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f "uiilvgisgiittit He led the way, but alertly. A dash for freedom even had she dared to make one, would not have gotten her far. Sonny fell silent, listening intently. They way was narrow here and there was no chance to pick and choose a path. When the last of the led horses kicked aside a stone, it rolled and rumbled, gathering com- panions until a small sized landslide went roaring down the hillside, mak- ing a noise that was audible for a long distance. He had chosen this route for exit from his hangout for perfectly sound reasons. Not knowing where Garcia or his men might be, he had elected to come out of the back exit from his hangout, a tortuous path among the fallen boulders which had been unsus- pected by the Mexican. But this route, when once embarked upon, admitted orno deviation lest the rider find himself in a blind alley. Sonny now was committed to the route and it bothered him that the noise had ad- vertised his movement. The mine guards might not have noticed it, of course, or they might attribute It to any of a myriad natcral causes. "Dawggone!" murmured Sonny hope nobody was listenin'." The little cavalcace of two riders and three led horses went clattering loudly over the stony way, while Sonny’s frown grew deeper and deep- She shook he head. "I'm going to make you leave the mine alone," she said resolutely. "I love you, but I've got tol" "An y' still won't tell me why?" She shook her head, her eyes mist- ing suddenly. LThen yuh' kidnapped," said Sonny soberly. "Come on." CHAPTER XXI.---(Cont'd) A sudden uproar came thinly to his ears. The distant barking and yelp- ir.g of dogs, frenziedly excited. Some- how it did not sound lihe the noise ol dogs trailing. It scunded more Ihre dogs being beaten, and the uproar they would make when leashes pre- vented their escape. _"Y' won't call 'em off?” asked Sonny, smiling. His smile became fiked, suddenly, when the horse he rode stumbled and wrenched his body. The yelping ceased suddenly, as if the beating had stopped while a con- sultation was held as to another way of making them trail. "I won7t let them hurt you," said Janet uncertainly, "but if they can catch you, it's what T hired them to do." "ThaN be you} gang, Janet," said Sonny. "There's their dawgs. An' they ain't so far away, eithtr." Hustlers run oft some cattle anti Son- ny, riding in pursuit, ls cornered by Janet's mine guards. He escapes, but his horse is shot. fanet has the horse doc- tored and pleads with Holman to leave the country. Tilford, mine manager', ap- parently falls in with in' plan but 1n reality schemes to deliver Janet over to a cutthroat named Garcia, Janet finds Sonny, just as Garcia's men are closing in. They take refuge in a cave. Meanwhile, a Learch party has been organized and Tilford is made to go along and tind the way. Sonny Holman, believing he is; the rightful owner of the Aztec mine, holds 111 the miners payrolls. Janet Laprler, who holds legal title to the Aztec tries to stop his activities. - ' N Marvelous flavor! Digestible as milk itself. With a nutritional rating of plus, plus, plus! a"; M .9. " e .. . "s, "rr', e ":1tr, W A delicious treat for ih' "diit family-approved by the Food Committee of the American Medical Association. Get a ngkage from your grocer t ay"res"aoisa"h1cvsaatee7 ct?2:r, " _ Made in Canada “A“ What rich mellow flavor of fine old Cheddar cheese you get in sandwiches and cooked dishes made with Kraft Velveeta! ISSUE No,, 34--3'2 he Aztec Mystery The Delicious Cheese Food SY NOPSIS. Thrilling Story of the Old West BY MURRAY LEINSTER He swerved to the right and began to tear through the thin undergrowth, which soon gave way to knee-high grass and then to the road itself. Janet spurred her horse and rode des- 1erately beside him. Sonny whistled and Gunpowder ranged up alongside, running splendidly with his head up and no trace of a limp. Even the horses the Mexicans had been riding- and which Sonny had captured with their masters, seemed to consider this a race, and rested by a night's idle- ness, they came along in a bunch be- hind. "Hn-nn-nnhrrn-n.T Another bullet whined by. There was a Judden shriek from one of the horses romp- ing behind and it rolled over upon the ground, kicking, the heavy stir- rups of its empty saddle flapping as it struggled desperately. "They ain't carin' where they shooe," said Sonny suddenly, his voice deadly. "Janet, ride off t' one side. I'm goin' t' do some shootin' now." "Sping-ng-ng!" Something whis- tled viciously a yard from his elbow. He swung/in his saddle and blazed away. Five pf the mine guards were in full cry after them, shooting as they came. The sixth came half rid- ing and half tumbling