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Show tf Another one of the six. wae Car. He waa big and quiet, with riere. a deceptive placidity not at all the sort of maa you expected Jo meet tf you had ever beardof him. Like many other adventurers. CarLlk all who rier ran way have ever done o. be 'paid for hla (on In sweat and agony. Ho wa a sailor before tb maat for several years, on coasting vessels, tramp steamers, trading schooners In tbe Far East. He waa In . tbe Philippines when the vay broke out, and he was captured by jth Insurgents and held prlBtner for several jnontbs. He waa revoluengaged in vague, tionary plots; he joined secret societies that have for their aim the emancipation of British India; and he did many other things In many other places that took him down into tb deeps of life. , Dually, be drifted to the Balkan, about tbe time Macedonia was In tb throes of tbe terrible revolt against became InTurkish rule. Carrier blind In strugInterested this tensely, gle of a Christian people for freedom, and he determined to let tho world know some oI tbe inside detail of prevailing conditions He believed, too, that he could be of help to the resole tionary chiefs In perfecting their organization in the villages and towns ol (he five vilayets. In the course of nearly two' years work ho had carried out hla entire plan of organization, except in Salonika and some of the territory around that city. He left that to tb last, because It waa the most difficult task, and he thought that,' with the prestige of what he had accomplished, au cess would he more easy. The chief of the local committee in Salonika had rather a sinister reputation. It hsd never been proved against him, but there were rumors of blackmail For several weeks, Carrier lay (h hiding In one of the suburb of the city, receiving prominent members of the committee and talking over the new scheme he advocated. He had no suspicions at Drat, although ha did not like the local voivode, and It came as a wholly unexpected shock when his secretary waa shot dowa.on the streets at night, after he had ventured out for a brief walk. The local committee claimed that a Greek had Hone It, but Carriers was suspicious. Two nlgbta passed, ' and' then the. old woman In whose bouse he was hid lng came to him with a scared look on her face. She had heard two men talking In her garden about aakarec and the approaches to the house. One of thMe men waa the local voivode. haar the full fttory e ala wasdeft-fo- r THOUGHT many months W knew ha -- VAGABONDS OF THE EARTH ' - by - Arthur D. often Howden Smith aaiam C) HiJfwry wifched aa. in a cafe In Caracas, Copr'h y however he bring heard a tale which caused, him to tbOM tlx men to change all hla plans.. ' Thl tale, or, rather, legend, bad gather, and jet. on filtered the Into the city through the metb taca of It, wish Is Impossible dium of planters, and bad of fulfillment. They been Imparted to them by tame Inare scattered to the diana, who In turn, bad heard It from corners of the earth. their wild brethren of the Jungle. It )6ome 1 hate heard had to do with a mysterious piaffe from through round-- - known as "El Lugar de los ITorea about v channels, hut Venenosos". (The Place of the Poisonmoat bare paaeed be- ous Dowers), a great clump of weirdly All beautiful flower, exhaling a deadly yond my ken. but two were chance acquaintances, perfume, which was said to be located In the dense wilderness that lies about - with whom I spent an hour or so. There was Helmilund for Instance. the headwaters of the Orinoco This His line la birds although', perfume waa noticeable two days off; as far as that goes, anything wild and within a day's march It was sickening; unknown attracts Helmslund. 1 dare-e- and by the time a man was wltbln you never heard of Helmslund. sight of tho flowers, he was overcoms - -- You would soon enough, though. If by the intense amelL orchid-hunteInstinct of tho you undertook to collect rare birds as Wlthjhe S bobby, Helmilund Is indispensable Oraysoa divined that the legend to scores of collectors In this country Implied (he presence of hla quarry. He acoqted the melodramatic features and Europe. 