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SYNOPSIS.
Cowbnw of the Flying Heart ranch are
keart broken over the loaa of their much
prlieil phonograph by the defeat of thdlr
champion In a foot-race with the cook ®f
the Centipede ranch. A house party Is
25 at 'he Flying Heart. J. Wall In (fiord
Bpe«f, cheer leader at Vale, and Culver
Covington, Inter-colleglate champion run
ner. are expected. Helen Blake. Speed's
•weetheart, suggests to ' Jean Chapin; sis
ter of the owner of the ranch, tnat she
induce Covington, her lover, to win back
the phonograph Helen declares that If
• Covington won't run. Speed will. The
cowboy* are hilarious over the prospect.
Speed and hi* valet. Larry Glass, trainer
at.Yale. Blake asks Spoed.
who has posed ta her as an atfilete. to
race against the Centipede man. The
cowboys Join In the appeal to Wally. and
fearing that Helen will And him out, he
«onaenta. He Insist, however, that he
■hall be entered as an unknown, figuring
that Covington will arrive In time to take
ilia place. Fresno, glee club singer from
Stanford university and In love with
Helen, tries to discredit Speed with the
ladles and the cowboys. Speed and Glass
put Jn the time they are supposed to be
training plavlnp cards In a secluded spot.
The cowboys tell Class It Is up to him to
««e that Speed wins the race. Willie, the
(Tinman, declares the trainer will go back
east packed In Ice, If Speed falls. A tele
gram comes from Covington saying he Is
In Jail at Omaha for ten days. Glass In
• panic forces Speed to begin training In
earnest. The cowboys force Speed to eat
In the training quarters and prepare him
* dlit of very rare meat. Miss Blake
Y>akes a cake for Speed and Is offended
when refuses to allow him to eat
tt. Covington arrives on crutches. He
•ays he broke his toe in Omaha. Mrs.
Keap, engaged to Covington and In love
with Jack ChiMJln, exposes Speed to
Helen, because Speed had failed to pre
vent Covington from Joining the party.
Speed decides to cripple himself, but
Skinner, the Centipede runner, appears
with a proposition to throw the race.
Olass attempts to escape at night, bu.t Is
captured. Fresno gives Gallagher, the
Centipede foreman, 1600 to bet against
Speed for him. Helen Blake henrs of It
and bets SSOO on Speed.
CHAPTER XVll.—Continued.
"I haven't-got you. My name Is
Skinner."
"Nix on that monaker," Glass
amiled. Indulgently. "I had a man In
that Sheffield Handicap six yeai#
ago."
"You're In bad." asserted the cook
ateadily, "but assuming that my name
la Long—"
"I didn't Bay your name was 'Long,'
I called you 'Whig.' Glass chuckled
at the point as he scored It. "Now
come In; be good."
Skinner darted a look toward Gal
lagher, and the Centipede men gath
ered about the shrilling phonograph,
■topped and tied his shoes, and
breathed softly:
"Spiel!"
"This little teller I'm trainln'—does
lie win?"
"Without an upward glance, Skin
ner inquired: '
"Did the man you trained for the
Sheffield Handicap win?"
"Never mind that. Does this frame
o\> go through?" It happened that
Speed, drawn irresistibly, had come
forward to hang upon every word,
and now choke this moment to Inter
rupt.
"It's all right, Mr. Skinner —" But
Skinner leaped to his feet.
"Don't try anything like that!" he
cried in a terrible voice that brought
Oabby Gallagher striding toward
them.
"What's goin' on here? Are they
tryin' to fix you. Skinner?"
"Not a bit like it," Glass protested
"This Little Feller I'm Trainln*—
Does He Win?"
stoutly. "I only asked him which side
he'd rather run on, and now he calls
tor police protection."
"Don't try It again, that's all!" the
cook warned, sullenly.
"I reckon 111 take a hand In this!"
Gallagher was In a line rage, and
■would hare fallen upon the offender
had hot Stover stepped In his path.
