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Show HBHaelk Bap9 (GoM &grllenlrlce Crimsliaw Illustration bg irwln 3fyer Copyright by Hughe Muili Co. WNU Berries space of deck. Girls' shrieks at least three were In It ; and they were screaming at the top of their voices. Of coarse I made for the spare of foredeck, extremely ready to come to the aid of beauty In distress. I don't know what I expected; certainly It was not what I saw. Three ship's officers, attired In all their Topic glory of while drill and gold, were cantering down the deck like horses. On the ahoulders of each sat, astride, an extremely pretty girl, dressed in s bathing suit of the kind known as "one-piece.- " The girls had Jockey raps on their heads, and they were flogging their mounts along with silk handkerchiefs, and screaming en-couragement at the lop of their rather high voices. I saw all this In moment and guessed, without much difficulty, thai the riders were three mimical comedy actresses, going to Join a revue com-pany touring the Bust, of whom 1 had heard when taking hy passage. One of them a tall, white-llnihe- lass with red bobbed bnlr was apparently winning; ' up Us mind to attack ns, twenty sec-onds would see the finish. The shark was getting curious ; about; coming nearer with every tack. "Ix)ok bfre," I said sud-deui- "are you game to do Just what 1 tell you and ask no questions?" "Aren't IT Try me." "Then put your mouth down to the water, end blow us hard as you can.': She stared; was about to speak-b- ut something In my face (1 think) checked her. Awkwardly she bent her lips to the swaying green that barely held us np; etrttgglingly but deter, mlnedly blew. I blew also. Bubbles went streaming from our Hps under water; a string of silver bells, a web of pearls. Years ago. in mid Pacific, I had heard about this way of keeping off sharks; had even seen the girls who swam In the Prussian blue pools of Ntue, blowing bubbles every now and then. Just as a measure of precau-tion. . . . But was there really anything In Itl Had any human creature, attacked, or In danger of attack ever kept away these tigers of the deep by merely puffing bubbles at them! I didn't know. I only knew that there was nothing else to do. It was Impossible tc go on blowing forever. We halted, for a rest By this time the girl had certainly guessed Ilea have (on down to the South 8ms, stayed a fsw months or a year or two and bsvs com back and writ-ten novels or varying degree ot ac-curacy! mostly romantic, glamorous and colorful tale which have captured public Intereet Not on of them has the authenticity of the novel of Beat-rice Orlmebaw. All of th other South Beaa writer combined have not equaled her output of stories, neither have they attained to anything Ilk her noire audience In Europe, America and oth-- i r parts of th world. During nearly quarter of a cen-tury ah ha lived In that romantic dletrlct and ha written It novel for bout th came length of lime. 8h ha aalled the eapphlr and turquole-tinte- d water and vlalted the epic scented, roplo-lade- coral-bui- lt atoll nd Inland from Papua to Ih limit of Polynesls and group farther saat-war- She know not only th various type of natlvea, but aleo the polyglot specimen of humanity that have been attracted from other part of the world; and ah ha flrtt-han- d knowl-edge of th pbyalral attribute and th flora and faun of tbat fascinat-ing aectlon of th glob. Beatrice Qrlmabsw Is an authority on the South Beaa. She drawa with ur hand whether ehe be world depleting vagabonda and beach-comber-natlvea, trader, sailor, gold hunter, explorer, government official or ad-venturer of type. Above all eh draw th country, with It waters. It mountain. It verdure and It de-tached myatlcal characteristic. And with It all ah haa th girt of roman-ticism; th ability to construct plots and weave th fascinating elements of th region Into novel. On ha never read a real South Beaa alory until he ha read th Octloo of Beatrice Orlra-ha-what was happening; but she said never a word. Her laughter, her silly bravado, bad vanished; she held to my shoulder with a clutch of Iron, and her breath came short as sons, but she still kept ber head, still refrained from grabbing or hampering me. I looked at the fin again. "O d," I snld, and didn't Know I spoke, "It's coming" for It had turned end on, and I saw It as a black spike sticking out of