The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

the aztec mystery a thiilling story of the old west by hurray lewster perfect posture f prepare to travel sixopslsl sonny lloluim believing has beu cheated ou of ownership or the aztec mine lieills u tile eiiyrolls janet lllir- itr who holds lesiil tille offers i rewirl for his eiture she is klilnanped by 4iarciis kaiik a bitnii of desperadoes honny follows and isak with her 1ml to h s surprise sin- persists in believing hlnl the ore thief tllforii sliinrinleiil- nt of the mine m norls some men to kuartl the iiayrolls they shoot jake llornab a friend of sonnys ilk he al- eene of the sntrilf who las hen wounded sonny trrsts woof tin m ami rhlls out of town chapter xiii sonny read on tuning a page of llu paper a na under the head ing political ant iuincvirent tick his yc to ihr voters if gila county i offer myself s candidate fo sheriff in the coming election while 1 do not wish o cast aspersions i the conduit of he present sheriff dur ing his tenure of office it is forced jii me it is notorious that an organized cant of lawbreakers has been aperiit- rig in this community for three years or more without opposition it s notorious that highway robberies ore stealing and murders have gone un punished and unopposed it is known t everyone tnat the sheriff is at pres ent incapacitated ay millet wounds re ceived while cooperating with the outlaw holman a battle between factions of holmars gang i tlo not need to dwell on my own qualifications for the office 1 seek my aim is simply to do awav with the laxity of law enft cement that has disgraced the eourty for years past i will appreciate ht fuppori of citi zens who value he good name of their community and state and pledge my best efforts to the eradication of the present disgraceful conditions t j tilford sonny smoothed out the paper ami nail the announcements again at fust his brow clouded angrily thn he grinned shucks he murmured 1 bet that lii spitfire wnt this for him it sounds like her anyways he glanced down the column theft was anothr notice to the voters of gila county seeing that i am pretty well shot ur and wont be able to fill my office for a good long time i have decided not to offer myself fir reelection l wish to thank all my friends who have supported me in the past and to say to them that if they can get john lce to run for sheriff and serve after ho is elected they will get just about as good a man as there is in thi county he aint as well known as r might be but those who saw him ar rest the killers of jake hornaby will agree that he is a good man with a gun and the right feller for the job james gray sheriff sonny whistled then he began to chuckle lordy he murmured con tentedly thats goin t make janet sit up youd ha thought id known all about it when 1 writ my lii piece the space beneath the sheriffs an nouncement met his eye and he read it with all the complacency of an author to the voters of gila county i announce myself candida for k cheese alniont an endless variety of iiinclicons can lve pre pared with kraft cheese sliced it provides a royal meal with crackers or lireail i it toasts lemplingly anil for flavouring cooked dishes is unsurpassed get some today vz packages or sliced from the famous 5 lh loaf look for flic name kraft as the only positive identi fication of the genuine 1 in canada sheriff to succeed tiie present sheriff gra 1 hate rustlers ore hieves and sheepmen i 11 thank anybody kindlv that votes for me john doe sonnys nose wrinkled as he tried to imagine janet laurier reading thai notice he chuckled at his contem plative picture of her rage lordy he murmured expansive ly 1 bet that li critter is md enough to raise he ante for my hide he reined in cinpowjer had come to the end of die cleft in the hills that sonny hud been following and sonny was gazing out into open space feller rtdin held he observed hoss wrangler fightin a real mean dispositioncd cabalio keller ritlin off to mend fences 1 hats new wire hes got on the saddle mhos that yon er he regariie 1 a trio if riders fu to the right for a long time then shrugged and rode down the moun tainside with the riders unplaced in his mind the ranch cook ked his head out the minklku t first alarm o the bunkhouse anl grinned at hmj nqw wuhout orders he bsgan to when he rode into the circle bar m fuviou the ranch bell chosen out of 511 st louis school children for the best pos ture herman rett mayo 10 pose here ning cups 12 and koso will the win- ground hows it feel to be worth a thousan bucks sonny right much said sonny amiab ly like beiif a geed cook you aint never gein to have neither sensation wheres thompson the cook jerked his thumb toward the ranchhouse sonny went in and found the owner of the circle bar gazing at the same times and argus- leader sonny was carrying when thompson saw him he surveyed him with a curious amused thoughtfuiness i lont know he said deliberate ly whether youre a crazy fool or a genius sonny why did you put that ptce in the paper sonny grinned to make miss summoning every man within earsht but tnere were not many two men were running from the corral the foreman was out of the hayshed and already saddling up without hearing more than the shots the injured cow- tjncher had fired to attract attention thompson was in the house at the telephone he had got the next ranch on the wire and was