will." He stared at her, astounded. "I dont get you! he said contemptuYou told me that you'd be ously. my girl and now when I ask yon to get me one o( your dad's borseo to save me you sit up and yap about something else." I'll get you my own horse, Billy. Poncho is my very own, and I have a right to Get him, then! snapped the young man sharply. Almira ran to the corral and caught ber pretty black horse, which she saddled. She mounted him, walking him leisurely around tbe house toward the walnut shoots. Just as she slipped out of the saddle Billy Hinker leaped onto the horse and went tearing out of the yard and down over the eastern trail toward the mountains. Five minutes afterward her father and the man from Blaxton. heading a posse, swept past the house, and turned down the eastern tralL Almira fainted. A couple of hours afterward, Almira awakened In her cool little room to find her pretty mother sitting beside her, looking terribly worn Oh. mother. Is daddy and anxious all right? was her first question, and when her mother nodded she gasped a question about Billy Hinker. "Caught, said her mother briefly, "He was very guilty, my dear, and they have put him In JaiL There Is something else that you didn't know, dear Billy was married last year. It was a long time before Almira wanted to see anybody but after awhile she did meet the man from Blaxton. who had come to the ranch for dinner, and. although she rather hated him at first because he had known how foolish she could he. his persistent wooing at Inst won her. People said it was a wonderful wedding that of the prettiest bride and handsomest man Id the country I r |