The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1932, Page 4

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That end mo- al Pates its members more than other ed hets which its teachings expound. rv) charity is not confined merely to ber OWN members but reaches out to chate needy of all classes, within or strelthout its membership. tenthe charity record of the Elks ed edge in Bismarck needs no repeti- tiomn here. There are many evidences Oy all sides and the work is going on PeAtaselessly without fanfare ‘of trum- tnats or blatant ballyhoo. cha This year's drive to raise funds for anaoarity is a distinct departure from her efforts. A great indoor circus | 5 the World War Memorial building = the fine offering. The show is well Forth while, full of clean acts to yhich anyone can go without of- There has been no time since the FYooria War when Bismarck citizens | fs found the necessity greater for| stantial relief funds than now. national relief policy means a ompact union of all welfare bodies ind fraternal organizations so that jocalities, in-so-far as is possible, can rare for the needy within their own zates. There could be no finer set-up ~han that, for charity is a virtue that antould begin at home. we Go out and, according to your ¢Xmeans, swell the Elks charity fund PO nich will have many calls upon it slias winter approaches. Popular prices tohave been fixed and the mite con- Petributed here, there, and everywhere, in the aggregate will mean relief to someone suffering and in want. Ni The Elks Lodge is always in the toforefront of every civic drive. Here ttis an opportunity for Bismarck to Bi show appreciation for past perform- w ances of this great fraternity. BR Get behind the Elks circus with a bang! Miiey clown: Roosevelt and Wall Street Not all the demagogic attacks are t emanating from the Democratic hust- ings. One that should be promptly demolished has been too often uttered by distinguished and scholarly Repub- licans who know full well, they are indulging in the political sophistry for which they are eternally berating the Democrats. So distinguished a patriot as Secre- tary of State Stimson declared that orgy of speculation which Gov. Roose- velt has denounced took place under his nose in Wall Street. He did not tell his audience, visible | or invisible, that thé legislature of | New York is controlled by Republi- | cans. It is a standpat coterie of | gentlemen who take their orders) largely from Wall Street. Just what} Gov. Roosevelt could have done to! restrain trade in Wall Street, Mr. Stimson, the great constitutional and corporation lawyer, does not say, or hint. He is as quiescent as the Re- publican New York state legislature has been where Wall Street is con- cerned. But Mr. Stimson might have said that the Federal Reserve board under , Mr. Hoover's control through power of appointment and direction, could have curbed if not stopped the wild speculation. Coolidge could have done so but he told the public not to sell its country short. Mr. Hoover also told the people this ticker prosperity, which was draining the people of the nation white, was permanent Repub- lican prosperity, the outlawry of pov- erty. ‘i Both sides should be honest. As- sailing Roosevelt because a Republi- Bzgvay en Aacennm j f 1 | Some of their illusions and much of} {be a Hoover landslide. been relying upon the so-called] Tadicals to capture voters who for-} merly were Democrats can read these | returns and weep. Will it be to seed | the last straw of an already heavy burden? Here are results in sub-| stance. i Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date for president, has now rolled up more than 106,000 votes in the Digest’ j poll. This is in excess of 10 per cent! of Hoover's vote and practically 10 per cent of Roosevelt's vote. But, that loes not tell the entire story. i Thomas’ vote of 106,352 reported | last week is composed of former Re-! publicans to the tune of 48,945. For- mer Democrats, scenting victory with| Roosevelt, strayed from their po- litical reservation merely to the num: ber of 24,354. Republican managers who have been busy in this state to| see that Thomas, Foster and Coxey! got on the ballot may find these so nominated “reds” and “pinks” draw-| ing more from former Republicans than from former Democrats. Re-| publican strategy, of course, is to di-| vert as much of the protest vote from Roosevelt as possible. ' One-fifth of Thomas’ strength in| the Digest poll is coming