1 met him one Sunday afternoon at of. the tale, setting them down to the the bouse of a friend who possesses Imagination of the eountleaa untutored a really remarkable collection of individuals through whom It7 had North American birds. passed, and without more ado he set "Odd sort of fellow Helmslund," to work organiilng an expedition. our host later remarked. T?e known Sprang to My, he preferred to be the him several years, now, and hes Just only white man, although he took with who had been getting to the point where he gives him an old me a sketchy account of the main In- hla companion on several other excidents of Interest Ip his trips." peditions, and a targe train of Indian " 1 asked. What tripe porters.' One morning there was a percepti"After i birds," replied my host. "That's Helmslund's work. He gets ble odor of flower In the air; by noon birds, not for the feather people be tt had Increased donaiderably. When would regard that as sacrilege but they camped that night, the Jungle-smellhad been entirely supplanted. for collectors like myself. He goes everywhere to get them. 1 dont sup-P-e Their noatrila were (tiled with the there's a country ha hasnt been cloying eccnt. A' number of the refused to go any farther, but to In search of some particular specimen." Grayson, the and a half And that was how 1 happened to doaeo of the stanchest porters pushed hear4 the story of Helmslund's battle on In the morning. The perfume grew for Ufa on the wratby waters of Lake heavier and heavier a they advanced. Finally, one of the porters collapsed Klbushka. far np by the Arctic circle In the grim deeolation of the Siberian la hit tracks. . Another went down, steppes. It had happened the sum- and another. Grayson could feel his mer before, on a trip he had taken to senses leaving him. although he strugsecure some specimens of .the rosy gled on. He Mid be had never emoked opium, but he Imagined that hla sen- gull for a European collector. With a single companion and a couhe was working ple of - around the country, paying especial attention to the marshy tracts bordering several targe lakes, which are the habitat of various species of water fowl HAVE that could I sea-bird- y r, half-bree- f - , s half-bree- d dog-tesm- "nien"lw"prubstij' BO unwc-weauia- ta country In the world than this portion of the steppes Helmslund soon found that the rosy gulls had deserted the shores of Lake Klbushka, and he determined to cross the lake, which was about twenty miles wtde, and try his luck In the country beyond. 8e he secured a craft which he. called a dingey and which was large enough to hold his companion and three of the dogs, besides .himself, and the party .set out early In the morning. They propelled the craft by paddling, and it vu slow work. At first, everything went well Then a brisk breese sprang tip, agitating the surface of the lake until the waves became aa large as those of the open sen. To add to the confusion, the dogs became frightened and started to quarrel among themselves - Before they realised the danger, the lost had capslsed and the two men and three dogs were struggling In the water, Helmslund kept his wlta about him and helped his companion to awlm to the overturned dingey. The dogs had already clustered about It and were fighting desperately in the water to climb on the bottom, but Helma-- ' lund pushed through them ruthlessly and helped the other man to get a teat, before he followed him. Luckily, he had retained possession of bis paddle and he used It to beat off, the dogs, eraxy with fear aa they felt the stead illL Increasing weight of their heavy water-soake- d fur. Snarling fiercely, the beasts attacked the boat again and again, snapping at the men's legs ad leaping out of the water In wild attempts to eelse their throats. ' Early In the aftspon, Helmslund's off. companion fainted My friend said that the tears stood in the little man's eyes as he told of this occurrence. He told It quite simply, aa he told the whole story. Indeed without any straining for effect It wae only by direct questioning that my friend discovered that Helmslund had fallen off the boat himself In hla effcrts to save the other man, who had sunk llks n stone. When Helms- tuna gained the boat a second time he waa utterly exhausted and barely able to crawl on to Its bottom. Ha had lost hla paddle and bad no means cf directing hla progress or even of aetoralnlng In which direction be waa mippjrp AS wj&irru YPOVAlJt A - many-hue- d entlo-tngl- y men who had accompanied him were dead; another waa mad. He and the rest, who bad brought Mm off," were , . . tferrlbly atek. With the madneM of despair, he begged hla men to try again with hint. But they refased. The continued effect of the scent was almost Intoxicating, so they turned back. Their way thither had been fraught with perils It waa a Sunday excursion compared with the march homeward. TTie baleful Influence of the flow.