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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SALINA. UTAH TOURING GOLD PORTOArthurBELLO Howden Smith D. by within the If - WNU Service. on by Arthur D, Howden Smith Coprrtht - red disk of the sun lifted over the larboard bulwarks. Well round the horizon. And it was day. Westward, Spaniard as he Res. Let go your I! perhaps half a league, a great ship broadside, Coupeau !" TW Treasure Ship The gunner ran to the open main-hatcwas wallowing toward us before the nt of triumph In There Jjis no and bellowed Ihe order down freshening wind. The coloring of her manner 11s the slooii figurehead sparkled In the level rays to the my gmit-wfcleThe planks seemed n me about and lay to. under our lee which touched her dingy canvas and to spring under our feet. A thun The demit series of detonations shook the quarter; nor did lie turned the sails to meat when she unloy whole fabric. The smoke-cloud- s gaudy banner of Spain flapped with James boat she towed astenfi and a were first driven away, then a spendid Insolence In the pure light. " swarthy fellows eoiiuuerired to exclaimed my thickened to an impalpable mist, and "She Is pull It toward us. lie Indulged In a great-uncle- , staring at her through his the acrid stench of saltpeter and brimstone was choking in the nospinch of snuff and took Ids station prospect-glass.by the starboard rail at the break of Heavy-armed- , too," I added, point- trils. I had a wavery glimpse of a., the poop. Ieter and I followed him. ing at the hand of cannon along her vast gilded figurehead, a heap of torn canvas and rigging. Resides us there was only Muslin, sides. who stood, aft by the man at the We headed up Into the wind with Well make light of that, he anxvilieel. swered. "Hut I shall have to pay much creaking of yards and slatting The rowboat was as Infinitesimal as somewhat for my Quixotic promise to of sails, and I lipard faintly a clamor an Insert in those tossing wastes; you, Itobert, to spare her crew. Ho, of walling outcrief from the sinoke-bnn- k but the man at the steering-oa- r guided Coupeau, pass the word tjiat the prize thi,t masked the Santissinia It with uncanny skill, up the toppling must not he pierced betwixt wind Trinidad. Almost at once our broadcrests that threatened' to crush It, mil water. I would bring down a side roared again, the red flames down the dizzy steeps that hade fair spar or two at the beginning of the from the licking out like to hurl it to the oceans oozy hot tom, action, hut concentrate your fire upon hungry tongues. Rnd brought It to rest a scant fifty her decks." The Spaniard blindly returned our fire as flip James felt her way tofeet from the James' hull. Ids long Did, msicu." Hut what of , ODonnell and his ward him, the thunder of the two sweep fending and twisting to mainOn a shot-swetain the position. Me was very dark daughter! 1 exclaimed. Rnd lean, with Imre, corded limbs anil deck ! .a sinewy trunk covered hy the rem"Tut, tut, my hoy! You concern nants of a cotton shirt and trousers. yourself needlessly. ' Tin a risky busiHis ness and cannot he otherwise. What Mis hair was a stringy hlaek. ' voice, when he spoke In answer to part do you and 1eter purpose to plax , was In the action? a sign from my he said hut what I answer to that was about hotly harshly rhythmical, for both he we would have naught to do with I could not understand, and Murray used Spanish. piracy when Ieter said asked two questions, Maybe we better gro qhonnU dec My great-unclboth brief, and he answered as briefly. Spaniard and catch der little gal, waved Ids hand again ; Ja. My great-unclAn excellent Idea," returned my Into the crest he dug his stecrlng-oa- r looking expectantly at me. of one of the monstrous suges, and great-uncle- , round-sho- t I a lead the hoarders myself, and like shall boat shot away the little from a gun. A few .moments In the confusion I may be hard put to direct the later we saw them make fast to the to It, single-handesloop and leap aboard, one hy one. fighting anil save the ODonnells from If you two The sloop hauled her wind and heat injury. In long, "Well do It, I said ungraciously. off to westward slanting tacks, and the James was once more Then I nodded to