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SYNOPSIS.
Cowboys of th Flyinsr Heart ranch arc
heartbroken over the loss of their much
prized phonograph by the defeat of their
champion In a foot-race with the cook of.
the Ceni pede ranch. A house party Is
on at the Flying Heart. J. WalUnsrford
Speed, cheer leader at )Yale. and Culver
covlngtcn, inter-collelate champion run
ner, are etpected. Helei Blake. Speed's
nweetheart. suggest to Jean Chapin. sis
ter of the , owner of the ranch, that he
induce Covinsrton, her lover, to win back
the phonograph. Helen declares that if
Covington won't run. Speed will. The
cowboys are hilarious over the prospect.
Speed and his valet, Larry Glass, trainer
at Yale, arrive. Helen Blake asks Speed,
who has posed to her as an athlete, to
race against the Centipede man. Th?
cowboys Join in the appeal to Wally, and
fearin.gr that Helen will And him out. he
consents. He inalsi. however, that he
shall be entered as an unknown, figuring
that Covington will p.rrive in time to take
his place. Fresno, glee club singer from
Stanford university end in love witli
Helen, tries to discr?dit Speed with tre
ladies and the cowboys. Speed and Olass
?ut in the time they are supposed to be
raining playing ctLvit In a secluded spot.
The cowboys tell G'as It is up to him io
see that Speed wins the race. Willie, the
gunman, declares the trainer will go bar':
east packed in ioe, if Speed falls. A tele
gram i imes from Covington saying he is
In Jail at Omaha for ten days. Glass in
a panic forces Speed to begin training In
earnest. The cowboys force Speed to eat
in the training quarters and prepare him
a diet of very rar meat. Miss Blake
bakes a cake for Soed and is offended
when Larry refuses to allow him 'to eat
It. Covinsrton arrives on crutches. He
ays he broke his toe in Omaha. Mrs.
Keap, engaged to Covington and in love
with Jack Chapin. exposes Speed to
Helen, because Speed had failed to pre
vent Covinsrton from joining the party.
Speed decides to cr?pple himself, but
8kinner, the Centipede runner, appears
with 'a proposition to throw the race.
Glass attempts to escape at night, but is
captured.
CHAPTER XVI. Continued.
"They fool you sometimes," said
Skinner. "By-tbe-way, what have you
bet?"
"We laid the phonograph agin their
treasures an' trappin's "
"But how much money?"
"We got three hundred pesos down,
but they sent word they was comin'
loaded for b'ar, so we rustled five hun
dred more."
Skinner's eyes gleamed. "I wish I
had a couple of hundred to bet on
myself."
"Broke, eh?"
"I'm as clean as a hound's tooth."
"I'm sorry y'all tossed off your
wages, but liallagner started sus
piciously "say! I reckon that
won't affect your runnin' none, will
it?"
Skinner admitted that he could run
best when he had something to run
for. You. might advance me a
month's wages," he reflected.
"I'll do it Hello f ' Say, ain't that
one of them Flyin Heart city visi
-tors?" From the direction ,ot the
ranch buildings Berkeley Fresno was
a.pproaching.
"Good-afternoon! You are Mr. Gal
-"Bet Ttiis for Me, and Don't Let On
; Where It Comes From."
lagher, I nelieve? I rode over with
our crowd just now." Fresno looked
tack. "Let's step around to the other
"side of the corral; I want to talk to
you.'V He led the way; then Inquired,
"Is this your runner?"
"That's him. His name's Skinner,
and that's a promisin title to bet on."
. Gallagher slipped a roll of bank-notes
from his pocket "Unhook! I'll get
you." . - .
"No, o! I think myself Mr. Skin
ner will win. That's why I'm here."
"Strip your hand, son, I don't
savvy." ' : . . .;"-- ' . ' i, -
And Fresno explained.
"You see, I'm a guest over there;
tut there's no sentiment with me in
- money matters." He- produced a wal
let, and took from it five one-hundred-dollar
bills. "Bet this for me, and
don't let on where It came from. I'll
' see you after the' race. Mind you, not
a, word!"
