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Show 4 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH oAuthor The QREEN PEA "WEBSTER-MAN- of i GIANTS, Etc. By PETER B. KYNE Copyright, by Peter B. Kyat CHAPTER XIII "1 Continued. 1 A Jacob's ladder was hanging over he side of the schooner as the canoe bot in under her lee quarter, and half 9 by some sixth sailor sense Neils Halvorsen became convinced that his old friends of the vegetable trade were marooned. They had gone ashore for some kind of a frolic, and the crew minute later the expectant Neils had stolen the schooner and left them tepped upon her deck. A tall dark to their fate, believing that the castBan, wearing an ancient palmleaf aways would never be heard from and that dead men tell no tales. iat, sat smoking on the hatch eoam-nHe rushed on deck, carried his prisand him Neils Halvorsen oner down iuto the cabin, and locked Aye bane want to see Oapn the door on him. A minute later he was clinging to the Jacobs ladder, Icraggs, he said. The tall dark man stood erect and the canoe shot in to the side of the ast a quick, questioning look at Nells vessel at his gruff command and Salvorsen. He hesitated before he passed on shoreward without missing a stroke of the paddle. An hour oade answer. What do you want?" he asked later, accompanied by three Kanaka and there was a subtle sailors picked up at random along the nenace in his tones. As for Neils water front, Neils Halvorsen was Halvorsen, thinking only of the surpulled out to the Maggie IL Her crew had not returned and the bogus prise he had in store for his old he replied evasively: captain was still triced hard and fast In the cabin. Aye bane want job. The Swede did not bother to InvesWell, I'm Captain Scraggs, and I lavent any job for you. Get off my tigate in detail the food and water toat and wait until youre Invited be- supply. A hasty round of the schooner convinced him that she had at fore you come aboard again." For nearly a minute Neils Halvor-te- n least a months supply of food and at the spurl-u- s water. Only one thought surged stared Captain Scraggs, while slowly through his mind, and that was the here sifted through his brain the no- awful necessity for haste. The anion that he had happened across the chor came in with a rush, the Karack of a deep and bloody mystery naka boys chanting a song that f the seas. There was something sounded to Neils like a funeral dirge, often in Denmark." Of that Neils and Neils went below and turned the Halvorsen was certain. More he could gasoline engines wide open. The ot he certain of until he had paved Maggie n swung around and with a :he way for a complete investigation, lohg streak of opalescent foam trailind as a preliminary step toward ing behind her swung down the bay ihat end he clinched his fist and and faded at last In the ghostly moonr. iprang swiftly toward the bogus sklp-e- light beyond Diamond head; after which Neils Halvorsen, with murder Aye tank you bane d n llnr," he In his eye and a tarred ropes end In Buttered, and struck home, straight his horny fist, went down into the ind true, to the point of tho jaw. cabin and talked to the man who The man went down, and in an inposed as Captain Scraggs. In the end fant Neils was on top. of him. Off he got a confession. Fifteen minutes tame the sailors belt, the hands of later he emerged, smiling grimly, gave man were quickly the Kanaka boy at the wheel the be Jed behind hra, and before he had course, and turned In to sleep the and the realize what had happened sleep of the conscience-fre- e finie Foils had cut a length of cord from weary. i trailing halyarti and tied hla feet Darkness was creeping over the lecurely, after which he gagged him before Mr. iccureiy with his bandana handker-hie- f. beach at Tuvana-thol- o Gibney could smother the despair In his heart sufficient to spur his jaded A quick circuit of the ship For Neils Halvorsen that the re- imagination to working order. mainder of the dastard crew were nearly an hour the three castaways evidently ashore, so he descended to had sat on the beach in dumb horror, gazing seaward. They were not alone the cabin, in search of further He was quite pre- in this, for a little further up the beach of crime. pared to find Captain Scraggs mas-jer- s the two Fiji islanders sat huddled on certificate in its familiar oaken their haunches, gazing