jerking savage sentences into the transmitter out lining the situation and asking for help and the spreading of the alarm he jumped up as sonny came in with his burden going after them h said curtly ive asked for help youd better keep out of this sonny that rewards out for you and some laurier mud he admitted can i fool might try to rope you get some chuck from your cook thompson smiled grimly 31 ss t aurier is out campaigning for ti- ford for sheriff he said with two 0 those outside jinmen for escorts in fact shes up at this end of th alley now talking to my line rideri and trying to makj them promise to vote for tilford she rode up to ward little canyoa half an hour ago sonny nodded saw cm i dont exactly like the company she picks out he admitted cut if she asked me to vote for a hellbender id be kinda inclined to oblige her shes right cute thompson thompson eyed him soberly im a cattleman he said deliberately you say tilford is a crook i dont kinw i dont cne but i do think hes going to use these gunmen of his to stop garcias ore stealing sounds right likely acknowledged sonny ill be kinda obliged to him i dont like anybody to steal from the aztec but me im r cattleman repeated thomp son garcia has a big gang all organized for ore stealing if hes stopped from that what will he do sonny crossed his knees rustle cattle he admitted rustle cattle your cattle mongst others and so said thompson im go ing to attend to the formalities you gtte didnt bother with so youll actually he a formally enrolled candidate fir he grabbed a belt with two hol sters from the wail i uckled it on and seized a repeating rifle on his way out the door frien said sonny gently to the man in his arms what about miss laurier she had two fellers with her did garcia giab em off dont know the cowpuncher caught at sonnys sleeve as he was laid gently on the floor saw some riders comin toward us just before garcias gang opened fire but didnt notice who they was say fix me up so i can ride tack with yuh the cookll tend to that sonny flung over his shoulders he rushed out barked an order at the cook and raced away upon the big black stallion as he rode the jum bled activities about the ranchhouse sorted themselves into coherent pic tures the foreman had been fran tically double cinching a huge bay the- two hands from the corral were tear ing off on hastily saddled bucking ponies and the cook was dancing rtout the corral after a plunging horse with a sixgun five sizes too large for him buckled to his belt the cook reluctantly abandoned his pur suit of the horse to bandage the i- j- ed man as sonny shot out of the to lie continued issue no 2532 sheriff youre really going to run for the job suh drawled sonny with dignity i am a respectable holdup man 1 aint a politician hut this is something vouve got to then were distant little popping- as if someone were firing a sixgun rapidly not an a target but to at- tiact attention the rapid heating ol a horses hoofs sounded and drew nearer what the devil thompson looked out the window and raced to the dror sonny bent to look and saw one of the circle bar cowboys riding for the ranchhouse swaying desperately in the saddle and holding on to his horses man to keep from toppling out a spurt of smoke- shot from his gun and he came dog gedly em limp and weak and appar ently all in sonny and thompson alike plunged to meet him garcias gang gasped the cow- puncher reining up with a terrible effort turned rustler plugged buck an me with rifles from behind some boulders drivin off four hun dred head up little canyon way he saggeil forward in the saddle and held himself up with both hands bucks cashed in he gasped there was a dozen of cm shoolin with rifles outer pistol range i come for help band age me up an il hide back with yuh damn cm they bushwhacked us or id ha got some of cm he collapsed and sonny caught him he was still protesting weakly as he was carried into the ranch- i ioue i jus bandage me up sos i can go lack with yuh they plugged buck n he was my pnrdncr the cck had ccmc loping cut of two of a kind a lad who looked about thirteen was leaning against a wall smoking a cigarette when an elderly woman ap proached him does your father know you are- smoking little boy she inquired bit- ingly the boy regarded her openmoid l- ed he took a few more puffs from his cigarette and looked her up and down steadily suddenly he caught sight of the weddingring on her hand youre a married woman arent youhe said i am agreed the woman then snapped the hoy docs your husband know you speak to strange men gail hamilton in gala days gives an amusing sketch of a wouldbe writer preparing to travel she writes i once there was a great noise in out house a thumping and battering and grating it was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret 1 did it myself because i wanted it done if 1 had said salicaruassus will you fetch my trunk down he would have asked uie what trunk and what did i want of it and would not the other one bo better and couldnt 1 wait till after dinner and so the trunk would probably have had a threeday jour ney from garret to basement now i am strong in the wrists ami weak in the temper therefore 1 used the one and spared the other and get the trunk downstairs myself salicaruas sus heard the uproar he must have been deaf not to hear it for the old ark banged and bounced and scraped the paint off the