from the mountain side to join in. He spurred his mount. er. Twice they heard the barking of a dog, and once a shrill and startled yelp. Each time the sound was faint, but each time Sonny's expression grew a trifle more grim. And suddenly the trail ended abruptly in a rocky chute down which the horses picked their way gingerly. They came out abrupt- h- into a space of level ground in which stunted trees grew sparsely and through which the stage road ran for a space. Sonny grinned, though his face was white from pain. "It wculdn't be playin' fair to plug them while you kep' 'em shootin' high," he drawled. "What say we mosey along?" "Lordy," drawled Sonny, "I reg'n we look like a herd o' anbelope." Sonny leaped to the stallion's back and was away again, shoving shells into his gun with his lips compressed. He seemed to be planning grimly. But his face was ashen from the pain of broken rib ends grinding upon eaeh other from his movements. The stage road narowed here and went along the side of a hill for a long way, winding and dipping, disap- pearing for long sraces as it followed the only practical grade, and finally disappearing toward Gila Valley and to town of Moleville. It was unspeak- ably isolated here.. No living thing was to be seen except a soaring crea- ture far away which might have been some feathered scavenger, waiting for something to' die. There was no sound but the clattering hoofs of. three horses-Gunpowder, the horse Janet rode, and the remaining mount taken from the members of Garcia's gang left bound in Sonny's hang-out. Hardly had they merged from the hillside chute when there was a yell and a bullet whined over Sonny's head. A moment later another gun took up the fusillade, and there were shoutings showing that still others were taking up the pursuit. "Get goin' to yuh frien's, Janet," mawled Sonny. "I aim t' do a li'l shootin'." “I wcn't, she returned. "While I'm here they'll have to try not to hurt you. I want you canght,_but not--" Janet called loudly and frantically. It was the scar-fed man who had been with Gleason when Jake Horna- by was killed. The scar-faced m:n scowled and bent lower, urging his horse on. His reirolver came up. His gun and Sonny's Went off together, and the scar-faced man reeled from his mount and toppled to the ground. Sonny's horse stumbled, but as it went down Sonny flung himself clear. Gunpow- der came racing to his side. "'S long as they keep far enough al-ad," drawlel Sonny, "they can't do nothin' here. But you better drop back. They're shootin' mighty reck- less, those fellers. The stage road ought tale kinda, safe. You drop be- hind an' let 'em pass yuh. Don't follow 'pm too close. I’ll lead 'em on a wafs." C He stopped. Far in the distance a dark mass bf men and animals had appeared. Too many men to be ae- companying the ore wagons, and wearing unyjety'ably sombreros, the sombre"fos if, fege? men.- Sonny iwung his ea . about»; it __tr.tq.tptrt,,i.. He was; The hmsiée 'li/vis and bt- low the road was nearly precipitious. The mob of Garcia's men ahead would tttrp g} "gnawing to pull down tht pgir of than. Tid Eve mine guards be- hl‘ml would néver stop to listen tp their own danger before they had killed Sonny, leaving themselves with Janet to be overwhelmned by the bandit gang. There was no turning. Sonny and Janet were being driven into the arms of Gareia's men by her own guards. The horses galloped swiftly down the winding road. The Mexicans ahead were shut out of sight momen- tarily by a shoulder of "the _hill. "They've took4he oreTcain," drawl- ed Sonny very quietly indeed. "They')l be bringing it to Gareia's hsfhgout to unload, an' then they'll trke the \'.agons on an' dump 'em in Butter- creek Canyon. By the time its all figured out, that or-YO be outer the country. An' them an' us, and your frien's back yonder, Janet, are all right likely to come together." “I’ll ted my max not to fight you," said Janet, "and together we may t'e- take the ore train." He crowded the three horses out of sight behind a tumbled mass of reddish rocks/fallen from the canyon walls. Gunpowder stood instantly do- cilely still. Janet's mount stood with drooping head, panting. The third animal moved skittishly up to them, away from them, and as Sonny reach- ed out his hand to grasp its bridle seemed to remember again the habits of its Mexican owners. It jerked its head away-and danced off into the midd.e of the canyon Sonny shook his head grimly. "Riskin' you? Not 1,naehl I got me a idea. See where there's a break in the rock wall? We dive in there. Con aprisa. Your gang/ll ride past an' slap into Garcia, an' you come out behind an' tide Lke hell for help. Meantime I go sky-aootin' into the fracas, like I had a million