from the| youth of the land voting for the first! time. That fact may or may not be due to the much criticized radical tendencies of modern higher educa- tion. Youth evidently finds in the Political intellectualism of a Thomas much to attract. In the graduate, university of hard knocks, in which many of them are about to enroll, their political idealism will be shat- tered. In 1920, Eugene Debs polled nearly | & million votes for Socialism. R. M. La Follette, Sr, running on a so- called progressive ticket in 1924,| secured more than four million votes With this background as a guide, political observers believe that Thomas will exceed Debs’ 1920 vote but hardly equal La Follette’s liberal following of 1924. Optimistic pro- phets place Thomas’ vote in excess Of 2,000,000 due to the depression and general spirit of protest abroad in the land. In 1928, Thomas had only 267,420 votes out of what proved to It is becoming more and more in the United States a battle between the conservative and liberal forces with old party lines and loyalty often ignored. Ancient shibboleths are be- ing ignored. Tried political bait is coldly shunned. It remains to be seen whether out of all this political confusion there comes the birth of two contending parties, liberals and conservatives or whether one party now in existence can be sufficiently liberalized to attract progressives formerly identified in label at least with the Republican party. General Muto says Japan is de- sirous of keeping the peace. In the | Past, anything Japan wanted to keep| she kept. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Straw Vote Ratios (The Baltimore Sun) The Literary Digest makes light of | Prof. Claude E. Robinson's conclusion | that the important thing about a! straw vote is the light it throws on| the probable percentages of the popu-| jar vote candidates are likely to re- ceive in an approaching general elec- tion. It must be admitted that Prof.) Robinson goes to an extreme when he declares in his recently published THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. THURSD. The Campaign In vestigation of 1933 DID ~ou or Dip YOU NOT MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO THE EXTENT OF TWO TELEPHONE SLUGS, A COLLAR BUTTON, AND A JACK: KAIEE WITH ONE BLADE MISSING? PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygienc, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, wiil be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, sel{- 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. GALL-BLADDER TROUBLE VER- | cure. Then I began sopping my face, US BELLYACHE | after thorough soap and water wash- so-called intelligent ing each night, with glycerin and The reader, who is usually quite ignorant of ele-| mentary anatomy and physiology, not dusting on as much powdered boric acid as would stick, leaving it on ally night. In a short time my face was| clear and it has stayed clear. I have | told several friends of this and they} have tried it with the same result.! (Mrs. G. H. A) | Answer—Thank you. Our readers} will soon tell us whether it is ef- fective. | Alcoholic Parentage Can you send me a pamphlet on} the effects of booze or alcohol on people that are bringing children into| the world? (F. R. J.) | Answer—I have no such pamphlet. Alcoholism in either parent is likely to cause epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, neuroticism or insanity in offspring. A number of cases are on record where children conceived while parents were intoxicated are epileptic. {to mention hygiene or pathology, will not understand the precise scientific significance of the term bellyache | |The stupid reader will regard the! term as indecorous. So a portion of our limited space must be used to] jenlighten all and sundry. The word belly is the only English | word we have to signify the anterior {abdominal wall. It is not synonymous | with abdomen, which means the great |body cavity. Nor is it synonymous with stomach. ‘ It is correct to say bellyache or pain jin the belly. It is incorrect to say |pain in the abdomen, stomachache or pain in the liver or gall-bladder jor other abdominal or thoracic organ. No one can have pain in the heart or man’s doorstep. Rarely is the par- entage ever traced. More often than not a note is tied to the bundle be- seeching the rest of mankind to take care of some unwanted infant. Most of the foundlings are taken to Bellevue hospital. Now and then a trembling mother, torn with