"I'm dumb as the Egyptian Spinks."
' "Thin race means a lot to me, Mr.
fsklnner." The guest of the Flying
Heart Ranch turned to its enemy
There's a girl in it. Understand?'
The cook showsd tl ,' gleam of hi3
teeth. ' "If you wini ITU send you some
wedding-cake and a -box .of cigars.
- "Thanks," said the other; "but I've
.cot a bum tooth, and I don't smoke.
Jlm Fresno latX, ther approached,
MlQimiCE
OF
SCWESTH) BY" THE VLET1ST
in a surging group, the ODnoslne side.
ixood-evenin'. Gabby!" Stover
called, . loudly, as he came within
8peaking" distance. "Here. we come
en massy, and with ladies, to further
embarrass and degrade you in the
hour of your defeat!"
We ain't defeated yit!
How do,
Mr. Chapin."
"Did you get our message?"
"Yes. But we ain't seen the color
of y'all's money
Mr. Speed borrowed five hundred
dollars from me, and said he might!
want more," Chapin volunteered. .
is mat all?" .
"All!" Jeered Still Bill. "Why. this
mangy layout ain't never saw that
much money" upon which Gallagher
carelessly displayed ft corpulent roll
of bills, remarking:
oum a tnousand. BlIL It all goes
a. . m - . I
on Skinner."
. .... . . . . 'I
1 ami neara or no train-robbery,"
muuerea tne laniy . foreman of the
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Flying Heart, "nor I don't aim to
nanaie no tainted money." And Sto-
ver and Gallagher faced each other
hard before turning.
Jean saw it, and whispered to Cha-
pin: "Ob,-Jack, d3ar, I'm so terribly
frightened!" But Helen Blake, who J
overheard, left her companions and
eui tuiiigat 10 uauagaer.
I should like." she said, "to wager
a iew uuna.ru on xvir. sspeea ana tne I
honor of the Flying Heart." :
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Both Skinner and his foreman
stared ather nonplussed.
"You don't look like a bettin lady,"
the latter managed to remark, jocu
larly.
I'm not. I never made a warar he-
fore in all my life; but you see, ..Ir.
Gallagher, I believe In our man."
n ii "c " T. , ,.TT
Gallagher lowered his eyes. "How
much do you aim to risk, miss?"
"I don't know, what the rules are.,
it I think our side -might tn hpt ns
but I think our side ought
much as your side. That is the way
it is done, isn't' it?"
"You mean that you aim to cover
what Mr. Speed don't?" The girl
nodded.
Gallagher spoke admiringly. "You're
right game, miss; but I reckon we
don't want your money.
Why not?"
I suppose there aint no partic'lar
reason.
it- TiTr. M K,t M.
" - v,lii4-
ton, who is the best runner, at Yale,
I'm sure he can defeat Mr. Skinner,
who never went to college at all.
They have all turned against him.
and he he is so brave!" Miss Blake's
indignation was tearful, and Gallagher
spoke hurriedly: -
"He may ,be brave all right, miss,
but he can't win unless Skinner dies
You save your money to buy choco
lates an' bon-mots, miss. Why, listen"
(the stockman softened his voice in
a - fatherly manner) : "This Fresno
party is wise; five hundred of this
coin is his."
Helen uttered a cry. "Do you mean
he is betting against Mr. Speed?"
"Nothin' else."
"Despicable!" breathed the girl.
"Wait a moment, please!" Helen hur
ried beck to Chapin, while Gallagher
muttered something like "I ain't takin
no orphan's money."
"Jack!" (the girl was trembling
with excitement), "you told me on the
way over that you had five hundred
dollars with you. Let me have it
please. Ill give you my check when
we get home." ,
"My dear girl, you aren't going
to bet It?"
"Yes, I am."
"Don't do that" - .
For answer she snatched the pock-
etbook from his hand.