the water. Incredibly huge. I put my mouth down aguln, and blew blew till my lungs were one hot pain all down my back. The black fin poised. I felt the girl's finger nulls like claws In m nock; heard her spluttering uselessly into the wa-ter, game o the Inst; swung her round, I don't know , so as to get my body between her and the sea tiger that was hungering for our blood ; saw It go off with a rush like a tor-pedo, and thought the end was come. What I had forgotten about was the boat. I don't think for a moment that our blowings and bubblings had any effect upon the shark, other than to excite its curiosity. It whs the near ap-proach of the ship's whaleboat, furl- - CHAPTER I Tbe cigar was unwontedly good; It had made me peaceful and dreamy that, or the reaction after the fuss of getting aboard and awuy. At all events, 1 leaned back In the cushioned smoke-roo- chair, and jove myself up to enjoyment; lot' the sounds and sights and the smellr of the great liner flow pleasantly over me. They were all there, the things that I had known and forgotten. And the bent, beat of the great steamer heart, that was to carry on, day and night, until Hongkong; and tbe Da rely heard, long wash of the Coral sea, as we rnn north from Cairns In Queensland up towards Torres straits, through all the sapphire and topas glory of a tropic winter day. ... I had the sura of one hundred and seventy-tw- solid pounds, mine since yesterday, In the care of the ship's majestic purser. There's nothing makes a man feel so Innocently drunk. One of Them a Tall, White Limbed Lass With Red Bobbed Hair Was Apparently Winning. ber mount, the chief officer, was yards ahead of the rest 1 saw that. I saw, too, the face of a girl on the oppo-site side of the deck ; staring hard at the racers; she had a profile like an Italian coin, dark hair close shingled, and exceedingly blue eyes. That face held me for an Instant ; It was as if the owner bad suddenly called. . . . Then I saw uhut mad me leap across the deck, tear otf my Jacket and fling myself over the rail of the Catacara, down thirty feet Into the sea. In the excitement of winning, the red haired girl had let go her hold of the chief officer's forehead, waved her arms, and lost balance completely. They were near the rail; she began to topple, and I saw she was bound to go. 1 didn't wait for her to full; 1 sprang first 1 think we went through the air almost together; she struck the wu'er about ns soon as 1, sud we both went down, In a smother of foam am) boiling blue. ously rowed, that gave It pause. Pause, 1 say, because, when the boat bad dashed between us and the shark, and four strong arms were busy hauling us np over the gunwale a thing that can't be done In seconds, try how you may the shark suddenly seemed to realize that Its dinner was leaving It, and made such a determined charge that the sailors had to fight It off with all the available oars. They got us into the boat, and the chief had a tot of whisky ready. I never saw a man look more as If he wanted one himself, but thnt was small wonder; If he had not been playing the giddy goat, nothing would have happened. I think I told him as much ; also, that I was not In the least cold, and would hnve a dry shift In ten minutes; didn't need a drink. Tbe lady, I said, had better have one. She and be shared It Her face looked very white, nnder her wet red hair, and I dare say he may have thoight she would take cold ; anyhow, he put his uniform coat round her, and was making all fast with his arm when she wriggled apart from blm, and flung herself down on tbe seat be-- as a hatful of cash, when he has been a long time short This cash of mine was the result of a lucky win In a sweep on the English Derby; nothing more respectable than that but the 'strictest purist could hardly have found fnult with my way of spending It I was down In Cairns upon busi-ness (very small business and cheap) when the windfall came; and wisely, I decided to go home at once, Instead of waiting for the monthly B. P. boat. One treat I must have, I decided; and the call of the Catacara sturvostod It kind. I would spend eight of my pre-cious pounds on a two-da- run to Thursday Island, and get bark thence to New Guinea by cutter. For two days, I would dream that I was back in the spacious dnys of Home and riches; the years when my father owned a fine country house, and a sniulllah