1 reckon you don't!" he said easily.
The two glared at each other, and
"were standing thus when Speed and
Ida trainer moved gently off. They
■ude their way to the house In com
parative silence. "I—4 made a mis
take," said Wally.
"You've been Jobbed like you was a
baby," said Glaas. "There ain't but
one thing to do now. Go into the
bouse and change your clothes, and
when you get ready to run, get ready
to run for your life—and mine."
Over on the race-course Gallagher
was inquiring:
"Who's goin" to send these y'ere
athaletes kwayT"
"I am!" announced Willie without
hesitation. "Bein' perhaps the handi
est man present with a weepon, I'm
goin* to start this Journey." He
looked his foes squarely in the eyes.
"Has anybody got objections to me?"
The silence was flattering, and more
loudly now, so that Skinner might
hear, he added: "If your man tries to
beat the gun. I'll have him wlngln'
his way to lands celestial before he
makes his second Jump.""
Gallagher acknowledged the fair
ness of this proposition. "This race
is goin' to be squar'," said he. "We're
ready when y'all are."
J. Walllngford Speed stepped out of
his clothes and into his silken run
ning-suit. He was numb and cold.
His hands performed their duties to
be sure, but his brain was idle. All
he knew was that he had been be
trayed and all was lost. He heard
Glass panting Instructions into his
ear, but they made no impression upon
him. In a dull trance he followed his
trainer back to the track, his eyes
staring, his bones like water. Not un
til he heard tfie welcoming shout of
the Flying Heart henchmen did he
realize that the worst was yet to
come. He heard Larry still coaching
earnestly: "If you can't bite him. trip
him up," and Bome one said:
"Are we ready?"
(•lass held out his hand. "Oood-by,
Mr., Speed."
Chapin came forward and spoke
with artificial heartiness, "Good-luck,
Wally; beat him at the start," and
Covington followed.
"Remember," he cautioned, sadly,
"what 1 told you about the Blurt —lt's
your only chance."
"Why don't you fellows think about
the finish of thiß race?" faltered the
runner.
Then, in a voice broken with excite
ment, Helen Blake spoke, holding out
her hand for a good-by clasp. "Dear
Mr. Speed," she said, "will you try
to remember this?—remember to run
before he does, and don't let him
catch up to you. If you do that, I Just
know you'll win."
This magnificent display of confi
dence nerved the athlete, and he
smiled at her. He wished to speak,
but dared not trust himself.
Gallagher was calling; so he went
to the starting-point, whence he sur
veyed the course. There ft lay, no
more than a lane leading - down be
tween ranks of brown-faced men whose
eyes were turned upon him. On the
top rail of the corral perched Willie,
revolver In hand. The babble of
voices ceased, the strident laughter
stilled. Speed heard the nervous rus
tle of feminine skirts. Skinner was
standing like a statue, his toe to the
mark, hiß eyes averted.
"You'll start here and run a hun
dred yards out yonder to the tape,"'
Gallagher announced. '
"I refuse!" said Speed firmly.
For one breathless instant, there
was a hush of amazement, then a cry
of rage. Still Bill Stover hurled the
nearest man out of his patch, and
strode forward, hiß lean face ablaze.
He wheeled and flung up his hand as
if to check some hidden movement of
Willie's.
"No voylence yet. Will! What d'you
mean, Mr. Speed?"
Speed uttered what he knew was
his final Joke on earth. "I mean that
I refuse to run straightaway. I'm an
all-around athlete, and I must run all
around something."
Amid shouts of confusion, those who
had taken position along the course
came crowding back to the starting
point. Willie wrapped his legs about
the top rail of the fence and drew a
second revolver, while the two fore
men bellowed Indistinguishable threats
at each other. Chapin lost no time in
withdrawing his guests out of the
turmoil, but Helen kept her place, her
face chalky but her eyes very bright.
"What are you tryin' to hand us?"
roared Gallagher.
