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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. (JTAH Surely Must Have Been Extreme Limit in Cars ; . ered a mining state, largely because Frank B. Curran of the Department of Commerce was talking about Tine "Vale 1 Airaim. By Fred McLauUin his recently completed road survey, which shows that the United States, with 3,016,000 miles of roads, leads the world in road mileage, the world total being only 7,808,000 miles. "You see some amazing cars on our roads, Mr. Curran said. Some are amazing for their beauty, and some are like the story. Where did you get that car? one man asked another on a Georgia road. My cousin gave it to me, said cAuthor of "The Blade of Picardy Copyright by the other man. In the city of New Orleans, in Loren Garde, recently an officer under General Jackson, is surprised by the appearance, in ancient Spanish costume, of two men and a woman whose beauty enchants him. Resenting the arrogance of the elder of the two men, Garde fights with him and wounds him. He learns his opponent is Adolfo de Fuentes, colonel in the Spanish army in Venezuela. Garde overhears a plot to overthrow Spanish rule in Venezuela. Discovered, he fights, but is overpowered and made prisoner on the Santa Lucrecia, ship bearing arms for the Venezuelans. On board are the conspirators, the lady of his love, her brother Polito, and De Fuentes. From the girl. Garde learns her name is Dulce Lamar-tinHe loves her, but does not reveal his love. The vessel is wrecked and Garde reaches the Venezuelan shore, alone. He encounters a stranger and sees Dulce. 'The stranger, who is Captain Monahan of the British legion under Bolivar, urges Garde to Join the Venezuelans, but his mind is set on again seeing Dulce. Monahan directs him to friends in .Caracas. There, supplied by Monahan with the secret sign of the patriots, he is welcomed at the revolutionary headquarters. Garde attends the wedding of Dulce and De Fuentes. Dulce recognizes him and leaves De Fuentes at the altar. She is torn from Gardes arms. He escapes. Finding Garde, Dulce tells him her wedding to De Fuentes was to have been the price of Gardes life. They reveal their mutual love. Garde is made prisoner. 1821, SOWEB.S a. need watching Let Dr. Caldwell help whenever your child is feverish or upset; or has caught cold. His simple prescription will make that bilious, headachy, cross boy or girl comfortable, happy, well in just a few hours. It soon restores the bowels to healthy regularity. It helps break-u- p a cold Dy keeping the bowels free from all that sickening mucus waste. You have a famous doctor's word for this laxative. Dr. Caldwells record of having attended over 3500 births without loss of one mother or baby is ' believed unique in American medical history. Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin from your drugstore and have it ready. Then you wont have to worry when any member of your family is headachy, bilious, gassy or constipated. Syrup Pepsin is good for all ages. It sweetens the bowels; increases appetite makes digestion more complete. CHAPTER V ' Continued 9 You 'doubtful compliment; it would not have been clever at all, Your Majesty, if you were unfamiliar with the language of my native land. Then you are not Sourdez, he said, christened, Timoleon? Of course not Timoleon was only a screen. I am Loren Garde, and my father owns plantations near New off eu. W. B. Caldwell's SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Family Laxative . Oyster Culture The method so common to agriculture is on trial in the oyster industry. An enterprising company operating at Padilla bay on Puget sound will plant seed oysters from Japan about the first of each year and harvest them the following fall. Fifty million oysters are now growing in the Padilla beds and will be ready before long. Care will be taken not to let the oysters reach the gigantic, beefsteak size they would if allowed to attain their full growth. sow-and-re- Business Caller I wish to insure my life. 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It is purely vegetable and Works with Nature to regulate, tone ' and strengthen the stomach and bowels of children so they get full nourishment from their food and waste is eliminated in a normal way. Four million bottles used a year shows how mothers depend on it Always look for the word California on the carton to be sure of getting the genuine. ! v to lose the friendship of the United States. Adolfo grinned. We stand to lose no friendships by executing a revolutionist,' a man caught in the act of French sailor mutiny, a named Timoleon Sourdez, who brought a sacrilege upon ' the Church. We know nothing of Loren Garde, son of the wealthy Senor Garde of New Orleans, friend of Andrew Jackson. I was