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Show tilTIGAL TIME Man-Eate- nfi'oi,mils life ithtvBePuLd1' nfCi aPa'n Ffilz MAST TREES FOR THE CROWN ofMTWsrnbi rs Duquesnc Copyright by Ridgway Co. in Safety. Hit, IET DU TOIT saw the njoylnir rnot fe All Vsl-- Ml ending cf the Hoe lances ni mfn t0 th out a Hitts way from camp to I aalked and crawled through the wrs broken up nnd thron awent for 20 years, and I r with the peace Jththan 1 b dear apses where 1 could get our dors boocb, but with tbs fires th tellers I can safely of Vereeulglng, but In ,roPi' carried nothin bearings. As I was finding my atari vanished. There wudaylight to do Iheli nothing parka but stinted rations for I saw a there was no peace My now that J am a party of natlvea coming away but rest, for 1 was not euro of tbo Tbs horses ' well woman. 1 wu wars shot and from our tents, bearing a soldier In direction of the movement of the for him under Eng-Umen tramped off to tbs marshes. reaml on a farm am a hammock. I auppoaed that they campers, arms. Ills heart 16,11 fefe bad all k Indiof heavy nntlvu with ui were taking tbs body away to bury burning like the A few hours later gray columns of work to do which ,0 fep us auppllcd It Tbs experience was too common moke l of a alow rose perhaps five miles to the d all who were not for ms to canoed 'the trouble! watch while question what they wars south. Hungry and thirsting and the 2fe. 4 10 our came on me la that f,rrjr ,n, " cooking doing. Oars mors, after a little time, Heading from thorn scratches, I set Union Jack dangled W(,r " out to bunt for meat; tbs f ter. For five year roars arose, and then out toward the smoke as fast as I bl1 fe0 om nd but It seemed ,ht they were unwilling they mysterious during the Cbange of b. 2 fr4 stopped and tbs night wu still. could In tny fatigued condition. Two " bo ?' rlfe of a hostile Life 1 wu not able bl djflD Tbs next night I wu aroused again hours walk brought ms In view of Jin. d,J tfeOUt tor tbs hunters almost always country, to lift a pall of wa return-fey tbs strangs roars. I took my the unmistakable Doer laager, 01 . We were forced to arms ter. I had hemor sod, half unknowing what t square of white-toppewagons around II wss a farmer which would last for week and I r.,tlon 10 ,ht oun,o day. was doing, wandered off from tbs of huh horses were a bitched. fapt Llchtenburg, Rroad it to n In length, few morsels of camp. bootable to lit up bed. lsu'ered fk dl,trct lying in the west of shouldered bearded men, heavily bB1 tfe dis 224, and f.T with tack deal wu ao my Trsnavul, and It was easy for frrtt that lay between us and tbs In a clump of bush not far away I armed and booted, sat around the Dim to muater a LJwu I could ecarcely aleep at nlgh heard a noise which grew mors dis- fires, I cried with joy and, taking little company of kina swamps. Jgj j did not do any housework for three men and frlenda of llko tinct as I approached. It wu tbs my hat In one hand and my rifle In temper to Finally, after n wearisome trsmp trek with him out of the Transvaal a peculiar weird chant of tbs natives. tbs other, I waved them and stag tor two our much work I can do famishing troop I crept through tbs bush end reached gersd on aa tbs ?.w nfter tho close of tbo war. came uponweeks, campers rushed fop a Ion woman of my ego In the county, Thera were twenty-alstretching an open apace where lbs natives were ward to meet mo. It wss a whites In hie wr miles before declivity party of us. Tbs horizon, clustered. There, swung In a harm Doers .urki to the benefit I have received Prt7 men, women and children, and vetted In for lost same tbs searching n blue haze, was blotted by n 'root Lydia E. IUnkhams VegeUble about a hundred Kaffirs, most of whom black mock, tied band and foot, was one voortrekksra. the Junle, dread-ruof t of our tick soldiers who I could ass the margin I recommend your remedlce hid been attached (Vm pound. I told them In a few broken senby years of service marihes of Mozambique. Mabtoa nd good treatment. wu still living, and around him tences my Incredible u ail wlTcrlng women."