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SYNOPSIS. -3 Automobile of Mitss Dorothy Upton atid friend. Mrs. lane, breaks dowin at NeW Mexico border patrol camp coiiandeil by Lieutetnant Kyuiastort. The two wollren are on way to itoe of Allss Upton's fa 'ther, located a few ntilles iteross the %exi. can border. K~ynaiton haves women at his camp while lie goes with a detail to Investigate report of Villa gut ruiers. Villa troops drive small force of Carranza across border line inl they sutrrender to Kynaston. Dorothy and Mrs. l.ane still at camp whem Kynuiston returns with Vrisoners. A blind Alexlean priest appears In camp. -eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*SSeeee - An aged and blind priest tells o ., Kynaston and his guests an 40 amazing story of wonderful Jew. o ' els and a looted shrine and of a * : long and henrt-breaking quest 0 * for one rare treasure. You'll * wonder, as you read, whether or a not the old -adre Is wandering . In both mind and body-for : * truly his tale Is strange. *e 'Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee CHAPTER l1-Continued. While they were eating the appe tizing meal that the trumpeter spread for them upon the camp table beneatt the solitary live oak that stood befort the tent, they watched the sergeanI help the stranger down the hill. Ta king the blind man to the fire, he seat ed him upon a saddle that lay near the cooking tent, and came forward with a salute. "He's a priest, sir-a padre; and from what little I can make out of his lingo he's had a pretty bad time af it, sir. Shall I bring him up?" "Yes." Kynaston sprang up. "Mrs. Fane, do you and Miss Up. :on object to my asking the old fellow o take his breakfast here with us? I iardly like to send him down among he prisoners to eat. He seems a cul Xbove them, don't you know?" "Why, of course not, Mr. Kynas :on. Please do exactly as you woule If we were not here. I am sure hi will be very interesting." So Kynaston went down to. the fire where the old man was explaining it broken English and Mexican patoib to the prisoners, for them to translatf to the Anerleans that he was mor tired than hungry, but that most ol all he desired to hold converse wit: the commanding officer. Having in troduced himself, Kynaston alked th( old man to come to his tent and johr him in coffee. They found the two ladies alreadl at their meal. Kynaston seated the old man between the two and poured him a cupful of steamIng coffee that woke him into speech. "Never before, senoer, have I crossec the line. A Mayan am I, as all m3 people were for twelve generationg that stretch their hands back ever unto the days before there were Span tards in Tenochtitlan. "For the space of twelve men'm 'lives have we lived under the shadowi of El Tie, seeing always the surf breal on the outlying bare. Two years ag< t came north, even as Coronado came Dart of the way on my feet, part 01 asses; always with pain, for to th< blind, senor, all paths are hard. Ant tat last my dream vanished." "Thy dream?" "Aye, senor, my dream, for knos thou that I came not without an amn That aim has been to follow and re oerwhat these thieves of the worn yae taken." He pointed his thumb over hi shoulder toward the fire, where th prisoners still sat Over the bacon an hard bread that wore being cooked to them by the cooks of the troop. "And art thou really blind?" 'So that, senor; for fifty years Wiave not seen the light of day." Mrs. F~ane and Dorothy murmure their sympathy. "So I have come, sonor. For no. three hundred years I and my fathei before me kept the shrine where it hi 'been deposited since the days wh< 4Mortes came back 'from the courts <the old world to hold his court Cuernavaca, and, finding there in po er the evil man, Pedrarias, his e1 any, tetired to live upon his estates, "Ye know, senor and ladies, how was said that the conquistador y soned his first wife so that he cot aprt a seond wife who should ~ance his fortunes. It was to this s 'dwife that he gave those wond os jwels, as all the world knoy #.~wonderful emeralds that Que bflia *sked for in vain sand i # Cortes the most courted man 4t adr'id. Hast thou heard ofthex (rg, Waie and niorothy looked th' *ret, All people are interested * more -diention of jewels or g Sstoines--oete these who, do i ', asw them. y ~e heard," -said' Kynast 'MO th."