the white ensign alone In the western mouth of .the at the main peak. Will you light under false colors? Mona passage, Hispaniola a blur in the north and Iorto Rico Romewhere They are not false," he retorted We fight for with tightened lips. out of sight southeast of us. Murray dusted a second pinch of England today." England and Flint and Long John snuff Into his nostrils ns je .turned Silver and Hill ..Hones and Martin and from the rail. "Our three weeks waiting hath not (oupemi and The Stmtls-slmIerhnps. Hut If those Myself? been In vain," lie Raid. named share In the .rewards have to from sail Porto TrlnldaTnCTis you A Final Blast From Our Guns Tore hours after of victory 't is that England may profit Itelln within the forty-eigh- t the Smoke Clauds to Shreds. Cause Good and the wifli Kite will triumph. he forththereby up Diego put if Janies It mutter, King us in another five days. The fools What dot!) broadsides overpowering, numbing have delivered her Into our hands. return to London?" like the roaring of two boosts, fighting sarcasI echoed Indeed?" "What I felt my great-uncle- s Hy her sidling orders, so Iiego told in the night. me, she must hug the south shore of tically, yet Impressed against my will hand on my arm; Ills voice was low, Hispaniola, that she may he within hy his deadly earnestness. Jiut distinct. A white puff of smoke Jetted from easy rua of Santo Domingo in case of We shall soon he broadside on with As for the nights, she'll our foesle, and a crackling explosion accident. The O'Donnells will her," he said. be lighted- .up like P.artholomews smote our ears. Coupeau had fired he on the poop. You had best get fair. the first shot from one of the chase for'ard. Robert. If we board from dot If Englishman guns, long elgliteens, beautiful bronze abaft the foremast 'twill place you Ja, Its all right we sighted Inst week dont find a pieces of prodigious range. Involun- stagetlcally to seize upon them. You tarily we all focused our eyes "iipon and Ieter hnd best carry arms. I frigate," said Peter. the treasure ship, and a cheer from fear the Spaniards will not seek to a trifle. face fell Murrays s applnnded the (lapping differentiate betwixt you' and my "yes, we have always that to reckon the In the bulge of the showed rent that wicked self. with." he acknowledged. "Stap me, foretops'l. I see not what the fellow could have Spaniards We go. Ja, assented Peter. murmured my great-unclExcellent! suspected to send him kiting from us." Amidships we encountered Saunders men pouring up from If he suspected us, why not some of and a horde-oThe Santlsslina Trinidad staggered the to augment the bonnling-parties- . the other craft that have passed us nmn who has oh our heat? Peter and I tarried to seI Interjected.. There for an Instant like a struck been by one he lect weapons from a rack hy the main unexpectedly ha been plenty." supposed to be a friend. Then she , and M,v great-unclpointed to "the white yawned to give us a full view of her mast. He took a hoarding-pike. I contented myself with a cutlass. ensign floating from the nilzzen-truckcolors; and ns she yawned, broadens Murray, having inspected the ing the .target, Coupeau tired again. ascertained and that hooks had Frenchor were all They Spaniards Twns a low shot, tired as the James from our yard arms to men, he answered They took us dropped into the trough betwixt two hern rigged for a kings ship. No, theres little waves, and nil we could see of It clutch the Spaniards rigging, rejoined us. He was dressed with Ills usual chance of Interference. If there Is was that apparently it plowed into exquisite taste in watered gray silk, his jaw squared I'll hunt the San-- . the waist. with white silk stockings and gray tisslma Trinidad Into Cadiz port. The Spaniard fired a gun to leeward shoes with jeweled buckles. He wore or the that Nothing happened day and put over his helm, aiming to his white hair was next. And so three more days passed cross our hows and head up for Santo no hat, and with Increasing tension. The look- Domingo. Plainly he did not knowr outs in the crosstrees were relieved what to make of the Incident. To every two hours, that the mens vision all appearances the Itoyal James was The n king's ship. She showed