The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1932, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Why the Tax ‘Squawk’? One of the questions occasionally asked, usually by the so-called tax- eaters, is just why all the furore about getting taxes down? Accompanying this question one finds the argument that this or that phase of township, city, county, state or national government costs only a ridiculously small amount per capita and should, therefore, be continued or expanded. The citizen who knows what a hard time he has getting money to pay his taxes, feels a little bit silly when someone graciously points out that this or that thing costs him only three cents a year or some such insignificant sum. If, however, we take a battery of adding machines and add all those three-cent and five-cent items to- gether we find what is worrying Mr. Citizen. We find that the tax bill is large enough to take a very sub- stantial share of what he earns. That, after all, is the question. In 1913 the man who earned a dol- lar could figure on paying out six and one-half cents in taxes. The rest was his to buy shoes, bacon, bread, beans, ice cream cones for the children or cigars for himself. Occasionally he could surprise “The Mrs.” by presenting her with a new dress. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TU. ESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1982 medical men. These institutions draw patronage from far and near because people know they can get the best of service here. In many in- stances physicians in neighboring towns send patients who need spe- cial care or treatment here in order that they may have the service which is not obtainable in many small com- | munities. The birth rate rises here because the stork knows his packages have a good chance of survival if they are deposited in local hospitals. | The death rate rises here because of the fact that many persons who are desperately ill or critically in-| jured are brought here for treat- i ment. Their friends, relatives or family doctor, realizing that they have only a bare chance to live, im- prove on that chance to the fullest by sending them to Bismarck for skilled care and attention. That is the real reason why Bismarck’s vital) statistics are so far out of line with! those of other cities. One set of figures is needed to} October Promises to Be One of Our ‘Hottest’ Months clarify this unusual situation but it is not and can never be available. That is a reckoning of the lives which are saved here. direct way of knowing and those who could make a good guess would re- fuse to do so, but it is safe to say that the number, during the course of every year, is considerable. In a booklet entitled “Campaign Ammunition” and labeled as desir- able reading for young Republicans, occurs this quaint statement: Facts show that the three great figures of American political history —Washington, the Founder; Lin-); coln, the Preserver; and Hoover, the Builder—all have been exponents of Republican political principles. As to Washington and Lincoln there is no question, but how general this classification of Hoover is will be shown by the vote on Nov. 8. And we wonder if they forgot Theodore Roosevelt because the pres- ent Democratic candidate has the same family name. Americanism is a funny thing. Some persons seem to think it con- sists of feeling sorry for Samuel In- sull because he has to live on $18,000 a year while he fights extradition to the United States, and of ignoring the losses of widows and aged per- sons who were mulcted of some $350,000,000 by the Insull debacle. Wonder where the fellow is who used to claim there should be an/ Open season on Democrats. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without to whether they agree or d with The Tribu: Doli President Hoover’s Reply | (New York World-Telegram) But in 1932 the first thing which President Hoover replied to his There is noj -- WHILE THIS POT 1S APT TO BOIL OVER. AT ANY MINUTE,--= "STHE DONKEY 15 ALL STEAMEDUP vER, “THIS!