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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM. UTAH trader. But MacKnlght did not stop at that now, for, five minutes later, ns Wallen stnrted for the nights tramp across the Island, a Malay guide, well loaded with supplies, started with him, while MacKnlght cursed with earnest profanity as they wrung each others hand. At the edge of the clearing Wallen On the great bearded looked back. figure that leaned against the door frame of the solitary trading station Wallens eyes lingered. The man waved his hand and shouted : Mon, yeU .no forget MacKnlght o' Yell no forget MacKnlght, Arru! mon !" ' , And then suddenly a mist dimmed Wallens eyes. He tried to shout back and could only wave his own hand in return. And then the trees hid the trader from view. Forget MacKnlght! The man who CHAPTER II. had nursed him back to life as a Formother would nurse her child On the Road to Pobl. human that get outpost of solitary Mon," expostulated the Scotch civilization a man with an Iron fist, trader, "but youre fair daft You're a barbed-wirtongue and a heart as nut out of the jaws of death, and Id tender as a womans No; he would no say youre all the wa out at that. not forget MacKnlght! Bide a bit, therell be nnither In a lie forced a smile to his lips. One month or In two, anyhow." made strange friendships in these far Wallen, standing In the center of parts of the world, and made them store- under the little The strange circumstances. house, his eyes on the native who hod chances were a thousand to one that entered a moment before, shook his he and MacKnlght would never meet head. It was a for all but, again "Ive got to get away. MacKntght, friendship that would that, last. he said earnestly. Theres no use Twenty miles across the Island betalking about It. What kind of a ship fore daybreak! does he say It is? Wallen fell to wondering what sort MacKnlght flung out a question In of a ship and, more pertinent still, the native tongue. sort of a skipper was on the ship what smoke-boat,Is a " He says it big translated the trader, "which will be that had put Into Pobi. He had refused MacKnights offer of an advance by way of saying its some measly steam coaster thats so small Its no of money, and he hadnt a penny but able to oceommodate Its own cock- he was satisfied that he would not be Mon, pay no at- refused passage In any case. He could roaches, dye mind tention to It. Whats anither month work his way. A white man who knew his business or so and youll be strong then, and was worth his weight in gold on a ship to I have but hate ah, tuon, ye go Wallen, gaunt and thin from his any time in these parts. It was true illness, shook his head decisively he wasnt any too fit yet; but he was ngain, though the others words had fit enough for that, fit enough a dull brought a quick responsive smile to flush came Into liis face, and his eye9 hardened fit enough to get to SInga his lips. Six weeks ago a proa from the vil- pore somehow He had not forgotten that ghastly lage here had picked him up at sea and brought him, as it were, to this afternoon in the reek of the pest ship, mans door. He owed his nor the Chinaman who had died in his e arms whispering of Sara life to MacKnight. "Its no use, MacKnlght," he an- of Singapore Forget ! He had thought of nothing else all these weeks, .raved swered. Ive got to go." Itll be that black devil In Singa- of it in his delirium, so MacKnight pore ejaculated the trader, screw- had told him. There was one thing dominant In ing up his wizened face and pulling his life now Sam ol his at beard. no Youll viciously play the fool, Wallen. Its not fit you are Singapore, the man who had tried so to go. Listen to me, mon: Its a mat- mysteriously to take his life, to stab ter o twentjniies across the island, at him treacherously, without warning, as ye know v$ll, and no conveyance, out of the dark. It was Singapore Singapore I ye mind. And Its no regular trader thats called, for none Is due she'll never out of his mind now. To get have put In for water or the like, and there, to force the truth, the motive, the reason, the story behind all this will be sailing again at daybreak. "I can make It by daybreak, Mac- from the human spider that lurked In his web, and then his fists clenched Knlght, Wallen stated quietly. For a moment MacKnight stared at fiercely and then settle with the man Wallen, then his hands dropped from himself And that was why he must get to Wallens shoulders. Well, go, and be damned to you! Pobl before daybreak, before this then I he said gruffly, deep down In steamer sailed. his throat to hide his emotion and, turning, stepped abruptly outside. There were not many preparations Twenty miles across the to make very few. island before daybreak! Wallens worldly possessions were his only through the generosity of the (TO BE CONTINUED.! He shrieked aloud, rushed to the rail, and In the delirium of his mind crouched low to hide himself from this dead throng that raved like demons for medicine, ran screaming forward to where the ships boat bumped monotonously In its rise and fall against the vesels hull. He hurled himself over the side, cast the boat loose, and snatching at the oars began to pull like a madman away from the ship. Two hundred yards ofT he stood up and shook both fists and yelled tauntingly they could not reach him now. But why not? Suppose they should swim after him! Lie flung himself to the sent again and plied the oars furiously. And then slowly the strokes lessened, and presently an oar fell from his grasp, and after that, with a moan, he pitched forward Into the bottom of the boat and all was blackness. DIED TODAY, S. WALLEN. Wallen, first Synopsis Slaeey mate of the bark Upolo, In the Java