-M- n. After some story. Jan Van search we Va. newa found danced half a hundred negroes. When Hollow At, Odd, Du Toll bad no definite choice of a ly mads path and followed Its narrow the dance was over tbs blacks took Vlgl tbs leader, listened to mo In Ko other medldne for woman's lllshu pot to settle on. He planned In a way Into tbs tently. d swampa and unquall (Ived such tbs hammock and went off Into tho general to 1 ass out way Word was given to Inspan and, ten the land spy amid leading the troop when 1 saw foreat I tried to follow, but my lege We know of no other nnd Ud endorsement beyond the swamps of Mourn ahead a company of armed minutes later, oxen were dragging tho such a record which native of blquo and laid his trembled and I fell to tbs ground. hu gtdidne course straight over blinking the way. The groaning wagons In a long lino across wa (0 E. Finkham'a repath tbs roars hu Lydia Again mysterious (Dtfa the veld to Komateport at the railroad narrow that our troop could not sounded through the darkness. In my tho country. I was placed on a horse Vegetable Compound. For more than SO between nd led tho way. crossing the Transvul and it hu been the standard remedy the Portuguese For some territory. When wo cam Lr woman's ills. In algbt of the time bis trek was beard from more camp on tho distant hlllsldo the sun tli haw If yon slightest doubt or leu frequently, but after pasitng was setting. Vlgl decided that he (hat Lydia l llnkhuma Vegeta the Portuguese border the news be would go to the camp with mo and ble Compound will help you, w rite gsn to shrink to bare reports that tbs lay out a plan of action beforo the lo Lyd in I LIN n k ham M etlic I ne Co, Doers had been seen by native from natives learned of tho arrival of the (wutidentlttl) Lynn, Mnsn for sil- time to Doer commando. Wo reached be the lier, Your letter will opened, northeasttime, still pressing on to tho tent under cover of the night, and Van through tbo wilderness to read and answered by a woman, the vast swampa. tod held In atrict confidence Vlgl for tho first tlino heard tho mysterious roaring that cam out of the They were doggedly entering the earth. in woods most repellent region of the dark conluejay tinent. a rearful expanse of fetid pools 'My God!" ho cried, "that's the and loathsome mire, under the glare roar of lions, but it Is unearthly!" Owls Birds and Other Are Hiwks, of the torrid sun, the breeding ground "Tou aro right," I muttered. "It Tested and Tormented by Theu of the crocodile and all manner cf Birds. cairo from hell" Noisy reptiles. Inserts and vermin, a perpetWo left the tents and made our way ual fount of miasma and deadly fevers, The bluojay likes best to live la through tbo bush to the opening In but Jealously held against Intrusion by tho rocks. "When did you say they thick woods, but It often comes Into the fiercest and moat bloodthirsty nafeed a man to these devils?" Jsn ipeo Acids, orchards' and near dwell asked. I looked at tbs stars and saw When It die tives of Africa. All cunning and hate .aye In search of food. are lodged In these people, Into whose it waa about an hour from midnight covers you It assumes a proud and native blood has come a touch of the "In aa hour, or perhaps two," I of defiance. conceit and air iirry Arab and of the trader of Madagascar. answered. The bluejay'a upper parte are pur Their normal life Is war; their chief Without a word Van Vlgl turned on Mblue. The lower parte are pur amusement la his heel and walked away. 1 followed The wings and tall are with most bloodmurder; the aavage tflihgray. on hta hands la a him down hill for some distance. The tall bright blue with black bars. hero, and may become a god when he "What shall we do?" feathers are tipped with white. It has dies. 'We shall do what ws always do crested head. It was presumed that the Doer trek an ays for an eye, a tooth for a tooth! The blurjay builds Ita nest about had passed Into the but no Return to the tent and when you hear tenty feet above ground.' It Is made native had seen the awamps,and no entry an owl screech twice corns back to if twigs and fine roots. From four to new came out end back to Llchtenthe cave." i!i eggs are laid. They are of a green burg. After several months of vain I returned to the camp, armed myah drab color flecked with brown. waiting and growing anxiety, a search and filled my bandoleer with all self to Doubtless the bluejay helped for the trail was begun with the help the cartridges It would bold. After urns Itself, as Its common utterance of native scouts. an Imratlent wait 1 heard the signal it a long drawn, Jay, Jay, jay. This Every path leading Into the marshes and mads my way to tbs month of cry, with the bright blue color, has was traced for many miles by the tbs den. As 1 passed through tbs (Iren it Its name. JLSOOTW l7CttrT searching parties, but no marks of Du 37CriAVC& bush a black figure rose before me. While the jay Bings no song it Is Tolt'a trek were detected and no tid"Ws are here," said Van Vlgl "If die to Imitate the calls of other screens of