Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 764) (1920 05 21)

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BOYS THAT MAKE MONEY. for) ; i AND OTHER STORIES The sudden appearance of the unwelcome visitors startled the party. “Grab the box and run!” cried Jack, picking up his gun. Tom anti Sam seized the treasure chest and scooted, while Backstay put himself in josition to cover their retreat.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Issued Weekly—Subscription price, $3.50 ye S seg Canada, $4.00; Foreign, $4.50. Harry E. Wolff, Publisher, 166 West 23d Street, New York, N. ¥. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, at : the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 8, 1879. 4/7, Tiees.alec dds ff 22. ;' No. 764 NEW YORK, MAY 21, 1920. Price 7 Cents serve paper. : CHAPTER I—Bob Backstay. “Want to take a sail this morning, youn gents?” asked Bob Backstay, the sostoktevacd mariner, whose familiar figure haunted the steamboat wharf at old Nantucket during the season when summer visitors were very much in evidence at that ancient seaport. The*two boys Backstay addressed were named Jack Sterlin » and Tom Linden, chums and junior clerks in ad- guns wholesale shoe houses in Summer street, oston. It was the month of July and their an- mual vacation occurring at the same time, they | had elected to spend it on Nantucket Island, : thirty miles out in the Atlantic, off the southeast : shore of Massachusetts. Jack was the son and : chief support of a widow in moderate circum- stances, and lived with his mother and two young Sisters in a pretty little cottage in. the suburbs ¥ of the Hub. Bob dwelt in the same block, with his father and mother. in equally humble cir- cumstances. = boys had secured board and lodging for a reasonable price at the home of an old Nantucket resident, through an advertisement in a Boston paper, and at the time we introduce them to the reader they had been just two days on the island. They had spent the first day in taking in the in- terestine sights to be found in the quaint old place, and among other things they learned that the first white person to land on the island was ~ one Thomas Macy, in 1659, who had been ban- ished from Salisbury, Mass., on account of giv- ing shelter to cena tiahers in a storm: At that : time there were some 3,000 Indians in possession - oftheisland. —. : ; They had been inside the oldest dwelling, built dn 1686, on a chimney of which they saw a figure of raised brickwork, in the shape on an inverted _U_ which represented a horseshoe doing guard - duty against the witches of the 17th century. "They had also inspected the old grist mill, which is something of a landmark and has a history, ’ > viewed other curiosities of — interest. Now, on the morning of the third day they had strolled down to the wharf with the idea of en- ERE is practically the same amount of reading matter in this weekly that the larger size contained. We have merely condensed the type and make up to con- THE SAILOR’S SECRET THE PUBLISHER. weatherbeaten hands, long clay pipe and the un- mistakable flavor of salt water. There were other boatmen on the alert for a fare, and the whole bunch started for the boys, holding up their hands in rivalry, and asking for their patronage, but Jack was rather taken by Back- stay’s appearance and nodded to him. “This way, young: gents,” -he said, holding his pipe in his hand and rolling down to the end of the wharf where his weather-scarred little sloop Was moored. The boys followed him. “He looks like a character,” remarked Tom. “T’ll bet he is, that’s why I’d rather vo out with him. Ill wager what he doesn’t know about the island isn’t worth talking about,” said Jack. “Step aboard, young gents,” said the old sailor, “This here hooker of mine ain’t the handsomest craft in the harbor, but there ain’t none stancher, She kin stand up under a blow as ’ud send some ov’ them fancy riggers to the bottom quicker’n you could whisper Jack Robinson. An’ that re- minds me,” added the old shellback, ‘as he started to hoist the sail before casting the line loose from the wharf, “that my old mate, Jack Robinson, he’s dead an’ planted these six years, once outsailed an easterly hurricane, which he seen a-sweepin’ down the Cape Cod coast, in this here boat.” The boys grinned. “That was going some,” said Jack. “Tl allow it was, young gents,” nodded the sailor, making the sheet fast to a cleat in the roof of the little cabin. “This here sloop kin show as clean a pair o’ heels as any craft o’ her Size afloat, an’ in any kind o’ weather.” _The mariner undid the mooring-line and the little vessel fell away from the wharf, her main- sail flapping in the breeze. With wonderful agil-. ity for a man with only one flesh-and-blood leg, he hopped to his seat on the weather-side of the tiller and put the boat on her course, after in- structing his two passengers to take their places to the dward, It was a fine morning and the sun sparkled on the rippling water of the harbor, while through the narrow opening, a mile away on the left, the boys could catch a glimpse of Nantucket Sound. th lads were rather partial to the water, dnd they enjoyed the sail hugely. Tucking the tiller under his arm, Backstay pulled his long pipe out of his pocket, recharged the

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2 THE SAILOR’S SECRET bowl, lit the tobacco with a match that he ignited with a swift movement across his thigh and then sheltered with both his huge, hairy hands, and puffed away in great contentment. “T apprehend that you young gents have come from Boston?” hazarded the sailor. “That’s right,” nodded Jack. “A-spendin’ your yacation down here?” “Yes” “Calkilate to remain a month or so?” “No, only two weeks altogether. We'd like to stay longer, but we can’t.” a “What’s to hinder you?” asked Backstay, curi- ous to learn all he could from his passengers. “We each work in a large shoe house and we’re only allowed two weeks off.” “T thought mebbe you was goin’ to school.” “We're done with school for good.” _ “Then I s’pose you know most everythin’ that’s to be found in books? i “Not by a jugful,” chipped in Tom. “What we haven’t learned would fill enough books to sink this boat.” + , The sailor looked surprised and cast his eyes ever the sloop as if mentally figuring up how books it would require to sink her. “There’s the lighthouse, yonder. Do you want - to land an’ taxe a look inside?” “Yes. Will we be allowed in?” : “I’ve fetched visitors there afore, an’ I’ve seen ’em standin’ on the gallery around the lantern. You want to call at that there house behind it and ask,” Five minutes later the boys stepped on to the landing. a CHAPTER I1.—The Derelict. The boys found the keeper at the house and he consented to show them over the lighthouse. When they came out on the breeze-swept gallery about the lantern and looked down, they saw Bob Backstay smoking in the cockpit of his sloop, waiting for them to return. 2 ?s that yondee?” Jack asked the keeper, inting at an object floating on the Sound, some istance to the northwest. The keeper had fetched up a spyglass tor the boys to look through, and he lifted it to his eye. It’s a vessel, and the queerest kind of one I’ve ever seen,” he said, in a tone of interest. “Looks something like one of those lightships that are anchored off the coast where the Government can’t put up lighthouses. Those vessels are so well anchored that the possibility of one of them breaking loose, even in a big gale, is rather re- mote: As we haven’t had anything of that kind - lately it doesr.’t stand to reason that it’s a light- ship which has gone adrift. Take a look.” The boys took turns in gazing at the strange eraft which was floating is ak tea the chan- rel, between Muskeget and Tuckeruck islands, some twelve miles away. Her appearance was sufficiently odd to excite the greatest curiosity in them. ‘ a3 should like to get a closer view of her,” said Jac - Pag i “We can do that by getting our boatman to sail over toward her. It’s such a nice day that I guess there would be no risk in it. It would _ suit our man, @ll right, for we’re paying him by _ et Se . Stee a the hour. {he longer we’re out the more he will earn,” said Tom. “All right. We'll put it to him,” replied Jack. When they hed seen all they wanted of the lighthouse, the boys returned to the sloop. “Are ye goin’ back, or would you like to take a short cruise on the Sound?” asked Backstay. “I calkilate a longer sail would do you both good.” “Do you see that vessel yonder?” asked Jack, pointing. “Yl allow that I see somethin’ o’ that kind floatin’ out there, but I can’t make out jest what kind o’ craft it is,” said the sailor. “We were looking at it through a. telescope from the top of the lighthouse, an’ it’s a very curious kind of vessel. We'd like to get a closer pean of her if it is all the same to you,” said ack. , “Step aboard, young gents, an’ I’ll take you out to her before you kin whisper Jack Robinson,” said Backstay, with alacrity. The boys stepped on board the sloop, the sailor cast off and they were soon sailing in the direc- tion of the strange craft. They looked in the direction of the vessel, now half a mile distant, and saw a weather-beaten hull, with two half- masts, each surmounted by a sort of crow’s nest, or lookout, and a short bowsprit. There were no signs of yards, nor of a funnel] that would indi- cate she was propelled by steam, therefore her means of locomotion appeared to be a mystery. “That there craft puts me in mind o’ the ves- sel that Jack Robinson ran foul o’ once upon a time,” said Backstay. “Tell us about her,” said Jack. “Tt was many years ago, long afore you young gents was born, and Jack was in the China Sea at the time. He was sailin’ afore the mast in a bark called the General Jackson. His hooker was off the coast of Borneo, makin’ for Singapore, in the Malay Peninsular. It was jest about sunset when all of a sudden around a cape came . “Gee! there is somebodv aboard of her!” cried Tom, whose eyes were fastened on the presumed derelict ahead. Jack and the sailor looked, but could see noth- ing. “I don’t see anybody,” said Jack. “Blamed if I do, either,” said Backstay. “T saw a head looking over the bulwark for a moment,” said Tom, : “Sure of it, are you?” “Positive, for I saw it move.” “Then the hulk is not deserted. Perhaps it’s some unfortunate man who would like to be res- cued from his unpleasant situation.” “We'll see when we get closer,” said Tom. “Go on with your story, Mr. ——” “My name is Backstay, Bob Backstay. No- body ever calls me mister. I’m just plain Bob, or Backstay, whichever you like to call me. P’raps you don’t mind tellin’ me your names, young gents?” “My name is Tom Linden, and my friend’s is Jack Sterling.” “Proud to know ye both, young gents. And now, as I was a-saying, around a cape came “There it is again!” interrupted Tom. Whatever it was that Tom saw it disappea phetore Jack or the sailor could focus their eyes on i ;

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THE SAILOR’S SECRET 38 “Tt was a man’s head,-I supposé?” said Jack. “TI guess so, but it was hairy, as if he had a full beard,” replied Tom. : “Maybe.it was a dog’s head you saw,” said Jack. “I have heard of abandoned derelicts be- ing picked up with nobody but the ship’s dog on board,” said Jack. Pretty soon they were close aboard of. the strange craft. She looked as if she had been many months roaming the briny deep, for her “Ship ahoy!” shouted Jack, through his hands. Do you think one on board and investigate her?” want to go fast to that - enouch, an’ when ’ve seen all you want to see ye kin ‘slide back to the sloop again,” said Back- stay. “Are you game to follow me?” asked Jack of Tom looked dubiously at the derelict and inchned to hold back. seemed . “Jf you don’t want to come I’ll go alone,” said Jack, who had mee of pluck. “Run in, Mr. Backstay, make fast.” The sailor did so, As the sloop close up to the iron vessel, Backstay easily laine her in position by grasping one of the inclined braces that held in place the horizontal projection to were attached, Jack swung ratlines and perch the boy of the deck. : do you see, Jack?” asked Tom. Ni the deck. It is littered” with rubbish, ae to be seen, If there’s a dog on board he has hidden himself. Come up take a look,” replied Jack. Tom concluded. that he would, and was soon astride of tne bulwark, too. The deck looked like x pevermnd after a sham battle. Against the . rk lay the upper half of the steamer’s - funnel in two sections. Some strong natural force had evidentl P53 Scape th tome, tte. ccmpection on. a-level with here ‘sailor. shrouds themselves to the edee of the platforms, or tops, where, in ordinary vessels, the topmasi is joined to the lower mast; but this craft was never fitted with extensions to the lower masts. The tops marked their limit and were surrounded with a circular rim of wood about four feet high, which made a sort of watch-tower of each. Wha. such a curious contrivance was intended for, the boys could not guess. They had never seen it. a ship’s galley between it and the foremast, and the cabin was aft, like in a sailing vessel. entrance to the forecastle was open, and so was the door of the passage leading into the cabin. The boys could just see the top of the wheel above the level of the cabin roof. kicked their heel lwark and In some way, the hitch y made had slipped and the wind catching her sail the little craft drifted off. She was now a dozen yards away, and ‘every moment increasing her distance. “Holy smoke! the stoop’s adrift!” shouted Tom. CHAPTER III.—Strange Appearance of Things. Jack and the sailor made a rush for the bul- wark and looked ovér® They saw that Tom had spoken the truth, and both uttered an ejaculation of consternation. ; “Jibbooms and marling spikes! we’re marooned aboard this hooker!” amed Backstay. “What are we going to do?” asked Tom, nerv- ously. “Do? We can’t do nothin’. We've got to stay till somebody takes us. off,” replied the

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anything else under 4 THE SAILOR’S SECRET Then they looked at the shore of Nantucket, four or five miles away. The only sails in sight were a couple of pleasure craft, miles astern around the entrance to the harbor. _ “We can’t do better than put in our time look- ing the cabin over,” said Jack. “Maybe we'll dis- cover the identity of this vessel, and find a clue to the cause of her abandonment.” Backstay agreed that they might as well in- vestigate the cabin as to remain hanging around ing into shore, and there is no reason why we should go hi with all this food in sight.” : _ Jack’s suggestion was carried by acclamation. Then they left the pantry and looked into the room opposite. This contained a bunk, a chest of tools and other indications that it was the car- penter’s room. The door of the cabin was open, and the same confusion existed here as on deck, a movable being tumbled about. It was as if the crew had engaged in ra de per pen ape Son, 2n8 ood sae ne e articles for doors of the different staterooms stood open, and it showed the same indescrible “That’s right,” admitted Tom. “What do you think of anyway, Mr. Backstay ? : ’ a old sailor scratched his head with a dubious co! “{ dunno what to make of it,” he said. “Looks if the ship’s company had been on the ram- “Jt certainly does,” said Tom. _“Hlere’s a revolver in a*holster,” said Jack, polling it out from under a pile of bedclothes that y scattered about on the floor of the captain’s room. He unbuttoned the holster and took out a navy yeyolver. It-was fully loaded, not a chamber hav- ing been discharged. There was a small safe in one corner, but it showed no signs of having been tampered with. : Jack lifted the bedelothes to see if there was them, and he discovered a m magazine weapon, but the all out of shape, as if some- body with great strength had tried to smash it out of: Spite. It was loaded up with cartridges that could not possibly be fired. ; rifie, a fine Remin barrel was twiste “Just look at that gun,” said Jack,-holding it up. : His companions looked and marveled at its demoralized shape. The boys found that none of the contents of the lockers had been touched. They were filled with clothes and other wearing apparel, and one had nothing but charts in it. “Let’s inspect the other rooms,” said Jack. They had merely glanced into them and noted the state of confusion they were in, but now they entered, each in turn. e wreck of things was simply appalling, as it was in the captain’s room. On opening an upright closet in the stateroom op- osite the captain’s, Jack saw two more handsome emington magazine rifles, fully loaded, together with a box of cartridges. They-had escaped the fate of the gun in the skipper’s room. Bob Backstav showed very little interest, after the first general survey, in the condition of the cabin and staterooms. Whether he had any — ion on the subject seemed doubtful, but he nothing to say. He left the bors rummaging around and went on deck to see what the chances were for their rescue from the derelict.. He found that the craft had passed through the channel between the islands, and was drifting south out into the Atlantic. The hope he had entertained that somebody on the islands was sure to notice the strange craft and put off to her had not-been pict bean ve die sors rahe graeme Pe cern Doubtless the vessel had been seen by many persons, but none of them was ‘curious enough to seek a closer inspection of her, or if they were .they were without means of doing it. There was- n't a sail within miles, and their chance of res- cue was growing less every moment. The old sailor realized that their situation had become decidedly serious, but the reflection that there was food and drink aboard in plenty served to make him feel that things were far from being hopeless, The fate of his sloop, by which he gained his living, worried him not a little. She was not insured, and her loss would prove a seri- ous handicap to-him. The wooden-legged sailor turned away from the bulwark to rejoin his young companions and inform them how much worse the outlook for them was than he had expected it would be, when, happening to glance forward, he saw, issuing from ‘the forecastle a huge, hairy beast of hideous aspect, Its long, powerful arms reached nearly to the ground, and the moment Backstay’s gaze rested on it his experience told him that it was a gorilla—one of the largest and fiercest he had ever. seen, The old sailor had no wish to argue’ the possession of the deck with this despot of the Gaboon forest. He made a dart for the passage entrance, hopping across the deck like a kind of clumsy bird, and disappeared, slamming the door after him. The gorilla stared at the strange ap- parition, evidently an unexpected sight, and stopped where he was. Even after Backstay had vanished from his sight he did not move for some. moments, but continued to look at the closed door.’ Then he got in motion again and made direct. for the door. CHAPTER IV.—The Eyes in the Forecastle. _ As, soon as the sailor had‘placed the door be- tween himself and the ferocious animal he hopped;

