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Show THE MAMMOTH RECORD. MAMMOTH CITY. UTAH through the pallid light of the dawn. It was all a desolate, restless waste 'n the midst of which we tossed, while c above hung masses of dark clouds obc scuring the sky. We were but a hurtling speck between the gray above and the gray below. The first thing needing my attention was tiie food and water. I crept forward cautiously and soon had Sam busily engaged in passing out the various articles for inspection. Only esE sentials had been chosen, yet the supiiiiiiiidMiiimiHimniimimTr ply seemed ample for tiie distance I believed we would have to cover before attaining land. But the nature of that unknown coast was so doubtful I determined to deal out tiie provisions sparingly, saving every crumb possible. The men grumbled at the smallness of the ration, yet munched away contentedly enough, once convinced that we till shared alike. nimimMiniMiimimimimimuniniis All right, lads, I said cheerfully. Copyright by A. O. McClarg A Co. Now we understand each other and CHAPTER XXV Continued. can get at work. We'll divide into 17 watches first of all two men aft here She turned her head, and I felt her and one at the bow. Watkins and 1 eyes searching the dim oui line of my will take it watch and watch, but fnoe questioningly. there is enough right now for all hands Of course I did everything I knew, to turn to and make' the craft shipshe replied. Why should I not? You shape. Two of you ball out that water are here. Captain Carlyle, for my sake; till shes dry, and tiie others get out " I owe you service. extra sail forward and rig up a that And must I he content merely with Shell ride easier and make better I urged, far from jib. that thought? with more canvas showing." progress pleased.., "This would mean that your The men gradually knocked off work otdy interest in me arises from gratiand lay down, and finally I yielded to tude. , Dorothys pleadings and fell into a And friendship, her voice as sound sleep. It seemed as though I 'reaas my own. There is no scarcely lost consciousness, yet I must son .why. yon should doubt, that surely. have slept for an hour or more, my to underIt would be easier for pie head pillowed on her lap. When I stand, hiit for the memory of wlnit I awoke Schmitt was again at the steeram a bond slave. ing paddle, and both he and Dorothy Your meaning is that true friendwere staring across me out over the , ship has as a basis equality? port quarter. Does.it not? Can real, friendship What Is it? I asked eagerly, but exist otherwise? . , . A, before the words were entirely uttered she acknowledged 'gravely. a hoarse voice forward bawled out exNo, And tiie fact that such friendship citedly : does exist between us evidences my out agin There you see faith In you. I have never felt this that cloud edge. it;Itsstraight a uncial distinction, Captain Carlyle, schooner. have given it no thought. This may Ay, boomed another, an headin seem strange to you, yet is most natcross our course astern. straight ural. You bear an honorable name, I reached my feet, clinging to the and belong to a family of gentlemen. mast to keep erect and, as the boat You held a position of command, won was again flung upward, gained clearly by your own efforts. You- bore the the glimpse I sought. part of a man in a revolution ; if guilty Ay, you're right, lads'! I exclaimed. of any crime, it was a political one, in It's a schooner, headed to clear us by I have a no way sullying your' honor. hundred fathoms. Port your helm, every reason to believe you were falseSchmitt hard down, man. Now, Sam, ly accused, and convicted. Consequentoff with that red shirt; tie it on the ly tlmt conviction does not exist beboat hook and let fly. They cant tween us; you are not my uncles serv'help seeing us if there is any watch on ant, but my friend you understand deck. me now? We swept about in a wide circle, And you would actually have me headed straight across the bows of the speak with you as of your own class vessel. All eyes stared out a free man, worlhy to claim your Sams shirt flapping above watchfully, friendship in life? Yes, frankly, her face uplifted. Why should it lie otherwise? No man could have done more, or proved himself more standi and true. We are in danger yet, but- such peril is nothing Compared with what I have escaped. I feel that your skill and courage will bring us safely to land. I am no longer afraid, for I have learned to trust You possess my entire confiyou. dence." But do you understand fully? I questioned anxiously. All I have done-foyou would have been done for any other woman under the same conditions of danger. Such service to another would have been a duty, and no more. But to be with yon, aiding and protecting, has been a delight, a joy. I have served Dorothy Fairfax for her own sake not as I would any other." Did you not suppose I knew? Iler glance flashed into mine through with a sudden message the star-gleaof revealment. You knew that that it was you personally I served? Of course I knew. A woman is never unaware of such tldngs. 