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Show THE UUNA PI TV SAUNA: UTAH Men of Proved Nerve Scared by Microphone TWO HOMES HAPPY MADE By Women Who Used Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. "I 'have taken Lydia E. rinkhams Vegetable Compound and I think It is tlie most won-erf ul medicine d I ever tried," Is the statement Mrs. made by Goldie Shoup ot IlliSt. Joseph, denois. She clares that tnklner the pound she after Com- Is In health better before. than Mrs. J. .Storms of 29 Lane Strwt, I'nterson, N. .T. writes: I cannot speak too highly of your medicine and I recommend it to all my friends. These statements were taken from two enthusiastic letters which tell of the help that has been received from using the Vegetable Compound Moth Mrs. Shoup and Mrs. Storms were In a condition which caused them much unhappiness. When women are suffering from lack of strength and from weakness their own life and that of their family is affected. When they feel well and strong and are able to do their housework easily, happy homes are run-dow- n the result. Are you on the Sunlit Road Prince William of Sweden Is a renowned animaJ hunter, who stands tJ feet 6 Inches in bis stocking teet, but, from an incident which has Just become known, he was completely cowed by tbe microphone. It was apparently a premonition on bis part that he was to have an unusual experience. At any rate, as he walked into the deadened studio and the broudeasting was just about to begin, he mopped his brow and exclaimed In an agonized tone: "This Is terrible I As related by M. II. Aylesworth, P.erlenbuch, who fought young Stripling In the roped arena, sulTered an even worse experience. Herteubacti was to give a talk on "lira very In the Prize Ping, but became so terrihed that be strode out of the studio, never to return. tlve-mlnu- Levity Resented man who had bought a very valuable building site was surveying his newly acquired property In a mood of reverie when a stranger, in a similar mood, accosted him. "Sir," said the man, "I remember when this property was a farm. Why. I buried a dog here In those days. And now I read that It has been sold for liuif a million. "Yes, said tbe new owner, with a smile, "I bought It." The stranger was obviously hurt. "But what Im telling you, he said, "Is the truth. A to Better Health? 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Two cases of owls have been rout San Diego, Calif., to shipped Lord Howe island In the South seas, where It Is hoped the birds will wage relentless war on the army of rats offending the 11 inhabitants of the island. After a period of storm and stress we should look carefully for the rainbow; it Is there. cam By ELLERY H. CLARK STORY FROM THE START Coprrlsht -- th. smalt New Jersey of Straltamouth, In the year 1749, Richard Lindsay, who tell the story, give an exhibition of his markmanahlp before some and a stranger, with villager whom they afterward dine at th tavern. Th conversation on a notorloua pirate, turn whose ship, the Black Panther, Is thought to be In the vicinity. Next morning Lindsay, after wlid ducks, Is sitting In a blind when three stranger land on the beach near him. They bury a chest and then one of them, Bur-forrecognized by Lindsay at the man he talked with the day before, kills one of hie companions. Lindsay presence la discovered. The third man la Captain Barclay of the Black Panther. The three go aboard. Lindsay meeta there a youth to whom he bears 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 aa a apy In hls uncles household. He refuses. la vll-la- Continued first?" The answer came like an echo. I would die first." There fell silence. Instinctively my eyes sought Barclays face, and I seemed to read there, not only inflexible resolve, but something besides resentment, perhaps, at meeting an adversary as steadfast as himself, and yet, withal, a reluctance to force a crisis. And when at length he spoke, It was evident that my conjectures were correct, for he did what was for him almost unheard of he chose deliberately to repeat himself, and thus to make his meaning crystal clear. "Once again," he said, "I assure you, on my honor as a gentleman, that Andrew McAllister is unworthy of consideration at your hands. For any fate that may befall him, he has but himself to blame. You need waste no pity, no sympathy, no act of upon him. And once more I repeat that If you choose to disbelieve me, and to cast your lot with your uncle, then for you that means but one thing deuth ! As he finished speaking, I glanced quickly at McAllister, and Instantly hope died in my heart, for he sat gazing at the captain without the tremor of an eyelid, and with an air of d contempt, as If this pirate, lesplte hls power and force of character, were far removed from the others world. He did not even deign to speak; a faint, shake of his head was his only reply. The result was Immediate, for he could not, I think, have chosen surer means to antagonize and enrage the rnptaln. Like a flash Barclay was