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THE SAILOR’S SECRET 5 straight forthe cabin. He bounced over the ob- structions in his path, like a circus horse doing a hurdle act, and presented himself before the boys im a way that convinced them that some- thing unusual had happened to the boatman. They had just taken down the two Remingtons and were admiring the weapons. “What’s the matter, Mr. Backstay?” asked Jack. “You look excited.” - “T jest seen the biggest gorilla I ever laid eyes on, an’ I reckon I’ve seen a hull lot o’ the species in my time.” “A gorilla!” exclaimed both boys, in a breath. “Yes. He come out o’ the fo’k’s’l while I was standin’ ‘longside the bulwark, an’ the moment my eyes lit on him I made tracks for the cabin. Is them guns loaded?” he added, eagerly. “They are,” replied Jack. “Gimme one o’ them. We've got to put that gorilla out o’ business right away, or he’ll put us out,” said Backstay, taking the rifle out of Tom’s hands and-cocking it. “Why, how should a gorilla be aboard this ves- sels?” asked Jack. “That’s more’n I kin tell ye, but he’s here, right enough. I calkilate he’s the cause o’ all this mix- up on deck, in the cabin an’ in these here state- rooms. The boys looked at each other. They had both read enough about the gorilla to understand what a@ fierce animal it was, and how tremendously strong they were. “You say that you saw him coming out of the forecastle?” said Jack. “I did,” nodded the sailor. “He saw you, I suppose ?” “JT ‘calkilate he did. ; “What did you do with the revolver you found?” Tom asked Jack. *T left it on the top of the safe in the state- room.” “T guess I’d better get it.” “T think ye had,” said the sailor. Tom ran across and into the captain’s room. As he placed his hand on the weapon he heard a crashing noise. The gorilla, after pausing a while in front of the door of the passage, had . grabbed the handle and wrenched it open. Then it walked forward through the passage. Jack and Backstay, with the Remingtons cocked, awaited his coming. At that moment Tom came to the door of the captain’s stateroom and saw the gorie. The nearest approach to the species he ever seen was a chimpanzee, in the menagerie of a circus, and that animal was tame and good- natured. “Let him have it in the heart,” said Backstay, raising his rifle and pulling the trigger, as the gorilla came toward F vt ae Jak followed his example so rapidly that both reports blended al into one. A_ terrible - scream from the animal followed. At such short range neither of the shooters could very well miss their mark. The bullets ploughed into the goril- la’s chest. Although mortally hurt, the beast still iad the strength to sprine at its enemies. Tom shouted a warning and fired the revolver at its _Backstay saw the animal rushing at ood: in its eyes and a me Sd ven- “hor countenance, y. aim at the gorilla’s a < 7 ee: + ari ie Be ER at | ca Se eee ee. See Se head. His bullet entered the beast’s brain through one of its eyes, while Backstay’s ball reached its heart. The ponderous animal dropped dead al- most at their feet. “He’s done for,” said Jack, with a feeling of great relief. “Yes, I calkilate he’s said the sailor. Leaving the carcass in the cabin, they went out on deck to see what chance they had of escaping from the derelict. Before they reached the bul- wark, Backstay told them the results of his own observations on the subjent, and the boys looked at each other in not a little consternation at the thought of drifting out into the trackless Atlan- tic, at the mercy of wind and tide; and with the doubtful possibility of rescue. When they looked back over the track they had come and saw the shore of Nantucket in the far distance, the hearts of the two boys sank. Ahead lay the limitless At- lantic, with not a sail in sight. “We seem to be in it up to our neck,” said Jack, gloomily. “T should say so. At the rate we’re drifting we'll be out of sight of land before sunset. We so not be picked off this craft for a week,” said ‘om. “Well, young gents, if it’s all the same to you s’pose we go into the pantry an’ sample some o the grub that’s there?” said the sailor. The boys willingly agreed to his suggestion, for they were rather hungry by this time, the hour being after one. Accordingly, the trio adjourned to the pantry. Jack got down a couple of cans of meat and removed the tops with a can-opener, while Tom got out plates, knives and forks and a quantity of the biscuit. “What shall we do for water?” asked Jack: “That’s a very important item.’ “We'll have to do without it at this m:al,” said Tom. “We can use a bottle of the claret that I Saw a couple of cases of in the pantry as a sub- stitute. Backstay said they would doubtless find plenty as dead as a coffin-nail,” ; ‘of good drinking water on the vessel when they looked in the right place for it. They made a very fair meal off the meat and crack=rs, and topped off with some of the Dundee marmalade. After eating all they wanted to they return d to the deck, where Backstay filled his pipe and li¢ht- ed it. They stood for a while leaning over the bulwark, watching the fast-recedine island from which they had been so unexpectedly separated, and then Jack proposed that they should investi- gate the forecastie and the region below the deck. Jack got the lantern and lighted it, and with the rifles cocked, ready for action, they entered the forecastle by way of the ladder. The sailor . led the wav holding the light above his head, while the boys came close behind him. Backstay, being accustomed to forecastles, pushed forward without hesitation. His wooden leg, however, got caught in some obstruction that lay in his path, and he tripped forward on his face and ands, the lantern crashing against the floor. The wire guards around it saved the glass, but the light was extinguished and they were left in com-_ ' parative gloom, the only light coming through the

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6 THE The eyes swung from side to side, like the pendulum of a clock. Above the noise made by Backstay, in scrambling on his feet, sounded a ~eculiar hiss that made one’s blood curdle. The boys had never heard anything like it before in their lives. The sailor had, often, and he rocog- nized the sound before he saw the eyes himself. “Get out of here, ci he cried to the boys. “There’s a snake in here big enough to make a meal off you.” Tom needed no second order to send him pre- ipetasely up the ladder. Backstay followed, as fast as his wooden leg would permit him, which was about as fast as if it had been a flesh-and- blood one, Jack, fascinated by the peculiar look of the eyes and. their wavy motion, stood rooted to the spot he had occupied when they first ap- peared. When he did not come up the ladder Tom yelled down at him. The sound of his chum’s voice aroused Jack from his trance and he be- gan backing toward the ladder, but the snake still held his gaze. One of his feet hit the lad- der and he fell backwawrd against it. That broke the spell which had partly held him. Recovering himself, he caught the glare of the eyes again. They had become motionless. Quick as a flash, Jack raised his Remington to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The eyes disappeared, with a hiss, and then a tremendous noise arose in the forward vart of the forecastle, HAPTER V.—A Scrap with a Boa-Constrictor. “Come away, young gents,” Backstay said. “We'll slide the seuttle over and shut the reptile down there Getting behind the scuttle he gave it a shove. Owing to the fact that it had been standing open some time, it did not respond as readily as it should have done. It stuck every inch or two. Be y finally exerted all his foree and the slide shot forward, but not before the long, sinu- ous neck of the snake popped out like the figure of a jack-in-a-box. re Jack, however, saw that the snake was tem- porarily trapped, at any rate, and he took advan- tage of the fact to take another shot at its ugly head, which he realized he had missed in the fore- castle. Jack shoved his rifle up toward the swinging head. The snake darted at it, striking the, muzzle with its —— with lightning-like vapdity. The boy pulled the trigger and the bo2’s head was literally’ blown to pieces. The neck fell forward and worked around from the refiex action of its muscles. Dead as the reptile undoubtedly was now, it would be some time be- fore it ceased to move. “Get a rope an’ make a hitch around its neck,” said eee: “otherwise it will slide back into the fok’s’] when I let go of the scuttle lid.”~ _ Jack dropped his gun and pic up a piece of line at random from the mass that lay about en the deck he, with Tom’s assistance a ee soe J the rope le 028 —= ying-pin. The sailor then left the scuttle, - picked up his pipe and relighted it. ; = % " he <= . : = ore ce gracious!” gasped Tom, beating a hiersiad: nee, put sev-. SAILOR’S SECRET “Maybe there’s another snake or two down in the forecastle,” said Tom. “T hope not, for it might get out and make a meal of one of us.” “I guess after what we’ve been through it won’t be safe to venture into the hold,” said Tom. “Why, are you afraid that there might be a whole menagerie loose down there?” “No telling what there is down there. I’ve seen as muuch of the vessel as I care to.” “Y’m going to see the rest of her if I can. I don’t believe in doing things by halves. If Mr. Backstay will enter the hold I’m game to accom- pany him.” The old sailor nodded approvingly. “You’re made of the right stuff, young gent,” he said. “We’ll go below presently an’ see what’s to be seen there. I apprehend that we’ve seen all the live-stock that was aboard. If there should be any more hangin’ ’round, promiscuous like, I reckon them rifles will give a good account 0’ 7am,” Having delivered his sentiments, Backstay went on smoking in silence. The boys conversed together on the general situation for a while, then Jack turned to, the sailor and said: “As it’s likely we may have to remain aboard here a day or two, or perhaps longer, we can’t leave the corpse of that gorilla in the cabin to putrefy and drive us out of our sleeping-quarters. We must get it out and overboard somehow.” Backstay nodded. “Do you think the three of us will be able to lift and carry the beast?” y “We'll rig a rope around it an’ haul it out on deck, then we can hoist it over the side,” said the mariner. : “Y’m ready. to tackle the job whenever you are.” “We'll do it now,” said Backstay, knocking the ashes from the bowl of his pipe and putting it in his pocket. A rope that would serve their purpose was soon found and the three entered the cabin. “Too bad that we can’t take a photograph of that beast and also of the snake,” said Tom. “No- body will believe that we killed such monsters without better evidence than our words.” “That can’t be helped. We'll have to be con- tented with the fact of knowing it ourselves,” said Jack. While they were ee the sailor was putting a rope around the unwieldly beast, and having fixed things to his satisfaction he announced that the moment had arrived for them to give the best imitation of dray horses they knew how. Each seized the slack end of a rope and at the word started to draw the animal toward the passage, a path having been cleared beforehand. It was something of a ‘pull, but they managed it, and the dead gorilla was soon on deck. With the aid of a good-sized-em cask they raised the beast a little above the level of the bulwark, and then a strong shove sent it, ropes and into the sea. ; : “One good job done,” said Jack. “I suppose the snake is dead by this time. Let’s send him to join the gorilla.” The scuttle was. shoved partly back and the ate gp measured twente nee feet, was ha’ out of the forecastle. It proved a | bit of reat aa After some trouble it was launched over the side, too. ; ; ws . =

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_. “We'll go into the hold now,” said Backstay. A narrow, perpendicular iron ladder was the - only means of descent, and they had to go down Singly. Backstay went first with the lantern in his teeth and the revolver in his pocket. Jack followed with his rifle slung over his back, and Tom came last, similarly armed. The ladder ended at a perforated iron platform, provided with a railing for the hand to catch hold of, A . Rarrow continuation of the vera and railing led across a dark void and brought them to an iron ladder which, with a hand rail, pointed down into the darkness. Before descending, Backstay flashed the light down, and they saw the tops of 'the engines and other machinery forming the motive power of the craft. They went down and ~ imspected the place, but not the slightest evi- dence of life was to be seen there. As far as they could see the machinery appeared to be in first-rate order. If the gorilla had been down there, as he probably had, he found nothing that tempted him to exercise his strength on. After looking the engine-room over as much as they 4 wanted to they returned on deck. The island of ~ - Nantucket was out of sight, and there was noth- ing to be seen but the boundless dcean shimmer- _» ing in the declining sun. 3 mee “We're all at sea now for fair,” said Tom. “Let’s go up and look at one of those crow’s nests at the top of the yards,” suggested Jack. | “Pm, with you,” replied Tom, unshipping his - rifle and placing it against the bulwark beside Jack’s. _. Backstay showed no curiosity to inspect the _ lookout, though he allowed that he had never seen masts before rigged like them. He pulled out his -_ pipe and began to smoke again. As Tom felt there was nothing to fear up in the lookout, he E “the way and Jack followed him. They x oer by way of the ratlines, but when it «3 came to crawling out, body downward, along the - futtock-shrouds, much after the style of a fly onan inward-inclined wall, Tom wilted. Like a ~ Jandsman just turned sailor, he began looking for _ the lubber hole. _ “What's the matter, Tom, why don’t you go on?” grinned Jack, who easily saw what the . * trouble was. —— - “Nixy. I don’t feel like going that way,” an- swered Tom, crawling in behind the shrouds and - looking down at his chum. “You can try it if Re rant to.” : as as i and was about to tackle the job when he noticed that ‘there was a hinged trap- door above Tom’s head. _. There’s a trap over your head. I guess you can into the lookout that way,” said Jack. “Push it open.” — Tom Sere pushed open the trap and stuck up ~ his head. He gave one look, then uttered a yell and let the trap drop. I= 4 Fr aa A he See at ‘They may come afte Teh Set Sen oe ee are Ss er ee es ate a THE SAILOR’S SECRET 7 “I don’t hear any sounds.” “Go on down; I ain’t going to stay here.” “Well, go down and fetch up one of the guns and then I'll investigate.” “T think we’d better leave them alone. If they come down we can shoot them, but up here we’re at a disadvantage. If we try to shoot them through the trap one of them will be sure to jump over the top of the lookout, slide down and catch us, Then our name will be mud.” “Slide down and get your gun ready to shoot. I’m going to take a look and see how formidable these new animals are. Sure they’re gorillas?” “IT guess they must be, though neither is as large as the fellow we killed.” “You go on and I'll attend to this end,” said Jack, who had an idea that Tom might have seen a couple of young gorillas who were hiding up in the top, and therefore not specially dangerous. Jack waited till Tom reached the deck, picked up one of the rifles and began explaining ihe sit- uation to Backstay. Then, with some caution, he opened the trap and looked into the top. Lying against the circular wooden wall, with their toward the trap, were two chimpanzees, a male and a female, with heir arms around each other. They never made a move, and but for the fact that they stared at Jack in a pitiful, frightened way, he would have thought them dead. ack had studied the different species of the monkey tribe enough to be able to tell the dif- ference between a gorilla «nd a baboon, and a chimpanzee from either. He readily identified these two as chimpanzees, end knew that they were much less ferocious by nature and more intelligent in a general way than the gorilla or the baboon. They were also shorter in. size, sel- dom exceeding four feet in height, with large, hairless ears, something like human ears. There were other features’ that marked their species clearly to the bov. He regarded them attentively and saw that there was nothing hostile in their attitude—indeed, both seemed stricken with fear. Jack remembered that he had some crackers in his pocket, He pulled out one and tossed it at the male chimpanzee. The monkey put out its hand, in a feeble way, picked up the cracker and carried it to the mouth of the female. The fe- male began to munch it, but never removing her eyes from the boy. : Jack decided, from their appearance, that they were nearly starved. He threw several more crackers to the male. and then that monkey began to eat with some effort. Jack let the trap fall into its place and descended to the deck. He then ‘went into the pantry, filled a jug with water from the brass-rimmed cask, added i. dash of cognac to ity put a cup in his pocket and started for the lookout on the foremast.. Tom, with consider- able curiosity, followed him up the ‘Yatlines. Jack pushed open the trap, placed the jue on the floor and pulled himself up into the plac*, al- . lowing his legs to dangle down through the hole. Taking ‘.e cup from his pocket, he filled it with water and offered it to the female chimpanzee. The mal ‘ook it out,of his hand, looked at i> then smelt of it, and finally tasted it. Jack made a motion of drinking. The mzle put: the cup to its companion’s mouth and she drank the water — < greedily, draining the cup to the last drop:. The- male handed the cup back to Jack, just like as human would, andthe boy refilled it from the ) : seh" 53 ie is Thy y es = p: = 4 : pie Ba ce a ae ae

