17
8YN0PSIS.
Cowboys of the Flylnr Heart ranch art
Baartbroken over the lorn of their much
prised phonograph by the defeat of their
J1 amnion In a foot-race with the cook of
ne Centipede ranch. A house party la
jn at the Klylnr Heart. J. Wafllncford
Bped, cheer leader at Yale, and Culver
Cevlngton. lnter-collea;late champion run
er, are expected. Holen Blake, Hpeed's
sweetheart, suKg-est to Jean Chapln, sla
te at the owner of the ranch, that the
Inauce Covington, her lover, to win back
the phonograph. Hnlen declares that If
Cevlnjton won't run, Bpeed will. The
cowboys are hilarious over the prospect
Hpeed and his valet. Larry Gloss. tralrr
at Tale, arrive. Helen Blake asks Bpeed,
who has posed to her as an athlete, to
raoe against the Centipede man. The
eawboys loin In the appeal to Wally, and
fearing that Helen will find him out, hs
wisents. He Insist, however, that he
rhall be entered as an unknown, figuring
that Covington will arrive In time to take
hu place. Fresno, glee club singer from
Stanford university and In love with
Helen, tries to discredit Rpeed with the
ladles and the cowboys. Bpeed and Glass
put In the time thev are supposed to be
draining playing cards In a secluded spot
The cowboys tell Olaes It la up to him to
e that Bn'ed wins the race. Willie, the
unman, declares the trainer will go back
aat parked In Ice, If Bped foils. A tele
gram comes from Covington saying he la
la Jail at Omaha for ten days. Glass In
a panle forces Bpeed to begin training In
arnest. The cowboys force Bpeed to eat
In the training quartera and prepare him
diet of very rare meat
CHAPTER XIV. Continued.
"They won't let me. I I'm sup
posed to keep to myself."
"They? Who?"
"QlaSS."
Miss Blake turned Indignantly upon
Larry. "Do you mean to say Mr.
Bpeed can't to walking with me?"
"I Barer aald nothing of the sort,"
declared the trainer. "He can go If
he wants to."
"Juat the lame, I oughtn't to do It.
There la a atrlct routine"
A lift of the brows and a courteous
mile proclaimed Miss Blake'a perfect
Indifference to the subject, Juat aa Wil
lie sauntered past the open window
and spoke to Glaaa beneath hie breath:
"Git her out!"
"I'm ao sorry. May 1 show yon a
aurprlae I brought for youT" She un
wrapped her parcel, and proudly die
played a pallid, anaemic cake garland
ed with wild flow ers.
Speed waa honestly overcome.
"For me!"
Tor you. It Isn't even cold yet,
eel I made it before breakfast, and
It looks even better than the one I
baked at achool!"
"That's what I call fine," declared
the youth. "By JoveT and I'm ao
toad of cake!"
"Hare a care!" breathed Larry, rts
lag nervously, but Speed paid no at
tention. "Break It with your own hands,
please. Besides, It'a too hot to cut"
Miss Blake broke It with her own
hands, during which operation the
brown face of the man outside reap
peared In the window. At algbt of the
eake be spoke sharply, and Lawrence
lumbered swiftly across the floor and
laid a heavy band upon the cake.
"Mr. Speed!" he cried warnlngly.
"Here, take your foot off my angel
lead!" fiercely ordered the youth. But
Ue other waa like adamant
"Bo, you are about to contest for
the honor of this ranch! That cake
will make a bum of you!"
"Oh a!" gasped. the author of the
delicacy.
"Stop before It la too late!" Glasi
held hla hungry employer at a dis
tance, striving to make known by a
wink the necessity of hla act
"There la absolutely nothing In my
rake to Injure any one," Helen ob
jected loyally, with lifted chin; where
upon the corpulent trainer turned to
her and aald:
"Cake would crab any athlete. Cake
and gala la the limit"
"Really! I had no Idea I waa the
teaat bit dangerous." Mlsa Blake, turn
ing to ber host, smiled frigidly. "I'm
ao sorry I Intruded."