town house, and I hnd been going to be an English squire, some time or other, snd life and society and the "right people," and what one was going to do with oneself after Harrow and the 'Varsity had all been changeless, solid as fixed stars. Nothing solider than thnt house, the long avenue with the firs and the crackling gravel, the cottages an! farms that were ours, the garden and Its strange roses rice roses, Scotch yellow, moss roses, cab-bage. Nothing more sure than the passing for ever and ever the same, of those slow summers and winters In the north of England climate; pole Buns and pretty, passionless flowers, rain and short dnys and snow. Every-thing set, unalterable. . . . In one half hour, It was swept away. My father fell dead of unsuspected heart trouble. The solid house, tbe firs and the avenue, the cottages and farms, Harrow, Cambridge, the "right people," the set unalterable way of living, all went down the winds of the We came rp well In the rear; when I bud grabbed the girl, and got the water and my own hair out of my eyes, I could see th steamer's Im-mensely tnll stern alreRdy huudrcds of yards awuy, and leaving us as If y had seen us go overboard. Of course they had; they were get-ting a boat out, and taking the way off the ship, as quickly as might be-- but If ever you have been left In the midst of the Inhospitable ocean by a liner running at full speed, you will realise thut 1 hnd plenty of time to grasp the situation; plenty of time, too, to wonder If we weren't both like-ly to he drowned htfore help could reach us. Because the red haired girl. In spite of ber stage bathing costume, couldn't swim at all. She was plucky; no on" could have been pluckier. She gasped a good bit. but did not cling; she did as I told her, put her 'lands on my shoulders, and let ber legs swing out to support her. "I I can tton- t- a bit" she said chokingly. "1 I'm not a scrap afraid. Never say die; my motto." If she was not afraid, 1 was; abom-inably so. Because I hnd seen some-thing she, with her face toward my buck, had not seen; something 1 did not wunt her to see. A black, sharp finger, the finger of death, and ugly death, that beckoned to us both. I didn't need to look at the Catacara now motionless, a long way off to kno-- that the boat she had lowered stood no chance In that life and death race. I knew what e shark could do In the way of speed, when once It scented food. This shark was only cruising so I thought- - but If It made side me; "I'm going to sit next the bravest man I ever met," she said, her breast headng up and down very fast under the white and gold coat. I saw she was altntst In hysterics, so I simply answered, "Itttts. We fell over to-gether." And nobody said anything more, till the whaleboat nosed against the ship's side. When they got us ou board, It was the very devil for five minutes. Peo-ple came and shook my hand, and told me I was a brave man; some of tbetn thumped my back ; several wanted inu to come and have a drink. "We all know (iln Sling Is game," said somebody, "but you're ganier.'! "We couldn't have done without Jin ny," cut In some one else. "No, by Jove 1" "Jinny for ever!" "Gin Sling's preserver' "Hooray I"' They would have It; I was falrlj mobbed. I could hardly get to my cabin for a change of clothes without being carried on the shoulders of the crowd. Hut that I was determined against; I slipped down a steward's companion, and got away. 1 dropped on the lounge; It was some time before 1 even thought of dragging off my sodden shoes, and shedding my wet clothing. had not touched the chief ofhVer's flask, or accepted the champagne that others had been anxious to uncork fur me, but I wns drunk, mind and body, on one look that i had taught as I came slowly drenched with weariness and wet up the ship's ladder. A look from blue eyes below black shingled hair. A look that cast a girl's fair soul at my feet. TO BB CONTINUICDl world together, swept by the same ' great hurricane. He had speculated. , . . Anyone can fill In the rest That was in '14. You know what followed. 