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Show THE SAT INA RUN. SAUNA, UTAH CA STORY FROM THE START By ELLERY H. CLARK C. br WNU Service Bobba-Merrl- Why C Battery Should Be Used ll had no alternative but to carry out, or Those that are left," he cried, "are rather to try to carry out, the cap- manning the boats. Theyre going to tains command. At once, therefore, run for It. And to prove the truth of I stepped to the rail, dropped on one his words almost at once we saw three knee, and inuking. In this novel situa- boats put off from the Shark, endeavtion, the best allowance I could for oring, as best they could, to keep the the different courses the two vessels hulk of the wreck between themselves were steering, I calculated my distance and us. Yet with each succeeding end let drive. And yet, as I did so, I stroke that they took, the dllllculty of was conscious that something hindered avoiding our fire became greuler. Bur-ford'- my Him ; and while at the time, perhaps, I could not have put It Into e. CHAPTER V GOLBltMjMj $ Copyright 12 In the email New Jersey village of Strattsmouth, In the year 1749, Richard Lindsay, who tells the atory, gives an exhibition of his marksmanship before some villagers and a stranger, with whom they afterward dine at The conversation the tavern. turns on a notorious pirate, whose ship, the Black Panther, Is thought to be In the vicinity. Next morning Lindsay, after wild ducks,' Is sitting In a blind" when three strangers land on the beach near him. They bury a chest and then one of them. Bur-forrecognized by Lindsay as the man he talked with the day before, kills one of his companions. Lindsays presence Is discovered. The third man Is Captain Barclay of the Black Panther. The three go aboard. Lindsay meets there a youth to whom he boats a remarkable resemblance, Robert McAllister, whom Barclay captured on his way to his uncle's plantation In Jamaica. Barclay has sworn to kill the elder McAllister. Bob Is asked to act as a spy In his uncle's household. He refuses and Is killed. Lindsay Is asked to take his place. Realizing his helplessness and under threat of a lingering death, Lindsay agrees to assume young McAllister's name and take his place In Andrew's house-housThe Black Panther comes upon a plundered ship, with all on board murdered. Continued The men, after vociferously signifying their acceptance of this plan, went forward, while the captain and Rur-fordescending Into the cabin, begun poring over their charts of the Oarrib-hean- , debating whether to lay to, or td keep way on the schooner during' the night. Tor reasons which they did not reveal, they seemed sure that the Shark had headed south, und accord ingly wv laid our own course In that direction. With the first dawn of day, the lookout at the masthead lustily announced the presence of n sail. I had never before seen the captain so excited, as he paced the deck with an air so vengeful and so savage that I was glad to stay ns far from him as I could. Vet ns the day advanced his mood gradually altered to one of grim mirth, for everything appeared to our fortunes, and to Injure tho-,of the enemy. When the breeze sprang up, as It presently did, It came light and pufTy from the north and east, and we, In the sailors phrase, "brought the wind up with us," drawing sLeadily nearer and nearer to our foe, until the .captain, gazing through his spyglass, announced that she was without doubt the Shark, and at once ordered the white flag, with the sable panther, to be displayed at the peak. Presently, however, the wind Increased to a steady vvhole-aai- l breeze, and I, being totully Ignorant of our surroundings, thought of the old adage that a stern chase is a long chase, and expected every Instant to see the captains mood change aguln. Rut to my surprise, he remained ns cheerful as ever, and as soon ns the opportunity offered I asked Rurford the reason for the captains good humor, and learned that directly to the southard, In the shape of a crescent moon, stretched a line of low banks, resembling the famous Caymans, so close to the surface that to be once among them meant certain shipwreck. Into this bay we were now driving the Shark ; It was no longer possible for her to escape us; she would have to fight. Cut why did she walk Into such a trap?" 1 asked. Rurford shrugged his shoulders. Terhaps, he answered, "they counted on their fuse burning true. 1erliaps all hands, from the cuptuiu down, were And they have one roaring drunk. chance yet, though Its a long one. There is a channel through the banks, but there arent three men In Jamaica who know It, and Its not likely that they have one of those three on hoard the Shark now. All this time we were drawing closer, and now at last we made ready, In anticipation of our adversarys suddenly altering his course and showing light. Surely, I reflected, I was to have u taste of real fighting now ; nnd at the thought of the women and children I had seen lying dead on t lie Sea Culls deck, I welcomed the conflict. My companions, to be sure, were vile enough,' but they could not be worse than their foemuu, and I was ready to risk my life to strike one good blow In revenge. Vet still the Shark did not alter her course; still she bore on to the south; and I could see, from the look on the captains face, that lie did not understand her maneuvering. "She cant be