~- on -AND THAT. SOMETHING TO GET HETUR SN -BUT--THE WISHBONE WEATHER: PROPHETS SAY {TS GONNA BE A LONG; COLD. WINTERS | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. FORMALDEHYDE FOR OSMIDROSIS i Osmidrosis is not a new name, but an old name for bromidrosis. What, you don’t even know what bromi- Grosis means? Tehk! Tchk! Well, keep your eye on the cozy corner magazines—they'll get around to it some of these days. Of course, they; won't call it osmidrosis nor even; bromidrosis. They'll probably popu-; larize some silly term such as F. P. for it—meaning fetid perspiration. All sweat has an odor. The nor- mal odor is imparted to the sweat mainly by the fatty acids in the se- bum or skin oil which is mixed with the sweat in the common ducts of the sweat and sebaceous glands. This normal odor is sourish. When the! sweat has a foul odor, that may be due to certain foods or medicines the individual has taken, but is usu- ally due to decomposition of the min- gled sweat and sebum retained in the clothing or upon poorly ventilated surfaces of the skin. The truth of this is shown by the prompt correc- pleurisy. (T. A. D. Answer—Inflammation of covering! of lungs or lining of chest cavity. It| is serious in any case. We have no symptoms today. | Plaster Cast | In what manner is a plaster cast! put on the body and must the pa-| tient lie perfectly still all the time?| —(K. R.) Answer—The skin to be covered is cleansed and perhaps greased and covered first with padding of sheet wadding or perhaps a_ stockinette garment. The plaster is applied partly by means of washed muslin bandages saturated with plaster | cream, and partly by means of blobs| of thick mixed plaster to give the} necessary bulk and strength. Thi patient must keep reasonably still, but generally the patient can go on breathing, buzzing the doctor or flirting with the nurse. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) How does it affect one?— .) comes from every dollar earned s| ‘tities last night, It was his first 25 cents for taxes. Instead of hav-|C@mpaign effort. It was a fighting ing 9.1 cents left for his own needs,|SPeech. As such, it stimulated hope Mr. Citizen has 75 cents. That dif-| 1 the breasts of his followers. S51SS S82 Fees acres a) Boss! § afl ference is why industry finds it dif- ficult to shake off stagnation, why foreclosure and want overshadow the farm, why jobless men go home at night to hungry families. There are other reasons, of course, but this is unquestionably the biggest one. ‘There can be no discussing the tax problem as a general issue without reducing it to a personal basis. Self- ‘nterest always is strong enough for that. And when the businessman, the workman and the farmer realize that a large part of his opportunity to success is barred by high taxes, he will insist that the barriers come down. Many are in that mood al- ready and others are falling into line. The figures given here were com- piled by a committee, appointed by the American Association of Engi- neers, @ group interested in promot- ing construction work. But this com- mittee arrived at the conclusion that public construction has outrun the ability of the people to pay. It finds that “the ratio of such expenditures per capita to the growth of popula- tion is increasing so fast that if this trend is not arrested the day of reckoning will come, if it is not al- Yeady here.” The major remedy advocated is that of “timed” public improvements based on a@ long-time program, con- struction being so adjusted as to meet the greatest need for employ- ment. But paste those figures of 61; per cent and 25 per cent paid out for taxes in your hat. They will enable you to produce some figures of your own the next time a tax promoter tells you that this or that will cost only a little money. When Figures Are Wrong It would be easy to infer from the vital statistics for the last year that But his defense aroused more sym- Pathy than conviction. He was try- ing the difficult task of defending a record of failure. He and his party took credit for prosperity. Now they are given credit for the crash. It may be just or unjust—and we be- lieve Mr. Hoover, with all his faults, is blamed for too much—but there is an element of retribution about the Public's attitude toward the admin- istration. Some of his defense rang true. His leadership did help to keep us on the gold standard. He did fight the bonus. He did assist in fending off fiat money. He did help to stop the financial panic, check bank failures and open frozen credit channels. He deserves praise for that. But that is not enough. And it is the tragedy of Mr. Hoover that he cannot see it is not enough. He still wants to pour in relief from the top, expecting it all to trickle down to the bottom—from the banker down to the breadline. Three years of that method have failed to