1 was eighteen years of age, hearty and husky of build. There was only one thing to do; 1 did It. In '19, demobilized, aged twenty-three- , II faced the world with some scars ' and medals to my credit ; also two crosses. Nothing much more. I hnd been In Egypt I Mesopotamia. The sun lands had got me. I took np land In Australia; failed; weni north and north; landed at last at I'npua. I had a trading store at (he wild west end of the country. I was some years older, a little wiser, a little tougher than even the war had left me. The wild lands had marked me for their own. And, on that Jeweled dny of equn torial winter, I wns on board the East-ern liner Catacara, having my treat; with no thought of anything but a couple of duys' enjoyment under cir-cumstances that had been mine, and were not; with no dream of anything fateful, anything significant. In the brief Journey. I was merely going back to Daru by "T. 1" So I thought What I did not know you remem-ber; yon did not know) was thut 1 was, on that day, running right Into the double fate tbat was to change my life. It began In the oddest manner con-ceivable. I bad finished my cigar, looked at myself In the lona mirror as I strolled out on deck, and decided that I was at least not unpresentable I was In a peaceful mood; 1 found a cbalr, and d.opped it.to It wishing 1 knew how to purr like a cat; for I felt tbat way. I was simply lifted out of the chair before I had time to settle down, by shrieks proceeding from forward where there was a wide unoccupied IAKEIT By FROM DAD 5y What la a Slacker? "Dad, we had a great argument to. day at lunch. Got pretty hot, toot Bad to choose an am- - sj i, f?- - 'I plre. Somebody called Hilly Hughes a slack-er because be refused to represent the school In the state oratorical contest He said It was an ugly word; that he wasn't going to be forced and that the school could go bang; that the war was over and being a slacker was a matter entirely of personal opin-ion, lou don't have to have war to have slackers, do you, Dad V "Well, I should soy not. Bob," laughed Ar. Smltbhough, as be laid down his pnper. "True, the word slacker Is of war origin. It came Into being, during those terrific days when men by the million the world over were being called upon by government after government to determine which came first In tbe life of a citizen, his personal pleasure and choice or bis country's need. While there Is do doubt at all that much false sentiment and even false loyalty Is developed and pushed Into tbe forefront, never-theless there were a great many pure unadulterated slackers who for no oth-er reason than their nwn enter and because of a yellow streak, sought to pass the hazards of war onto gome other fellow while they stepped safely out In tense times, with a world's peace and happiness at stake, It did come to be an ugly word, filled not only with utter contempt, bat hatred, and the Idea has survived. "'But the world has always had slackers, and unfortunately, still bog them ; that group of men, and women, too, who put personal privilege and convenience and safety first and the larger welfare of others, school, club, city, state, nation and humanity last. "We might say, strictly speaking, that a slacker Is one who Is disloyal to the best Interests of the social group to which he has given allegiance. In days past patriotism In the popular mind was making a lot of noise and waving a fing frantically on holidays. During the war It took on a more significance. "Loyalty Is a great big word. To be loyul to every person he believes In, and to every worthwhile Institution In his community Is Just a natural at-titude for a healthy boy. In his lan-guage It Just means playing the game fairly and squarely and for all he Is worth. Loyalty Is good sportsman-ship. A slacker Is a poor sport What more despicable thing could we say of anyone? "A patriot Is loyal to his home, be-cause of all the sacrifice and devotloa on his behalf It represents and all the good fellowship and unselfish It provides from day to day. A slacker forgets all of these things. "A patriot Is loyul to his church be-cause It Is one of the greatest and most valuable of our modern Insti-tutions providing him as It does with exceptional opportunities for inspira-tion, worship, training and service to his brother man. A slacker forgets all of these things alsol "A patriot Is loyal to his group be-cause In this friendly circle, be has a real opporunlty to learn to live hap-pily and helpfully with others, to help other boys and to gnln help for his own life. A slacker forgets even all of these things 1 "A patriot Is loyal to his country because It makes all his opportuni-ties possible. He serves