Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1922 — Page 4

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3ntoaua Uaita STimro INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Dally Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. New York, Boston, Payne. Burns &. Smith, Inc. Advertising offices Chicago. Detroit. St. Louis. G. Logan Payne Cos. THERE Is something about a beggar in 6ilk underwear that isn’t convincing. NOW that they have found that million dollar heir hiding in New York will he fight extradition? THE ONLY way to make the average small boy use the toothbrush Is to forbid its use. IF MR. BURBANK can only teach a chicken to hoe instead of scratch he will go down as a real wizard. IT SEEMS a pretty high price for those State House employes to do asked to saddle the entire Republican deficit in Indiana. MR. LESH, having attacked the ice and milk trusts, is now after the building trust. Apparently he is determined to ‘1)081’’ something while in office. IF THE SENATE takes up the tariff question before it considers the bonus bill the period of financial stringency that Secretary Weeks complained of will be over before the service men get a chance at the cash. NOW THAT the Senators have had the opportunity to fill the Congressional Record with their views on the four-power pact it is to be hoped the country will be spared a similar oratorical flood when the attendant treaties come up. Rikhoff Sees Crime Decrease? Chief of Police Rikhoff’s declaration that the automobile is a great contributing factor to present day immorality calls attention to a problem that is perplexing practically every law enforcement body in the country. The chief interest attached to his statement, however, lies in the fact that he offers no solution of what he admits to be "a serious police problem" and one which he feels “is almost impossible to break up.” Mr. Rikhoff’s plaint against nocturnal automobile parties recalls that Prosecutor Evans discovered similar conditions existed on the country highways last summer. The prosecutor, after a vigorous denunciation of, “spooning joy riders,” found himself unable to cope with the situation, j and as a consequence the lovers’ lanes have been extended until they have reached the city’s boulevards and streets. It is unfortunately true that a great percentage of delinquencies which eventually lead to legal entanglements can be traced to "Joy riding” escapades. It would seem, therefore, that the county and city law enforcement agencies could devise means by which these practices can be broken up, and until a sincere effort is made in this direction It is doubtful if the public will be satisfied with the excuses thus far vouchsafed. The chief of police paid a well-deserved tribute to the "night rider’ ! squads and yesterday’s grist of twelve blind tiger cases in city court gave , evidence that at least some of the bootleggers are running afoul of the law. There is much to do yet in ridding the community of illicit booze dealers, however. Some may be inclined to take issue with his statement that crime is on the decrease when the day’s news carried stories about a negro attacking a white man, about drug store being held up and robbed of S7OO while two policemen stood across the street, about a white man being held up and robbed of sls by a negro bandit and a list of petty thievery. Mr. Rikhoff is right in taking the stand that crime cannot be decreased while policemen "loafi' and it would seem that it is one of his tasks to see that his force is composed of men who can be trusted to perform their duty under all conditions and that they be kept continually on the alert while on duty.