'Now, If ever, I must tell you the truth. I know you care for me, and have cared since first we met. An interest no less fateful has led me to seek your acWe Swept By in a Large Circle. quaintance, and give you my aid. Sure, cou-ly It is not unmaidenly for me to us,' and both Watkins and Schmitt fess this when we face the chance of straining their muscles to Jiold the death together? against (lie force plunging quarter-boa- t But, I stammered,, I cun scarcely of tiie wind. A man forward on his believe you realize your words. I I knees growled out a curse. lov6 you Dorothy. "What's the matter aboard there? And is It not also possible for me Did yer ever see a boat lie yelled. to love? like that, afore? Damn me, if I yaw You you mean, you love me? believe they got a hand at tiie wheel." I love you are you sorry? The same thought had leaped into Sorry ! I am mad with the joy of mind. Tiie schooner wns headed my Fairdumb. Dorothy It; yet stricken us on tiie port quarter, yet to pass fax, I have never even dared dream of so crazily at times as to make such a message from your lips. Dear, yawing me fearful of being run down. I could denr girl, do you forget who I am? perceive no sign of life aboard, no V7hnt tny future? that we lmd been seen. The sight signal I forget nothing," she said, proudme. angered U Is because I know what you ly. Stand by, all hands," I cried desIs Nor are tlmt my heart responds. perately. "We'll board whether they your future so clouded. You are to-want us or not. Slip across, Miss Fairwe man If these a free escape day Now. Watkins, out of tiie perils, for whether Roger Fairfax be fax, us in underway. s ; those run will never he seek or yon dead, alive, us. her strike let don't Lay man, easy again to bold in servitude. If alive he hold quick, lads, and hang on for your will Join Ids efforts with mine to lives. Give me that end of rope-re- ady a pardon because of these servnow, all of you ; Ill make tiie ices, and we have Influence in Now then hold hard !" leap. such should effort land. Yet, fall, you live was It feet, and up, my purare a sailor, and the seas of the world are free. It Is not necessary Hint your chase the tossing boat, hut I made It, one hand desrutely gripping n vessel fly the English flag." shroud, until I gained balance and wns Y'ou give me hope a wonderful ' '' ' flung Inboard Ity a sharp plunge of the hope." lier hands firmly vessel. My liend was at u level with And courage, I saw nothing, my whole clasping mine, "Courage to fight on the rail, yet in faith. I would have that my gift to effort being to make fast before the men should lie lorn loose. you, Geoffr.v.' We uro In peril still, grip of the I bark into the upgreat peril, hut you will face It beside This done, glanced below. faces turned we or whether live that me, knowing Hand in slowly, lads; yes, let go, die we are together. I am not afraid the more." rope will hold, and the boat rble any safely through. Let a couple of men come up till we see what's wrong with CHAPTER XXVI. tiie hooker the rest of you trail on. Let Schmitt and Sam come with me." A Floating Coffin. j I helped them clamber up and then The laboring boat rested so low In lifted ns were we my body onto the rail, from was It water only the view of which wave crest a of on the position I lmd thrown upward I could gain any view ubout the forward deck. It wns Inex aiiimumiimmimiimiiimiiimiiiimiE WOLVES of the SEA RANDALL PARRISH il confi-denti- ' A full-rigge- d - , - r ! ' fore-clmiu- n . tlt pressibly dirty, yet otherwise shipshape enough. Nothing human greet ed me, and conscious of a strange feeling of horror, I slipped over onto the deck. The next moment the negro and Dutchman joined me, the former star ing about wildly, the whites of revealing his terror. My Gawd, sah, he ejaculated. Ah done know dis boat its shore de Santa Marie. Ahs cooked In dat galShe was a slaver, sah. ley. He A kin smell dem sniffed the air. nig gers right now, sah. Ah suah reckon dars a bunch o ded ones under dem hatches right dis minute. Schmitt's hand fell heavily on my sleeve and I glanced into his stolid face. I just liet I know vat wus der trouble. What, man?" ve haf Cholera, he whispered; hoarded