sea, 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 Drink-Hous- e by Sam," notorious character of Singapore, to kill him. This recalls to Wallen an Incident of his childhood which seems connected with the confession. had got him. And he could not fight there was no one to fight he could only die like a trapped rat, while this Sam laughed a thousand miles away Him know, him know, him know" the words coursed like fire through his brain. He shouted aloud, and the nails of his fingers In his clenched fist hit Into the palm of his hand. He could not choke the life, as his own went out, from this devil In Singapore that he had never seen he could only DrinU-IIous- e ' I i i die. CHAPTER - I o Continued. And Gunga had shaken his head as he had answered. I have looked, sahib, and the hand is whole. Spellbound he had stood there on the stairs, a lad of fourteen, and Gunga had lifted the Thing In Ills arms and gone away with It; and (he great figure of his father, dressed in pajamas, had stood motionless for a long time, then turning had faced (he stairs and caught sight of him and suddenly had sent a wild, unnatural laugh ringing through the house. You there, eh, Stacey? he had laughed out, as though unmanned. Well, Ill tell you something now. Never go to the East. Remember that never go to the East." And then he had pulled himself together, and his face had set sternly as Go he had pointed up the stairs. back to your bed! he had commandGo back to ed sharply. jour bed In- stantly The uplifted arm, ns though too heavy for him, fell to his side, a ghastly whiteness spread over his face, he reeled, clutched at the skylight for support, and slipped prone upon the deck. It was the nausea upon him again. The virulence of (he attack passed after a while, but for a long time he lay where he had fallen, weak and exhausted. lie was when he stood up again, and hung limply against the skylight. Medicine yes, that was what it meant that stuff there spilled nil about. lie put some Into hts mouth. Ills eyes fastened on the ship's log open In front of him. What kind of a book was that? What was it doing there? Had he been reading? He couldnt read when he was sick. It was very strange. No; he remembered now, he had been writing In It. Whenever any of the crew died he wrote it down In the book. And now the crew was all dead, and he would be dead, too, very soon; therefore he should also write his own name down while he could still write. He remembered It all perfectly now that was what the book was for. He lurched forward and picked up the fountain pen from where it had seml-dellrlo- 1 Yes," said Wallen aloud to himself. Thats what he said: Never go to the East never go to the East. But he had come to the East and six Chinamen had shipped aboard the Upolo to kill him. His father heel been quite right in telling him not to go to the East. How was It that he had come there? He had run away from that gray house after that night, and he had never heard of his father since. That was In California. He had gone to Frisco, and gone to sea. He had been at sea ever since In all kinds of ships, and he had done pretty well. He had his masters certificate already. But that did not account for his being here In the Java sea, and for those six Chinamen. He had been fourth officer of the Tokamaru when they had touched at Shanghai a few weeks ago. She was a fine ship, the the biggest passenger liner in the fleet only a fourth officers pay was very small. lie had met Captain Mitchell of. the Upolo ashore there, and Captain Mitchell had persuaded him to ship as first mate on the Upolo for double the pay he had been getting. The Upolo, of course, traded through the Java and Banda sens that was what his father had meant by the East touching at Shanghai as a port of call in a liner wasnt the .same thing. now that sun burned through the awning! It seemed to stab and drill Into his skull with little shafts of exquisite pain, ne could get away from It, of course, by going below Into the cabin, by putting the deck between him and that torturing ball of fire, but In the cabin one couldnt breathe. One couldnt live In the cabin Captain Mitchell was there and Captain Mitchell was dead. Had Captain Mitchell anything to do with those six Chinamen? Or anySam in thing to do with Stngnpore? And where was It those six Chinamen had Joined at Shanghai like himself? If he coukl remember that he would know whether Captain Mitchell had had a hand In the cursed game. Hadnt Johnson said - something about new hands? But then native crews were everlastingly shifting about. It was a long way from Singapore to Shanghai. e Who was this Sam? What was It Ting Wah had said? e Sam him know." Him know, him know, him know" the words began to run through his mind In a singsong, crazy fashion and then a passionate, merciless anger seized, upon him, and the splendtd bulk of the man heaved up from the chair, and, clenched fist raised, he swayed upon his feet They had got him I Not the way they had thought to get him but they Toka-inar- , Drink-Hous- Drink-Hous- Dllnk-Hous- six-fo- ot 1 1 ! 