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Show t ... I : ' - i i ILUJCEsMIEIIS, jj IT Bail: SIEI HSCC'DD. ij lTj by Lowell iniomai - - , taiill i Tbey said there were no wblte men on the Island, and we longed to go ashore. Wltb our scurry-swolle- legs we could hardly stand, bowever. It wouldn't do to be bauled ashore as cripples. It would not Increase these warriors' respect for Germans as fight-ing men: Cripples do not fare well among savage peoples, and we thought It best not to reveal our Impotence. So we refused tbe natives' Invitations to partake of their hospitality, told them we must hurry on to fight tbe Britten, and asked for fresb water and bananas. Tbey brought great gourds full of water and bunches of bananas. We drew up to the dock and tbey banded these precious supplies down for os. We had our fill of bananas and wa ter, and, with shouts resounding from the shore, set sail again. This lucky spot was Nlue, an outlying Isle of tbe FIJI group. The sun biased down upon us, but a fair wind carried as along briskly. The first day after leaving Nlue we felt better. The second duy we were on the road to high good health. It Is amazing the curative effect of fresb fruit, especially ba-nanas, when you are suffering from scurvy. They seem to put new life and blood into CHAPTER XIV a Sea of Floating Brimstone to Fiji We had all along figured that we might bare to go to tbe FIJI Islands, where a constant stream of sailing ships wss always taking aboard copra for tbe munition factories In tbe United States. Bat we also were fully aware that sailing In a little open boat from Cook Islands to tbe FIJIs might easily be a perilous venture. Our voyage so fur had gone fairly pert of Its arrival became more and more attractive. "Boys," I said, "let ns take pieces of ballast Iron and tie them around our necks. One plunge and la a few seconds all of our pains will be gon." "Yes. AU right" There were mot-terln-of assent But Parmlen, the youngest, the one who was nearest death, picked up the comic volume, Frits Reuter's "Trip to Constantinople." and began to read a funny story. We all laughed. That bonk had eased many a bard hour be-fore, on this ghastly voyage, and now, perhaps, it. saved our lives. And so we continued on wltb but one Instinct left in us, the sailor's Instinct to navigate his craft Me-chanically, without any particular hope, without any particular thought we trimmed tbe sails, guided the helm, and calculated our position as best we could. Nautical science was at a low ebb among us now. We were too far gone to reckon exactly where we were, and were only vague In our steering. All we knew was that we should steer to the west where tbe Island groups were. 1 won't try to sny bow we felt when we saw a speck on the horizon and the speck grew bigger and turned Into the familiar green of a tropical Island. We had been so mocb like dead men, you and draw the sick-ness right out of the body as though some nnge and marvelous poultice bad been applied. Our cure was completed at the Isle of Katafnnga. It Is quite a targe Isle and Inhabited by more nutlves. We came to tbe main body of tbe FIJIs. and sailed Into a large gulf sur-rounded by distant Islands. It was night and we decided to wait till morning to see bow many ships were passing and what Island tbey were bound for. We reefed our sails and threw out our sea anchor, that sack-like drag of canvas that keeps a boot from turning broadside to the wind and waves and from drifting too fast We lay down for a decent night's sleep. We wouli need all our ener-gies for the morrow. A sudden shout I awakened. It was Just daybreak. Straight ahead was a wild white line of surf. It broke over a long, low coral reef, and just behind It waa a high cliff. We had run Into a strong current during the night Krauss bad awakened just In time to see that It bad carried us perilously near the reel The wind smoothly. There bad been no hurri-canes, and we thanked Ood for that. But now the weather turned against us for a whole week, and we began to think we had run across Et Swlthln'i day. We haJ forgotten If we had ever kuown It that this waa the time when the equinoctial storms broke In those waters. Had we known It, we never would bave beaded for the FIJIs. For ten days we sailed through drenching downpour, the rainy sen son. The sea waa choppy. The wind whipped the apray and the crests of waves over ns In driving sheets. In our cockleshell, things were afloat and It was bitter cold o' nights. We threw onr mattresses overboard. In tbelr soaked condition they were tar worse to sleep on thsn the wet planks, and there was no use keeping them any longer. Wben the sun occasionally bone, our drenched clothes would dry quickly and stiffen like boards of salt Tbey rubbed and scratched the skin off our bodies. Wben tbey got wet again, which they promptly did, the salt would sonk Into tbe raw flesh and Inflame It Our bodies felt as tbougb they were on fire. We bad no regular sleep. Instead, a man would doze away suddenly at almost any time. Even the helmsman would drowse off like that, and, wltb a free rudder, the boat would veer around