"Now don't aay thatt" Speed strove
to detain her. "Please don't be of
fendedI Juat have to train!"
"Of course. And will you pardon me
tor Interrupting your routine? Tou
tee, I had no Idea I wasn't wanted."
"But you are, and do want yon!
I"
"Good by!" She nodded pleasantly
at the door, and loft her1 lover staring
after her.
When the had gene, he cried, la a
trembling voice: "You're a fine yap,
yeu are! She got np early to do some
thing nice for me, and you Insulted
her! Tou wouldn't even let ma alt
and bold ber hand I"
'"No palm-readln'." Speed turned to
behold bla trainer ravenously devour
log the cake, and dashed to lis rescue
"It'a heavier than a frog full of
buokskot Tou won't like It Cul."
"It'a perfectly dollcloual" came the
choking anawer.
"Then get back of them curtains
Willie 'd shoot on eight"
! And that morning the prisoner Idled
about the premlsea, followed at a dis
tance by hla guard. He could not bear
to read the future; anything seemed
possible. Time and again be cursed
that spirit tt braggadocio, that
theughtleaa lack of moral scruple,
-which had led him Into thla predica
ment Ho vowed that he waa done
with false pretenses; henceforth the
strictest probity should be his. No
more false poses. Praise won by dis
simulation and deceit waa empty, any
how, and did he escape thla once,
heneceforth the world ahould know J.
Walllngford Speed for what he was
an average individual, with no uncom
mon gifts of mind or body, courage or
ability.
At noon Wally went through the
mockery of a second blood-rare meal,
with no cake to follow, and that after
noon Glass dragged him out under the
hot sun, and made him sprint until he
waa ready to drop from exhaustion.
His aupper was wretched, and his fa
tigue so great that he fell asleep at
Miss Blake's side during the evening.
With the first hint of dawn be was up
again, and Friday noon found him ut
terly hopeless, when, true to his pre
diction, the unexpected happened. In
one moment he was raised from the
blackest deptha to the wildest trans
ports of delight It came in the ahape
of a telegram which Jean summoned
him to the bouse to receive. He won
dered listlessly aa he opened the mes
sage, then started as If disbelieving
his eyes; the marks of a wild emotion
spread over his features, he burst Into
shrill, hysterical laughter.
"Do tell ua!" begged Roberta.
"Covington Covington la coming!"
Wally felt his head whirl, and failed to
note the chaperon's cry of aurprlae and
aee the paling of her cheeks. "Cov
ington Is coming! Don't you under
stand?" he shouted. After all, the gods
were not deaf I Good old Culver, who
bad never failed him, waa coming aa a
deliverer.
Even in the face of his extraordinary
outburat the attention of the behold
er was drawn to Lawrence Glass,
who caused the porch to shako be
neath bis feet; who galloped to bis
employer, and seizing him by the
bands, capered about like a hippopota
mus. "I told you 'Allah' waa some guy,"
he wheezed. "When doea Covington
arrive?"
Wally reread the message. "It says
'noon Friday.' Why, that's today! He's
her now I"
"'Rah! 'Bah! 'Rah! Covington!"
bellowed the trainer, and Mr. Keap
sank to a seat with a stifled moan.
"Why all the 'Oh Joy! Oh rapture!
stuff?" questioned Berkeley Fresno.
'As Socrates, the Hemlock Kid,
would put It 'Snatched from the
shadow f the grave,'" quoth Glasa,
then paused abruptly. "Say, you don't
think nothin' could happen to him on
the way over from the depot?"
Tm ao sorry w didn't know In
time to meet him, lamented Miss
Chapln.
"And I could have run over to the
railroad to bid him welcome," laughed
Bpeed. "Twenty miles would do me
good."
Still Bill and Willi approached the
"Would Y'all Like to Lay a Little Mo'
en This Racef
gallery curiously, and In subdued tones
Inquired:
"What's the matter, Mr. Bpeed?"