~ e samie tale All men kno er'hich domara wrota to I t7Capt. Geomie 1B. when payment was m'ade to the Span ish king of the royal fifth part of the treasure the stones were kept by the conqueror as a part of his own share.' Dost thou know then, or does any man know, what afterward became of the stones?" The old man leaned forward in hie eagerness, turning toward the sound of Kynaston's voice. His interest was obvious. Dorothy and Mrs. Fane took no pains to hide their interest now. "It was said, of course-what th'ou knowest-that the emeralds were ta ken home by him to Spain, and that when he married a second time he gave these to his wife. The queen had hinted that she herself was not unwilling to receive as a gift these most wonderful stones. "They were, senor, as Gomara says, like this: One in the shape of a great rose, the second a fish with eyes of gold, the third an emerald cup, and the fourth a man's head with ruby eyes set in the green surface. With none of these, senor, are we con cerned. "The fifth and the most beautiful of all was a great bell, made of solid emerald, that stood, perhaps-so they tell me, at least, for how can a blind man seo?-the height of a man's thumb; carved, mark thee, from the solid emerald-the tongue is made of -a pear-shaped pearl, and about the base, carved and set most probably by some skilled workman of Seville, these words, let into the Jewel in letters of gold: "Blessed is he who created thee." "But, padre, we all know-the world knows-that when Cortez went witt his king-Charles-to fight the MoorE he took the stones with him, and wher he was wrecked at sea off the Al geciras coast the stones were lost-' The old priest sat back clicking hii tongue softly. "Then, senor, if this be true; I an my family for ten generations hav been made fools of, for during te men's lives some member of my fan Ii "H'm. An Arisaki Rifl How . Dl That Come Here?" r ily has always kept the shrine of Ou Lady of Olvidados down in Yucatai where the old faith still holds, an where men have not gone afte strange gods-" "But how in the world if you liv 3' in Yucatan did you ever work you way so far north?" r "When General Zapata rose in r' bellion after President Diaz had fie to France, the whole country rose wit I him. Every place was looted, an what few treasures we had were ti d ken. "We in Trocanto managed to hid w the wealth of the shrine, and fc 's months my brother, who had the car 1s of the shrine itself, haq little troi in hl: in secreting the wealth that 'w of had hidden for nigh four hundre at Years. *" "We had the stone-no, senor, nc Ie' the five; only one-the greatest an most valuable. So rich it was-is! it that I am told men's hearts turned I 01- water at the mere sight of it. I kno tid right well that I would have give id- much to see it for only one little mi Bc- ment; but it was not to be, Br- "They came, senor, by night-n '; beasts of prey always come-and the en looted the temple and burned it' aft tat they had looted. I was not there in the time,. but when I returned I fout ?my brother dying of a gunshot wour ir Iand my mottler- It is best noti in Igo into particulars, senor. re-I "They had no fear of God. It ot Ilacking always, they say, -in a m that knows neither ,.law. nor leade on 'And. the 'atone was gone.-Iooted W, ken, as everything else wa tk the with the raiders when they fled toj itIhih ot' old wPen the Toite cet i upon the land, and when them the countless thQuuspds o f1 red savages drove the Tolteos in iea long flight, bringing death and demo lation upon the, land. And then -the Spaniard came, and-thou knowest the rest, senor.. "I do but speak the empty vapor irgs of age. I am soeventy.oix years of age, and I have tracked thast stone northward,-northyard ever since that day. when Zapata's men -robbed the shrine. "Those men who tied yesterday across the line, and who found refuge with thee have the stone. They took it in fair fight from the rebels, who were moving toward El Paso with it in the hope of selling it for gold with which to purchase arms and ammuni tion for their cause. "And they in turn have lost the stone to thee; for a passing cowboy told me that these men had surren dered to the Americanos and guided me the greater part of the way to thy camp. "I am no rebel, senor. I am a churchman, not a soldier. But-I seek the stone-I, now that my brother is dead; I, the Blind Priest of Trecante. am the lawful guardian of the shrine." Just then the deep voice of