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WALLO WED UP Mus WiLson \Aooneow Ranger offers & reward of ved thousand dellars for return of his missing daugh- His twe friends, Fustice iy Atterney, and Juarez Charlie, lurer, assist Ranger in his 's abdueters command the father to leave & hundred ollars worth of bends at place. This is done o 1o instructions Pristow cond a privan um and Dr, George Kelsey is there against his will be. he knows of criminal dealings | Bristow, Kelsey makes friends an inmate who tells him she is ® miseing Hope Ranger, Khe |>} as sister to a nurse named | D’y and Hope plan to escape in w's auto, LI NOW GO ON WITH THI STORY % A man stationed there whirled thinking the ear was running | and serambled for safe He | Through the hedge | ) then, with a bump | lunge, leaped the trench which been dug for the wall's new | jon, and with a deft twirl of | wheel swung into the road be-| There had been no sound behind - /the Their sudden action, the dar- | a’ ng of it, seemed to paralyze the two | M9, tato Then there came a loud, | scream. - Kelaey, glancing back, | _Anita Copley flying down the da steps, calling for the chauf. | Meur, and shouting orders as she ran 1 CHAPTER XV, | Charlie plodded along the oil-soaked 1llhwny following those elusive tire- y The June afternoon whick his leafy tree-top had seemed a| foretaste of heaven, out here on the | king road was—Well, it was hot. . Charlie swore himself finally to a, about three miles down the | d, There, leading up to tht[ oline reservoir and pump in front the place were four tire tracks,| ree smooth and one corrugated, e had lost for the last half | mile in the cross-hatchings of traffic. ‘As he pushed his motorcycle in at door of the garage, the first thing he saw was the flivver shoved back | the wall. No possibility of a with those tell-tale tires, and | license-plate, No. 2,155,633, star- | him in the face. | . As Charlie explained the difficulty | h his motorcycle, he took quick | B 2 tock of the man from the dented) | erby hat on his head to the soles of | is spattered shoes. /8o far his sole response to Charlie's | vy of hard Iuck-—certain details | odified—had been an indifferent | unt. { Mo Charlie impassivity was always challenge. Wooden stares and hot- led-up silences were spurs to his in- nuity. ! % 4 hig tongue wagged on in J of his adventures, he wa king. o-an automobile man was the chance o make a sale and pocket a comfort- ble commission. had alveady f as a canvasse ‘put-it-together-yourse furni- | it and he noy deft urned to an | | ecount of ‘his fictitious tribulations in | & calling. { 3 What 1 nced,” he said, “i§ half a ozen or so different lines of house- | 1d necessities, 1'd be sure to catch | isomewhere along the line. 3ut the trouble with that" he! ‘pulied at his lip, “is, that I'd have to ry. such a ft of samples, I've . wondering if it wouldnt pay me chuck the old ‘motorcycle, and buy | ‘4 nice little car that I could load | ith my stuff.” ! ¥ The gleam of venal interest he had | Santicipated, brightened the garage- epei’s dull eye, and for the first | time " he unbent to articulate speech. | ure looks like good business to| ‘me,” he acrecd. “An’ 'twouldn’t st you no'more to run a car 'han} does your motor-cycle.” | xcept for the first expense " said | “No. I don't suppose it And I wouldn't want a great | you under | represented | taking orders | Keeping Millions Free From Colds and La Grippe | | tunity to get away, Charlie called to | . 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All The ‘one infallable appea! | » \ e stand.” His eye fell as If by ehance on the fivver, “Naw there's a littie triek that would sult me first rate .r‘\::un happen to he for sale, does “Shouldn't wonder,” the garage | man led the way toward it, and l.'fl" Lack the hood for inspeetion “You know the party that owns it, | then® Charlie eould hardly k the thrill of eagerness out of his voice, “Oh, yes; best of friends, What- ever | say, he'll stand for," “Wonder if I'm acquainted with | him? I know quite &+ number of | people around here," | “Well, you might eall ‘quainted’,’ with heavy jocularity; vseeln’ that you're talkin' to him| right new 'm the owner of this| bus, Captain.” | . irse she uin't her prettiest,” apologetically. “Ehe's Just in off the road: and, with this ile all over everything, she's