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Show 30331 REASON teetttfi KIH Ooubtless IN I OBJECTION s ii 'rt,f f a Reasonable "' II dinner at Claridge's, the wnajrtest hotel In London," aald, with o UUto pride a Chlcagoan, "I sat be- bUU Rhlnulandcr Stewart, yourig Jaalta, Stewart's brother, you know, JUaita Stewart married Don Miguel of uBraxnnta. olu4 Rhinelandcr a bit on the illt Oat he wore at bin slHtor's . 1 RENNET sir,' the major domo answered, 'a man canna clean upstairs windows In a kilt, noo, can he?' " Ex , LOOKING AHEAD. you have. Dammit! why couldn't you tell me before?" It did not feel so painful in the water." "I helped the best I could," Inter- nosed Miss Leslie. "I think if you could get Mr. Wlnthrope a crutch" Blake. "How Crutch!" growled long do you think it would take me to wade through the mud? And look at that cloud! We're in for a squall. 8YN0PSI8. Th story opens with thn shipwreck of thn itcttinpr on which Mix Jnevlve hoireMU, Hn Ird an Knlllmion, and Turn Blak, a briiH'iue AiniTican, wrre puDDKiisem. Thn three wrre toite) upon an unlnhab-lt- l Ixlund and were the only onn not drowned, lllnke recoverfd from a drunken Btupor. Kluke, ehunned on the boat, WauHA of his roughnuM, became a a prcHerver of the helpless pair. The Knslliihinan waa sulna; for the hand of MIm Ielle. Uluke started to swim hark to the ehlp to recover what waa left. Jltake returned safely. Wlnthrope wanted Ma laat niati h on a cigarette, for whli h tie was arored hy Dlake. Their flmt meal wn a dead fish. The trio atHrted a ten mile hike for hlsher land. ThlrHt at-- t Hluke waa compelled to Hiked them, on aecount of wearl-tfcarry MUa He taunted Wlnthrope. They entered the JuriKle. That nlRht waa paMedg rooatlns tifnh In a tree. The next morn-luthey descended to the open again. Win-llrop- Anii-rli'a- Here!" CHAPTER VlContlnued. mow wide Is It?" Inquired .uSu if . E;pbant Why does Longneck run 'around with his head so close to the Hot Why, he's afraid that If he raises It he'll bump his head into one f those Airships t Not Actually Necessary. proceeded to examine the The lawyer lftXKMS. "afwrxron the question, Mrs. Chucks-Te.be said, "but your answer constitutes a part of the record. How old . ara you?" "Why, you ought to know, Mr. . Saarpe," ahe answered; "my birthday is tbe name as yours, only I was born years later than you were." ""Ah, yes, I remember. Well, It Isn't important, anyhow. Go ahead, Mrs. fhnelrslcy, and tell the Jury what you know about this case " . ln THE 8T0RY OF THE PEANUT 8HELL8. everyone aaows, 'Battle C. W. Tost ot Creek, Michigan, is not only a aiaxer of breakfast foods, but he is A strung individual who believes that the trad s unions are a menace to the lib- - erty of the country. Believing this, and being a "natural : bora" scrapper for the right, as he - . see It, Tost, for several years past. In a ceaseless warfare against "The Labor Trust," as he Ban to call It Not being able to secure free and aatnunmeled expression of his opin-i Ions oa this subject through the regular .ratdlsc rages of the newspapers he 'ihas bought advertising space for this ipurpoBe, Just as he is accustomed to Jbr the telling of his Postum "story .mad be has thus spent hundreds of - thousands of dollars in denouncing .,fcu been engaged - trades-unionis- As a result of rost's activities the poeple now know a whole lot about these organizations: how they are . honeycombed with graft, how they oh-atfrutfi the development of legitimate bmdness, curtail labor's output, hoid up manufacturers, graft upon their own nwiubertthlp, and rob the public. Naturally Tost is hated by the trades-unionist- s, and Intensely. employs no union labor, so they ca not call out his men, and he defies . tht Jr efforts at boycotting his products. The latest means of "getting" Post Is Hue widespread publication of the story that a car which was recently wrecked Zn transmission was found to be loaded mlih empty peanut shells, which were being shipped from the south to Post's Ktabliuhmcnt at Rattle Creek. This canard probably originated with o rrtKldent John Fitzgerald of the Federation of Labor, who, It Is aaJd. ttated It publicly, as truth. d I'OKt comes back and gives the lie direct. lie denounces lie Chl-Heag- Fltz--reral- flugerald's statement as a deliberate hood, an underhanded and cowardly attempt to Injure his business, having not the slightest basis in fact As ..turn an effort it must be regarded. It ?: : pries, . ! gJJ iSrnlficnnt that this statement about "the ieanut shells" is being given wide newspaper publicity. In the "patent InjUde" of an eastern country paper I And it, and the inference naturally is are insidiously thai reading this lie. An institution (or a man) which vril, r.Nort to morul Intimidation and uo fUvj Hical force, that w ill destroy and burn buildings, that will nuini and kill if necessary to efft'Ct its thls. naturully would not hesitate to Kprcad falsehood for the same pur- labor-unlonlte- s ..r ma-h)ne- .TJOWS. admire Post While we have no renniity toward