ONE OF THE
SMUGGLERS’
GANG
By ROBIN WINSTANLEY
(® by W. GQ,
RUSTIC bridge with a frall
ralllng, a charming young lady
resting upon fit, a creek, a
splash and Minna Graves ut-
tered a shriek and sank beneath the
surface of the brook.
A lithe, carelessly-dressed figure,
chat of a young man coming up the
oridge approach, a shout of interest
and alarm and as he plunged boldly
nto the swirling current, Minna came
ap choked, blinded and frantle,
“Don't struggle,” spoke gentle but
cesolute tones in her ear, so confi-
dence-Inspiring that Minna obeyed or-
ders and ashore dripping, flush
ing at the ridiculous figure she made.
Her rescuer warded off her expres
slong of fervent gratitude with a light
taugh over their mutual predicament,
and she grew coherent enough to In-
dicate that a park-like place In the
aear distance was her home.
Rolfe Ditson conducted her to
open gateway, solicitously
that she was able to get to the house
unaided, the idea that he
might catch cold from his wet gar
ments and went his way after an in
vitation to call and meet her people
Rolfe Ditson swun
orightened
beauty
Chapman.)
cme
its
made sure
derided
g on his way with
for he
and goodness, As to
she could not get that strong
lectual face out of her mind
His first call led to a second.
two were fast
of mutual love,
Minna saw in him a handsome, well
bred gentleman. Her father and
mother rather his yet
unobstrusive
eye, worshiped
Minna,
intel
readily.
These
approaching a. state
liked direct,
ways. N H
Graves,
chum
attentions
liked
peared
When Rolfe
the
him
1d Graves
“Ditson
secretive,
town hotel,
appear
He
adowlir
told hi TON) Ht ay.
mighty
lives at
but h
than
regularly,
have
the
And,
next
once week.
I'm sl
news
+
Some soon ths
fellow, trust me.”
a
Graves sou
She was seat
ng tenderly
was trustfu
tions, and
reserved
town and
he had
policy.
“I've found out!" proclaimed Harold
in a tone of exultation.®
“Found
“About Ditson. I never liked
evasive ways. Neither did my chu
Humph! I fancy
value tried and true friends like him
instead of plcking up
gler.”
“A smuggler?”
vaguely.
“That's just what Ditson is. A regu
lar nber of the Black Ribbon gang
down at Point.”
For a moment Minna's
whitened, then confidence and loyalt
into
“Nonsense!”
“Is it?" retorted
“I'll show you. I'll
the next t he
these grounds.”
“You flared up his sister
“Do you think I would belleve such a
thing as you intimate against a true
gentleman who my life, and
who has the confidence and respect
of father and mother? You h
Jever liked Mr. Ditson, and
gome plot of yours, because
preference for that of yours”
“It's true, just the same,” persisted
Harold, angrily. “I tracked him
down. I saw him meet a regular
rough crew of the fellows who are
making the revenue service people so
much trouble, smuggling goods
here across the Canadian border,
acted cheek by jowl with them. Went
off with them In their boat. I've told
the revenue people about it, They're
going off after the gang
“You will have to prove more than
you tell before you make me believe
that Mr. Ditson is anything but a true,
honorable gentleman,” sald Minna,
stubbornly.
“All right. Wait a day or two and
see!” vaunted Harold.
Minna tried to be steadfast in her
faith In young Ditson, but the Intell
gence she had received made her un-
easy. Perhaps there was some dark
plot against Ditson, she reflected
Her brother and bls chum, she felt
assured, were equal to that She
wrote a brief note to Rolfe, addressed
to his hotel In the next town, warn
ing him that enemies were seeking to
get him Into trouble,
Rolfe did not get the note for he
was away-—-with the smugglers, in
truth and verity! If Minna could
have seen him the next evening short.
ly after dark at a cave on the lake
that was a headquarters for the
smugglers, she would have shuddered,
He seemed to be one of the grizzled
rough looking crew who were await.
ing the arrival of a skiff carrying
contraband goods from the Canadian
shore,
been
business in
felt that
for
as
its
some good that
reason
after this you"
with
Minna
repeated
Bottle
face
back her
came eves,
she said simply.
Harold,
have him arrested
his foot on
viclously
ime sets
dare!"
saved
our ave
this Is
of your
chum
over
He
tomorrow.’