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jug and offered it to him. The chimpanzee took it and drank it. Tom, from where he stood, with his head through the trap, looked on with no small wonder. He judged thart it must be weak- ’ ness from lack of food and drink that made them so tame, but he could not understand how they could handle the cup in such an intelligent way. vee? j acted just as if they had been trained to lo it, “Get down,” said Jack. here.” Tom descended and Jack followed him after closing the trap. : “Well,” said Jack, when they stood on the deck again, “what do you think of the chimpanzees?” “ll be hanged if I know what I think of them,” replied Tom. “Thev seem to be tame enough at present, but I guess that’s because they’re half starved. JI don’t know that I't care to trust them very far when they've got their strength back. I think you’re a fool to take so much trouble with them.” “Don’t you believe they’re grateful for what “Grateful!” grinned Tom. “Whoever heard of a monkey possessing gratitude?” “I’ve heard that chimpanzees can easily be trained through kindness and tact.” “Is that so? Do you expect to train that pair?” “Vd like to, for somehow I’ve taken a 3 interest in them, they seem so human. hat male is taking as much care of the female as though they were a real man and wife.” “No more than he ought to do,” chuckled Tom. “Tt’s funny how many animals we've run across on board this vessel. Seems just like a floating menagerie.” : “Tt does, for a fact,” said Tom. “Maybe we'll find a few more in the other top. Let's go un and see.” It took some persuasion to induce Tom to ac- company him to the ton of the mizzen-mast, and Jack had to lead the way. They found the top qaite empty, much to Tom’s satisfaction, and they get into the tub-like enclosure and gazed around upon the ocean, now reddened by the setting sun. Miles and miles away to the west they could see the smoke from a coast steamer. In the oppo- site direction a full-rigged ship had hove into om She was crossing their path in a north- erly direction. The boys remained half an hour in the lookout and then returned to the deck. They found Backstay in the pantry. “Let’s have supper,” said Tom.~ “I’m gettmge hungry.” ’ : : “’'m going to leave ‘T’ve done for them?” ] they got in and found everything _in tip-top order. There were wood and coal in plenty to make a fire, and Back- sta make e the door wasn’t long bef the sailor had the kettle on. Whil ‘ter Pipes Vhi le he was a ) handed it to Tom, with a can- s take to the sailor. eae ne aes be found iat Row iy - as to where he carried us. THE SAILOR’S SECRET j Backstay had found a supply of coffee on a shelf there and had just made the beverage. In the meantime, Jack’s further investigations had re- vealed 2 box of eggs imbedded in sawdust. He felt like shouting over this discovery, for a dish of bacon and eggs hit his fancy greatly. When Tom got back he, too, went into ecstasies over the eggs, and he rushed off with half a dozen of them for Backstay to fry. He returned with the gleeful intelligence that the sailor had found a panful of potatoes and was peeling some to go with the meal. He wanted some dishes to take to the galley. It was just sunset when Tom an- nounced that supper was ready. While Tom and the sailor were carrying the dishes into the pan- try, Jack filled the jug with water, and with his pocket full of crackers, revisited the chimpanzees. Judging by the expression on their Simian faces, they appeared delighted to see him again. :He handed out the crackers, and leaving the jug on the floor, hurried down to get his supper, for Tom and Backstay were impatinetly waiting for him, “How are the chims?” grinned Tom. “First-rate,” replied Jack. “They seem to be coming around.” “Coming around, eh? I hope they’ll stav up in their roost and not come down to bother us with their antics. I’m afraid that’s too much to expect. I'll bet, in the long run, you’ll be sorry for acting the Good Samaritan to them. Little monkeys are bad enough, but big ones are sure to prove troublesome, if not dangerous. Help your- self to the bacon and eggs.” Backstay proved that he was a good cook, and the boys declared that his coffee was as good as any they had ever drank. As for the bacon and eggs, as well as the fried potatoes, they were voted bang-up, and the boys enjoyed the supper immensely. The dishes were carted to the galley and washed in hot water, after which the three adjourned to the roof of the cabin and squatted down, with their backs to the skylight. Backstay got out his pipe, filled it and began his custom- ary smoke, “Our landlady must be wondering where we went,” said Tom. “I guess the whole town knows by this time that we went off sailing with Bob this morning, and as Bob hasn’t been seen since he started off with us there will doubtless be some speculation l If his boat has been picked up and taken into Nantucket, there will surely be a lot of excitement over the fact that no one was in her when she was found. As the day has been a fine one, everybody will wonder how the sloop came to be deserted. Until we are nicked un and taken back, the town will have a bia? to puzzle over, and the longer we are -— the greater the mystery will become,” said ack, ‘ “Tf that there boat is lost, I'll be in a bad fix. © I don’t know how I’ll be said the sailor dolefully. “If she is picked up you'll get her back. I guess everybody knows your boat.” = “Yes,/but the man who brings her into port will be legally entitled to salvage, and I haven’t any monev with which to satisfy his claim,” said the old man. For an hour they floated al under a starlit sky, which only dimly relieved pall of night that rested on the face of the ocean. The wind pioe Ss, Sage oe able to get another,” —

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ra iba ayy blew a smacking breeze, but it had little if any effect on the iron hull that was carrying them ‘out further and further into the Atlantic, with a trend to the southward. At nine o’clock the Moon rose, a full, round orb, and silvered the sea with a glistening pathway—a sight entirely new to the boys. _ “Can’t you spin us a yarn, Bob, before we turn in for the night?” asked Jack. .~ : of your own experiences, and not Jack Robinson’s,” said Tom. : The sailor scratched his chin thoughtfully. “J kill tell ye a lot o’ yarns, but I calkilate the one that'll interest ye the most is the true story of a pirate’s treasure that once upon a time I diskivered hidden away under a rreat rock that bore a wonderful likeness to a human face. I found the treasure guarded by the skeleton of a man, who must have been walled up in the cave along with the gold, for some reason, maybe be- cause he had a fallin’ out with the crowd who hid the treasure there, and so I called the rock Dead Man’s Rock, an’ I reckon it was well named.” “What did you do with the treasure?” asked Jack, with considerable interest. ays “1 didn’t do nothin’ with it. I guess it lies there * still in the cave under Dead Man’s Rock. with the skeleton watchin’ over it,” replied Backstay sol- emnly. 5 * : “Why didn’t you take it away with you? “Why didn’t I? Because it wasn’t intended I ee have at” cea 24 not?” as ‘om. 2 3 eouldn’t tell ye. All I know is that I found _ it by accident, an’ was congratulating myself on bein’ a made men for life when—but I'll tell ye ; the yarn.” . . . 3 The old man charged his pipe again, lit it and _ began as follows: * GHAPTER VII.—The Sailor’s Secret. “Ye may think, when I get through, that this story ain’t true—that I dreamed it all—but was I dyin’ this moment I’d- swear that every word of _ it is gospel truth. How kin it be otherwise, when I kin see the hull thin Pap sailing Be es now like a panorama? If ’d dreamed it, I’d have Woke up an’ found myself in bed, wouldn’t I? the same place where I went to sleep. I und myself in bed, it is true, but—well, I’d n at the beginnin’, an’ then when you've 1, from first to last, p’raps ye’ll think di a that it was somethin’ more than a I E f ae never told the yarn but once, an’ as it ly landed. me in a madho * u fe a 7 et : a t, an’ ye kin take it for what ye ” blew a cloud of smoke from his lips, rested reminiscently on the moon- he saw something afar off any one but . : Be tf Z F ‘ i i : il ah i ; # : a | A . sg Fe 4 ef THE SAILOR’S SECRET thirty ago,” he be- strong. an’ eS a. globe was off Cape Horn, an’ I’ve been in that latitude several times.” . He stopped to spit, and then went on: “The adventure began as it ended, in trouble for me. I was walkin’ in the py pe o’ the Boston docks one night, thinkin’ that it was about time I shipped again, for my fands were at a low ebb, wher. I was suddenly attacked by three men, rough-lookin’ chaps they were, an’ knocked unconscious by a blow of brass knuckles on my forehead. When I came to, hours afterward, I ' was lyin’ in a fok’s’l bunk of a brig, miles out- side o’ Boston Light. shanghaied.” The sailor paused again and puffed at his pipe until he brought the tebacco to a red glow. “It ain’t no use o’ me wastin’ time tellin’ you what foliowed, how mad I was because I had been In-a word, I had been shipped agin my will, which no sailor likes; an’ , what kind o’ hooker, skipper an’ crew I had run foul o’. It’s enough to say that the combination was the worst I’ve ever had the misfortune to berth with, afore or since. This here yarn only concerns Dead Man’s Rock, an’ the treasure that’s hidden there, for I solemnly believe that it’s there this minute jest as it was when I seen it.” _ A treasure story is always interesting, and the = boys waited impatiently for Backstay to pro- c “The hooker was bound for Buenos Ayres after a cargo of hides, but she had a misce cargo aboard which was consigned to several firms in Rio de Janeiro,” went on the sailor. “That there cargo, however, never reached its destina- tion, which I don’t wonder at, seein’ as the skip- per an’ his mates were wuss than that Flyin’ Dutchman, which, mayhap, you've heard about, whose ship, they say, has been tryin’ in vain to rouna the Cape o’ Good Hope these three hun- dred years, an’ will have to keep on tryin’ till the day of Judgment, because he’s alleged to have defied the Almighty.” Backstay paused again and looked thoughtfully over the shining surface of the ocean. an’ every it was over I found myself small island; the only survivor of the disaster. There satan a > sign = the saa She had been pulverized into splinter i than could whisper Jack Robinson.” eres = * “You were lucky to escape,” said Jack. “It was on the afternoon o’ the first day, an’ I was ’most dead for a drink, the sight o’ the salt water ’round the island nearly drivin’ me crazy, when I came upon a la round hole near one . end 0’ the island, fringed abouut with grass an’

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= . 10 erazy that I didn’t stop to figger over it. I jest dropped on. my hands an’ knees, bent over an’ lapped the water like a famished animal. I had to bend over to get at it, an’, bein’ as weak as a cat, I lost my balance an’ fell in.” “You did!” said Jack. “T did. an’ that’s how I came to find the treas- ure.” “You don’t say!” cried Tom. ; “I went down, an’ down, swallerin’ the water, an’ chokin’ like a dyin’ frog, when somehow. or another I was sucked in through a big hole, an’ the next thing I remember I was on the surface, strikin’ out despritly for a shelvin’ beach o’ sand which I saw before me. I reached it, scrambled up on it, and lay pin’ like a fish out o’ its natural element. hen I recovered, which I did in a few minutes, I was astonished to find myself in a kind o’ marine cave. lighted dimly in -some way that I never found out.” _ : “Gee!” ejaculated Tom, looking at his chum. — “V’ll allow I was mighty surprised at the sit- uation I found myself in so unexpected like. The eave had a roof that rose many feet above my an’ it ran around in a circular direction. “ At the p’int where the light seemed to come from I no three projections, or knobs of rock a-standin’ out toward me. At first I didn’t pay no attention to them, but Bape oad ege ey ws an idea where J] was. I may as well exp first as last, so I'll tell ye that when I looked the island over after comin’ to when I was cast ore I noticed a great big rock at the end o ie to where I found the pool, which bore a remarkable likeness to a human skull. It had the sockets that matched the places where the eyes are, and the triangular hole where the nose . The grinnin’ mouth, however, was missin’, Sor yon could fancy that. was lost in the sea. The 's had seen pictures of many remark- able f of nature’s handiwork in rocks, and were not inclined to doubt this part of the sailor’s narrative. ey Sse “After lookin’ at them three rocky nobs, an’ re- memberin’ the position o’ the pool, I afterwards came to the conclusion that the stone skull was hollow, an’ that I had landed inside of it. I un- derstood this clearer when I remembered that water always finds its level, which ye two, bein educated, know to be a fact, and so the pool in the skull represented the top of the pool outside, an’ as the skull rock was the only elevated piece of ground close to the pool, it naturally followed that I must be in it, otherwise there wouldn’t be no room for the cave above the see ; The s nodded at Backkstay’s deduction. “Til ae I was rather flabbergasted at first, not knowin’ how I was goin’ to escape from what looked like a trap, but while I was thinkin’ the matter over my eyes, growin’ used to the gloom, denly made out the r of a skeleton sittin’ quite natural-like a few feet awav and grinnin’ at me as though tickled over my misfortune. It wasn’t the first skeleton I’d seen up to that time, an’ his looks didn’t seare me worth a cent, though Y1l allow I was a bit startled at findin’ such a ) ‘on so close to me in such a place, but as ‘how he came there a cold me. Perhaps he had tum- the same way I had, then found it im- at ¢ had, jn consequence ght broke me all up an’ _It might be easy, an’ ag’in it might not, THE SAILOR’S SECRET I sat an’ stared at him in a kind o’ terror till I _ discovered that his feet had been chained to a ~ rock, which prevented him from gettin’ out even if a door stood oven afore him.” “Who could have chained him in such a place?” asked Tom. “That’s jest what bothered me at first. It was evident he couldn’t have fixed himself that way even had he wanted to, which ain’t reasonable to s’pose he would,” said Backstay. “When I went up to it I found to my astonishment that one of its bony hands was buried in an open brass-bound | box, full of gold cain.” The boys uttered involuntary ejaculations. It wasn’t a big box, but there must have been $20,000 worth of gold in it, perhaps more. ‘The skeleton was sitting on a similar box, and there was three others, all of the same size an’ appear- ance, _That was the treasure, an’ how it came tobe in that there marine cave, which apppar- ently had no entrance except through the pool, was a mystery that always got me. 0’ course, somebody put it there, an’ it’s always been my idea that them that put it in the cave chained their companion there for reasons best known to themselves.” “That was a dandy discovery to make,” said Tom, “but I don’t see why you never got the treasure away. It would have made you a rich ma ain't new had a chance to go b $ ’*t never had a chance 3 for it,” replied Backstay. ot tretiae = “How is it you failed to take it away at the time, or at least a nart of it?” “That’s the curious part o’ my yarn,” said the sailor, with lantic. “Let’s hear,” said Jack, “After I’d seen all I wanted to o’ the eave, an’ had handled that gold over an’ over ag’in, I be- gan to consider about gettin’ out into daylight ag’in, for I was feelin’ hungry, an’ I wanted to get out anyway.” ‘ “T should think you would,” said Tom. “The problem was to get out. I allowed that it Was a question o’ divin’ in the pool, findin’ the openin’ an’ comin’ up through the pool outside. If it was.easy for me, it wouldn’t be easy to get them boxes of gold out. In fact, I couldn’t see how that was goin’ to be done. I argued that there must be some other way o’ gettin’ out an’ which had been closed up by the chaps after they had marooned the treasure. I determined I would find out. It happened, however, that I didn’t get the chance.” “At any rate, you got out yourself,” sai “If I hadn’t I wouldn't be a-talkin’ om ~— My skeleton would be keepin’ company with the other one. I got out by divin’, an’ the first thing I did was to fill up on fruit an’ tn, I took a sleep. I spent most 0’ the next day investigating the skull stone, which I named Dead Man’s Rock but I couldn’t find no entrance that had been closed up, On the fourth day of my stay on the island I dove down into the Ste an’ reached the treasure cave all right. It seemed very simple for me to do it now that I knowed the ropes. I spent an hour or more tryin’ to find another exit from the inside, but I met with no luck. I left the cave intendin’ to come back next day, of a meditative look at the broad At-_