- - followed close at their heels It was always with them, like a human .vengeance. They were persecuted by fever; Jaguars and serpents took their of the Indians toll; the blow-gu- n the, stunted people of the woods slew with poisoned arrows In the end, a handful staggered out on the hanks of the Orinoco and sought their way toward the frontier of civilisation. Gray-to- n was sick for months after he reached Caracas He waa still, sick when W reached Mew York. . goinr. fortunately for him, the wind was onshore, and late ia the afternoon he drifted within sight of land. Tht !iht gave him renewed energy to atrip off hla shirt and aae It to signal to a village of natives. Whenever f Smell the t eot of Booth American orcUda n vision rise before me of another one ' sickly-swee- a (ever-racke-d specter met tolling down the gang-, plank of a from La Quayra. Ilia name waa Oraysba. and ha belonged to that legion of reek-le- a adventurers, the orchid hunters. Crayon had gone to Venexuela nome months before, with a vague to strike Into the Jungle country la the direction of the Oulaa- M ! VfZiiof' tfMmrs satlons must have resembled those of an habitual user. Ha was sure that he could see the flowers, hug, clusters of them, coloroua, the moat magnificent collection of orchids In the world, gleaming through the Jungle trees; and then be, himself, collapsed. When he regained consciousness (hey .were back at the camp where they had left the' rest of the porter. Two of the -- - i i , ten-doll- i ' il e: sald.-"'"Btyo- trana-Andea- and-dropp- ed - ailed from England for Rio In cabin de lux of an English packet tost . From week to week, for po tiff two months, w received letters mb Jilm., Then came the alienee fhe alienee for six continued r totha, until one morning I received a ( written on American Line pa-- r 4 and postmarked Southampton. It i signed by Ford. 8 hall arrive onPhlladelphla with--1 48 ' bourn after you receive this i Isrt of cash. . Do you remember that l dollars you owe me?" ' That' wa Impudence for you! 1 kmld have know x who wrote that rfe. without n signature- However, dapped a bill ia an envel-- i m and matled it promptly. A week itr Ford dropped la to see me. 'Much obliged for tbe cash, old an." he said. "It came In handy, fja ee, they trimmed me beautiful-- 1 la Paris, and 1 started out for Rio 4th my. steamship ticket and barely tough coin to last me three weeks i fact, when 1 got to the Chilean fxmtler town across the Andes 1 a strapped. That made me sick ( the whole Job, and I decided it was IE to head for horns There was a pines of a British consul there, who loaned me n ten-spand got mo a pas for donkey transportation atroM tho mountains to tho Argentine railroad. "Just by blind luck. I'd chipped with the chief engineer of tie construction gang on the Argen-th-e aide, and no when I hit Mm tor a pas to Bueno Ayres be ponied up Ilk k good ons "I wan feeling pretty disconsolate ihd I went Into a cafe near the water front to forget myself for an hour or two. That was the time when Brazil and the Argentine were seeing vhlch could build warships the quick-A- t, you know, and there was a big Braxlllano sitting In the placq, with hi feet np, passing remarks to the occupants in generaL As soon as he. aw me, he concentrated hla attention, apparently on the supposition that because 1 was small I must be easy. 1 stood about two sentences and then I vent for him. - We were rolling promiscuously arpund the restaurant, and 1 waa getting a bit the worst of It, when a little' man with an am like a team-flacame through the door. After he got through with my Brazilian friend there were no scraps to be picked up. "Well we shook hands and told each other wed always been longing to meet, and afterwards we had a drink. The little man was a British-er- , captain of a tramp steamer due to Mil the next afternoon, and when 1 told him of my troubles he clapped me on the back and offered me free passage to Rotterdam. Ill hava to you down on the book as cabin or steward," he do no work. - Come aa my guest; I'll he glad to have you, He waa a prince, that skipper. Fed me at Ma own table, gar me hla own cigars and wine, and when w reached Rotterdam he staked me to Paris. "Aunt Jana waa In Paris, fortunately for me, and I think she was so glad at the prospect of getting ma Back to America that ahe dlvied up without any side remarks." I never really - knew Chatton, tbe flfth of my vagabonds I had been dining at a club In Pieadllly with an engineering friend, and as .we were paaslng out through the club parlors my friend drew me aside to make room for a big, broad shouldered man wearing blue spectacles, "That's Chatton," he whispered. "He was on of the principal assistants In the construction of the new ' 11ns Hes always had bad eyes, end 4 the doctor .told me ha ought not to' enow work abova the line, hut that He wants wouldn't do for Chatton. to be where the fun la. You see, engineering ax a science means little to fight him. Ita the game he likee-th- e to overmaster some problem. Poor Chatton! Whenever there wae a desperate lob to be done, he was bound to he on tt and alt for a beggarly six or seven pounds a week. I suppose." "Why do you My Poor Chatton T I asked. , Because hell goinever get over - this it from the latest eye trouble.