Rolfe sat on an upturned keg just
within the cave, when he was
tensely startled. One of the band
came into view, forcing before him
a prisoner,
“lI found him spying on us” the
smuggler explained, “In his pocket 1
found a note showing that he has put
the revenue officers on to our den
here.”
“Settle him!" hoarsely commanded
the leader of the crowd. “Here, you"
—to the captor and to Rolfe
him over beyond the rocks yonder and
settle him.”
“Her brother!” breathed Rolfe,
he recognized Harold Graves.
Harold was the worse for a severas
struggle and did not notice Rolfe, who
with his captor started to obey the or-
ders of the smuggler chief.
“This will do,” sald Rolfe's smug-
gler companion, as they got out of
sight of the cave. “Join In, mate, and
help finish him,” and
revolver,
“Run for your life!” whispered
Rolfe quickly In the ear of the startled
Harold Graves,
In that
recognized
as
he drew his
flashing second the latter
Rolfe, He uttered a
of profound amazement, but was quick
avall himself of the offered
portunity for escape,
He lolfe
weapon the
ory
to op-
strike the leveled
hand ef the smug-
gler. He saw the latter grapple with
Rolfe, There loud for
help, and Rolfe, denounced a
traitor to the band, borne by
some of its members back to the cave,
It was an excited that
Harold
reached
Saw
from
were cries
ns
was
pitiful story
told to his sister when
Even to his erude
mind the Indication was Irresistible
that Rolfe could not be of the
smugglers In redlity, and oppose thelr
forfeit of his life.
“He saved me, that's all I know,
home,
one
counsels at the
and
I
subdued
I'm sorry
Harold,
“And
for him,” sald the
your work
has him
sobbed his sister, bit
mised
Creatures of Wild
Seldom Travel Far
the country
aimlessly, but
definite spot re-
and makes tempo-
homes, or stopping places, in ir
ilar lines away from the home cen-
Its not great unless
hard-pressed for food. As a rule they
the lines of their own choosing
except that pursued they
lly circle thelr |
to live
within a n or
During winter
they wander far.
and have been known
continue 30 miles In a single night.
observation for a
showed a winter
stream, and
than half as
Rabbits are even less inclined
90 per cent spending their
within two or three of
their burrow. The fox probably has
+ normal range of 20 miles—10 miles
each way from the center—but moun-
tain foxes have known to hunt
pheasants 17 miles from the cairns
containing their cubs and to carry
thelr kill that distance home.
The
io not
each
+41 ni 1
wild animals of
roam around
creature has a
garded as home,
rary
re
range is
LOOT)
Keel
when
oor
Een
The
month
two of
abou home,
hares appear
ile
center,
however,
ind faster,
A hare kept under
onsiderable time
range of 16 miles along a
i summer range
great,
'
less
0 roam,
lives miles
been
Cures “Cat-Killing” Dog
Dogs can be cured of chasing cats,
for the cat-chasing dog usually be-
comes the cat-killing dog, If he catches
the cat, says Our Four-Footed Friends.
A man owned a dog that was addicted
to slaughtering every eat it could grab.
He had whipped it and scolded it, but
no purpose. A friend to
cure it, and did. The cure was very
simple. A dead cat was tied around
the dog's neck, firmly strapped on, He
was made to wear it twenty-four
hours. When it was removed he was
taken for a wa'k. A cat ran across
the street. Instead of darting in pur-
suit, as formerly, he tucked In his tail
and fled for home. He never killed
another cat,
Like Father
Junior had been permitted to accom.
to offered
first time. As he left the maternal
things the way he does; then when
you grow up you will be a blg smart
man like him."
That night Junior strode up to his
As hé kneeled down at his mother's
feet for the evening prayer, he piped
up: “Take dictation, Dear Lord, God
bless mamma, God bless papa, God
bless the cook, and, darn it, God, if
we don't get action on this, I'l sue
you."
THE GARDEN FLOWERS
HE flowers from the garden
been sent In a box to the city
Some one in the city who was very
fond of this particular garden had
reeclved the box.
was sent when the first flowers came
ut in the spring, and they followed
me right after the other after that,
And oh, how the flowers from
they arrived.
They were greeted so delightfully.