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a : Mayhap that afternoon. I never seen the inside o’ it ag’in.” “How is that?” asked Jack curiously. ‘ “J dunno, unless it was on account o’ the clip I got on my head when I rose to the'surface 0’ the pool outside. I came up quickly an’ close in to the side. My head hit a projectin’ stone an’ the blow knocked me silly. I came near drownin’ then an’ there. How I out I don’t remember, nor do [I recollect an * more till I found my- self lyin’ in a bunk ard a brig that was bound for New York.” “You were found unconscious on the island and ” said Jack. “No, I wasn’t. That’s the strange part of it. I was told that I was picked up at sea, out of sight of land, clinging’ to an empty cask. I had been in a.ragin’ fever for a week, they told me, an’ the brig was enterin’ New York harbor when’ senses. The next thing I remem- * myself in a hospital. I stayed re till I was discharged cured. Then I tried to I came to m It was several days before I found out had sailed for Hayti. I then tried some- body in a scheme to hunt for the is o’ Dead whether ye believe my or not, but as I said before, if I was dyin’ this minute I’d swear it is the solemn truth I’ve been a-tellin’ ye.” _ They believed that Backstav was honest in his been s' ied, went in the hufricane, and that rief adven- on the alleged island was the ent of the r which was the outcome of his experience. ing at his watch, Jack found that it was he therefore i that it was for the night. and the sailor tered the cabin, made up beds after a fashion, turned in, and were soon asleep. 5 ” —— CHAPTER VIIIL—A Change of Weather. _The first thing Jack did in the morning was to visit the foremast lockout with water, ers and scraps of meat left over from the previous night’s supper, which showed that he had a kind is _ Spot in hi for animals, even if they were a couple of panzees whom Tom thought he “was a fool for loo after. he opened the trap the “chims” looked at him in an eager sort way. ‘They seemed to have recove much of their animation, and the male uttered a _ series of uncouth which might have been imtended as an of grati in the monkey language. he had left them full ef water was é; had disap- 4 Jack the fresh supply and took THE SAILOR’S SECRET 11 ‘no attempt to come down, though the parently able to do so if they had felt so dis- posed. Jack visited them just before dinner with a liberal supply of food, which Tom thought a great waste of provisions. He found them quite frisky, and they showed a childish kind of ight in seeing him. There was no d atever they were harmless, and their actions gave Jack considerable satisfaction. He shook them both by the hands, which made them nm and chatter, and they got so friendly that they sat down on either side of him and started a talk in the mon- kev language. “I wonder what Tom would think if he saw me afraid he’d have a fit.” the boy appeared at th ntry the were with him. Tom gave Ms grunt of disapproval, while Backstay loo at the ani- mals with some curiosity. “Here, sit down out there,” said Jack, forcing his haunches. “Say, if you're going to have those things around you'd punter start right in and teach them to know their places,” said ek, Fa. make them mind, don’t you worry,” replied As soon as dinner was finished, during which “chims” had never moved, Jack and Tom Se 0 up r arms, like the ys. Backstay burst into a mates ey'll mak . ’ . Tom?” anid 3 ~4 great helpers, don’t you think, t away, and wanted to do the same thing. “ _ - “Hold on, there!” said Jack, pulling her away. I'll give you a job.” “He wiped ’

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_-of order, the cause. of its swi 12 pointed at the other dish and she put the second with it and snatched a third. This performance went on until all the dishes were washed and dried. Then Jack filled their arms with dishes and marched them to the pantry. Tom was tick- led to death, particularly when he saw that the chimpanzees followed his chum about everywhere and imitated all his actions. He declared it was as — as a play, but after a time he tired of it, anc wanted Jack to get rid of them. That was. not easy to do. Jack marched them .to the fore- mast and ordered. them to go up to their nest. They obeved, like a couple of docile children, and aiter that he saw them both looking down at him, “[’m afraid those chims are going to prove a nuisance,” said Tom. . “It’s well enough for them io wash and carry dishes, but to have them sit- ting around, imitating every move you make is going too far. You’ll have to lock them up in the forecastle, or dump them overboard.” “Oh, V’ll make tiseful members of society of them,” laughed Jack. ~ “What will you do with them when we're taken off this vessel?” asked Tom. ’“Take them along.” : “Suppose the skipper of the craft won’t have them ard, what then?” ~-“He'll take them, I guess. They would fetch a good igs from a circus manager or a dealer in animals of that sort.” : ~The afternoon passed like the preceding one. They saw several sails, but they were too far away to be signaled. ‘When supper was ready, Jack whisticd the chimpanzees down, and they showed great delight in being near him again. He seated them outside the pantry and handed them each a plate-of food and a cup of water. At the end of the meal.the plates and cups and saucers were in their arms they were marched to the galley, where they washed and dried them as before and carried them back to the pantry. Jack then ordered them aloft again, and they went. : “They obey you: all right,” said Tom. 4 “I guess they can tell by my face that I mean _ what I say,” replied Jack. - The evening was passed listening to divers other adventures that Backstay had encountered in the course of his maritime experience. Sev- eral davs elapsed and the party was as far from yeseue as-ever. A steamer passed several miles away and the boys tried to signal her, but their efforts failed to attract attention, and the vessel went on its way, disappearing at last in the dis- tance. During that interval Jack devoted consid- erable time to instructing the chimpanzees. Their unusual aptitude, and from many things they did, Jack suspected that they had been in captivity some time, and had been tauzht many tricks. They furnished a lot of. amusement, and Tom ceased to find their presence a nuisance. The morning of the fifth day of their involuntary cruise broke dull and threatening. ; _*Do you. think there’s going to be a storm?” “Tom anxiously asked Backstay. . . - ca old sailor allowed: that it looked kind of : t : - “If it comes, the only thing. we kin doin this tub is to try an’ keep afore the wind,” he said. They had found that the rudder. was not out ng from: side to ; Ww. : xa __. Side -being:. the ‘looseness of Dccdudan -which THE SAILOR’S SECRET Backstay corrected. ‘The vessel had since been kept head: to the wind by lashing the wheel. in the proper position. Heretofore the craft had rested as firm as a rock on the water on account of the mparatively smooth sea; now she rocked 2 little. but not as much as an ordinary craft under the same circumstances by reason ox her uncommon breadth of beam. The light ac- tion of the waves alone did not affect her, it was the long, undulating sweep of the ocean, a pre- cursor of what was to come, that made her rock. As the morning advanced the sweep of the sea increased in intensity and the derelict responded to it. The wind was blowing strong, but was what sailors would term a fine, rattling breeze— one that would fill all the sails of a ship and send her forward at a fine, spanking pace. The iron hull had nothing aloft to steady her. and Backstay opined that she would roll a good deal worse as time went on. By keeping the craft dead in the wind’s eye, this roll was much re- duced. Jack set the chimpanzees at work clean- ing up the cabin and staterooms. They had al- ready cleared the, deck so that it looked some- what shipshape. After dinner darker clouds were seen rismg to the northward, and the sailor an- # nounced that the least they might expect was a stiff gale. _. “Do you think we'll come out of it all right?” asked Tom. _ _ “] calkilate we can stand a pretty stiff blow, my h¢earty,” replied Backstay. “We may_ shi quite a bit of water as we lie pretty low, but reckon the old hooker is stanch enough in the hull. . We’ll have to close up the entrance to the envine-toom to keep the water out, an’ with both cabin decors shut we'll be taut enough, I guess. f ain’t had no experience ‘board steamers, an’ even if I had, it wouldn’t amount to nothin’ on this here derelict, which; ’ceptin’ for her rudder, is little better than a Noah’s ark, an’ must go where wind an’ tide carry her. However, there’s one consolation—we’re far out on the Atlantic, an’ not likely to run ag’in a lee shore, though we might run smack ag’in some vessel or steamer oth an i d with th f e wind increase i e passage of time, and the dark clouds rose higher and higher in the gloomy firmament. By five o’clock the sea had taken on an angry look and everything point- ed to a rough night. They had an early supper, and Backstay cooked a couple of pots of coffee, one of which he drained off the dregs, as he said it might. not be convenient to start a fire in the galley in the morning. “As for grub,” he said, “there’s plenty o’ canned stuff to last us if we had to stay under hatches a month, so we needn’t fear goin’ on short com- mons.” : ; It got dark unusually early and the chimpan- zees were not sent aloft to their nest, but quar- tered in the cabin. Everything had been made as snug as possible, under Backstay’s directions, and so there was nothing to do but let matters take their course. The sailor donned a waterproof found in one of the staterooms and went on deck to watch, for the wind was liable to change, at any moment,.and.it would -be necessary to m' it by altering the position of the rudder. Left to themselves, the boys talked over the peril of their situation, afloat on the broad Atlantic in. a-dere- lict, and wondered-how this adventure of. theixs

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_ would end. The cabin looked dim and ghostly in the light of the swinging lantern, and the figures of the sleeping “chims” looked rather weird over in the corner, lying close together with their hairy -arms around one another in a very affectionate way. “Our folks will wonder why they have received but one letter from us in a week,” said Jack. “They'll think we are having such a good time at Nantucket that we have neglected to write,” _ replicd Tom. “They may have learned about our unaccount- able disappearance from the island with Back- “J hardly think so. At any rate, I hope not, for the news -would make them mighty anxious and worried.” “Tt certainly would. My mother and sisters would have a fit.” “Unless we’re picked up soon and carried back to some port from which we can send them word that we’re all right, they’re bound to learn that ing unusual has happened to us. My fa- ther will be sure to go down to Nantucket to investigate, and what he will learn will not make him feel any better.” : The howling of the gale and the lashing of the sea made the boys decidedly nervous in their strange situation, but there was nothing to do but grin and bear it. Finally they fell asleep. Up on deck crouched the sailor with his eyes on the angry whitecaps that were chasing the dere- lict, but never quite reached her. ez Suddenly out of the darkness tore the towering bows of a steamer. She shot past, astern, so _ close that Backstay could have tossed a biscuit om her deck. There being no light displayed on the derelict, the lookout did not see the obstruc- tion almost in the steamer’s path. ‘Ihe officer standine on the end of the bridee made out the dark blot of her hull as they swept past, and sung out-a warning. The hulk rolled heavily in the steamer’s wash, and the boys were tumbled about on the cabin floor and woke up. Jack opened the door of the companion-way and rusned up. He bumped against the sailor. “We've just had a narrer escape, my hearty,” said Backstay. “How?” asked Jack. ' The sailor told him that a steamer had barely missed the stern of the derelict in passing. “That’s the risk we are runnin’ by havin’ no lights aloft,” he said. > “And if she had hit us we’d have gone down? said Jack. ; ; “P}] allow we’d have been under the briny by this time.” : alee _ “That’s fierce. The storm seems to be worse. : “It is wuss, an’ it’s likely to keep on gettin wuss till it blows over.” - “How long do you think it’s likely to last?” *T couldn’t tell you no better’n a nussin’ in- fant. It may last all day to-morrow, an’ it may days. There’s no tell- -hang on for two or three ~ in’ nothin’ about it.” ~ This was cheerful intelligence for Jack, And _-also for Tom, who had crept up behind him and heard what the sailor, said. blew THE SAILOR’S SECRET 18 held off, came on and drove them back into the cabin. CHAPTER 1X.—Ashore in the Tropics. Contrary to Backstay’s expectation, the gale blew itself out toward morning, leaving a heavy sea in its wake, which made the boys very sea- sick. Thev had no appetite for any food, and they paid little attention to-the sailor when he told him that the storm was practically over, and that he looked to see the sun in an hour or two. Jack and Tom were miserable objects all that day, but they got better toward evening. The ocean was still pretty rough, but the sky was clear and portended another spell of fine weather. The boys were all right in the morning, and re- sponded to the breakfast call. The sea had gone down and was rolling merrily along under a slight breeze. So vassed the next six days, by which time they had been two weeks on the dere- lict. They were due at their stores in Boston three days before, consequently their disappear- ance from Nantucket was known to their fam- ilies. They knew that their people were in a terrible state of anxious worriment over them, but they could not help it any more than they could heln themselves. The sun was hotter now- adays, from which circumstance the sailor said they had drifted many hundreds of miles to the southward as well as te the east. He allowed that if they were not rescued soon they would drift into the tropics, where they were liable to go ashore on one of the islands or sand keys of the Bahama group, a chain of islands which stretched in a northwest direction from the neigh- borhood of the north coast of Hayti to that of the east coast of Florida. The islands, about 500 in number, dot a continuous distance of nearly 600 miles. “Tt was on oneso’ them islands I was washed ashore when the bark foundered I told you about,” said Backstay. “The island you called Dead Man’s Rock Is- land?” said Tom. The sailor nodded, The boys having decided in their minds that skull rock and the marine cave, with the skeleton and the treasure, existed only in the old man’s imagination, did not follow up the subject. Neither did Backstay. They saw very few sails during those six days, and only an occasional blur of smoke along the horizon, which indicated a steam craft. “I wonder how much longer this trip is going té last?” said Tom, as he watched Jack teaching the chimpanzees a new bit of business. « “You’ve got me,” replied his chum. “If we fetch up on an island we'll be no better off; probably worse.” : “I hope we won't lose our jobs through this.” “I don’t think there is any danger of that, for we're not staying away of our own accord.” “Say, we’ve never been in the hold, forward of the engine-room,” said Tom. “I would like to see what is down there.” “Cargo, I should imagine.” “I don’t see what kind of cargo would be sent afloat in this old ark.” , - “Neither do I, and I am not particularly curi- gubioet : ee e _‘ The hatchway leading to the forward hold was — - closed agi: = board, and. ft 3

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14 THE SAILOR’S. SECRET would take more than the united strength of the three involuntary passengers to remove it. That was the reason they had not investigated that part of the vessel. After dinner that day they took the lantern and thoroughly explored the forecastle. They found bones, patches of dry and crumpled hairy skin and the skull of several small monkeys. “There surely was a small menagerie on board of this craft,” said Tom. “I'll bet the gorilla feasted off these poor monks.” “If he did it is a miracle he did not do up the chimpanzees,” said Jack. “Maybe he felt so sure of them that he left them for the last.”” “Qr he did not suspect they had taken refuge up the foremast watch-tower.” “Hello! Here’s an opening into the hold, with ss iron ladder. Shall we venture down?” asked ‘om. “Yes; give me the lantern and I’ll go first. Better go and get that revolver. I hardly think there’s anything alive down there now. Whew! It smelis like a cireus menagerie on a hot day. The animals were probably kept down there be- fore they escaped.” Tom went and got the revolver, and then fol- lowed Jack down the ladder. imal smell was awfully strong down there and the boys hur- ried their investigations. They found a double row of cages, every one empty. Those that were whole and locked showed that they had contained occupants that had evidently been removed. From the appeparance of two of the cages the boys judged they had held birds. “This steamer was carrying. a cargo of birds and animals for some show, or to some dealer,” said Jack, and the fact seemed too clear to admit of dispute. There was a roigh bulkhead erected between the me rie quarters and the rest of the hold. Presumably it divided off the space allotted to merchandise of some kind. The boys were glad to get out of the hold and its stench, and when they reached the deck they breathed the sea air with great relish. They gave Backstay an ac- count of what they had seen, and he allowed that the craft was some queer foreign hooker engaged _ in the animal trade, which had ventured a special trip to the American coast. “The steamer’ must have got homesick, and after gettin> rid of her officers and crew, started back to her oa stamping-grounds on her own ae getting on to time, the chith sl as on supper- e, 2 - panzees “were called and given a pan of potatoes apiece to peel, which pr’ had learned to do first-class. The days continued to reel off the calendar, each growing warmer than its prede- t % : 4) , asleep when the gray of dawn broke. - Their cruise Was practically over, though they had no suspicion of the fact. Right in the derelict’s path lay a long narrow island, mostly low and thickly covered with tropical trees and vegetation. At the extreme eastern end stood a curious-shaped rock, the outlines of which were not very clear in the semi darkness. A hundred feet or more from it rose another huge rock, much higher than the other, the base of which extended from side to side of the island. In shape it was something like a circus clown’s hat, and had a great rift cut in its side. The derelict was approaching the opposite and wider end of the island, and as morning broke with tropical suddenness, it was dashed bow on upon the smooth, hard, shelving beach, burying its forefoot deep in the sand between two giant cocoanut trees whose leafy tops half-concealed several clusters of the round nutty fruit. The shock the vessel received was no gentle one, and it awoke the sailor and the boys, and the chim- panzees as well. The sudden cessation of all mo- tion, to which they had been accustomed for the past three weeks, told the trio that they had gone on shore somewhere, and they hastily dashed up the companionway, followed by the animals. One glance was enough to assure them that the steamer was, for the present at least, hard and fast on an island. , “JT suppose we’ve hit one of those islands you spoke about, Bob?” said Jack. “That’s what we have, my hearty,” as he gazed around, Suddenly his jaw dropped and his eyes be- came fixed, as if he saw a staggering sight. “What’s the matter?” asked Jack, noticing Backstay’s strange attitude. “Matter!” he ejaculated. “If this here don’t beat anythin’ I ever heard of.” “What beats anything you ever heard of?” asked Jack.. “Why. this here is the identical island I went ashore on that time.” “This is!” cried Jack, in astonishment. “Yes, this is the island where that there treas- ure is.” ; The boys looked at Backsktay as if they thought he had gone crazy. | “It’s thirty years since I saw that there tall rock yonder, an’ yet I remember it as if I’d seen it yesterday. Beyond it, on the p’int, is Dead Man’s Rock, as you shall see after we get ashore. And between the two is the pool of fresh water I fell into an’ then fetched up in a marine cave where the skeleton an’ the gold is,” said the sailor, in a tone so full of conviction that the boys began to wonder if the tale of the treasure of Dead Man’s Rock wasn’t true, after all. ———. . CHAPTER X.—Dead Man’s Rock. “If you think that’s so, we can’t get ashore too tee pines Meee ae ck meee said ‘om, in some excitement. : “There ain’t no need o’ rushin’ things, my ,” said the sailor.