on his feet, his face livid with wrath, and turning to me, he uttered the curt command, "Go on deck! I rose slowly to my feet; then paused, Irresolute, striving desperately to think of some expedient by which I might aid McAllister. Yet the case seemed hopeless. We were two striplings without weapons; our captors were picked fighting men, In the prime af life, and not merely immensely our superiors In strength, but slayers by profession, and armed to the teeth. Again my eyes sought McAllisters, and he seemed instantly to divine what was passing In my m.nd, for once more he shook his head, and with his hand made the slightest possible gesture toward the companion-way- . There was no time for more, for our Interchange, brief as It was, had not escaped the captain. His face, as he glared at me, was like a storm cloud, and I perceived that hls hand had dropped, threateningly, below the level of the table. He snarled, rather than spoke the words, "On deck ! Wholly against my will, therefore, I yielded, and reluctantly ascended the companion, step by step. But at the top, moved by an impulse that I could not resist, I turned and cast one final glance below. In these few moments tiie whole scene had changed ; Captain Barclay had lost no time. The door leading forward from the cabin was open, and from my outlook the space beyond loomed like a dungeon, black as night. Through this door McAllister was in the act of passing, but whether of hls own free will, or whether, as It appeared to me, through the compulsion of Burford and the captain, I could not say. Then, realizing that I was powerless, I turned once more and regained the deck. Yet In the moment that I stood there, without moving, I heard, or seemed to hear, the scuffling sounds of a struggle, and then one shrill, scream. 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We were standing out to sea, and the schooner, well heeled over, was bowling along at a great rate. The captain, back to us, stood leaning against the rail,' gazing out at the broad expanse of sea and sky. He turned at our approach,- - with one gesture dismissed Burford, and with another bade me take my place at hls side. You are learning, he said, some- - CHAPTER IV Another Mans Shoes Presently, as I stood gazing blank-forth over the blue waters, I felt a y hand upon my arm. and wheeling about with a start, I found IUirford at nv elbow. Instantly I searched hls race for some sign oi what had happened. enlv to find that his expression ofihle as Yet al- - pleased me, I own that It did, and after a little he went on, Now then, as man to man" and I own that I liked this too I am going to tell you my whole plan. There Is that blackhearted Andrew McAllister, rich and prosperous with the treasure that was half mine and what has he done? He has bought a great plantation on the southern coast of Jamaica, and there he Is raising sugar cane and growing richer still. Where does hls labor come from? Why, its slave labor, of course. And he doesn't have to buy hls slaves from others ; he has a ship that does nothing but trade, back and forth. In a kind of circle, and every port she touches makes him richer. Look now, while I make It plain to you. Two vessels he has; one a brigantine, the Shark, that sails the Caribbean, a pirate out and out. But Its the other thats hls steady, respectable trader ; shes the bark Ashantee. That bark he loads In Jamaica with sugar and molasses, and up the coast she goes to New England. What happens to that sugar and molasses? Its made Into rum the best New England rum. And where does that rum go? It goes out to Bonny and Calabar. And what Is loaded In exchange for Thert rum? Some gold and some Ivory, but mostly niggers prime niggers, worth fifty pounds a head; and back comes the bark to Jamaica, and the slaves are landed at Andrew McAllisters plantation, and they raise more sugar and molasses, and that makes more rum, that brings more slaves to Jamaica again. Around and around In a circle; can you Improve on that for a damnable way of getting rich? Isnt that a game to make the devil' rub hls hands and laugh? I could only nod assent. And I could not help thinking what my father would say if he could hear of this wicked trade. Of the horrors of the "middle passage" I had heard him tell, of the dead bodies flung over to the sharks ; aye, and sometimes, when winds baffled "and food and water ran low, of live men hurled to their deaths-undethe shadow of the midnight sky, with no one to know of their murder and avenge It. Surely, as the captain said, this sailing in an evil circle was a game to make the devil laugh. So vividly, Indeed, did he present the picture to my mind, that I must own that for the moment I did not see the incongruous side of a man of hls profession thus condemning McAllister; for It was a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and while the captains fine show of Indignation would have qome well enough from the mouth of another, It fell oddly from the lips of a professed pirate, a murderer, and a plunderer of the seas. Yet, as I have said before and as I may say again, Capt. Francis Barclay was the strangest mixture of a man I have ever known at one and the same time, though It sounds, and doubtless Is, incredible, a rascal and a gentleman, a murderer and a philosopher, a cruel sneering brute and a man who could yet charm you, with hls subtle speech, Into thinking that black was white. And so now, as doubtless he Intended, he managed to fill me with resentment against Andrew McAllister r t, half-amuse- SAY Bobb.