Dodging the Bonus Issue Merrill ftoores, Republican Congressman from the Seventh District and a candidate for renomination, undoubtedly will be called upon, as the campaign progresses, to explain his attitude upon the bonus bill. Three hundred and thirty-three of his colleagues supported the measure when it went through the House and seventy opposed it, yet Mr. Moores and Congressman Will R. Wood of the Tenth District answered “present." Mr. Moores, it will be recalled, stood against the bonus bill that was in the House in 1920 and according to reports from Washington his "convictions would not permit him to support" the present bill. It would seem to many who have followed the debate on the measure and who have examined its provisions that it had been in the Houss long enough for all members to have lined up either for or against it. That this is true is evidenced by the fact that more than 400 Representatives were enabled to express their definite convictions when the bill came to a test. Mr. Moores and Mr. Wood undoubtedly found themselves In a very embarrassing situation and sought ta evade the issue by merely recording their presence without committing themselves, rt Is more to the credit of the other Indiana Representatives, however, that they took a definite position and voted accordingly. Plan Your Garden Now Garden making time is here again, and while enthusiasm for a back yard vegetable plot is probably not as great nor as contagious as it was under the stress of war conditions, the necessity for increased production of foodstuffs is fully as necessary as it was then. A garden in the back yard or on a vacant lot will not only afford a wholesome recreation for the gardener, but will provide a liberal education for the youngsters in the household as well as cut the weekly expenses. Appearing daily in the Times now is a series of articles on gardens prepared by Luther Burbank, the famed plant wizard, which will enable even the novice to have a successful garden. Then there is the Patriotic Garden Association with offices in the city hall —an echo of wartimes — willing to help plan and start the garden and also to find a vacant lot if the back yard is not available. Every foot of vacant tillable land should be utilized to produce its share of food. Even the tiny city garden is an important factor in that economic readjustment that is slowly but surely evolving. Chickens Come Home to Roost They are having an awful time in Washington City, D. C., with the color question in the schools and with negroes buying real estate in white resident sections. It seems that, while they have separate schools for the whites and blacks, the negro members of the school board secured the passage of a resolution allowing the negro scholars to use the white children's libraries (negro schools have no libraries) —just an entering wedge to mixed schools. The whole school board voted for it. Only the superintendent of schools objected and tried to defeat it. A Washington paper prints a cartoon of a negr,p boy and a white girl going to school together side by side while the spirit of Lincoln looks on and says, “I meant freedom —not that.” \ The Real Estate Board in Washington now expels any member who negotiates any sale of houses or lots In white districts to colored people. They say millions of dollars’ worth of property is destrojed every year by the negroes breaking into white blocks. They usually buy one house in the center at any price and then ruin the whole neighborhood and buy the balance at their own price. Washington has a population of 375,000 whites and 125,000 blacks. Since the negro has had a vote politicians have catered to h’m so much that he thinks he is better than a white man, and he is better than any white man who thinks he is his equal. Washington Is the mecca of'the politician, but "chickens cpme home to roost.”—W. D. Boyce, In the Saturday Blade.

GOVERNMENT *Of the People, by the People, for the People s

"There’s the Italians and the Pollacks, the Armenians and the Greeks, They don’t know the language; they don’t know the laws, Still they vote In the country of the free. Now a funny thing, when w@ start to sing, ’My Cointry ’Tls cf Theo,’ None of us know the words, but the Italians, the Pollacks, the Armenians and the Greeks.” This verse, borrowed from one of the popular stage successes, states In a very perinent manner the iresent attitude of carelessness shown b ' the average American toward h.!s ligations as a citizen. It Is a true, bv . sad, commentary on our national indlffeience to that most vital and elusive spirit of freedom ex- ; empllfled In American government and ; Institutions, that spirit so quickly sensed | and assimilated by the foreigner upon | his arrival In this country. !GOVERNMENT CHANGING. The entire system of American government is changing. Its fundamental principles are either forgotten, ignored, subverted or perverted to meet the ex lgencles of some political crisis, to supply some Imagined need, or they are, supplanted by an expedient to accomplish some ulterior purpose. One of the most marked of these changes has been the rapid and dangerous trend toward bureaucracy and paternalism in the national government and this Is being zealously followed by similar tendencies In j State governments. How far such changes , will be permitted to go depends upon the , awakening of the Individual American from his lethargy or state of Indifference to Ms duty In the participation In gov- j erument, anl to an Intelligent In every function of It. It can not b met through a special group of citizens or j by any class activities, nor does it call for the creation of new political parties. Neither does it lie wholly within the ability of legislators to frame laws to meet the situation. All citizens must assert their sovereign power as the basis of our Government and demand a return to the fundamental principles of the Constitution. PATERNALISM DEFINED. What is paternalism? It is “excessive governmental regulation of the private, affairs and business methods and interests of the people." That Is the practical j definition. The application of the pa- i ternallstlc theory Is getting more and more pronounced. From merely a latent danger, arising from the theories, whims and fads of over-enthusiastic, but well j meaning Americans, it has developed Into an Insidious menace, threatening the