“You dear pale lavender tulips,” the
LT ny
“You Dear, Pale Lavender Tulips,” the
Lady Said.
ied themselve
“1 grew 3
I was a And
fern fra
cool
sweet #0 [ike that
dark, the garden
where I put you that it almost makes
cry. Happiness often makes
| want to cry, ferns,”
{ And the ferns thought it
| of her to weep a tear or two or three,
me one
she sald.
was lovely
as she did, and, too, she was homesick
| then, just a little, for that garden spot
where it and where she
Lad planted the ferns,
Of course the plants In
wis 80 cool
the house
| now as
| there were no flowers at all,
{ on all the windy days they were still
| put out of the
the lovely refreshing rain
And
{ and
anxious
| that
that way,
vindow and could drink
vater,
Charlie grew
the time,
have n
Creeping
more ull for he was
to look everything
he garden flowers
pleased, for when
they were afrald it
too hot for
where
were very
they
was
them In the
there seemed to he
city
so much heat,
ns in the city people still thought It
too cool,
was
But
lows were quickly
the garden flowers noticed
ned after
apened after
they arrived a hat
the heat was
off, }
turned h was surely an honor
to flowers,
w how much they
the lady who re
*she
i
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
As Told by
Irvin S. Cobb
CURE FOR COUGHING
of coughing and strangling
such, for Instance as when a plece of
foed “goes down the wrong way"
or she can be at once relieved by put-
ting a palr of scissors down inside the
clothing next to the skin.
of emergegcy folksnedicine Is prac
potency,
ingredients, magle and
the first place a pair of scissors being
made of steel—which Is the
thing asx Iron
the evil spirit which Is
strangle or choke the patient.
and other evil spirits abhor Iron
there is nothing the evil spirits fear
They have abhorred it
feared It since iron was first worked
from the ore. That
part of the prescription. The magic
part is contained In the fact that scis-
sors cut. They cut actually
can cut sympathetically,
(® by McClure Newspaper Byndieate)
Ry
SAWS
By Viola Brothers Shore
trying to
nore,
FOR THE GOOSE-—
HERE'S no excuse for talkin’ be-
hind your hand. A thing you
can't say right out, you can always
shut up about.
Every girl knows a certain number
of promisin’' young ducks that spend
half their time promisin’, and the oth:
er half duckin’,
Love may be misery, but they don't
react the same way to company.
FOR THE GANDER
It's good arithmetic to measure your
temper by the len'th and stren’'th of
your arm.
You don't need a college education
to know yourself. And one won't do
you much good if you don't.
A spoiled kid ain't half the disgrace
to his perents that a licked one is.
(Copyright)
THE PREDICTION
New Yo
that she
ad heen spending S631
money foolishly.
"Sending
i ling your money foolishly
| for penan sald the
| “How have you been
“Well, father, 1
teller,” admitted the penitent
priest
spendin
went
“Oh, ho, so forty
teller, eh? Well, that's wrong to be
gin with, In the first place,
sional fortune tellers are most of them
and, in the
pretend to deal with the supernatural
You went to n
profes
| frauds,
second place, thes
And what did you do for this fortune
| teller?”
“I gave him two dollars. father.”
“Worse and worse—wasting
| hard-earned
your
faker. And
| In exchange for your two dollars what
wages on a
i did he do for you?’
“He told me a pack
my
of lies,
past and my future.”
“What did he say about your past?”
“Only a pack of
afther tellin’ you”
“And what did
i your future?”
about
les, as I was just
he tell you about
goin’ on a long, hard journey
“Well,” said the priest
“he may have lied to you about your
past, but when he predicted that you
would be going on a long, hard jour
wrong, after all, You'll the stn.
tions of the cross twelve times!”
(Copyright by *ae MeNaught Eyndiosate, Ine.)
do
(@ by MeClmie Newspaper Byndicee)
Gore vO eR Ole RP OY
Mary Astor
This is the latest picture of charm.
ing Mary Astor, the motion picture ac.
tress, beloved by the thousands who
are witnessing “The Wise Guy,” in
which she has a prominent part.
has he
laundry
cans ang
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
i ——————————r]
At 21:-—"Holworthy Hall," the
Novelist, Desired to Be a Publisher
twenty-one 1
Harverd uni
and my ambition
versity was | be
publishe
n that at this
distinction between
book publishing-—or be
and executive work. 1
the appeal of
Irresistible.
of my
however, I realized
wanted to Ac
cordingly, 1 began to write, but with
out losing my earlier desire to be a
publisher,
“For the
annot re; nher
Ww ny
ine and
editorial
knew
printer's ink
“Within a
birthday,
tween
that
was
ff months twen.