going to try the channel," lie cried. Look at the color of the water; theyre almost on the shoals now." Rut the next moment, leveling his glass, he exclaimed: "They are going to try It. I know that nigger at the wheel : Its Brown Mose, the best pilot In Jamaica O -- n them, theyll give ns the slip after all. He was half frantic with the violence of his rage. His Swarthy face was flushed almost purple, and he ground his teeth In the extremity of his passion. Then, by 111 luck, his eye happened to fall on me. "Here, you He cried sharpshooter, suddenly. olck me olT that helmsman. And utck, too, or well be aground ourselves." I had my rifle In my hands. In readl- '- the expected battle, nnd thus e Using A. C. Filament for Radio Vacuum Tubes words, I know now what the trouble was. When I aimed at a squirrel In h tree top, or at a black duck feeding In the sound, I aimed to kill; every nerve nnd sinew was bent to that qn purpose; all was concentration, and I was aware of nothing else In the world. Rut now, shooting at a negro who had never done me harm, In spite of myself I aimed not reully wishing to hit the mark. And thus I scored a clean miss, though the bullet. Indeed, could not have gone so far astray, for the pilot, not lacking courage, Instantly turned and waved a hand at us, while holding the Shark true to her course. The captain exploded In angry wrath. D n you, I thought you were a marksman," he cried, and seizing a rifle from Rtirfords hand, he made as If to shoot In his turn; then, ns If no curing to endanger his hold over his men by exposing blmself to their derl slmi If be missed, he thought better of It nnd handed the piece to me. "Try again." he said; and to Rurford he commanded : "Load the boys rifle as quick as you can. I could not hut admire the quickness with which his mind worked. To load my own nrin again was the best possible judgment, for In delicate work like this the thorough knowledge of ones piece Is essential. And accordingly, though I held as true as could with Rurfords rifle, I had no great expectation of dropping my man. What the result of the shot really was, I shall never know, If the negro were hit, he gave no sign; hut I have always Imagined that the bullet struck hftn, though not In a vital spot. In any event, he remained erect at his post, nnd the Shark continued to glide down the entrance of the channel. And now, at this second miss, I realized, for the first time, that the negro's was not the only life in danger. The captains dark face turned actually livid, and quick ns a flash he whipped a pistol from his belt nnd leveled It at my head. "You kill that man on your next shot, he said In a tone of the most dreadful und ominous calm, or so help me Hod, Ill scatter your brains over this deck. At the same instant Rurford handed me my rifle. Once more I dropped to my knee; once more I took a moment to calculate distance, velocity of wind, the allowance that must he made for the different, angles at which we sailed; and (hen, according to m.v custom, I banished from my mind all thoughts of ships, of sea nnd sky, nnd of everything In the world save that broad brown hack, gleaming In thp sun, nnd forming, against the of the white mainsail, a magnificent target. "Ills life or mine," I thought grimly, and pressed the trigger. This time there was no suspense; simultaneously with the report, the negro's hands loosened their grip on the wheel, his arms flew upward, and then In a crumpled heap he slid headlong down the deck. Well shot ! roared the enptaln. "Well shot, my bully i And then, savagely and exultantly, "Now let them find the channel ; they wont have two men on board that know It. In five minutes by my watch, theyll he aground." lie did not exaggerate; In fact, the catastrophe occurred sooner than any one anticipated. There was confusion on the docks of our antagonist; no one, I dare say, in view of what had Just happened, eared to he the next to stand n trick at the wheel. Driven with good headway, nnd with Just sufficient depth of .water not to check her too soon, we saw her bow rise sud lenly, followed by half the length of her hull; then, all headway ceasing, she hung poised for an Instant, settled slowly to leeward, and there hung fast. The captain's face was transfigured with an unholy Joy. "Look at her!" he cried. Look at her I Her starboard guns pointed at the bottom of the sea, nnd her port guns pointed at the sky. Heres the end of the Shark! lads; we cau knock her to pieces as we please. It was evident that he spoke the truth. Heeled over as she was, her guns were rendered useless; It only remained for us to begin, at our leisure, what would be not a battle but a slaughter. Rearing down a trifle closer to make sure of our range, and paying no more heed to her scattered musketry fire than to the buzzing of so many hornets, we gave her our port broadside, then luffed, came about, and followed suit with our starboard guns, while Burford Incessantly handled our long Tom with deadly aim. Both masts came crashing down; splinters flew from her rati; huge holes gaped through her exposed and unprotected hull; what a few moments before had been a trim and beautiful vessel was now a hopeless wreck. Presently Burford came running aft 1 hack-groun- d deadly aim with our long Tom shattered one, leaving those of Its in mutes not killed outright struggling In the