Ye TOWNE GOSSIP CotiWlght. 192?, by fAr Company. By K. C. B Pear K. C. B.—Just after breakfast, when everybody should be good-natured —and far be It from me to say they were not—l read to my good wife about your friend "Katie-Did" and her husband, who did not seem to appreciate things, and she laughed and I felt all pttffed up and proud, because I do the things or try to do the things Mr. ‘’Katie-Did” did not. I got It, for my good wife did say to ask K. C. B. what would he think of a goop of a husband who came home when his wife had on a gown she had had for seventeen years, more or less, and said how nice she looked In her new gown and when did she get It? That is the question she would ask you. Candidly, my opinion on the general subject Is that one will be damned If be does, and damned if he don’t. THE GOOP. MY DEAR Goop. • • • THE TROrBLE with you. • • • IS YOU’RE garrulous • • • YOU TALK too much • • • FOR IF you’d say. • • • “HOW NICE you look.’’ • • AND QUIT right there. t • • YOU’D PLEASE your wife • * • WITH THE compliment. • • • AND IN addition • ft YOU'D AVOID the BUbJfCt •* • • OF JUST how old. • • • WAS THE dreps she wore. • • • IT’S A fatal subject. • • • AND IF much dl*ou*ed. • • • WILL STREET load • • t TO A frame of mind. • ♦ • THAT WON'T admit. • • • THAT ANY woman. • • • ’can look real nice. • • • IN ANYTHING old. • • • AND YOU know, Goop. • • • THAT’S a silly idea. • • • AND VERY expensive. AND I'VE thought. * * * WHAT We ought to do. • • • IS EVERY time. • • • THEY WEAR anything old. • • * JUST XID 'em along. • • • AND SAY to them. ♦ • • "HOW NICE you look." * * • IF WE'D do that. • • • WE’D HAVE them bragging. • • • INSTEAD OF complaining. • • • ABOUT HOW Old. * • • WERE THE clothes they wore. • • * I THANK you.

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destruction of American Ideals and the lowering of the standards of American individualism. Every Individual in the United States Is most vitally affected by paternalistic measures, which, in practice, become ‘‘undue solicitude on the part of the Government for the protection of the people and their Interests and Interference therewith.” (Websler’s In ternational Dictionary). The dangers of pat?rnalism are many. It Is destructive of the principles of American Government; it Is autocratic In Us enforcement and It Is vicious in its paralyzing effect upon the Individual’s initiative. The very manner In which paternalism gets its hold upon a people, or fastens Its tentacles upon a government, Is indicative of Its danger and of tho menace to Individual liberty History shows that the most dangerous type of paternalism Is based upon the ‘‘welfare” of the people. Its proponents play upon the fears of citizens: select isolated and unusual cases and conditions and hold them forth as If they were universally present or threatening a community or country. They use every known means of publicity; work up startling and deceptive statistics: mar-, shall the forces of the gullible and susceptible type of citizen: organize tho zealous and ambitious who aspire to place and power, and proceed to secure legislation to make the people wards of a paternal government. By a clever and comprehensive scheme of "mass psychology’ people are mesmerized Into acquiescence to a scheme that robs them of the heritage that has been held as the most sacred of all the privileges and blessings of American citizenship. Tho solution of all governmental problems now confronting the United States, lies in the education of the citizen and in hls'awakeig to his resposibillties.