the ser geant broke in. "Sir, if the lieutenant is ready I'll bring up the packs an' the lieutenant can go through 'em." Kynaston, called back to earth, looked up and nodded. "Bring 'em all up in front of my tent, sergeant." The three pack mules, tired and un groomed, were led up and their packs decanted in front of the tent where Dorothy and Mrs. Fane sat in inter ested observation. "There ought to be guns an' re voivers an' ammunition," commented Kynaston. "Button! Button! Who's got the button? I wonder what they've got packed away in those aparejos." He soon found out, for under the quiet orders of theosergeant the guards slipped the packs and opened them In front of the wondering eyes of the little group. "I thought at least we would find that the arms manufacturers of the country had shipped rifles and pistols to them across the border," comment ed Kynaston. "And I find nothing; absolutely nothing. A petate-sleep ing mat-and a lot of dried red pep. pers, together with a package of beans -frijoles- Wait a bit! What's that under your hand, Miss Upton?" Miss Upton, startled, looked cur ously at the package under her hand which she had been resting upon the pack. She gave it a twitch, and a bun die wrapped in a rough, red blanket rolled out on the ground. "Kynaston promptly picked it up. "H-mi Three rifles that have nc business here and a hundred rounde of ammunition. Wait a bit! Sergeant, look at the arsenal mark on those rifles and see where they were made.' The sergeant scrutinized them care fully in the early light. "Sir, there's some mark on 'em that I can't make out. It looks like some sort of a flower as well as I- can see.' Kynaston took the gun. As far as its appearance was concerned it resembled every .other militar rifle that he had ever seen, but whem he turned the under side to the light he saw stamped in the dark wooderi forehand of the piece the full-blow! chrysanthemum that was the emblern o~f only one nation. "H-in! An Arisaka rifle! Nou how the deuce did that come here? I' was made as far east as one can gei without tumbling over to the westward again. How the deuce did a Japanesi rifle come into Mexican hands?" He had no opportunity to solve thi problem, for even as he spoke Doroth) gave an exclamation and stepped bacl a pace as the covering of a packagi broke and a flood of silver pesos rax out at her feet. "There's no proof of stealing it these," commented Kynaston. "E~ver if there were the stealing was doni r in Mexico, and the thief was not with ., in our jurisdiction. What is this?" d It was a plain, dirty canvas saci r perhaps a foot in depth and it bori the marks of rough handling. Hi e picked it up and juggled it from hand r to hand. The officer of the Carranze forces was obviously uneasy at the scrutiny, a"That, senor," he said, "is the great iest prize of all, It was stolen by athese rebels across the line and was 'to be used by them to purchase arms.' Without waiting for any explana e tion as to 'what the contents of the rsack might be, Kynaston cut the string and poured the contents out upon the saddle blanket which the sergeant had spread upon the ground. Certainly there was nothing in the roll of ragi that rolled out to presage great value But on turning over the mass witl his foot a glow of green caught hii eyes. There tumbled out at his feel 0a great crystal bell the color of thi 'richest blue grass that grows in Ken tucky! S Dorothy picked it up. "The padre was right," she said "It it is indeed emerald it is worti a king's ransom. What will you d< with it?" S And this 'vonderful emerald * .beil plays a big part-'lf you s e were writing this story, what e part would you have the jewel ~ *play in ttngted web of wqt , a plottIng? its hIstory. might be s n 1 bloody intigue and' its ~ Iar make it p~wn 'fer * ~.*IA'. Iif. $TATEOP. South Carolina Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries, Bureau of Marketing. 