silent for the simple reason that I had nothing to say, for I knew that his stand might seem a logical thing. For what purpose did the Senorita Lamartina visit you today? She came to offer me an invitation to her wedding. He snarled. Does the droll Americano imagine that the noble lady of Spain might love him? One never knows. Yet, loving you, why should she wed me? A question, Colonel, which you yourself might answer. Adolfos laughter rang through the house. Assuredly; she does not love you. She must have her sport and the lovelorn Americano offers himself. You do not understand women, eh, Senor? He combed his black beard with heavy fingers. The poor loco carries his heart upon his sleeve. "Yet it required a gorgeous lie to bring her to the altar with you. Adolto swore softly. She she told you that? Aye, said I, filled with a large when the Senor Fuentes conceit; tried to stab a stupid ladrone in the city of New Orleans he lost his ladylove. Carraca! he cried, reaching for a weapon as I swung upon his jaw, the bitterness that was in my heart find- - the Senorita Yet you are here. Aye, but by no wish of mine did I leave New Orleans. Now he brought another charge You have made a fool against me: of me before the people of Caracas. I have arrived upon this earth too late to make a fool of you, Senor. Anger blazed in his eyes, died, then he smiled; yet his smile was a less The pleasing thing than his anger. recklessness of the condemned, eh? I have seen it in men who are looking upon death. If the dead city of Tucayan is a fair example I am sure you have seen much of it. Tucayan is only a hint of what we Intend to do to revolutionary Venezuela; they understand only the rule of force." . . Yet the rule of force, Senor, said I, has always been a rule of failure. That is a lesson Spain has never learned. He showed white teeth in a grim smile. What lesson, then, do you gain from Tucayan, which we destroyed? The last man in that dead city, a graybeard patriot, died in my arms, and with his last breath he cried, Viva Bolivar!' If a lesson is desired Carraca! Adolfos face went pale, and his manner, for an instant, was that of a hunted animal Carraca, indeed, Senor; the reign of murder in Venezuela is nearly over, and your Judgment tells you that it is, though ambition speaks another language. Spain has destroyed the wealth of Bolivar, a passing thing in any case, but this spirit ah! A rebel cried Adolfo. Some day we will hang him in the Plaza San Jacinto. Spain has sought Bolivar now for just ten years, Senor, and failed. You will have to deal with Bolivar, and when you do When we shoot you, Senor Americano, tomorrow morning in the plaza before the great cathedral, Simon will lose another patriot, is it not so? My fathers arm is long, I said; he has powerful friends. in America, chief among them being Gen. Andrew Jackson, who will doubtless be our next President I have sent a letter to my father, and if aught befalls 1 me . Bah!" Spain in Venezuela can 111 afford He Cried Out In Pain at My Blow. ing full expression in violent action. He fell back against the wall his right hand came up swiftly, bearing a pistol, but I struck his elbow and the gun clattered to the floor. Now, holding him against the wall with my left hand at his throat I drew back my right arm. I have dreamed of. a time fehen I should get my fingers on that fat neck of thine, Adolfo, and hold them there until the breath shall leave thy body; I have pictured that cynical face of thine as a for my fist so! He cried out in pain at my blow. The Senorita told me this afternoon, Adolfo, that, tomorrow, she would wed I laughed. thee. I shall see to it that thou dost not make a handsome punch-ing-ba- g bridegroom. But my little minute was over all too quickly, for the guards rushed in and dragged me away from him. He caressed a bruised jaw with tentative fingers, tried a couple of teeth that were doubtless loose, spat a crimson blob upon the floor, and filled the air with a sulphurous flow of profanity. I laughed aloud. This day, Adolfo, has had the fulness of a lifetime, and tomorrows sun will find me ready. Yet life, he said thickly, might still be sweet to you? There is yet a way to win freedom. You may save your life on conditions. I waited. That you leave Caracas tonight, and La Guaira tomorrow, and What else, Senor? I am waiting." That you tell me, now, where the Senorita Lamartina is. Name of GhI Senor! Do you mean ? The Americano is doubtless a clever actor; if he will tell me where I may find the Senorita he will see the it does not contain any gold or Its sil- ver, yet deposits yield returns greater than those of many states with popular reputations for their mineral resources, according to a recent publication of the New York State museum. More than thirty substances are mined in the state, including iron, zinc, pyrite, salt, calcium sulphate, stone and clay. j U (WNU Service.) 