"You ain't been summoned away?"
Willie stared questlonlngly upward.
. "No, nol My running partner la en
bla way here, that's all."
"Running pardner?"
"Culver Covington."
"Ob, we waa afraid something had
happened. You are, Gabby Gallagher
baa Just blowed In from tb Centipede
to raise our bets."
"We think It'a a bluff, and we'd like
to call him."
"Do ao, by all means!" cried the
excited athlete. "Com on, let' all
talk to Dim!"
The entire party, with the exception
of Mr. Keap, trooped down frdra the
porch and followed the foreman out
toward the sheds, where, In the midst
of a crowd of ranchhands, a burly,
loud-mouthed Texan was discoursing.
"I do wish Jack were her," aald
Jean nervously, on the way.
Gabby Gallagher seemed a fitting
leader for such a desperate crew as
I that of the Centipede, for he waa the
hardest-looking citizen the easterners
had beheld thus far. He waa thickset
and burned to the color of a ripe olive;
his long, drooping mustaches, tobacco
stained at the center, were bleached
at the extremities to a hempen hue.
His bristly hair. waa cut ahort, and
stood aggressively erect upon a bullet
head, his clothes were soiled and
greasy beneath a gray coating of dust
A pair of alert lead-blue eyes and a
certain facility of movement belied the
drawl that marked hla nativity. He
removed his hat and bowed at sight
of Miss Chapln.
"Good evenln'. Miss Jean!" said be.
"I hope I find y'all well."
"Quite well, Gallagher. And you?"
"Tol'able, thank you."
"These are my friends from the
east."
The Centipede foreman ran his eyes
coldly over Jean's companions until
they rested upon Speed, where they
remained. He shifted a lump In his
cheek, spat dexterously, and directed
his remark at the Yale man.
"I rode over to see if y'all would liko
to lay a little mo' in this y'ere foot
race. I allow you are the unknown?"
Speed nodded, and Stover took oc
casion to ramark:
"Them's our inclinations, but "e'v
about gone our limit."
"I don't blame you none," aald Gal
lagher, allowing his gaze to rove slow
ly from top to toe of the eastern lad.
No, I caln't blame you none whatever.
But I'm terrible grieved at them tid
in's. Though we Centipede punchers
has ever considered y'all a cheap an'
poverty-ridden outfit, we givea you
credit for beln' game, till now." He
spat for a second time, and regarded
Stover scornfully.
A murmur ran through the cowboys.
"We are game," retorted Stover,
"and for your own good don't allow no
belief to the contrary to become a
superstition."
"Don't let a Centipede bluff you!"
exclaimed Speed. "Cover anything
tbey offer give 'em odds. Anything
you don't want, I'll take, pay or play,
money at the tape. We can't lose."
"I got no more money," said Carara,
removing bla handsome bespangled
bat "but I bet my sombrero. 'E's
wort' two hondred pesos."
Murphy, the Swede, followed
quickly.
"Ay ban' aend may vagea bom to
may ole' moder, but aye akall bat you.
some." j
"Haven't you boys risked enough al
ready?" ventured Mlaa Chapln. "Re
member, It will go pretty bard with
the losers."
"Harder the better," came a voice.
"Y'all don't have to bet Jest because
I'm h'yar," gibed Gallagher.
"God! I wish I waa rich!" exclaimed
Willie.
But Miss Chapln protested. "Ton
are two montha overdrawn, all of you.
My brother won't advance yon any
more."
"Then my man, Lawrence, will take
what they can't cover," offered Speed.
"That's right! Clean 'em good,
brother," croaked tb trainer.
"If you'll step over to the bunk
bouse. Gabby, wall dig up some per
sonal perquisites and family heir
looms." Stover nodded toward bla
men's quarters, and Gallagher grinned
Joyously.
"That shore listens Ilk a band from
where I set We aim to annex tb
wages, hopes, and personal ambitions
of y'all, along with your talkin'-ma-chtne."
