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Member of the United Press, iv Hahed daily by The Star Publieh= ine Oo PESSOEHOESOOSEOOOOSOOOS y oe ¢ THE TOWER "$ OF SILENCE STICK, PINCHOT! rd Pinchot will not re n | Aa an Amateur Hawkshaw, Miag Di l need Pinchot, The genera forest service conser He should stay o keep what 1 the nation’s natural resoures \\\\\ @eeeeeeeseooooooooooros i . BY HAROLD CARTER 3 grazing water, power sites and minerals ; E 1 banal The deputy magtatrate for the Pinchot's friendsand they are many—will understand the | yoventh district of Hombay stretched | his limba and opened hin ¢ und ic} yora,. He Te eme even limitations under which he la - 18 not ‘ He saw the t sky above him, | in the department which he mana He must bend to orders/yo was conscious of a burning, ‘ ; ‘ " » must act within the} prteking sensation tn his limba, of of a cabinet officer and a pr nt, He must act 1 ) or ecad that throshed: but be dia limitations of a cong secretly unfriendly, He must stand and} pot know where was or how see the borders of the public forests narrowed He m ee vast |he came to be lying upon hts back a looking up at the cloudless heavens, “public entry” means) He heard the sweeping of wings, eahnoed and with @ slow sideward motion ' a vulture, black and giaantic, passed almost within arm's reach, poled iteolf for an intant over hin, and) soared upward | y, Ki areas opened up to public entry where and ! by spoliation his efforts private thwarted by “senat Heyburn of Tdaho and Carter of Montana. He must sec He must see | ce” of that brand typi predatory interests take their “innit Trees and power Little by Htthe the deputy magi» ; com the ahare | {@te's mind worked backward, The sites, grazing lands and timber will be abstracted from the “a starting potnt of hia consciousness A | p a awarthy faoe| 1 the pe seemed to be a face, } that started at him while the 2orn shook menacingly in his direct which he has fought so hard to hold in trust tor a <a aoianc eNCOsh aaeceemRaaesraSOaeei a \ 5 a i To step aside may open up the way to some corporation) Ha! It was in tho district court, i : ; \ Ith to| Where he had sentenced one Jam : lawyer, acute in finding ways to turn this pu wealth 0] cities Beringer to a atiff torm ot] ' Sn. ativl Yinchot to it that |imprivonment for highway robbery rivate pockets. So stick, Mr, Pinchot And i t i P : . ' tated And he had cursed him as he was j the cause of conservation is not neglected or deleated. hurried to the cella and sworn re] a = yonge, Tut that Was seven years A doubt fuat tation in the whole t ago—and the sentence had been for aot mabe age 2 ~ : seven years, he remembered, And how this workt ahould be run is! inoss Is that the dandelions ul had heatd that the a respectfully Informed that this is / lawn can get along wit! little fat large again and thre ing to com ment week at the water murder him. Then | His mind groped backward feobly, Veorsity. ~ — | rhen Thinots has elected a » in} Now all waa clear to him. His Japan is as ot her sUsat the porsan of “Billy” Lorimer. 1 walk home from the elub alor geabiial. All of which whows that|imer is the one to be congratulated, | "8D. the dark street, mer vision of the face of the ruff Japan hasn't yet reached the vect OEE : ce tS ster Ea) @ental plane of civilisation. The which took a slump | suicide and murder buatr Br. Boutllon does not appear to t Aha, the scent frows stronger, | ft to himself forever. shows signs of an active revival endowed wi ny quantity of soft | answers mended for turning ee a | EMPTIED away Thomsonian wrath. Anyhow, Mr. Hill saw Seatt! | 4 ! aan firat, even tf they won't let him keer i Iv Some Seattle millionaire may go queens | nearly found Chesterton Quince Du that Reno fellow a little r and have a can of water sent by mall = @ town ts just paying the barry today. The croeks who stole for use on the lawn. penalty of bad bringing up | him better beware Uae +4 s| 1 was mooching along hiating to wee what | could hist, when.t seen & man go through an alley with & big gunnysack. He waa a beetle browed man with & damaged derby just auch a mau as you'd suspect of b A wuspect, 1 was diaguised in an electric blue raincoat and « | white vell, so | had no trouble: fol lowing him without him knowing | was Diana, the Demure Deteetone For many blocks 1 tratied him, |my eyes gived on the guenysack | a the kidnaped child wae in |A Great Biack Bird Perched on the Sometimes | wanted to leap on space on which he lay. Why, he Was almost nude, and the sun's pit) Tower's Rim and Regarded Him | E rays scorched his flesh. And | BUT FOR THE CAMERA THEY'D BE NATURE FAKES Col. Roosevelt Sees Five Different Zoological Freaks, But They Get Away Because He Is Unprepared for Their Visit. stunning blow upon t bead, and finally oblivion Whore was he, though, if he waa! not dead already? Surely thiw was not the hospital, this bare, hard Me Visite the Earth as « Gpeciai C Observations in Ominously, OF Sma [the ominous vultures that came jRearer aud nearer, fanning him with the sweep of their pinfons INSECT S vm WERE PG HAY And the palm trecs, whose! feathery topa were on « level with) the surface of the place on which! | #4#CT NUMBER srvvol ven. he lay, Slowly and painfully he) oO oo raised bimeelf He was reclining upon the flat) top of a tower, raised perhaps 70) feet above the waste land that aur rounded {t. In