the Engmight he fresh and unstrained. sixth day was like Its predecessors, lish naval ensign. So he evidently blazing hot, bubbling the pitch out of decided that hostilities must have We did not expect to love .the cana the gentle soueast broken out between the two countries, Friends lmd presaged a deep, yon. breeze barely sufficient to keep the and In obedience to his sailing orders round earth's side. Colsails drawing. Daylight found us far- endeavored to avoid a fight and make overwhelming and railroad folders had ored postals ther to the south than we usually for the nearest fortified Spanish port. prepared us for crudely hwed lozenges plied, since Murray feared the SpanHut the James sailed two feet to on the precipitate walls. We expected iard might have missed his reckoning the treasure ship's one; and splenzebra neat, strlpesjof vermilion, ochre and shifted the designed course he didly handled, we overhauled her and cohalt. was to follow. within a glass of the first shot. In Instead we looked Into the beautiful Noon observation suw us returned the meantime Coupeau kept pecking soft gulch of the canyon and our to our customary station, and to guard awn.v at her, and us we came within were won. The crisp Arizona hearts a range of our main battery her foretop-tnas- t against the possibility that the was cupped there when we' morning Trinidad had passed us in the crashed, covering her foesle wkh-- a first beheld It on the deep sunken heat haze whilst we were heating up tangle of Its dotted with firs, on the plateau from the south my great-unclran Tills was too much for her people, o'f far walls. the Irregular pasteU down the wind Into the mouth of the and she put up her helm, brought her pale wore crowns of meltTruncated peaks bear and let fly at passage for several glasses. We en- entire hattery-t- o. ed azure light and lower wreaths of countered a fishlng-periaguthen, and us with all her starboard metal. faded The Immense, peace the Indians of Its crew shouted back Twns a poorly managed salvo, yet of the geranium. bowl played over Jagged great swished to Murrays question that no great three or four round-sho- t an unplumbed, unfathomable manus, r eighteen-poundenn ship had entered the passage that across our decks, and tle of serenity. smashed a couple of men to day. So back again we heat to windWe saw colors change, the pinks ward the whole weary afternoon. Jelly Just for'ard of the poop. dull, the soft bands of azure grow a madman In the shadowy hour that precedes like Coupeau, working break up, and etherealize In the full both was hall came from the with his chase guns, the dawn the firing then brood together as the noon, mast-heatogether, laid on the same 'target-- and and set In coldei lengthened, lights down the In hoi now he succeeded Lights cutting of strands petunia blue. On the slab How do you make them? Murray foremast about twenty feet from the of river walls we saw the side the biland trumpeted. deck, sending the heavy spar after the Ped and yellow, over and under, lowing canvas The bulk of the answered the main crosstrees. fallen topmast. Santa Claus in England Very good," replied my great-unclwreckage fell overside, dragging the Bret Harte's story, How Santa Master Martin, pipe all hands to Santissinia Trinidad down by the to Claus Came to Simpsons Bar," pubbreakfast, and serve an extra ration hend and forming a lished In 1S72, is credited with popuof rum." held her stationary. e smiled with grim larizing Santa Claus In England. Aye, aye, sir, sighed Martin My great-unclDickens stories popularized so much mv .satisfaction. And heies to luck, the rest of Christmas custom that of ! he hailed the Ho, Saunoers eyes this considerThe dawn came all at once, as If second mate, who was stationed amid- his memory can. spare Item. s able on grappling-ironthe a magician had waved his wand. The ships. Rig CHAPTER X 9 h gun-dec- eloth-of-goh- half-doze- n heavy-laden!- gun-muzzl- great-uncle- e e n gun-crew- e. f gun-dec- e grap-pling- clubbed and cued. carried was a The dress-swor- only weapon which he held unsheathed. An end to our immediate worries lie announced cheersoon, Robert, fully., The action has gone perfectly. I would not have varied a move so far. We have not lost a dozen men. A final blast from our guns tore the smoke-cloud- s to shreds, and a snatched tlpeip vagrant wind-puf- f aside. 