crazlly. One morning, wben dawn came, we could hardly believe our eyes. The sea bad turned from Its normal blue to yellow. On scooping up a pall of li we found a scum that we concluded most be brimstone and ash. We were Bulling through a Held of brimstone. For three days we saw from horizon to horizon thla yellowish expanse of volcanic dust It no doubt came from some submarine eruption, perhaps the one we could thank for the tidal wave that had wrecked the Seeadler. The waves carried the gritty dust Into the boat It penetrated everything. Every surface became like sandpaper. Our skin grew rough and caked wltb It Our blankets were like sandpaper, and so were our clothes. As the voyage grew longer, we bad to be more and more sparing wltb our drinking water. The supply began to run low. We could no longer collect rain water In our snlia They were coated with salt We tried to wash them out In the rain, but then the was sweeping us toward the breakers. "Raise sail." I shouted. We scrambled frantically and raised the canvas. The wind was Inshore. We could not head into It We were being blown slowly, Inexorably onto tbe reel People accustomed to the surfs along ordinary coasts have no Idea of what breakers are like off the Islands of the South Pacific The surf all over the Pacific is particularly strong. But wben It breaks over a nild oceanic coral reef nothing can live In It The strongest swimmer Is sure to be dashed to pieces against the Jagged coral. And there wasn't the slightest hope of our moving against the wind and backing away from the reef. Slowly, slowly we were nearlng It The break-ers roared like thunder. In a few mo-ments we would be flung Into that death trap of water and coral. Pistol In band, I shouted something to the effect that I didn't intend to be ground to death by the breakers on that Jagged coral. The others looked for their pistols. One could not And his. Between the pull of the current and the power of Two Thousand Miles In This Open Boat who had thought that nothing could ever make ns glad again. By Joe, that sight gladdened our hearts, though. We grew even weaker, but It was tbe weakness of happiness. Aj we drew near, we thought of nothing but land, fresh water, and soft food, a soft banana, for our loose, shaky teeth. Never mind ships or capturing ships. Never mind being taken prisoners. We headed straight toward a crude pier that stuck out Into the water. A crowd of a hundred natives, per-haps less, were gathered st the land-ing place watching our approach. Tbey were ferocious looking black warriors. We bad now passed from the region of the brown, indolent Polynesians to those of the black, warlike llelnne-slans- . spray and the waves kept washing In and kept the sails salty and added a further salting to any water we col-lected. Our supply of fruit that we bad picked up In the Cook Islands ran out now, and about all we bad left ras hardtack, not In Itself a tblrst-quenchln- kind of food. Our gums dried out and were like rough Iron. We sucked our lingers and gnawed at our knnckles to bring a flow of saliva and refresh our horning mouths. And then came the sailor's worst enemy, scurvy. Our diet of burdtnek. lack of exercise, and general hardship brought It on. Our knees swelled up so badly that we had to cut our trousers. The rocking of the boat knocked them together or agulnst the wooden sides, and then tbe pain wus almost unendurable. Our lips were black and broken. Our tongues were swollen and hard. It was ss If you had a stone In your mouth. Our gum became snow white and seemed to re-- "What ngly customers," I said to Lewlemana. "They look like canni-bals." The forbidding battle arruy on shore stirred a new strength In us. It cer-tainly looked like a cannibal Island, and mlseruhle as we were, still we could not escape the thought of our skin and bones being fattened up In preparation for an old time Soutb sea banquet "Clear the bat for action!" I Even In our present straits, we could still remember our old naval wars. The German flag went Jerking to our masthead, and rifles and machine guns were displayed. A shout went up on shore snd a babel of talk. Voice veiled tn pidgin English "You Germans How you get tiere from way off! Come on. Germans greut warriors." Still wary, we drew near the land Ing pier snd talked with the natives. our sails, we were drifting along the reef, edging toward It The wind gave us an extra posh. We were In the barkwash, only a few yards away from the breakers. And still one man could not find his pistol. Instinctive-ly, we all waited. And that was what ' saved our lives. Suddenly we saw the reef drop away, slanting hack at a sharp aniile, and a moment later we were drifting parallel to the coral. It was then that I discovered there were two kinds of breathing. In times of terrible danger, the breath comes In short, quick puffs. The danger gone, you breathe deeply. By Joe. when we got clear of that reel I breathed such a breath that It seemed to go right down to my heels. I gut looking at my boys' faces. When we got our pistols rend.v. their faces had set tense, as If cast from bronze. With the danger past, their