stupidly first frame, hanging oil the cabin wall, but at the horizon and then at their white ae was dumfounded to observe, hang-.ii- g captors. It was the sight of these on the wall in a similar and two worthies that spurred Mr. Gib-netorpid brain to action. equally familiar frame, the certificate Didnt you say, Mac, that when we af Adeibert P. Gibney as first mate af steam or sail, any ocean and any left these two cannibals alone on this tonnage. But still a third framed island that it would develop Into a lertiticate hung on the wall, and Neils case of dog eat dog or somethin of igsiin scratched his head when he that nature?. Captain Scraggs sprang to his feet, :end the wording that set forth the ,egal qualifications of Bartholomew his face whitq with a new terror. McGuffey. to hold down a job as However, he had endured so much chief engineer of coastwise vessels since embarking with Mr. Gibney on a life of wild adventure that his up to 1,200 tons net register. it was patent, even to the Swede, that there had been foul play somewhere, and the schooner's log. lying open on the table, seemed to offer the first means at mind for a, solution of the mystery. Eagerly Neils turned to the last entry. - it was not in Captain Scraggs sandwriting. and .contained nothing more interesting than the stereotyped reports of daily observations, currents, weather conditions, etc., including a notation of arrival that day Honolulu. Halvorsen at Slowly turned the leaves backward, until at last he was rewarded by a glimpse of a different handwriting. It was the Inst entry under that particular handwriting, and read as follows: June 21, 19. Took an observation at noon, and find that we are in 2043 S., 4 W. At this rate should lift Tuvana-thol- o All hands early this afternoon. well and looking forward to the fun at Tuvana. Bent a new flying jib this morn, g, d. open-mouth- ft half-stunt-e- d con-rinc- evi-jeu- - ' dull-witte- d . 178-- ing and had the king and Tabu-Tab- u A. P. GIBNEY." nolystone the deck. Neils Halvorsen sat down to think, pnd after several minutes of this unusual exercise It appeared to the Swede that he had stumbled upon a clue to the situation. The last, entry In the log kept by Mr. Gibney was ander date of June 21st just eleven v days ago, and on that date Mr. had been looking forward to some Now where was fun at Tuvana-tholo- . that island and what kind of a place was it? Noils searched through the cabin until he came across the book that is file bibie of svetv South sea trading vessel the British admiralty reports. s Down the index went the old calloused finger and paused at Friendly islands' page 177; whereupon Neils opened the book at pans 177 and aft, a search at Tuvana-thol- o was a discovered barren, uninhabited island In latitude 21-- 2 west. south, longitude 178-4Ten days from the Friendly Island, the paper said. That meant undor power and sail with the trades aba! fhe beam. It would take, nearer fifteen days for the run from Honolulu ,o that dese.t Island, and Neils Halverson wondered whether the men would still be alive by the Hpte aid could reach them. For Gib-no.- deck-band- five-minu- 9 S I Carried His Prisoner Down Into the Cabin. nerves had become rather Inured to impending death, and presently his fear gave way to an overmastering rage. He hurled his hat on the sands and jumped on it until It was a mere shapeless rag. Lets call a meetln of the Robinson Crusoe syndicate, said Mr. Gibney. Second Guffey. the motion, rumbled Mc- said the commodore. Carried, The first business before the meetin Is the organization of a expedition to chase these two cannibals to the other end of the island. I aint got the heart to kill em, so let's chase em away before they get fresh .with us. Good idea, responded McGuffey. whereupon he picked up a rock and threw it at the king; 'MY.' 