stairs and pitched headforemost into the wall and gouged out the plastering and dinted the- niophoard and was the most stupid awkward uncompromising un manageable thing 1 ever got hold of in my life by the time i had zigzagged it into in baek chamber salicaruassus loomed up tho backstairs now then saiil salicaruassus in terrogatively to he sine i replied affirmative ly he said no more but went and look ed up the garretstairs they hore traces of a severe encounter that must bo confessed do you wish me to give you r bit of advice ho asked no i answered promptly well then here it is the next time you design to bring a trunk down stairs you would better cut away the underpining and knock out the beams and let the garret down into tho cellar it will make less uproar and not take so much to repair dam ages he intended to be severe- his words passed by me as the idle wind i perched on my trunk took a paste board boxcover and fanned myself i was very warm salicaruassus sat down on the lciwest stair and remain ed silent several minutes expecting a meek explanation but not getting it swallowed a bountiful piece of what is called in homely talk humblepie and said i should like to know whats in tho wind now salicaruassus it has been the am bition or my life to write a book of travels but to write a hook of tra vels one must first have travelled not at all he responded with an atlas and an encylopaedia one can travel around the world in his arm chair hut one cannot have personal ad ventures i said you can indeed sit in your armchair and describe the crater of yesusius but you cannot tumble into the crater of vesuvius from your armchair i have never heard that it was necessary to tumble in in order to have a sood view of the mountain but it is necessary to tlo it if one would make a readable book then 1 should let the book slide rather than slide myself if you would do mo the honor to listen i said scornful of his paltry attempt at wit you would see that the book is the object of my travel ling i travel to write 1 do not write hecanse i have travelled i am not going to subordinate my hook to my adventures my adventures aro going to he arranged beforehand with a view to my book salicaruassus was a little stunned but presently recovering himself sug gested that i had travelled enough al ready to make out a quite sizable hook travelled 1 said looking him steadily in the face- travelled i went mice up 10 tudiz huckleberry- ing and once when there was a freshet yon took a siipernnuati d broom and paddled nu- around tin or chard in a leaky pigstrough ho could not deny it so he laughed and said ah well as well suit yourself take your trunk and pitch into vesu vius if you like 1 wont stand in your way his acijiiiscence was ungraciously and i believe i may say ambiguously expressed but it mattered little for i gathered up my goods and chattels strapped them into my trunk and waited for the summer to send us on our way rejoicing the 4 anniversary of ffi salad tea for 40 years salada has given the finest quality in tea present prices are the lowest in is years makes and burns its own gas no pipes or cords it smooths the way on ironing day with or without a sportsman invited a number of friends who were- interested in box ing anil some amateur practitioners to meet him for dinner and discussion of an idea of the hosts for a charity performance the invitation revealed a sense of wit in the host for at the- foot in email type were the words dinner dress will be worn black is optional- so they say justice is the safest cornerstone i- 011 whkh people may eiect their entire ocial organization herbert hoover among the great woilis ot art are many that have- aroused enormous emotions about wine john kiskine a chilil kains mote from example than from precept mrs franklin i itoosevclt theio are only three things in tho world that women do not understand and they aie liberty equality and fraternity g k chesterton the old games of hide and seek aro still popular with our youngsters only now they play tag with tho po lice lewis e lawes thoro is very little evidence that the home is being destroyed in russia any more than it is in the united states bruce illiven the time is now ripe for depriving money of its tyrannical power ot de termining values walter a terpen- ning professor of sociology the average citizen is going along with his arms covering his head as if he expected the entire world to come tumbling down silas n strawn devotion is an emotion which may raise one to the skies or drop them to the nethermost depths ot hell clar ence darrow people want to be gay now not sad they want a lighter and more popular form of opera beniamino gigli womans life must be wrapped up in a man and the cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man dorothy parker the average briton tries to pattern his life after that of the country gen tleman in the age of shakespeare hendrik willem van loon i believe in the old saying the less a countrys governed the better a countrys governed franklin d roosevelt it is the mass attitude that con trols and this mass altitude is chang ing from pessimism to optimism charles g dawes science and industry have gone for ward but our methods in conducting our daily affairs have not john grier hibben just as stock breeders improve ani mals by mating fine specimens only so science could improve the human race