bring indus- trial or agricultural revival. Mr. Hoover has exhausted his resources. All he can do now is to ask people'to hope and pray. He talks of more tariffs for the farmers, but he should know as they know from terrible experience with the present Hoover rates that the high tariff is not a cure but a curse. He talks of more credit, but he should know as they know that what the farmer and home-owner and business man and worker need is not help to get further into debt but help to get out of debt. He talks of opposing cancellation of foreign debts, but he should know as they know that these debts are not being paid now and will not be Paid in the near future—if ever. About the only new thing he offered last night was to destroy the Hoover farm stabilization machinery which has failed. When the president attacked the Democratic party on the basis of its weak record in the last congress he was much more effective. On that record there is basis for the presi- dent's hot rebuke of the Democratic party's legislative leadership. The Country might well hear more of the ‘The Des Moines speech’ will have death rate are the highest in North Dakota. ‘Unquestionably the figures are cor- rect but they might formed an erroneous ahare of babies are perents, but it isn’t as large as margin of 5.5 per 100,000 of popula: tion over Dickinson, its nearest com- petitor, would seem to indicate. _ Neither is this city an Place to live, even though its 4s three per 100,000 higher than 4 served a useful purpose if it puts the Democratic campaigners on the de- fensive long enough to make them take stock of their own party's mani- fest ings as demonstrated in the last session of congress. The tic ‘spokesmen have feeling of victory now; it is time were brought to consider the @ravity of the responsibility they are to take upon themselves. it of the president, who into the Midwest last night defend his record and defy his furnish them with suf- that it is a hollow they are reaching if Prepared to meet the which the country is a Yosemite National is 3,800 years old contain enough a hangar for the air- tion of the annoyance by exposure of the affected skin surface to air and sun or by the local application of chemical disinfectants. Going barefoot is by all odds the best preventive and corrective of foul sweating of the feet. Even if sunlight is not available, just going barefoot is always beneficial to the feet, provided, I suppose I must not forget to warn, you avoid places where ringworm or epidermophytosis is prevalent, such as public baths, gymnasiums and swimming pools, and provided you do not live in a community where the ground is pol- luted with hookworm. ~ Formaldehyde is powerful, not only as a germicide and disinfectant, but. as an irritant and caustic. But if NICE KITTY! New York, Oct. 11—Poker game “kittys” have been put to many uses. Sometimes they have been used to pay for the cards; or to buy beer for the crowd; or to cover the cigars and chips used in the course of an all- night session. But from the offices of Crosby you are not a child it is the most|Gaige, Broadway producer, comes excellent remedy for fetid sweating the strange tale of a play which vir- tually was launched through kitty money. The play is titled: “I Loved You Wednesday” and is the combined work of William DuBois and Mollie Ricardell. It comes into New York within a couple of weeks. + * % But, so goes the yarn, .a certain theatrical figure often sat at a poker table with a number of big business men who play for large stakes. There were bankers and brokers and indus- trial figures. And according to an old poker custom, they would “kitty out” a certain amount each game. Within a short time the kitty fund had reached almost $8,000. The theatrical friend told Gaige about it—and the “pot” was the first down payment on the forthcoming show. At any rate, that’s the story, and they stick to it! eR WELCOME TO OUR CITY isitors, somehow, always get the breaks when it comes to overnight adyenture in New York. The rest of us ‘Seem to go around our routine lives, always hearing of some strange experience that befell a gent who ar- rived on the morning train. Thus, Louis Cook, former Des Moines newspaper man and tax com- missioner at the moment, arrived the other evening with a brief case filled with manuscripts for the New York market. In the assortment were sev- eral thrillers and a couple of articles turned out by his wife. So