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Billy bad been with the firemen about ft month, when ono day he heard them talking about a proces sion they were going to be in, that all the fire engines, hose carts and hook and ladder companies were to be in the parade and that the (horse were to' hare their hoofs tguaea ana wear collars or roses. and that he, Billy, was to have his horns and hoofs gilded . also, and wear a rose collar and be led by a chain made of roses, by one of the :fireiuen who was to wear a red hshirt, black trousers and high patent leather boots and hit fireman's bat with a vigor. . When Billy beard this he said, Ml won't march in their old procession and make a circus of myself. I'll run away first." But he did not get a chance. When the morning of the day of the procession came, Billy watched the firemen polish the brass of the engine and trim it with garlands of flowers tied with bright colored ribbons; but when they commenced 4o gUd the horses' hoofs one of them said to him: "It's your next turn next, Billy; we are going to give you a scrubbing in the tub until your hair is as Ktft anil chlnv aa sillr and thon WA -are going to gild your long horns and tie ribbons on them, and put the handsomest wreath of pink roses we can find around your neCk. My!, but you will look fine, Billy. And' we expect you to behave and walk In a dignified manner, for the fire marshal is goingto give you a gold medal to . wear . round your ; neck for saving the baby's life." " ''It Is very nice of them to give ' me a medal' thought Billy, "and I think they have been good to me; but I don't like being scrubbed and dressed up like a clown, besides I am getting tired of town life and I long for the country and Nanny. 1 might as well run away one time as another, so I will watch my chance, and, when they are all busy and not looking, I will walk out of the station quietly,' as if I were only going for my usual walk up the ' street, and when I get to the corner I will turn it and once out of sight I will run until I get so. far away they can't find me." , But for once Master Billy's-plans were foiled, for. Just 1 as he was walkine out of tha ' station one of the' firemen saw him and said: "Here, here Billy, not so- fast! , We are ready for you now and if you go for a walk there is no knowing when you will come back : " And he took Billy by the horns and led him into the back yard, where another fireman had a big tub of soapy water - ready to put Wra In. i ' "Billy stood in the tub and submitted to the scrubbing until the

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soapy water ran Into his eyes and then he got mad and butted the fireman who was holding his horns, clear over, and kicked the other

man, who was scrubbing him, in the stomach; and then, around and around the yard he ran, bleating and shaking his head, wild with the smart of the soap that was in his eyes. "Here, Jack, this will never do,'' said one fireman to the other, "he is not half clean. Let us get the hose and turn it on him while he is running around." ."All right,"said the other, "that will be great sport," They got the hose and soon they were squirting it over Billy as he ran. i How Billy.got even will be told in the next slory.J Copyright by ttie .Saalfield l'ublishing Company, Akron, O. . ADVENTURES IN AN OLD HAUNTED HOUSE CHAPTER V. Tom watched in amazement un til the glass reached the top and! was lost to view, and Tom knew the j mirror was built in the vail, lie I gazed in at the opening, but saw nothing but darkness; but he had decided so, with his automatic In one hand, a bright search light in the other, he trusted to Fate, and went through the opening into the dark. The rays of the searchlight showed him . dark walls, slightly mouldy, and it looked like a long hall. Then the searchlight showed a huge ring in a piece of the floor, and Tom knew it was a trap door, so. pulling up on the ring, he saw beneath a long flight of stairs that curved around and was lost in dark ness. He listened, rich drifted up to Voiccs low and him, and hisi