labor unions, so long as they are conducted in an honest, "live- wHet-livekiud of a way, we have had soough of the tarred end of the stick to t:ympathlze thoroughly with what he dm trying to do." He deserves support cnan like Post can not be killed, even ira lies. They are a boomerang, every time. Again, we know, for hasn't this weapon, every weapon that could be t&cragfct of, been used (and not simply y labor unions) to put us out of bust-,ntoo? fl .am going to drink two cups ot 'Turttum every morning from this time . an, and put myself on a diet of Crape-.Nut- s. Iiully for Post! EfWirto! in The ::rkan Journal of CUn'. l Mei 4r " 8, Wln- thrope, gazing at his swollen hands. "About 300 yards at high tide. May be narrower at ebb." "Could you not build a raft?" suggested Miss Leslie. Iilake smiled at her simplicity. "Why tot a boat? We've sot a penknife." "Well, then, I can swim." "Dully for you! Guess, though, we'll try something else. The river Is chuck full of alligators. What you waiting for, Pat! We haven't got all day to fool around here." Wlnthrope twisted the creeper about bis leg and slid to the ground, doing He All he could to favor his hands. found that he could walk without pain, and at once stepped over beside Blake's nervously club, glancing around at the Jungle. ' Blake jerked up the end of the creeper, and passed the loop about Miss Leslie. Before she bad time to become frightened he swung her over and lowered her to the ground lightly as a feather. He followed, hand under hand, and stood for a moment beside foil-Ag- being food "While the product. of price Japan Tea has gone up, yet Hewlett's are using the same high the quality of Tea, and Tea are like the prices 17. by ret 1 IAl Foi fail but ma for poc is nel has sha bod en.- - thlfi lov am half-minut- "1 tbe Mr. 1 Dea tlr m 1" y e gust Stopped to Survey the Coast Beyond. pect along the river, and while I'm gone, you can make a try at stringing nuts on some of this leaf fiber." "But, Mr. Blake, do you think It's quite safe?" asked Miss Leslie, And she glanced from him to the Jungle. "Safe?" he repeated. "Well, nothing ate you yesterday, if that's anything to go by. It's all I know about It." He did not wait for further protests. Swinging his club on his shoulder he started for the break in the jungle Jaws. observed Blake; "this which marked the hippopotamus path. old boar must have been something The others looked at each other, and Miss Leslie sighed. "If only he were of a scrapper hi own self." "In India they have been known to a gentleman!" she complained. kill a tiger. Can you knock out the Wlnthrope turned abruptly to the cocoanuts. tusks?" "What for?" CHAPTER VII. "Well, you said we had nothing for arrow points" "Good boy! We'll cinch thorn and Around the Headland. ask questions later." A foW blows with the club loosened the tusks. Blake handed them over to Wlnthrope, together with the whisky flask, and h'd the way to the Sfrl was ,n,1 tnorn'n before Blake reappeared. He came patch through the thicket. A from the mangrove swamp free use of his club made the path a little more worthy of the name, and where It ran down into the sea. His as there was less need of haste than trousers were smeared to the thigh on the previous evening. Wlnthrope with slimy mud; but as he approached and Miss Leslie came through with the drooping brim of his palm-lea- f hat only a few fresh scratches. Once on failed to hide his exultant expression. "Come on!" he called. "I've struck open ground again, they soon gained it. We'll be over In half an hour." the fallen palms. "How's- - that?" asked Wlnthrope. At a word from Blake, Miss Leslie "Bar." answered Blake, hurrying hastened to fetch nuts for Wlnthrope to husk and open. Blake, who had forward. "Sling on your hats and get plucked three loaves from a fan palm into my coat again, Miss Jenny. The near the edse of the Jungle, began to sun's hot as yesterday. How about split long shreds from one of the the nuts?" "Here Ihey are. Throe strings; all huge loaves of a coooanut palm. This gave him a quantity of coarse, stiff that I fancied we could carry," exfiber, part of which he twisted in a plained Wlnthrope. "All right. The big one is mine, I cord and unod to tie one of the loaves of the fan palm over her head. suppose. I'll take two. We'll leave "How's that for a bonnet?" he de- the other. Lean on me if your ankle is still weak." manded. The improvised head gear bore so "Thanks; I can make it alone. But grotesque a resotublauce to a recent must we go through mud like that?" "Not on this side, at least. Come type or picture hat that Wlnthrope could not repress a derisive laugh. on! We don't want to miss the ebb." Blake's Miss Islto, however, examined the Impatience discouraged bat and guvo her opinion without a further Inquiries. He had turned as "I think It Is I ho spoke, and the others followed him. sign of amusement. splendid, Mr. Iilake. If we must go wnlking close together. The pace was out In the sua again, It Is Just the thing sharp for Wlnthrope. and his ankle