weakness I lost consciousness, and ings of the missing party could be charge In fores, and the irom they come tonight tbs Hons will have was birds, by which means woke when I It an them made It often the attack daybreak. swamp gathered from the natives. Yet evI dreaded tbs coming of night, but mors than their fill" them. It likes to tease and ery Africander persisted in the belief on the flanks and rear hard to resist Aa hour passed, when the brushing and with It the frightful roars torment the owl and especially the lit that the party was somewhere alive or Still, It wu impossible to retreat, and It came, men through the bush caught our of were me. resource. that I a was tie sparrow hawk. bold front the maddening only This is done by that Its fate could be learned. All Except for thla sound there was n ears. In the opening a troop of men Imitating the cry of a wounded bird, African history has no reeord of a lost leveled my rifle at the chief who which draws the hawk near. Then Roer; but, after bunting vainly for headed the natives. He opened .his silence as of death on the camp. I was carrying a body bound tight In hammock. They halted before the lereral Jays will dart at the hawk mnny weeks, the Portuguese govern- arms, bearing bla shield on the left stepped out Into the moonlight and In the shadow of a mimosa. A cave and, a moment later, the torches stood full his stretch and at spear lifting In Wealing and frolicking about ment was on the point of giving up the Uliminated the night, and they danced treat glee. Sometimes the play ends attempt, and It was evident that the In bis right hand, so that his brawny, moving object caught my eye. A of natlvea In single file crept around their victim. Then, when the was troop body exposed. glistening fully to a tragedy, for the hawk pounces Doers must renew the search for their His Into camp with the alnuoua stealth of low whirl ceased, two of them raised actios meant: "I am a friend." spoa one of them to the dismay of countrymen or It would be abandoned. a python In the grass. Tha leader the body and carried It toward the our I and lowered rifle, my troop the others. Jays may be caged and I bad gone to Lorenzo Marques to waa soon in with touch opened the flap of n tent and entered mouth of the pit. the friendly tamed like crows and some writers elect land for the same purpose as natlvea. The chief asked what we with three followers. A moment later A roar of horrid welcome came from say they can be taught to utter words. Du Tolt In a the were beyond out a territory four carried the thw sick In we the and helpless depths of the den, cut by the swamps seeking -- Bird Studies," by Herman C. De stretch of Rrltlsh dominion. The mys- told him that we were looking for the man, and the band slid away noise- ciack of a rills driving a bullet Into Groat terious disappearance of the Doer missing Doer trekkers. He told me lessly with Its captive. the heart of the black nearest tbs In the little trekkers was table-talI followed at a little distance,' rag- hole. With a groan be dropped tbs he bad heard of their settlement that Within In the country to the northwest be- ing at heart, but knowing that an hammock and fell dead. The natlvea Its Class. kiosks on the street-corner1 don't like this chicken-raisinsn hour after my arrival a Portuguese yond the swamps and would put us on alarm would excite n raid that would burled Uetr torches to tbs ground lor a man to go Into." colonel, who was seated at one of tht the way to them. After resting for a kill ua all As we adnd tried to escape. The bushes hopelessly. Why not?" tables, rose to meet me as I entered a few hours, the chief and bis follow- vanced Into the forest, the roars grew were riven with flashes as a merciIt's such a kind kiosk and greeted me as an old ac- ers led us across the marshes by fiercer and clearer. Soon the natives less ball of bullets poured from the business." quaintance. I sat down to share a paths which we traveled for little halted. Torches were lighted and the guns of the Doers. Oa every side dry bottle of wine with him. and, after a more than a week until we came out troop danced around their victim as grass and brush set on firs by the and into an open country where the before. Then, taking up the body, torches blazed up, showing the savAnd many a girl who starts out with few minutes of polite Inquiries Hi Intention of making a name for flowery talk, he urged me to enlist In kopjes were sticking up stiffly like the they carried It to a heap of boulders, ages against the livid background. herself