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Show T THE MAMMOTH RECORD. MAMMOTH CITY, UTAH AIRING DAY ON THE U. Itll be that black devil S. S. OKLAHOMA In SInga-- 1 pore! ejaculated the trader, screw-- 1 ing up bis wizened face and pulling viciously at his beard. "Youll no play the fool, Wallen. Its not fit you are to go. Listen to me, mon : its a matter o twenty miles across the island,, as ye know well, and no conveyance,,' mind. And its no regular trader that's called, for none is due shell have put in for water or the like, and will be sailing again at daybreak. t, I can make it by daybreak, Wallen stated quietly. For a moment MncKnight stared at Wallen, then his hands dropped from Wallens shoulders. Well, go, and be damned to you. then ! lie said gruffly,, deep down in his throat to hide his emotion and, turning, stepped abruptly outside. There were not many preparations to make very few. Wallen's worldly possessions were his only through the generosity of the trader. But MacKnight did not stop at that now, for, five minutes later, as Wallen started for the night s tramp across the island, a Malay guide, well loaded with supplies, started with him, while MacKnight cursed with earnest profanity as they wrung each others hand. At the edge of the clearing Wallen looked back. On the great bearded figure that leaned against the door frame of the solitary trading station Wallens eyes lingered. The man waved his hand and shouted : Mon, ye'll no forget MacKnight o Yell no forget MacKnight, Arru ! Mac-Knigh- DIED TODAY, At first glance this might seem to represent a camouflaged wur-duentering the "danger zone during war limes, but It Is really a photograph, snapped from the fight ng top of the U. S. S. Oklahoma, showing the gobs lined tip for bedding drill,' while adorning the rail can be seen the bedding of the sailors exposed to the fresh air. p AROUND WORLD NEXT AIR FEAT Some Aviator Expected to late Magellan by Long Cruise. Emu- world being estimated at about thiee millions. Not only is the camel a valuable freight carrier, but he serves as the traveling car of the Rockefellers, the s Camegies, the Morgans and the of the desert. When he is chosen for Ilfs more pretentious service a light Ir.imework is placed upon his back and covered with cloths to screen the occupants from the sun and the observation of the passers, and decorated vvitli pompons of various colors. In this gorgeous compartment, which may lie not inaptly termed the palace car of the desert, the master of the camel train places his wife amj children, h's choicest merchandise, ills cooking utensils and daily requirements, and travels in state, the observed of all observers, the envy of the wandering native of the desert. Craft on the Euphrates. On (he Euphrates and the Tigris are still retained the curious1 water transports of centuries ago the raft of skins and the circular boats. These rafts are sustained by inflated skins, prepared for this especial purpose, and after the raft floats down the river to its destination the inflated skins are removed, the air permitted to escape, anj the skins carefully folded and carried back to the upper waters, where they are again inflated and used as the support; of another and still another raft. Even more curious to the eyes of th traveler' from other parts of the world are the circular W;ts made of wickerwork and covered with skins, Ilar-rnnan- STILL NEW TO MANY LANDS National Geographic Society Says There Are Many Places Where Airplane, Automobile and Even Horse Would Be Curiosity. "Now that the At- Washington. lantic has been crossed and there nre plans afoot to fly over the Pacific, the day may not he far distant when some aerial Magellan will make an airplane tour around the world, says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. There are still many corners of the world where airplane, automobile and even the horse would be curiosities. And if a man set out to tour the globe and do as the Homans do in respect to adopting native conveyances he would have to: .Resort to a donkey In Spanish JLmerioa and in the Holy Land. HllEllirib aboard a cams! to traverse ijviean deserts. Cross some rivers of India on the Inflated skins of bullocks, and others by a bridge of one rawhide rope. Using Elephant as Taxi. motion of Submit to the an elephant when he continued his journey on land. e Get Into a palanquin at Calcutta. Jolt over far Eastern roads In a k absorbing cart drawn bv oxen. And in China he prepared to climb into a jinrikisha. a sedan chair or a wheelbarrow. A few of these curious means of travel are described in a communication to the society by O. I Austin, as follows : Woman In all parts of that great line of deserts, stretching from North Africa across Central Asia to Northwest China, the camel is everywhere in evidence; the total number in the sea-goin- g 1 Arizona Students Hairless After Big Cutting Bee About forty Flagstaff, young men here, half of them students at the Northern Arizona Normal school, are minus their hair as a result of a students prank. Among them is Brodie son of Governor Campbell, Campbell. The students first captured Cornelius Buckley, a town boy, and clipped part of his hair. 