Its best In- - terests with his talent, his training, his money, and If need be, his life. j "A patriot Is loyal to himself, tak-ing care of his health, muklng the most of his time and keeping himself the right kind of a citizen against any sort of an emergency which may arise. The boy scout oath sums It up beau-tifully 'to keep oneself physically j strong, mentally awake and morally straight'. I "A pntrlot Is loyal to all the best ; Interests of mankind regardless ol color, creed, or class ; loyal to what-ever Is good for mankind whether In Europe or Asia, Africa or South j America. The slacker Is provincial. national minded and says America first at all costs and me first In America 1 "I was reading the other day of a famous American named Solomon Wll-lar- Did you ever hear of hlmT De Is quite symbolic to me, my boy, of what a slacker Is not Ton won't find much mention of htm In your history, and bis name Is not In the Hall ol Fame, but here Is his story: One hundred years ago Solomon Wtllard, architect and builder, started some-thing In East Boston that should nev-er be lost sight of. He designed and built the Bunker Hill monument As a patriotic gift to bis country, he. de-voted 18 years of his life to superin-tending the erection of that grent shaft, absolutely without remunera-tion of any kind I What this country of ours needs most desperately Is more Solomon Willards who have great ability coupled with great lo-yaltymen who are eager to give their best to their country and to mankind, and who are not primarily concerned with tapping the public tHL "Just one other thought, Bob. Too much stress has always been placed on dying for one's country to prove one's loyalty." (. H30. Western Newspaper Union.) News Notes Tit ' a Privilegt to Lto In I UTAH I FILLMORE The state has paid out $5271 in bounty (or predatory animals killed In Millard county during 1929, as follows: Eight hun-dred and twenty-nin- e coyoter, $1974; sixty-nin- t bobcats, $207; fif-teen lynx, $75; one timber wolf, $15. OGDEN For visitors at the eleventh annual Ogden livestock show, January 11 to 16, a complete program of amusements and en-tertainment was outlined by the committee in charge in a meeting in the Hotel Bigelow recently. NEHPI Construction of a seven-mil- e project in Salt Creek canyon, completing the canyon work to the Sanpete county line, which is also the final link of the Nephi to Moroni highway, will be completed at a cost of $35,000, the state road commission announces. 8T. GEORGE "Washington county grape growers are confront-ed with problems of marketing a heavy surolus of grapes and may enter the business ot producing grape Juice, according to advices received by Commissioner Harden Bennlon of the state department ot agriculture. EPHRAIM At a recent meeting of the advisory board ot the Mantl National Forest Woolgrowers asso-ciation, held at Ephralm, the date for the annual meeting of the as-sociation was set for February 1 at Ephralm. There will be but one meeting held this year. Plans were outlined for a very Instructive and Interesting meeting. A number of vital matters pertaining to the range will be taken up. PRICE Efforts are being made by citizens of Emery county to se-cure a Bugar factory. A guarantee of 7000 acres of beets will not only assure a factory, but also a railroad so that the product'may be shipped with the minimum of cost, promot-ers assert. Elmo citizens announce that they are prepared to guarantee 1000 acres, and Cleveland and Hunt- -' lngton are both interested in the proposition. HEBER J. F. English of the U. S. bureau of public roads, and Henry T. Coleman, local reprenta-tiv- e of the Utah state road com-mission, accompanied the Wasatch county commissioners on an inspec-tion tour up Daniels canyon to look over some changes in the right of way contemplated in the coming year's improvement program on the lower end of the Heber-Fruit-lan- d project. FILLMORE Following in the wake of one of the most severe wind and dust storms ever known In Millard county, a light snow cov-ered the landscape. It Is hoped by agriculturists that the present skiff will be a forerunner to a wet sea-son. The three inches that fell near hear Is measured In monetary values well into the thousands. In-dications are that winter has at last cast her spell over the long pro-tracted fall. CEDAR CITY Following three days of violent winds