re- morse, appears to claim her child and beg the hospital authorities to pro- tect her. Rarely is there an arrest or prosecution. Nor do these waifs go unwanted for many hours. The ap- pearance of a picture in the newspa- pers attracts a crowd of childless married folk, all willing and eager to adopt the nameless one. * * FIELD FOR RUMORS Now and then one hears whisper- ings concerning some individual who has made his mark in the world and Whose parents are, seemingly, folk of wealth and position. The whisperers say that this was a doorstep child. Just the other day, a taxi driver drove a young woman—carrying a large basket—for a dozen blocks. She paid him hurriedly. Then disappear- ed around the corner. When he look- ed back into the seat a healthy baby was wiggling there. Although he had quite a family of his own, and times were hard, the driver took the child home and added it to his brood. * * OX in the lungs. There are no sensory nerves in any of these internal or- gans, and therefore there can be no pain sense. All the painful sensa- (Copyright, John F, Dille Co.) tions produced by inflammation or other abnormal conditions in the in- ternal organs are actually felt in the |wall of abdomen or thorax, which ‘has spinal sensory nerves. All the Inerve control of internal organs 15 by the sympathetic or autonomic sys- 'tem, which is independent of the will ‘or consciousness. {never think of this lack of organ consciousness or control without thinking what a great blessing it is to mankind, particularly civilized and educated mankind. We'd make a wih Gilbert Swan UNWANTED CHILDREN New York, Oct. 20—A big city’s abandoned foundlings provide daily material for wistful and tragic scen- | suggested a deserted city. | streaked and faded blue were drawn; { | NEW YORKERS ‘AT HOME’ AGAIN | In recent warmer weeks, Fifth | Avenue's “Millionaire Row” preserited +a more desolate spectacle than the meanest tenement districts. From 60th to 80th Strect, a solid line of boarded, dust-gathering mansions; Blinds of | heavy barricades were over doorways and windows. This year, times being what they are, there wasn’t event the hint of a caretaker or servant left behind. A musty gloom enshrouded the neigh- borhood and, at nightfall, these homes of the very rich took on a most mel- ancholy appearance. It was as though |ciated with liver trouble, and frightful mess of things if we had or- gan consciousness or will power over our internal organs. Pain felt in the region of the shoulderblade has always been right asso- now- book on straw votes that percentages nerves supplying that area of the are more important than the standing chest wall are called intercostal nerves of candidates. Just how the stand-| (pecause they lie between the ribs); ing of candidates could be fixed with-/ close to the spine they connect witn | 992, or 50.7 per cent, out @ consideration of percentages it is difficult to perceive, and vice versa. Nevertheless, the question of per- centages is the thing that merits the | most careful consideration in connec- | tion with straw ballots, and a study of percentages in the presidential} straw vote the Literary Digest is now | taking is absolutely essential to any! understanding of that vote's signifi- | cance. The Digest has now published | the returns from 789,089 ballots in| twenty states. Of this number, 404,- were cast for Gov. Roosevelt; 325,845, or 40.8 per | cent, were cast for President Hoover, | and the remainder for the Socialist ; candidate and the minor parties. The figures are instructive. They} show that Goy. Roosevelt not only has a lead over President Hoover but an! actual majority over all candidates combined. A candidate who occupies such a@ position in a poll of nearly 800,000 voters in twenty states one} month before the election is clearly | in @ position just as advantageous as the Maine returns showed Gov. Roose- | velt to be. The advantage of the} Democratic candidate appears the Most impressive when the percentage | of variation between the Digest poll and the final electoral count in 1928 is considered. In that year, at this| stage of the count, the Literary Di- gest poll overestimated the Republi- can strength in the twenty states under consideration by 9 per cent, and underestimated the Democratic strength by the same margin. The error would seem to be accounted for by the fact that the Literary Digest list of names is compiled from tele- | phone directories, automobile reg’ trations and other data