soon began to twinge. He was comto protect one," "Yes. Here's two more I've fixed for pelled to accept Miss Leslie's Invitation to take her arm. With her help you. Ready yet. Wlnthrope?" The Englishman noddod, and the he managed to keep within a tew three sat down to their third feast of yards of Blake. Instead of plunging Into the mancoeonnuts. They were hungry enough at the start, and Blake added no little grove wood, which here was under-growwith a thicket, of giant ferns, keenness even to his own appetite by Bluke skirted around In the open unA grim Joke on the slender prospects of the next meal, to the effect that If til they came to the seashore. The In the meantime not eaten themselves tide was at its lowest, and he waved they might possibly find their next his club towards a long sand pit which curved out around the seaward edge meal within a week. "But If we must move, could we not of the mangroves. Whether this was take some of the nuts with us?" sug- part of the river's bar or had been neaped up by the cyclone would have gested Wlnthrope. Blake pondored over this as he ate, been beyond Wlnthrope's knowledge And when fully satisfied he helped him- had the question occurred to him. It self up with his club he motioned the was enough for him that the sand was smooth and hard ss a race track. others to remain seated. Presently the party came to the end "There are your hats and the of the spit, where the river water ripneed won't "but he you said, strings." m simd with the last lnt to taka a nm pled over tbetu now. I'm . half-broke- n Are continually charged on all raln-lashe- her, staring At the of the Jungle. Then the remains ot the night's quarry caught his eye, And he walked over to examine them. "Say. Pat," he called, "these don't look like deer bones. I d say yes; there's the feet it's a pig." "Any tusks?" demanded Wlnthrope. Miss Leslie looked away. A heap of bones, however cleanly gnawed, is not a nleasant sight. The skull of the Animal seemed to be missing; but Blake stumbled upon It in a tuft of grass and kicked it out upon the open Every shred of hide and ground. gristle had been gnawed from It by the Jackals: yet if there had been any doubt as to the creature's identity there was evidence to spare in the savage tusks which projected from the g HIGHER PRICES He handed the girl the smaller always reliable. string of cocoanuts, flung the other up the beach and stooped for Wlnthrope to mount his back. He then started off along the beach at a sharp trot. Miss Leslie followed as best she SCHRAMM'S could, the heavy cocoanuts swinging about with every step and bruising her HEADACHE TABLETS tender body. t The wind was coming faster than FOR ALL KINDS OF Blake had calculated. Before they bad HEADACHE run 200 paces they beard the roar of water, and the squall BY MAIL 25 CENTS struck them with a force that almost overthrew the girl. With the wind SCHRAMM JOHNSON, DRUGS came torrents ot rain that drove THE through tbeir thickest garments and SALT LAKE CUT within skin to the the drenched them first Blake slackened his pace to a walk and plodded sullenly along beneath CRAGER WIRE & IRON WORKS the driving downpour. He kept to the SALT LAKE CITV 31 STATE STREET, lower edge of the beach, where the sand was firmest, for the force of the awn r iru falling deluge beat down the waves and held in check the breakers which the wind sought to roll up the beach, The rain storm was at its height when they reached the foot of the cliffs. The gray rock towered above them 30 or 40 feet high. Blake de posited Wlnthrope upon a wet ledge The ibore represent one til the mny dlftefeal and straightened up to scan the head' deilsni of Iron Fence we manufacture (ot reW cemetery Iota and public buUdlDgf. land. Here and there ledges ran more dence, Write lor catalogue and price. half-wathan up the rocky wall; in other places the crest was notched by deep clefts; but nowhere within sight did either offer a continuous path to Cood seed are the tri foaadatioa at larf t the summit Blake grunted with dis n. . All whit itTunautt5t o your objection? 'Am about Scot-ttsf- c wnddlnR. lie took my Joking In pnrt. He said the kilt waa a fine, conventional dress, and till recently i fn bad thought It suitable everywhere jukI fir all purposes." ILnccrntly, though, be suggested that . bouse servants In Tultoch castle ftbrmV) wear as livery the Stewart kilt; but-- tthe major domo objocted. "Now, said Mr. Stewart, 'what Is """A-wecl- I th.tlme? Vlndwaaell. jionmr u I PAY on cant a d.v ) in jour Dorl.i That la of hs costs to carry a $75.00 ximxI ; '"r r- - WOULD YOU Elght-Unt- jumI Convenient Garment, But Not lor All Occailona. . ' rjW s n feeble of the ebb. On their right they had a sweeping view of the river, around the flank ot the mangrove screen. Blake halted at the edge of the water and half turned. "Close up." he said. "It's shallow enough; but do you see those logs over on the Those are alout-suc- k mud-bank- ? ligators." "Mercy and you expect me to wade among such creatures?" cried Miss