Rangers behind me. An' if your gang is any good at all, we'il hold that mob till you get back with all o' Gila County to clean 'em up." Down the roadway the three horses clattered, galloping swiftly. The he: vy saddle bags MI the lead horses fVpped clumsily as the saddle rose . d fell from his stride. "Here, now, rna'am," drawled Sonny. They swung to the right and into the little canyon. "Gareia's home grounds," said Sonny grimly. "If your gang don't ride past, ma'am, l "re sure out o' luck. We'll get be- hind these rocks." And as Sonny raced after d, and having caught it, back with it, the live mine guards swept past the can- yon entrance. Storm All other storms were Playthings to this storm. It was as it God broke the moulds of Form And the huge fragments, hurtling, w'hizzed like wires. Confusion stalked across the blotted ' Shires. Now they Joined hands. They doubl- ed the wild din. They fought once more. 'Earth's crust seemed fallen in. What could withstand such turmoil? ' Rocks only could By twining their stone roots. No- thing else stood. ,( A Trees jrroaned like mandrakes. C Sap in sweaty beads A Stared from their barks. Boughs broke. But the crude weeds, Hemlock and ragwort, plantain, fytuv sley and dock, Held out more grimly against the furious shock Than those gnarled trees that like a leather tether Knit the broad acres of this land to; gether. c-Louis Golding, in Time and Tide. Peace How shall a man think on that which belongs to his peace, it he yields himself wholly a servant to those things which be without; and how shall he carry any message to others, who cannot hearken to the voice of his own sou1?-idy Dilke. (The Book ot the Spiritual Life). Custom Custom is the great enemy ot faith, and ot Reason likewise; and one ot the worst tricks which custom plays us is, making us fancy that miiacu- Ious things cease to be miraculous by becoming common. Three young damsels show the way to keep coo exercise in addition. Rainier National Park is the enquiring. (To be Continued) Sport A-La-Mode Premature Similar to a great, unyielding army, humanity forges ahead on_its march towards progress. It is pre- ceded by the scouts, in our case the geniuses. Over the heads of the van- guard these scouts push ahead into time. History of human progress teaches us that its pioneers were sometimes two or three centuries ahead of the masses, it not more. After the pioneers comes the van- guard. scientists, explorers, poets, philosophers, the host ot methodie workers and searchers, who in their turn are far ahead of the so-called educated class. Their thoughts and ideology are handed over to the teachers, in whose following march columns ot students, the latter at least one generation ahead of the educated class,' whose ranks they join after completing their studies. After that they apply in practice the knowledge and experience acquired in schools and universities and make it accessible to the great masses of the people. Round these practical workers, the jurists, physicians, engineers, techni- cians, Journalists, the educated classes are grouped, who are moved by the desire to make the wisdom of the former their own. Still, they remain way behind the explorers. After the educated classes comes the mass of the people, who assimilate the formers ideology, doctrines, mode of speaking. Usually the masses are more fanatical followers of 1 doc- trine than the class from which they took it, and they continue to profess a faith. long after it is discarded by scholars and scientists. Thus materialism was born froml the observation of nature itselt.l The conception ot matter is a the- ory which goes back to the pre- Christian era, to the Greek philoso- pher Democritus, who believed that the universe consisted of a sub- stance, composed in its turn ot in- tinitesimal particles or atoms, the differentiation of the bodies being determined by the various degrees of density of these atoms. The al-l, chemists of the middle ages based' their research on this ancient the- ory, and studied the means of con- verting plain metals into gold through condensation of the atom. In the beginning of the nine- teenth century, which saw the tri- umph of physical science, the idea of force was born, and a new the- cry on the origin and composition ot the world gradually evolved from the combination of §he two prinei- pies, atom and forte. From this purely. mrxtePl8' "srscotsception, Marx and Engels drrfiv'rttre, inspiration for their social teachings, and their doctrine is still the creed ot their socialist and communist tollowers But the great physicists of mod- ern times reject this theory of crude materialism and of the infinitesimal and indivisible particle. Inspired by the glamorous