Cook hopped a taxicab and started for a publishing office in the lower section of New York. He had ridden but a few blocks when a po- liceman ran out from the curbing and commandeered the cab. “Follow those fellows running down the street,” the cop ordered as he drew his gun and began to get the range. Cook ducked low in the cab and just as he popped up his head to see what it was all about, the copper opened fire. The two fugitives turned around and blazed away at the taxi and the officer. Bullets shattered the window. Bits of glass fell about the visiting Des Moines politician- writer. At the end of half a dozen blocks the two men gave up and surrend- of feet or hands. For the correction] # of osmidrosis of seed parts of the e - Saris. skin it is not so good. M ht N Formaldehyde comes in the stand- 1g yY 1a: ara ard solution of Listes! in rae, ' - i juor Formaldehydi. This wipen Tice ney eetterniy vat - ‘ oa Sttleint it both the ‘United ‘Btetes| (HORIZONTAL © Answer to Previous Puzle _‘one'slde. and the British pharmacopoeias. It i1 Weights. , 12 Right. is a 37 per cent solution of the pun- € Small sala- 13 Classifies. gent gas in water. }manders, 14 Backs of For moderate cases of fetid sweat-| 91 rhose that necks. ing of the feet it is sufficient to give 15 Deity. the shoes and stockings a formalde- _ Faise.( 18 Japanese fish, 14 Joseph’ V..Me-4 \Kee is mayor § fA! hyde bath once a month. One ounce of the standard Formaldehyde with 24 Native. 25 Possessing of cotton on the end of a stick, paint 28 The pineapple.’ 50 Allotted, some of this over the soles and be- 30 Cuts hair with 52 One time. tween the toes. Let it dry in the @ razor. “~ 53 Disturbed. air. This application may be re- 32 Spigot. 55 Fawned upon. peated each alternate day for three 33 English coin. .57 Successive or four times, provided the skin does 34 Calamitous. relief supply. not become too greatly irritated. 37To attribute 5S Believers in 0. For the prevention of excessive particular sweating (whether fetid or not) of creeds, the hands this formula has proved Satisfactory: Liquor Formaldehydi 1 dram Menthol 2 grains Lanolin 6 drams Petrolatum, 1 ounce. Dispense in collapsible tube. Apply to palms and palmar surfaces of | fingers a pea-size portion each night| for a weck, from time to time as needed. iN iil N N QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Alcohol in Iodin Is there any danger in the use ot! tincture of iodin that there would be enough wood alcohol to do real} harm?—(8. P.) Answer—There is no wood alcoho! in tincture of iodin. Only al- cohol is used. Not enough of that in; any dose of iodin to have any appre- ciable alcoholic effect. The same; holds true for the use of aromatic! spirits of ammonia as an emergency, stimutant, { One Lung t What is pleurisy? Is it serious! when it affects a person for several years? I have been told that I have SS 2 6am SSNS enough ee added to fill up a half tor ——? F flavor. pint bottle. Pour an ounce or two mn 26 Clipped. of this into each shoe and swish it| 7° emu nations § IR 27 To elude. about to wet the whole lining, then 17To add, 29 To scold con- drain it out into the next shoe, and| * 19 At the outle stantly. set all the shoes so treated in the air| ‘of what lak. 2 “31 Verb. and if possible in the sun to dry out} i Nie ARS: 34 Fit of a waist. for 24 hours or more betare zon wear ime 35 Religious, them again. Or a similar bath may “8 i os 7 cer i. be given the fect of all stockings,| 20 Sorrowful, = 41 =~ and Pe en eteatee which should then hang out to dry| 21 To knock. preilas TS a face in like manner. 22 Simpleton. 43 Sooner than. tallic rocks. 3 ly bok For more pronounced cases, mix 23 Lair of a 44 To perch. 2The most aay cei ly. one ounce of standard Liquor For- * beast. 45 Male sheep, portant export , fs mel ee maldehydi with three ounces of wa- 25 Eye tumors, 46 Eye. market of the, chee ter in a four-ounce vial. By means| 27 Measure of 48 Thread for a U.S. A. Se 2 of a small sponge or brush or wisp "length, guide. 3 Secreted. 42 Door rug. 4 Donkey-like 44 Mark left by beast. af injury. 5 Southeast. 47 Cots. 6 Northwest. 49 Age. 7 Organ of 50 Myself. sight. “51 To accomplish, 8 Part of adie. 52 Poem. 54 Pronoun. 56 Like. 9 Experiments. 10 Twisted to N NI L WN N N a Ne N il aii ered. The cop then remembered there was a passenger in the cab. “Thanks for sitting tight,” the cop however, seems not _procurable.