covering prin. cipally the more well to do families in the various localities. Allowing for a similar margin of error in the returns now currently available, Gov. Roosevelt would be destined to receive nearly 60 per cent ean New York legislature did not restrain Wall Street would be funny if the situation were not so serious. Depression and Socialism At present writing more former Republicans are going Socialist than former Democrats, according to the presidential poll of the Literary Di- gest. Last week’s poll compilation revealed some new political secrets. jblican leaders who have jp of the total vote in the twenty states covered, while President Hoover's per- centage would be something like 31. These figures are probably extreme, for the. shift from the Republican to the Democratic side may easily have been greater among the families rep- resented in the Literary Digest’s list than among those not so represented. But even so, the present figures sug- gest the probability that Gov. Roose- velt. will get considerably more than half the popular vote in the states so far enumerated in the Literary Digest of the layman's business. The thing the layman should know is that not all bellyache is what it seems to be. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Whole Family Found three roaches and haven't slept since. Three big ones. Our whole family enjoys better health thanks to Dr. Brady. We take iodin, turn somersaults, and for over @ year haven’t worried about “constipation” —everything fine, not a pill in the place. Our three boys have had banana since they were 3 months old. So you have the thanks of the whole family. (Mrs. C. H. R.) Answer—Yeah, that goes for the Raffertys but no such sentiment is expressed by the Roaches. Send stamped envelope bearing your ad- dress and ask for instructions for ex- terminating the Roaches. Obstinate Acne Cleared Up For years I suffered with a pimply rash on my face. Doctors and spe- cialists said it was acne, but their treatment was without effect. T wrote for your advice and followed it with arios. Scarce a day passes but some bundled bit of humanity is found in @ taxi, a lobby, an elevated platform some plague or invasion had driven out the dwellers. ‘Actually they were at Newport, Sar- jatoga, Southampton and other swanky resorts. But now autumn has [Yaried and intermittent relief but ca adays more specifically with gall- 8 “7 bladder inflammation (cholecystitis) ‘“ ” and gallstones. The spinal sensory Four Crosses « . HORIZONTAL = “Answer to Previous Puzzle vertical. |the ganglia or substations of the] 1 Agreement be- 18 Devoured. |sympathetic nervous system. It is tween two or (AIM! 20 Encountered, | thru these connecting fibers that im- more persons. —JSIAICMBTIAIPIE E IL 24 Satiated, pulses from the internal organ are 5 Competitor, ONES (ih IT 25 Rewards. |reflected or switched over to the) 10 Obi EIMIU) LEMMAIRIE! o¢riny. green | spinal sensory nerve and so becom: 14 Largest E 1 MIO} sia} “or ne painful sensations. known spe RI LIEIRMAIR es vegetable, Intercostal neuralgia in any portion cies of toad. EIVIE TIAIMIPIE 27 Every, of the body wall may deceive the pa- 15 To elude. 1 AIL ID! “28 Edge. tient and even the physician into the} 16 Pretense. LIOPIE E 7 -30To emulate. belief that there is serious disease of 17 ty what coun: FFT IBIOIWIE AILILIEIR 32 Stir. an internal organ. Many a sufferer try was the EIEIDIE ID. AISISIEIS 33 Public auto. from left thoracic intercostal neuralgia Reichstag 34 To harden. believes herself (sometimes it may be recently EY ISERIGE! 39 “Udarnik” is himself) a victim of “heart disease.” dissolved? i SINS) the largest (Not a few hurry-up operations for} 19 Impaired — airship. {“appendicitis” have been advised or 21 Fortune 42 Pillar. VERTICAL 40 Auto bodies. actually done, when in fact the! 22 Genus of 43 Was indebted. 1 Congress- 41 Cubes. trouble was right intercostal neuralgia; cereal grasses, 45 Plant stem man’s clerk, 42 Canal or perhaps neuritis, as evidenced by 23 Limbs. used to make 2 Eras. separating the the appearance of herpes zoster after 25 To apportion. hats, 3 Brief. American several hours of acute pain. Some| 26 To peel. 4? Drove away. 4 Mexican dish, continents, good diagnosticians assure us that} zg kdges of a _—50) Literary * 5 To revoke. 44 Moist. many gall-bladders are removed in ren work, figured 6 Plant, 46 Kindled. the futile attempt to cure intercostal} 31 Flatfish (pl.). __in lines. 