1 sub-surfa- ce way made open for a safe journey to New Orleans. It came to me then tiat Adolfo hesitated to bring about my execution and hoped thereafter to win the Senoritas love. You and she must have had some he continued, for, understanding, half-ma- d Orleans. You have followed from New Orleans? Not so, Senor. 19 s Co. Bobbs-Merr- THE STORY The first man studied the car for a minute. Then he said: Youve been robbed. " Dr. Mining In New York New York is not usually consid- within the hour after she had returned to the home of the Senora Mendoza, we discovered thaf she had disappeared as completely as though some mythical had carried her away. Polito, greatly agitated because of her vanishment, aided in the search, but to no avail. We have combed the city for hours, with no success. If you would win your freedom you will tell us whither she has gone; if not the morrow shall find you facing a firing squad." I knew Adolfo would never keep his word, even had I been able to give him any information. If the Senorita does not care to keep you advised of her plans, surely you cannot expect me Very well, he said ; we will place you for the night in a safe little cage that we may count on finding you tomorrow morning." So, with four guards on each side and Colonel Fuentes bringing up the rear, we marched out of the house of Tomas Carrasco, crossed the patio, and bent our steps toward the gloomy pile of weathered stone whose dungechambers had held so many on-like unfortunates. air-go- d RESTFUL SLEEP for FRETFUL, FEVERISH CHILD With Castorias help--mil- Cas-tor- A Silver Night (TO BE CONTINUED.) Where Beauty Start Beauty begins at breakfast . ans Home Companion. Wom- ia CASTORIA As we marched along my mind was filled with sad uncertainties, grim forebodings, regrets for tasks. I would have like to live to see the independence of Venezuela, and I found myself washing that I might have been spared to meet the Liberator, Simon Bolivar, the extraordinary man who had instilled in the hearts of his people a deathless love . 8 When your child tosses and cries out in his sleep, it means he is not comfortable. Very often the trouble is that poisonous waste matter is not being carried off as it should be. Bowels need gentle help but effective. Just the kind gives. Castoria is a pure vegetable preparation made specially for childrens ailments. It contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics. Dont let your childs rest and your own be interrupted. A prompt dose of Castoria will urge stubborn little bowels to act Then relaxed comfort and restful sleep! Genuine Castoria always has the name: CHAPTER VI of independence. And I wanted to see the Senorita again, to tell her of my love. How could she have covered up so completely all the signs of her escape? The city of Caracas was new to her. To have left Caracas would have been to leave a trail that anyone might have followed, and to have secreted herself in the city . . . The thing was impossible, for the men of La Torre could have searched every corner of it in an hour. Even Polito was in the dark. As we approached the menage of Pedro Carrizal sounds of hilarity came from the interior loud laughter and snatches of song. We had come opposite when the door flew open and a man stood, swaying, in the lighted way. When he saw us he uttered a wild yell and toppled forward to the sidewalk. Even as the soldiers roared in high glee over the fall of the tipsy celebrant a torrent of men poured from the opened doorway and fell upon my guards before they could bring their guns to bear. I turned to meet Adolfo, whose pistol pointed at my head. My outflung fingers found his wrist, and thrust his arm high as he sent a harmless bullet into the air, then I drove a fist into his broad face. Ah, the tingling joy it gave me! He went down and I threw myself upon him, fingers groping for his throat. Adolfo cried aloud, he swore, he gasped, he writhed. He clawed vainly at my wrists, and kicked, and twisted his unwieldy body. I heard a shrill voice shrieking anathemas, a rasping voice that was my own, and it gave me a grievous shock that I had fallen so low. Hands were laid upon my shoulders, dragging me from my victim. Let me alone, I cried, let me kill him! No, Senor. ' Manuel! I leaped to my feet. Come come quickly. He caught my arm and led me away. But we must help them, He laughed shortly. Not at all, they need no help; it is the soldiers who will be crying for aid. We ran swiftly for three minutes and stopped in a darkened alley where Manuel opened a package which had been secreted under a shed, disclosPut it on quickly, ing a uniform. 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