water; while a whole broadside trained on the second reduced her to a like plight. The third, however, managed to get out of reach, and I Imagined that the captain would let her go, trusting to the elements or to rival freebooters to finish them In a But I had not yet fitting manner. plumbed the depths of his hatred for McAllister or any one connected with him, and to the shout of "Boarders away our fastest longboat was lowered and manned, rigged forward with a contrivance new to me, a piece of wood, narrow end forward, and with an opening like a loophole on either side of the apex. What this was for I realized when the captain ordered Rurford and myself to take our sents behind It, armed with our rifles and a plentiful supply of ammunition. Then the captain himself took the our men were fresh and nnwounded, while It waa evident, from the Irregular stroking of their oars, that some of their rowers were already badly hurt, and sticking to their task only from dread of their Impending doom. And Increases Selectivity of Set when our rifles began to speak through the loop-holeand men, here and by Reducing Losses in there, began to pitch forward and lie the Tube. still, then, as the saying Is, we came them hand over flsL upon Finally Pointing out that it would appear they abandoned their oars, and essayed a scattering fire from rifles and that most folks are at sea with repistols, but it was their last effort; gard to the "C battery, Lewis M. demoralization bad seized them, and Clement, chief engineer for Fada radio, sets to work to explain what it is when we came alongside the few survivors were dispatched In one fierce all about. Explaining that a C battery Inrush. The captain, cool and business like as ever, stove In their bout with creases the selectivity of a set by rean ax, and lei the bodies of the dead ducing the losses In the tube, profloat free for the scavengers of the motes good quality or fidelity of reocean. Two of our own-crelay quiet production by preventing distortion, with upturned faces, and with small and tends to extend the life of the round holes In their foreheads; they tube by reducing the effect of the B also were tossed over, to Join the grim battery, Mr. Clement states that "a C battery is primarily Intended to esfleet of the floating dead. And now, my bullies, cried the tablish a certain negative potential or captain, "well lay alongside and see voltage on the grid of a detector or what this shark has towed In her maw. amplifier tube. "It Is not generally known that the Plenty of rum, I'll warrant, and plenty of gold. And all for us. Give way, plate voltage on a tube, or at least lads, and tonight we sup like kings." the effective plate voltage, Is materially reduced by the use of a C battery. CHAPTER VI An Port of the Devil. Fonr days later, on a bright and cloudless evening, a light breeze brought us within landing distance, of Jamaica. I was gazing over the rail, straining my eyes toward the Island, when the captain approached to give me my parting Instructions. In a very few moments, he told me, "Bur-forwill set you ashore. As soon as you land, make your way to the nearest town, which lies about two miles Inland. Port of the Devil, they call It, and it deserves its title. There is an Inn there, named or rather misnamed the Palace of Delight, where all the young bloods, aye, and the old ones, too, meet to drink and gamble, to match their race horses and to make love to the girls. I advise you to do none of these things ; any one of them may fasten a pretty quarrel on your hand. Spend the night at the Inn and have a care that you bar your door. Tomorrow press on to the plantation ; find Shively and tell blur you are McAllister's nephew. lie will ferry you over to the Island In the lagoon. Tell your unde your story thus. Your vessel was captured by pirates and burned to the waters edge. You yourself, after performing prodigies of valor, leaped overboard In the darkness and the next morning were picked up by a trading schooner which brought you to the Island. Invent any details please, but I advise you Heres the End of the Shark, Lads. not to beyoumore talkative than you can We Can Knock Her to Pieces as We As matters stand, the less said help. Please." the better. In two weeks time Ill meet you at this very point, as soon tiller ropes nnd we were off. It was after sunset as you can get here. And grim enough to pass among the few must have the whole story for me. you survivors of the sunken boats, their bother. your head with plans; Ill Dont heads bobbing up and down on the to those. I want the facts; all attend waves. As we passed they cursed us; about the house, the garMcAllister, and" at one, whose language was Inrison ; If possible, where he has hidden credibly vile, the enptain leveled his the treasure. Here are a brace of pistol nnd shot him through the head. and a knife, and here Is your The others he spared, not from mercy, pistols here Is a purse with a score and rifle, as I well divined, but for the pleasure in It. And here Is Burof doubloons of leaving them to a slower anil more so farewell. ford, liugeiing death. I took the arms, delighted to have Ou we swept after the one remainrifle once more in my possession. my ing fugitive, and as we steadily gained And a moment later I was In the gig, upon her, the captain ordered Burford not rowing this time, as when I