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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH There was Mott, who had grown the hours since that morning like a more surly every day. hideous nightmare! shook Ills head. Mott's atWallen Miss tomorrow, Til Ill explain You titude was easily accounted for th he said hurriedly. MacKay, man, as witness the ride at Pobl, If It mustnt "Im not! she laughed. Im only had not. been glaringly evident on keeping you. And pushing him play- board since then, was attentive to Miss fully toward the companionway, she MacKay, and resented his, Wallens, ran out onto the deck. usurpation of what he evidently considered his prerogative. foot at A moment luter, Wallen, the What of the crew then? of the ships ladder, was running his They were a hard lot and a polyeye sharply over the half score of and shore boats that pushed bumped glot one The English and Americans amongst the and each other gangways against platform, and whose occupants at the them had every appearance of being prospect of a fare were screaming the sweepings of the slums of Lonnnd yelling In a frantic effort to at- don, Liverpool, New York, nnd, for tract his special and undivided atten- men of their Ilk, the more vicious Seation. ports of the far East. The rest were A Malay boatman had the strate- of every nationality two of the were Chinese coolies, the stewgic position alongside the grating. Wallen unceremoniously pushed the ard was from the West Indies, the craft away with his foot, and beck- cook was a Frenchman from Port oned to a Chinaman who was next in Said, and two Danes, a Swede, a line. As he clambered Into the boat Kanaka, from the Sandwich islands, he looked up. Helen MacKay was and three Japanese completed the rosleaning over the rail of the boat deck. ter. Wallen looked up, and fixed his eyes Take good care of yourself! she called out merrily. Singapore means speculatively on his Chinese boatman. the city of lions, you know. Dont They were almost at the landing. run your head into one of their You sabe Sam? he mouths And with a wave of her demanded abruptly. hand she was gone. The Chinaman smirked knowingly. It brought a sudden, premonitory Me sabe, he replied. shock to Wallpn nnd then a, grim, All right, said Wallen. "You take cold smile. The city of lions It me there. But first, you take me where was only a joke with her, a little light- the stores are, I want to buy some hearted fling with him, God knew it things, Slid I dont know my way might prove a ghastly reality about." At first, when he had found that Me sabe, said the Chinaman again. paper on his cabin floor, lie had All same velly glood guide." thought, as he had told her, that he He proved to be. Within half an would take heir straight to Sumatra, hour after landing, Wallen had comget her off the ship; and then second pleted the purchase of an excellent authoughts had convinced him that the tomatic pistol and ammunition, and danger which threatened him did not was following the Chinaman back threaten her. She was safe there on along a dark street near the waterboard. front. Another few minutes of twistBut this thing it was not only the ings and turnings, and the Chibaman personal peril it rose a shuddering, had halted before an uninviting-lookinmocking barrier between .them Mockhostelry In an equally uninviting-lookin-g ing? Yes ! neighborhood. He or they, the devil or devils who Dll Sams, announced tUg had murdered his father, were playing BUm-blyou all same go back with him as a cat plays with a mouse! guide. Me wait? ship? Why had nothin! happened to him In No," said Wallen, as he paid the those three days from Pobl, while he other. John Thats all. had been living in a fools paradise of The Chinaman disappeared. imagined security? Wallen surveyed the building beHis lips thinned into a straight line. fore which he stood. It was one of Well, perhaps they would play too Easternized-Europeathose wooden would He settle it tonight. long! two stories high, the front structures, When he canfe hnck to the ship he would know or there would be one rooms on the second story opening dionto the veranda. With the genless scoundrel In Singapore That rectly air eral of being disreputably out at was what he was going for now to bore all the earmarks of a it elbows, Sam of Singapore. Who was it aboard the Monleigh sailors boarding house of the lowest who had put paper under his type. Wallen stepped forward, pushed the cabin doorik 'called "him door open, and entered. grumpy all that day and all that day A bar ran down one side; a score he had been studying the crew, cataloguing in his mind every man aboard. of small tables occupied tne main porIt could not well be all a plot in- tion of the room, and around these or volving the whole ship and crew were clustered some twenty-fivthirty hands, evidently seemed out of the question. on shore leave from the harbors ship- Not one of the officers had he any reason to suspect above the others! ping and making the most of It. though it was true, and a little disturbing now, that Captain Laynton, Wallens visit to Drink-Houin turning over Jhis fathers effects, Sams saloon com"1 had not Included the fatal pistol that, if the story were true, was obviously plicates matters. his fathers property but that might readily have been but an oversight. