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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER SALVAGE WORK ON SCUTTLED GERMAN FLEET slipped out o sight In tbe fog. Hea somewhere aboard." "Never mind blm ; the fellow can do no barm now. Move back slowly lads. Schmitt and I will be the last ones out" 1 . ; uhiUJL 'i 7t WT We closed the companion door aa silently as possible and for the moment there was no sound from within to show that our caatlous withdrawal had been observed. I stared about, but was able to perceive little beyond the small group awaiting my orders. The fog clung thick and heavy on all sides, and it was impossible for the eye to penetrate to either rail. Fortunately there was no weight of sea running. "There is nothing more to keep us aboard lads. Stow yourselves away and hang on ; I'll wait here until yoa 'Hb - are View of the salvage work being done by the British on the war vessels which the Geriuaa crews svurtled In Scapa Flow. Doctors Remake Wounded Heroes pital of ours with bloody blurs where their faces had been. Fed through tubes and kept alive, I have seen their remaining bits of skin stretched over Surgery. the raw places, which filled with new flesh under1 careful treatment, and finally they have gone out Into the EASY TO GIVE MAN NEW FACE world with new faces. "There was one man, I remember, who came In to us with his entire face 6oldiers Brought to 'Hospital in France gone nothing left but one eye. We fed him through a tube, built him a metal With Countenances Merely Blurs jaw, fitted with teeth, and made him Sent Away With Nor- look like a human being again, ex" 1 mal Visages. cept that he 'had no nose only two nostrils. We found hlra a false nose New York. Miss 'Eva 'Hammond of and a pair of spectacles attached, bidthe American Red Cross, who returned ing the scarred flesh around bis missrecently from Europe after nearly five ing eye, and making him look so much years' service with the allied armies, like another man that one would not . and who wears decorations of the Brit- have glanced at him a second time ish and French governments, told of to note his deformity. ; the wonderful results achieved In re"Another, man came to tis with the constructive surgery 'by the surgeons greater part of his face Intact, but of the American and allied armies. with no hose. It had been Shot oft Miss Hammond, whose home Is In San completely, leaving his flesh flat from Francisco, was. attached 'to the staff chin to forehead,- We made 'him a of the American Red Cross hospital nose to fit him. From the place where In Neullly, France. his nose had joined to his forehead Is surprising how many 'things there hung a little wisp of skin. This can be done to a man by a shell and was pulled down, stretched every day, leave him still living," "Miss Hammond and kept dry and 'healthy by an antisatfl. " "And the things that can be septic powder. Finally It grew to the done to make It worth While for him correct length for a nose. "Then we to go on living are even 'more surprts- - opened his wrist and grafted a piece of bone to the place where his nose "Dental surgery is one profession should have 'been, binding arm and that has gone ahead '"from the Im- face together until the operation was petus of the war in leaps and bounds. completed. Then we adjusted the skin, The marvels that the doctors of den- i which filled out with healthy flesh, and tistry performed were not entirely un- there was a new nose !" known before the war, but they were . Easy to Give Man New Face. In the theoretical stage. There was A man whose face had been hangno chance to put these theories Into ing down from below his eyes, Miss practice, except in widely isolated Hammond says, was a simple case. His cases. The war proved that those J face was sewn 'back In place. "1 met him on the street in Paris." theories were sound and practicable ; It afforded them a means of develop- she says, "just two days before I sailment. There is nothing impossible in ed, and his face looked just as usual, dental surgery now." except for a slight scar wblch ran "I have seen men come Into that hos along under his eyes and across his Red Cross Worker Tells of vels of Reconstruction Mar- ; - "It "" CLEARED OUT BOLSKEVIKI Explorer Attacked by v ? Prehistoric Bird hell-houn- ; London. Baron Munchausen, says the. Daily Express, is reincarnated in the person of Ivan Levey, who describes an encounter with a prehistoric moa in the wilds of North Island, New Zealand.-''. He was assaulted, says Levey, moa, a class of beast that had been generally sup; posed to be extinct. Its color was light- brown and its body huge and bulky. ,; There were no signs of wings, the legs were disproportionately massive, almost elephantine, and feet frere "simply the three-toe- d ponderous.". , A small head rested on a long ostrich-lik- e neck. The moa uttered a deep, booming noise, says Levey. by a 14-fo- , nose. In time it will almost disappear. A man who had been the victim of a freak shell which had ripped out every one of his teeth, leaving him otherwise unharmed, was supplied with new gums and .a, complete Set of upper and lower false teeth. I haVe even' seen a man with his brain bulging down over his eye from a jagged cut In his skull. The brain has. been carefully pressed back in' place, and the head fitted with a metal plate. This