-RtTsnow glare, just as the doctors said he would. "But what will the man do? 1 exclaimed. "How la he going to liver "Hell live survive, rather." rejoinThat waa enough for Carrier. 1 -He left the house In broad daylight, ed my friend, bitterly. "Hla people But hell never work trusting entirely to luck; and on have money. hla way out of the city be met a de- again. Every one who knpwi Mm la too. tachment of troops marching to sur- always cut up. And he feels It,about round hla hiding place. They halted although hes deuced plucky hlm, but a Bulgarian girl a friend of It,". If you have been In the habit of hla future wife, who was standing near courts or cheap by. claimed him as her brother, and frequenting police la house It possible that you waa lodging allowed to go os he Iu Bulgaria he married the Russian have met John Kelly. As near as I could make out .from girl who had been hla principal helper and incentive, and cast about for tray admission .Kelly made to me, - he gave up a reputable position some new task. , was as Ford Young different from life to undertake a study of the psyCarrier or the others as a man well chology of tramps and thieves Ha could be. 1 have known Ford for soma used to ipeak with genuine pride of and he was particularyear, and I think he is. without ex- his researches, what he termed "hla life ception, the cheekiest man 1 have ever ly proud of worXM tbe compilation of a dictionencountered.. For one thi., he la thieve slang, together with a of newspaper man when he anything, ary that Is Ford never work unlea he compendium of the rule of afld Nobody has to, snd he alway makes sure that to get an extendany position he accepts does not en- waa ever permitted dollar or two, tail undue effort, mental or physical ed view of this For a man wax hard the when then, and now .It was several year ago that Ford cut a! one to would copy permit he came to me and said he was going up, he was very to 8outh America. By means unknown few stray phrase; but and believed he had got together about 2.000, and suspicious, aa a rule, to a In waa one conspiracy he fancied that he could make at east that every of labor aa much aa he spent By doing special tear the fruit of hla year away from him. (ieacrtptlve, article of hla travels lit on mistake waa la electing to .What became of him 1 never beard. with go by way of Europe, more especially H drifted away, hla manuscript by way of Paris,-- 2 knew the hold Mm. to the end steadily refublag thee M Part had on Ford. o I waa not propositions that ha regarded ; Insulting. at the outcome although did leu than 1 fruit-steam- er - -- f- n 1 1 bouse-breakin- Mfe-crackln-g. UV-ti- aur-prlse- d g EDUCATION A FAILURE ConferOklahoma Lawyer , Given Leaeon by f I Descendant Cherokaa Indian. Senator, Robert I Owen ofOkla-horns- , whose toother was, Cherokee If you. are we want to extend an Indian, stirred lip some excitement invitation to j ou to visit ovr new down Oklahoma way in one of the Store. It add one to Salt Lakes list. Tbe new' first lawsuits bq ever tried, says tbe address ia ltd Main Street.-- Washington Herald., Tbe opposing counsel saw fit to call Gwen a Bar, f J Owen got up and addressed himself about thill torguage: to the court In . "Inasmuch aa the court has done wu las a nx dim nothing to maintain Its own dignity, snd as I am amply able to take care of myself, I shall take this affaln Into overdone A thing Isn't necessarily my own haada." Just because It is done over. Then he turned to the lawyer - '" ii across (he table and remarked to him In a loud 'voice that he was both a liar and a blackguard, and that, furthermore, he could Just take that, and that, and that! Whereupon the opposing counsel fell to the floor as one man. ' Owen bad used only Ms flt. Is Healthful and Stimtaladng. hut everybody in the court room fled, not knowing when bullets might he In the air. , After the affair was over the lawyer who had called Owen a liar stood on the front Steps of the. courthouse and observed to a couple of friends. Teas are always Good, "I waa never much in favor of educating these Cherokee boy, anyhow!" Coming to ence or the Fair? more-attracti- on GOOD TEA HEWLETTS Ask your grocer, ,, . And Ha Won tha Bet It waa at a country tavern where a FREE coupons for ROGER'S newly arrived commercial travelerwas holding forth. fine silverware in EVERY "Ill bet any one five pounds, he PACKAGE. s aid, "that Ive got the hardest name of any one in tbe room. An old farmer In the background Some men make a specialty of starb shifted hla feet to a warmer part of lng a scrap between others. the fender. "Ye will, will ye?" he drawled. "Well, Ill take ye on. 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