julian huxley the measure of strength of a coun try is not a few great estates but a multitude of prosperous small inde pendent holdings theodore roose velt war today no longer has the gla mour it once had so far as respons ible governments aro concerned ar nold zweig my education principles are con stant experimentation change and im provement a lawrence lowell the tide of good sense straight thinking and sound morals is lising rapidly nicholas murray butler i do not think big business is so rapacious as i used to be ida m tarheli money is of ifs nature a mobile thing if one enchains it it will no longer do good or evil it will extin- gush itself guglielmo feirero my tendency o giggle has made mo undipcndable in crises william al len white at the root ol the world catastro phe is the immoral behavioi ot man kind felix adlei the present generation has losl faith in god they transferred f lint faith to mn then they lost faith in man now each man has lost faith in himself that is tho major cause of tho present situation in the world dr cyrus atller civilization has travelled too last for man his body has not had lime enough to catch up with his brain and as a result the body of a civilized man is liko the victorian vehicle driven by m airplane engine dr george w grile- in our civilization most work is slavish by the same token however disguised they may be most- of our pleasures aio mean or silly irwin edman assistant professor of philos ophy columbia university ny there is an old legend that on one occasion god prayed and his piaycr was be in my will that my justice be ruled by my mercy tht is a prayer that wo all need to utter at times when the demon of formalism tempts tho intellect with the lure of scientific order benjamin cardoza chief judge ny court of appeals when millions of able bedied men can lind no work when coffee cotton home 1 liko lo see a man proud of tho piaco in which he lives i like to see a man live so that his place will bo proud of mm bo honest hut hate no j and wheat must he destroyed in varl- one overturn a mans wrongdoing butous parts of the world whilo millions do not overturn him nlcss it must be shiver and slnrve it has become clear done in tho overturning of the wrong j that whether wo want u or not we stand with him while he is right and are facing the near necessity o a lun- part with him when he goes wrong dnmenlal revision of capitalistic so- attributed to lincoln cletj h wells the public health what constitutes a thoroughbred by ltcol frank moss in animal life many people who like horses anil even have some knowledge of the points that make a good horse do not know- what really makes a horse a thoroughbred there is only one ani mal in the world that is strictly en titled to be called by thai name and that is the english race horse and ot course his descendants in all parts or the world to be entitled to this dis tinction a horse must be bred from parents who trace on both sides ot their pedigree to ancestors registorel ia the first edition of the english stud hook published in 1703 and there must be absolutely no missing links most thoroughbred hoises today aro next 10 tho weather there is no lc rerao or more f these first topic of conversation more popular iec0l ancestors and as each than public and individual health hence the meeting in toronto of the canadian public health and ontario health oflicers associations is of widespread interest the delegates aro discussing their subjects in a large way as intimated by dr gordon batess suggestion that a royal com mission should investigate on a do minionwide ecade the whole question or public health undoubtedly the sub ject is of national concern and if the findings of such a body would lead to greater coordination in preventive methods the expense would be worth while thire is force in the doctors claim hat if but a fraction ot the financial loss caused by sickness and premature death were devoted to their prevention a great deal could bo ac complished a startling feature of the ills that afflict humanity today is the increase of neurotic and mental disorders due in large measure to the high tension at which the affairs of the world are conducted this wis recognized in an address by dr c m hincks of tor onto who stated that deviations from mental health are much more fre quent than previously supposed and ho continued tho time has come when the medi cal profession must bear a larger share of responsibility in regard to mental health than has been the case in the past many physicians have been prone to confine their attention to the closely physical factors connected with illness and have ignored too largely con sideration of tho human personality cu the emotions and mental states that may be contributory to ill health unless physicians and public health oflicers ssnme leadership in this field progress will be slow in stemming he rising tide of mental maladies this unfortunately is an enlarging field for tho specialist and one in which early treatment is of the utmost importance undoubtedly many hu man ailments may be forestalled by- preventive measures in fact basing his contention on canadian statistics dr bates claims that more than half of our disabling illnesses could be pre vented the difficulty in the way is that victim of disease in its incipient stages are prone to delay seekng ad vice and one of the greatest