'Gibney followed with two rocks. Captain Scraggs screamed defiance at the eu- - emy, and the enemy fled In wild disorder, pursued by the syndicate. After a chase of half a mile Mr. Gibney led his cohorts back to the beach. Lets build a fire not that we need It, but just for company and sleep till mornln. By that time my imaginationll be In workln order and Ill scheme a breakfast out of this Godforsaken hole. , At the first hint of dawn Mr. Gibney, true to his promise was up and scouting for breakfast He found some gooneys on a rocky crag and killed half a dozen of them with a club. On his way back to eamp he discovered a few handfuls of sea jsa.lt In a crevice between some rocks, and the syndicate breakfasted an hour later on roast gooney. It was oily and fishy but an excellent substitute for, nothing at all, and the syndicate was grateful. The breakfast would have been cheerful, in fact If Captain Scraggs had not made repeated reference to his excessive thirst McGuffey lost patience before the meal was over, and cuffed Captain Scraggs, who thereupon subsided with tears in his eyes. This hurt McGuffey. It was like salt in a fresh wound, so he patted the skipper on the back and humbly asked his pardon. Captain Scraggs forgave him and murmured something about death making them all equal. The next business before the syndicate," announced Mr. Gibney, Is a search of this island for water. They searched all forenoon. At Intervals they caught glimpses of the two cannibals skulking behind but they found no water. Toward the center of the island, how-- , ever, the soil was less barren, and here a grove of coconut palms lifted their tufted crests invitingly. We will camp In this grove, said the commodore, and keep guard over these green coconuts. There must be nearly a hundred of them and I notice a little taro root here and there. As those coconuts are full of milk, that insures us life for a week or two if we go on a short ration. By bathin several times a day we can keep down our thirst some and perhaps Itll rain. , What If It does? snapped Captain Scraggs bitterly. "We aint got nothin but our hats to catch It In. e Well, then, Scraggsy, pld ' mud, replied the commodore quizzically, Its a cinch youll go thirsty. Your hat looks like a cullender." Captain Scraggs choked with rage, and Mr. Gibney, springing at the nearest palm, shinned to the top of it in the most approved sailor fashion. A moment later, Instead of coconuts, rich unctuous curses began to descend on McGuffey and Scraggs. Gib, roe dear boy, inquired whatever is the matter of Scraggs, - sand-dune- s, , stlck-in-th- you NEWS - y "THE VALLEY of the PIRATES LIVE STOCK 1 S MAN, We got a quorum without him, an' besides this business la just between us three. The Meetlnll come- - to order. commodore tapped the bot deck with , pray It was the finish. The commodore his bare beel twicer. Haul away, knew It, and sat with bowed head la Mac." ' his gaunt arms, wondering, wondering. I move you, gentlemen, that it be FEEDING GARBAGE TO SWINE Slowly his body began to sway; he the sense o this meetin that B. Mcmuttered something, slid forward on Guffey, Esquire, be anV be Is hereby his face, and lay still. And as he lay applnted a committee o one to lam When Celleeted Frequently and Well Selected It Will Make Good there on the threshold of the unknown the everlastln daylights out o that Quality of Meat. he dreamed that the Maggie II came sinful former chief mate o oum for around bone view the headland, a abandonin the syndicate to a horrible into United Statea Depart rtient in her teeth and every stitch of canvas death oq that there desert Island. Do (Prepared by tha of Agriculture.) flying. He saw her luff up Into the I bear a second to that motion? More than 40, 000, OCX) pounds of garbwind and hang there shivering; a mo"Second the motion," chirped Cap- age-fed pork is produced annually ment later her sails came down by the tain Scraggs. throughout the United States from the The motion's denied," announced feeding of table scraps and hotel run, andthe saw a little splash under her port bow as her hook took bottom. Mr. Gibney firmly. refuse; Heretofore difficulties have There was a commotion on decks, and Now, looky here, Gib, that aint been experienced In the economical an and satisfactory disposal of city garthen to Mr. Glbneys dying ears came fair. Didnt you fight Tabu-Tab- u faintly the shouts and songs of the didnt Scraggsy fight the king o Kan-dav- bage. The United States Department black boys as a whaleboat shot Into I aint had no flghtln this en- of Agriculture points out that the the breakers and pulled swiftly toward tire Y'yage an I did callate to lick use of municipal garbage for the prothe beach. Mr. Gibney dreamed that that doggone mate." duction of pork offers a suitable method a white man sat In the stern sheets of Mac, it cant be done nohow." for disposal of these