operation leaves the patient per. fectly normal so far as his mental condition Is concerned. He is, however, unable to go about much In the hot sun, as strong heat affects him, and he cannot1- drink because it Irritates ; the brain." Sometimes, Miss Hammond said, a patient would be brought into the with his leg smashed to pieces. Instead of making a hurried amputation, every effort was made to save the injured limb. - It was put into a frame, and in a short time the smashed bones would take a, position, knit,' and begin to grow together, while tbe splintered bits would gradually work their way out of the leg through tbe flesh. . hos--pit- Million Homes Needed in U. S. More Houseless and high cost of materials prevented People In This the construction oi houses which the Country Today Than Ever Before- SITUATION DUE TO THE WAR Great Scarcity and High Cost of Materials Check Building Operations ' Little Work Done During v Past Four Years. CI Silvestras Zukauskas, commander In chief of Lithuanian army, who has cleared his country of the "Reds" after much pitched fighting, and Is now protecting Americans doing relief work In that section. Paris says, "General Zukauskas Is, one of the most remarkable men In the war." A jMi'O of many battles, distinguished In e war, successfully defended Lithuania against the Hun, and afterwards the bolshevlkl. te Russo-Japanes- Washington. The United States today Is facing the greatest shortage of houses .since man ceased to live in caves and huts of brush and made for himself and family the hearth and home that became the temples of civilization. During the recent session of the National Association of Real Estate boards, In Atlantic City, Secretary Redfleld of the department of commerce, declared that the nation w13l .require 1,000,000 additional homes durta-(the current year to care for the growing population, for whose shelter m provision was made during" the four years of war In Europe. In addition to the needs of the United States, Secretary Redfleld declared that, In December, England, France and Belgium also will need 1,000,000 homes, not to mention the requirements of Russia, Austria, Italy, Serbia, Roumania, Turkey and other nations in which millions of buildings were laid In ruins during the period of hostilities. War Caused Lack af Building. The perplexing situation now existing in the United States Is said to be due entirely to the war. During the years of hostilities, the scarcity and Jgh wages of labor and the scarcity all over." They faded away Into the mist, dim spectral figures, and I remained alone, listening anxiously for some hostile CHAPTER XXIII Continued. a stout fighter the lad was, wielding sound from below. Satisfied that the 16 his cutlass viciously, so that we held lads were safely over the rail and the It was as though my brain snapped them, with dead men littering every decks clear, I turned toward the ship's bac-into ascendency. I was no longside. As I did so a yell reached my step to the cabin deck. er a raging fury, mad with the desire But they were of a breed trained to ears from the blackness below the to kill, but planning es- such fighting, and the lash of Manuel's hounds had found voice. cape. Before a hand could reach me tongue drove them into mad recklessI ran through the fog In the direcin restraint, I sprang backward and ness. And there seemed no end of tion the others had disappeared, and ran. I stumbled up the stairs leading them, sweeping up out of those black had taken scarcely three steps when to tne companion. The vague glimmer shadows, with bearded or lean brown I collided against the form of a man, of daylight showing through the glass, savage faces, charging over the dead whose presence was not even noticed revealed the presence of Watkins. I bodies, hacking and gouging In vain until we came together. Yet he must heard him dash the door wide open, effort to break through. I struck until have been there expectant and ready, call to those on deck, and then saw for a quick knife thrust slashed the my arms ached, until my head reeled, him wheel about to again confront the scarcely conscious of physical action, front of my jacket, bringing a spurt of devils plunging blindly forward toward blood as the blade was jerked back. yet aware of Manuel's shouts. us through the dark cabin. We could Even as my fingers gripped the upliftonce "Now now! you hold thera for a time at least, yet I ed wrist, ere he could strike the secMaand you have them. Santa had the sense to know that this check more, ond time, I knew my antagonist. I ! would prove only temporary. They ria you've got to go through, bullies knew also this was a fight to the death, deck. to no other the there is way' us ten to one, and would Here to be terminated before that unguardarm themselves from the rack. Yet Rush 'em! That's the way! ed crew below could attain the deck. ! the greater danger lay in the possible you go in outside the rail Broth of It was LeVere's life or mine, and in !' Now you have him, Pedro !" hell the balance the fate of those others in disloyalty of my own men. A dozen of For an instant"! believed it true; I the waiting boat alongside. The knowlus might hold these stairs against assidesaw seized and hurled Jim Carter sault, but treachery would leave us edge gave me the strength and the ways, his cutlass clashing as it fell, ferocity