faces held the same set expression. It was nn hour before their old expressions came back again. Two ; of my fellows found They were unmistakably friendly, very patches of gray In their hair after-cordial. From what they told us they had, In the first place, grievances agulnst their masters, the ItrltUh. Then quite a number bad been re-cruited and sent to the trenches tn France. There some hud tan killed and some wounded, and must who sur-vived had contracted tuberculosis from the unaccustomed climate and had been returned to the Island worn-ou- t shells of men. I 1 l"l 1 1 I I I 1 I . i i i i i I I I I I I I I ward. (Maybe tliey had been there for years only to be discovered now I) Another's leg was alisolutely blue In spots. In those frightful moments he had. without knowing it. grasped his thigh In a clutch like a drowning man I tell you. by Joe. it was the hand ot Ood that put the curve In that reef! When one ot the hoys. I don't know which, said In surprise, "We are clear I" I knew It was the hand of God (TO BE CONTINUED.) li li cede. Our teeth felt as though they were sticking far out of our Jaws They hurt constantly and were loose and felt as if they were going to drop out Wltb these shaking teetb we ate our hardtack. 1 never before knew bow hard hartack was. We bad an ending headaches, and It seemed as I! something were pressing our eyes right out of their sockets. We got water In our legs, and could hardly stand any more. We had to slide around tbe seats to do what had to be done In navigating the boat In scurvy, tbe blood turns to water, first in the legs and then upward. When It reaches the heart you die. Where the blood Is water the flesh Is white, and you can see the line of the white creep slowly up. We wondered who would be the first the first to have the line of whl'e rise to the benrt My boys made murks to show the line clearly and mark Its dally progress upward It was a kind of sport. It was keep-ing a daily log, a log ot death. 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' f If SUB I J i: ROSA j mimi I jAAAfiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA How Long Mutt 1 Suffer? DOOR NATHALIE U In Deed of ' im very real sympathy for she U suffering tbe pane of Brst love, un-requited, and thert art do mora cruel torments In too world. John did Iot ber, but be learned to forget ber In ont brief summer, and poor little Nat whose world collapsed when aha beard tbe news, bai not been able to do tnacb la the way of eating or aleeplng since that time. She Is not merely sentimental. Slit was really In love wltb the boy, John. She' bad made some sacrifices to keep him near ber. 8he stood ready to marry him and then be walked past ber calmly looking for another pretty face. It's all humiliating and bard and dreadful, particularly when her fami-ly stands unsympathetic, and silently critical, beholding her torture. They bad told ber not to fool around wltb that boy. THEY had known It would come to no good, etc, etc. Each day Nat wakes to a world of despair and hopelessness. Each morn-ing fresb anguish assails ber as mem-ory brings back tbe dreadful truth that John Is gone forever and that she must go on living without hlra somehow. She tsks me rather pathetically how long she niust suffer. She's beard that Time la tbe Great Healer, and so she alts, waiting for time to pass, and praying that tbe healing will soon take place. But boney child, that's not the way time Is going to heal you. You've got to stop, looking at tbe clock If you want that hurt of you re mended up. Let old time sneak up on you wben you'r not looking. Let him cure your aching heart while you're busy at something else. For heavens' sake don't put him off by watching for him too eagerly. No mtl n a van Hma nan atnn.4 hn vwm v .s aiHu vs uiuia Just you turn your back on time, and the thought of what he must do before your frame of mind will be normal again. Plunge yourself deep Into anything the bobby which In-terested you most before John came along. YouH be startled one day to And yourself laughing quite naturally. Or you'll discover to your consternation and wonder that yon haven't thought about John for an entire twenty-fou- r hours your mind has been so full of this and that, you really haven't had a second to spare. That's the work of time, my dear. He did that for yo'j. But In order to let hlra do his bes' work, you've got to take a hand and help him out Turn your back on John find some-thing to make time pass as quickly as possible and the faster he passes, tbe more he'll be able to help you. Affectation ALL of us make a point of affectation and wbat we mean by affectation Is making a fool of oneself with ridiculous manner-isms, a silly voice, exaggerated ges-tures, etc We can all recognize that kind ot affectation, and we know wben to bate it Consequently there aren't many foolish young things tn the world who dare to pull that .kind of stuff. They know too well that they'll be laughed out of court If they dare to affect a new English accent or aome cute little French gestures, or a flirtatious roll-ing of tne eyes. Uowever, affectation persists for there la