'Twas like the drawing of a curtain at a play. Tlfe treasure ship lurched helplessly not twenty fathoms dlstant.jher rigging In tatters, her spars split and wounded, her fo'csle and foredeck one red litter, her bulwarks splintered, gunports blown in, guns dismounted. The two ships jolted together, and In response to wind and helm the Itoyifl Janies swung broadside on against the .Spaniard, our bowsprit becoming entangled ' in her mizzvn clatrigging. A dozen grappling-iron- s tered in air and ground their hooks Into her bulwarks. There was a brisk an exchange popping of small-arms- , of threats and shoufs of defiance. My great-unclregardless of the firing, mounted the breach of a cannon him above the bulwarks, and Peter and I climbed Into the forerigging, whence we had a fair view of both decks. The larboard bulwarks of the Royal James were crowded with men. Stripped to .the' waist, their lowering faces smutted with powder-stains- , their hairy chests barred with tattooing, their backs more often than not scarred by the cruel welts of the lash, they tussled for first place and clung with their bare toes wherever there was a hit of running gear or an inch of space, gripping cutlasses in their teeth to leave hands .free for pistol work or to steady themselves as they waited an opportunity to leap the narrowing gap between the vessels. My eyes strayed to the Spaniard's decks. Little knots of men ran about A stolid-lookinfellow confusedly. aimed a pistol at me and a ratline over my head fell apart. Officers were driving the sailors forward to meet us. A man In a laced coat and periwig was shouting orders from the poop, and. my pulse quickened, for at his shoulder was the lanthorn-jaweface of Colonel ODonnell aye, and In the rear of both' a skirt fluttered in the midst of a huddle of ra'ven-blacfigures, priests and nuns. Jump! squeaked Peter in my ear. 'We jumped together, but my great-uncl- e was ahead of us. He leaped ail of ten feet, sword in hand, alighted on the Spaniard's bulwarks, poised himself a 'moment and dropped into the renter of a ring of foes. Before he hnd recovered his balance he had parried the slash of a cutlass and pinked nn antagonist In the throat. And he beat down a leveled pistol as I gained the treasure ship's deck, inclined his hend to avoid a mtirderous blow, ran the man through and almost In the same breath stepped a pace to the right to angage a fourth opponent and nil this with the cool precision of a fencing-masteunhurried, a flush of ohvious enjoyment oft lps pallid cheeks. "But I saw no more. My task was to fight my way aft and protect the ODonnells and Peter and I turned our hacks upon the struggle amidOne wave of the pirates ships. wake;, the rest sto.rmed followed Peter and me.' They were as brave as- - they were vicious, and we made rapid progress and were r nearly at the foot of the when Murray's whistle shrilled which-elevate- g d r, poop-ladde- Grand Canyon Marvel of Peace and Beauty deck-seam- Sun-tlsslm- . r. e a -- ; d sea-anch- . sweetest-pearl- cling wi.th .frostier blues, in dusk .and night. gulf brim and-th- until Then it lost them the brim. Ip the high, clean wind we walked by that invisible envern, saw the stars, large, fringed and low. and knew that vast as a familiar place where we could be at peace. Christian Science Monitor. on ... Butler Didn't Linger James Agate, ' in his Secrets of tells the story about Showman, butler, one He'land, employed by the late Richurd Mansfield, the actor. In his heart of hearts, writes Agate. Holland felt he was rather belittling himself by being In the service of an He had never seen Mansfield actor.on the stage; but I finally persuaded ..him to. accept seats for a performance of Ttlehnrd III. At the first Interval I met him In the vestibule, and his comment was:' 'Undoubtedly he Is a great itrlst 1' In the middle of the Dream scene I saw Holland seize his hat, coat and umbrella and rush down the aisle. Where are you going? I 1 said. This Is the great scene. know, he said ; he Is a grent hartist nil right, but hes spotted me, and he's carrying on something awfu: Just like he did