"Mr. Gallagher!" she called. ,
Skinner watched from afar. "Some
class to that gal!" was what he said,
which proved that he was a person
not wholly without sentiment (
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CHAPTER XVII.
fifiisu leaped down irom tne
buckboard in which Carara
had driven him and Glass
over to the Centipede cor -
ral.
"i toia you u. jump out
when we crossed that
bridge," was Larry's, re-
x m .a. . a a.
nrnach to mm. "you roil i a
v.oo kmvo vnnr arm Nnw it' ton
late."i
But Speed 'joined his friends with
UJ6 most CneerilU ui BrccuiiBB. .
i -t i r
They responded: nervously, shocked
at his flippant assurance.
This, Mr. speed, is tne scene 01
- M a a m
your defeat'." uauagner maae ue m-
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troduction
."And this is Mr. Skinner, no
doubt?" Wally Bhook hands with the
Centipede runner, who stared at him.
Anus sctecf ir
refused to recognize hia knowing wink, at the theaters on ,thi planet," ask
ni rurnpd awav. , . , ed the astounded visitor from Mam,
, turnea aw-. - ; . j
xou .:'vU"Lr:- wrA rnntloninc
a nstd Gallagher un-
pleasantly and Speed laughed. There
was no reason why he should not
laugh, i Either way his hour had come,
71 a pose tnai aawyiBi w iwi
.money?" Gallagher poiated to the raik
case.
"On the contrary, lt Is full of
clothes. It Is I who contain the mon
ey.'! He thrust a cold palm Into his
pocket as Covington dragged ," hlnj
aBide to advise him not to be an ut
ter idiot, to throw his money away if
he must, but to throw it to charity
or to his friends.
"Yea," Glass seconded, lugubrious
ly, "and hold out enough to buy me a
'Gates Ajar in immortelles." But he
said also, as If to himself, "He may be
wrong in the burr, but he'B a gama
little guy." . . ..
As the Centipede foreman counted
the money, Helen came forward, an
nouncing: "You'll have to win now, won't you.
Mr. Speed? - I've wagered five hun-
dred dollars on you. I bet against Mr.
Fresno." :
Fresno! So he's out from cover I
t last, eh? . . .
haven t been under cover," spoke
up the Calif ornian. "I've been wis
H along."
Chapin wheeled. "Does It seem to
you quite the thing to bet against our
man, Fresno?" he inquired, his glance I
full in the other's eyes.
"Why not?" There' no sentiment
in financial affairs."
Speed shrugged. "Our tenor friend
will sing his way back to California."
He turned with his thanks to Helen,
"The talkln' machine!" interrupted
Still Bill suddenly. A group of men
was approacning, wnooore me pnw
nograph trpon a dry-goods box, and de-
posited it in etat oesiae me rac-
course. "Say, Gabby, s'pose you give
us a tune, just to show she's in good
order." ,
(-' 9 Ma 1
auspicious, en 1
"You bet! There's ft monologue ra
J j . 1 Ti ' 1
tU1"" " ...
MTIT .Ml ... irnk a I 1 nlw I '1ft - " nvn I
navm. v.y,
wime, positively, -it m
PAie. ,
So, with clumsy fingers, Gallagher
fitted a record, then wound up the ma-
chine under the jealous eyes of the
Flying Heart cowboys.
Drawn by the sound. Skinner.
wrapped to the chin In his blanket.
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Glass a sight of his face for the urst
3 (Til. . . r. -f no If C- f 11 Tl CT I
uuie. j. ub ianci otai u ao i. -""oi
and crying under his breath, "Salted
car-horse!" drew his employer aside.
"Say," he said, , pointing ft finger,
who's that?"
"Skinner, the man I run."
Glass groaned. "His name aint
Skinner; that's 'Whiz Long. Six
years aE 1 saw tim wln the Sheffield
Handicap irom scratqn in mne-mree.
tCtTTq PPrt Mfi not seem to be
Then, as Speed did not seem to be
particularly impressea, uoni you uc-
derstand, waiiyT He s a pro mis y
his game!" '
x To which the younger man rpnea,
serenely and happily, "It's fixed."