Still Bill was quick to take a cue.
"Dont get hectic!" said he. "There's
nothln' In the articles about runnin'
straight. Let 'em run around the cor
ral." *
But at this suggestion every voice
seemed to break simultaneously.
"Humpy NToe ran straightaway," de
clared Gallagher.
"Tea, an' he kept at it," piped Wil
lie. "I favor the Idea of them runners
oomin' back where they start from."
"Listen, all of you," Speed an
nounced. "I am going to run around
and around and around this corral.
If Mr. Skinner chooses to accompany
me, he may trail along; otherwise I
shall run alone."
"Never heerd of such a thing!"
Gallagher was dancing In his excite
ment, but Skinner calmed him by an
nouncing, curtly:
"111 beat him any way he wants to
run."
"You couldn't beat a rug," retorted
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THE ENTERPRISE, WHJJAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA.
W,ally. and Glass suddenly smote hit
palms together, crying, blankly: ——
"I forgot the rug!""
"We don't want no arg'ment after
wards. Does the Centipede accept Its
fate?" Still Hill glared at the faces
ringed about him.
"We do if Skinner says so."
"Twice around the corral," agreed
Skinner. "But no accidents, under
stand? If he falls, I keep going."
Instantly there ensued a scramble
for grand-stand the cowboys
swarmed like Insects vjx>n the stout
fence of the corral.
"Then you'll start and finish here.
Once y'all pass we'll stretch a string to
yonder post, and the first man to bust
it wins. Who's got a string?"
"Mr. Gallagher, won't you use my
sash?" Helen quickly unfastened the
long blue bow of ribbon from her cot
ton gown, and Gallagher thanked her
adding:
"Moreover, the winner gets It!"
For the first time, then. Skinner ad
dressed Miss Blake.
"Hadn't you better make that the
-loser, miss? The winner gets the
coin," and the assent came In a flash
ing smile from the sky-blue yes.
n "Then the loser gets the ribbon!"
Gallagher announced loudly, and made
one end fast to the corral. "Which I
call han'some treatment for. Mr. Speed,
an' only wish we might retain it at
the Centipede as a remembrance. Are
the runners ready?"^
Those.near the starting-point gave
room. Skinner stepped quickly out
from his blanket, and stamped his
spikes Into the soil; he raised and low
ered himseit on his toes to try his
muscles. Speed drew his bath-robe
from his shoulders and thrust It to
ward his trainer, who Bhook his head.
"Give It to Covington, llo; 1 won't
be here when you->come back.'
"Get on your marks!" The starter
gave his order.
Speed set his spikes into the dirt,
"I'm Goln' to Shoot Twl»l This
Time!"
brought his weight forward Upon his
hands. He whispered something to
Skinner. That gentleman straighten
ed up, whereupon Willie crli# for a
second time: \
"On your marks!" and agalt Skin
ner crouched.
"Get set!"
The crowd filled its lungs aad wait
ed. Helen Hlake burled her nails In
her rosy cold palms. Chaptn rnd his
friends were swayed jby thetf heart
beats, while even Fresno was bal
anced upon his toes, his plump face
eager. Tho click of Willie's gur sound
ed sharp as he cocked It.
Into the ear close by his cheek
Speed again whispered an agonized—
"Don't forget to fall down!"
This time the cook of the CSOtipeda
leaped backward with an angry snarl,
while the crowd took breath.
"Make him quit talking to me!"
cried Skinner.
Gallagher uttered an lmprtcatlon
and strode forward, only to hove his
way once more barred by Still Bill
Stover. "He can talk If he waCts to."
"There is nothing," Speed (rotated
out with dignity, "in the artloles to
forbid talking. If I wished to, 1 could
•lng. r ' Yes, or whistle, If I Mlt like
it.'
"On your marks!'" came the rasping
voice of Willie as Wally murmured to
Skinner:
"Remember, I trust you."