of a tiger. I ripped the knife If one among them should helpless. steal below forward, and force open while a dozen hands dragged him from his fingers, and we closed with the door from the forecastle, we would headlong into the ruck beneath.' But bare hands, his voice uttering one be crushed between two waves of men, it was only an instant. Before the croaking cry for help as I bore in on and left utterly helpless. I saw the charging devils could pass me, a huge his windpipe. He was a snake, a cat, figure filled the vacant space, and the slipping out of my grasp as by some whole situation vividly, and as quickly butt of a gun crashed into the mass. magic. At last I had him against the chose the one hope remaining. "Watkins," I called sharply back It was the Dutchman, Schmitt, fightrail, the weight of us both so hard "Get the boats ing like a demon, his strength that of upon it that the stout wood broke, over my shoulder. ifx. They gave way in terror beand we both went over, grappling unready and be lively about it. We'll an til we splashed into the water below. hold these fellows until you report. fore him, and we went down battering The two qttarterboats will hold us all. our way, until the stairs were clear to The shock loosened my hold; as I Knock out the plugs in the others. See the deck, except for the dead under fought a way back to the surface I that Miss Fairfax is placed safely in foot. When we stopped, not a fight- was alone. My strength began to fail, the afterboat, and then stand by. Send ing man was left within the sweep of hope left me as I sank deeper and deepour arms. They scurried back into the er into the remorseless grip of the me word the moment all is ready." darkness like so many rats, and we ocean. I was not afraid; my lips utI had glimpse of the thick fog without as he pushed througn the door, could only stare about blindly, cursing tered no cry, no prayer I drifted out recover into total unconsciousness and went and of a scarcely distinguishable group them, as we endeavored to a wild down. , of men on the deck. Jhose about me breath. Schmitt roared like could only be located by their restless bull, and would have rushed on, but CHAPTER XXV. movements. I stepped down one stair for my grip on his shirt. "Get back, men !" I ordered sharply. conscious of increasing movement be- The Open Boat. low, the meat cleaver still gripped in "There may be fifty of them yonder. ' Our only chance is the stairs," I .came back?-- , to a consciousness of .... "Any of you armed with cutlasses?" We flung the bodies on onefj'e, and pain, unable at1 once to realize where "Oui, m'sleur, Ravel DeLasser." formed again from rail to rail. Below I was, or feel any true sense of per"Stand here,, to right of me, now an- us there was noise enough, a babel of sonality. Then slowly I comprehendother at my left. Who are you?" angry voices, but no movement of as- - ed that I rested in a boat, tossed about by a fairly heavy sea; that It was "Jim Carter, sir." night and there were stars visible In now and strike lads, hard, "Good; the sky overhead. I stared at these, cabin is full be The you others ready. vacant of thought, when a figure of 'em, and it is your life and mine in seemed to lean over me, and I caught the balance. If we can get away in the outline of a face, gazing eagerly we've find never but this fog they'll us, down into my own. Instantly memory got to hold them here until the boats came back In a flash this was not are ready. I killed their captain, death, but life; I was in a boat with Sanchez. That is where we've still her. I could not move my hands, and got them, without a leader." my voice was but a hoarse whisper. "But they've got arms?" "Mistress Fairfax Dorothy !" "Only hand weapons," broke in Car"Yes yes," swiftly. "It is all right, ter. "There's ball in the bandoliers, but you must lie still. Watkins, Capbut no powder. I wus goin' ter break tain Carlyle is conscious. What shall open a cask, but Estada put me at I do?" another job." He must have been behind us at the footeven on us leaves "Then that oar, for his gruff, kindly voice steering ing, lads, we ought to be equal to them sounded very close. with" the cold steel." "Yer might lift him up, miss," he said soberly. "He'll breathe better. CHAPTER XXIV. How's that, Captain?" "Much easier," I managed to , . In Clasp of the Sea. breathe. "I guess I am all right now. The sounds of voices and of movYou fished me out?" ing bodies were plainly discernible, "Sam did. He got a boat hook in but the darkness was too dense below collar. We cast off when yer your to permit the eye perceiving what was went overboard, and cruised about in taking place. The rattle of steel told the fog hunting fer yer. Who was It me some among them had reached the was fightin' with, sir?" yer arm rack. There followed the crash "LeVere." of wood as though the butt of a gun "That's what I told the lads.. He's had splintered a door panel. Then a Rush Was Reckless and a gonner, I reckon?" The First mind voice pierced the babel. My "I never saw him after we sank. Deadly. gripped the meaning of it all ; they Are all the men here?" had found a leader; they had released satilt. What "All but those in the forward boat, they would do next was Manuel Estevan. Now the real fight answered by a blaze of light, revealing sir. They got away furst, an' we ain't I