"What's fixed?"
'The race. It's
all arranged
framed."
"Who framed it?
How? When?"
"Sh-h! I did! Yesterday; by stealth;!
I fixed it"
"You win from "Whiz Long, and
vu can't run under fifteen?
Wally nodded.
I told him that
!fs all right."
i, on rM .t. A 1
It's all right? Say! Don't you
know he s the fastest, crOokedest,
cheatingest, double-crossingest why,
he just came to feel you out!"
And Speed turned dizzy.
"And you fell for that old stuff! "
Larry's voice was trembling with an
ger and disgust. "Why, that's part of
his "work. He's double-crossed er-
"Mr. Gallagherl" She Called.
ery runnin mate he ever had. He'd
cheat his mother, waltl
Skinner had left the crowd, andwaa
seated now in the shade of the corral
I fence. He glanced upward from b
Ineath his black brows as Larry
reached and greeted him. "Hello,
Whiz! 1 just 'made you men uh
I shook his neaa.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
1 Quaint Charity.
h A quaint charity exists in Soutt
I 1 J T71 m
sniem Z 'ZI'a h
ing to the wffl o the ceased donOf,
once a year, n h o lu vv,
i fornotiom ahu uuiuaum
i Wmale Domestic Servants," and tin
I chief object is to reward domestics fol
faithful and satisfact6ry service. Tfcil
i oantiinarps nnmnRrfin ib. ana
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all fulfilled the conditions, wmcn an
that tney snail nav u
year -cit.v, T.--.
w mm m rr a kimiui iciii r r 1 a 1
1 v a m a van Trnm & 1 r uiw r 1 1
mi wolu" b . , J Z,
accorQmS w w. ,.w,
. uL h. Phiie Want.?
fv r,iav. nrAT,tJ
XJUfc w w
'w.fnr modt vounir
to see?" "None -worm mentioning.
responded the mundane host refl
tively scratching his Jaw. ".That 80:1
of 'play, you. tee,- doesn't pay xw$
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FIRE INSURANCE
RATES ADOPTED
SCHEDULE ON BUILDINGS USED
BY VARIOUS TOBACCO IN
TERESTS ANNOUNCED.
GENERAL REDUCTION MADE
Board Will Fix Charge Instead of Corn-
panies For Unsafe Arrangement
of Bolters, Flues, Etc
Western Newspaper Union N'eWs Servic
Frankfort The state insurance
beard adopted a schedule of fire irisur-
ance rates for buildings used for vari-
oua industries of the tobacco business
to become effective December 1. The
general reduction of the present rates
on loose leaf warehouses is 35 per
cent, and on their contents 5 per
cent; on storage warehouses, 30 . per
cent, on their contents 15 per cent; on
frame stemmeries and -rehandling
houses, 10 . per cent, and on brick
stemmeries and rehandline houses 25
ner cent. Basis rates on each $100
7aJue o the irlck buildings were re-
iuced, as follows: Storage houses,
from 50 cent8 to 40 cents: sales houses
ind loose lea nousegj jx to 75 cents;
nr5zina- nd rphandHnc-vhonspa and
stemmeries. il.75 to $1.50. and drvins
a0uses $2 to $1.75. To this rate 40
-
cents, instead of 50 cents." is added for
fmo ,.rtnaf,oMftn Qn,, 1t; OTlta lT1.
'
stead of 25 cents, for ironcclad con
struction on a wood skeleton; 5 cents.
instead of 10 cents. , for wood founda
tion. and the change for brick-pier
foundation ls abolished. Excess charge
. tnnHari, la rut
- 3 . . f . 500
square feet in loose leaf warehouses,
rharf,A ls fnr 9n ,,niPRS
buidlnE. la Qver 05.000 snuare feet.
the pxcpss rhartrA beine formerlv for
rtra
A v, vuw. ov "
houses over three stories high is abol
ished, except in unprotected towns.
