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Show BuriaTirTKoyari,,, Not for Old Hiclcoryr. r ' Washington possesses the tomb of - Roman emperor, " box-like strucatone The strange ture on the lawn of the Arts and Industries building of the National museum, which visitors usually peas The man was Frau, fifty yards without noticing, was the occasion toons him. Frau, whipping Ms gun of a dramatic incident BO years ago hand upward and Fraus pistol when it was first brought to WashIt barked! , ington. leaping Steve wu poieed on bent knees, The tomb was secured by Commodapping tho stock of the rifle to dore Jesse R. Elliott, commander of his shoulder the other fired. It the frigate Constitution, which waa was If a sledge had struck tha the flagship of the United States barrel of hla gun, as though hot squadron In tthe Mediterranean la Iron seared the thumb of hla toft 1839, from a hillside behind the city hand, and tha impact set him recl- of Beirut, Syria. Although the eviine, sagging, fighting to stay to the dence wu not such aa would satisfy canoe, but, despite Ms efforts, an archeologist, Elliott believed it pltcMng over sideways with a was the tomb of the Roman emAlexander governs, lie peror, mighty splash. Tho gun slipped from his right brought It back to Washington with hand the butt raked the gun- him. wale He wu to the water, on Ms A few years later Andrew Jack-so- n was reported dying at ths Herback, tha rifle slipping through hla weakened fingers, sinking down mitage, near Nashville. Elliott had Into tho depths to leavs Mm un- the happy, or unhappy. Inspiration to offer the tomb to Old Htckery aa a armed. Hs came up, ths canoe screening last resting place, Mm for the moment, sad again he Jacksons reply Is ona of the heard the girl scream. A bullet classics of American literature: tore through the canoe at arms "Although laboring under greet length to the right of him, and he debility and affliction from n severe sank at once, feet foremost, beneath attack from which I may not recover, the dying man wrote the navy the surface, Kate Flynn, In a ferment of officer, "I raise my pen and endeavor fright, had lifted her bound bands to reply. The steadiness of my to tho handkerchief across her nerves may perhaps lead you to conmonth Frans ross for his first clude my strength Is not as great as shot. One Jerk and tha gag wu here expressed. Strange at If may about her throat and, heedless of appear, my nerves are aa steady as the penalty that might be exacted they were 40 years gone by, whilst from her, she bad screamed her from deblUty and affliction 1 am i gasping for breath. warning. "D n you I Frau snarled. "I cannot consent that my mortal "Youll pay foe , , ," body abaD be told In a depository But be did not look at her. He prepared for an emperor or S king. stood watching, waiting, having My republican feelngs and princimore Important matters than her ples forbid It The simplicity of our disregard for his threats to occupy system of government forbids it Mm it the moment' The girl Every monument erected to perpet-at- e the memory of our heroes and tagged frantically at tha belt holdstatesmen ought to bear evidence of ing her hands. Stop!" shs cried after that sec- tbe economy and simplicity of oar and tbe institutions, ond shot "Stop It I Hes helpless republican and you , . , plainness of our republican citizens, Her voice failed her as Frans who are tbe sovereigns of our glort shot again and atni again, drilling ous union, and whosef virtue la to perthe empty canoe with lead. petuate it True virtue cannot exist He waited after that fourth shot where pomp and parade are the govpoised, pistol ready. Be hoped that erning passions. It can only dwell he had hit to kill, but was not cer- with the people, the great laboring and producing classes, the.fom, the tain and took no chances. Steve, bis lungs bursting, ceased bone and sinew of our confederacy. "1 cannot permit my remains to his struggle to remain- submerged, looked upward to locate his canoe be tbe first to these United States to be deposited to a sarcophagus and shot to the surface. He all but gained that meager made for an emperor or ktng. I have shelter without betrayfhg Mmself. prepared a bnmble depository for Only the flip of one hand beyond my mortal body beside that wherein the bow gave Mm away, bnt that lies my beloved wife, where, withwu enough and Frau tensed as out any pomp or parade I have rehe took careful aim to bore the quested, when God calto me to sleep canoe at the point where he knew, with my fathers, to be told, for both now, the other hung gasping tot B himP He sneered. The d d tender I Ton didnt know he CHAPTER X Continued 14-- pre- wu where were using your brother's name and augoing; If youll giro me your word thority untD today, did your to com along, walk fast and not - "Do yon think hed try to deceive kinder mo, FU nntlo jour bands." meP she asked, bound to betray Eh shook bar bead and made a nothing. He stared at her to the darkness. courageously spirited sound. , Good! If tbats bow yon feel 1 She could fed his breath on her should bare no qualms. Its my forehead. "You're lying, now. Whats he to liberty Im working for, now. Nothyou, anyhowP t ing else counts ! Ha