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Copyright by Frank A. Munjcy Co, THERE ENTERS THE STORY GIRL NAMED MERIEM, AND Synopsis. A scIontMc expedition off the African coast rescues n human derelict, Alexis raulvlteh. He brings uhonrtl an ape. Intelligent ami friendly, anil reuches London. Jack, son of Lord Oroystoke, the original Tartan, has Inherited n love of wild life and steals from homo to bee the ape, now a drawing card In a iuiIc hull. The ape makes friends with him. The ape refuses to leave Jack despite Ids tnduer. Turzan appears and Is Joyfully recognized by the ape, for Tnrzau hud been king of his tribe. Tarzau agrees to buy Akut, the npe, anil send him back to Africa. Jack and Akut become great friends. 1'aulvltrh Is killed when he attempts murder. A thief tries to kill Jack, but la killed by Akut. CHAPTER IV. Continued. Leaping to his feet, he hurled his shoulder against the door, llcrr Skopf was a heavy man. The frail door col lapsed beneath Ids weight, nnd ilerr Skopf stumbled precipitately Into the room. Before him lay the greatest mystery of his life. Upon the floor at his feet was the dead body of a strange mau. The neck was broken nnd the Jugular severed as by the fangs of a wild beust. The old lady nnd her grand son were gone. The window was open. They must hnve disappeared through the window, for the dooi had been locked front the. Inside. Hut how could the boy have carried his invalid grandmother from a sec ond story window to the ground? It was preposterous. Again Ilerr Skopf searched the small room. He noticed that the bed was pulled well away from the wall. Why? He looked be neath It again for the third or fourth time. The two were gone, and yet his judgment told him that the old lady could not have gone without porters to carry her down as they hud carried her up the previous day. Further search but deepened the mystery. All the clothing of the two was still In the room. If they had gone they they must hnve gone naked or In their night clothes. No boat had left the harbor in the meantime. There was not u railroad within hundreds of miles. There was no other white settlement that the two could reach under several days of ar duous marching, accompanied by a well equipped safn.4. They had sim ply vanished into thin air, for the na tive he had sent to Inspect the ground beneath the open window had Just re turned to report that there was no sign of n' footstep there, and whut sort of creatures were they who could have dropped that distance to the soft turf without leaving spoor? Herr Skopf shuddered. Ves, It was n great mystery. There was some thing uncanny about the whole thing. He hated to think about It, and he dreaded the coming of night. It was a great mystery to Herr Skopf and doubtless still Is. CHAPTER V. The Sheik's Daughter. Two Swedes, Carl Jensseu and Sven Mulbihn, after conducting several mys terious expeditious far to the south of the Sahara, turned their attention to the more profitable business of Ivory poaching. In a great district they were already known for their relentless cruelty nnd their greed for Ivory. The natives feared and hated them. The Kuropcnn governments In whose possessions they worked had long sought them; hut, working their way slowly out of the north, they had learned many things In the no man's fund south of the Sa hara, which gave them Immunity from capture through easy uvenues of es cape that were unknown to those who pursued them. Their raids were sudden und swift. They seized Ivory und retreuted Into tlio trackless wastes of the north be fore the guardluifs of the territory they raped could be mude a ware of their presence. Ilelentlessly they uluughterud elephants themselves us wtill as Bleulliig Ivory from the nu (Ivux. Their following consisted of 11 lilindTt'd renegade Arabs und negro lljiyiM, ii flurce bund of cutthroats. jtjuneiiibur them, Carl Jutmtin and HMM MulWIi". nJIv iH'iinJed Hwedlsh sOgiiify (or you fclwll uwoi thorn later, ii ihj bisirt of iliu JuhkIu, hidden Ul II'" I'UI,,M ut " ,mx' A PRETTY LITTLE ARABIAN SOME VERY WICKED MEN plored trlbutnry of a large river that empties Into the Atlantic not so far from the equator, luy a small heavily palisaded village. Twenty palm thatched, beehlvo huts sheltered Its black populutlon, while half a dozen goatskin tents In the center of the clearing housed the score of Arabs who found shelter here, while by trad ing and raiding they collected the cur goes which their ships of the desert bore northward twice each year to the market ut Timbuktu. Iiuylng before one of the Arab tents was u little girl of ten, a black haired, black eyed little girl, who with her nut brown skin and graceful carriage looked every Inch n daughter of the desert. Her little lingers were busily engaged In fashioning n skirt of grass es for n much disheveled doll which a kindly disposed slave had made for her a year or two before. The head of the doll was rudely chipped from Ivory, while the body was a rat skin stuffed with grass. The arms and legs were bits of wood, per forated at one end and sewn to the rat skin torso. The doll was quite hideous and alto gether disreputable and soiled, but Modem thought It the most beuutlful and adorable thing In the whole world, which Is not so strange In view of the fact that It was the only object within that world upon which