'Buckleys friends captured about twenty students and retaliated. A general chase, capture and hair cutting, hich included all the young men of normal and town who could be found, folAriz. low ed. Barbers did a rushing business removing the patches of hair left hy the amateur d or made watertight with pitrh, which are still in daily ue on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers The ihree principal (l methods of transportation of people in central and southern China nre the sedan chair, the jinrikisha and the wheelbarrow. "Probably more freight and more passengers are transported In China by the wheelbarrow than by any other land method. The wheelbarrow there used differs from that used by us in the fact that the wheel is set in the center and thus supports practical'y the entire load, while the handles are supported in part by a strap or rope over the shoulders of the man who operates it. As a result, the wheelbarrow coolie in China will transport nearly a half ton on ids vehicle. man-born- Chinese Women Are Advancing non-shoc- Doctor Predicts Great birth, and as she grew to Future in Their Politics. UNIQUE WAR GARDEN Dr Yamei Kin as a Baby Was the Only Survivor of a Family of Plague Victims Taking Great Strides. Honolulu, Hawaii. Behind the calm exterior of n life which she has built up to a point of success such that she is recognized as the foremost woman physician throughout the length and breadth of China, Dr. Yamei Kin, who passed through Honolulu recently on her way to the United States, has a life history that has few equals for romance and interest. Many years ago a physician of wealth and leisure named Doctor Mo Cartee was traveling In the far East, going from village to village In China studying the language and customs. His quest lasted nearly fifty years. One afternoon he stopped for the night In a village devastated by the plague, and while walking about huts among the silent, lie henrd the wall of a tiny Imby. He discovered an entire family lying dead in the hut, with the exception of a baby girl. Adopted Little Orphan. Having no child, the doctor adopted the little orphan and sent her to America for an education. He gave her the best medical training that time afforded, hoping to make of her a great woman physician, and In time she was graduated from n medical college In New York city, an Institution Cornell This Is the most unique war gar- that ceased to exist when the colmedical Columbia anil university s second a On den in existence. nrj She were women for opened. window of a house on Sixth avenue, at leges Kin. the Bleeeker street "L" station In New Is now Doctor Never for a moment, however, 'did York Is this miniature farm. The corn Doctor Kin forget the laud of her looks very well. death-marke- d be consid- ered a brilliant Chinese woman in America her efforts for the women of China were untiring. She has lectured and written in behalf of China, and has held a position under the Chinese government with a view to bringing the republic and tiie Unitd States into better understanding. According to Doctor Kin, women in China are taking seven-leagu- e strides to rid themselves of the environment of practical vassalage under which they have lived for ages past. She predicts great things for an awakened China soon. The doctor Is on her way to the United States to make experiments which she feels will be of benefit to her countrymen. SPENDS NIGHT IN WELL Missouri Hunter Meets With Strange Accident, But Finally Escapes. Wheaton, Mo. Plunging into a well 20 feef in depth, and remaining there for many hours, was the experience of John Switzer while hunting foxes near Iow ell, six miles south of this place. Switzer and several others of Granby came over for an fox chase. Sw itzer selected an abandoned field mar an old hut to wait for the chase. About midnight he heard the dogs coming his way, and as he started to meet them he stepped into the oid well. Fortunately the well was dry, hut Switzer was badly bruised and dazed. He spent the night in a vain attempt to climb five sides of his prison. As morning dawned, Switzer determined to make his last effort to free himself. Catching with both hands on the sides of the well, he climbed a few inches at a time. He worked cautiously, as his strength rapidly became weaker. Finally Switzer reached the lop and by grubbing a small bush he pulled himself from the hole of torture. He was found in a dazed condition by ills companions. ail-nig- S. WALLEN. " first Sj nopsis Stacey Wallen, 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 live other Chinamen were sent aboard 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. Drink-Hous- CHAPTER I heavy for him, fell to his side, a ghastly whiteness spread over his face, he reeled, clutched at the skylight for support, and sapped prone upon the deck. It was the nausea upon him again. The virulence of the attack passed after a while, but for a long time he lay where he had fallen, Weak and exhausted. when he He w7as stood up again, and hung limply against the skylight. Medicine yes, that was what It meant that stuff there spilled all about. He put some into his mouth. His eyes fastened on the ships log open in front of him. What kind of a hook w7as 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 w riting in it. Whenever any of the crew died he wrote it down in the book. And now the crew was all dead, and lie would he 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 w7as for. He lurched forward and picked up where it had the fountain pen-frorolled into a broken package of powHe lurched again dered quinine. 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 wriie as it had written before; it seemed to travel ail over the page, and he paused," his hand going to ids eyes again it was strange that he couldnt think of his own name! lie was first mate, he knew that; but yes, his name came back to him now. He wrote on laboriously. lie 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 deck and widened with a dawning fear. What were those shapes there! He began to mumble to himself, and suddenly shrieked out aloud. It was a horror ship. 