TEXANS NOTED FOR COURAGE IN ADVERSITY (Continued From Togo One.) fore the cattle men, because cotton is a one-year crop, and breeding a herd of cattle Is a three-year job. The great asset of these people Is their indomitable courage, their gayefy In adversity and tlielr apparent inability’to know when they are licked. They hnve seen hard times before and have lived turougli them. We chanced to come ,nto Ft. Worth at an opportune moment. The town is full of stock-raisers and rattle men because of the annual meeting of the Southwestern Cattle Kaisers' Association and the annual livestock show. At this moment, one ventures to say, there are more bow-legged men In Ft. Worth than In any other spot of the same size on the face of the globe. They are a gay and lively crowd of riders, and ao one would suspect from their demeanor that they were anything but rich and prosperous.

DROUGHT, LIQUIDATION, HIT CATTLE RAISERS. For more than two years this part of the country has had Its troubles. First, there came 3 long period of drought, when range cattle died by the hundreds, and even by the thousands. This was followed by a period of deflation and forced liquidation and a fall In prices. Cattle had to be sold at far less than the cost of production. Men with breeding herds that It had taken years to establish had to break into ttiem and sell their cattle to pay their debts. These herds must be replenished. How long this will take It Is difficult to say. Local expert opinion differs. Some of the stockmen assert that It will take three years to got t>a> k where they were in 1914. Others, more hopeful, say they can get back In a year to a year and a half This time will be taken mainly In paying off their debts and getting bark to a pre-war condition, with the herds established on their old basis ns to numbers and quality. The big element of chance In this whole proi-ess will be the weather. They must have rains to grow the grass and rains for the cotton lands Thu cotton men say that one good crop at prevailing prices will put them square with the world once more and enable them to pay up. The primary Interest, however. Is cattle, and the country will not be normal until the cattle business is normal. The stock raisers and the bankers both say that the breeders will have to be carried and protected for two years, and possibly three, and will have to have money loaned to them to keep them afloat. They all are ager to know at this Juncture whether the War Finance ('nrporatlon Is to be continued or some similar and equivalent agency for extending governmental money aid is to be maintained. In some sections the local banks will be enabled to extend what help is necessary. In others they will not. The possibility of Government aid Is desired as a form of Insurance against money drought during the period of recovery.

STOCK RAISING WEALTH PRODUCER. Stock-raising Is at once a hazardous enterprise and one of tho surest of wealth-producers. The cattle man is more dependent upon and subject to what the railroad bills of lading term the acts of God than almost any other producer. One hears casually the most tragic and pitiful stories of losses from drought or freezes that have in them an almost personal element of disaster. For example, one of the stockmen who last February, in a freeze In anotlnyr part of this country, lost $250,000 worth of horses and beef cattle In four days, wiping out at one stroke twenty years of accumulation and industry and patient breeding. And of another, who lost almost ns much by drought, so that when conditions were at their worst he and his cowboys wont about over the range shooting the young calves as they were born, and their mothers. These old stockmen are not a sentimental people; they are accustomed to realities, they are hard-bitten men; and yet some of them, ds they told these stories, did it with misty eyes. They visualize and make a moving drama of their domestic losses. No one ever came into Ft. Worth without wanting to come back again. The qualities and (he direct approach to the problems of daily living, the courage, the gayety, the humor that we like to think of as ingredients of the American spirit,

BURBANK’S BETTER GARDEN TIPS THE GARDEN Article No. 2

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Mrs, Luther Burbank illustrates her husband’s garden tips.

By LUTIIT.It BURBANK. World's Greatest Scientific Agriculturist. When you look out upon your back yard and see a pile of ashes and old tin cans and other debris lying about—don’t despair! Quite the contrary! Here you have a fine start, once the tin cans have been cleaned up and dumped. The ashes are Just what you want for the Soil. The avernge back yard can afford n space of 10 by 30 feet and the average person can easily spade and take care of such a plot. If It is a vegetable garden you have In mind, such a space will go far toward providing vegetables for a family of three or four.

blosßom and bloom here. These are people who do things In a high, wide and handsome way. And though one suspects I hey never heard of the Salvation Army slogan while they are down at this moment, they are fnr from out.—Copyright, IIUL’, by Public Ledger Company.