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finger was on the trigger of his revolver as he turned around the winding steps. Fragrant cigarette smoke was wafted up, and then he stopped for a Queer sight met his gaze. It was a beautiful room, filled with fine furniture, beautiful rugs. A beautiful rosewood upright piano stood in tho corner of the room. There were priceless paintings, a bookcase lull of books, priceless vaseB, and many other expensive things. A largo rose-colored light in the center of the room cast a dainty light over all. At a beautiful long mahogany table that occupied the middle of the floor, beside tho lamp, sat four men: two in dark street suits and

two dressed in well fitting eveningpum'y" wiiims. '

clothes. One of the - men had slightly greying dark hair and a handsome, devil may-care face; the other three were younger. One had sandy hair, blue eyes, but a sneer spoiled his otherwise handsome face. Another had dark brown hair, brown eyes, imperial mustache, and a crafty look on his lean face. The last one had black hajr and blue eyes and the marks of the common yegg were stamped on his rather good looking face. They were deep in conversation. .Something made Tom turn from the engrossed men to a brightly burning grate and almost lost from sight in a big chair sat a lovely woman with pale golden hair piled on top of her small head, a pair of dark blue eyes gazing dreamily into the fire. .She wore a black satin gown cut low in the neck, with thin trailing sleeves and a string of "un matchable" diamonds around her white throat. Tom rubbed his eyes. Was this all a dream? Where did all these things come from? Since he had not found it out before, they must have been' put there at night from the outside.- But Tom only smiled grimly and said in a quiet voice: 'Your game's up, friends." The men at the table sprang up like trapped animals, ami when they saw Tom's quiet face over the automatic, their hands flew up as ihouglr by training. Tom said to the black-haired, bluc-eved yegg, "Call the lady here, quick." ."What if 1 don't?" snarled the man. "I ll fill you full of lead," that's j all," Tom replied." But they didn't have to call her; she came sweeping up to Tom and said, in a sneering voice: "1 don't usually obey my henchmen, but what do you want ol me?" Tom saw it was the face Bruce and he had seen disappear into the wall. With a shudder, he also saw something or Betty in the face, which was a little more mature. Tom calmly said: "1 suppose you feel better behind your so-called 'henchmen,' imitating what they are doing?" He went on to say to the man with the iuiperial mustache: "Now, you go and telephone for your friends, the police, quick, or you'll be real ghosts, sure." Tom heard a noise behind him and turned quickly, thinking it was one of the gang; but it was Lincoln with It is long paint-stained fingers around an 1 vers-Johnston revolver, lie said: "Found 'em, didn't you? Some spooks! Wish Bruce were here! Went to your room to see you, saw the hole where the mirror used to be, got my gun and came to the 'party'" He then surveyed the 'party' with a grin, then said: "Don't forget what Tom just told you about telephoning, gentlemen!" The young man with the mustache started to obey. When he reached it, he turned and with a sneering laugh, said: "You wouldn't be so, brave without the pistols." "Never mind that just now," replied Tom "I'd settle soon enough with you, but I'm in a . hurry. Be quick or I'm liable to lose my temper." The young man obeyed, while Tom sent Lincoln to meet the officers. Just then, Tom saw his mother's ring on the woman's hand. He was angry, but with the best voice he could muster, without ' showing his anger, he said: . "Give me my ring, please." me woman suenuy surrenuerea

it to Tom. The police came and the , another one. Within hailing discrooks were taken to court. The tance of the second pup he turned police knew them as a notorious ! and rode his horse over the wolf in gang. j Ihe rope and now more than half When it was all over, Tom went dead. The horse finished him. The upstairs and dropped into his rider raised the pup to the saddle,

grandfather's arm chair. He leaned on one of the arms to rest, and the huge arm fell off, disclosing tightly packed bank notes in the hollow, i "So, this Is what the 'ghosts' i were alter! Old grandfather sura I

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had a good hiding place right under inyvery nose." They took the money, out and it amounted to several millions. ' A note fell out from it and Tom, unfolding it, i ead in bis grandfather's fine old writing: Dear Grandson Tom: Thin U all yours to do what you want with. You know "Finders ore Keepers" as an old childhood saying goes. So, it Is yours. I always liked mystery, so I furnished a secret passageway with rich furnishing there, where I could be away from prying- eyes. If you haven't found it, press -on lower dragon on bottom of mirror, and It will slide up, leavingan opening, and 1 think you Mill find the rest of the way easy. Also, Lovingly, your grandfather, WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL. Just then Lincoln entered Tom's room in time to share his friend's joy. Tom suddenly said:

CATTLEMAN'S ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES READS LIKE STORY OF FRONTIER DAYS

THE HOQSt FINISHED HIM CLEARMONT, Wyo., Aug. 28. Nobody thought there were gray wolves on Dead Man's Divide, less than a dozen mites from Clearra;m, in the year 1920. The old frontier story tellers can thrill your spine with the stories of the old days, but here Is a thriller of today, and it happened just a fortnight ago. Luther Zing was sitting in his homestead cabin when his herd of cows and calves- grazing but a abort distance away set up a great bellowing alarm. Zing has a big. black five-vear-old celdimr which is a strong favorite witli him. He has

trained the colt until it will leave ha riders rode the hills along the herd out in the hills and come'Dead Man's Divide until they found

to him. His name is "Nigger." and It fits him well. Zing got Nigger and stepped on him for a little ride up to his herd of cows and calves to see what was wrong and the closer he got the surer he became that something unusual was happening. He left his horse and crawled the last two hundred yards and this is what he saw: Fifty head of cows and calves had been rounded up by a mother gray wolf. She had stationed her eight half-grown pups around the herd and was circling the herd, biting at their tails to show her offspring how to" do the trick. Zing had no gun, so he hastened back to Nigger. With a rush he rode into the fray. He neck reined his horse quickly and sharply. The bit broke, but Nigger knew something was up and went right on obeying that pressure on his neck After a hard, quick run and a sure throw of his rope. Zing had one of the puns dragging behind hisi noise, but he kept right on after loosened the rope and let the dead wolf drop. Then he took up the chase again with the mother wolf trailing him. She frothed at the mouth and showed her white fangs. but this didn't bother Zing, for he

"Lincoln, get a preacher and a bunch of roses and bring them back in half an hour and get a hustle on you! I am going after Betty!" Lincoln grinned and went out on his errand. -- - - Tom and Betty were married. Then Tom got the news that tho woman in the gang had died, and Tom and Betty went to see. When Betty saw the dead woman she cried out and fainted, for she had recognized her own mother in the dead woman. Tom saw that Betty's mother had a suitable burial. Then many happy days were ahead for Tom and Betty in the ' Old Haunted House,' where Betty wanted to live. Tom tells his children many times of his strange adventures in the Old Haunted House, never telling them of their grandmother's part in the history of the house. The End.l Thelma L Darby.

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soon had his trusty rope over tha neck of another pup. He killed this in the same manner as the first and picked out a third wolf. Nigger did his best, but he couldn't make it. He had run himself out and stood panting and covered with white foam. The cattleman tied tho dead pupa to Jiis saddle and got back to his cabin at 11 o'clock that night Luther Zing came to Clearmont bringing the wolf pups he had killed- He soon had a bunch of men rounded up for a final hunt. Two days after the first killing sixteen the wolf den. They dug the den out but the old mother gray wolf had taken her remaining six pupa and made haste for other less dangerous hunting grounds. The St. Gothard railway in Swifr zerland, is to be entirely electrified. A large tunnel forms one section of the road and electric trains are already passing through this. Eagle county, Colorado, Juniors raised $107 to send a little crippled boy to a hospital in Denver, where he underwent an operation. Now he is home again, able to walk for the first time in his life. The beautiful, rumbling Victoria Falls in Africa are from 100 to 300 feet wide. The native name for them is Moiswa-Tunya, which means Thundering Smoke. The plunge is 400 feet and in the sunlight these falls are a picture of dazzling Deauty. : Edward Morris of Minneapolis, when passing the Boy Scout test, where the report of his 14-mile hike was required, passed a map Into his local court of honor which tha judges declared to be perfect. Morris is a High school student and interested la mechanical drawing. He says he spent fifteen hours on it and "could have improved on it greatly If he could have spared more time."