had I obeyed and myself to open .Are. first set out for the schooner, but seatwithout scruples. For one thing, I did ed In the stern with Rirrfwrdr while not regard these blackguards as men, two of the crew sent the light craft but as vermin, whose extermination dancing over the quiet waters of the would leave the world infinitely better ocean. As the boats bow grounded off. And In the second place, though on the sand, I took leave of Burford, I own It with shame, there had risen cleared the distance from bow to shore lu me the wild excitement of the purIn one flying leap, and watched the suit, the thrill of this contest where men shove off, turn the gigs stern the prize was death ; and though but a and go about, away speeding again before I had leveled scant half-hou- r out to sea. my rifle at the pilot of our foe with a Presently, however, I forgot all else feeling of reluctance, now I opened In the beauty of the tropic night. For fire on our fleeing enemies without re- some time I stood absorbed In the morse or compunction, and with a of the scene and In my own lovellress steady bund. I fear that after all the thoughts, until I Anally came to myself philosophers are right ; that civiliza- with a start. This was certainly not tion is only skin deep; and that withtoward the Port of the advancing out (he uld of law we should soon reDevil, and with one last look at the vert to the standards of our savage sea, and the faint outline of the progenitors. schooner far in the distance, I turned There could he but one outcome to my face inland. the struggle. Our boat was lighter. r (TO BE CONTINUED.) ' d Simple Device Made Revolution in Music According to manuscripts, the playing of the steel guitar, which has made Hawaiian music famous throughout the world, was originated by a lad lu 1S93, who found that by placing an article on the fingerboard of the guitar while playing a novel The boy sound could be produced. Joseph Kekuku, theu a student at Kamehunieha school, first got the idea when he placed a pocket comb on the fingerboard and brought a new twang This was folfrom the Instrument. lowed by experiments with the blade of a pocket knife aud resulted In the of a piece of thick steel for the purpose. The "new music" took the Islands by storm and later spread over the entire world. "This Invention of the Hawaiian schoolboy, says survey, Is the most significant contribution of Hawaii to music, the Introduction of an entirely new technique for the playing of stringed Instruments, at least as far as the western world la concerned, although the Japanese employ a similar u ut technique with one of their strlnge Instruments and some African tribes north and south of the Congo do th same with the musical bow, using v shell on a knife blade. There Escapes a Kiss Is a boy In Wayne who may some day visiting work ai hard for a kiss from a girl as he worked to escape one. When th girl charged at him with her lips pursed he fled across the Ice of a creek, and a dozen playmates saw him break through the Ice Into the water waist-deeThe girl stopped t the edge of the hole and jeered. He ran to the house shivering but pare. D trolt News. red-haire- p. Refractory number's Assistant This sticks something terrlti Plumber Must be a one-ma- n fauci is; Facta are stubborn things- .- SmoIlaK Illustration. "The average tube of the 301A type now used In radio has an amplifying factor of about eight to one, and every volt of C battery used to im- press a negative potential on the grid results in a reduction of the effective B battery voltage or plate voltage by 8 volts. "As an Illustration, let us assume that a tube is being used without C battery and with a plate voltage (plus B)-90 volts. Now if we impress a negative C voltage on the grid of 4 volts, that is, use a 4 4 volt 7 battery, the effective plate voltage (plus R) is not 00 volts, but becomes 00 volts less eight times 4 (that is, 00 volts less 3G volts) and results in an effective plate voltage of only of 54. For 301A Tubes. For normal operation of the 301A type of tube in audio and amplifiers about 00 volts plate potential is used and at 00 volts the tube manufacturers recommend a negative grid bias, that is, a C battery of minus 4 J4 volts. In many cases it. O will he found that a minus battery will give satisfactory results and result In more amplification or of the sensitivity amplifier because the effective plate voltage is raised. The effective plate voltage is then 00 volts minus three times eight (IX) 24) or GG volts instead of 51 volts as worked, out for . C battery. the case of a radio-frequenc- y radio-frequen- 414-vo- lt Another Means. or 'more sensi"More a'niplifica-tiotivity of the amplifier can also be obtained by raising the The effective plate voltage to plate voltage Is raised and Is 11214 volts minus eight times four and one-ha- lf (11214 3G) or 70.5 volts. "Tills additional Increase in effective plate voltage will, of course, increase the amplification of the radiofrequency amplifier, and it is evident that If more sensitivity is desired it can be obtained by increasing the plate potential from 00 to 1121,4 or decreasing the C battery from minus 4 74 to minus 3, which is- - consistent with the requirements for good quality or fidelity of reproduction." radio-frequenc- y lii. Coating With Paraffin to Quiet Noisy Tubes Coating radio vacuum tubes