7Go on 47 Soot. |neuralgia felt either under the right! 35 prophet who 54 Matrimonial. (music). 48 Rootstock. shoulderblade or in the region of the trained 56 Constituent of § To total. 49 Large con- | right lower ribs, Samuel. most foods. 9 Rental stellation. A physician with true diagnostic) 36 T bind. 57 To impel. contracts, 51 Pertaining to acumen can apply some simple tests) 37 Owed, 58 Roving 10 Marked out amide. in any case which will pretty defi-) 38 4 gitt of 60 Bland. into sizes. 52 Gilding. nitely distinguish such neuralgia or charity 61 To blow. 11 Seaweed. 53 Finishes. neuritis from actual trouble in the or-| 4y Fertilized and 62Spreadofan 12To blind. 55 To cut off. gan in question. I am not describing ripened arch (pl.). 13 To deviate 86 Truck. these tests here because they are none ovules, 63 Performs. from the 59 Mother. Badd \\\al im i nam id tains up and New York's affairs are under way again. ' * * " A new name in the ranks of Broadway’s theater producers is- that of Howard Inches. In view of production methods of the mo- ment, the name Inches seems more than passingly appropriate —a “natural” in fact. eas CELEBRITY HUNTING They tell of arty young women who haunted the actor's colony at ’Sconn- sett, across the moors beyond Nan- tucket, during the warmer months. ;One day one of the celebrity hunters |approached Alice Fischer, one of the summer colonists, and asked where the famous actors were to be found. “Everywhere. I keep looking around,” said Miss Fischer, “For in- stance, I'm Lillian Russell.” TODAY . IS THE ANNIVERSAR ) ANNIVERSARY SUB TOLL DWINDLES On Oct, 20, 1918, the allied armies strengthened their positions on a broad front from the Dutch border to the east of St. Quentin. Spain received an official commun- ication from Germany saying that the admiralty had ordered submarines to return immediately to their bases. Great Britain announced that the loss of British shipping due to enemy action and marine risk amounted to 151,593 gross tons in September. This was the lowest monthly total in more than two years. A resolution for the complete dis- union of Hungary from Austria was introduced by Count Karolyi. ey Henry (H. L. Mencken) has turned into an ideal married man. All the virtues he kept hidden for so long have now burst into bloom like spring flowers. — Joseph Hergesheimer, nov- elist. * eK I have but one desire—to see my country again on the road to pros- perity.—Herbert Hoover, president of the United States. x # % I am serious about marriage—too serious to indulge in it—Tallulah Bankhead, movie actress. * * ‘The slums of tomorrow are still be- ing built today, because we have left this field of low-cost housing to the rugged individualism of the specula- tor—Robert D. Kohn, ex-president, American Institute of Architects. —_—__—_——_——— | Barbs | ———+ © Sir Eric Drummond has resigned as secretary of the League of Na- tions. The resignation will take ef- fect in 1933, at a date not yet speci- fied. And that's what they call “re- signing.” eee Alaskan sealskins are selling for the lowest price in the history of U. S. government auctions. That's an excellent argument for friend wife this winter. * * Notables and grandees of Madrid are putting their palaces up for sale. Wanta buy one? ee * ‘The League of Nations is working on a plan which will satisfy the de- mands of Germany for arms equality and France for security. It should be finished in time for the next war. ee A camping expert advises that, when cattle are around, it is well to keep on the right side of the law and not disturb them, A bull holds no respect for law! (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) itt Was Good Yarn to talking about baseball. The youth ‘knew all the St. Louis Cardinals by their pet names, and rambled on for hours about “Pep- per” Martin. “Your home is in St. Louis,” Stallman declared. And then the boy broke down and confessed. He was sent back to his folks, A FUGITIVE? Charles McCreary, of Columbus,-tb- cided that the workhouse was more comfortable than no house at all, so he gave himself up to Patrolman Wil- liam Soghlin, He confessed that he Ihad walked out of the Columbus courthouse and ran away three years ago after having been fined $500, and sentenced to one year in the work- house for neglect of his children. Mc- Creary was jailed as a fugitive from justice. There are about 3,000 wood ties to | {a mile of railroad track, While It Lasted | Evansville, Ind., Oct. 19.