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ! coal-passe- A SCRAP lighters, affords a safe and convenient the other, anchorage: fringed with wharves and warehouses, lies three miles west. It was already dusk when the Mon leigh, finding a berth amongst a nest of Junks, sailing and steam craft of all descriptions and all nationalities, dropped anchor in the roadstead at Singapore. Wallen paused for a final word on the threshold of Captain Layntons land-locke- OF PAPER. first Synopsis Stacey Wallen, mate of the bark Upolo, In the Java soa. Is the sole survivor of the crew, all victims of yellow fever. Ting Wah, Chinese sailor, last man to die, tells Wallen he and five other Chinamen were sent aboard by "Drink-Hous- e Sam," notorious character of Singapore, to kill him. This recalls to Wallen an Incident of his childhood which seems connected with the confession. While delirious, Wallen en- ters the ships In log the fact d, cabin. Its understood, then, Captain Laynhe said quietly. No shore leave for anybody and steam up. I'll only he ashore a few hours, and well be away from here again before morn- of his death and abandons the vessel In a small boat. Wallen's boat drifts to the island of Arru and a Scottish trader there, MacKnight, cares for Him. Learning that a ship Is In port on the other side of the Island, twenty miles away, Wallen, though unfit for the task, starts to reach It, but falls exhausted on the trail. There he Is found by a man and woman who are from the ship he was trying to reach, Mott first mate, and Helen MacKay, a passenger. They convey him to the vessel. The ship proves to be a small tramp steamer, the Monleigh, Captain Laynton. Laynton tells Wallen the vessel had been chartered by Wallen's father to find him, the father knowing his son to be In grave danger because of a feud between the elder Wallen and a notorious pirate, Ram Gulab Singh. Laynton also Informs him of the death of his father, explaining that the fatality was believed to be an accident. Wallen Instantly associates his father's death with the Chinamans confession on the Upolo. He takes over the charter of the vessel and sails for Singapore. Helen MacKay explains that she Is on a visit to an aunt In Sumatra. Walien agrees to take her there, just touchng at Singapore, where he is determined to fathom the mystery of Drink-Hous- e Sams enmity. ton, ing. Captain Laynton was pulling dubiat his chin. Yes; and by morning the customs nnd quarantine officials will be looking for' the ship that slipped out without any clearance !' I hardly think Ihe Monleighs ar rival will create much of a furor, reIve a few hours' plied Wallen dryly. private business ashore, and then well get Miss MacKay right across to Sumatra and I dont want a rowdy, drunken crew to do it with." "All right! said Laynton. "Whatever you say, Mr. Wallen. Wallen, with a nod, stepped aft along the deck, entered the smoking room preparatory to descending the companionway and came face to face with Helen MacKay. Of course, she' said demurely. I think Its perfectly splendid that you are going to run the ship all the way to Sumatra on account of little me; but I think its sinfully selfish of you to go ashore all alone this evening when were only going to be here for ously long-standi- . CHAPTER IV Continued. And so they had passed those days, and It was the fourth night now sinoe he had come aboard and tomorrow they would be in Singapore. He lay tossing in his bunk. A tumult of thought kept his brain active and alert. Singapore! What would Singapore bring him? Who was this Sam? It mattered a great deal now a groat deal more than it had mattery before. For. before, with a sort of berserk rage, he had been willing to take a gamblers chance, and, win or lose, stake his life against this devil, whoever he might be, that had tried to strike him down without warning, without a chance to defend himself; but now his life meant more to him he wanted to live for her. Thank God," he muttered, that at least everything is all right on board here He turned over and lay for perhaps ken minutes, trying to compose himself to sleep but his eyes Insisted on remaining fastened on a iueer little white patch by the door, What was It? It wasnt the moonUght through the porthole reflecting on anything. He raised himself up on his elbow several times to make sure of that. Finally, In a fretful way, he got out of his bunk to Investigate. It