"Excuse me." Willi pushed his way
forward. "How'a ah gettin' along?"
"Fine!"
"You mule-skinners ain't broke
berr
"No; w play her every evenln'."
The little man shifted his feet: then
allowed himself to Inquire, aa if re
garding the habit of soma dear de
parted friend:
"Hav you chose any favorite res-
cords?"
"W all haa our pick. Speakin' per
sonal, I'm atuck on that baggag coach
song of Mrs. Mora's."
"Mo-ray!" Willie corrected. "M-o-r-a!
Heleney Mo-ray la the lady's name."
"Mebbe so. Our foot-runner likes
that Injun war-dance best of all." Ca
rara smiled at Cloudy, who nodded,
aa If pleased by the compliment
Then It waa that the Flying Heart
spokesman made an Inquiry In bushed,
hesitating tonea.
"How do you Ilk "Tb Holy City?"
he removed hla hat aa did those
back of blm. "Aa aung by Madam-o-aelluOIelby?"
"Rotten!" Gallagher aald promptly.
"That's a bum, for fair."
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
Undiscovered Interior.
A magazine editor recently return
ed a story to an aspiring contribu
tor. Immediately tb latter wrote an In
dignant letter to blm, aaylng that be
fore sending ber manuscript sb had
slightly pasted together several of
tb Inner pages. When the story waa
returned to ber It waa In Its original
condition. Bh had always suspected
editors of neglecting their duties;
now sb waa cur of their careless
ness, for ber own story bad not been
read. To all this, the much berated
man made reply: "Dear Madam: At
breakfast, when I find that an egg Is
bad, I do not hav to eat tb whole of
It to make sure." Th Sunday Msg
zln. Tea Reveal 01! Plaid.
Tb discoverer of oil In Papua,
British New Guinea, was tb result ol
a native boy being whipped for pi so
Ing kerosen In a miner's tea. Th
youth declared bis Innocence and led
tb miner to th well from which th
water bad been taken.
It waa found that th surface of th
water was completely covered with
kerosen, tb source of which 1 be
ing developed Into a bug commer
cial enterprise.
GAY FRILLS IN THE BOUDOIR
Dainty and Feminine Are the Ruf
fles Just Now Being 8o Generously
Made Use Of.
As ruffles become more and mora
fashionable on feminine garb they be
gin to make a reappearance in fem
inine boudoirs. Ruffled window cur
tains, bed-spreads and pillow covers
ar replacing the straight bordered ef
fects of the last few yeara and mi
lady's room promises to become as
gayly frilled a sanctum as it was a
half century ago.
Ruffled pillow cases are especially
dainty and feminine and they give the
final touch of luxury to the bed. If
one does not desire to sleep on th
beruffled pillows they may bs ex
changed at night for smaller pillows
In plain linen slips, or the ruffled slips
may be removed and put on again next
morning. This takes but a moment if
the slip covers are roomy enough to
go over the pillow without tugging.
Two or three snap buttons sewed
along the opening under the rufflea
will hold the dainty covers smoothly
in place and may be unfastened in a
twinkling at night
Rather narrow ruffles give the best
effect two and a half inches should
be the limit of width and the hems
should be very narrow also. .Make
the ruffle full enough to be fluted by
the laundress and the effect will be
very crisp and smart. Such pillow'
covers should be square, rather than
oblong, and tho pillow may be stufTcd
Into the square, the snap buttons
holding it In place. Of course the ruf
fles must go around all four sides of
each cover, and the bed thus dressed
will need no pillow shams, bolster roll
or other device to bide the sleeping
pillows from view.
TO CLEAN COLORED FABRICS
Liquid Resulting From Grated Raw
Potatoea Mixed With Water Will
Produce Gratifying Results.
Grate raw potatoes to a fine pulp In
clear water, and pass the liquid
through a coarse sieve Into another
vessel of water. Let the mixture stand
until the fine white particles of the
potatoea are precipitated, then pour
the water off and preserve for use.