stripped off bis belt, backed My friend P stoutly and 'honEata to a birch tree, secured one estly. Sbe felt sort of that much. end of the strap about her wrists "Friend, h 11 Listen. Kate. and tied the other to a branch at Handsome stranger comes to the of her shoulders. By rescue of the operation and the lady drawing down she could bold bet to financial distress falls for him. hands at the level with the small That ? "No. Of course not of her back; when sbe did sot reA of of the branch the sist surge Jealousy swept into pull they Were held high. In a position that his heart. He laughed scornfully. rained muscles and tendons and "The idea of you falling tor a her to bend far forward. squaw manP i , m wont be gems so long, "I don't believe yon, she said Frans said, after be had swung the limply. "Besides, even If I did, canoe to his shoulders. "Maybe, by even If It were true, it would be the time I get back you'll be more beside the point He has done so reasonable. many Impossible things this sumActually, be was not gone long, mer that finding you and taking you but to the girl a whole epoch back to answer for what you did passed before his return, unwel- this evening should be a simple come though It wan She wept at matter." Frans slung up his pack with a times and breathed Irregularly. She tried to stand motionless at Inter- grunt "Deril with hlmP he muttered vals and listen In the faint hope that help might be coming. But uneasily and glanced behind. "But who could know wist had hap- well get on, regardless. Til leave pened? Who could guess where that gag off for a while. Screams she was? Old Tim's body might In here wont carry far and to rehave been discovered long since, bat turn ril expect - that youll walk wbst would that mean to McNally faster. Otherwise , . . He left that threat unfinished. and that man who had klesed her? As the stars began to fade they They had called him loung Jim, but he waq not her brother. Of reached the Mad Woman. Walking that she was certain. Certain, too, through long grasses, they cams to of other things : his strength and re the canoe on the river hank. Just sourcefulness and courage. Some below the swift water. You stand here," Frans said, was on unidentified wonder-worke- r the Job at Good-By- a and bad been liell hare one more thing to guess for over a month. Coaid he help about. If he gets this far P He launched the canoe, put the her, now? Oould he come, and in In It and, then,' track line duffle time? , , . She began to sob over his shoulder, waded Into the again. Frans reappeared without a warn-- " rapid. -- The girl understood his strategy. lng sound. He' rearranged bis pack Followers of their trail would aee and asked: "Will you keep still If I remove this sign, would believe that they had gone down-streaand would tbe gag?" , . waste days, perhaps, to searching She shook her head. r the lower country. "Fair enough I Will you walkT The man turned about and called: she refusal. Indicated Again "dome en, now. Step Into the waonce I wanted to hold you ter there and wade up after me." n,J a Now . . . Til havetor with firm drags of her Swiftly, which the belt aWYafAatened Kate etched In the wet sand heel, lelW"Kate prisoner, lifted her crude arrow, Its point up the her took close, quickly and, holding the trail with his double burden. river. Before Frans had cause to call He went to tbe limit of his endurance and put her down with an again ahe was In the water, wading after- - him as he had bidden, oath. an unmistakable message You kitten bt snarled. "Hold- leaving who might be coming to for any ing you so , . , stirs memories aid her. and Impulses And one was coming 1 He fussed her roughly on the the darkness Drake pad-die-d 'Through cheek and she struck out at him up the Good Bye. It was long with aa arm which still ached and after" midnight before he ap.. throbbedfrom her experience at the the fiat where the- - trail proached landing. down the divide which sepcame He laughed, then, hoarsely. Good-By- e from Mad Woman. like it, eh? Perhaps youll arated havu to. , . Well go on. Will He landed at the foot of the trail, and turned on his flash. And after you walk now? She would walk, yea A new ter- he had played the beam about the ror was Injected into her heart to trampled landing and examined the mingle with other fears by the bur- birch he knew what had happened, den of passion which his laugh re- even to Kates tortured wait, bound, vealed. She nodded and turned, helpless.' Rage swept him and tor the first starting before him. time to his life he was shaken by "Good I he said. Its better." And now to delay him became aa the desire to malm and kill as, ' Kate belted In the canoe en Ms back, he plunged Into objective. burgloom of tbe trail and tried to the trail, trotting beneath his make him understand she was tired, den. needed respite. He jerked the gag But only man tracks were there, free from her lips, holding a band revealed by tbe shaft from his flashready to stifle any outcry. light. It puzzled him. Just the weak 1 Fm tired I" she plead-n- i man sign. Indicating two trips. But walk as long as I can, bnt on one carry he had been weighted down until be staggered and sank rest" down here, then, he said deeply