dscoveries in the electrical and electrochemical fields, scientists evolve; a new theory, whereby the simple atom became the complicated electron. In the imagination ot the twentieth Cen.. tury physicist this infinitesimal parti- the electron has acquired the like- cle is a whole world in itself, in which other particles revolve round the nucleus at a terrific speed. Thus the electron has acquired the like. ness ot our stellar system, in other words, it is a little sun, with the planets revolving round it. The day will come when even this audacious theol'y'will seem obsolete and will have to make place for an- other conception. Newton's ideas are slowly but irresistibly being re- placed by Einsteir1's relativity the- ory. The scientist is aware, how- ever, that the theories with which By Friedrich Freksa Berlin cool and get plenty ot the place, it you were Discoveries in Die Woche he works are but expressions of the philosophy of the period in which he lives, and suited to it. The scientist does not erect his hypotheses into articles of faith. He is satisfied with having found a work- ing theory, and he lets his thoughts wander through an imaginary, not through the real world. This is in opposition to the methods of the lay- man, who wants, above all, to believe, even though he proudly calls himself an atheist. All misunderstandings and spiritual troubles which afflict the so.ayalled educated classes come from this desire to believe. The mis- use that was made of Darwin’s theory in the beginning of the past een- tury is one aspect of it. Yet the evolutionary idea of Darwin's work goes back to 1800, to Hegel. How- ever, only one hundred years later did the words "development" and "evolution" become part of our cur- rent language. Every great idea that was put into circulation as a rare gold coin has finished by becoming a wornout small coin. The intellectuals glori- tied the American Constitution of July 4, 1776, as a symbol of great- est dignity and highest civilization, because it was inspired by the philo- sophy of titty years before the slogans of which became familiar to the peo- ples only in the second half of the eighteenth century. In our time of triumph of tech- nique, which is still under the in- fluence of the World War, our voca- bulary is rich with technical and martial terms. We speak of econ- omic wars, political fronts and line- ups, and even the pacifistss do not seem to be able to get along with- out this bellicose terminology. A striking example of bow an in- vention may be made ahead'of its time is television. It has now come to stay. In 1865 a German magazine published the picture ot a camera invented by a certain Ca- selli which transmitted a perfect picture of the great physicist Am- pere. Yet it took another 67 years to make televi§ion an everyday oe- 'currence. , "" 280 BC. a Greek philosopher prov- ed with calculations that earth and planets revolved round the sun. His theory, developed by his disciples, remained confined to a narrow cir- cle, as it was in opposition to the current belief ot the revolving sun. At that time humanity was better prepared to listen to the Egyptian Ptolemy,gwho? proved with elaborate and artificial calculations the truth of the established theory. The Greek principle was therefore entirely for- gotten until Galilei and Copernicus revolutionized the middle ages with their sensational discoveries. De-, spite persecutions and anathemas, ,the new teachings sent a thrill through mankind, and they finished by being accepted. _ VWhenCqumbus discovered America the world had already forgotten that in the year 800 AD. Eric the Red and his Norsemen had come as tar as Labrador and settled there, but were subsequently wiped out by cold, starvation and the hostile natives. gine. Yet how many peopie mum that at the time of the Emperor Adrian, about 100 A.D., Roman eh: éineers built pump works in Egypt operated by steam. At that time, however, human labor was so cheap that the value of mechanical force was no made the object ot further investigation, and the project was dropped. T All inventions and discoveries are the result ot man's dreams. They mature through millenniums and are anticipated by myth and legend. Dedalus built wings for himself and soared up, but his son Icarus, having come too near the sun, paid tor his temerity with his lite. Yet it was his dream that showed mankind the road towards the realization of tfy- ing. Dreams become ideas and, through the process ot research and experience, they bear fruits after many centuries. _ The nineteenth century is justly hailed as the era of the steam en- gine. Yet how many people know The above are but a few examples of how ideas and inventions may come too