was a piece of paper that had evidently been pushed In under the threshold but whether ten minutes or two hours ago he had no Idea. Wallen picked up the paper, switched on the light and suddenly it seemed as though his Immediate surroundings had vanished, and he was living again a scene of many years ago. He was standing on the stairway of that grim, gray, lonely house in the dead of night, a trembling child In his nightclothes, nnd below In the hall, holding a candle, was his father, and Gunga was bending over a form on the floor, and his faDrink-Hous- Drink-Hous- rtiJJ BOYD POUNDED ! -- g ! y Good-nigh- ! t, n ! Drink-Hous- e iat gVld bar-roo- m -- se MAKERS OF JEWELRY 160 MAIN STREET Typewriters' tesa?35siji Utah Office and School 32 W. 2nd South, Salt ELEPHANT MADE NO WHIMPER How Word Booze Originated. In the Pennsylvania museum, Memorial hall In Fairmount park, Phila- Underwent Pain of Having Tooth Drawn With Stoicism That Would Shame Many Humans. delphia, enn be seen a collection of highly decorated old bottles, and the one which attracts most attention is the log cabin whisky bottle, molded in the shape of a house. On one end is 120 Walnut street, the inscription Philadelphia, together with the date, which Is 1840, on the front of the roof. On the back Is stamped In bold E. G. Boozs old cabin letters, whisky." This erstwhile vendor of spirituous liquor is said to be responsible for the use in America of the slang appellation "booze, by which all kinds of intoxicating drinks are known today. Although some etymologists give It as being derived from the Hindustani word booza, meaning to drink, while others claim it is from the Dutch "buyzen to tipple. The term was good English In the fourteenth century. It does not require much Imagination to realize that pulling an elephants tooth is something of an engineering as well as a dental Job. An example of this was when Albert, one of the biggest elephants in the Ringiing herd at Madison Square garden, New York, had refused to eat and the circus veterinary found a great tooth cavity which was beyond remedy by filling. The tooth that was giving Albert so much discomfort was ' as large as a mans fist. After a liberal dose of cocaine had been injected, forceps as big as ice tongs were clamped to the tooth, a rope attached to the forceps, and a squad of trainers made ready to supply the pulling power. At a given signal the trainers gave a tremendous pull, and out enme the Ventriloquists. huge tooth. Ventriloquism is the art of producIn this sort of dental work the nn- known quantity lies in what the ele- ing tones and words without nny moso that the hearer ofphant will do. Albert had been taken tion of the lips, refers to some other sound ten the out of the menagerie to prevent panic The uses no inplace. ventriloquist In of case herd rest the the he among developed an inclination to object to strument, nor does the art depend the process. However, he underwent upon any peculiar structure of the orthe ordeal calmly, nnd as soon as his gans of the voice, but upon, dexterity. Jaw was dressed he was conducted The name is founded upon the mistaken supposition that the voice proback to his stall. ceeds from the stomach. The art ol! the ventriloquist consists mainly In Sore Throat. Speaker's of breath, apd Clergymans sore throat Is, accord- taking deep inhalations to then It allowing escape slowly, the to J. of Dr. John New Levbarg ing York, due to an incorrect method of sounds of the voice being modified by breathing, which causes the speaker the muscles of the throat and palate, or singer to use his muscles Incorrectly Ventriloquism Is a very old art nnd and thus overtax the throat. The was known. to the wclent Greeks as proper way to breathe is to use the well as to the Romans. The Greeks diaphragm and the lower ribs, keep- ascribed It to the operations of demons, nnd called ventrllokulsts ing the upper chest full of air. . Sabe, a few hours. He Replied. Please, Mr. Yacht-Captai- wont you take me too? It was the first time lie would have avoided her if he could have done so. I you that is, well, you see, Miss MacKay I I cant very well. Look ! Supply Lake City. Uul HELP WANTED ue,le,ni irber towns need barbers; good trade Many gmiii opportune, draIt4e- Lornr.n.0Vemr In - 1 I ,rm commission. Call Moler'E!! 8. West IWwii St., Salt Lafc In few weeks. College, 43 HAVE ONLY ALLOTTED SPAN Death of Trout, Although at Advanced Age, Disproves Theory Which Seems Absurd. An ancient controversy has been rthe published story of the death in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, of a trout which for 20 years had survived in a well. The fish was caught In an adjoining stream the River Evan, a tributary of the AnnaA, near Moffat, and was placed In a well formed in a burn adjacent to a remote rihvay signal box, a few miles north of Beattock, on tha Caledonian main