The board will fix the charge, in
stead of the companies, for unsafe ar
rangements of boilers, flues, electric
fixtures or any other undesirable con
ditions of the buildings and direct the
changes desired. The system of the
cumulative exposure is abolished, even
unprotected towns. Heretofore the
hl,IMn
rates have been the name on buildings
as their contents, but on account of
the nature of tobacco and its suscep
tibility to damage by smoke and water
as well as fire the board decided that
rates on brick buildings in protected
cities should be lower than on the to
bacco, and the rat.e3 on buildings were
reduced 30 per cent, and on their con-
tents 20 per cent. 'Further reductions
are made for buildings equipped with
standpipes and chemical extinguishers
Tobacco Report Delayed
The Census Bureau at Washington
v. ,lj P
tity of leaf tobacco on hand on October
1 last As yet how'ever, the bureau
has been unable to announce the re-
suit, but tabulations are proceeding
and it Is stated the statistics will be
made public probably November 15
Director William P. Harris, of the
Census Bureau, said that much diffi
culty is encountered in the collection
of the data, because many dealers
either unintentionally or wilfully neg
lect to make the census reports until
they are repeatedly reminded of the re
quirements of the law, and in some
cases it has been necessary to threaten
to enforce the penal provisions. The
law ' requires that these 'reports shall
be made to the government April 1
and October 1 each year.
When the law first became effective
It was necessary to send special agents
into the- field to enforce . compliance
Recently, however, the dealers and
manufacturers have shown more will
ingness to comply with the law.
Forest Fire Extinguished.
Through the efforts of the Kentucky
department of forestry, a forest fire onj
the Tennessee border of Bell county
was extinguished, after a two days'
fight waged by County Warden T. G
Ford and a volunteer crew. Warden
Ford wired State Forester J. 13. Barton
that the fire was out Forester Bar-
ton said the unprotected wooded
I slopes on the Tennessee and Virginia
borders are a constant menace to the
Kentucky forests, where a close watch
must ta tent lest a fir Rtnrt in nn
0f the other states and iret Biir.h head-
way that it can not be stopped
Commission Form Victorious.
Ir addition to the adoption of. the
con mission form of government for
Pn. ..o ...... ..a
class in Kentucky, this same form for
tt p, ot countIes.waa
d In lieu of the fiscai
court system in
Jefferson, McCracken and Montgom
ery counties last Tuesday. ; Three ne
groes were among .. the counciimen
elected this , week. . Two are at Har-
rchnrpr nTiri ihA nthpr nt W!nhPsr
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Women Elected Superintendents.
Five more women were elected coun
I ty school superintendents in Kentucky
elMtion than ever before,
according-to the Usfln..tlte-depart-
I ment of education. There ,a?,3 at pres
I . 5 r1r,
Last Tuesday twenty five were elected
,! Forty-six superintendents were re-
I elected and seventy-four new ones, ev-
ery one of the latter of whom must
possess state .teachers' : certificates or
diplomas in order to qualify. Usually
about half.pe'BuperintendeB.ts are re-
lected ' ;
Agriculturists Will Meet. ;
Commissioner of Agriculture J. W.
Newman will -entertain members , of
the Association of Commissioners of
Agriculture In the Southern States Jn
Louisville on Thanksgiving day, after
which all will go to Chicago to attend
the livestock show. A tentative pro
gram for a round-table discussion at
the . Louisville meeting has bee a, -arranged
as follows:
Commissioner, m Kolb, of Alabama,
"Rural Cash anji Rural Credit."
Commissioner Rogers, of Arkansas,
"Pastures."
Commissioner "Price, of Georgia,
"Fertilizers."
Commissioner Newman, of Ken
tucky, "The Cow." v
Commissioner McRae, of Florida,
"Immigration."
Commissioner Bruner, of Loulsana,
"Tares on Cotton Bales."
Commissioner- Blakeslee, of Missis
sippi, "Cattle and the Fever Tick."
Commissioner Wilson, of Missouri,
"Corn."
Commissioner Watson, of South
Carolina, "Co-operative Marketing."
Commissioner Hooper, of Tennessee,
"The Hog and Hog Cholera."