—“Out of the mouths of babes” come many strange tales, and Juvenile Referee Adolph Stallman heard a strange one from Richard Wil- ams, alias Richard Finn, a 10- year-old boy whom Stallman took in and kept for two weeks after he had been found in a railroad station. The boy told the official that le his stepmother had abandoned him between St. Louis and New Orleans, and that the latter city was his home.’ But investigation with New Orleans officials show- ed no record of the lad. Then Stallman and the boy Bot | Parents Sue > FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Hot-tempered people should learn that discussion is the better part of valor. Toledo, O—On @ recent rainy day Midnight hours, sleeping till noon and too much interest in art may be the basis of a court order barring Helen Kotek, above, from her home in Lansing, Mich. Parents of the 21-year-old art student asked for an injunction to keep Helen away from home. Her parents cited her “ir- regular habits” and said she had be- come “a wicked influence” on her younger brothers and sisters. The court ordered Helen to appear to show cause why the injunction should - ‘Whar ancient crry WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN ENTERED BY SOLDIERS HIDDEN IN ORDINARILY, HOW MANY EGGS ARE THERE IN.-*) not be granted. A POUND ? CHAPTER LX From the vi rumbled, gai reached the ears of the fighters. “By the Lord, Adela has done it!” Bob cried. ““The townspeople are coming. This will be a black day for Morales when his peons remember past debts.” No time to say more. Suddenly from the southern patio of the hacienda burst a band of vaqueros, fighting to reach the corrals. Sav- agely the Yaqui threw themselves on their blood enem:es, and the crack of firearms gave place to the heavy thud of flesh on flesh, Close quarters now. The band of El Coyote was settling old scores, with knives and with bare hands. Caught up in a swirl of fighting peons, Ted was swept toward the corral in time to see the villagers fall upon a knot of vaqueros who had fought their way to the gate. Tow- ering head and shoulders above them all he moved like some angry war god, raging through the thick of the fighting until to the terrified va- queros the big Americano seemed at every turn of the crowded courtyard. Ted, too, was paying an old debt. But always his eycs searched rest- dessly for something they could not find—the huge figure of Morales’s chief vaquero. At length he stopped, heedless of the cries that rose about him, and turned to the hacienda. Jito and Morales—they must be there. His hands tightened on the heavy gun, and with narrowed eyes he ran forward: Just ahead he caught sight of Bob, automatics blazing in both hands, fighting his way into the hacienda. Death was flaming from every window. For an instant Ted saw the great form of Jito appear above him and fire into the men be- neath, But outside the shots were less frequent. Except for the hacienda itself, the forces of Morales were defeated. Leaping over pros- trate forms, pushing his way for- ward, Ted pressed on to the door, Smoke hung low in the patio and a deathlike silence hovered there. The change from blazing morning light to the hacici.da’s smoke-filled obscurity halted him, and for a mo- m.nt he closed his eyes. Slowly the long patio took on shadowy outline, At the farther end the stairs revealed themselves thtough the smoke-laden gloom, and there, motionless in the half-light, Ted’s startled eyes saw the two an- tagonists at gaze. Half-way down the stairs Morales had stopped, and now looked silently down into the upturned face of Don Bob. In the Spaniard's hand was a black auto- matic, and on his lips the same half- cruel, half-jesting smile, as for the last time he confronted the man who. had wrested away his kingdom, Bob gade no moye, no sound. Steadily GAY BANDIT of the BORDER. (COPYRIGHT 1031, BY INTERNATIONAL. MAGAZINE C2, INC. Lael, DISTRIBUTED KING FEATURES ‘SYNDICATE, INC. lage a dull, angry roar ing in volume until it 4y TOM GILL a his steel-gray eyes burned back, and the hands that grasped the auto- dumb grief they looked to Manuel, standing with bowed head beside the * matics tightened, Like statues, like shadowy portentous statues, they stood there, while even the hushed dawn seemed to await the destined end. Held by the deadly intensity of that moment, Ted tried to cry out, but only a hoarse whisper came. So, for the space of a heart-beat, those two enemies looked into each other’s eyes, then from their hands blue flames leaped