9 "J, WATSON Comnilssloner A Weekly Bulletin of Information Western Newspaper Union New' Serviee The work of .the State Bureau of Marketing goes merrily and success. fully forward. A glance at the Wants this week will show calls for large quantities' of farm products. Through. out the State farmers and merchants and consumers themselves are now using the service with results so sat. isfactory to them that they almost in variably write -to the Bureau express Ing their appreciation of the opportun ity for direct barter and exchange that the State with the co-operation of the press 'is affording them. This week a farmer In Spartanburg county writes: "I am writing to ex press my appreciation of the service of .the Marketing' Bureau. It has serv ed me well since its establishment and I hope the work you are trying to do will have the co-operaition of our farmers all over the State." A farmer in Chester writes: "I am very much pleased with the business that I have done through your column in both buying and selling." A farmer in Chester In his letter presenting of ferings makes this significant state ment-: "I am having fine results from your bulletin. I get long distance calls, telegrams and cnecks by first mail. Many thanks to you for the new plan." A farmer in Spartanburg shows that the exchange feature of the Bureau is effecbive as well as the buying and selling feature. He writes: "I have just completed an exchange through your column for an automo bile. I think you are doing a won. derful work for us.farmers and wish to thank you for what you have done for me." Recently, a dairy man in the up country wanted a competent man to -take charge of his dairy. The Bureau took up the matter with a man who vahted just such a position. The man who wanted the job writes: 'I sincerely thank you for the trouble you went to on my behalf. Dr. - and I have come 'to an agreement. I start on the 6th.' This man who wan-t ed the place lives far out on a rur al route. The following is a summary of the week's Wants and Offerings that could not be handled from the list on file: WANTS 20 bushels ,burr clover seed in the burr. 6 to 10 bushels Crimson Clover seed either shelled or in the hull. Several cars good peavine hay. Several cars corn in shuck. Brabham and Iron peas. About 6 peafowl eggs for hatching. Will pay $4 or $5 for them." Some Guernsey hAlfer calves. Also one registered Guernsey bull. feed, pounrs wheat screenings for chick 500 pounds rough rice for chick feed. A god second hand 26 H. P. boiler and 20 H. P. engine. One No. 2 saw mill. Will exchange for same 6 H. -P. gasoline wood saw. A setting of purple guinea eggs. 8 pecks of pure yellow seed corn on cob. One second hand steel tower and tank for country water works. Give kind and best cash price. Young man eighteen years old, with some knowledge of poultry-raising, de sires position on poultry ordairy farm. Willing to start on reasonable salary. OFFPINIGS. 60 bushels cowpeas of followirg varie ties: Black, Clay. W hippoorwill,; Small WVhite. Market price 1000 bushels mixed field seed peas, 1.5per bu. f.o.b. Dunbarton. Sacked - n 2' busheol burlaps. 50 bushels Brabham and Whippoorwill peas,.1$.40 er bushel f.o.b. Dunbarton. Sackbin 2 bushel burlaps. 40 bushels, 90 per cent sound, Iron peas $1.26 par bushel, f.o.b. Pelion. 30 bushols Crowder peas, very prolific, mound, $1.25 per bushel, f.ob. Pelion. 16 bushels very fIne speckled peas, $1.30 per bushel, f.ob. Polion. Clover seed, 50 pounds for $3.75. 90 Day selected velvet beans, 60 lbs. delivered, $2.00. 200 bushels selected cotton seed, wilt resistant, staple 1 3-16, $2.00 prbushel. 10 bushels wilt resistant Sea Island cotton seed, $2 per bushel. Creech's Improved Prolific red cob seed corn, 75c pr pck uvxilfi '7-8fiye corn, 75c per peck. Mexican Juno corn, 50 pounds for $2. 1Norton Yam potato plants, $1.25 per Lookout Mountain Irish potatoes, 50 pounds ,for $1.85. 2% bushels Lookout Mountain Irish seed potatoes, $8.60 for the lot, f.ob. Lex ington. Old time yam potato plants, $1.60 per 1000 fob. Lykesland. "Will exchange for something of equal valueto me." Nicelot of Georgia Buck sweet pota toes, $1 per bushel, One registered Tamworth boar, 20 months old, weikht 260, registration pa pers with him, $86.00. Registered Berkshire sow. 3 years old, Longfellow Lady 3 178817. Has no faults. Three well bred Bettshire boars and 1 sow, 8 months old, each $6.00. 12 well bred but not registered Berk shire pigs,$ each, For shipment Jul 1. I One regisered Berkshire sow and 6of her ten. pigs, $40. WiI I exchange for White Leghorn and Rtoofi hens at $1 each Ior sheep at $4 each. One brood sow, $15.00, 7 half' Berk shire pigs, 8 weeks old, each $1.50. Will exchange for White Leghorn or Rock p lens ft $1 each or sheep at $4 each. Two pre bred Berkshire gut, eac $5. 