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. lie hurled himself over the side, east the boat loose, and snatching at the oars began to pull like a madman away from the ship. Two hundred yards off 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! He flung himself to the seat 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 ail was blackness. semi-delirio- Continued. 2 And Gunga had shaken his head as he had answered. "I have looked, sahib, and the hand Is whole. Spellbound he had stood there Fn the stairs, a lad of fourteen, and Gunga had lifted the Thing in his arms and gone away with it; and the great figure of his father, dressed in pajamas, had stood motionless for a Jong time, then turning had faced the 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 now7. 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 your bed ined sharply. stantly ! 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 His father had Upolo to kill him. 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 wras in California. 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 Tokamaru, the biggest passenger liner in the fleet only a fourth officers pay was very small. He 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 seas 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. How that sun burned through the awning! It seemed to stab and drill into his skull with little shafts of exquisite pain. He 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 Drink-IIous- e Singapore? And where was It those six Chinamen had joined at Shanghai like himself? If he could 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, Who was this Drink-IIous- e Sam? What was It Ting Wah had said? "Dlink-Hous- 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 splendid hulk of the man heaved up from the elmir, and, clenched fist raised, he swayed upon his feet. They had got hltn ! Not the way they had thought to get him but they had got him. And he could not fight there was no one to fight he could only die like n trapped rat, while tills Drink-Hous- e Sam laughed a thousand miles away I Him know, him know, him know" the words coursed like fire through his brain. lie shouted aloud, and the nails of his fingers in his clenched fist bit Into the palm of his hand. He could not choke the life, ns Ills own went out, from this devil in Singapore that he hud never seen he could only The uplifted arm, as though ! 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 MacKnight! The man who had nursed him back to life as a mother would nurse her child! Forget that solitary human outpost ol civilization a man with an iron fist a barbed-wir- e tongue and a heart as tender ns a womans! No; he would not forget MacKnight! He forced a smile to his lips. One made strange friendships in these far parts of the world, and made them The under strange circumstances. pen-poi- CHAPTER I!. Crouched Low to Hide Himself. chances were a thousand to one that he and MacKnight would never meet again but, for all that, it was a friendship that would last. Twenty miles across the island before da j break! Wallen fell to wondering what sort of a ship, and, more pertinent still, what sort of a skipper was on the ship that had put into Pobi. He had refused MacKnights offer of an advance of money, and he hadnt a penny but he was satisfied that he would not be refused passage In any case. He could work his way. A white man who knew his business was worth his weight in gold on a ship any time in these parts. It was true he wasnt any too fit yet; but he was fit enough for that, fit enough a dull flush came into his face, and his eyes hardened fit enough to get to Singapore somehow! lie had not forgotten that ghastly afternoon in the reek of the pest ship, nor the Chinaman who had died In his arms whispering of Drink-IIous- e Sam of Singapore! Forget! He had thought of nothing else all these weeks, raved of It In his delirium, so MacKnight had told him. There was one thing dominant In his life now Drink-IIous- e Sam of Singapore, the man who had tried so mysteriously to take his life, to stall at him treacherously, without warning, out of the dark. It was Singapore! Singapore! never out of his mind now. To get there, to force the truth, the motive, the reason, the story behind all this from the human spider that lurked in his weh, and then his fists clenched fiercely and then settle with the man himself And that was why he must get to Iohi before daybreak, before tins steamer sailed. the Road to Pobi. the Scotch expostulated trader, but youre fair daft! Youre but out of the jaws of death, and Id no say youre all the way out at that. Bide a bit, therell he anither in a month or in two, anyhow. Wallen, standing in the center of the little galvanized-iron-roofestorehouse, Ills eyes on the native who had entered a moment before, shook his head. Ive got to pet away, MacKnight, he said earnestly. There's no use talking about it. What kind of a ship does lie say it Is? MncKnight flung out a question in tile native tongue. He says it is a big smoke-bont,- " translated the trader, "which will he by way of saying its some measly steam coaster thats so small it's no able to occomnindale Its own cockroaches, d'ye mind! Mon, pay to attention to it Whats anither month or so and youll he strong then, and uh, inon, but I hate to have ye go! Wallen, gaunt and thin from his Illness, shook his head decisively again, though the others words hud brought a quick responsive smile to his lips. Twenty miles across the Six weeks ago a proa from the vilisland before daybreak! lage here had picked him up at sen and brought him, as It were, to this man's door. He owed his (TO Bl CONTINUED.) life to MacKiilglit. Men should he temperate In eating It's no use, MacKnight, he unus well us In drlnkimj. T've got to go. too sworn!. On Mon, d six-fo- die. mon 1 d |