she could be stow her confidences nnd her love. Every one else with whom Merlem came In contact was, almost without exception, cither Indifferent to her or cruel. There wns the old black hag who looked after her, for example, Mnbunu, toothless, Ultliy und 111 tem pered. She lost no opportunity to cuff the little girl or even Inflict minor tortures upon her. And there was the sheik, her father. She feared him more than Before Him Lay the Greatest Mystery of His Life. she did Mubumi. He often scolded her for nothing, quite habitually terminat ing Ids tirades by cruelly beating her until her little body was bJuck und blue. Lltllo Merlem could scarce recall any other oxUIeneo limn that of lliu Morn cruelty of Hut sliullc and Mabunu. Dimly In the back of her childish memory (hero lurliwl u blurred rccol lection of n gentle mother, Hut Mo rtem wns not sure but that oven this wns n ilrenm picture Induced by her own desire for the caresses she novur received. Suddenly thetv Arose sounds of al tercation beyond the village gates. Merlem listened. With the curiosity of childhood sho would hare liked to run down there und learn what it was that caused the men to talk so loudly. Oth ers of the villagers were nlreudy troop ing In the direction of tint noise. Hut Merlem did nut dare. The sheik would bo there, doubtless, and It ho saw her It would be but another op portunity to abuse her, so Merlem luy still nnd listened. Presently she heard the crowd mov ing up the street toward the sheik's tent. Cautiously she stuck her head around the edge of thu tent. Shu could not resist thu temptation, for thu same ness of the village life was monotonous and she craved diversion. What she saw was two strangers white ineu. They were alone, but ns they approached she lenrued from the talk of tho natives that surrounded I hem that they possessed u consider able following that was camped out side the vlllnge. They were coming to palaver with the sheik. The old Arab met them at tho en trance to his tent. His eyes narrowed wickedly when they had appraised the newcomers. They stopped before hlai, (xchnnglug greetings. They had come to trade for ivory, they said. The sheik grunted. He had no Ivory. Merlem gasped, She knew that In n nearby hut the great tusks were piled almost to the roof. She poked her head further forward to get u better view of the strangers. How white their skins I How yellow their great beards I Suddenly one of them turned nls eyes In her direction. She tried to dodge back out of sight, for she feared "it Will Not Harm to Try the Power of Gold," Replied Jenssen. all men, but he saw her. Merlem saw tho look of almost shocked surprise that .crossed his face. The sheik saw It too and guessed the cause of It. "I have no Ivory," he repeated. "I do not wish to trade. Go awuy. Go now I" He stepped from his tent and almost pushed the strangers about In the dliection of the gates. They demurred, nnd then tho shell; threatened. It would have been suicide to have dis obeyed, so tho two men turned nnd left the village, making their way Im mediately to their own camp. The sheik returned to his tent, but he did not enter It. Instcnd he walked to the side where little Merlem lay close to the goatskin wall, very fright ened. The sheik stooped and clutched her by the arm. Viciously he Jerked her to her feet, dragged her to the en trance of the tent nnd shoved her with in. Following her, he seized her uguln, beating her ruthlessly. "Stay within I" ho growled. "Never let tho strangers see your face. Next time you show yourself to strangers I shall kill youl" In the camp of the strangers ono wns speaking rapidly to tho other. "Thero Is no doubt of It, Mulbihn," ho wns suying, "not tho slightest, but why the old scoundrel hasn't claimed tho rcwurd long since Is what puzzles me." "There arc some things dearer to nn Arab, Jenssen, than money," returned the first speaker. "Itevcngo Is ono of them." "Anyhow, It will not harm to try tho power of gold," replied Jenssen. Mulbihn shrugged. "Not on tho fihelk," he said. "We might try It on ono of his people, but the sheik will not purt with his re rouge for gold. To offer It to him would only confirm his suspicions that we must have awukened when we were talking to him before his tent. If wo got away with our lives then we should bo fortunutc." CHAPTER VI. In the Jungle. Ills first night In tho Jungle was ono which thu son of Tnrzan held longest In his memory. No snvugo curnlvora menaced him. Thero was never u sign of hideous barbarlun, or If thero were the boy's troubled mind took no cog nizance of them. Ills conscience was harassed by tho Kioufcht of his mother's suffering. Keif blame plunged Mm Into the depths of misery, Tim killing of (he American caused lilm II I Ho or no remorse, Tho fellow laid wnm Ms ful, Jack's regret on J. nlk this scoro was duo mainly to tho effect which tho death of Conlon had had upon his own plans. Now ho could not return directly to his parents, ns ho hud planned. Fear of tho primitive borderland law, of which ho had roml highly colored, lm aginary talcs, had thrust him Into tho Jungle n fugitive. Ilo dared not re turn to tho coast at this point, not that ho wns so greatly Inihumcod through personal fear as from u destro to shield his father und mother from further sorrow and from tho shame of having their honored nanio dragged