write Sction
next eight years I was
a publisher—and I am still writing
fiction. But perhaps 1 should add that
this fulfillment of ambition was hard
ly accidental; for I had been brought
up from childhood in the atmosphere
of a magazine office~Holworthy
Hall"
TODAY :~*Holworthy Hall” {s a
familinr name to magazine readers
The real signature, however, should
be Harold E. Porter, for that is the
novellst’'s name,
Mr. Porter is one of the best known
fiction writers in the country, and
there are few. magazines which have
not published a series of his stories
He ls algo considered an expert on the
theoretical side of short-story writing
and is sald to have proved that a
formula can be used for writing
stories, even stories of literary worth,
(© by MoeClure Newspaper Syndicate)
|
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH”
COO000
(EL, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
PREVENTING GALLSTONES
ALLSTONES are hard masses
G which form in the gall bladder,
usually following and as the result of
infection and inflammation of the gall
bladder, They often exist in persons
of middle age without causing any
symptoms of any kind, In at
10 per cent of all post mortem exami-
nations of persons twenty-one
or more gallstones are
gall bladder, although
have often been entirely
{ the condition and have
disease in no way related to the
When symptoms do
usually very gradually. In
gallstones
least
over
found In
the persons
unaware of
of some
the
died
liver,
it is
womer
develop after
symp
ion of the
develop
are apt to
childbirth, Generally th
toms are those
gall bladder.
The first symptoms are
of Inf
those which
are popularly called dyspepsia,
comf
the
presence of
ortable sensation
stoma
ras,
10 relieve
Along with
excess of
discomfort by
his
the discomfort may
stomach, or what
ur stomach or
popularly
an acid stomacl
of may produce a
‘his excess f acid
gnawing or
two or
“hunger” pain beginning
hours after eating. This
from
thiree
the prec ed-
and
food
been digested
3
the stomach,
wall r A
Was eXposeq
the
EXCEeREIVELY
hunger
gall bladd
As
flarums
gympton
attentior
fore
Avold
sweetlbreads,
gall
have
eggs, brains, 1
all of which
stones. Most persons
gallstones are fat Regulating
the diet by cutting out fats will reduce
the weight and heip to prevent gall
stones.
stones
fats, ver
nt
anc belp
toe form
with
WHAT HEALTH COSTS
N*°* that it is generally recog-
- nized that each village or city
1
death rate by
is willing to spend for
ntion, naturally the
as to how this
i is going to cost, The
iswering question,
is by asking another,
does It cost those villages
and towns which have it?
In New York state the law provides
city or |
t
can largely fix its own
the an
disease
question much
health
best waj this
Yankee
how much
that 3 ncorporated village
may levy a health tax on its citizens,
establish a health department and em-
ploy a health officer and that the
health officer's salary be not less than
ten capita of the inhabit-
ants.
if a community wishes, it may tax
itself for more, but that is the least
it can pay its health officer Many
do pay more, as
is shown by a study of town and city
health by Dr. Huntington Wil-
Hams of the New York health depart-
ment
Dr
in New
any
cents per
3 ‘
cities and villages
work
Williams shows that there are
York three first-class
cities, In 1923, New York city, with a
population of 5620048 spent about
$1 per capita for health, Buffalo,
with a population of H008,775, spent 67
cents for each citizen, and Roches
ter, with a population of 283 7H0,
spent the same as New York city, $1.
There are eight second-class cit-
fea. Of these the average health ex-
penditure was 84 cents, the lowest be-
| Ing 38 cents and the highest $1.81.
Third<lass cities are those with a
population under 50,000, There are 43
such cities in New York and the aver
age health tax in each was 40 cents
for each person, running from 15 cents
| In a city of 10,000 to $1.50 In a city of
18.000,
Incorporated villages In New
York range in population from 500
to 16,006). The health expenditures of
118 were studied. Of this number, 91
| spent from 10 to 20 cents per capita.
| Twenty-four spent from 20 to 76
| coms,
| The New York law also allows
| townships to levy taxes for health pur
| poses, Out of 447 townships, 4238
| spent from 10 to 20 cents. Fifty-four
townships spent from 20 to 40 cents,
i The largest expense per capita was
{in the town of Newcomb, a lumber
camp, where, In order to keep a doe-
{ tor In a thinly settled region, the doe
| tor was paid a salary by the town.
| Thi involved an expense of §7 per
capita.
state