Skinner ground his teeth; the ttndons
In his calves stood out rigidly.
"Get set!"
Once more the silence of death
wrapped the beholdeM, and Willie
raised his arm.
Speed cast one lingering farewell
glance to the skies, and said, devout
ly: "What a beautiful, beautiful
day!"
Now the starter wit shaking In an
ague of fury.
"Listen, you!" he chattered, shrilly.
"I'm goln' to shoot twice this time—
once in the air, and the next time at
the nearest foot-runner. Now, get
set!" and the speaker pulled the trig
ger, whereupon Speed leaped a> If the
bullet had been aimed at him.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Qen. Booth's Story of His C»reer.
General Booth thus epitomised his
career: "When I started my work I
gave up the friendship of the people
of the better class. I gave up the
hope of wealth and I abandoned am
bition. Now I have found all that I
gave up. Had 1 wlsb»d it I could be
wealthy. My publications have brought
me thousands of pounds, but every
cent of it has gone back as it came,
for the betterment of the conditions
of humanity, for maklqc people happy.
Similarly, I have the best friends In
all classes, and, so far as ambition la
concerned, it I am not tfce best known
man in the world, I am prayed for the
most"
PLAN RALEIGH MONUMENT
Blr Walter Raleigh Committee Btart
. Campaign For Funds For a Memo
rial to Raleigh.
'jf *
Raleigh.—-Each of the original thir
teen colonies of the American Union,
every school child in North Carolina,
and every North Carolina Society in
every state and city of the Union and
the District of Columbia will be called
upon to contribute toward the fund
that Is now being raised for the erec
tion of a monument In Raleigh to ,
the memory of Sir Walter Raleigh
If tlio r'ans of the Sir Walter Raleigh
Monument Committer are carried out.
The decision to do this was reached
at the meeting recently of the commit
tee having In charge the raising of the
funds necessary. The following mem- ;
bers of this committee were present
for the meeting: General Julian S. >
Carr, chairman, of Durham; Joseph i
Q. Brown, Colonel Benelutn Cameron, j
A. B. Andrews, Jr., Alex. J. Field,
Frank Ward and W. J. Peele, all of
Raleigh.
The meeting was one or the first
that has been held by the committee
in a long while, but the lapse of time
since the Inst conilng together of these
men did not In any way lesson their
enthusiasm over the project, and they
are now more determined than ever
to succeed in the movement*'-whlch
they have started.
The committee In session was of the
opinion that the for the un
veiling of the monument Is on October
29, 1918, which Is the tercentennial
anniversary of the martyrdom of Sir
Walter Raleigh In England.
Not orfly will the monument be a
memorial to Sir Walter Raleigh,, but
if the plans are carried out, it will
likewise commemorate the event of
the Century of I'eace botwen all of
the English-speaking nations of the
world. This will be in 1916, and it is
planned that the corner-stone be laid
during that year,' and so Inscribed as
to keep fresh in the minds of all who
look upon the great marble shaft the
long period of peace that has been
established.
The committee passed a resolution
J calling upon the state superintendent
of public Instruction to request a do
nation for the monument fund from
every' child in the public schools of
the'state on Day In 1914. An
| other resolution that was passed calls
j upon the city commissioners of Kal
elgh to petition the legislature for
permission to erect the monument oh
Nash Square In Raleigh, and at such
a point in the square as will be decid
ed upon by the committee. General
Julian S. Carr, Mr. J. G. Rrown and
Mr. W. J. l'eele were authorized to
select in each county oMhe state one
persotiJo serve on the committee, and
to aid TUT the work in his particular
section.
Fifty-Six Want Little Girl.