through thu sordid degradation of a murder trial, With returning day tho boy's spirits rose. With tho rising sun canto new hope within his breast. He would re turn to civilization by another way. None would, guess that ho had been connected with the killing of the stran ger In the little out of thu way trading post upon a remote shore. Jack spends his first days In the Jungle. Remorse for the pain he has caused his parents makes him miserable. New ex perlences startle the youth. (TO UK CONTINUIU). ) HEALTH FOUND IN GARDEN Perspiration That Results Carries Away Noxious Elements, and Strength. and Vigor Are Certain. To the man who woos her rnrnestly nature offers n storu of unexpected gifts. Our thousands of amateur gar deners who have put In the lelsuro hours In their little gnrden patches hnvo begun to realize Hint one of tho biggest rewards of their labors may not bo tho actual producu they will obtain, valuable ns that may be, but In the less tangible results on their own bodily nnd spiritual welfare. Thero Is health In tho soil of Mother Knrth. Tho perspiration that results from your labors Is carrying away nox ious elements from your blood. Strength and vigor come from contact with the soil. In this kinship to tho earth Is found one reason that nearly all. of our greatest men hnvo been country-bred boys. It Is why farmer boys of today are stronger nnd more able than youths reared In cities. Do not be nfruld If your hand acquires n few callouses or a brownish tint. A well-tanned hniid Is a moru fitting sub ject for prldo than a soft, white, use less hand. You may meet with soino failures from not knowing the how and why of things, but thero Is a Joy which cannot full. The mlraclo of planting a seed nnd seeing the growth, though n common thing, contains Joy and food for the heart. Gardening not only brings nour ishment Mr thu body and food for tho mind, but It expands the soul. Mil waukee Journal. Was Equal to tho Emergency. It was In a Sunday school on tho Bust sldo of New York that a now In terpretation of Moses' lllght from Egypt Into tho Promised Lund was given. The exponent of the old, old story hnd told of Moses' leadership and of the attempt of the Egyptians to wrest back their slaves from the fast moving Moses. "lint wasn't It wrong for him to take away tho Israelites from the Egyptians," asked ore llttlo fellow, "when they wuz under contract to work for them?" Tho speaker saw ho must temporize. This was a com munity where unions thrived, and tho sacredness of one's bond mustn't bo attacked. "Oh, that was all right," ho explained. "Moses gave them n check on tho binds of the Hod sea." The Tactful Writer. When writing to those nway from homo or distant relutlves or friends seo to It that your letter fairly sparkles with cheer and good news. Hrlng n smile to thu reader's lips and mako him or her long to bo with you to share tho happy Joys J'nu tell about. These are the kind of letters that go straight to tho hearts of those who receive them. Tho vast majority of us have a full measure of cares and re sponsibilities to contend with, hut every ono of us enn often think a hap py thought or speak a good word and we should in all fairness pass It on. Exchange. Just the Same. Alice May and her brother attended n birthday party of a playmate. Ice cream, enko and lemonade were served. Tho boy asked for a glass of water, and Alice said: "Drink your lemon ade" Ho responded that ho did not want lemonnde, but water. His sister replied : "Drink It; It's Just llko water." Tigers Abound In India. Tigers abound In India to this day, In some parts of that land the natives, especially the Hindoos, regard tho tiger Willi such superstitious nwo Hint they will not kill one, Homo think It In ten anted by a spirit which makes It Im mortal, City of Many Mills. The KiiglMi (illy of KbiifHold him 400 kleel i mi n u f a clurl iik. concerns, OF KIDNEYTROUBLE Take Sulla lo flush KIcliifyri If Hack linrlH of Dimmer bothers. If vmi ninsL hnvo vnur meat every day, on I It, but flush your kidneys with snltH occasionally, says n noted au thority who tolls us that morn tonus urlu ncht which almost paralyzes tho kidneys In tholr efforts to expol It from tho blood. They bocomo sluggish nnd weaken, thou you suffer with ft dull misery In tho kidney region, nhnrp pains In tho back or sick hondncho, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue Is eontod nnd when tho wentuur is bad you hnvo rhnumntlo twinges. Tho urlno gets cloudy, full of sediment, tho channels often got soro nnd Irrl tntod, obliging you to seek relief two or threo times during tho nlgkt. To neutralize theso Irritating noius, to clcnuso tho kidneys and flush oft tho body's urinous wnsto got four ounces of Jnd Snlts from nny phnr- macy hero; tuku n tnhlespoonful In a gluss of wntur boforo breakfast for a few dnvs and your kidneys will thou net flue. This fniuoiiH suits la mndo from thu nold of grapes nnd lomon Juice, combined with llthla, nnd has boon used for generations to nusu aim Btlmulnto sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize tho acids In urine, so it no longer Irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jnd Salts Is Inexpensive; cnnnol In jure, and makes a dullghtful uffervos- cent UUila-wntor drink. Salary of Chief Executive. 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