early, and, humanity not being ready to absorb them, lay idle for centuries. Man's thought, his inventions and goggles: if? 12912.9 Ir. the igrrrput- ab e iNrst of maturity. it that is born outside ot this state of maturity invariably passes unheeded. This explains the tragic fate of so many great geniuses, to whom success was denied, sometimes almost at the threshold of it. Robert Mayer, the thinker to whom science owes the law on conservation of forces, was declared insane by his contempor- aries. We humans live together and P. ll , _ Em . ' V w' p, I " . ll KI " bid " q is g " li, q Ill nae MEI' . ' Fl ' ‘ Il - "d: - ll' "" . - " __ " I, 2eiihit TEA " delicious (Write Salado. Toronto, for excellent recipe) gpor-l For a long while after a great be-f To scale a fish easily hold by the ‘reavement our only companionship in tail and then pour over It boiling each with the lost one,,, s', water. of us is convinced that his world is the same as the world ot his neigh- bor: Therefore, the creative genius Who strives to give humanity some- thing new, something it had never seen before, meets with a harsh re- ception. Population 8,203,942, London Census Reveals Londom--Tho population of greater London now totalsur,203,942 ,as reveal- ed by the first analytical report com- piled from the census figures of last year. The increase in population, as compared with 1921, has been 9.7 per cent., or nearly three times the in- crease ot the preceding decade, and nearly twice the current increase tor the nation at large. Greater London's population num- bers 4,371,026 females and 3,832,916 males. The report advances no rea- son for this predominance ot women. The largest contributor to the in.. crease is Dagenham, tor during the ten years in question it went trom a meager 9,127 to 89,362. It is one ot the few districts in which men out- number women. Figures tor the City of London and the twenty-eight metropolitan bor- roughs which comprise the "adminis- trative County of London" (as dis- tinct from "Greater London") show a decline of 87,520 for the ten-year period. This population is now 4,- 397,003. Important deductions to be drawn from the report are that families are growing much smaller than formerly (families of eight persons are 50 per cent. less numerous, while the two- person family has increased enormous- ly); that there is much more living ac- commodation a person, with a heavy drift to apartment houses; and that living conditions are much improved. Numerous cases of sheep being in- tested'with the cysts of the dog tape worm were reported this past winter. Another reason why dogs should be kept away from sheep. Of course the sheep infested with these bladder worms, which locate on the brain, died. If a sheep is so unfortunate as to pick up the eggs of a single seg- ment of a dog tape worm, her chances of continued lite are poor. Dogs in.. fested with tape worm drop the seg- ments containing the tape worm eggs about the fields and yards, these are picked up by the sheep while feeding or drinking, and then the trouble be- gins. The remedy is to kill the tape- worms that the dogs carry by dosing every dog at least three times a year with a suitable worm remedy. Eight sheep died in one community, where some wormy hounds were allowed to run at large. It you are a sheep own- er, keep your eye on the dogs as they are dangerous to the well being of. the sheep in more ways than one. Cigarette as Bait Used By Pennsylvania- Angler Fish like cigarettes and bite eagerly when the white-wrapped rolls of to- bacco are used as bait, according to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Oliver Deibler, Fisheries Commis- sioner, circulated the story of the new bait as told him by S. W. Frank, Jean- ette, in relating the experience ot his brother, Dr. Claude Frank, Oil City. As told to Dealer, Dr. Frank discover- ed the bait qualities of cigarettes ac- cidentally when he threw one into the water. A large trout, that had disre- garded other lures, struck at it sav- agely. Frank then baited a hook with half a cigarette. He caught a trout within a short time. Before he finished h? had landed three brook trout, ranging in length from 13 to 16 inches. Fisher- men believe the trout were attracted by the white paper wrapping of the cigarettes. Vacation)--'] want to ask you a question." Ticket Agent--'Wes, madam." vacationist---"Can I send a suit- case by a trunk line?" Dogs and Sheep 268 ' Lsrtdon.