-M.rrl- most with hls first words I was to learn the truth, and, as he 'spoke, I perceived, further, that Barclay himself had also come on deck, and stood by the weather-rai- l nonchalantly surveying the receding land. The captain wishes speech with you, said Burford, and added, not The captain gazed at him grimly. "You would die Ca by WNU Service se d, CHAPTER III 1124 The Captain Wishes You. Speech With thing of Fates revenges-- ; something of the tangled threads that make up the pattern of life. Doubtless you consider a man's life of great importance a sacred thing. Perhaps It Is In your and he Indicated village; but here with a sweep of his hand the ship and the sea and the sky a mans life is no more precious than a fleas. Take yourself. You are nothing to me less than nothing. Save for a chance resemblance, you would this instant be snugly tucked away on the sand spit yonder, with a great hole In your forehead, and sand for your blanket, and the ooze of the tide for your bed ; sleeping for all eternity In spite of myself, I shuddered at the picture, for though no scholar, this swaggering captain had a marvelous knack of using words. Presently he And young McAllister continued : was nothing to me. You have the proof of that. And you see what happens to stubborn young men. I am warning you. You doubtless think there Is right In the world and wrong In the world, and that you must do what Is right. But I tell you that on this schooner there Is no right or wrong except my word. What I wish Is right ; what I do not wish Is wrong. t You are not, I think, an young man, but I hope that at least you can see that. Now I did not take this conclusion kindly, for though the world In general has, I fear, seemed to share that Idea of my abilities which the captain had just expressed, I myself have always felt that I was brighter than supposed, barring perhaps, as I admit, a certain slowness at times In graspYet mindful ing a situation quickly. of what Burford had said to me, I kept my temper and answered quietly Yes. I understand that. enough, He looked at me with that ctfrlous gleam In hls eyes which was often there, and which I hated a kind of amused, contemptuous glance that made you feel hls delight in hls cleverness and hls scorn for your stupidity and then all at once he said; Well. Mr. McAllister He stopped with these words, as If to see If he could catch me napping, but for once he did not, for though I own that for an Instant I thought he had made a slip, the next second I perceived first that he was too clever a man to do that, and secondly that If It was not a slip there was a purpose In It. And what that purpose was It was not hard to guess. And so, to surprise him, and to show him that he had underrated me, I answered roundly, as lie paused: "Yes, Captain, thats my name. And Indeed he was surprised. At first I think he could not believe the quickness 1 had shown, but presently, perhaps from a smile which I could not restrain, he saw that I understood him, for he laughed and fetched me a clap on the hack, crying, "Well, well, I thought you were simple, and here I find that you are deep and subtle yes, a d d dangerous rogue. Now. although this should not have over-brigh- and hls nefarious trade. Undoubtedly, Indeed, he could see by my face, which I am told too openly reveals my emotions, that I was Justly Indignant, for he continued, "And who runs hls plantation for him? That spawn of Satan, Jack Shively, hls precious mate. Which Is the worse of the two, you ask me" though I had not asked him at all, and had not studied hard enough at school to appreciate hls rhetorical skill Well, thats hard to say. But Id answer you this way. Give me McAllister for wholesale villainy, for working out schemes on a big scale. But for downright petty cruelty theres no one to beat Shively. Ive seen him torture a prisoner to death, and langh while he was doing It. And hes the man, if you can imagine it, who has full charge of McAllisters great plantation. Why, boy, Its a very kingdom of the damned. Theres only one rule the rule of the whip and whether he has cause for It or not, whenever the whim takes him he singles out a slave bald-heade- d and has him or her, ha treats tbe women the same as the men lashed to a tree, and flogs away till the poor nigger's back streams blood. Whether they die or not he doesnt care, so long as he has hls fun. Hes a coward at heart ; he wouldnt meet you In a fair fight; but he's brave as a lion with those