—The Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, presi- said. “What's your name—where do| America. you live?” eee “I'm just in from the West,” said] The most serious danger threaten- the visitor. shook hands and walked away. * Oe ALIAS JAMES DAWSON on the writings of one James Daw- son. of these efforts. A few articles in a Catholic magazine have been run down. But there are rumors of a half dozen bits of fiction in various periodicals. For James Dawson was not a particularly well-known writer. His importance as a collector's item comes from the fact that James Dawson was the pen name used by Acting Mayor *McKee, who did quite a bit of writing on the side a few years back. Since his spectacular replacement of Jimmy Walker, mag- azines have been hounding him seek- ing more “James Dawson” stories. st TODAY ANGRY Seine of rete ARGONNE IS CLEARED On Oct. 11, 1918, American troops completely cleared the Argonne For- est of the enemy. Cambrai, taking Iwuy and Fressies. Germans abandoned their line along closed in on Douai. The French forced an evacuation of 37 miles in a six-mile thrust on the Suippe front and Germans evac- uated the Chemin des Dames. Teutons were reinforced in Serbia while the Serbs advanced toward Nish. Emperor Charles of Austria-Hun- gary announced his decision to unite Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia and Herze- govina in one state. On the same day, Dr. Alexander Wekerle, Hun- garian premier, resigned. I’m supposed to be a great pub- licity hound, but as a matter of fact I don’t like it—Rudy Vallee, crooner. * & % In India, a man is not regarded as @ practical politician until he has been thrown in jail—v. J. Patel, for- mer lord mayor # Bombay. * * It is commonly stated that a pe- riod of depression like the present one in the world’s life is beneficial to the church and that a spiritual awakening is inevitable. Evidence, The CHAPTER LII it. Fort Leslie Ulrich and raised the number of his calvary to two hun: Blount too knew the Cafion. H had camped there the fall before. Hi knew that five miles beyond th through a precipitous pass to th the land of the Yaqui. it. dawn. ble,” he concluded, “but good or bai we've got to follow it. I want yor chine guns and get to the pass b: sun-up. Place your guns there an you any trouble. Half a dozen mei could hold that pass against a: chine guns. At dawn I'll push ahea each side.” the cafion. . “The chances are they’re goin through, and the boys ought to beat. them to thé pass. How far are we now from the mouth of the cafion?” i “Less than half an hour.” | “Good! Lead on. We'll camp at the mouth until dawn. That wi | give the men a chance for a little | sleep, But no fires. It’s cold coffee | and sandwiches for breakfast, and damned early breakfast, too. The way grew rockier, flank. Slowly the dim thaia_mam.slane “Oh, well, then this is all old stuff to you,” commented the cop as he Wise collectors are checking back To date, there is no complete list | The British advanced northeast of | the Sensee river and the British} tion today is the rapid de- velopment of a perverted sense of democracy which encourages public opinion not only to accept but to idolize mediocrity.—President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth col- lege. o Barbs | rs Now the fish are learning that all is not gold that glitters. For an Ar- kansas doctor who painted his min- nows with mercurochrome to make them look like gold fish scored a rec- ord catch. Base deceiver! * oe * Labor-saving devices, says Presi- dent Hoover, have brought a large increase “in what we popularly call technological unemployment.” And sall the time, depression sufferers {thought they were just “out of a o ee Italian _airmen’s mock bombard- ment of Rome was no sword-rattling gesture to stir patriotism. Perish the thought. It was just “pacifist propa- | ganda,” said Mussolini's aides, to im- press citizens with the horrors of war! ee oe A Milwaukee couple recently mar- tied, using a license dated 1925. She must have been making up her mind all this time. ee Alabama has a law which prohil its the sale of near beer. Now, ther a@ just law! { xe ! | Editor Al Smith says the election; is all over and the question is: “What will the Democratic party do with its victory?” Now you ask onc! (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Ine.) | German Baptists to Hebron, N. D., Oct. 11—()—Dr. A.