Duke.—Recently a little advertise
ment appeared In the want columns
J of three of the dally state papers wish
j lng to place a six-year-old girl In a
Christian home. It was simply re
markable to note the answers that
came to this advertisement. In five
days fifty-thrfee letters had been re
ceived asking for the girl and three
' persons had called, making a total of
j fifty-six applications for her. All the
letters came from elegant homes and
well-to-do people from all sections of
| the state. Jt is sufficient to say that
the little girl, little Rllie Hlake, whose
| mother Is dead, has found a nice and
comfortable home with Mr. and Mm
D. Y. Harper, of Dunn, N. C.
"
May Move Burry Court House.
| Mount Airy.—That, the county court
j house will in the near future be inov
| ed from Dobson to this city Is pre
! dieted by many citizens. In fact, there
is a movement on foot to bring about
| this change. For many years there
j has been a growing sentiment favor
j ing this change, but only since the re-
I cent refusal of Dobson township to
I vote good road bonds has the sentl
| ment crystallized Into an active move-
J ment.
Falle In Line.
Raleigh.—After hearing an address
by William Brown of Chicago, field
secretary of the International Sunday
School Association for America, re
cently In a stirring address on organiz
ed Sunday school work, a mass-meet
ing of Raleigh Sunday school workers
formed a city association.
For Tobacco Market.
Fayetteville.—Fayettevllle will have
a tobacco merket next season. This Is
the determination of the Chamber of
Commerce, reached at the first meet
ing of the year. J. D. Fletcher, tobac
co demonstrator for Cumberland coun
ty, met with the members, and there
was a general discussion of the ques
tion of growing and marketing tobac
co, with special references to Fayette
▼ille and Cumberland county's future.
Mr. Fletcher estimated that there
would be 1,600,000 pounds of tobacco
grown in Cumberland this year.
Build Modern Hospital.
Mount Airy.—A modern hospital is
one of the possibilities for this city la
the near future.
Mrs. B. A. Irvin, a retired and
wealthy milliner, who left here sev
eral days ago to visit her son, a phy
sician In New York City, Informed her
friends that upon her return that she
would begin the erection of a 30-room
granite and modern hospital upon a
splendid site already purchased for
that purpose. The slto consists of
several acres of grove near the heart
of the city and Is an ideal location.
For Handu BOIJS and
Girls to Make and Do
(Copyright by A. NEELY HJJO
By A. NEELY HALL.
A HOME MOVING PICTURE SHOW.
The fun of tho little moving picture
show commences the minute you be
gin work upon It, and It lasts as long
as you want It to because there aro
always new pictures to plan and make.
The very first thing to prepare la
the support for the "picture screen,"
for which you will need a box. Al
most any kind of a grocery box will
do, approximately 18 inches wide and
2 feet long. Remove the bottom boards
of the box (Flu. D for a doorway.
Then cut a piece of cardboard long
enough to reach across the top of the
box from side to side (A, Fig 2). Cut
an oblong opening in its center as
shown, and tack to the box edges in I
the position shown In Fig. 6.
The upper and lower boards B sup
port the picture rollers D. Make them
about 12 Inches longer than tho width
of the box, and with a saw cut a 1-lnch
square notch In opposite corners, as
Bhown Figs. 3 and 7. These notches
form pockets for the picture-roller
ends to set In, and the strips C (Fig.
3), nailed to the edges of boardß B
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I
j hold tho rollers In the notches. Nail
| boards H to the two ends of the box
i with the front edges projecting about
I an Inch beyond the front edges of the
box, aud with tho pair of roller pock-
J ets In the upper board directly over
the pair in tho lower board.
Droom-handles, curtain polos, or any
other wooden sticks that you can find
| aro needed for the rollers D. Cut
them of the right length BO their tops
| Will stick Beveral inches above the
| top board B when the/ are placed In
j their pockets (Fig. 6). A diagram of
a roller is shown in Fig. 4, and a de
tail of the crank for turning it Is
shown in Fig. 5. For the crank (Fig.
5) fasten a thread spool (E) to the
end of a short stick (F), and then nail
; the upper end of the roller to tho end
of tho stick. The nails G (Fig 4)
hti~. fe»p
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Bi!i!i|ir| ,;s -1 if
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| are driven into the roller, after tho
roller ends have been slipped Into
their pockets. Their purpose Is to
keep the rollers from slipping up or
down (Fig. 6).