to soft places. grudgingly. , "Til give you a minThen he saw where Kate had ute. . , . And FD leave this off. If been put down for the first time I have your word that you wont and tha thought that Frans bad 0cr$6ch. held her slender body In his arms "Nor fhe said stoutly and the made blood pound In his ears. bandage tgaln pressed her Ups It was broad daylight when he i tightly. reached the Mad Woman. He folAs' she sat on a boulder she lowed the footprints down the worked her feet constantly In tbe branch of the trail that led to the trail, softly scuffing up the forest right They had stopped a few duff to attract the eye of any who rods from the water's edge; then might come that way later. they had gone on and ths girl had Frans ordered her on again. She stood waiting whlla Frau loaded ' obeyed reluctantly. his canosk Get '"Get along P he snapped ghe had stood still but not Idly. along faster P The Indicating artow she had Kate fra stubborn. He picked to tbe wet sand stared up her np again roughly and pressed drawn Mm and be grinned and said at forward, holding her unnecessarily aloud: "Good glrll" close, and gb writhed In his emWhere Frans would elect to leave brace until ha set her down. Then, Mad 'Woman, Steve could not the -for a time, she walked rapidly, But he could not be so far know. He permitted her a brief rest furnow. These tracks left lead to tbe abe on. ther To gain time, later, not old. were to silt the tripped ahd fell purposely and lay e on the ground nobbing. Hi a little bay of the lake, aa . "Get on P the man raged. She tore the bandage from her dawn came up, Mary Wolf was blowing np the breakfast fire. With lips. . "Ten coward P she moaned aa he the blaze going, zhe looked at the her father lay, stooped and Bfted her to her feet, meager bed where nd spoke. He did ready again to- still her outcries Ms back to her, "You'll never get not answer. with n hand. ehe moved away I You'D never get sway from ' Slowly, apprehensively, " Ehe 'a toward the crude shelter. , ,"t from bent a forward, and no outside name stood but for She had faith e man to whom that faith re-- hand at her breast, to see the face of the wrinkled, old man. She sank ml Yeur Young Jlra, eh! Mean lowly to one knee and touched "It the-heig- ltr - " Be did not move. Old Jim WoU had followed Ms fathers. it long carry, .. i him. -- u CHAPTER XI FRANZ believed be had left only would Indicate that he had gone to the opposite direction. He stopped peddling to roll cigarette, to consider, audibly, ths matter of food. But he did not finish whet he had started to say; did not complete the cigarette. Far, tor behind Mm a fleck had appeared on the water. He broke his words short, arrested all movement and then, opening his fingers, let paper and tobacco drop to hla hneea, , "So, now , , , More shooting?" he asked and Kate started up to a Bitting posture. For an Interval both strained their eyes to observe that approaching canoe and then Frau laughed. "If Its one, removing Mm is simple. , , , And It looks like one I" he growled. He swung toward a point of rushes which projected from the nearest Island. The girl, gone white, now, did not speak as they gilded Into the screening growth. Frau drove one paddle Into the bottom and bitched forward, placed the other on the opposite side of the light craft and turned to Kate. Queerly fascinated by hla deliberation she watched him draw Ms pistol, slip out the clip and fill It to capacity. "Youre going to ahoot . , from . ambush sho asked. For answer he grasped her quickly to hla anna, drawing her head tightly against-Mshoulder. With Ms handkerchief he bound her mouth again despite her efforts which . r - s ... m r r ' int y ..." v; u u u u - breath. Kate mw and understood. She felt the tremor which ran through Frans's body as he steeled Mmself. And then as his band squeezed to send tbe bullet speeding to where it "I Wont Bo Gone Bo Long," Frau surely would find s mark, she threw Bald After Ha Had Swung tha her whole body to the right s she could sharply, as vigorously Canos Jo Hlo Shoulders. and drove the rail of hla canoe to to break away and, again removing the water's edge. his belt, twisted the leather about The pistol exploded. The bullet her wrists. tore up the eater harmlessly a few "From ambush," he said, "fm yards beyond the rushes and Frias, or ex- with a retching oath, stepped Into either making my acting a heavy price. And if you hallow water. The rising gunwale try to mako on move you'll be caught Ms toe end he sprawled tote the first I" the rushes, throwing out Ms hands He stroked the trigger signifi- to Mve Mmself. D a you" he cried again, cantly. -- . u , of ua there to remain until the toat trumpet sound to call the dead to , ' get-awa- y Stevs Drake kept on. Ho watched constantly for another craft, scanned the horizon for tho smoko of a campfire, even eyed closely the scattered flecka of tooth and bobbles on the placid water to the hope they might yield some Information of significance. No sign of lifo was present, however, except water - fowl. In the canoe screened by rushes Frau spoke the first word for half so hour. "ATona , . . the fooL" Relief wu to Ms tone, along with a terrible sort of elation. He twitched the muzzle