benefits of public discussions such as are being conducted at this convention of health officers is that they tract attention and bring to man a realization that good health is a blessing to be guarded jealously thos in sound mental and physical condition will not worry greatly over the troubles of this rather troublesome world consequently there is food for thought in the sugges tion that to be really effective mea sures looking toward clio preservation of health should bo given direction by federal authority toronto mail and km pi re horse of course has two parents four grand parents eight great grand parents etc it will be seen that in sixteen removes he will have 65534 recorded ancestors and not one that cannot bo accounted for if you dont believe this just take your pencil and multiply his ancestors by two sixteen times and then add them up perhaps- this surprises you well hero is some thing more surprising there were about one hundred mares registered in tiie first edition of the stud book and about half of their amilies have dieil out s a a matter of fact every thoroughbred horse alive today traces to one of another in the direct maternal line of fifty mares and stranger perhaps even than that is tho fact that every thoroughbred traces to one of three direct paternal ancestors every one interested in this breed of horse knows the names ot these pa ternal ancestors the godolphn barb the byerley turk and the darley arabian these were all horses that had been imported into england frornf the east either towards- the end of the eighteenth century ithe darley arabian and the godolphin barb hundreds of other eastern horses had been imported from time to time into england through the centuries but these three are the only ones whoso direct families tfroni sir to son to grandson etc have continued to exist you can imagine then how all the thoroughbred that tho tonver america- at ion doesnt andre manrois its besif oryou abobq too gil ssscald clean and protect as well as lubricate says household expert related horses are it is commonly supposed english thoroughbred is descended from the arab but as a matter of fact the origin of these horses mentioned above is quite unknown even tho darley arabian is described in the stud book as probably a turkish or syrian horse however this may be there is no getting over the fact that the thor oughbred in the last 150 years has in creased in size speed stamina and in fact in every particular that makes a good race horse and one of the most hopeless things in the world would bo to try and find an eastern horso to day that could compete with even a fair class thoroughbred over any dis tance short or long through the centuries has been de veloped an animal that is matchless for his courage spirit and determina tion a year ago or so i wrote a story for animal life about old bob a horse of good character who finished a race on three legs dong his best af ter he had broken down in the race last year in england a horso called the scout actually won a race al though he had broken down a furlong from the winning post and then there is the well known case of the lamb who was only beaten a head at tho wire although he had actually broken a leg two hundred yards from the flu shing post this horse was injured so badly ho lid to be shot but what a courageous heart ceased to boat when he died many a race had ho won including tho grand national steeple chase at liverpool twice and now when you talk about ho thoroughbred remember you mean an animal with u55ll recorded ances tors and with a family history behind ft of courage determination and val our that is an example and a lesson to every poor human being who is lucky or perhaps unlucky if they know even 34 of their own ancestors r heartrest mans mind makes countless wheels revolve mans eyo the secret stars can solve he hies oer oceans deserts streams and still of further conifuest dreams yet howsoever ho may roarn ho turns for heartrest to his homo and so in every ago and place the record of tho human race makes mention of this sacred spot where cares and worries aro forgot where little children play and sleep whero lovers laugh and mourners weep tho oiling of household devices pre sents a problem different from that of factory equipment says a nationally known housekeeping expert house hold appliances are not used constant ly and thcrcforo collect dirt and rust when die consequently oil intended for general household uso should clean and piotect as well as lubricate 3inono a scientific blend of min eral vegetable and animal oils does theso three things better than any other oil it costs a little more to buy but much less to uso for it will save you many dollars in repairs and replacements on sewing machines vacuum cleaners lawn mowers wash ers tho electric motors of fans re frigerators ironers and similar house hold devices at gcod stores every- sir that wellington where for your protection look for first commission the trado mark 3inone printed in american tourist that bo jiow jied on every package much did ho get and though the world may travel far through change and chance through work and war though ever mans farquesting mind may seek still vaster truths to find yet still as in tho days of old hell find at home his realm of gold a b c a smile or two english guldo showing places ot interest it was in this vety room received hla