I could hear the fellow queswas on the silhouette of a man, engaged in had no sight ov 'em since. Maybe we tion those about him, seeking to learn touching flame to a torch of hemp. It will when it gets daylight. Harwood's the situation. in charge. I give him a compass, an' flung forth a dull yellow flare, and re"Who have cutlasses? So many! a vealed a scene of horror. Our assailtold him ter steer west. Wus thet dozen form with me. Now bullies, ants were massed halfway back. Be- right?" they are on the stairs there, and that tween us, even ten feet from the "All I could have told hi 1:1. I haven't is the only way to the deck. Now then stairs, the deck was littered with had an observation, and it is all to hell with 'em !" I know the American coast U:s bodies, ghastly faces staring up. with We met them, point to point, our adblock stains of blood everywhere. It to that direction, but that is about nil. vantage the narrow staircase and the was Manuel's hand which had kindled I couldn't tell if it be a hundred, or higher position ; theirs the faint glim- the light, and the first croak of iiis a blind red and fifty miles away. 1 mer of light at our backs. The first voice told his purpose. must have been In bad shape when rush was reckless Hnd deadly, the in"Now you skulking cowards," he yon pulled me in?" furiated devils not yet realizing what "We thought you was gone, sir. You yelled pointing forward, "do you see they faced, but counting on force of what you are fighting? There are lileedln' some, too, but only from was only numbers to crush our defense. Man-u- Ave men flesh wounds. The young lady she between you and the deck. led them yelling encouragement, To hell with 'em ! Come on ! I'll show just wouldn't let yer die. She worked and sweeping his cutlass, gripped with over yer for two or three hours, sir, !" both hands, In desperate effort to you the way afore 1 lied any hope." He It was but his leaped forward; Its break through. DeLasser caught Her eyes were downcast and her I sent last the cleaver step. hurtling face turned away, but I reached point with his biade while my cleaver out, I know not how It through the air. missing him with Its sharp edge, my hand and clasped her fingers. The he struck went but his him, down, which blow a fellow dealt the mystery of the night and ocean was hurled him bacK into the arms of the last word a shriek, his arms flung out In her motionless posture. Only as In vain effort to ward off the blow. man behind. 1 saw nothing else In deher hand gently pressed mine did I a Schmitt out roared Dutch and Inoath, tail, the faint light barely revealing gain courage, with a knowledge that distinct figures and gleam of steel. It bis gun, sent whirling above me, she recognized and welcomed my preswas a pondemonlum of blows and crashed into the uplifted torch. Again ence. black was it which the disnight, through and yells, strange faces appearing "Watkins says I owe my Hie to you," appearing, us men leaped desperately eye could perceive nothing. Even the I said, so low the words were scarcely noise ceased, but a hand gripped my nt ns up the steps, and we bent them audible above the dash of water '; I saw nothing shoulder. remorselessly back. alongside. "It will ma'na that life mora "Who are you?" me re of Manuel In the fray, but his valuable than ever befofre." sin ill voice urged on his fellows. "Watkins. The boats are ready. The It (TO BE CONTINUED.) ws strike and parry, cut and thrust. one forward litis pushed off loaded. Twice I kicked my legs free from The afterboat Is alongside. There Is French photographers , hare dehands that gripped me and DeLas- such a fog, sir, yer can't see two veloped a process for treating negaser fell, a pike thrust through him. fathoms from the ship. The girl Is In tives by which the effect of stereoWho took his place I never knew, but ho boat, but LeVere ain't The mate scopic relief Is produced In pictures. ' natural growth of population rendered necessary. Then came Secretary appeal for. the restriction of building operations to a minimum during the war. For a time building virtually stopped. Funds that otherwise might have gone into homes, business blocks, and factories were invested in Liberty bonds. ' Nor have some of the causes which cheeked building operations disappeared with the war. Materials are almost as searee and 1ti many cases more costly than they were during the struggle. Whatever reduction of wages may have occurred in some of the countries, there is none In the United States, and as a Result there appears to be no definite program for the ' prompt and speedy erection of homes In the United States. Mc-Ado- , VILLA RUNS FIVE MILES DAILY Mexican Rebel Leader Takes Up Physical Culture to Keep From Getting Fat El Paso, Tex. Francisco Villa Is a physical culture recruit. When he was at Villa Ahumada en route to attack Juarez, he was seen by residents of that little. town doing setting-up exercises every morning in front of the home of Jesus Ysletas, which had appropriated as his head' quarters. ;'. " After fifteen minutes of this the rebel leader would run the full length of the main street of Villa Ahumada twenty times to cover the five miles he set its a task for himself each day. "Keep the stomach from getting fat It makes riding easier," he said to on ' of the interested spectators. ' i ' . gue--wor- 's ! j |