a death ship." PARADING IDLE WORKMEN C IN BUDAPEST " CHAPTER XXVII. On Board the Slaver. , The terror of the two men as this thought dawned upon them in all its horror was apparent enough. Nothing, not even fire, was more to be dreaded than a visitation of this awful nature on shipboard. Clmrnel 'ship though this might be, it wus safer by far than tiie cockleshell towing alongside. Lets find out the truth first, men, I said quietly. Hold your tongues. There is no use giving up until we know what the danger is. Will you come with me? .The terror in Saras eyes caused me to laugh and my own courage came back with a rush. Afraid of dead men, are you? Then well face them together, my lads, and have it over with. Come on, now, both of you. Buckle up; there is nothing to fear, if you do what I tell you this isnt the first cholera ship Ive been aboard. It was no pleasant job confronting us, although we had less dead men to handle than I anticipated. Indeed, we found only five bodies on board. There k were only two on deck, a giant, d white negro, and a man, his face pitted with smallpox. Determined on what was to be done, I wasted no time with either body. The two sailors hung back, terrorized at the mere thought of touching these victims of plague. I steeled myself to the job and handled them alone, dragging the bodies across the deck and launching them over the low rail into the sea. I ordered Schmitt to cut the lashings and take charge of the wheel. See here, Sam, and you tefo, Schmitt, I am in love with that girl in the boat. Do you suppose I would ever have licr come on this deck If I believed she might contract cholera? You do as I say and you are perfectly t the safe. .Now, Schmitt, remain wheel, and you, Sam, come with me. There will be a dead nigger abonn unless you jump when I speak. lie trotted close at my heels as I flung open the door leading into tliv cabin. The air seemed fresh enough and I noted two of the ports wide man, with open. A tall, smooth-shavean ugly scar down one cjieek, lay outstretched on a divan at the foot of the after mast, his very posture proclaiming him dead. His face was the color of parchment, wrinkled with age. The negro crept up behind ma and stared at the upturned fnce. My Gaud, sah, be wus de ol captain. Iaradilla, sah; damn his soul! In wlint was evidently the captains room I discovered a pricked chart and with no entry in it for three days. Without waiting to examim these I stowed them away in my pocket. Between us we forced the stiffened form of tiie captain through the open after port and heard it splash into the sea astern. There wore two dead seamen in the forecastle, both swarthy fellows, with long Indian hair. I never saw a dirtier hole, the filth overpowering, and once satisfied that both men were beyond help, I was content to lower the scuttle and leave them there. God it was a relief to return once more to the open deck and breathe in the fresh air. I hailed tiie boat towing below. I called "Come aboard, Watkins, sharply. "Iass the lady up first, and turn the boat adrift. I caught Dorothys bunds and aided her over the rail. Why was the vessel abandoned? she asked. What has happened? Do you know? Quietly I told her the truth and as sured-he- r that if we staid on deck and used our own bedding and provisions we were in no danger. How can I help you?" Tell the men just what I have told They will he you, I said gravely. ashamed to show less courage than you. We turned and faced them together us they formed a little group against tiie rail. Ilallin was first to speak. coal-blac- gray-bearde- n log-boo- ! One of the huge parades Records Reveal Queer Ceremony Lawyer Unearths Interesting formation About Smock In- Marriages. bride, retaining title to the same in himself. This he did in the presence of witnesses, that he, might be able to prove,, the fact in case lie was sued for any debts, she might have con: tracted. . marriage of this kind occurred at Bradford in 1773, and the following is a true copy of the record of the same : Bradford, Dec. ye 24, 1773. This may certifie whomsoever it may conc-ernthat James Bailey of Bradford who was married to the widow Mary Bacon Nov. 22 last past by me ye subscriber then declared that he took said person without anything of estate and that Lydia the wife of Eliazer Burbank & .Mary the wife of Thomas Stickney and Margaret the wife of Caleb Burbank all of Bradford were witnesses that the clothes she then had on were of his providing and bestowed upon her. WILLIAM BAI.CIT, Minister of ye Gospel. It is noted by the same writer that in all cases of smock marriages tlmt have come to liis notice the brides