winds from whence came the mighty roar, Frantic with tbs pelt of the bullets horns of a young koodoo. up by turning the Job the bunt for the missing party. Wer to some was persuadWe had hardly reached firm land and hurled It Into the midst of the and the raging flames that leaped The governor-genera- l man. from the grass around their bodies, ed to make one more trial, and my when our soldiers fell sick. The only rocks. The roaring died away and the wild they rushed In their madness toward friend. Colonel Andreas, was put tn one of the company of unshaken spirit command of a troop of four hundred was the priest of the troop, a little laughter of the blacks rang out tbs only break In tbs ring of rifleman who was constantly shrilly. In n moment the band has- men, unmindful that it wu the mouth men. with myself and a number of A scouts. undimmed faith In Qod'k tened away toward our camp, leaving of the pit, or seeking any cover from as with natives praylrg, friendly torches among the the fire. In a moment we saw them On the second day the raw men help, while the men groaned and raved their smoldering I crept to the place plunging headlong tpto the depths of rocks. We of Mystified, made fever. delirium in the before and of fatigue, showed signs where I had seen the body thrown. tbs den and heard the roaring rise the end of the third day the horses hammocks of grass and bamboo poles I to the pitch of fury as the waiting A peculiar low growl greeted me to of the natives country with agreed and and along plodded fagged wgj-1 seized one of Hons bounded on their prey. Of Enjoyment rocks. the reached of few men a our for sick our carry drooping heads. When the last man fell with a the torches and shook It Into life, As days went on, the column thin- cartridges. for revolver ws rushed forward screech use. instant we my and left that drawing the the From day ned out more and more, stretching out A dark blot amid the boulders dis- dragged tbs unconscious soldier from a string of graves stretched swamps Insects of Millions mile. a for over behind us. One after another of the closed an opening to my straining tbs burning grass. hovered over our marching troop, The next day ws returned to the tn little troopers fell out of the ranks. eyes. Holding the torch at arm's drinking our sweat and settling we the ridge length, I fell on my knees and peered den and filled tbs mouth with lighted passed At length back mans such swarms that every which was pointed out to us as the into the bole. Down among the jagged bundles of bushes and dry grass to looked as If It were coated with flies' last to be crossed before reaching the rocks of a vast den, white with the care back th lions. When the firs In wings. One by one the stragglers country called MWembl, bones of animals, I saw the green burned out we entered and found the the rear would cry for help and drop where the missing party was most phosphorescent eyes of a pack .of brutes suffocated bjlhe amoks in tbs saddles. The swooning from their lions. farthest recesses of the caves. ScatK from ex- likely to be found. were falling Served with cream, milk too, a was I horses, about on the atony floor were It and maddening tered our sight, troop day With every passing surhaustion. At intervals from the skeletons and Colonel Andreas bad could hardly suppress n scream of fragments of human r fruit away. dwindled fresh or cooked. the hear we would I ran hack Into the dark rags and patches of clothing and leathas In' horror rounding bush course the fever by a rifle: or an arrow been prostrated aoods and groped through the under- er, and we saw the tattered felt sharp crack of our march and was carried In a frightened humming- of like toward the camp. I felt that we schoen of the Doers mingled with the bits brush where buzzing our Crisp, golden-brow- n to halting place, hammock In one of to escape these fiends uniform of the Portuguese soldiers. were bird would reach Its mark to take sick too powerless f any us to at- he lay for days white com delicious our troop. It was Idle for idols, the their of Rings and trinkets, which Van Vlgls and caiiip. the of we could spur charge and wholesome I left my tent about mid- M'Wembl. tempt pursuit. Before party recognized as belonging to the usual lurk-Inf- ? As cover, the which the That night, far down to the south- voortrekkers, made the horrid Identiour tired horses to the - night to relieve the watch thickthe native would Blip off Into He was praying west, I saw half a dozen fires like the fications beyond question. priest was keeping. A fiavour that