PUSS IN BOOTS, JR. By DAVID CORY. Well, by and by Sir Launcelot and Puss Junior arrived at the castle of Briers. And then, all of a sudden, through an open window they heard a sweet voice singing: ; “The hart he loves the high wood, The hare he loves the hill; The Knight he loves his bright sword, Tho Lady loves her will.” "There Is much truth In what she sings," quoth Sir Launcelot. But at that time he did not know of what assistance the lady would be to them both later on. Now, as they entered the great courtyard there was much merriment among the noble lords and ladles on seeing Sir I.auneelot's small comrade. And the lord of the castle, who was a wicked lord, sneered, trying to provoke a quarrel. But seeing that there were so many fair laics In the company, Sir Launcelot held his temper and replied that Sir Puss In Boots Junior was a worthy comrade. “If we cannot trespass on the hospitality of my lordllng we will go our way," and Sir Launcelot looked at (he wicked lord with much meaning In his eves. As they stood thus gazing at each other, the lady of the castle spoke. It was she whom Sir Launcelot and Puss Junior had heard singing. I "The Knight he loves his bright sword. The lady loves her will,” she cried, tnVnlng to the wicked lord. "I would that our two guests be shown the hospitality of Castle Briers!” There was no other way but for the wicked lord to Invite them to remain for the night, for it was now drawing toward the end of the day. After the evening meal, when It was somewhat late, Sir Launcelot and Puss Junior were shown to their room. But Puss lay awake, for he had a strange feeling that the wicked lord meant harm to Sir I-auncelot. And when all was quiet, he stole to tho door and listened when all of a sudden the key turned softly and the wicked lord crept in. And then Puss, who had hidden behind the door, sprang out and smote him with his sword, cutting a deep gash In his right arm. The noise awoke Sir Launcelot, who sprang from the bed, sw-ord In hand. Tho wicked lord had dropped his weapon and was trying to stanch tho blood that flowed from the wo and. "Traitorous host!" cried Sir Laucelot. "Speak not again disparagingly of my comrade, for he hath disarmed thee!"— Copyrght, 1922. To Bo Contlnnod. Texas Floggers Whip 65; More on Their List DALLAS, Texas, March 25.—Texas rangers may be sent to Dallas to combat night riding terrorists, believed to be led by a woman, it was anounoed today. Governor Neff ordered services of the rangers followinglnformatlon to police that organized bands of doggers have whipped sixty-five persons here recently and have -“one hundred more on their list.”

Now get a good spade, a good trowel and be sure to do a little planning on the garden's form. Straight rows between the beds are important, even though this requires a little more effort. A two-foot width is always sufficient for these, and quite frequently a foot woll suffice. Try to make the garden a family affair. Turn t Into exercise, rather than Into work. And by ail means get the children interested. Nothing is more healthful and helpful to the child body and mind. Then, sti rt to dig: (Monday Burbank tells abont "The Soil.”)