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THE SAILOR’S SECRET said Tom. “During that time the treasure may have been found and taken away.” *I don’t believe it has,” said Backstay. “Who would suspect there was anythin’ valuable in the bowels of skuil rock? Nobody to look into that pool would think it was the door to a consider- able treasure. Shipmates, we've hit luck square in the bull’s’-eye. We'll get that gold out’r that cave somehow an’ divide it equally between us. Then we'll wait for some craft to come along an’ -rescue us. After we hold o’ that treasure ye won't need to care whether school keeps or not. When I get my share to Nantucket I'll bank it an’ live on the interest of it for the rest o’ my life, an’ when I die, seein’ as I hain't got no rela- tives in the world, I’ll leave it te you chaps, half an’ half apiece.” ~The old sailor spoke so confidently that the boys felt as if the treasure of Dead Man’s Rock was almost within their reach. Not having had a warm meal in thirty hours, the sailor set about getting breakfast, with Tom’s help. The fentale limpanzee had been taught to set three plates, with cups and saucers, knives, forks and spoons. start the male had tried to imitate her, had pushed him away, ring some- thing at him, for she had evidently taken a fancy was noticed that she bossed the male about women do their husbands, and he ac- authority without dispute. After the id, Jack went up a cocoanut tree, got and carried them aboard. From the a grove of bananas, ripening in dropped a rope over the side and x the shore. e male chimpanzee a no attempt to follow till the boy called on ~ him and then he slid down like a flash. The fe- » male came after him without orders. She evi- Nee dently wanted to know where her spouse was go- x z. Jack led the way to the banana grove, the ani- making no attempt to escape. He easily of the fruit that was ripening from ‘the top, cut it down and gave it to the chims to HF : a i af $ 3 ze * a of it and, climbing wp, avied it on board. Then he flung the rope back for the convenience of the “chims.” The boys enjoyed an uncom- . monly fine breakfast that morning, beginnin _ with a couple of bananas apiece. The fruit a fine flavor, much better than the bananas they had often bought in Boston. _.. . *§ tell you, we're living high if we are cast- we rae uninhabited island, like Robinson Cries: Instead of a man Friday, we have a » of educated chimpanzees, who pull off all the work for us. What a yarn we'll have - “to tell when we reach home!” said Tom. if we back it up with our share of that Back- 3 was the pool after getting . baked in their skins. 15 “It gets mine, too. Gee! but I’m anxious to see. Dead Man’s Rock. | really won’t believe this is the island till I gaze on it.” “As soon as we get the things washed up we must start for that end of the island and take a look at it. We haven’t anything better to do, anyway.” : The derelict had been driven hard and fast on shore, and there was little danger that it would slip its moorings for the present—probably not until the next storm came on. In half an hour the boys were ready to start for a tour of the island, their objective point being Dead Man’s Rock. Backstay called their attention to the fact that the tide was high. “We can’t get around that conical rock until the beach is uncovered,” he said. “That won't happen for an hour or two. I’d have found that there pool sooner if I hadn’t been cut off from it for three or four hours by the tide. If ye want to stretch your legs ashore there ain’t no reason why ye shouldn’t, but ye’ll have to do your walk- in’ around this end o’ the island.” The boys concluded not to do any ase oe | until they could get around the rock, and so al hands remained on board and watched the tide go out. As there was a heavy surf on the wind- ward side, which was caused the late storm, and a swell on the leeward side, they found it necessary to wait longer than they had counted on. Finally it was decided to wait till after din- ner, which was intended to be chiefly a meal of fruit, for it really was too hot to eat meat at mid- day. The tide was out when they finally made their start. They took the rifles and the revolver with them on general principles, not because they had any expectations of running up against an enemy. The chimpanzees went along, of course, for they didn’t want to be left behind. They walked behind Jack, whom they recognized as their mas- ter, though they were quite friendly with Tom and Backstay. Thev both carricd sticks over their shoulders, in imitation of Jack with his rifle, and when he changed it from one shoulder to the other, or carried it trailing with one hand, they imitated him exactly with the sticks. Thus the little party filed along the shore, keepin to the leeward side of the island. Before they ‘reached the conical rock they found it advisable to seek the shelter of a nee grove to cool off. These trees attained a height of from fifteen to twenty feet. As the leaves were large, they made a fine shade, particularly where close together. The boys had never seen this tree before, and observing ‘that it bore an oblong kind of fruit, Jack asked Backstay if it was good to eat. : “T calkilate it is, my hearty,” replied the sai- lor. <1 reckon. ve’ve heard of bread fruit, ain't ye? “Sure,” replied Jack. : “This is the identical article. It can be eaten raw if ye have to, but I don’t think ye’d care for it that way. Boiled, roasted, baked or fried is the wavy it’s usually served up. I like it best fried in. slices with butter, and po over with sugar. Plantains are also first- ; wEen .- On our way. . supper,” said Backstay. As soon as’ they had gather some and I’il cook ’em the best I kin for cna oft they sated

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16 ahead again and soon came to the base of the conical rock. : “In about a minute ye’ll catch sight of skull rock, my hearties, an’ then I reckon ye’ll believe that yarn I told ye the first night we were affoat,” said the old sailor. It was with eager anticipation that they skirted the rock that looked like a circus clown’s hat. In a few moments they came in sight of skull rock. It’s resemblance to a human skull was decidedly startling. It was all of twenty feel high and pro- portionately broad, and it looked like the relic of some fearful giant who had departed life in that vicinity, and whose headpiece had been placed upon the end of the island. “You made no mistake, Bob, when you called that Dead Man’s Rock,” said Jack. CHAPTER XI.—The Treasure of the Rock. “T called it that not because it looks like a skuil, but on account of the skeleton that’s chained in- side of it,” said the sailor. - “Skull rock is the better name for it,” said ‘om. “There’s the pool,” said Backstay. ga The boys looked and saw the pool the sailor had deseri so exactly on the night he told his yarn, hundreds of miles to the northward of that spot. “Jest think that it’s thirty years since I took my header down into that pool,” he said. “I was a young fellow then, not much over thirty, an’ now I’m gray-headed. I wonder if the skeleton will recognize me when I visit him ag’in?” he added, with a chuckle. “J should think you’d be afraid to take the ces of going down there now,” said Jack, “Me afraid!” ejaculated the sailor. “Why should I be when I know the road?” “But you aren't as young and active as you 2 were when you went down there thirty years 6.” “Bless your heart, I ain’t no chicken, if I am over sixty.” : _ He seemed eager to make the attempt. “When I went down afore I had my clothes on, eh = ee but J’ll get along better without ’em,” ie Sai : : He kicked off his shoes, unstrapped his wooden leg and quickly disearded the few articles he had on. 7s fetch back a few pieces of the gold,” he LPs Then he dived straight down into the pool.. The moments passed and he did not reappear. “He’s reached the cave,” said Jack, “else he Ls would have come up by this time.” on. chimpanzees had watched Backstay ‘dive ys » probably with a good deal of mon- plish that, the next will be to get it and ourselves off the island ana back tones said ‘THE SAILOR’S SECRET key curiosity, and the boys noticed that they kept their eves fastened intently upon the surfac:, evidently looking for the sailor to reappear. ‘Ten minutes passed away and then Backstay came up. He tossed a handful of gold coin toward the boys, and then with one stroke reached the margin of the pool and pulled himself out. Jack and Tom eagerly picked up the money and looked at it It consisted of French and Spanish coins of an old date, the early part of the nintetenth cen- tury. As the boys examined them there was no longer any donbt in their minds about the exist- ence of, the treasure. x “Well, mv hearties, the treasure is down there just as I seen it last, an’ the skeleton hasn’t changed a bit.” said Backstay. “I hope ye are convinced now.” “We are,” said Jack. “How far down is the opening in the pool that leads into the cave?” “Above six or seven feet.” “And the hole is over there, I suppose 7” “Yes, right in line with the back part of the rock.” : “A watery tunnel runs between the pool and the cave, I judge?” “Yes, but it’s not very long.” “J should like to go down and see the cave, but I wpuld not care to take the risk alone, for I might not be able to find my way out easily,” said Jack. j “Get out of your clothes if ye kin swim an’ I'll pilot ye into the cave.” Jack was an excellent swimmer and diver and he proceeded to doff his garments. Then it was noticed that the chimpanzees began to show signs of . excitement. ; after Jack followed him. As the water closed over his feet the “chims” hopped to the edge of the pool and looked into the water with every sign of anxiety. They chattered to each other, felt of the water and took some up in their paws and tasted it. Then they made a rush for the shore and tasted the water of the sea. They spat it out and dashed back again. They were satis- fied now that the poel had no connection with the ocean. They kept their eyes on the surface, as they had done when the sailor went down first, and remained quiet. - ‘ In the meanwhile, Jack felt himself grabbed by — the arm and pushed into the watery tunnel. struck out, and presently came to the surface and found himself in the cave. Backstay emerg- | ed and told him to wade ashore. In a moment or two both of them stood on the dry sand, The cave was dimly lighted in some unexplained way, and as soon as their eyes aces to the gloom they could see quite’clearly, Although Jack expected to see the skeleton, the first sight of it gave him something of a shock. There were still some rotten shreds of cloth clinging to the bony limbs. That it had been there a poet corms bee was self-evident. Its grinning look orribly grotesque, and Jack could not shudder as he viewed it. Beside it stood the open box of gold coins and as Backstay had narrated, ress @ _ it sat upon another, while three others were close bY. 43 “There’s a fortune in money here,” said Jack, “How mucl. do ye calkilate it amounts to? asked the sailor. Ee “J couldn’t sav. I should imagine if all the Backstay dived, and a moment . a? ey eed ee | Fh ee

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THE SAILOR’S SECRET : 11 boxes hold as much as the open one that there’s il; $200,000 worth,” replied Jack. “That’s about $75,000 apiece. we ought to be satisfied with that much.” “How are we going to get it out of here?” “T’ve been thinkin’ that we might rig a rope to the boxes, in turn, an’ run the rope through the tunnel an’ up the pool. By draggin’ an’ pushin’ ’em we might get ’em out,” said Backstay. “No, it can’t be done that way without we had a windlass, and I don’t know where such a thing is to come from,” replied the boy. “A better way would be to make a hole in the rock large enoug to drag them out through. As we may be ma- rooned on this island some time, we might be able to do that. Two hundred thousand dollars’ ere of treasur. is-worth making a great effort ‘or “Ym afeared we couldn’t put a hole through that rock in a hundred pes with such imple- ments as we have to work with. What we need for that is a good hand-drill, such as they use in stone quarries, an’ 0’ course we ain’t got such a thing,” said Backstay. . “Then Tl tell you how we’ll get around the matter,” said Jack, wondering that he hadn’t thought of,it at first. “We'll adopt your sugges- tion of dragging it through the tunnel and up the pool, but in light sections. We'll make a couple or more bags that will hold a few pounds of the gold. Then we'll get a long line from the vessel, double the length of the distance from these boxes te the space around the pool. You or I will come down here and bring one end of the line with us. We will draw half of it in here, or as far as it will go after the other end has been made fast toa outside. We will fill two or three bags with the coin, tie their mouths tight and then tie the securely to the line. When all is ready we will give the line a tug or two, as a signal to those outside, and thev will draw the line and the bags out the tunnel and up through pool, thus landing the gold outside. When gold has been emptied we will draw the bags k down here again and repeat the operation. This plan will take time, several days probably, but what are several days when we are likely to have to stay here sev weeks? It is sure, stm- ple and easy, don’t. you think so?” Backstay fhovght it was a fine scheme, and said they wo¥ld carry it out at once, beginning early next morning. | : “After we have emptied the open box we will send the box up to put the gold back in,” said SF g 4 g E i g g 2 : : ay z | to boxes, to at thei ae ae easy job. It will have to ‘Either of us could work at it start, while the other is sending up the ib.” rigs i : "move, and desisted, feeling sure that the appli cation force would onl t in 2 ot he ‘in the lock. He ladies that of considerable value; Vl! allow that. ‘with tinder, flint and steel, all complete. time to get supper ready, This disposed of, they jewels probably. He showed it to the sailor, and decided that it should be the first thing sent up when they got to work. _A pair of rusty cutlasses and an old-fashioned pistol, such as were in use in the early part of the nineteenth century, were lying on the sand in another corner. Jack also found a Lege is he regarded as quite a curiosity; with respect to the cave he told Backstay that he was ready to return to the surface of the island again when- ever he was. -“Do ye see that light-colored stone across the pool,” said the sailor, pointing. “Yes,” replied Jack. “The tunnel is directly under it, so you can’t mistake your way in getting out. You'd better go first. You can ct og out almost to the mouth of the tunnel. Dive into it and swim out. By feeling with your hand you can tell when you have ieached the pool, then a push of the leg will * send you to the surface, or you would rise, any- way,” said Backstay. Jack waded out to his neck and then dived and swam forward. Two or three strokes carried him to the pool, and in another moment his head rose above the surface and confronted the staring eyes of the two chimpanzees. CHAPTER XII.—Securing the Treasure. , The animals testified the most exuberant ce- light when he crawled out of the pool. cs “Well, I suppose you saw the cave, the skeleton: and the treasure?” said Tom, as Jack started ww put on his clothes. “T did.” he replied. “That’s where you have the bulge on me. If can’t swim good enough to undertake that feat.” Jack described his sensations while passing through the short tunnel, and all that he saw when he reached the cave. The sailor was dressed before he was, and then the started back to the vessel. On the way they paused at the — grove and gathered a supply of the readfruit. The tide was just on the turn, and the beach to the leeward was fully exposed. The surf was still beating on the wi side of the ae but not as heavily as when they started . ou By next morning there would be no surf at all . from present indications. Jack told Tom about his proposed plan to bring the money out of tho marine.cavern, and his chum agreed that the idea - was a first-class one. On reaching the vessel they lost no time in hunting up a suitable line, long and strong enough for the operation. Ee 4 F three or four times as long as Jac - found one thought necessary, but that didn’t matter. Sev- 3 eral knots were tied at 1 distances. apart, near the center, and aro them were secured lengths of tough, thin line, suitable for pereeane ' a ten-pound bag. A sailor’s sewing-kit was found — in the carpenter's chest, and with this Backstay proceeded to make half a dozen stout canvas bags of small size. Jack pulled a cold-chisel’ and a hammer out of the chest, to be used for breakin the locks of the four closed treasure boxes. Ry the time all their preparations were made it was "ees ts . ae ri -- + a, ** Se 4 : —. a