hind of spattercd | up, Coupla strangers come n he |u} it bein’| | THINKING THE CAR WAS RUN- NING WILD, HE S8CRAMBLED FOR | SAFETY. | — with a big tourin' car that they said wasn't hittin’' right, and asked me if 1 could let 'em have a machine to go over White Plains way, while their'n was bein’ fixed. So I rented ‘em the little hoat, But, shucks, they might as well have used their own; there wasn't nothing wrong with it that T could see, 'eept a loose holt or two.” Charlie recognized with a sense of utter frustration that it was useless to probe further. All he could get was a description of the two men so vague that it would fit a million others, and a lack of any identifying details for the car. “Walit now,” the garage-keeper was saying, “till T turn over the engine for |you, and then vou can sce for your- | self that I ain’t misstated nothin' to |you. Come here, Sam, and crank her | up for me.” ; | But as 8am shambled around to the | front of the flivver; and Cheriie and |the proprietor leaned over to watch | the test, they were interrupted by a hail from the doorway. A party of people in a touring car had just driven | up, and were making signals of dis- | tress, The garage man relapsed into his professional phlegm. | “Hold on a minute,” he said. "I gotta see what these pests want. | Then 11 be back."” Charlie leaned back wheel of the flivver, and while he waited rolled a cigarette, He gave a little gesture of impotence, and scat- | tered the tobacco he was rolling to the floor. With a muttered imprecation at his awkwardness, he reached for his sack; | and as he did so, saw the garage man | | | against the complete his examination of the car at the door, and shake his head at the owner. “This here is a job that's going to | take a couple of hours,” he an-| nounced; “and you can’t go on in the | shape youw're in, gears all pulled | loose, You folks 'll just have to pile out and stick around, till T get it fixed up.” There, were protests, exclamations, emonstrances; but the gatage man was firm, and in the end the party, | four women and two men besides the driver, with American good humor under under trying circumstances, got out of the ear and the pro- prietor and Sam rolled it into the| shop. | Refarding this as a good oppor- | the garage keeper that he would be hack presently and started for the door. Without looking at the group of stranded motorists, he pushed his motor-cycle past them, when he was stopped by a high-pitched, faintly fa- miliar voice calling: | “Oh, how 'd y' do!” | He looked up to sce a pretty girl| in furturistically vivid sport things| moving toward him. ! For a moment he was puzzled, and | then he remembered her as the | Carthy and Mr. Leffler became animated interrogation points. | eals eruptions Only those who have undergone them can realize the mental and discomforts which many #kin affections cause. The distress. appearance and the intolerable ing and burning too often make life really miserable. Yet Resinol Olntment, aided by Resinol Soap, generally overcomes these troubles promptly even if they are severs and long established, The Resinol treatment stops nching dnstantly, Resinol Ointment and Resinol i ey don v 67 e € ST ST = strayed Princess of the smart millinery shop where he and langer had bought the hat. “Jullet!” he exclaimed, sweeping off his hat, *“To think that you remem- bered me after all these years!" “How could 1 forget the man who ordered that—that 1d!" Laughter stroggled with statuesque repose lndi You're a| won, “Oh, yon men! serewm when it comes to millineny. Too bad,” her charming mouth drawn down, her eyes full of mocking com- miseration, “that your lady | didn't 1ike the hat” At her words, a splinter of lght- ning went through ‘harlie and shiv- ered along his spine, boggy depths of his slongh of spond there flashed a ray of hope. CHAPTER XVI, In the twinkling of an eye humble canvasser of “put-it-together- yourself” furniture begame without change of costume or stage properties | the sophisticated, world-worn man of affairs, “She didn’t like the hat?” he peated, lifting his shouiders and brows at the same time. " cious, capricious creatures, women.' re- you little | friend | In the black, | de- | the | pri- | KDKA (Westinghouse; - Fast Pittsburgh) Wednesday, Oclober 10, 1023 1:06 p. m,—Baseball scores. 