This liquid will clean all sorts of silk,
cotton or woolen goods without hurt
ing them or spoiling th color. Two
good-sized potatoes are sufficient for
a pint of water.
The article to be cleaned ahould be
laid upon a linen cloth on a table, and,
having provided a clean sponge, dip it
into the potato water and apply It to
the article to be cleaned until the dirt
is entirely separated; then wash In
clean water several times.
The coarse pulp, which does not
pass through the sieve, if of great use
in cleaning wool draperies, carpet
and other coarse goods.
Easy 6unday Dinner.
Fresh beef tongue makes an eco
nomical and toothsome dinner for Sun-'
day. It costs about half as much aa
the smoked variety and goea farther.
Buy on Friday and soak over night In
strong salt water. Cook th next
morning In plenty of water, well salt
ed. Add one-halt capful of cooked
rice to the water and you will have an
excellent broth for luncheon or dinner
on Saturday. . On Sunday slice the
tongue cold and serve with It a Jelly
or aauce. On can also cut out enough
meat from around the root of tongue
for a few sandwiches or to use In cro
quette) or bash for Monday'
luncheon.
Planked Whltafish.
Seal a five-pound whlteflsh or two
mailer one. Cut open th entire
length down th middle with a small
knife and loosen the backbone at the
neck until you can take bold of It.
Gently draw It out; It will com en
tire with all th bones. Rinse fish
and place back downward on a piece
of hardwood plank. A dripping pan
will answer, but haa not quit the
same flavor. Dot with amall pieces of
butter, pepper and salt Sprinkle over
It the Juice of a large lemon, flake
In rather a quick oven 25 minutes. It
must be a rich brown. If a dripping
pan 1 used add a bait cupful of wa
ter. Chocolate Tartlet.
Four eggs, one-half cake grated
chocolate, on tablespoonful of corn
starch dissolved In milk, three table
spoonfuls of milk, four of sugnr, a half
teaspoonful of vanilla, a bait teaspoon
tul of cinnamon, a smnll pinch of salt
and a heaping teaspoonful of butter.
Rub the chocolate smooth In the milk,
beat over th Ore and add the corn
starch wet In milk. Stir until thick
ened and then pour out When cold
beat In th yolk of eggs, sugar and
flavoring. Pake In tart shells; cover
with meringue. To be served cold.
Indian Matting.
Having dlacovered an excellent way
to clean matting, I pass It on to
other. Beat tb matting first to re
move all dust then take It out of
door and scrub It well with bran wa
ter or with water to which a small
quantity of salt has been added, Soap
haa a tendoncy to turn matting yel
low, and ahould not be used. After
tb matting has boon put through
thla process, It should be rinsed with
cold water, rubbed aa dry aa possible
with a clean cloth and bung on a tin
to complete th drying.
To Curl Feather.
An ostrich Mother that has becom
uncurled from th dampness may be
curled again by sprinkling It thickly
With common salt and shaking It b
(or a blight Or until It Is dry.
New Indian Animal Stories
How the Rabbit Destroyed Flint
By JOHN M. OSKISON n
TOTOOTOTOOTOTOfC - fO - KTO'fO
Children, Color the Above Sketch to
una mane a
(Copyright 1914. by the McClure News- I
paper syndicate.)
Long timo ago, when the Indians of
the wooded mountains used to tip their
arrows With rtlnroa nf nhnrn flint 1 1i a
little children who watched the old
men at work chipping the flint and
binding the .pointed bits of stone Into
the ends of the arrowa with deer sinew,
would hear this story:
Once the animals all came together
in council to talk about how they could
dostroy Flint, the awful fellow who
lived up on the mountain and killed
so many of them. One after the other.
the animals stood up in the council and
told about how Flint had come down
from tho rocky ledges of the mountain
and carried off some of their relatives.