once at home when 1 smashed one of his precious antics 1 (antiques)." The Chinese day Is divided Into 12 paru of two hours each. behind us. 1 realized, too, that both O'Donnell and the officer In the laced coat were shouting volubly, the one In English and the other In Spanish, trying to make themselves heard above the din. Haveyou changed your asks parley," came lit, broken last plugs cannot phrases from O'Donnell. year? understand regrettable mistake Der Spaniard wants quarter, contentnot, grunted Ieter. satisfaction ment Indeed, those of the Santissinia Trinidad's men who had been resistyour tour will be ing us promptly flung down their insured if you install a arms, glad of the excuse to quit the full set of dependable fight; hut the wolves of the James crew were not schooled to show Champion Sparkplugs before you start. mercy, and they killed three poor fellows before Ieter and I could knock Champion X up their cutlasses. exclusively for Murrays whistle blew a second fords packed Lathe Red Box time. There was a sudden hush, punctuated by the grinding of the two vessels, the thudding of unshod feet as more of the James' pirates dropped aboard the treasure ship, the gagging cries of the wounded, the nasal singsong of a priest pattering Latin prayers. I seized the opportunity to look around. We were too dose under the poop to see what went on beyond the rail directly overhead; but the main-deefore and aft, was a pitiful spectacle cluttered with wreckage and dead men and 'bits of men and women wounded in every. conceivable Champion for fashion, Its yellow-san- d carpet cars other than Fords packed gemmed with carmine pools and rivuin the Blue Box 442 lets. Each as My great-unclwhen he had ascended the Janies bulwarks, stood a little ahead oS of Ills followers, his serene face and rich clothing in startling contrast with Dependable for Every Engine their nakedness and frank brutality. Toledo, Ohio A trickle of blood dripped from the point of his slender sword. Ills attitude was that of an honorable man who wishes to be reasonable in a difficult situation. quickly relieved and often cleared I believe I. heard an appeal .for away by a few applications of quarter," he said quietly. Sir, you did, replied O'Donnell. 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Would you be so kind, C.olonel On rising and retiring gently smear ODonnell, as to acquaint your friend the face with Cuticura Ointment. with the fact, and to assure him that Wash off Ointment in five minutes I regret he must accept the situation with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It as it stands? I am desiroqs .of. sparla wonderful what Cuticura will do ing the lives of those of his people for poor complexions, dandruff, itching who survive, but at a pinch I will and red, rough hands. Advertisement. slay tlrem all to compass my inten-tiori.- " " The gossips mouth costs her nothAnd- - what is that?" asked O'Doning, for she never opens it but at nell. anothers expense. Franklin. To relieve Don Ascanio of the consignment of treasure he carries," answered my great-unclWhen It fs aboard my ship he shall be at liberty to continue his voyage. ODonnell proceeded haltingly to translate this statement. He never finished it. The Spaniard launched a fresh torrent of curses, broke his sword across his knee and tossed the SAFE INSECTICIDE nodpieces overside. My great-unclSweet Smelling ded sympathetically. TIs an unpeasant plight. I know, Had Don Ascanio not dishe said. carded his sword-should have been delighted to yield him nn opportunity for such satisfaction as one gentleman may give another. However I must stipulate further. Colonel. O'Donnell, that the' crew of Trinidad shall he the' Santissinia placed in confinement for so long as suits rny purpose. Any resistance A Hand Sprayer will be given must cause additional ' bloodshed, FREE with every purchase of a which, I am sue, you will agree is of FLYOSAN until can quart unnecessary." "Don Ascanio will say no more, 31st. July He washes his returned. O'Donnell. Seckel Fritchman Company hands of the whole proceeding. Boie, Idaho . Abandoned hy his crew ( Enough, interrupted my great-unclBagley Nelson Company . . 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