waste products this whaleboat, and as the boat Oh, It cant, eh? Well, ril Just bet and hag permitted the repletion of touched the beach it seemed to Mr. you two boys my interest in the syndiour pork supplies at a low cost. Gibney that this man sprang ashore cate which is fed to hogs must and ran swiftly toward him- - And 'It aint that, Mac, it aint that No- beGarbage collected with reasonable frequency Mr. Gibney twisted hts suffering Ups bodys doubtin' your natural ability and be free from tin cans, soap, Into a wry smile as he realized the to mop him up. But it aint policy. broken glass, and other undesirable oddities of this mirage it seemed to You wasnt sore agin 'em cannibal or injurious foreign materials. It in him that this visionary white man savages, was you? You made Nells desirable always for cities to make Nells bore a striking resemblance to garbage collections and then dispose Halvorsen. Nells Halvorsen, of all of it to individuals, associations, or men ! Old Nells, the squarehead corporations on a contract basis, una of green-pethe deckhand trade Dull, less the Wy operates its own bowlegged Nells, with his lost dog farm. smile and his Long-tim- e contracts are likely to Mr. Gibney rubbed his eyes feebly be most satisfactory to all concerned; and half staggered to his feet What besides they effect the use of a better was that? A shout? Without doubt class', of equipment and better sanitary he had heard a sound that was not the conditions. The pigs or shotes to be moaning of their remorseless prison-keepe- r, fed may be bought as feeders or may the sea. And be raised on the feeding farm. The Hands off, shrieked Mr. Gibney method gives much more satislatter and struck feebly at the Imaginary figresults. Methods of feeding, factory ure rushing toward him. No nse. He housing, and care may differ handling, felt himself swept Into strong arms so long as the essentials . considerably and carried an Immeasurable distance of sanitation and hog comfort are obdown the beach. Then somebody served. . v threw water In his face and pressed a for feeding should be Equipment drink of brandy and sweet water to to the type of garbage availadapted his parched Ups. His swimming senses able and to local conditions, climate, rallied a moment, and he discovered As a rule, raw and transportation. that he was lying in the bottom of a Is preferable to cooked gap garbage whaleboat. McGuffey lay beside him, bage for the use of hogs. In case the and on a thwart In front of him sat weather should be so cold that the gargood old Nells Halvorsen with Captain bage freezes, It Is advisable to thaw It on Mr. head As his knees. Scraggs before feeding. Generally the use ol looked at this strange tableau Gibney ' grain as a supplementary feed for the Captain Scraggs opened his eyes, garbage Is not an economical practice, at Nells and up Halvorsen, glanced but It must be provided when the spoke : of garbage Is temporarily short supply Why If It aint old squarehead Hogs which are to be fed garbage Neils," he muttered wonderingly. If should be Immunized against cholera It aint Neils, Ill go to hades or some by the double or simultaneous treatother seaport. He closed his eyes it Was the Finish. The Commodore ment Thorough, permanent immuniagain and subsided into a sort of lethKnew it zation is very Important because of the argy, for he was content. He knew he presence of vaw pork scraps from in- - . was saved. go back an save em, an it took us Mr. Gibney rolled over, and, strug- two days to beat up to the first ingling to his knees, leaned over Mc- habited island ten drop em off " Guffey and peered into his drawn face. But a Cannibals like a dumb beast Mac, old shipmate! Mac, speak to Gib. He aint responsible. This mate me. Are you alive? knows better." B. McGuffey, Esquire, opened a pair Ah! Mr. Gibney leveled a horny of glazed eyes and stared at the com- forefinger at the engineer. Thats modore. where you hit the nail on the head. Did we lick em? he whispered. Hes too fly, and 'theres only two The last I remember the king was ways to keep him from flyln aay puttin It all over Scraggsy. And that with us. The first is to feed him to McGufTabu boy was no slouch. the sharks and the second Is to treat fey paused, and glanced warily around him like a long-lobrother. I know the boat, while a dawning horror ap- he ought to be hove overboard, but