line. The signalman evived by who at the time was In charge of tha cabin took a lively Interest in the ffsh, as did also various engine drivers and other railway workers on that section of the line, when Intervals permitted of their visiting the aquarium, with Its solitary occupant. The trout gradually became quite tame and docile, and was accustomed to swim boldly to the edge of the well to receive titbits from visitors In the form of worms or Insects suitable to its appetite. It Is still argued by some authorities that unless some accident befalls bira, a trout lives on indefinitely. Opponents of that theory find support lq the account of the death of .the Scotch trout for their opinion that all fish, even the members of the princely salmon or trout class, have their appointed span of life. FOR SALE We have in this vpiano, also latest icinity a used but in pemodel player-pianrfect condition, practically new, which we will sell at an attractive figure and on practically their own terms, to responsible parties, rather than ship back. Write today to Consolidated Music Co., 13 to 19 East First South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. high-grad- e o, WHY HIS Me PARK 1 here! cried Wallen impulsively and caught her hands and held them. I know youre more than half serious, and that youre keenly disappointed at not going ashore. Its true Ive been a beast today; but I Ive been worried. This morning I had almost made up mind to run to Sumatra, and not touch here at all ; but theres a little business that I felt I must attend to this evening, and well, thats what Im going ashore for. You you unthers voice was in his ears: Look derstand, Im sure, Miss MacKay. Her eyes widened, partly in merriagain, Gunga, Has he one finger on ment at this confusion, partly In a the left hand? I have puzzled way. And then Gungns answer: Oh there was only bewilderment looked, sahib, and the hand is whole. Wallen's face was strangely white. in her eyes now. I Im not quite On the piece of parchment that he sure I understand. I thought It was held was crudely traced a human hand, quite settled when we left Pobl that and the fingers, save for the forefinger, we should come here. Yes, so It was," he acknowledged had the appearance of having been hacked away. awkwardly. He bit his lips. He could not tell her that his brain was sick with the effort to grapple CHAPTER V. with a peril that he knew now beyond Sam of Singapore. question lurked aboard the ship, and There are two harbors at Singapore ; that, because It was unseen, because Experts have estimated for the govone opposite the town, which although he could not Identify It In the form ernment that Hollands coal deposits little more than an open roadstead of any one, or two, or all aboard the contain more than 5,000,000 tons, but vhv the ships discharge by means of ship nnd fight It In the open, had made none of It Is first grade fuel. e e ! e ! Drink-Hous- You do not buy silverware day, which Is a very goJ hy you hould hilly tt.t which rs rough-lookin- g e Table Silver ! ! (belly-prophets- ). . The pearl is the only gem that does not require the lapidary's art to bring out Its beauty. SECOND BEST BED? Writer Feels Called On to Criticize Shakespeare for Provision In His Will. Made We are Indebted to an English for a copy of the last will and testament of the latefWllllam Shakespeare. In the course of this docseument, we observe the following ntence : I gyve onto my wief my second best bed with the furniture. We have no desire to find fault with the successful poet and dramatist of Stratford for this apparent discrimination against the Widow Shakespeare. What disposition he made of his firs beat bed Is a matter that is not r" vealed by the copy cf the will of the versatile author whose last testamen Is reported In the columns of our alert London contemporary. However, .dont think Mr. S. showed Just the wief h right spirit In gyveing onto his he no did second best bed. O, why tee gyve onto her his first bed, or his g the with potte or his punche bole 0 butterflyes, or his favorytte wigge. o his safelle razure, or fountain penne,secbicycle anything, In fact, but his ond best bed? No doubt Mr. Shakespeare had gone to bed with his boots on many a Satnj" day night In that very second best sue and yet, hallowed as It was by memories, one cannot but feel that widow was treated unfairly. Perhap c Wills folks Influenced him. As a rega writer we have only the highest and esteem for him. But we don think he acted right about friend Magazine. . 1 mi Presidents Who Were Mason. Masonic records of the early pro dents are not complete. The 'ol Mason Ing presidents are listed as Mao Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Adam. on, Monroe, John Quincy Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, GarCfl R Arthur, Cleveland, McKinley, felt and Taft TayloJ-Pierc- |