7:06 p. mo—Dinner concert, con: | tinued §:30 p. mo—Literary pregram un- der the direction of Marjory Stewart, 7:45 p, m.~The Children's period, ’ 2:00 p, M.~ Baseball scores. | 85:06 p. m.~National Stockman and | Farmer Market reports, 8116 p. m—Feature, 5:30 p. m.o—~Concert hy the KDKA Little Symphony orchestra under the | divection of Vieter Baudek, assisted by Reese N, Reese, baritone, (Westinghouse—§pringfield) 6:00 p. m~—Dinner eoncert by the wnz Trie, | 7100 p, m—=Results of the World | series, Second lecture in the radlo course, “Direct Eleetrie Currents as Applied to Radio” by Fdward H. Goodrich, 1 7:40 p. m—~Twilight tales for the | Kiddies, “Fire Hazards and P'reven- tions,” by Itichard W, Crowther, gpringfield Fire and Marine Insurance company., Humorous program, §:00 p, m,~Concert by Rachael Beaume, seprano; Mrs, Earl Rannen- serics, Bedtime story for grown-ups by Orison 8, Marden, Wiz (Aeolian Hall, N, Y. City) 7:80 p. m~—Kinal basehall scores ational and Amoeriean leagues. { p. m.~Popular songs by the Huguenot Four (Male Quartet). | 7:46 p.u -“T'he Progress of the World," a ew of Reviews talk, £:00 p, m, |John M. Herman, park commissioner of the borough of Brooklyn. 8:15 p. m.~"The Work of the | Chémieal Engineer,” a McGraw-Hill talk hy M. C. Parmelee, editor of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineer- ing. 8:30 direct House. Orchestra Opera ~Paviowa Manhattan m, the I from WEAF (American Tel. and Tel, Co, N. Y.) m.-—United Cigar Stores 7:30 . “You're such a kidder,” she sald, | daily sport talk by Thornton Fisher. “I don't quite make yoy' “Fancy meeting you here,” tering touch of sentiment smile; “partners in hard * a flat- in Bless the break-down,” with down. “When 1 had mine 1 light fervor. his | revenue, luck, one | prano in program of Maori folk sohgs. I might say, both victims of a break- | A talk in the interest of fire preven- “I"ootball Spirit,”” by “Big Bill" Ed- wards, former collector of internal Trma Caron, dramatic so- Jose Delaquerriere, tenor, ac- “Why tion. companied by Yette Bruyere. was hurrying back to a board meeting | Make a Budget,” hy H. IX. Hutchins from my friend Loring Ranger's pla over yonder.” She gave the start he expected. That name was too familiar to read- ers of newspapers to escape notice. “You mean the father of Ranger?” ness of her widened eyes. “Yes; poor Lorry!” acting now. “Oh!" best great-lady manner, she turned to her friends. to meet Mr.—" Charlie suvavely “Surely! Mr. Juarez shake hands with Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg,” mo- tioning to the driver of the car and his wife. and ‘Mr. Leffler,” she ran through the cirele.’ “Mr. Juarez is just back from a visit to the father of Hope Ranger.” Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg, Mr. Dave Greenberg, Miss Schupp, Miss Me- immediately Charlie answered guardedly, with the air of one who,coulgd tell a great deal but whose lips were for the mo- ment sealed. (Continued in anr Next Issue) Hope | She showed all the blue- | With an inflation of her | “1 want all you folks| helped | “Mr, Juarez, Miss Schupp, | Wy y D ChAhy ™ M. Diver Greanberg | urviatied by tho. 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New Yor! age .and screen by by Vaughn De Leath's Merry Makers, 7:20 p. m.—Miss Carrie Brookins, | soloist with Ruth Van Dorn at the | o pinno. ist with Anna Seidloya at the piano. with Anna Seidlova at the piano. WRC nt for | (American ‘Radio Corp—Washington) | | by ’ 6:00 p. m.—Children’s Hour | | Marietta Stockard Albion. bert Woodson. 8:16 p. m.—Song recital by John | Pennebacker. 9:00 p. m.—Piano recital by Doro- thea Boucher Trewhelia. .—~—S8ong recital by Gret- ansgéme rwi-.ggs oT \W EMULSION burg, accompunist and the WBZ Trio, | 9:00 p. m~Results of the World | ‘alk by the Honorable | [ 7:30 p. m.—Frances Mayer, violin- m.