and the silence of the patio was’shattered with the crash of death, Morales’s gun clattered upon the stairs, His clutching fingers reached to his throat. He tried to cough, but could not. His legs doubled beneath him. He dropped slowly, and lay still. At the foot of the stairs Ted raised in his arms the outstretched figure of Don Bob. The fighting, the hiss of lead, the crack of rifles, were for- gotten. All anger, all the wild exul- tation of battle had died, leaving in their place an agony of desolation and unutterable pain, Outside, one by one, the shots died away. Quiet fell, The band of El Coyote had conquered. The sun rose higher over the mesa, casting long shafts of light through the half-drawn curtains, but within the hacienda Ted sat on with brooding eyes that saw nothing, holding between his hands the calm, untroubled face of one who had been his friend. A shadow fell across the doorway. A slender form dropped to her knees beside him and Ted’s eyes looked for a moment into the eyes of Ann. Gently she raised Bob's head, press- ing it against her breast, laying her wet cheek against the grizzled hair. Heartbreakingly her soft fingers touched his face and his closed eyes, and tremulous lips breathed brokenly the one word, “Bob.” Again and once again that low voice called “Bob,” until at Ii the heavy ane guish of despair silenced all sound and only the eyes spoke all that her lips had found too late to say. Moments passed over that little tableau of desolation, An eternity of moments, then the man’s lids flut- tered feebly and for the last time the gray eyes smiled weakly up. A new Peace touched that pale face. Once the lips moved, as if to say some word, but the word died back into nothingness, and now for all time the gray eyes closed. The long fight was,over. Torn with @ sorrow beyond the reach of words or tears, she clasped the body to her, while, with dry, stinging. eyes, Ted gazed on the eternally impassive face. Slowly the great room filled with the followers of El Coyote. Som- breros in hand, they ranged them- selves silently about the walls. In only friend he had ever known, There in the growing light those men of the desert laid their last tribute of silence and sorrow before him the border had known as El Coyote. From the stairs above something moved. A huge dark form came slowly down and, stooping, picked up the body of Morales. Slowly he descended the stairs and with the limp figure in his arms he came fore ward and looked in silence down. Then, as oné walking in a dream, he turned again toward the stairs. Two of Bob's men sprang forward, revolvers ready, but before them rose the quick, arresting hands of a girl, and Adela threw herself between Jito and the advancing men. “Let there be peace, my people,” her choked low voice commanded. “Here there is death and suffering enough.” Old Manuel's black eyes passed to the long window, then rose to the mesa’s edge where, bathed in the morning sunlight, shone the Cross of the Conquerors. He turned at last to his men, standing so strangely silent in that bitter hour of vic- tory. “Come, my children,” he said. “Above a resting place waits for one who brought us freedom. The work of El Coyote is forever done.” EPILOGUE Up on the sunlit rim of the mesa a vagrant wind from the south bore eternal promises of spring. It stirred fitfully the desert sands about that tall granite Cross of the Conquerors and rippled the coppery hair of a girl gazing out over the little valley beneath, The bareheaded man beside her said no word. They were watching a solitary horseman far below them on the trail to the foothills. Once he stopped to look back, his huge dark figure bowed in reverie, “It is Jito,.” the girl said softly. “He came to say good-by, He told me I should say to you that for him the fight is done.” Bright tears clustered in the girl’s eyes. Once in she looked out lover the mesa’s edge to where the river curved and where, among the ranches, cattle grazed in the fenced Pastures, and deeper green told of tilled, fertile fields. Jn the still air tiny threads of smoke rose from the ranchhouses, Peace had come at iase, Peace and promise for tomorrow, With two slender hands she drew close her lover’s arms about her, “A new day,” she whispered, ‘Lover of mine, for these, our peo- ple, we must make it a more glorious day than. they have ever known.” She stopped. She looked with glist. ening eyes at the Cross, “Don Bob would have it so,” she ended. THE END ~ eo -_ of,