from the south, and a light snowall Monday, the weather calmed and snow started falling in earnest here Tuesday. Livestock owners were pleased, because the situation on the ranges in the western end of Beaver, Iron and Washington counties had been critical. Water holes there are few, and unless there is snow, large areas of the ranire cannot be utilized. COALVILLE The Summit coun-ty commissioners at their January meeting reduced the ror.d budget for the 1930 oiling program from $33,000 to J14.001, It having been iecided between the state road com-mission and the county authorities that the Echo canyon road from Baskln to Emory will not be Includ-ed In the coming season's work. However, the county commission and road commission entered Into en agreement for the widening of the Weber river bridge east ot Wunship. SALT LAKE Snow which fell generally over the state during the past week has proved highly bene-ficial to watersheds, grazing lands end winter grain according to the weekly weather and crop reportt J. Cecil Alter, In charge of the local office of the weather bureau. Sheep and cattle were in poor condition In some sections prior to the storm, and wheat vs suffering due to a lack of snow covering. The sno-v-fa- ll in the extreme south fortlou of the state was the first moisture since early fall. 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Inevitably like people who al-ways listen appreciatively to what you've got to say. Patriotism now consists In keeping your country out of war Instead of pushing It In. Probably a Bit Cross, Too Quinn I'm afraid some early Influ-ence has made Bob erratic. Sherman Yes, I think so, too. He was born under a crazy quilt Wise Guy 1 "Does your wife blow a lot of money - w--t on beauty treatments?" 1 "No, I tell ber she's perfect" I On a dismal dny a brass band In I the Btreet can raise the spirits of the people 50 degrees. .' 1 --Los Angeles Boy Needed Help Leroy Young, 11167 Georgia St, Los An-- geles. Is a "regular fellow," active In sports, and at the top la his classes at school. To look at him now, you'd think he never bad a day's sickness but his mother says : "When Leroy was Just a little fellow, we found his stomach and bowels were weak. He kept suffering from con-stipation. Nothing he ate agreed with bin). 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Is stated to be able, at the age of two years, to multiply any two numbers accurately and without best tatlon. Whether this Is an exnggera tlon or not I am unable to sav. but every now and then the phenomenon of the "calculating boy" crops up and astonishes the world. The feats socluled with Robert Stephenson In I the London and Birmingham after- - ward the London and North Western j railway and was a founder ot the Electric Telegraph company end pres-ident of the Institution of-ci- En-gineers. Among his best known works are tbe Victoria docks. of these wonder children appear to be done by a sort of Instinct and sometimes the apparently magical power Is lost as soon as a real knowl edge of mathematics Is gained. A calculating hoy wax Georite Parker Bidder, who was born In I80A. and was exhibited in his childhood as an arithmetical marvel He became an enslneer and was ss-- Deceit Mark Small Mind One artifice unavoidably leads to an-other, till, as the intricacy of tbe labyrinth Increases, you are left en--1 tangled In yonr own snare. Deceit discovers a little mind, which stops I at temporary expedients, without ris-ing to comprehensive views of con-duct Blulr. g Profitabl Now the basis of a promising fruit Industry the date palm was a few years ago little more than a botanical curiosity In the United States. Ap-proximately 2,500 acres have been planted to dates In America, while 250 acres are no In commercial bearing. Uses for Poppy Seed Ancient (ireeve used poppy seed to season bread Persians sprinkled the seed over their rice, and In India It Is still used as a food and a sweetmeat. In Frame the seed Is used In making s hland oil. often suhxtltuted for olive oil. Mar.y nations usr poppy seed to season hrrds and pnstrlea. It la also used for s bird seed. Silence Line from a Senior theme "Every-thing was so still yon could have beard a gum drop " ... l History The contact with manners then Is education; and this Thucydides ap-pear to assert when he says history Is philosophy learned from examples. Dlonyslus. |