have been widows. It is thought that during the reign of George III there were many smock marriages in Maine, then a part of the province of Massachusetts Bay, chiefly in the counties of Lincoln and York, A WERE COMMON CENTURY AGO Brides Appeared in Scant Attire to Protect Husband From Liability for Her Debts Various Expedients to Preserve Modesty. . Bangor, Maine. A Bangor lawyer ittendlng court in the ancient town of Lincoln county, recently iYiscasset, ivent rummaging in the Colonial court records of tiie place and in the course )f his reading came across the official registration of a smock marriage. Sot knowing what a smock marriage the lawyer looked farther, and pit considerable light upon a strange rustom prevalent In England a cen-ur- y or more ago and also to some extent in the American colonies. ' Smock marriages were weddings vliere the bride appeared dressed in a white sheet or chemise. The reason .or such a garb was the belief that If a loan married a woman who was in debt he could be held liable for her Indebtedness If he received with her anj of her property; and also, that if a 'Y'omnn married a man who was In del t, Ills creditors could not take her property to satisfy Ilieir claims if he had received nothing from lier at marriage. In England, says an antiquarian, there was at least one case where a bride was clothed in puris nntnrnlibus while tiie ceremony was being performed in the great church at Birmingham. The minister at first refused to perform the ceremony, hut. finding nothing in the rubric that would excuse him, he finally married the pair. To carry out the law fully ns the people understood It, the ceremony Fhould always have been performed as It was in tiie church at Birmingham. In the case noted, hut, modesty forbidding. various expedients were used in accomplish the desired eml without Ihe unpleasant features. Sometimes tiie bride stood in a closet and put her hand through a hole In the door ; sometimes she stood behind a doth screen and put her hand out at one side; again, she wound about lier n white sheet furnished by Hie bridegroom, and sometimes slie Hood in her chemise or smock. Eventually, in Essex county at least, nil immodesty was avoided by tiie groom furnishing nil th ; clothes worn by tiie YOUTHFUL STREET CLEANER , Soul That Is Truly Great. Emerson, tlmt greatest of modern philosophers, 1ms told ns that It wien In a crowd to allow our selves c lie swayed by tiie opinion-abous and comparatively easy h keep our individuality and sweetnes-who- n alone, hut tlmt the great soul Is he who In the midst of a mass of other Individuals can still keep the poise und sweetness of solitude. ut They have ruilier young street cleaners In Salonika (in the Balkans), Roungslers who wield ungainly brooms, et manage to keep the roughly cob-le- d thoroughfares In moderately tidy nditlon. Our photo shows a typical reet urchin who lias adopted the vhtte winged profession. or In the territory' which is now so ' known. Practice. Died Before Revolution. There is nothing, to show that the practice outlived thq revolution. In Maine, up to 1852; a husband was liable for debts of his wife contracted before marriage, and no such subterfuge, as the smock marriage could relieve him. Smock marriages were frequently performed In Vermont about a century ago. They were entirely honorable to both the participants, for they put wholly aside all' considerations of financial and selfish interest. According to tradition, they all turned out happily, and well they might. The principle Involved in them may be said to have triumphed' in our social life the great majority of marriages being now smock marriages in the sense that the parties are financially Independent of each other. ' By the way, one of the earliest and strongest arguments for woman suffrage was - the necessity of relieving women from the financial bondage that they were under to tlieir husbands 50 years ago. All that a woman had then practically belonged to her husband. Wendell Phillips, In his address at the first national woman suffrage convention, held at Worcester in October, 1851, called attention to a curious case that had lately occurred In this state. A man married a woman who had $50,000 of her own, inherited from her father:- Dying about a year after his marriage, this man left a remarkably" generous and manly" will he Left these $50,000 to his wife, so' long as sha should remain a widow I ' - MAIL SERVICE BY AIR IS SUCCESS Department Says It Wilson and other officials figured prom-- ' inently, and sent letters just before tha. Has Speeded Delivery All aviator started! Since that time the service has