The picture strips are made of white
cloth and are cut about an inch wider
than the oblong opening in the piece
of cardboard -A. To these strips the
pictures aro pasted. Enough of the
strips should be sewed end to end to
make a continuous strip at leas t t 20
feet in length. *
Select your pictures from newspa
pers and magazines. Color them with
crayons or water-colors, and arrange
upon the cloth strip in some interest
ing order. Fasten them with flour
paste. Tack each end of the picture
strip to a picture roller, passing the
cloth over the front of the opening lit
the piece of cardboard A.
.To complete the work, there re
mains only the enclosing of the front
of the framework so the audience
cannot see you operating the roller
cranks. This is done with cloth. Get
a piece large enough to reach from
upper board B to lower board B, and
from end to end, and tack it to the
two edges of these boards, stretching
it tightly. Then cut an opening in
the center exactly in front of the open
ing In the piece of cardboad A. A
board nailed across the top of the
framework will conceal the cranks.
Reel the pictures from one roller on
to the other, then back again, by turn
ing first one crank, and then the oth
er. A light placed Inside of the box,
through the doorway, will illuminate
the pictures from the back.
By DOROTHY PERKIMB. .
AN IMPREBBION SCRAP-BOOK.
A pretty and simple way to pr*>
serve the memories of summer leave*
and flowers la by taking Impressions
of them on paper, and then pasting
tho pieces of paper pn pages of a
blank book, A book containing such
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Impressions might appropriately be
callod a memory scrap-book.
All tho materials necessary for mak
ing leaf impressions are several sheets
of white paper—common note paper
will do nicely—a tin or china plate, a
piece of cotton rolled up Into a ball
and covered with a piece of silk or
soft cotton cloth, and about half a
teaspoonful of printer's ink, or half a
teaspoonful of black shoe-paste mixed
with a quarter of that quantity of lard.
Spread a little of the printer's ink
or shoe-paste mixture upon the
plato or tin plate. Then taking the
little ball of cotton which you have
covered with silk or cotton cloth, pat
the Burfaco of the plato until the
Ink or shoe-paste mixture Is spread
evenly over the center. All Is then
ready for making the impressions.
Place the lowefc. side of a leaf, the
side on which the veins are most
prominent, upon tho Inked surface of
tho plate. Then lay a blotter, or piece
of heavy paper, over tho leaf, and
press down upon every part to bring
the leaf Into perfect contact with the
inked plato. If you have a small pho
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tograph mounting roller, you can "get
good results by using that to roll
down the leaf. After pressing down
or rolling down the leaf, remove it
carefully, and place the blackened
surface on a Bheet of white paper and
press down as before. Then remove
the leaf, being careful in doing so to
lift It without sliding sideways, In
order not to blur the Impression. You
will find a very perfect picture of the
leaf impressed upon the paper.
Impressions of flowers are more
difficult to make than those of leaves,
because flowers, are more delicate to
handle.
By using printer's Ink of different
colors, or coloring tho shoe-paste mix
ture with oil colors, very pretty com
binations can be obtained
With the hundreds of different
forms of leaves and flowers to be
found in the garden and in the woods,
just think of the possibilities for mak
ing a large scrap-book, and what a
fine thing it will be to have such a
book to refer to. Of course you must
find out the names of all the leaves
and flowerß you make impressions of,
and write them below the Impressions,
so you will feel well enough acquainted
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with them next time you see them to
call them by name.
Besides making a memory scrap*
book, another novel idea that you
girls can try is that of decorating
your letter paper with impressions of
dainty fertA and grasses. This will
make your paper different from that
of your girl friends. If you want to
have your monogram on your paper,
in addition to the leaf Impression, cut
your initials in the leaf with a pen
knife. Then when you make the im
pression, you will find your initiate
outlined in wlil