Leslie. "I went almost across an hour ago and they didn't bother me any. Come on! There's a wind in that cloud out seaward. Inside half an hour the surf'II be rolling up on this bar like all Niagara." "If we must, we must, Miss Gene vieve," urged Wlnthrope. "Step behind roe and gather up your skirts. It's best to keep one's clothes dry In the tropics." The girl blushed, and retained his arm. "I prefer to help you." she replied, "Come on!" called Blake, and he splashed out Into the water. The others followed within arm's-lengtnervously conscious of the rows of motionless reptiles on the mud flat, not 100 yards distant In the center of the bar, where the water was a trifle over knee-deesome large creature came darting downstream beneath the surface and passed with a violent swirl between Blake and his companions. At Miss Leslie's scream, Blake whirled about and Jabbed with his club at the supposed alligator. "Where's the brute? Has he got you?" he shouted. "No. no: he went by!" gasped Wlnthrope. "There he Is!" A long bony snout, fringed on either side by a row of lateral teeth, was flung up Into view. "Sawfish!" said Blake, and he waded on ncross the bar without further comment. Miss Leslie had been on the point of fainting. The tone of Blake's voice revived her Instantly. There were no moro scares. A few minutes later they waded out upon a stretch of clean sand on the south ot the river. Before them the beach lay In a flattened curve, which at the far end hooked sharply to the loft and appeared to terminate at the foot of the towering limestone cliffs of the headland. A mile or more inland the river Jungle edged in close to the cliffs; but from there to the beach the forest was separated from the wall of rock by a little sandy plain, covered with creeping plauts and small palms. The greatest width of the open Bpace was hardly more than a quarter of a mile. Mlake paused for a moment at high-tidmark, and Wlnthrope Instantly squatied down to nurse his ankle. "I say, Blake," he said, "can't you find me some l..nd of a crutch? It is only a few yards around to those "It'd take a fire ladder to get up this side," be said. "We'll have to try the other, If we can get around the point I'm going on ahead. You can follow, after Pat has rested his ankle. Keep a sharp eye out for anything la the flint line quartz or agate. That means fire. Another thing, when this rain blows over, don't let your clothes dry on you. I've got my hands full enough without having to nurse you through malarial fever. Don't forget the cocoanuts, and If I don't show up by noon save me some." He stooped to drink from a pool in the rock which was overflowing with the cool, pure rainwater, and started off at his sharpest pace. ' Wlnthrope and Miss Leslie, seated side by side in dripping misery, watched him swing away through the rain without energy enough to call out a parting word. Beneath the cliff the sand beach was succeeded by a talus of rocky debris which in places sloped up from the water 10 or 15 feet The lower part of the slope consisted of bowlders and water-worstones, over which the surf, reinforced by the rising tide, was beginning to break with an angry roar. Blake picked his way quickly over the smaller stones near the top of the slope, now and then bending to snatch tip a fragment that seemed to differ from the others. Finding nothing but limestone he soon turned his attention solely to the passage around the headland. Here he had expected to find the surf much heavier. But the shore was protected by a double line of reefs, so close In that channel between did not show a whitecap. This was fortunate, since In places the talus here sank down almost to the level of low tide. Even a moderate surf would hnve rendered farther progress 1m practicable. Another 100 paces brought Blake tc the second corner of the cliff, which Jutted out in a little point. He clambered around It and stopped to survey the coast beyond. Within the last few minutes the squall had blown over and the rain began to moderate its downpour. The sun, bursting through the clouds, told that the storm was almost past, and its flood of direct, light cleared tho view. (TO BR f'ONTINt'KIU n crops. Ov bi( Catalota telli all aboot tba beat aaeda that pew. Send for Free Copy. 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That's the reason be her own ships to and from the Black made Dolly a Christmas present of ea without asking permission. pair of garters." "Umph! He doesn't know Dolly" A Little Learning, New York Times. Earnest Female ProfeBHor, I hear It Passed All Right you are a great ornithologist. 1 Professor am an ornithologist, Hubby "What is this Hat, dear?" madam. trees." Wife "The Christmas budget, nd Earnest Female Then could you "Good lxrd! you haven't been fool kindly tell me the botanical name for don't try any of the. house of lord enouch to overstrain that ankle Yes. a whale I business oa It, elthor." Boston d nren; wlr ca kbai, Small F WJNUI ' IIR ''Mug k,.D'"x "'WW 11 Hid V inur, "ecu" TAi east-northea- e lis |