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= found a can of oil in the carpenter's Lp 7 THE SAILOR’S SECRET chest, and used some of it to lubricate the lock of the casket. As it didn’t seem to have any immediate effect, he left it to soak in the oil all night. Next morning work was resumed and they got out another boxful of the gold. With the view of transporting the gold to the vessel, they had brought along five large bags, which Backstay had manufactured the previous evening, These were loaded in equal proportion with the treas- ure-bags they got out that day, and with the chimpanzees carrying their share thev carried it to the other end of the island. They didn’t take it aboard the derelict, but dumped it in a pile in the center of the banana grove. Here they brought the rest at the end of each day’s work, until the entire treasure, with the exception of the first box of loose gold, was there. “We'll fetch that box in the morning,” said Jack, looking with much satisfaction at the pile of bags which formed quite a pyramid. “And then wo’ll get the-empty boxes over and nail the treasure up in them.” “After that we'll be ready to be taken off whenever a craft comes near enoush for us to signal her,” said. Tom. “Of course. We've been over a month from home now, nearlv five weeks, in fact. I’m afraid we have been given un as lost, boys. Somebody else is holding down each of our jobs now.” “What do we care? We're young Monte Cris- tos. Our shares of this money will set us up in some kind of business and we will be our own bosses. We'll buy homes for our people so that we can live rent free, and in good style, too. I tell you, we fell into oceans of luck by going down to Nantucket to pass our vacation. ae “Tt isn’t a good plan to shout before you’re out of the woods,” said Jack. “We may have to stay on this island a long time yet. We haven’t seen a sail, except at a considerable distance, since we came here.” Hardly had Jack spoken when from behind the conical rock a small sloop yacht shot into view, close in to the island. A ne. boy was seated at the helm, steering her. ‘hen he saw the stranded derelict he made straight for her. CHAPTER Xili—The Unwelcome Visitors. Jack and Tom saw the boat at the same mo- ment and jumned on their feet, with exclamations of surprise. “Run and tell Bob, while I signal the craft be- — fore the chap aboard of her takes it-into his head to sheer off,” said Jack. : Tom started off while Jack went to the aft rail and waved his hand at the approaching craft. She ran close un and the- young negro threw her up into the wind. ou “Hello, boss!’ Am you wrecked on dis island?” asked the dark-skinned stranger. oe “That’s what we arg. There are three of us here—another boy like myself and a sailor—all Americans. We'd like to make arrangements | with the man who runs that sloop to take us off. We will pay him well for the service,” said Jack: “Pse de one dat’s runnin’ dis sloop,” replied the negro. ; a “Do you mean to say that you aré the only one aboard?” - = tees “I’se de only one; boss,” -.

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Re preyier fi THE SAILOR’S SECRET “Can we hire you to take us to the nearest port where we can get passage to the States? ~ We'll give $100 or more if that isn’t enough.” “A hundred dollahs! Dat’s a lot a-money. ain’t nebber seén a hundred dollahs in all mah life,” said the young negro, eagerly. j “You'll see it, and own it, if you will give us a passage.” “An’ you'll give me a hundred dollah ef I took yo’ off dat island?” “Yes.” : “Shore dat yo’ dat much money wif yo’?” Jack pulled out a handful of the gold and showed it to the boy. : ; “Golly! it’s a bargain. I'll throw yo’ mah line an’ yo’ kin make it fast. Den I'll come aboard | an’ talk to yo’.” He let the sail down with a run, ran forward, picked up the bow-line and tossed it up to Jack, who made it fast to the rail, after pulling the sloop close in under the,stern. Then he reached down and helped the black boy aboard. Tom now came forward, while Backstay stood looking out at the galley door. | ; ; “You've just come in time to take supper with us,” said Jack, ae j - The darky showed his ivories in a broad grin. “Golly! dat’ll suit me fust-rate. I ain’t got nothin’ much to eat on dat boat. Yo’ will have to fotch some pervisions "long wid yo’, or I reckon dat we doan’ eat,” he said. “What's your name?” “Mah name is Sam.” ‘ “How came you out alone in that boat?” “J done run away-from a plantation whar I’s been workin’.” : “You did, eh? Well, that’s nothing to us. I suppose the boat belongs to the owner of the plantation?” : : “J ’spects yo’ is right, boss, but I’se gwine to send it back to him when I gets to the place I’se bound fo’.” . | “Well, come along. Supper is about ready. After we’ve eaten we'll make our deal with you.” 7 7 u- As they started for the galley, out of the cabin rched the two chimpanzees. ss’ sake, what’s dat?” gasped Sam, at the two animals. of big monkeys,” said Jack. “You needn’t be afraid of them. : “Golly, dem am de biggest monkeys I’se eber seen in mah life.” e '“They’re chimpanzees.” — - “What dat? Chim who? = ; “Chimpanzees,” repeated Jack. “They’re very e. “T neber seen monkeys carryin’ dishes befo’.” aS “They lot k for us.” stn: Sip mike? Soet wo qeine to do wif dem _ when yo’ leab heah?” : “Take them with us.” z “Golly, dat boat. will be kinder full. “We've got some boxes to carry he too. ” They’re pretty but your boat looks big ~ doan’ know nuffin’ "bout w 19 Sam was introduced to Backstay, and soon af- terward they had supper. The young negro ate as if he was half-starved. Later on he told how he came to run away. He had been treated so badly by the owner of the plantation and his over- seers that he couldn’t stand it any longer, so he stole the boat the night before and ran away in her. He had put in at the island to get some- thing to eat in the way of fruit, not supposing that he would find any one there. Jack told him how they eame to be ashore there, and he listened to the ef in great aston- ishment. All he was afraid of, he said, was that the owner of the plantation might chase him in another boat. A bed was made up for Sam and he turned in with the rest. Next morning, after breakfast, they took the darky with them when they went for the last box of the treasure. * Sam had no objection to remaining on the. island as long as the party wanted him to, for he felt quite safe from pursuit in that out-of-the way spot. He explained that he was. born in South Carolina and had gone to Cat Island with several other negroes to work on a banana plan- tation. The work, and the conditions he found ‘himself up against, had palled upon him, and he had made an attempt to run away. He was caught, brought back and flogged. After that he was worked much harder and closely watched. He made another attempt to escape and was flogged again and locked up jn a hut, tied to a post. He sueceeded in freeing himself during the night, getting out of the hut and sneaking aboard the sloop which lay near the wharf in the river, from which the product of the -plantation was shipved to the. United States. Having had considerable experience with small sailboats in the harbor of Charleston, in his native State, he found no difficulty in working the craft down the river and out to sea. His ignorance of his where- abouts after he got out of sight of land nearly ended in his finish. He was down to his last bis- cuit when he sighted Dead Man’s Rock Island, and he headed in for it, hoping to find something to eat and drink there. “Golly! I fell on m&h feet when I come here,” he said, as they walked toward skull rock. “I’ hab been a gone coon suah ef I hadn’t run across ~ dis heah island. Now I’se willin’ to help yo’ get yo’r gold an’ yo’rselbes off, but I doan’ reckon dat I kin foteh up at any pertic’lar place, fo’ I de nearest port am. “You needn’t worry about that, Sam. Bok Backstay is an old sailor, and he'll manage to = the sloop into some island near here,” said - The tide being out, they got around the conical rock, all right. “Fo’ heaben’s sake! Whar did yo’ pet so much “money?” cried Sam, his eyes fairly bulging out of his head at the sight of the gold. “We found it on this island,” said Jack. “Yo’ doan’ say! Whar did it come from?” “T guess it was left by a bunch of pirates, years and years ago.” = : At that moment there came a shout from Tom.

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_ -we have a right to a whack out of it. 20 THE SAILOR’S SECRET _“Grab the box and run!” cried Jack, picking up gun. Tom and Sam seized the treasure chest and scooted, while Backstay put himself in position to cover their retreat. CHAPTER XIV.—Conclusion. The boat shot in to the shore and the man,in the bow sprang out on the beach. “Hello!” said Backstay. “Who are you, and what do you want here?” “We've come after that young nigger yonder, who stole a sloop from our plantation and ran away with it.” . “What’s his name?” “His name is Sam Johnson. give him up.” “Do you want to sell that sloop he ran away with?” - “Sell it!” cried the man. “What do you want with it?” “We want to use it to leave the island in. We were wrecked here and have no other means of getting away.” “Is that so? Suppose I sell it to you, how do you expect to pay for it?” “In cash.” “What! have you money with you?” . “We have some old French and Spanish gold coin worth about $10 each that we found here. We'll give you fifty of them for your boat, and that’s more than she is worth,” said Jack. “Fifty $10 gold pieces, eh? I'll take you up. Produce the money and the boat is yours, but the negro must come back with us.” ; “He doesn’t want to return to the plantation.” “I don’t care what he doesn’t want to do. He’s got to come and work his time out. We hired him in Charleston, South Carolina, and brought him to our island, and we expect to get the worth of our money out of him.” , “Well, if he won’t go back with you of his own free will I don’t see how we can make him.” “You don’t have to. "We'll attend to him our- selves. Fetch the fifty $10 pieces and the boat is yours, and you can go* where you choose in You’ve got to “Ts Cat Island, whence you came, the nearest is- land of importance to this?” k “Watling Island is about fifty miles to the theast, over yonder,” said the man, pointing. “Where is Cat Island?” “About forty miles over in that direction,” re- _ plied the man, pointing to the southwest. “How many of those coins have you in your clothes, Bob?” asked Jack, pulling out a handful. The sailor. produced the few samples he had. Jack counted out fifty and handed them to the man, “Where did you get these old coins?” he asked. “We found them on this island.” “How many did you find?” : “That needn’t worry you. They’re easily worth $10 each, and you can buy a new and better sail- boat with them.” “That box we saw the darky helping to carry away looked heavy. Was that full of these Sats Oe : " “If it was, that doesn’t concern you,” replied ~ “Yes, it does. If you found a lot of gold here, it ¢ a - have the sloop unless you pony up a fair share of your coins.” “Possession is nine points of the law. We've got her and mean to make use of her to carry us to either Cat of Watling Island. If you won't take the price we offer you we'll send the boat back to you when we are done with her.” The fellow retired and consulted with his friends. Then he came back and said he’d take the gold, but he wanted the boy, Sam, too. “You can’t have him. He isn’t a slave, and he’s worked long enough to pay you. At any rate, he won't go with you.” The man took the money and returning to the boat, ordered his men to row off. “We must hurry back to the vessel,” said Jack to Backstay. “Those chaps intend to try and take the sloon if they can get hold of her.” The sailor agreed with him and they started for the derelict at a rapid rate. They passed Tom and Sam at the plantain grove, where the pair were resting in the shade, with the box of gold, waiting for them: When they reached the derelict they drew the sloop close in alongside. of her and secured her, fore and aft. Then they awaited the appearance of the enemy. The other sloop came sailing around the conical rock. As soon as they came near, Jack and Backstay showed themselves, with their guns. “Keep off, or we'll fire!” cried Jack, menacingly. The men saw they meant business, and so, not being armed, they were forced to sheer off and sail away in pretty bad humor. The little party spent the rest of the day getting the treasure on board of the sloop, together with a good supply of fruit and canned provisions. When everything was ready they embarked, with the two chim- panzees and laid their course for Watling Island, where they arrived next day. Here they sold the sloop and took passage in a schooner bound for Boston, the animals being taken along, too, after paying Sam $1,000. Eight days later they reached the Hub and landed with the treasure and the chimpanzees. Jack decided to take the animals to his home, for they clung to him and he knew they wouldn’t stand for being separated from him. He hired a vehicle and the strange combination, with the five boxes of treasure, started for the suburbs, at- tracting a whole lot of attention as they passed through the streets of Boston. The boys were re- ceived at their homes as if they had returned from the grave, for they had been given up as dead, and their families were wearing mourning for them. They had a great story to tell, which got into the papers, and for a day or two they were quite famous. ‘The treasure turned out to be worth $300,000, so each of the three got $100,000. The casket proved to be full of un- mounted diamonds, rubies and other. valuable stones worth $90,000 more, which sum was divid- ed also, and Bob Backstay went back to Nan- tucket, with a draft on the local bank for $130,- 000 in his pocket. Jack and Tom went into the tropical fruit business together, and they quar- tered the two chim at their store, and — presence there brought them a whole lot of eae - _ Next week’s issue will contain “CAPTURING DEALS OF A BOY THE COIN; OR, THE BROKER.” Seer

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BIG HOG CARCASS The largest hog ever butcheredin Saline County decorates the smokehouse of C. J. Insprucker.. The hog weighed 1,035 pounds and measured in length 6 feet 7 inches, girth 7 feet 4 inches and stood 3 feet 4 inches high. Besides making a fine lot of meat, 125 pounds of sausage and 42 gallons of lard were produced. - TAKING CASTOR OIL WITHOUT TAST- =P ING IT . Dr. Louie C. Boyd, of Williamsport, Pa., pro- - tests to the Journal of the American Medical As- - gseciation against using milk as & medium for taking castor oil, because this is likely to arouse a disgust for a most valuable food. He suggests these alternatives as preferable: 1. Hold the nose and swallow the dose. 2. Hold a piece of ice in _ the mouth for a time and then proceed as under 1. 8; Put diluted lemon juice in a glass; rub the rind on the edge of the glass; pour in oil and a small amount of diluted juice on top. If desired, a pinch of sodium bicarbonate can be dropped in, - which will make it forth. 4. Put oil in the forth _ of soda_pop.” 4 _ To which the editor replies that the objection is well taken, but, nevertheless, there are many persons who prefer to take the oil in milk, as the odor of pure unspoiled ‘castor oil is so faint as to be unobjectionable. ss : of the prize for the best , of an Enlistment in the U. S. Army,” offered by the War Department. He is Max Steinbach, a _ sixteen-year-old Russian-born pupil of the DeWitt ~ Clinton high school, Borough of Manhattan. The essay follows: “I have sounded my bugle, and its shrill notes have sounded in the towns and back- woods and have resounded in the crowded and busy cities. Oh, the Army, whose deeds in the wars that I have fought will never be forgotten by Americans, have sent forth an S. O. S., not for help as one in distress, but a call for comrades. - I, whose memorable drive at St. Mihiel, the battle of Argonne Forest, and others, have made me the _ greatest of the great, have opened my doors to the _ weak and strong, the rich and poor, the dregs, - the tradeless, and for all who care to enter my domains and accept me as a teacher and bene- - “factor. In my huge melting pot I melt all souls, and then, by careful training, I weld them into -- one common friendship. I teach Americanism and "respect for the law. I instil in the youth patriot- ism. I-give strength to the weak, a trade for the Podeless and an education to the ambitious poor. ‘sharpen the young American’s or alien’s blades life with which to strike down the obstacles of a - The ragged I clothe,.the hungry I feed, the “wise I teach. I broaden the caved-in chest of the continued for about three hours, FAME AND polos: WEEKLY 21 CURRENT NEWS city man. I sharpen the brains of the ignorant. My doors are open, all of my roads lead to a better and cleaner life. Americans and aliens! Un- fortunates and all! Enter my abode, and become hardened for life’s struggle.” MELTED WOOD It is possible to melt wood by heating it in a vacuum, producing a hard, homogeneous sub- stance. elted wood was for a long time only a laboratory curiosity, but it may be that industry shall presently discover practical applications of the greatest interest. Now although wood is eminently inflammable it melts at a relatively low temperature, but in v precise conditions, and only when it is absolu removed from contact with exygen so that its come bustion is impossible. This may be understood when-we remember what its composition is. When its immediately soluble constituents ‘have been re- moved by means of alcohol, for instance, it gives on analysis organic acids, water, oily essences, silicates, sulphates, phosphates, chlorides and hy- drocarbonates of lime, potash, soda and magnesia, earbonic acid, carbonated hydrogen, ete.—that is to say, solely bodies susceptible of being evapor- ated or dissolved after having co-operated by | chemical affinity in the formation of determinate substances. =~ : - Starting from these data Messrs. Bizouard and Lenoir, in 1891; studied the problem of the fusion of wood: They operated in a closed vesel at a relatively low temperaturé—that is about all one can gather fromthe records of the period. _ Their. work ,.was taken up. by: others, and now there is a full operative technic that enables us easily to obtain excellent .results.- A metal re- ceiver, a sort of boiler having a double bottom through which superheated steam passes, is filled with bits of wood. It is closed by a lid similar to that used in automobiles and provided with a tube -and stop-cock communicating with an apparatus for exhausting the air.. When the wood thus kept in a vacuum is heated above 285 degrees Fahren- heit the water and other volatile substances are given off first and are drawn off by means of the exhausting apparatus; after which the heating is There then take place a complex series of reactions and phenom- ena analogous to those that accompany the dis- tillation of wood in a closed vessel, and in this way all the so-called pyrogenous products are separated; these in turn are drawn off. condensed and separated so-that they may be utilized com- mecrially. There then remain in the receptacle only the fibrous skeleton cf the wood and the min- eral sals, which taken together constitute a fusible mass. This is allowed to cool slowly, out of. contact with the air, and then placed in g sec- ond boiler, which, after the air has been exhaust- — ed, is filled with nitrogen under a pressure of 1.5 to 2 atmospheres. The whole is heated to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, for two hours, and at the end of this time the wood is melted into a_homo- . geneous, hard mass, =... 3 Se ee