the center of the) tower top was a closed grille, be) neath which a flight of stone steps! descended. And ail round him were/ heaps of bleached and whitening bones, and others on which sorged vultures were performing thelr hor- ible taak. Then he knew. He had been placed on the top of one of those Towers of Silence, as they wore known, on which the Parsee com | munity exposed the bodies of the dead to be decomposed by the vul tares and the elements, And no) man could leap from such a height | and live, He stared around him hopetessty, | With devilish ingenuity the ruffian | had spared hie Iife and had him conveyed hither that he might perish by this fearful death A great black bird perched upon! the tower's edge not three feet ai tant and regarded him ominously.) ‘The deputy shook his flet and the} creature soared away slowly, ct cling, with two or three of ite kin, over him | Overcome by @ realization of his) predicament the deputy fainted. When he recovered consciousness it was duak. They were all round and over him now, the glant birds, watting for thetr horrible meal. Their bald heads leaned together, as though the carrion creatures held consultation whether to raah in or to walt, Their curved beaks glinted fearfully In the Hight of the rising moon. And, watching them, an In laptration came to the deputy, If he could catch one— He lay quite still, so wtil! that one waddled up to him and gravely regarded him, raising one claw to its breast, as though meditating a pounce, And suddenly the victim ‘THE FAUNAL NATURALIST IN THE ACT OF BEING PESTERED BY A BEVY OF RARE VARMINTS, (Blank cartridge flashlight by Kermit.) Telless Aerogram from [night breezes to blow In, About The MOMBASA LIAR. |midaight his keen ear detected MOMBASA, May 27.—(Very Spe [Stealthy movements, Rousing quick- cial, by runner from. Nairobt.)—/ly, be found the tent filled with a) Hore is news that will interest Jack | Humber of creatures tat he was London, Rey. W. J. Long, Chas D.|unable to recognize without the ald G, Roberts and other Iiterary nat /Of @ catolog. Nothing daun.ed, Le uralists. Col. Roosevelt has seen | #truck at them with his bare fist five freak zoological specimens that | They were all put to rout before he have not no far been written up. |coula selze a better weapon. Kor They are, towlt: imit, who was awakened by the 1 Clydesdale tsetse fly. jcommotion, jumped up with his 1 pigmy pachyderm. }ready camera in hand, and blazed 1 winged Cashmere goat. jaway at them with a flashlight 1 musk lion, vest pocket size, | None of the Intruders fell at the re- 1 equatorial Jane bug. | port, since the flashitght cartridge However, they escaped unseathed Was a blank. However, an excel except for being photographed, The lent picture of the night prowlers photograpti will be of inestimable | was obtained. At their leisure the value as evidence taat they really naturalists of the party were able happened. to identify all five of the bugs and|*Prang and grasped it by the leg, It had been a hard day on the |animals. while the flock roe {n alarm and yeldt, and Col. Roosevelt threw off! Col. Roosevelt at no time lout his |Sircled over him | his ammunition belts and choke-|nerve, He asserts that they would) The vulture attacked him fu bore howitzers with a sigh of reltef|have been taken alive if his tent |Mously, rending at his nude body after retiring to his tent, the flap had been supplied with a plece of | With Ita curved beak till the blood of which he left open to allow the | sticky fy paper. streamed down him. But, though aie Saves You Princess on our immense stock of Prinedas Uons are included firthe selling torn by talons and beak and *\ruised by the strong wings, the maori nee Haihaeemerpnaing ae man fought desperately for life, lgained hia hold, and, struggling with his captive, hurled himself over the parapet. a The wind rushed past them, the pulps nageoegavonspucmers an - Seaan igreat wings flapped upon the j + vulture : Raitor ot The Star—1 have not|Tyrle Theatre, Dear sir, as n man | reese, ae (Me vulture sought tn) been blind to the stand that you eee in the welfare of your) ging thus, they were borne to the are ever taking for things that are rene I beg of you to again| ground and fell, bruised but un-| bring the managers of that place of injured, on the soft turf under right. You are to be commended, |indeconcy to justice. Every word neath. and ¥ belleve that a public ap Ope actors utter is & suggestion Of; Then the man relaxed his grasp preciates your position th | ity | | jand the great bird soared angrily May I turn your attention again) As to one with a strong hand|into the air, But iia fay atill for| to @ sore that still existe? One| give you this, and belleve that it/awhile, tasting the sweets of life.| that you did your best to heal, but) will be given your attention, [He felt the blood leap through hin which has once more broken out.| Sincerely, jveins in ecstasy, Hoe was allvo I refer to that infamous resort, the alive! All else was forgotten } PROF. STEVEN wats LAUNDRY | FCAMOU OLLARS | lk | F*) Wihs 8c Cone" LETTERS PHILIP BALDWIN We have many numbers to duced prices. Cash Registers for Rent During fair season will rr | Cash Registers at low rate Make Grrengementa now. tl THE SUNDWALL CO, ACK DIANA’S DIARY “AFTER GLANCING FURTIVELY AROUND, HE CAUTIOUSLY MR. 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