poor defenseless blacks. A missionary went to Shively once, and begged him to treat the slaves with more consideration, to give them soma time to learn religion, some hours for recreation and play. And what was Shivelys answer? That he had hla masters Interests to look out for, that religion and recreation paid no dividends, that wiser men than he had figured It out, and that It was cheaper In the end to drive slaves to death in a few years and then fill their places with new ones than to let them live out their allotted span In health and some kind of happiness. Treats them like brutes, you may say. Why, the ..meanest brute that ever skulked and cowered In the depths of the Jungle Is a king beside those poor black slaves. Certainly, as he put the matter, I felt a hearty hatred for both these g men the master and the brutal mate and the' captain, doubtless perceiving the impression he had made, hastened to drive it home. Well, enough of Shively, he continued. Let me tell you something more about McAllister. You Imagine, of course, that he lives on hls plantation. But he doesnt. Hls conscience Is too black for that. Hes picked the spot where he lives on purpose. The plantation borders on a beautiful river, with a narrow outlet to the sea, but a little ways Inland the river broadens into a kind of lagoon, and in the middle of It Is an Island, and on the Island McAllister has built hls house, or, as you. might almost say, hls fort, for thats what it really Is. He has a garrison, I understand, a dozen men, good fighters, and there the old fox lives, never stirring from hls den unless he has to. And there he hoards and plans and adds to hls treasure. A coward, a skulker and he made a gesture ' of contempt too deep for words. There fell silence, while he gazed over the rail Into the sunshine with a fierce and eager gleam In hls eyes. It was some time before he turned to me I called you McAllister Just again. ntrw, he said, "and you understood my reason. That young man was true to hls uncle; you cannot blame him; he did not know what Andrew McAllister really Is. And so you become Robert McAllister. We have the chests with hls clothing and all hls effects; we have the letters from hls uncle; we are bound to make a success of our plan. No one on the Island has ever seen you; no one had ever seen him; and the resemblance between you Is so strong that If we could bring back young McAllister from the dead, and dress you alike, It would take a wise man to tell you apart. Ive given you the outline of the scheme ; now for the I land you near hl& home; details. you make your way to that cursed d mate, and make yourself known, and he brings you to the Island. All you have to do Is to play the dutiful nephew, to get McAllisters confidence, to find out all you can about the Island and Its garrison, to find out, above all, where he keeps hls treasure. Then, In a fortnight, you will meet me again, and we shall talk things over. What will happen next depends on what you have learned. It may be better to storm the Island, or It may be that you will he have to kill him yourself. But no broke off suddenly, and much to my relief "that wouldnt do unless It was the only way! .1 want to have hls skinny throat between my hands. But we can settle that later. Theres only one thing to do now, and thst Is for you to give me your solemn word of honor that you will be faithful to me, and that you will undertake this venture as I suggest. If you refuse he turned 'squarely toward me, and hls tone was hard as steel then much as I regret it. I'll have you stripped and tied to the foremast before five minutes are gone, and Ill rouse my gentle darlings from their d d drunken sleep and have them pelt you with empty rum bottles till theyve let out every drop of blood In your veins. So make your choice, once and for alL Will you die like a dog or live like S man?" plot-makin- bald-heade- (TO BE CONTINUED.) Introducing Mr. Gush, the Great Salesman Id like to have you meet Mr. Gush. Mr. Gush Is a salesman. At any rate, that Is what Mr. Gush tells people and that Is what he rewrote at the top of hls Income-ta- x turn. I Just know that Mrs. Gush thinks her husband Is a big business man. Shes heard him confess as much so many times. Mr. Gush, has a fine address. As he says, so many salesmen arent good talkers. He might easily have gone He has In for after-dinne- r speaking Just that effect on you. No one can ever say that Mr. Gush refused the gauntlet. He Is always ready to do battle with the biggest customer in hls territory. They cant bluff me and the bigger they are, the harder they fall," he so originally puts It. Mr. Gush has found It difficult to get an attractive arrangement; you know what the rest of us call a good Job. Speaking before the Happy Hour club the other day, he announced, The greatest trouble 1 have Is In letting my boss keep up with me. A willful group of men have petitioned for an open season on Just such babies aa Mr. Gush. 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