—Violln recital by Jose | BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1923, NORESTUDENTS G0 | Quality Counts » 10 Hi SCHO0L (Greator Per Cent of Studeats Are ! O— | | cm-uJ. Oct. 101f the boy or girl whe formerly “quit schogl” at the end of the seventh or elghth | grade s not actuslly becoming ex- |tinet his ranks are belng decimated annually, aceording to reports cover: ing an average ten year period com- plied from the offices of publle in. | struction in ten cenfral states. | The percentage of Increased = high school attendance for the period was taken as the medium for estimate The average increase figure for the decade was found to be 95,4 per cent, with extremes ranging hetween 1,- 000 per cent, the figure reported by Oklahoma, to 40 per cent, that of Towa, A e While the figures do not unquall- fiedly represent the inereased pro- portion of grade school students en- |tering high schools—the factor of in- creasing population applying largely in newer states—they do infdicate that [the former gulf existing hetween the | elght gurde und high school gradually is being elminated, In OklaWoma, according to a state- | ment issued by Luther Russell, state high school inspector, the increase in 11 years from 1910 to 1021 was from 6,126 to 62,021, or 1,000 per gent. Fg- ures supplied by the department of | education of Kentucky set the in- crease from 11,866 in 1913, to 36,000 |in 1928—an advance of 203 per cent, |while In South Dakota the total | number of high school students In 19,683, represented a jump of education for Ohlo, gave the increase in that state as 120 per cent, an ad- | vance from 80,602, the figure for | (American Radio tesearch Ci | 7 Ji84 tadio and Tiescarch Corp., He was not | 6:30 p. m.—Boston police reports. Hello! Hello! £ 58 SALADA = X A ORANGE PEMOE BLEND is increasing its sales every day. Fresh, Fragrant and Pure — Just try it 1912, fo 178,705, that for 1922, Voleing the belief that the showing in this state was partieularly goed in view of the strong call of the many industries of tne state “for boys to get out of school inte work,"” Thomas K. Johnson, superintendent of public instructoin of Miehigan, reported the increase there at from 49,466 in 1912, to 106,496 in 2, an Increase of 116 per cent, : High school attendance in Kansas has increased 86 per cent during the Iast ten years, according to J. W. Miley, state superintendent of public instruction, who placed the figure for total attendance In 1913 at 39,032 compared with 72,774 In 1922, A jump of 70 per cent in high school attendance from 1913 to 1923 was reported by Leonard B, Job, as- sistant state superintendent publie instruction of Indiana, The t In- crease was given as from 69,822 In 1913 to an estimated total of 101,426 in the Intter year. Compulsory at- tendince up to the age of 16 years, was glven principal credit for the good showing. The por cent of Increase during the last decade for Illinols was set at 42 by Francls G. Blair, state superinten- dent of publlc l.slructlon. Total high school enrollment In 1912 was T4, 568 and In 1922, 163,097, “Bringing the high school to the pupil” by means of establishing rural high schools In connection with con- solldated schools and merging the eighth grades with the high school by creation of junior high schools i3 noted by Miss Mary E. Francis, state superintendent of public Instruction of Iowa, as iInfluencing the greater proportional gain in high school at- tendance in that state during the last decade. Between 1910 and 1920 the enrollment grew from 45,235 to 63,- 217, an advance of 40 per cent, she said, Texas proved no exception. In the five year period since 1918 the in- Cause of Piles Dr. Leonhardt found the cause of Piles to be internal. That's why salves and onerations fail to give lasting re- lict, His harmless prescription, HEM- RO rémoves thecause. Money back it it fails, Clark & Brainerd Co. g Listening to Little Wilfred. 1S TOLD NOT TO HANG UP BECAUSE HE SIMPLY MUST THROUGH THE PHONE ! | x [ HASTENS To PUT IN'IT'S [ ALLRIGHT SOME OTHER | TIME WILL, DO JUST AS | WELWL §:00 p. m.—Song recital by Mrs. Al- | i \ HEARS * SNICKER TROM STENOGRAPHER'S DESK- BEHIND G w‘i&fi:flb HEAR LITTLE WILFRED, SPEAK The ec! GATHERS , "ROM THE SOUNDS, THAT WILFPRED HAS TLAT- LY REFUSED TO SPEAK. THROUGH THE PHONE ANSWER 15 DROWNED BY TERRIFIC CRASH AS WILFRED PULLS PHONE OFF THE erease In high sehool attendanece has been 35 per cent, or a growth from 126,000 to 176,000 in the peried, ae- cording te 'K M. N, Marris, state superintendent of publie instruetion, Figures lssued by the state depart- ment of education of Wisconsin, with offices in Madison, wset the Increase there at 81 per cent, or gain of from 40,012 in 1912 to 2% n Let “Gets-It” End Your Corns aott el e aromwol s om @ hurting corn and Prestol The pain stops at once forever. 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