--0ne of the most important members of the royal household in limb known to the British public,' writes Hayden Church in The New. York Times. He is Richard Hewlett, "‘superintendent of the wardrobe"--., in other words, chief valet to King George, The King has nearly 500., changes in dress; Hewlett is respon- sible for all of them and is answer- ‘z-lble for the c'orreet, appearance of his |Majesty on every oeeasion. Huwlett never knows which uni.. form or which ceremonial garb will " called for next; they must all be ready, the uniforms from "undress" to full, according to the need. Med- als, decorations, insignia-there must be no mistake about any of them.. But Richard Hewlett wonld not be King George's chief valet if he were, prone Jo make mistakes. He knows more about uniforms probably, than any naval or military tailor. The London season is the busiest tlme in the year for Hewlett. For with courts, levees and investitures to hold, garden parties to give, fashion- able race meetings line Ascot "tret Goodwood and public functions to at- tend, the King has to wear many varieties of dress. At Windsor Castle King George wears the historie "Windsor aniform" of blue coat, gold buttons and red col.. lar. At-Balmorrd Castle in Scotland he wears the Kilt and in the evening he dons the full dress of the Stuart clan, with jeweled silver buckles. I Large and variegated as the ward- robe is, it is Richard Howlett's boast Ithat he can produce any costume rea l quired within a few minutes. He has lbeen in a tendance on the sovereign lfor more Ehan twenty-ffire years. He is elderly and distinguished looking, l with a quiet, grave, kindly manner. He is trusted absolutely and has certain ilccnfidehtial duties to perform outside lthe scope of his official job. His rooms in uBekinham Palace are filled ‘with souvenirs of royalty; the walls are hung with signed portraits that would fill most millionaires with envy. M,. Hewlett is also lucky enough to Occupy one of the small official resi., dences at St. James Palace. He is l married and his daughter Elaine is a god-child ot the King. The royal wardrobe fills several rooms in the north wing of Bucking- ham Palace. There are airtight boxes, safes for Tegana and insignia and a room for the storage of the robes and mantles of the orders of chivalry-including those of the. Garter, the collar of which contains twenty ounces of pure gold, and is jeweled as well. Military uniforms form the bulk of the wardrobe, their being two-full- dress and undress-for each regiment ot which the King is Colonel-in-Chief. Faval uniforms and no end of special trvil costumes, among others the Trin-. Py House dress, add to the task cf the chief valet and his three assistants. King George's favorite uniform is that of Admiral of the fleet. He was brought up as a naval officer and never, has lost his love of the sea and ships. In the military section the Field Marshal's undo-m i most often wsed, The full dress is a gorgeOJs affair, With scarlet tunie, buckskin oreeches and cocked hat adorned with feathers. Besides, there is the corresponding "service" dress of khaki, the uniform worn by the King when he visits his troops. Outside court circles Howlett is vir.. tually unknown. Once a year, he at., tends a luncheon given by the Royal Warrant Holders' Association, whose members are the firms that enjoy the royal patronage. When the court moves to Balmoral in August, the chiet valet arranges to have the royal wardrobe thoroughly gone over. The orders and ilecora., tions are cleaned and any flaws in the uniforms are rectified. The monareh's private wardrobe is not extravagant, for dress means com- paratively little to King George, He never has been such a leader of men's fashions as was his father, Edward VII, or as is his BOL, the Prince of Wales. If anything, the King is inclined to be old-fashioned in his dress. Until ccmparatively recently, for instance, he kept up the old custom of passing h tie through a gold ring. Like she late King Edward, he has his trousers creased at the side instead of in front, and he has a fondness for black points on his gloves, whether the latter are white or tan. Like many lesser men, England's Kink likes old clothes better than new mes and ,whenever he can, sacrifices appearance to comfort. A member of a royal shooting party, for idstanee, noticed with interest that one of King George's shoes had been patched! The King likes to wear tweed breeches and a rough shooting coat when out with a dog and gun. He always prefers shoes that are "easy," and one ot the first things he. does when he gets to Balmoral is to buy a pair of Highland brogues. He rides into Ballater on his pony and enters a shop where the proprietor, an elderly Scot, still makes shoes by hand. After his foot has been meas- ured the iKng stays smoking and chat- ting with the old man, who. invariably, remarks as his royal ccstomer leaves t. "Weel, I'll do ma best for your Ma- jesty. but I'm making no promises, mind." The King's Valet