continued without inter- Over the Country. ruption. Postage for airplane mail at the time Postoffice - BEING FLANNED EXTENSION New Routes Will Link Up St. Louis and Omaha to Speed Up Deliveries to and From the Pacific Coast. Records for Washington, D. C. transport, ion of mail along the eastern seaboard and from New York city west are being established daily by the airplane mail service which now is well along toward its fifteenth month of existence. Tiie service, according to Otto Bruegel-- second assistant postmaster general, who is in charge, lias speeded mail delivery all over the country. Letters mailed In New York city or arriving there from New England before eight o'clock in the morning are sent by airplane so far as possible, insuring tlieir delivery in Washington by noon. Those for Washington are sent out on tiie first mail delivery in the afternoon and those intended for cities farther south are forwarded in earlier trains than otherwise would be possi' ' ble. o The same is true of tiie New airplane mail route. Tiie time from New York to Cliica'go is cut down to between nine and ten hours. There is a corresponding saving on mail from Chicago and western cities Intended for New York. There, are two airplane mail routes in the country, one between Washington and New York city and (lie other between New York city and Chicago by way of Cleveland. Air Service to Be Extended. Flights are made in both directions over these routes every day. with such success that Hie postollice department Is about to Institute other routes which will link U)i Onmlin, Nob., and St. Louis, Mo, These latter routes are to be opened almost Immediately, to care for the volume of mail and to assist in quick deliveries to and from the Im eifle const. Airplane mail service started on May 15, 1918, largely ns an experiment, with n route between Nov York dty and Washington. Two trips n day had boon arranged, one In on eh direction. Tiie first flight from Washington was a spectacular affair In which ITesIdent , . York-Cliicng- (TO BE CONTINUED.) Work and Workers. There is not so much difference In the worlds work as In the worlds workers. It is not so much difference what we are doing so long ns it Is useful that counts ns tiie way in which we are doing it. Tiie work of which we are ashamed we either have no right to do, or we are not doing If as we should. capital of Hun of idle workmen that mark the rule o tiie tominu nisis in Budapest, the gary. at fifteen cents an ounce, the department figuring that speedj delivery' made that price fair. In addition to being carried by. airplane the letter was to be specially was fixed postoffice delivered, which ordinarily costs ten cents in addition to .letter postage. mail service continued, on a paying basis for a time, until the novelty wore off. Many persons at first used the airplane mail for its novelty, and the letters., carried were unimportant,, apparently. At any rate, after a few months, the sale of airplane stamps dwindled, as did the mail. Reduction in Rate. Then tiie postollice department decided to fill the pouches when possible with ordinary first class letters. This was continued until July 18, when the rate for airplane postage was reduced from fifteen cents to two. It Is probable now that this rate will, be continued, for while the service does not pay for itself tiie added facilities in deliveries are regarded by the department os worth the price. When the service was started the postofflee department with the war department, which supplied the airplanes and the aviators. Tills arrangement bail been suggested by tiie chief signal officer of the army, who saw In the project an additional means of training aviators for the western front. Army participation continued until Inst November, when it was agreed for the sake of efficiency that the entire project should be tnken over by the postollice department. For tills reason tli.e service now Is entirely in tiie bunds of the postoffice department and Hie aviators are of clviliun status. However, the pilots now engaged In Hie work have come largely from tiie army, lining officers discharged from the service at the end of tiie. war. ., ,, Tiie type of airplane used is the ordie nary Curtiss machine, but Hie department is preparing and, If congress provides the funds, will soon put especially built airplanes at work. .Those new airplanes are designed primnrily for carrying malt, stabilized automatically, so tlmt there Is no danger of crush, In tills regard they will lie different from tiie army type niaelilne, In whleli ability to mnneuvw rapidly It m element of safely, posh-offic- , post-offic- , e |