Commissioner Kone," of Texas,
"Farm Production of Farm Supplies."
Commissioner Koiner, of Virginia,
"Tobacco."
Threaten to Stop Writing.
An informal conference of fire in
surance companies interested in Ken
tucky business1 was held in New York
to conisder the unfavorable conditions
In Kentucky. Judge Thomas Bates, of
Chicago, and Clem E. Wheeler, pro-1
prietor of the Kentucky Actuarial Bu
reau, attended in order to give any
information desired regarding the sit
uation. There was no-concerted ac
tion, but the company managers say1
that there can be no profit in any Ken
tucky business, on which rates are re
duced, in view of the fact that the
loss ratio for Kentucky in 1912 was
64.7 and for 1911 68.6. When expense
ratios are added to these figures they
say Kentucky rates are too low now.
and that the only remedy, when Ken
tucky rates are reduced by the state
rating commission, is to stop writing
the classes made expensive to com
panies by the new schedules. This, it
is apparent, will be done by companies
acting independently of one another.
Not Bound to Support Father.
The Appellate Court decided that
when a son takes land from his
father in consideration of an agree
ment to support the father for
ife, and the father goes crazy and is
sent to the asylum, the son is not com
pelled to pay the asylum for the keep
of the father. The case decided is that
of the Eastern State Hospital of Lex
ington aeainst w. F. Goodman, m
which the judgment of the Fleming
Circuit Court is affirmed.
W. P. Goodman had transferred to
W. A. Goodman a tract of forty-seven
acres of land on consideration that W.
A. Goodman would support him for
life. He was sent to the asylum for a
few months later and the asylum sued
him to recover $140.95. The court
holds that the contract made between
the son and the father was for the
support of the father at home and not
in a hospital, and that the son at all.
time3 was ready and willing to carry
out his contract at home.
Amendments Probably Adopted.
While it will probably take the offl-'
cial count of th returns in the 120
counties to determine the result of the
vote on the two amendments proposed
to the Kentucky constitution it seems
that both have been adopted. The
first calls for such a change in the con
stitution as will permit convicts to be
worked on the public roads and
bridges, and the second provides for a
change to permit the classification of
property for taxation, the idea being to
curtail the amount of evasion and to
get more revenue into the coffers of
thestate. One of the most commend
able features of the election was the
vote in Fayette, Christian and Hender
son counties to establish and consti
tute each df those counties as a tuber
culosis district and to erect and main-.
tain therein a sanitarium for the treat
ment of the white plague.
Banquet Given Dr. Yeager.
Dr. Arthur Yeager; having been
sworn at Georgetown as governor of
Porto -Rico, left Wednesday for the
beautiful Island to take up his duties.
On the eve of his " departure he was
tendered a banquet -by the citizens of
Georgetown. John R. Downing, who, I
it . is expected by his Democratic
friends, is to have a good appointment
in the treasury department presided
as toastmaster. Congressman J. Camp
bell Cantrill .was one of the speakers.
Rejects All Meat Bid-.
Believing that . the reduction of the
tariff would reduce tJie; price of meat
the .Prison Commission rejected all
bid3 on the . supplies offered for the
annual meat contract for the1 peniten
tiaries and reform school. If contracts
cannot be made for three, months, the
commission ' will slaughter its own
meat and will, placf John Schnorbus,
of . Covington, at the head of that de
partment ; ... r .
New Governor's Oak Planted.
In the presence of several hundred
persons, including pupils of the Frank
fort public schools and state officials.
Governor McCreary planted an oak in
the, state arboret,um,4n the rear. of the
Capitol building, to' take the place of
the "governor's oak" which was plant
ed last Arbor day by him and died.
The planting took place at the con
clusion of the Arbor--1 day .-exercises on
the, rear portico . of . the Capitol, and,
followed his remark that "to plant a
tree is the proper way to celebrate
Arbor day."
GO
While there is
yet time!
will indicate, to
you the power I
possess, and fail
ure to obey will
result in death
and destruction
not only to your
self, but to the
entire city!
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