appeals to There could be no possible doubt et campfire and I aparks of a glowworm In the dark. by before the flickering band held out that the adventurous party of Piet Du him for a moment silent- Had some heavenly After a month of this traveling beside atood young and old. a few marches, stopping only sound hope It could not have given me more Tolt had fallen sick like our own and a fmes to rest at a pool or stream, our ly Suddenly with of but strange oheer, for I know that the Area were had been burled, one by one, into the Hors, the roar t Sees were too fatigued to go furth- - like Tha Memory to spring out kindled by white men, as the natives den by the fiendish natives of seened tones, muffled Lingers we were not far In the district made none after sun- M'Wembl. Tbankg to the coming of We knew that of the earth beneath us. It rose and from the border of the swamps and fell In swells, now loud and hoarse, set. My mind waa made up. Using Van Vlgl and his rescuing party in Sold by Crocecs. to make the the lights as guiding stars I set out the nick of time, our colonel and the the colonel determined now low and muttering. to reach the distant camp. All night remnant of his troop were saved. box and Its from sextant I took a tot u lef fe iMi I 8rlf '. I roiia.. : Mat fltltu, !.,. 1 Iwsri t k.u fe tO; rtflf ftJ, to : lOtfft fell K or live-coa- u iXb'Lr empty-handed- JsUr .! u u d1 a wlde-eprea- !PPl C Uf fltn uiy K.--i ib pt, Truin H It t: iMblrti day, p line tl olutlo ill. i Kxu it rate ii. nd tat oTtrts- t la aw i th cL t for it area that ar to Paai; Ion ol 1J Import: vital ie L lote:-wer- f resolotl: jaln. . Dim' M:' ie trial chair 9 W. K irtday TOW DdlCtB' rlbed rn to dloorr-tir- scribe i ie R by I :comjC the Sir chanct' major other I uves k g 0 board value to l; 10,000 i aiti ort Line lO.Tbet J - Inter- rlunt. l iiy Stt' n, a of o .the c onfesel aff an Topel pour!' r iotber om v1 pol ie nlnO BO pi Ini" ng VVasblr Tancis1 3pteiuv ted. n i for r offlt; i oppf" nfttor 1' la's' jrk he c; '" tbo Broad Arrow Wss In tbo Plymouth Colony. In tho provincial charter of Sttl, tnder which tho Plymouth colony and the provluca of Maine were united with MaesacbuseUs, It waa provided that all tree of the diameter of 14 laches and upward of IS Inches from the ground, groolng upon land not ' heretofore granted to any private per on, should bo reserved to the crown t r the furnishing of masts for the royal navy. Harper's Weekly observes. A surveyor general of woods was appointed to see that this provision of the charier Was carried into effect. Near the coast all ublio pines of suitable dimensions were marked with the "broad arrow" throe cuts through tho bark with an as, like tbo track of a crow. This was tho king's mark. after tho revolution bad obtlt eratfd tho royal authority men who bad ?Mcn .taught In boyhood to respect tho klsg's mark hesitated to cut suck trees, In felling a tree It wu necessary to "bed It" to prerent Its breaking. This was done by cutting tho small growth and placing small trees across the hollow, so that there should be ho strain upon one section more than upon another when the monster pine truck ground. The mast wu hauled out of the woods on one strong sled, whether In winter or summer, snd so many oxen were required that the bind pair were often choked In crossing a botlow, being hung up In their yoke by the pulling of those ahead of them. A mast hauling wss a great stent, snd everybody within walking distance came to aee 11 HANDS CRACKED AND BLED St Clair, Mo. "My trouble began about fifteen years ago. It wu what some claimed eczema. The form the disease worked under was a breaking out with watery blisters on my bands which would then dry snd scale, and then would follow the trouble of cracking and bleeding, also itching and hurting. My hands were disfigured at tbe time, and sore. The trouble wu very annoying, and disturbed my sloop. This last February It was ever so much worse than before. I did not do all my work on account of tbe condition of my bands. I could not put them In water without making them worse. I tried a lot of borne remedies, also salres and liniments that claimed to be a cure for the trouble, but I did not obtain a cure. "At lut I saw the advertisement for Cutlcura Soap and Ointment I sent for a sample. I thought they would t box of cure, eo I sent for a Cutlcura Ointment and some Cutlcura Soap. A doctor advised me to keep ahead with tbe Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and they cured me completely. 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