CONDITION OF MOTOR ROUTES (This information supplied by touring department of Iloosier Motor Club, ninth floor Claypool Hotel, dated March 24. Motorists are Invited to call at motor club office for later or more detailed Information.) TO TERRE HAUTE— Rockville road through Dlnvtlle and on to Montezuma is now In passable condition. This Is only practical route to Terre Haute, following State road No. 10 between Montezuma and Terre Haute. Faved road, Terre Haute to St. Louis. TO LOUISVILLE—OnIy accessible route now !s via Dixie Highway to Martinsville, Bloomington, Bedford, Mitchell. Paolt and New Albany. Bad in spots, but passable. TO EVANSVILLE —State road via Martinsville, Spencer, Worthington, Bruceville, Vincennes, Princeton and Evansville, n*z>ton ferry Is again running. TO COLUMBUS, O—All paved with exception of twenty-eight miles of gravel between Greenfield and Dublin This stretch has been put in fair shape by highway commission. Paved from Dublin on east to Atlantic seaboard. TO DETROIT Pendleton pike again passable and route is fair to good via Fortvllle, Pendleton, Anderson. Muncle. Hastford City, Ft. Wayne. Bryan. Ohio Napoleon. Wnusoon and Detroit. Road paved between Watlseon and Detroit. TO GREENCASTLE—By way of Danville (Ind.i, Hadley and Filmore. Road between Oreenoastle and Brazil reported In bad condition. TO CINCINNATI—Beat routs is through Greenfield, Richmond and Dayton, thence over pavement to Cincinnati. Alternate route Is over National road to Cambridge City then State road through Rrookvllle to Harrison (Ohio) and paved road on to Cincinnati. Road from Cambridge City to Harrison Is only fair. TO CHICAGO .Tnrkson highway Is fair to Lafayette, but has bad holes farther north. Alternate route Is via Lebanon. Crawfordsville and Danville, 111. TO KOKOMO—lmpossible to get through on direct route. Motor club has lrformatlon on by-roads which make trip through possible. Vote —Fast repair work Is being done by State highway commission and county road units. With dry weather for next few days ail motor route conditions are expected to change for the better.

Eight Women Boss Village in North Dakota Officiallg DES LACS, N. D.. March 25.—This village of six hundred was in the political grasp of eight women today. They took over the reins of city government at a town meeting last night and announced they would prove a “safe and sane government." Mrs. F. P. Ward, who sported the town marshal’s star, patrolled the streets with not a law violator in sight. Mrs. Rebecca Varnes, justice of the peace, allowed she wouldn't have much work to do unless tho town grew worse. “And we are going to make It better,” she added, “that, ib the platform on which we were elected.” The vtomen were chosen at a recent election. They formed a booster club, lined up tho votes and won by a big majority. At their first meoHngAhe women agreed they would not run the city affairs in a “high-handed manner"—they will call the men into consultation on every important step.

By GEORGE McMANUS,

Princess or Adventuress?

An expedition planned to reopen an abandoned mine in the Interior of Mexico, is being sent out by Henry Jarndyce, capitalist of New York. Richard Henry Gladney, young portrait painter, and cousin of Jarndyce, Joins the group for the sake of adventure. Senora Trabajar, alleged princess, claims that the mine to be worked by the Jarndyce Company really belongs to her by riglit of inheritance and was wrongft dy taken from her dead v father. She accompanies the expedition in the expectation of taking possession. While making the trip from New York to Vera Cruz exciting events take place. An attempt is made to destroy the mining machinery on board the vessel. Plots and Intrigues are plentiful. Follow the story from here.