with paraffin is an easy method of silencing microphonic noises and other disturbances to which some are subject. To shield tubes by this method it Is necessary only to heat a little paraffin, bringing it to a liquid state. Four It immediately into a small jelly glass, filling the glass to a depth of about two Inches. Hold the tube to be coated by the base and insert it upside Jacques Antoine Marie Hawadier of Paris has recently been granted a British patent npon an Invention which relates to tubes, for nse in radio telegraphy, and especially designed to allow the employment of alternating currents for heating th filament According to the Invention, tubes are provided with two filament elements of Identical character, which are arranged parallel to one another, and are connected In parallel to the leads In such a manner that the currents In them are always passing in opposite directions. In this manner, the actions of the Showing Details of the A. C. Filament for Vacuum Tubes. currents in the two filaments usually compensate one another. The two filaments are preferably of the type which emit at very low temperatures so that only a small cooling takes place In the intervals between the alternations of the cur(oxide-coate- ' rent Referring to the drawings, 1 and 2 are two filaments, which are absolutely identical ; 1 is connected in the usual manner to current conductors 3 and 4. leading from the stem, Ttie second filament 5, of the tube. Is connected at 6 and 7, to the same conductors by wires 8 and 9, of sufficient section to' obviate any appreciable rise in temperature. As will be seen, the current divides at G into two parts, one of which passes through the filament 1, in the- direction of the arrow 10, the other passing through the filament 2, in the direction of the arrow 11. When an alternation takes place, the current changes its direction in both filaments. Wireless Trader. Radio Has Shaken Of? Handicap, Expci t Says Recent successful experiments in television, in which persons were seen in the act of telephoning by the ones' spoken to, are by no means the end of wonders that may be accomplished by the radio. To the contrary,, the wildest dreams for its development are not nonsense, said Merlin II. Ayles-wortlpresident of the National Broadcasting company, in an exclusive, interview given to the American Magazine. "Radio has shaken off the handicap of taking limitations for granted. In radio, and in pretty much everything else, the men who dare, to think most boldly, even most absurdly, have been more nearly right than those who Lave believed that only the little things were possible, said Mr. Aylesworth. "We 'know for a certainty that big things are just around the corner. We expect that we shall live to see motion pictures flashed onto the walls of our homes. "We are just beginning to find out about It ourselves, continued Mr. But we already know Aylesworth. some things that have human interest. Ye know that there were 5,200,000 radio receiving sets In the country last June, which means, if you assume five listeners to every set, a total radio audience of 20,000, 000 people. New York state, with 654,000 sets, has the most listeners, and Nevada, with 7,200 sets, and New Mexico, with 7,S0O, the fewest. The four cities that have the largest number of listeners in proportion to their population are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New Y'ork in the order named. "The good sets are now so. nearly foolproof that almost anybody ought to be able to get good results from them. However, here are the three most common mistakes: (1) Not learning to tune the set properly so as to shut out cross talk'; (2) forcing sets to produce the last possible bit of volume; (3) carelessness in jarring or dropping wlmt is, of course, a very sensitive and highly technical piece of ' i, apparatus. And here are your five suggestions ; (1) Keep the batteries adequately charged; (2) burn the tube filaments at the specified voltage; (3) keep an- tenna and lead-itight; (4) keep all connections tight and clean ; (5) leave Simple Remedy for Making Noisy the set alone and call in a competent Tubes Less Responsive to Vibration. repairman when anything goes wrong." down Into the glass. The displacement will cause the paraffin to rise, thorVolume Control Needed oughly coating the surface of the to Obviate Distortion glass. Care should be taken not to Much that passes for fading really allow the paraffin to rise beyond the top of the base. Withdraw the tube Is not fading at all, but Inadequate and allow any drops to fall back Into volume control at the broadcasting the glass. This coating will quickly station. At each of these senders It harden, after which the tube should be Is customary to have an operator dipped again. Should any of the par- boost power when the artist Is a bit affin get on the base It may be scraped weak, or to tone it down when volume Is so excessive as to cause distortion. off with a knife. Do not let the paraffin get too hot These operators are the ones who It should be poured from the pan Into catch the artist In time to prevent him the glass as soon as it reaches a liquid from paralyzing the microphone, but atate, and allowed to stand In the they are also responsible for occasional lapses of judgment In this matglass a mlnnt or so before dipping. ter of volume. Radio News. n , r |