of his pistol toward Kata and added: "Id toon send you with Mm aa not Remember that If you please.. When tola is over, FU land you at the head of the lake. You'll get back, somehow."' Steve approached the Islands to a quandary. Each moment that passed added to Franz's chances of He escape, and as for Kats drew hla shoulders upward to a shuddering shrug when ha thought of her alone with that renegade. Ducks flew up aa ho slipped past tho first Island and on their flight pitched toward a patch of rushes off to Ms left ' Gracefully, the ducks plummeted for It and then the leader, with a quick bank and n rise, wu to full flight again, sounding an unmistakable note of warning to the others. Something was there, hidden from Drake by the rushes, wMch fright.1 . ened the ducks. Almost to a reflex Steve dropped bis paddle and grasped tbe rifle which lay between Ms feet and hitched forward, weapon poised and ready to fire. erect whence He was half-wa- y mans head and shoulders (merged above the rushes and a girls scream, sharp and clear, carried to him across the water. u ... lunging to hla feet His hands, his wrists, ware thick with mud and as hs floundered up he turned the pistol to look into the barrel and swore again he taw silt clogging u it And Kate called shrilly: "Quick I Quick! He cant shoot! He cant" Frau shook the gun uvagely, tore at tha slide to make it fun tlon sod looked back to see 8tevt shoving ths caooe recklessly from before Mm, striking out toward tha rushes In a long, swift crawl stroke Frau, rapping tbs pistol on tha canoe, watched Steves rapid approach as hs worked the slide frantically. It began to slip easier. He gave the wMpon one more flip and mud from the barrel spattered the water about hla knees. Hs turned, U Kate with a desperate wrench, freed her hands He laughed and raised his arm once more Hla man wu there, wholly exposed, coming closer aD the time , . . - "Come onl Frans called thickly. "Come on , , . to h 1!" And Kate was on her knees wrenched one n pended paddle from Its place to the lake bottom. Sbe lore It free swung It with sD ber might and Frans seeing from the tail of hla eye, ducked sideways But he wu too late' The edge of the blade Mf bis arm, silhouetted down the sleeve to hla hand, caught the pistol barrel and the weapoa, with a spin and plop, disappeared Into tbe roily water. YouD pay . , , YouD . he choked angrily. 4 (TO B udgment, when we, I men, has known lt V" York authority who to please themaelveaV en la uttering merely truth.' In the first place, the am man pays little attention to Ma wltoiTNvrw costume the brute 1 and In the sec- ond place Ma ideal of color schemes U primitive. How many households have been torn by the failure of aa unobservant husband to notice that hla wife had a new dress? And bow many have been promptly put la their placet when they have Ignorantly remarked that a more somber color would be more becoming? So It to with due diffidence that we sugr ' gest anyway. If the mer had their wearnot would be wives their My, lng thess little Mucepan hats pulled down over one Mr. And having ventured thus far we bare our breast to the New York stylist for a barbed reply. Kansas City Star. hope, shall rise together, clothed with the heavenly body promised to all who be- lieve to our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might live, and by whose atonement 1 hope for a blessed Immortality." Perhaps Alexander Severn la just as well satisfied that the school children of a democratic land troop past hla empty tomb without noticing It Emperor of Rome from 223 to 235 A. D successor to the degenerate Hellogabalua, who had himself officially created a god, he might hare appreciated Andrew Jacksons emotional outburst He appears to havs been somewhat of a skeptic regarding tha divinity of emperors and d an boy despite hla environment of degeneracy.. Hla brief reign to chiefly distinguished for bis feeble efforts to better the herd lot of the common people. He established government loan offices where they could borrow at low Interest to get them out of ths clutches of the bankers." He did much to Improve the status of the common soldier of the Roman legions. Christianity was making headway In Rome. The emperor waa not a convert, but be neglected no chances to Improve his fate hereafter. Hs kept a private chapel with atatnea of Orpheus, Abraham, Apollo and Jesus, and paid equal homage to all of them. Washington Star. ' open-minde- Ferry's Seeds are cold onlyjajreak, dated packages When you buy Ferry Seeds you are sure of tbe finest quality available. Adr. 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Only princei JotAd-s- a much m touch it Gold was firstdemoted to the profane status of "money," Doctor Howe said, by the Lydians, who put tho kings stamp upon it and used it as a medium of exchange. Interest Immediately arose to 30 per cent' farmers lost their land and sold themselves and their families Into slavery to order to live. This SO per cent. Doctor Howe was tbe first money Interest and Fashion for Mid, Playtime arose naturally out of the former Lythe WellDressed Tot dian system of dolnguslnesa. Trade had been primarily to cattle. 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