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22 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Lost On Mt. Erebus : are 9: ne A Boy Explorer At the South Pole By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story) CHAPTER [11.—Continued. ’ Hawley felt a mighty relief at sound of M whisper, and without rebuking her for coming, he supported her to the regulator, turned the high “lantern southwest, and then let on the light. - “What in thunder d’ye mean?” shouted Rucker. “Who did that?” !” Joe was holding the girl up, to support himself. “Don’t you hear Just ath rs ig ae i the electrics a what ah “while H nit hie chest tight ; what ch tpt saw, » Hawley ee chest chest anton, - ~ as he held to From both tops came the startling : cry: eee Oe jand, uit the perk bow? Land in ron! From the bridge was heard Rucker’s fright- ‘ened voice shouting: oe ship! Call all hands! Starb’ud yer The two, under the poasaing od it saw hi rock-bound cliffs on the le front. doomed vessel was a. nd barrier. ated tha Diereeaey eh, aa sal eave tee for- _ward irresistibly. . “It is Madge!” Joe shouted in her ear. Si ag EE eg Ee Spe ven on on, ip a cone between a crash. To those on board, who saw, looked ns if the smash of the world had come. a CHAPTER IV. Ashore on a Desolate Land. Cries rose all over the vessel. Men came rush- . dng ns from below, some from their bunks, others _ from the engine rooms; all ee them panic stricken, _ > hog = nearly sh just as sn mighty impact of ship against ice- bound, roused them out in a mad scramble for life. Both masts went by the board when the Dis- eee crores Geet Seen ee Fortunate- the searchlight, set by Hawley, continued to throw white glare inland for several minute after the shi first thrown up by the waves. Hawley, | F still for a moment with his arm ie me ie ae and the man at the wheel go over the side when the mainmast fell forward on the bridge “If Rucker is seas. ” thought the boy, “he only gets what he deserves for mistaking our surroundings the way he did. “Are you hurt, Madge?” phe asked. do something right awty.” “I’m _ all right, I think. But—what has ha pened? Are we on shore? Will father be able to get out?” “T felt sure I saw land, and we are thrown on rocks—high up, I think, Listen! The next wave is driving us up higher.” While speaking he lifted the girl to her feet, then reeled toward the bow, when. the second shock threw them both down again. “My poor father!” Madge was actually trying to go back toward the stern. But the force of the second wave sent them clear to the nose of the ship. Then a body came tumbling after them. One of the seamen stoo on his frantic way out, and looked into the face of the man. walt! the chief engineer,” he cried. “Dead as Perfectly beside himself he clambered high on bowsprit, finally falling off and disappearing, probably being dashed to death below. The es ht showed that they were lod; ona Re eft een the cliffs. For a won e two big waves that had cast than ashore and crushed the stern in, there were no further seas so high. It a to Hawléy that pe te ten which so long buffeted them were = palln there ee. — have ees oss of life awley peered over the si vehvttnae water, filled with crumbling ice, hurtled FS and over the black rocks that environed them. - “T see one chance of escape to shore,” said he to sore “Are you any good crawling along a aie aa It is all so terrible, Joe. ee eee Beene po capes “We must vy sealskin overcoats, Ne me ino about the f ch on rom the which a fragment of the foremast rested on part of the rocks that the icy waves did not conde Once out here, they saw that one of the yards of the mainmast had fallen to one side. “See, Mad; There are men crawling out on that, to ano er jutting rock. They ave worse of than we, so far.” “If only my father is one of them!” she ex- c But about this time the searchlight went out, re age gh er ae ina aa feeling as by sight. ess : (To be continued) -

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MAKES HIS 180TH ESCAPE Roy Dickerson, charged with -aiding in the rob- bing of a bank, made what is said to have been his 180th escape from jail at Los Angeles when he used a erude key on his cell Icck in the city prison, climbed up a ventilator shaft and fled. Dickerson’s wife, who is in jail there. seid her husband formerly was a vaucaeville performer making a specialty of freeing himself from hand- cuffs and other restraints. TREED BY A BULL . Philip Long, Marsh Balston and F. Freese, all of Edinburg, Ind., started out the other day to spend the day fishing on Driftwood River, but instead spent the most of it in a tree. When cross- ing a pasture they were attacked by a bull, and ran to a big tree in the field. They succeeded in climbing to safety, but were. cornered by the bull, 7 who waited the greater part of the day for them to descend. Finally it strayed a short distance away and began nibbling grass. After it nad "proceeded several rods from the tree, and while its back was turned, the men descended in a hurry and ran, getting out of the pasture unharmed. OLD BOOTS STILL GOOD i In the spring of 1874 Ed Wilford walked into Topeka, Kan., wearing a pair of calfskin boots that had been made to order for him the year before by a shoemaker in Wisconsin. Of course ~~ he has worn out scores of boots and shoes since then, but he still wears the identical pair of boots at times, and they still are in good con- dition and quite serviceable in spite of forty- seven years of useful life. Henry Hudson, the pioneer shoemaker of Douglas, gepaired them im his day. The pair of boots*cost $8 when -- made-to-order boots and shoes cost,much more ~~ than factory made footwear. ee ns MAN SPENDS 174 HOURS ON aa WIRES After spending the night on electric, telephone _ and telegraph es at the intersection of two of ‘the principal streets, Mobile, Ala., Charles Sand- evs, a lineman, descended safely early into the arms of policemen who had pleaded with him for ? Rare to forsake his perilous perch. - The officers said Sanders was crazed ‘with nar- cotics, of which.he had partaken at intervals while in the air. He told the police he believed the erowds which had gathered to watch him were ~ bent on lynching him, and he consented to return t cd the ground only after protection had heen prom- “Electric current was cut off in that section of the city so the lineman would not be electrocuted. While in the air the man performed many thrill- +» . ABOUT. TEMPERING COPPER — “The Aztecs, Toltecs and Tarascans, it is said, ; jo in prehistoric ages the art of tempering FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES. . copper. Several archwologists and ethnologists of Mexico City now deny they had such knowl- edge. Copper axes and knife blades found at Atcapotzalco are so soft they can be cut with an ordinaiy pocket-knife. On the other hand, Taras- can copper cutting implements from the Balsas River ruins in Guerrero were sv hard that they would turn the edge of a modern knife. Analysis showed that these different blades were of the same composition as the copper ores found in the respective localities. The soft blades were made from comparatively pure copper ores, while the hard, apparently tempered, blades from Guerrero, were made from the natural ores which existed in the holls, alloyed with nickel and cobalt; thus making the smelted metal (or alloy) almost as hard as steel. Hence the so-called tempering was due to the natural alloy found in the ore, which when heated and sharpened gave a hard, cutting edge. On.the other hand, where the ores were practically pure copper, the implements made a such ores were soft and remain so to this ay. ; CROWBARS RESCUE.- HONEY DEALE FROM PHONE BOOTH ae Henry Bose, a dealer in honey, of Richmond Hill, L. I., spent. twenty-five minvtes in.a tele- phone booth in the South Ferry Building, New York, the other day trying to get a connection. Piscouraged. he started to leave and discovered that the sliding door had jumped its track would not open. Ls Mr. Bose began to swear. He swore more like a pirate or a vinegar merchant than a seller of honey. But as he was in a telephone booth, the stream of humanity that passed ig- nored his utterances as an excusable display of temper. Mr. Bose began to pound on the door with his fists. Still the people passed; occa- sionally an individual in the throng would smile at Mr. Bose, who, in response, bared his teeth, but not in a smile. Finally Mr. Bose calmed himself long to write on the back of an envelope: “I can’t get out; the door’s jammed.” He shoved this message under the door into the corridor, as has been done by trapped heroines in countless melodramas, and then began to tap feebly on the glass with a gentle forefinger. A girl ap- proached, correctly interpreted his pantomine and picked up the envelope. She carried to Policeman Frank Roth, of Traffic A, on duty outside the building. - re Policeman Roth went to the telephone booth : with the girl, looked through the glass at Mr. ae ae zaehes the stubble of his chin reflec vely. r. Bose was just beginning aay again when the policeman went to the street, —— These, mien, after 4 delet woncgie Peeks aoe se men a brief struggle, pried > Ae sweltering honey merchant out of his = aed as then, after t a bit of his silver in ther pensar Mere kindly, Wa oe E =

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY THE YOUNG HERDER By Kit Clyde. “He livés in the shadow of death. If he weds the Senorita Julia, there will be another widow in Tucson shortly after that event.” “You ‘speak confidently, Dan. Indeed, did we not know you, we might think that you intended to figure in that bit of widow-making of which you E Dan Shuler, or Strong Dan, as he was called wherever familiarly known, winced at his friend’s remark, and hastened to say: “T allow that the senorita once occupied my p named Katchewan; we call him Otter Tail.” The group exchanged looks. = “Otter Tail will make the senorita a widow?” asked one. : “I did not say so,” Shuler replied, with a mean- ing smile, and then, after a pause, he said: “T guess none of you like Jim Rutherford any too well?” “No!” chorused half a dozén voices. “Then I'll tell you. It was up the river, near the, ‘ord was there. We’ res cal mittaatie te Lin fect he Leockad tbe assion, and sp’ g is feet he knoc' e ndian down, right into the fire. I jerked him out before he was badly burned, and took him out of camp.” “What did the Injun say, Dan?” asked one. “He was as-mute as an oyster for some time; but when I got him to talking he merely said: “To-morrow Katchewan will make the bullet for the white dog’s carcass.’” “That meant business,” said one of the party. “Of course it did. The Indian hasn't forgotten the knock-down, for y he showed me the burn on his shoulder, and assured me that the hour of ven was near at hand.” The foregoing conversation took place in a bar- room in Tucson one night. The parties were men of acknowledged desper- ateness, but who claimed to have that sense of honor which curses the Western frontier, and makes more graves there than the ravages of dis- ease. © “Strong Dan had not exaggerated the story of Otter Tail’s chastisement by the young New Yorker, who was quietly making money in Tucson in a legitimate way, much to the envy and annoy~- ance of the rough portion of the community. The Indian had deserved the punishment. He was a sub-chief of some note, and had a few Bice water sed. hin: Favorite beversgs, and potty his frequent occupati aiee ad ingratiated himself into the graces of * such men as Dan Shuler and his lawless con- freres, and they would resent any indignity of- fered the chief, This Indian was the “shadow of death” re- ferred to by the rough character of Tucson. His hatred of Rutherford was deadly, and swift would have been the young man’s doom if Strong Dan had not advised him to delay the blow until his enemy had led the Spanish girl to the altar, Strong Dan had an object in view when he be- stowed this unsought advice. Senorita Julia had rejected his proposals of marria, and plainly intimated that her choice bes = en upon the young gentleman from the tates. Shuler, finding himself baffled, appeared to ac- quiesce in the fair lady’s decision, and went his way; but it was not long afterwards that he found Katchewan under the influence of frontier liquor, and about to hunt his enemy down and administer the vengeance which had stung his soul so long. Then the advice just referred to was given, and the Indian promised to defer his revenge until he could make the Spanish girl a widow. Thus Strong Dan hoped to reward her for re- him. Well, gentlemen, it was towards the close of a true summer afternoon, about a fortnight after the talk in the bar-room, a young man of prepos- sessing appearance left Tucson, and walked in a southéasterly direction. He was dressed in the rather fantastic garments of a Spanish head cattle-herder, though his feat- ures proclaimed him an American. His only observable weapon was a rifle secured to his back by a strap that crossed his breast, and its arrangement told that he expected to meet no enemy. He went over a hill that lost the city to his sight, and entered a forest robed in the beauties of summer, and resonant with the songs of birds. Cacti and other plants peculiar to that part of the country were visible at intervals, but he did not notice th By looking straight ahead he could discern the appearance of a lot of buildings, which seemed to indicate that a town lay beyond the trees, and his eyes lit up with delight as the sight grew more distinct. Beyond the forest, which was not large, stood the hacienda-like home of the Spanish girl who had incurred the hatred of Strong Dan Shuler, and it was the many buildings attached to it that attracted the pedestrian’s attention. If the young man, who was none other than Rutherford, believed that his departure from Tuc- son had not been noticed, he was deceiving himself- Neither Shuler nor his friends: had witnessed the quiet, but not secret withdrawal, but the eyes of a person who had long thirsted for his blood were upon him, and his going into the forest alone had inflamed a savage heart. Rutherford walked leisurely through the wood and towards the home of the young girl who had promised to become his bride on the morrow. He feared no attack, and never since the night ee De i 4