1 big-heart- Drink-Hous- 1 1 Drink-Hous- OLD THINGS UNDER THE SUN Democracy e In Ancient Jewish Days and Are Two. The democratic Idea Is of great antiquity, the Christian Herald reminds Its Under the prophets and renders. Judges, Israel was a democracy. It was not until they were fascinated by the barbaric splendor and unrestrained license of the heathen nations around them that they began to be dissatisfied with their own simple ways and to long for a king and a showy court It was the lure of sin and worldly vanity. Samuel warned them against courts and kings and told them of what would happen, but his warnings went unheeded. The vision of the age of peace began as early as eight centuries B. C., but it was not until the Christian era that the world change in the existing order fully dawned upon the minds of men. The idea of a league of nntlons Is not new. Such a league was foreshadowed by Jean Bloch, In his remarkable book, The Future of War." issued 20 years ago. It was also foreseen by Emanuel Kant, who, In his on Perpetual Peace," wrote that the law of nations must be based on the federation of free states. At different times leaders In national and International reform have had visions of such a league, but always as a possibility of the remote future. It has remained for the United States to promulgate It at a time when the world seems prepared to listen. rolled Into a broken package of powdered quinine. He lurched again heavily as he leaned over the book. A nervous twitch of his hand gouged the Into the page and left a blot. He shook his head In a gravely puzzled way. It was queer that the pen wouldnt write as It had written before; it seemed to travel all over the page, and he paused, his hand going to his eyes again It was strange that he couldnt think of his own namet He was first mate, he knew that; but yes, his name came back to him now. He wrote on laboriously. He finished the entry, dropped the pen. and stared at what he had written, nodding his head. "Died today, S. Wallen, first mate. He read the words aloud, and nodded his head again. It was true, quite true. When that damnable sun that was tormenting him through the awning was gone, that would be the end of today and he would be dead. His eyes strayed forward along the Wanted Pressure Reduced. deck and widened with a dawning Bobby was playing In the yard and fear. What were those shapes there! had cut himself badly with a piece of He began to mumble to himself, and tin. Running In to mother he cried: suddenly shrieked out aloud. It was Please, mother, turn off the blood, a horror ship. quick I" es-sn- Art of Literature. Is but a drawing room accomplishment unless It pressed Into the service of the truth. The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean ; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. This is com' monly understood In the case of books or set orations; even In . . . writ ing an explicit letter, some difficulty is admitted by the world. But one thing you can never make Philistine natures understand; one thing, which yel lies on the surface, remains ns to their wits as a high flight of metaphysics namely, that the bust ress of life Is mainly carrleu on by means of this difficult art of literature, and according to a mans proficiency in that art shall be the freedom and the fullness of his Intercourse with other men. R. L. Stevenson. Lart de blen dire the League of Nations, nt Famous for Quality Easy Prices BOYD PARK FOUNDlDlftOa MAKERS OF JEWELRY MO MAIN STREET Business Courspc Stenography Bookkeeping Dictaphone CivU Service Typewriting Posting Machine L. D. S. Business Salt Lake City, Day and Evening College Utah All the Year Typewriters! All makes Rented, Repaired, Sold. Wntefor prices-$7.- 50 to $100. 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'and as a result Yale Issued a challenge to Harvard, which Harvard accepted. The railroad company paid the expenses of the crews, and Harvard won the prize, pair of black walnut sculls, more ornamental than useful, but serving to set In motion what has become a fa' mous Intercollegiate sport Harvard-Yal- e A reflector concentrates the heat at the top of a new electric cook stove. Hunter Spent Weary Months In Jungles to Prove That the Species Really Existed. It seems incredible, but there exist hippopotami that do not exceed 30 Inches in height. For a long while nobody believed that there were any pygmy hippos in Liberia. The natives Insisted that the Hippopotamus lived deep in the forests; but that was another reason why explorers and hunters shook their heads In IThe hippopotamus lives ncredulity. the rivers, they said, and this along talk about pygmies of this species In the forests Is nonsense. Nevertheless a pygmy hippo was caught as far back as 1873, apd brought from Africa to the zoological gardens In Dublin. It might have convinced the world, only it arrived In a dying condition, and perished before It could be exhibited. After that, people took to doubting It again, and considered the one recorded specimen as a freak. But Carl Hagenback, the famous animal man, made up his mind, at last, that the pygmy hippo dould be, and should be, Introduced to man, He sent an Intrepid hunter, after It, and Schomburgk, after spending a year and a half in the Jungle, reappeared with three pygm? beasts, two of which were at once and brought to the New York zoo Her placed on exhibition. New York aid. Schom-burg- BUSINESS CALL MAKE BRIEF Well to Remember That Executives, a Rule, Have Little Time to Waste. Mouth-tal- k or brain-tal- k which s kind do you chiefly use during a I cant call or conference? 89 half as many men as I could see or I should like to see during the day a because my callers, once they get to see me, waste my time with lncon execsequential talk, said a busy se my utive recently. Consequently, adm retary Is under instruction to I mus only such persons as she thinks ggg know If you make a business call beforehand what you are S,ng present and how. Dont waste and trivialities-thbefor objective of your talk decis a call. It may be cons may be a promise merely to the be your proposition ; It may of a specific date when you can 6 the matter In detail. Whatever j It 83 objective is, work toward you when and as Idly you can; an reached It pick up your hat su Good-bThis is one of the imf ways of making a favorable slon. Pace Student. 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