I Go back, aint got the heart to kill him in cold peared in his sunken eyes. Neils go back for'' Gods sake. blood. Consequently, we got to let Theres two niggers still on the the villain live, an If you go to heatin em ' some water. him up, Mac, youll make him sore an island. Bring hell peach on us when we get to HonoTheyre cannibals Nells, but neverGet them aboard the poor lulu. If us three could get back to San mind. devils if theyre living. I wouldnt Francisco' with clean hands, Id say leave a crocodile on that hell hole, lick the beggar an lick him for fair. if I could help it. But we got to remember that this mate An hour later the Robinson Crusoe was one o the original filibuster crew syndicate, including the man Friday o the old Maggie L The day we cessfully Used in Some Instances, and the Goat were safe aboard the tackled the Mexican navy an took but Are Not Generally Recommended Maggie H, and Nells Halvorsen, with this power schooner away from em, Because of the Difficulty in Keepthe tears streaming down his bronzed we put ourselves forty fathom plumb ing Them Samtary. cheeks, was sparingly doling out to' outside the law, an this mate was them a mixture of brandy and water. present an knows It. Weve changed fected hogs which may be put into And when the syndicate was strong the vessels name an-rihogSshow an doctored garbage cans. Garbage-fe- d enough to be allowed all the' water It up the old Maggies papers to suit the no greater susceptibility to tubercuwanted, Neils Halvorsen propped them Maggie II, an weve give her a new losis, pneumonia, or kindred diseases than grain-feanimals. Pork from garbup on deck and told the story. When dress. But at that, Its hard to dishogs Is as good In quality as he had finished, Captain Scraggs guise a ship in a live port, an the se- age-fed that resulting from other feeds, and turned to Mr. Gibney. cret service agents o the Mexican govGib, my dear boy, he said, make ernment may be hogs sell at for us In San the average garbage-fe- d same as ordinary the a motion. practically prices with mate and this here Francisco; grain-fe- d animals. I move, said the commodore, that agin us an ready to turn states eviwe set Tabu-Tab- u and the king down dence, were pirates under the law, an The garbage from more than 8,000,-00- 0 on the first, inhabited island we can it dont take much imagination to see people is fed to hogs In cities find. Theyve suffered enough. And I three pirates swingin from the same whdre municipal supplies of pork are further move that we readjust the yard-arNo, sir, Mac. I aint got produced from ' waste food products. ownership of the Maggie n syndicate no wish, now that were fixed nice an If fed under suitable conditions this and cut the best Swede on earth in on comfortable with the worlds goods, to garbage supply Is sufficient to produce a quarter of the profits." be hung for a pirate in the mere shank approximately 80,000,000 pounds of Second the motion, said McGuffey. o my youth. Why, I aint fifty year pork a year. Generally, It takes about Carried, said Captain Scraggs. old yet. 50 pounds 'of garbage to produce one CTO BE CONTINUED.) pound of marketable pork on the hoof. CHAPTER XIV. The garbage should be collected at SALT WATER MORE BUOYANT least two or three times a week in The lookout on the power schooner northern cities, while in southern cities Maggie n had sighted Diamond head Fact Vhat It Well Known to Mariner dally collection should be made during before Commodore Adeibert P. Gibney, hot weather. May Be News to Some of Our Captain Phlrieas P. Scraggs, and EnThe' equipment for feeding hogs InReaders. gineer Bartholomew McGuffey were cludes troughs, or platenabled to declare. In all sincerity (or A boy dropped a ball Into a small forms, depending on the kind of garns one as much at least with sincerity hole and could not get lt out, so he bage fed. Garbage fed on platforms might reasonably expect from this band poured water into the hole, thinking the Is more readily accessible to the anof roving rascals), that they had en- ball would float to the surface. As the imate. need constant attirely recovered from their harrowing ball was slightly heavier than the watention to prevent clogging when the Tuvater It remained on the bottom. Then garbage contains melon rinds or cornexperiences on the desert Island of na-tholo, in the Friendly