| P. Mihm of Chicago. editor of the! Baptist Herald and general secretary | of the Young People’s and Sunday} School Workers’ Union of the Ger-! man Baptist Churches of North| America, will be the principal speak- er at the North Dakota Central Sun- day school convention of Baptist} churches opening here Tuesday night. | A sermon by Rev. E. 8. Fenske of} Eureka, S. D., headlines the open-} ing session Tuesday night. Wednes-' day Dr. Mihm will speak, as will, Rev. J. J.. Lippert of Bismarck. De-;} votional meetings will be conducted j by Rev. G. Eichler of Linton and Rev.} G. Herr of Wishek. The sermon ‘Wednesday evening will be given by Rev. B. W. Krenz of Gackle and Rev. J. J. Abel of Lehr. Opening with a devotional mect- ing conducted by Rev. W. W. Ruf of Alfred, N. D., the Thursday meeting features an address by Rev. 8. W. Krentz of Gackle, and an address by}, Dr. Mihm. GAY BANDIT dent, United Lutheran Church in Convene at Hebron? if A rman walled 24 ies in a Each quarter of the way as fast as he did the quarter before. How Kg de tae fan two each quarter of the distance? WHERE WAS THE FIRST TRI CCESSFUL AIRPLANE WITH WHAT DO YOU ASSOCIATE THIS’ SIGN? (Answers on Page 8) FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: inna A belle can usually detcc: the en- gagement ring in a man’s voice. The loneliest policeman in the world is the Royal Canadian Mounted con- stable who is posted 1000 miles north of Hudson Bay and only 700 miles from the North Pole. of ME a COPYRIGHT 1931, BY: ‘INTERNATIONAL the BORDE a R 6y TOM GILL INC. —~ DISTRIBUTED BY KING FEATURES ‘SYNDICATE,INC. | —_ MAGAZINE 0D, “The major’s out after El Coyote again,” they would say, and laugh. It was a stock joke. Everyone knew The major knew it. During March he had redoubled his efforts. The war department had given him the use of a band of scouts from dred. And now tonight scouts had brought him news of a large band, numbering between forty and fifty riders, who had passed along the foothills earlier in the day. They were making toward Ice-Box Cafion, mouth it widened into a grassy meadow, watered by a spring, sur- rounded by high, rocky cliffs. At the upper end a narrow trail made by game and cattle emerged, and led summit of the foothills. Beyond lay Only a chance, but the major took If the band intended camping all night, he might be able to block up both entrances, provided he could get men to the upper end in time. If he could, he would have them be- tween two fires, It meant a long, forced march through the night on the single chance that the bandits might remain by the spring until Calling his chief scout, the major sketched the situation. “It’s a gam- to pick twenty men, take two ma- hold it. You may find yourselves outnumbered two or three to one, But they can’t come through that neck of a bottle fast enough to give army. Two could hold it with ma- with the rest of the men. If we're lucky El! Coyote will find himself between us and granite walls on Half an hour later the pick of silently saddled and slipped out into the night. At midnight the major ordered the remaining forces to break camp, and led them for two hours at a quick walk. Once a horse- man rode out into the darkness and, returning an hour later, reported to the major. The band had turned up Biount doubled the number of advance scouts and threw out men on either figures made mascom trail that now led into the mouth of the cafion. Even here the major did not halt. To him at last had come the hope of success, and the scent of battle was strong after those weary months of failure, He looked up at the steep cafion walls on either side. Would El Coyote again elude him? He wondered, Was there a way of escape up there, a hidden way out that only the bandits knew? Eagerly the major rode on, and not until the cafion had narrowed to the witith of the trail did he give the order to rest until dawn. A sigh of relief passed among the troops. Men loosened the cinches of their horses, rubbed numbed hands back to life, and at last, squat- ting in little groups, talked in low tones or, leaning back, gained what sleep they might in that cold un- friendly place. The awaited dawn came quickly. A jutting pinnacle of granite high above caught the first red glow of sunrise and flung it down into the cafion. The gray dim outlines of men and horses became touched with faint color. The trail detached itself from out the gloom and now showed itself, winding steeply up the rocky gorge. Dew lay on the horses’ sad- dies and on