The Great Bear said It; the long
pronged deer said It; the oldest gob
bler saldlit; and finally the Great Otter
said that somebody must go and kill
Flint In order to save the lives of the
rest of the animals.
But who would dare to go up to tho
mountain and undertake to destroy
Flint? No one wanted to go, though
the Great Otter, who was at tho head
of the council, said that greut honor
would come to the one who succeeded.
At last when It came time for the
rabbit to answer, he said that he would
go and destroy Flint If ho only know
the way to his bouse.
"Oh!" said all tho animals at once,
"w will show you the way." And'so
they all came out of the council and
took the rabbit to a high knoll. When
they were all gathered on the knoll,
the Great Otter stood beside tho rab
bit and pointed to a house 'way up on
the side of the mountain. They could
Just barely see It
"There," said the Great Otter, "lives
Flint" and he told the rubblt Just how
to get up there.
It was a long road, and the rabbit
sat down to rest before ho got to
Flint' bouse, and he planned what he
would do. Then be got up and went
on.
Flint was standing In the door nf
bla bouse aa tho rabbit came up and
said to blm:
"Slyu (hello) are you the fellow
they call Flint?" And the rabbit anld
It Just aa If bo meant to bite bla head
off right there!
"Yes, I'm Flint," answered the
wicked one who lived on the moun
tain, but he didn't Invite the rabbit to
come Inside So the rabbit snld:
"Is this where you live?" And Flint
answered:
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Tungsten Glob Used.
In developing films and pinto It la
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Nut having one I took my Hrownla No.
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' ijwi n i.s i iaj m.t
"id
Emergency Ruby Lamp.
amall ruby Ions, and removed the film
bolder, aays a writer In tho l'opular
Electricity. In this space waa placed a
small tungsten battery lamp. A few
foot of flexible wire was attached to
th lamp socket terminals and a dry
battery furnished tho current
A small but practical electric rail
way baa been Installed In a lurls
ewer.
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book or Them.
"Yes, this Ib where I live." Andl
then the rabbit said:
"Well, my name Is Rabbit. I'vel
heard about you, and so I've come toi
Invite you to visit me."
"Where do you live?" asked Flint
"My home ts In tho broom grass by)
the rivet," said the rabbit. t
"Well, I will be pleased to come and
visit you In a few days," said Flint, and
he looked as if he wished the rabbit
would go away.
"Why not come with me today and
have Bupper at my house?" asked tb
rabbit who had made his plans.
"All right. I will." said Flint "Just
wait till I cover my lire with ashes so
It will keep till morning."
So the two came down from the
mountnln together, and they came to
the rabbit's house by tho river. The
rabbit suid ho'd make a Ore down by
the water, where it was cooler, and
then they ate their aupper on the
grass.
It was a good supper the rabbit
cooked, and afterward Fllut auld he
was sleepy and would tnke a nap. And
when Flint lay down the rabbit huuted
round for two big sticks. Then he got
out his knife and began to whittle on
the sticks. One he whittled In the
Rhnpo of a hammer and tho other be
shaped like a wedge.
"What are you doing that for?"
asked Flint sleepily.
"Oh. I always have to be doing some
thing." said the rabbit. "Besides,
these may come in handy."
Soon Flint was fast asleep. Tho
rabbit spoke to htm, but be did not
answer. The rabbit went over and
kicked Flint, but even that did not
wake blm. Then the rabbit put tho
sharp wedKO against the body of Flint
and drew back as far as he could with
the hammer and sent the wedge deep
Into Flint's body.
Aa he struck, the rabbit turned and
ran aa fast aa he could to the door of
his house. Just as he got Inside ho
heard a great explosion and struck bis
head out to see what It was. The
wedge had broken the body of Flint
to bits and the plecca wcra flying all
about
It was one of the pieces that came
flying straight at the rubblt and cut
his tipper lip before he could pull his
head inside his door. And to this day
you can see In tb upper lip of the
rabbit the llttlo split made by tho
piece of Flint
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