affectation which Is not quite so obvious to the great majority and tbe little lady who practlcea It usually gets away safe until Well Just take Doris for exsmple. Iler affectation Is that of being a great literary light. She just loves to be thought "hooky." She got the Idea from some story she read, and she went In heavily for being a lit-erary lady. , All real literature leaves her entire-ly cold. But she affects to be hugely Interested In every phase of literary work she cultivates g in tellectual folk and she's really man aged to get quite a reputation. Vet thla form of affectation Is m any other. For Doris is Just as likely to be found out and ridiculed as her affected sister who simpers and giggles and behaves Ilk a bad a. tress In a third-clas- s stock company. It la ao dangeroua and so foolish to affect anything. The safest thing In the world Is to be yourself, to act In accordance wltb what you really be-lieve and to be truthful about your-self to yourself. By sticking to this rule you're se cure. You have nothing to fear from anyone. There Isn't a foul In the world who can unmask you for you're show Ing the world your true face. Whereas, once you pretend even for a brief while and then throw It over wben It gets too much for you. That sort of thing attracts as much on- - favorable comment and ridicule as the most blatant affectations in the world. If you make a friend because you've adopted a rather successful pose, you'll be out of luck one of these days Affectations may help you to make conversation once In a while but they won't help you to gain any of the worthwhile things In life true friend-ship and true love. . 9 by th Bell Inc.) Silverware for Brides The bride Is the keystone of the American silverware manufacturer's fortune. A survey Just completed shows that 67 per cent of the silver-ware sold Is purchased by and for young couples under thirty years old, while Jewelers are unanimous In the estimate that the first purchases are made before tbe age of twenty-fou- r. Smart Set Magazine. - Negro Jaws There are enough negro Jews In New York city to maintain a Hebrew synagogue where services on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are conducted In the Hebrew language by a colored rabbt t ; ' i i i i i i i i i i i i t i i j Objected to Shaving by Monkey Apprentice work diligently on the customer's face. Afterwards he grabbed a razor and started to strop It with equal diligence, but In a grossly careless manner. Then lie clambered up on the arm of the chair and made as It to begin sharing the alarmed customer. "No. na. ma wee mannle!" said the tatter. Jumping to bis feet and push-ing the monkey aside. "I've no objec-tions to ye soapln me. an' yer strop-pin- ' maybe n' richt. but yer futlier'll line to do the shnvln'i" Sir Harry Lauder Is fond ot telling the following story: The sailor son of an Arbroath bar-ber hud brought bonie with him a large, hairy, and particularly ugly monkey, which he presented to bis father. The barber trained the mon-key to assist him In the lathering of bis customers' chins, much to theli amusement One day a stranger dropped Into the shop, and bad a good look at the mon-key sitting In a far corner staring In telllgently at a comic puper. By and hy the burber was culled to the dooi to answer some query or other, and In bis absence the monkey seized the lathering brush and proceeded to Hi Song In these days 11 is customary foi the composer to outlive bis songs, Newmnt Flower. i Debunking a Sheepherder Myth Ity Is a valid as well as popular ex-cuse for several major crimes. Arch-er R Gillillan In the Atlantic Monthly. There Is an story that the laws In certain states compel a sheepman o keep two men with the sheep all the time, one to herd them and the other to keep the berder from going crazy. What would happen It tbe ovine In-fluence should upset the mental equi-librium of both of them at the same time la a matter for conjecture. Speak-- ! ing merely for myself, tbe sight of someone watching me from d.iy to day fur signs of Incipient madness would be the surest and quickest way to call to life the germs of that dls ease, which is supposed to lie latent tn the herder calling. . And If. In addition, I had to do all the work, while the other fellow con-fined his labors to bis optic nerve, there would Inevitably steal Into my consciousness the thought that Uisan Health Hint Most persons allow themselves to be too suggestible. Eseclally Is thla true as regards the diagnosis and treatment of Illness. Often people pay the doctor for advice and then do what the next door neighbor ad vises. "Journeyman" Ocfinad The word "Journeyman," according to tbe best. Information, is derived from the French word "Journee." meaning a day. Therefore, the "Jour-neyman" Is In reality a "day man" and may be defined os applying to one who, having served his apprenticeship to a handicraft or trade Is prepared to work at It for a d.iy s wages. Ancient Volcanic Dual Evidence that at least six volcanic eruptions deluged Pennsylvania with dust was recently discovered in the limestone formations near State col lege by Trot C. A. Bonine, geologist |