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_ remained to distinguish objects at a considerable distance, . 4 it was near the edge of the forest that a foot- _ step fell upon Rutherford’s ear. rs ‘ He paused and looked back, to see an indistinct _ figure moving, seemingly, toward him. Then the thought of treachery on Strong Dan’s - part come over him, and he stepped close to a _ clump of bushes, and unslinging his gun, deter- mined to watch events. His figure was almost effectually concealed by _ the shadows, and, with eyes fixed upon the figure gliding forward with suspicious motion, Ruther- ford stood like a statue of bronze. Presently the trailer, for undoubtedly such the Person was, grew into an Indian, for plume and garments became visible, and the American recog- - Rized him. it was Katchewan, or Otter Tail, and Ruther- ford knew that the chief was upon his trail. _ Close the broad leaves of the ae _ plant the hunted man crept, with his eye fixe _ Steadfastly upon the Indian, whose errand was no longer a matter of conjecture. __ Searcely thirty feet from the ch of maguey Otter Tail came to a halt, and looked around per- plexed. , The man whom he had followed from Tucson had to him mysteriously disappeared; the earth Seemed to have opened and swallowed him. _ Rutherford watched and enjoyed the chief’s _ perplexity until he saw another figure, panther- like, creeping upon his trailer. : No sound indicated the second approach, and, a - Moment after the discovery, the young man rec- ognized an Indian, called the Otter Tail, while seeking his life, had been tracked by a red enemy of his own tribe, and a _ forest feud was about to be settled in a startling ‘Manner. e But Rutherford could not stand idly by and _ See the life of his enemy taken by a sneaking _ assassin, and the rifle which had covered Katche- a ‘Wan shifted to the figure of his treacherous foe. r _ . A moment later the forest tableau was rudely broken by the pane’ cf - e Aeastrens ee and Otter Tail’ ould-be slayer, dropping the up- cat tchet, £ death-try at the foot of } _ _ Quick as a flash the chief whirled, to see his 4 foe in the agonies of death, and to discern a puff __ 0f white smoke curling above the maguey. ap “The Creeper hate Katchewan long time,” he sahil, catching a glimpse of his preserver, and ‘eoming. forward as if willing to trust the man _— had stricken = brave. : __ Rutherford boldly forth to see Otter Trail start back. with a on amazement. ram Ge hunt the white man!” the Indian ing his gun. to the ground “He had promised to wait FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 25 With an exclamation of joy Rutherford seized the red hand which the Indian chief thrust for- ward, and there was a fraternal grasp. On the following day the senorita Julia became Rutherford’s bride, and Katchewan was not far away. That night strong Dan reproached the chief and ventured to call him a coward. “Tf! Katchewan’s love for the white herder is cowardice he is proud of it,” was the reply. “Let no man touch the young paleface and his bride, or that man shall die!” : 2 eee 6 DEAF GIRLS CLEVER BALL PLAYERS To watch girls playing ball without the usual noise of chatter but with san equal amount of enthusiasm, to see the players send signals to their teammates by a quick flash of thé fingers and cover each move of the game with keen ag- gression, is a spectacle that would arrest the at- tention of even the most casual spectator. Athletics and gymnasium work in many of the largest schools, for the instruction of the deaf are claiming more and more an active place in the interest of the girls, and many of them are showing most promising results from their spirit and work in basket ball, fencing, giant’s stride, and other games. Basket ball is particularly popular. Signals are given by a-quick gesture, everything depend- ing upon the closest attention being given to. the girl who holds the ball and decides upon the next move, By one simple movement of the hand a player can send a call to one of her mates or express her,scorn at her opponent’s bungling. The play- er follows the passes and rules of the game by keeping the eye constantly alert to catch every movement of the opponent. : The rules of the game are so vital to the deaf girl that when she has thoroughly mastered them she cannot be shaken in her understanding. of what she has learned. Each player becomes so attentive that should a foul be made and the referee not be quick in detecting it, that person would be routed by the volley of protest. Athletics are a natural outlet for the energy of healthy girls possessing all the faculties of hearing and apeee, but to the deaf girl sport at first means labor until interest is aroused. It is an unfortunate fact that in some of the. schools their appeals to these young girls. It is considered most excellent for the deaf mute, as it brings into play those muscles which need to assist them both mentally and physi sensation of flying thro space, as in ing, is also a keen delight. » -

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> 26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, MAY 21, 1920. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Bingle Copies............+-- Postage Free.... 07 Cents One Copy Three Months... a eee -80 Cents One Copy Six Months...... oe cease. 1 f One Copy One Year....... x _ 3.50 HOW TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash, When sendirg silver wrap the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainty. Ad- dress letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher. 166 West 23d St., New York ITEMS OF INTEREST LAMB SKINS FROM GREECE Lamb skins were selling in Greece at the be- ginning of the present year at 95 francs a dozen, goat skins for Tio francs a dozen, kid for shoes at 40 francs a dozen, and kid for gloves at 95 frances a dozen, according to a report by Trade Commissioner Mears. Favorable terms offered by American ships are largely responsible for the fact that 60 per cent. of these skins are being exported to the United States. INDIAN CAVALRY TROOP Wyoming is to have a troop of cavalry com- posed entirely of full-blooded Indians, Adjutant General Timothy McCoy has just returned from the Wind River reservation, where Shoshone and Arapahoe Indian chiefs consented to start imme- diately a recruiting campaign for a troop of National Guard cavalry. McCoy’s acquaintance with the tribal tongues of the Shoshone and Arapahoes was an important factor in persuading the Indian leaders to undertake the recrtiting campaign. © HOW ODOR TRAVELS > The rapid propagation of smells noticed in the open air appears due entirely to currents, since in small tubes, where currents do not exist, the rate is found to be very small. Experiments along this line were first undertaken in England by Prof. Ayrton, and additional data have been re- ported in this country. With ammonia diffusing through a tube a meter - and a half long, over two hours elapsed before - the.smell could be detected at the other end of the tube. Using different Igngths ‘of tubing, it was found that the time required for the diffusion of the smeil was roughly proportioned to the square of the length. Armonia and hydrogen sulphide were used for these experiments. The presence of ammonia could be detected chemically at a point in a tube after about the same time as when the of -. sense of smell was used for a detector. The rate -- of propagation of the sme!! of ammonia was not markedly different when this had to pass along the same tube either horizontally or vertically upward or ‘vertically downward. With camphor, however, while the rates horizontally and down- ward were about the same, the speed upward was FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY about twice as great.. The smell given to iron and brass by rubbing these with the fingers was also tried, but gave no definite results. FIND FULLY CLOTHED SKELETON OF WOMAN Unsolved for more than twenty years, the mystery, surrounding the disappearance of Miss Carrie Selvage was believed to be cleared away with the finding of a skeleton in the private hos- pital, Indianapolis, Ind., where she was last seen, March 11, 1900. The coroner found no trace of violence. She had been a teacher and was 43 years of age. The skeleton was found by workmen who were turning the old building into a garage. Clothed in a blue dress, it was resting in a sitting pos- ture in the corner.of an attic. The costume, along with a pair of felt slippers, were recog- nized by three brothers of the dead woman, They are Edward L., William J. and Joseph W. Sel- vage, members of an old Indianapolis family. The old building orivinally was an orphans’ home and later was converted into the Union State hospital. It was at that time Miss Selva entered the institution because of a nervous dis- ease. Some time later it was turned into a rooming house. The building was of unusual con- struction and the place where the skeleton was found, a small corner about three by four feet, apparently was a second attic. LAUGHS “Don’t you think that young man is afflicted with a swelled head?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “he’s not afflicted with it; he enjoys it.” Rita—Why is Mr, Kodak so glum looking? Nita—He and Eleanor have just come out of the dark room, where he had evidently developed a negative. Wilson—I lost that fine silk umbrella that I carried in town to-day. Mrs. Wilson—Oh, that was a pity. Wilson—Still, there is one consola- tion. It wasn’t mine.” “Yes; he’s sure to make a grand president for the college. He’s had so much experience,” “fT ~ didn’t know he was a prominent educator.” “He isn’t. He was an insurance agent, and he can coax money out of a stone wall. - Mrs. Housekeep—I don’t know much about the new girl, but she’s good-natured and harmless, at any rate. Mr. Housekeep—How did vou find that out? Mrs. Housekeep—t notice that she sings at her work. Mr. Housekeep—That’s no proof; a mosquito does that. ; All that’s necessary to make a hit witha girl,” said the man who thought he was wise, “is just to keep telling her how pretty she is.” You're wrong,” replied the man who was really wise; - “you've also got to keep sneering at the homeli- ness of her girl friends.” tet Sg 5 Yam g4 Mae peers es Co ie SF oO SS She is 65 Meera aes Try,

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va A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. ; The farmers of Ottawa County, O., have found ~ the trapping of muskrats a profitable industry this winter. Fur dealers say that perhaps $250,- FAME AND -FORTUNE WEEKLY 27 A FEW GOOD ITEMS which could be contrived at the time. The car is now stored in the marquis’s garage. THE FIRST TRADE UNION IN AMERICA 000 will be added to their bank accounts as.a re- _Sult of their efforts. The muskrats are plentiful - in the marsh lands along the south shore of Lake Erie. Prices paid for the pelts this year exceed by far those paid in previous years. Muskrat _ Pelts when dyed and treated are sold by many ' Yetailers as an inferior grade of seal, according to tur dealers. A GOLDEN CITY _. The Mexican city of Guanajuato, built near the _ Oldest gold mines in the country, was originally constructed of adobes made of the refuse of these Mines. As the early processes of extraction were “Yery imperfect, the walls and floors of these build- _ ings were thus full of gold. : Things would have continued thus for an indefi- "Nite time, and the inhabitants would have been living yet in these valuable buildings, if the pass- 2ge of a railway line near by had not necessitated the demolition of about 100 houses. DANCED AMID EXPLOSIVES Young people of Brest, France, have been greatly enjoying dances given at one of the large nerican barracks near town, and have just been apprised of the fact that they were “dancing upon ~8 volcano” while there. ; The building was deserted’ after the American departed for home, but they left behind a large number of cases, which were piled along the walls by those who found that the floor Was admirably adapted to dancing. On these boxes were words in English, but the dancers, understanding that language, did not know the words were “dynamite,” “lyddite,” “gun- cotton” and “detonators.” ao Police officials who entered the building recently found the floor covered with cigarette butts, stubs of cigars and empty bottles. WORLD’S FIRST AUTO FOUND | What is said to be the first automobile in the — Worl fficers of the A, E. F. orld was discovered by the o ) ee ee mt: 3 t Eine ; SUF 4 i While separate labor unions had their begin- ning in America early in the last century, the first combination of societies of workingmen on this side of the Atlantic probably dates. from eighty-six years ago, when the general trades unions of the City of New York had an organi- zation meeting. Organization among American laborers began in 1803, when the ship carpenters and cauikers of New York and Boston organized. The tailors of New York formed a union the same year, and 1803 also witnessed the first industrial strike in America, when the New York sailors refused to work. Before that, however, there had been labor disturbances among the bakers of New York and the boot and shoe makers of Philadelphia. It was during the sailors’ strike of 1817 and the Albany printers’ strike of 1820 that the terms “rat” and “scab” were first used. From local unions the organization of labor progressed until in 1850 the first international labor union, that of the printers, was. launched. The first “martyrs to trade unionism” were thrown into jail at Tolpuddle, Dorsetshire, Eng- land, seventy-seven years ago. They were James and George Lovelace, Thomas Stanfield, James Hammett, John Stanfield and James Byrne. The first three men were Wesleyan preachers who worked as farm laborers on week days and preached the Gospel on Sundays. Their impris- onment was due to their attempt to form a union ‘of farm laborers to protest against a proposed reduction in wages from seven shilling to. six shill- ings—less than $1.50 a week. The landlords were all powerful in Dorsetshire and the “conspir- ators” were arrested, stripped, shorn of their hair and cast into jail and eventually sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment; “not,” said the judge, “for anything you have done, or as I can prove you intended to do, but as an example to others.” A monument at Tolpuddle commemor- ates the names of the “first martyrs to trade unionism.” The first demand of labor unions for an eight- hour day was made at a convention held in Balti- more, Aug. 21, 1866. This congress also marked the first attempt to organize a national federa- tion of the various trades unions, national and in- ternational, then existing in the United States and Canada. One hund delegates were present, representing about 60 organizations, The demand for the eight-hour day was but an incident in the session of the congress, but at succeeding gath- . erings it assumed great importance and 1 the leading plank of organized labor’s platform. Several gag meg divided the allegiance of organized labor, but in 1881 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was launched, and out of this has grown the powerful American Federation of — ans _ Labor.—Detroit News.

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY FROM ALL POINTS BOYS AND GIRLS IN CANADA OWN LIVE ; STOCK A calf exhibited by Glen Campbell. nine years old, of Chater, Man., won first prize and championship at the recent stock show held in Winnipeg. ‘the animal weighed 1,050 pounds and sold for 50 cents a pound, or $525. The second prize calf, exhibited by Richard Hamilton, aged ten, weighed 910 pounds and sold for $1.31 a pound, or $1,192. “I do not believe that another fifty calves equal to the first fifty shown in the boys’ competition could be fotrad. on the North American Con- tinent,” said Prof. Pew, judge at the show. Boys’ and girls’ clubs interested in the breed- ing of pure bred livestock recently have been formed all over Western as part of a movement to keep boys and girls on the farm by quickening their interest in farm work. As a re- sult, farmers’ children in the prairie provinces now own hivestock valued at s-veral hundred thousand dollars. OUR RHINE SOLDIERS MAKE MONEY IN MARKS The American Army men are watching ex- change and doing some figuring for the next pay day. They are going to be paid in dollars. This is an innovation in paying, as previously the men have been paid in marks. The change is ordered to have the men from the fluctuations in ex- change, according to General Allen. It is a matter of record, however, that the sol- diers have profited yby s ations in exchange in a way to make Wall Street operators look like amateur financiers. For example, a soldier saved $150, sold it at a bank at 80 marks for a dollar, walked over to the army station and sold the marks fifty to a dollar, clearing $90 on the transaction. army rates have been fixed arbitrarily by months, while the bank rates have fluctuated. Soldiers were quick to take advantage of this. The new order is expected to stop speculation, but the soldiers are watching the market and plan- ning new financial coups. ABOUT ELECTRIC FISH specially constructed and living electrical bat- teries. Our knowledge of their properties has i by measurements made with a i ws sensitive nanometer. PR agg Pleukeet poetian ot male e elect properties o ve or six have been studied in detail. This best knows are various species of bospede. belonging to the- eas; the oe eel found in the region of the Orinoco in South America; the mal- apterurus, the thrash or thunderer fish, of the Arabs, a native of the Nile, the Niger, Senegal and other African rivers, and various species of skate found in the seas around Great Britain. The electrical fishes do not belong. to any one class or group—some are found in fresh water, while others inhabit the sea. They possess two distinct types of electrical organs. One closely relates in structure to muscle, as found in the torpedo, gymnotus and skate, while the other presents more of the characters of the structure of the secreting gland as illustrated by the elec- tric organ of the thunderer fish. Both types are built upon a vast number of microscopical elle- pti, each of which is supplied with a nerve re. These nerve fibres come from large nerves that originate in the nerve centres, brain or spinal cord, and in these centres are found special large nerve cells, with which ‘the nerve fibres of the electric organs are connected and from which they spring. Yet the electricity is not generated in the electric centres and conveyed by the elec- tric nerves to the electric organ itself. It is only produced, however, so as to give a shock when set in action by nervous impulses transmitted to it from the electric centres by the electric nerves. There are few departments of vhysiological science in which can be found a more striking example of organic adaptiveness than in the con- struction of the electric fishes. In these animals there are specialized organs for the production of electricity on an economical basis far surpass- ing anything yet contrived by man. The organs are either modified muscles or modified glands, structures which :in all animals manifest electrical properties. “MYSTERY MAGAZINE” | SEMI-MONTHLY — 10 CENTS A COPY —— LATEST IssvEs — 1 THE CASE OF DOCTOR BRICE, by Mary R. Py atch. PHANTOM MOTOR, by Laura Reid Mont- gomery. BLACKJACK, by Wm. Hamilton Osborne. WHISPERING HEAD, by Chas. F. Ourster, ay kha STRANGE CASE, by Beulah oynter. SECRET OF THE SEALED BOOK, by Ethel . Rosemon. THE CLUE OF STEEL, by Willis Lathrop. ALIAS LOUIS VARDON, by William Hamilton Osborne. The Famous Detective Story Out To-day in Nw 59 is “A LITTLE GOLD SPIDER,” by Cecil Burlei FRANK TOUSEY, Pub., 168 W. 23d St. N. Y. “MOVING PICTURE STORIES” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE SEVEN CENTS PER COPY 2 2 8 a 8 Sa S aze 8 es & Screen: Plays—Interesting Articles About Promin the Films—Doings. Studios and Lessons in Scenario Writing.

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