CHAPTER Xll — Continued. "And walk into a well-placed ambush?" said Prothro. "No, we need the engine, flop on and let's run back to the wreck." We got on and Prothro backed the engine carefully back to where the dead Mexican lay. -■ “Put him np on the tender, men,” said Prothro. "There's no dirt here to cover him with.” While we were burying the two dead men, Prothro was busy looking at the most forward car of the wreck. From the rubbish he drew some scraps of twisted steel which he called Spinks to look at. “That was clever, Spinks,” he said. "They jammed that train pipe with all the air it would stand and locked It dawn with that device. Say, they've got one real mechanic with them, anyway, the murderous devils.” It was now far past lunch time, and although cur food hamper was badly wrecked our Mexican cook managed to get us up a good meal; and then we took a look at the wreck to see what i could be done. The two cars nearest the tender had not loft the track, and there was about two engine lengths of ; clear track on the dead end. so our com- ; munication with Guant-apuaro was not cut i off. We worked all the afternoon in the high, cool air of the mountains, al- ; though we had only a couple of rail frogs and some screwjacks to work with, but as the moon was rising Prothro and | Spinks, with five cars ready to roll and McCarty acting as hraieman, started Slowly back to Guanajuato, tearing Barnette and I and the Mexican cook to guard the wreck. I will long remember that first night ! there in the mountains. We had a I campfire of pinol and scraps of wreckage to koep off the cold, which became intense as the night drew on. I hare never seen the stars so large or wonderful as they are in that high and dry region. Then there was the air of danger to add excitement to the scene. We did not know that w e would not be attacked during the night by the bandits who had wrecked us. Then a mountain lion found our Are and sent us a challenging cry, and a bear spent the night l prowling around our camp. | That night I made the acquaintance of j Barnette To know a man. go through danger and excitement with him or j camp all nlgln with him in a lonely • spot. Barnette was a simple man of violent desires. Women and horses and gaming and drink —these seemed to be the things by which he had lived—but there wad a better and under side to his nature In spite of the many wild i s;orms of passion that had swept over It. "Gladney," ho said to me, "I reckon you consider me a sort ybf devil, most people do. And I'm oolng to tell you | I’ve been Into many a scrape, but I’ll tell you one thing, In spite of a few adventures in Paris and Monte Carlo and Port Said I’ve never lost my respect for a pure, good woman: I don’t think you have either, and that’s the reason Pm I telling you this.” i I told him a great deal about my s.dY ventures with the "princess.” “1 know her sort," he mused aloud. ! "Boy, I’ll bet you fail for her before i another month.” I “No. I’ll stick to you and Prothro.” | and then I laughed* and told him what I Prothro had said to Nelson about her father’s being a hot tamale vender, that morning on the ship. 1 “Well, you’re a good scout. Gladney.” jhe said. "But. do you know, If a thing ! like that offered itself to me, all that chance of a big fortune, the gambler In me would just naturally assert Itself and I’d fall for it before I knew it." ‘ "No, you wouldn’t. You'd stick to Jarndyce and the thing you came down here to do. By the way, Prothros a | dandy, Isn’t he? Has he ever bad a real love affair?” | “lias he? You shonld see the lr dy. i Now, if I could ever meet one like her. \ She dwells In the realms of purest Knickerbocker society, and Mrs. Henry Jarndyce herself could not be more exj elusive. But, of course, that Isn’t what | makes her wliat she Is—she somehow made me think of my sister when she was a girl, ray sister that lives out in a college town In Ohio." "You have seen her, then?” “Yes, at close range. He had her and her mamma meet me and Mora at the Waldorf one night and we all had dinner together. I imagine she had been after him about the kind of men he associated with him In tis work and he was holding us two up as the best speci- j mens, though I didn't know' why he I should have picked me for that. She seemed to And us both very amusing savages, though I must say she treated me with all due cordiality.” "Has she good common ” "Good hoss sense? The best in the world. It didn’t take her two minutes to decide that I was a bold, bad man and not at all fit for Bob Prothro to associate with, not that she showed It by any look or speech—l Just naturally read her mind. But I think both she and her mother rather approved of little Mora. His discreet style won her over. Oh, but she's some dame!” “Looks?” "Weil, looks, yes; but not altogether that. She's just naturally a thorobred.

By AUGUSTIN W. BREEDEN

But Prothro is a thorobred when it comes to that. He's high-proof white alcoholic spirits, what I’m telling you.” "So, you’re looking for a girl like the prospective Mrs. Prothro?” “No. I can't say I’m exactly looking for one. But I believe this. Gladney, that the worst man in the world would be better if he had a girl like that waiting somewhere back in the States for him to come home some day and marry her.” Our long night watch was out at last and we aroused the cook to get us some breakfast while we rolled up in our blankets and stole forty winks of sleep.