7 ha1f Berkshire guseach $. Will exchange for White Lgorn or Rock hens at$1 each or sheep at $4 each. $7 ncet grade.Berkshire pigs, $2.50 each, egl tered Duroo, sow and eight pigs en tted to registration, $55 f.ob. Black One Jersey-Guernsey cow, fresh middle of this month, $100 includin calf., One 81-8 Jersey bull call, 1 year old, One registered Jersey cow, 6 yre o ld, fresh soon, $100. Two Jersey -ul calves entitled to re intration, each $0. One Jersey bull cal7 nt registered $12.50. Two Jersey heifers $1.00 each,. One March p ny, Will exchanefor Holstein bull. Pony 8 years old broke to riIde and drive. y One shephrd pp, $2.00. Whit. African guinea eg' and Ancona e s~sto exchange for Bram. Black Or pgton, Black Minoma& aul Bantam - eWhite India Rtnner duck. WilU anafor Whit Lehorn chickns, -IRock 000 cere~ Wil egohange or o re $1 ee0k eggs, 'O h.e nta u (lek ny citokees *nd broilet~, age e r t (Copyright, 1916, Western iewspaper Union. LESSON FOR MAY 28 THE COUNCLAT JERUSALEM LESSON TEXT-Acts 15:1-35. GOLDEN TEXT-For freedom did Christ set us free.-QI. 5:1. The events of this lesson are out standing in Christian history. Paul's appeal to the Gentiles and the large number of them who accepted the Gos pel made most acute the question, "Must Gentile believers -become Jew ish proselytes upon accepting the Christian faith and be governed by Jewish law and customs?" It would be ex Jingly interesting to divide a clast .tnd let them debate this con troversy stated as follows: "Resolved, That the Mosaic law should not have been imposed upon Gentile Chris tians." The date of this council wan A. D. 50 or 51, and the scene is laid first in Antioch of Syria and then in Jerusalem. , I. A Division o7 Opinion (vv. 1-6). Luke does not name those who agi tated and precipitated this contro versy, but clearly indicates how the Holy Spirit dealt with the situation. "Is a man justified by fath, or by the works of the law?" is a similar ques tion with modern application. The Holy Spirit, to avoid a rupture in the yet weak church, directs that Paul, Barnabas, Titus (Gal. 2:1) and "cr tain others" who are not named, should carry the question to the apos tles and elders in Jerusalem. Those to whom they went were "of reputa tion" (Gal. 2:2), the "pillars" Gal. 2:9) and they received the delegation from Antioch in public (15:4), also heard Paul in private (Gal. 2:2). i. The Argument. (vv. 6-18). It will not do to be harsh in condemn ing Paul's accusers. The Pharisqes felt deeply their position. As God's chosen people they were marked by circumcision. Jesus, the promised Mes siah, was a Jew. Social, religious, and-racial differences are hard to rec oncile in one church today. But little was asked of the Gentiles in contrast with all they received. Entrance to church membership Would not be too easy it circumcision were imposed as a test of their sincerity. Peter brought forward the plea before the council that God had given the Holy Spirit to the uncircumeized Christians, "and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith" (vv. 8, 9). God bears the same witness today to those who refuse to be bound by Mosaic traditions as regards the seventh day and other such details. Paul's argument was that God had wrought signs and wonders among the Gentiles and thus set his seal upon his preaching of salvation as apart from legalistic works (v. 12). Read in this connection Gal. 2: 16, Ti tus 3:20, 8:3, 10:4, and Phil. 3:9. The apostle James presented the third argument in connection with the ver dict he pronounced. It was that it is according to Old Testament Scrip ture that God will take a'people for his name from among the uncircum sized Gentiles as well as from among the law-kteeping Jews (vs. 13-17). With Paul this was a vital question, and we can at least imagine his feel ings as he puts forth a life-and-death struggle for the truth. As Peter re minded the people of - the occasion when "the Holy Spirit came upon Cor nelius and his household" he caused thetn to keep silepce. Iii. A Wise Decision (vv. 19-29). It was James the Just, brother of our Lord, the writer of the epistle and the bishop overseer of the church at Jerusalem, who rendered tpie decision. In his argument (vs. 13-18) he saw in these Gentile converts reported by Barnabas and Saul a fulfillment of the prophecy of Amos, and to use the language of today he "made a mo tion," viz., that these Gentiles be not disturbed except in such matters as would tend to more fully