the broad brims of the soldiers’ hats. ' A quiet word pased down the col- umn, and almost without a sound cinches were tightened, spurs buckled, and Blount’s little body of cavalry was on the move again, The light grew stronger. At times when the cafion straightened Blount could make out his advance scouts riding ahead. For an hour they pushed on, then a rider came clattering down the trail. His voice was tense with ex- citement, “Sir, just ahead is the camping place. There are embers of fire still burning. Fresh horse-tracks, They can’t have been gone over an hour. Looks like there must be at least forty of them.” Blount felt his pulse leap. “That means the boys above will have time to get in position. Sergeant, push ahead with a dozen men. When they make contact call on them to surrender. If they won't, fall back. Don’t try to attack, but hold them until we overtake you. Just let them knew they're between two fires.” But the major was already farther up the cafion than he knew. In a little while the gorge widened and the men now were able to advance at a brisk trot. Pack animals and the two remaining machine guns were left behind, Again the trail grew rocky, and for an hour the only sound was the ring of steél-shod horses on the flinty trail and the creak of saddle-leather, Suddenly from somewhere ahead came the spiteful crack of a machine gun and a far-off shout. Blount looked back down the cafion where his men were strung in a long, thin line, There was good shelter every- where among the boulders, He smiled. The bandits would not have the slightest hope this time of break. Shrough, . ie ie G ie ie id ry LA id id Blount’s men, twenty in all, had i a Again came a burst of machine gun fire, and the quick, sharp crack of a rifle. Then silence. Impatiently the major forced his panting horse up the trail. “Why the devil—no messenger?” puffed the major, An orderly clattered around the turn. “We've got ’em, sir. They tried to get through the pass, but Sergeant Muir’s men were waitin’. Gave ’em a couple bursts and they turned back. Then our boys ahead: opened up, and now they’re bunched: in a kind of cut in the cliff. Hard! place to pry ’em loose from. Rocks: all around the entrance. The ser-' geant says if you hold ’em there he thinks a few men can climb around! and get ‘em from above. It'll take some hours,” “Tell the sergeant to deploy each man and hold the bandits where they are. The main body of troops will, be up in half an hour. Don’t let the. boys show themselves, Keep the de-: tail at the pass in case of emergency, —and, order!: dier turned, “send half a dozen men to scale the cliffs. No, send a dozen, and we'll have that band at our mercy by noon. When the pack train catches up we can cook break- fast here. The smell of frying bacon may make those devils listen to reason.” ” he called, as the sol- Gingerly the old major dise mounted. He straightened and, look- ing quickly about him, covertly kneaded his thighs. This damned bandit hunting had its drawbacks after one touched sixty. He had stood there a full minute when the click of a horse’s hoof made him turn to see a familiar fig- ure coming leisurely up the tocky path. A smile of delighted surprise spread over the major’s face. “Gad,” he called. “I might have known Don Bob would be in at the death.” The straight, spare figure swaying to the motion of the horse rode up to the major’s side. Bob's gray eyes looked quietly about him, and the same quiet smile touched his lips, but his face was haggard. “Your orderly tells me that victory has perched at last,” he said, and again his eyes passed to the cafion walls, as if seeking some sign. “Victory. has certainly perched.” Rapidly and with relish the major outlined the situation to his old friend, “We're waiting for the main body of troops now, [ think before the hour’s out you will be owing me that dinner,” he concluded. “I wonder. You know, I strongly doubt that you will find El Coyote in your granite trap up there.” “Perhaps not, but forty or fifty of his band are there, and that’s prob- ably all his outfit. And it’s almost certain that out of one of them we'll learn something about El Coyote if we use the proper persuasion.” Bob nodded. “I think you're right. With most of his band captured, El - Coyote’s identity can’t a secret.” In the midst of rolling a cigarette, he asked, “What will you do with these men when you get them?” long remain =. 40 Be Cantignsd Toqocew),