CHAPTER XIII. The accident to my hurt shoulder served me one good purpose—lt gave me an excuse to leave off painting the princess for a few days; and I spent those few days constantly in Prothro's presence. Two days after the wreck we made our first through trip t) Tieximal. and I got the first look at our mine. It was a great hexagonal hole twenty feet in diameter inside a yard at- the back of a church. The stone wall around the yard was twenty feet high and three feet th.ck, with towers at the angles like a prison wall. Prothro took me to the mine at high noon. A most musical sound composed the harmony of the deepest and the shrillest notes caused from the plunge of water down Its sides came up to me; and at this hour when the sun penetrated its depths a series of most beautiful rainbows could be seen far down In the gaping hole. “That shaft is six hundred feet deep,” said Prothro. “In the old days and up to forty years ago it was worked by peons, who carried the dirt up “chicken ladders” in baskets on their backs, and even as late as forty years ago the water was pumped out by small hand pumps, in relays from tank to tank. A small army of men have been killed In that mine and enough gold taken out of It to furnish the entire coinage for twenty years of many a European nation. Now all the lower levels up to four hundred feet below here are en tirely flooded and even the upper series of tunnels are in such a ruinous state that any man risks his life that enters them. You see now how important out pumping machinery Is for us.” “Has no one at all worked the mine for forty years?” I asked with a smile, for I knew very well that ail Madame Trabajar's resources came from the Illicit working of this very mine. “Yes,” replied Prothro, “a gang of these narive brigands have tunneled in from some shaft that I cannot locate and are taking regularly several thousand dollars a month from some of tho upper levels.” As he spoke a long, mournful, chanting wail came up to us. I hive never heard anything at all like it in point of weirdness. "What Is It?" I asked Prothro. "I hardly know,” he replied gravily. ‘Tt was always the cusiom of the poor slaves who worked the mine in the old days to sing as they climbed their chicken ladders. It Is still the custom in some old mines that are still being operated In this country. We lost all our native workers here three months ago, because they believe that this was the echo of that. For myself, I am not superstitions.”

While he spoke it came again, louder than before, more hair-raising. I to the margin and peered down into the yawning hole. The sun had shifted nowj and the rainbows had all disappeared, but as I gazed down into the chaotic depths whence the sound rose with Increasing volume above the music of the falling water, I saw a brilliant light Sash thron'gh tho midst and turn the spray into a sort of silvery rain. Somehow it was all very uncanny, and in spite ■ f the bright sunshine where I stood I felt a chill creep over my flesh, and at that moment had a premonition that our whole expedition was ill-fated, that a something ominous was about to happen to us ail. I think Prothro had started to try to give me a logical explanation of the strange sound, when suddenly the telephone in tho little wooden shack that served him for an office rang loudly, and we hastened ot the phone. Standing behind Prothro I could hear Mora’s excited voice at the other end of the line in Guanajuato. “There’s been a raid and a Jail delivery, and Slfert and Scriano are both at large." "When did it happen?” "Early this morning.” "Why didn't you telephone before?” asked Prothro. “I tried, to, but the wires were cut about two miles from town and I couldn't use the phone till our men had repaired the line. But, listen, that Isn't all the bad news" —1 strained my ears to catch every word, feeling again that chill up and down my spine—"Barnette has disappeared.” "What?” "He was at his hotel and In his room last night after 11 o’clock. He told me then he aimed to sleep late this morn ing, but when I seard a little after daybreak about the raid on the jail I rushed to his hotel, but he was gone and had left no sign or word of any sort. The hotel people apparently know nothing. My theory is Barnette was chloroformed and gagged and so abducted from sis room. There was no sign of a fight, and yon know how quick Barney always was.” “Have you seen Madame Trabajar this morning” “Not yet: I have been busy with thr work. That's the main reason I haven't local police trying to keep them at phoned sooner; I’ve had a difficult time It looks to me like that woman’s got this whole town under her thumb. I didn’t go to her because I thought perhaps you and Gladney could talk to her to more purpose. If we can't win her over or force her out of the country. It looks like we might as well shut up shop. How soon can you come down ?” “Right away. AnythlD<r else you’d like to tell me before we st 7 „?” (To Be ConWiued.)

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