group. the boy thought of mixing salt with the cobs, or in case It freezes. Troughs At the shout of Land, ho ! Mr. Mc- water, since he knew salt water would are useful for feeding garbage that Is Guffey yawned, stretched himsell, and float heavier objects than fresh water semiliquid. In all cases the feeding sat up in the wicker lounging cliair would. He tried this and was reward- equipment must be kept clean and sanwhere he had sprawled for days with ed with the floating hall. itary. Mr. Gibney and Captain Scraggs, unThis particular fact Is demonstrated ' der the awning on top of the house. at the mouths of rivers. Objects rollEssentials for Hogs. He flexed his biceps reflectively, while ing along the bottom of a river, too Plenty of salt always before the stretched at full heavy to come to the top, will rise hogs Is one of the essentials for thrift, his companions, length in their respective clOirS, when carried out to sea. The rule also also ashes, chemicals, dry soil or other ' watched him lazily. , applies to boats. A ship with a cargo mineral. on the sea will sink sometimes a foot A.s a member o' the Maggie syndicate an ownin an votin a quarter in- or two on entering a fresh water port.. Best Breeding Hogs.' Exercise and not too much feed IS terest, boomed the engineer, I here- If she leaves the port with her cargo, essential to raising the best breeding by call a rotatin' o the said syndicate she will rise on entering the ocean. for the purpose o transactin any an For tnnt reuses a ship may be loaded hogs. ' Too much feed makes them nil business that may properly come apparently too heavily at a pier and still be all right on the waves. before the meetin'." In building a dam, the fact of salt Breakfast for Hens. Pass the word .for Neils HalvorBless waters being heavier than fresh must Good warm wheat makes a ' Diet sen, suggested Mr. Gibney. he remembered. Kansae City Star. breakfast for the biddies. his squarehead soul," be added. fifth day Captain' Scraggs fainted s twice. On the twenty-sixt- h day McGuffey crawled into the shadow of a stunted mimosa bush and started to ? s That hound been strippin our coconut grove, roared He must have spent the commodore. fihese trees. , half the night up in Thank the Lord they didn't take em all, said McGuffey piously. "Chuck me down a nut, Gib, said Captain Scraggs. Tm famished. In conformity with the commodores plans, the castaways made camp in the grove. For a week they subsisted on gooneys, taro root, coconuts e nnd coconut milk, and a which Scraggs found wandering on the beach. This suggested turtle eggs to Mr. Gibney; and a change of diet resulted. Nevertheless, the unaccustomed food, poorly cooked as it was, and the lack of .water,' told cruelly on them, and their strength tailed rapidly. At the end of a week, all hands were troubled with indigestion and McGuffey developed a low fever. They had lost much flesh and were a white, haggard-looking trio. On the afternoon ot the tenth day on the island the sky clouded up and Mr. McGuffey predicted a williwaw. Captain Scraggs inquired feebly if it was good to eat. That night it rained, and to the great joy of the marooned mariners Mr. Gibney discovered, In the center of a big sandstone rock, a natural reservoir that held about ten gallons of water. They drank to repletion and felt their strength return a thousand-fold- . Tabu-Taband the king came iuto camp about this time, and pleaded for a ration of water. Mr. Gibney, swear-- " ing horribly at them, granted their request, and the king, in his gratitude, threw himself at the commodores feet and kissed them. But Mr. Gibney was not to be deceived, and after furnishing them with a supply of water in coconut calabashes, he ordered them to their own side of the island. On the eighteenth day the last drop of water was gone, and on the twenty-secon- d day the last of the coconuts disappeared. The prospects of more rain were not bright. The gooneys were becoming shy and distrustful and the syndicate was experiencing more and Tabu-Tabu- -- sea-turtl- u more difficulty, not only in killing them, but in eating them. McGuffey, who had borne up uncomplainingly, was shaking with fever and hardly able to stagger down .the beach to look for turtle eggs. The syndicate was sick, weak and emaciated almost beyond recognition, and on the twenty- - ' 1 g , . st d s, Self-feede- , S v, |