separate them from the heathen idolatry they had just left, (a) "Pollution of idols," I. e., flesh offered in the sacrifiees (b) "from fornication," the immorality connected with the pagan worship of Aphrodite and Cybele which actually consecrated vice, and (c) "from things strangled,'" for the heathen did not, as the Jews did, look upon the blood as life, the seat of the soul. The church readily agreed to this motion and took such precautions as were needed that no misrepresentations of their decision be carried back to Anti och. This -consisted of a- spirit-led choice of messengers and in a written statement of their decision (vs. 22, 23). IV. The Result in Antioch (vv. 80-35). Great Joy greeted the conclusion of this question. It produced pleasant harmony in place of discord and in place of the irksome bondage of the law it gave the joyous liberty .of the Gospel, Jewish legalism gave way to Chris tian liberty. Judas and Silas, Spirit filled, gave much profitable exhorta tion and instruction.' Silas after reporting to the Jeru salem church (v. 88) seems to have returned to his new-found friends (v. 84) and later becataeo, along with f"aui, a missionary (1'. 40). Thug the evil Paul's enem~ies tho scompish w MedOUt to MAY AYOI'D PAINl Need Only Trust to Lydia E Pinkham's Vgetable Com pound,say$ Mrs.Krtawog. Buffalo, NY My daughter, whose picture In herewi was Much troubled with pains in her back and sides every 'nonth and 'they would sometimes be so bad that it would seein like acute in. flammation of some organ. She read Sadvertisement in the newspapers and tried Lydi E. Pinkham's Vege. t a b l e Compound. She praises it highly as she has been relieved of all theis palFd b1y its us,. All mothers shou ij . thimm and all young giri' wi,[ kner shou)d try, It."- Mrs. A 'ri Ktwv , 5g High St., Buffalo, y. YoungWMJ women wh O ou j painful or Irreg v perir., 'enxche headache, dral. jt.k(ng-dow s(,n.tic faintin ll. er inIdignes, , take Lydia E. Pinkham1 vgt Compound. TIusaids have r-en re. stored to health 6y hun root arJd he.. remedy. I If YOU know of ny yfOeng wo., -man who Is r dic an . A. ful advie, at; er t o uo Lydia EM. nal ug Lynn, Ms. Mtyw ree.eive her --v, an. it, held'In stric 1o nz1n MEN AN,).D k W WOMEN 1110 -' I or and cheerful. the kidneys are 't - orkr For good rel lt. use D . Swamp-Rxoot, ti je -~II? ' ~ At druggists. t eel Post, also : Address Dr. N. Y., and en '!n . ing mention th p BONDS OF ThU F IEN E HIP Thorough U iri n knd CoI plete Symi. I , e 1 y Some acquaintances will never ripen Into true friendship because the eom mon bond of union, the thorough un derstanding and the complete sym. pathy are lacking. An acquaintance begun in childhood will ripen into friendship if the chil dren develop mutual interest in a com mon cause, of study or pleasure. It dissimilar tastes and unlike impulses develop the 'children will grow apart, since each of us tends toward certain centers of association. Money cannot buy us friends. It often purchases apparent friendship, but when the wealth goes that which posed as friendship vanishes also. Friendship must be distinguished from that sentimental feeling which Is so common among young girls. This ridiculous fascination, which expresses itself in extravagant terms of endear ment, is very fickle. As soon as it finds faults in one Idol it transfers its affection to another. Youth has yet to-learn that perfection in human nature does not exist. The sensible man or woman does not set up an Ideal of friendship so high that it must be shattered. The Precocity of Wilie. "Mamma and I saw some of the nicest chicken dressing today," said Willio, age ten and wise beyond' his years. "Where d'ja see It?" asked the fond papa. "In a dry goods store window," was the bright reply as Willie "dug" for the outdoors.--Indianapolis News. The European war has made a great demand for khaki. A bachelor of arts is wedded to his art. "He who has health has hope, And he who has hope has everything." (Arabian Proverb) Sound health is largely a matter of proper food which must include certain mineral elements best de rived from the field grains, but lacking in many foods. Grape-Nuts made of whole wheat and malted barley, supplies all the rich nourishment oif the grains, includinag their vital mineral salt--phos phate of oah etc. p*ost necessary orbuilding and energizing the tnetfa and physical forces. Thdtes a Reason"