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• THE STANFORD WORLD • .es COPYRIC07 \DIED TODAY, 13. WALLEN.\ Synopsis -Stacey Wulien, first mate of the bark Upolo, in the Java sea, is the sole survivor of the crew, all victims of yellow fever. Ting Wail. Chinese sailor, last num to die, tells Walien he and live other Chinamen were sent aboard by \Drink-ilouse Slim,\ notorious character of Singapore, to kill him This recalls to WaIlen an incident of his childhood which seems con' nected with the confession. CHAPTER I—Continued. And Gunge had shaken his head as he had answered. \I have looked, sahib, and the hand Is whole.\ Spellbound he had stood there on the stairs, a lad of fourteen, and Gunge had lifted the Thing In his, arms and gone away with II; and the great figure of his father, dressed In pajamas, had stood motionless for a long time, then turning had faced the stairs and caught sight of him—and suddenly had sent a wild, unnatural laugh ringing through the house. \You there, eh, Stacey?\ he had laughed out, as though unmanned. \Well 'I'll tell you sontething now. Never go to the East. Remember that --never go to the East.\ And then he itad pulled himself to- gether, and his face had set sternly as he had pointed up the stairs. \Go back to your bed!\ he had command- ed sharply. \Go back to your bed in- stantly!\ \Yes said Wallen aloud to himself. 'That's what be said: 'Never go to the East—never go to the East.'\ But - he had come to the East and six Chinamen had shipped aboard the Upolo to kill him. His father bail been quite right in telling him not to go to the East. How was it that he had come there? Ile had ruo away from that gray bouse-nfter that night, and he had never heard of his father since. That was In California. lie had gone to Frisco, and gone to sea. He had been at sea ever since In all kinds of ships, and he had done pretty well. He bad his master's cer- tificate already. But that did not account for his be- ing here in the Java sea, anti for those six Chinamen. Ile laud been fourth officer of the Tokamaru when they had touched at Shanghai a few weeks ago. She was n fine ship, the Toka-' inaru, the biggest passenger liner hi the fleet—only it fourth officer's pay was very small. He had met Captain Mitchell of the Upolo ashore there, and Captain Mit- chell had persuaded him to ship as first mate on the Upolo for double the pay he had been getting. The Upolo, of course, trailed thrpugh the Java and Banda seas—that was what his father had meant by the East—touch- ing at Shanghai as a port of call In a dues wasn't the same thing. How that sun burned through the awning! It seemed to stab and drill Into his skull with little shafts of ex- quisite pain. He could get away from It, of course, by going below into the cabin, by putting the deck between him and that torturing ball of fire, but In the cabin one couldn't breathe. One couldn't live In the cabin—Cap- tain Mitchell was there and Captain Mitchell was dead. Had Captain Mitchell anything to do with those six Chinamen? Or any- thing to do with brink -House Sam in Singapore? And where was it those six Chinamen had joined—at Shanghai like himself? If he could remember that he would know whether Captain Mitchell had had a hand in the cursed game. Hadn't Johnson said something about new hands? But then native crews were i house, his eyes on the native who had everlastingly shifting about. It WI'S a long way from Singapore to Shanghai. entered a moment before, shook his Who was this Drink -House Sam? I head. What was it Ting Wah had said? \I've got to get away, MacKnight,\ \Dlink-House Sam—him know.\ \Him know, him know, him know\— the words began to run through his mind In a singsong, crazy fashion— mid then a passionate, merciless anger seized piton Min, and the splendid six- foot bulk of the inan heaved up from the chair, and, clenched fist raised, he swayed upon his feet. 'they had got him! Not the way they had thought to get him—but they had got him. And lie could not fight— there was no one to fight—he could only die like a trapped rat, while this Drink -House Sam laughed a thousand miles awayl \Him know, him know, him know\— the words coursed like fire through his brain. He shouted aloud, and the nails of his 'fingers in his clenched fist bit Into the paint of his hand. He could net choke the life, as his own went out, from this devil in SingdPore that he had never seen—he could only die. The uplifted arm, as though too heavy for him, fell to his side, a Oats - ly whiteness spread over his face, he reeled, clutched at the skylight for support, anti slipped prone upon the oitsok. It wits the nausea upon him again. The virulence of the attack passed after a while, but for a long time he lay where he had fallen: weak mid exhausted. Ile was semi -delirious when he stood up again. and bung limply against the skylight. Medicine—yes, that was what it meant—that stuff there spilled all about. Ile put some into his mouth. Ilis eyes fastened on the ship's log open in front of him. What kind of a book was that? What was it doing there? Had he been read- ing? Ile couldn't read when he was sick. It was very strange. No; be re- membered now, he had been writing in It. Whenever ally of the crew died he wrote it down in the book. - And now the crew was all dead, and he wood(' be dead.. too, very soon; therefore he should also write his own name down while he could still write. Ile remembered it ail perfectly now—that was what the 1)110k MIS for. Ile lurched forward and picked up the fountain pen from where it had rolled into a broken package of pow- dered quinine. Ile lurched again heavily as he leaned over the hook. A nervous twitch of his hand gouged the pen -point into the page and left a blot. Ile shook his head in a gravely puz- zled way. It was queer that the pen wouldn't write as it had written before; it seemed to travel all over the page, and—he paused, his hand going to his eyes again—it was strange that he couldn't think of his own name! - Ile was first mate, he knew that ; but—yes, his name came hack to him now. Ile wrote on laboriously. Ile finished the entry, &lopped the pen, and stared at what he had written, nodding his head. \Died today, S. \Yellen, first mate.\ lie read the words 'aloud, and nod- ded his head again. It was true, quite true. When that damnable sun that was tormenting him through the awn- ing was gone, that would he the end of today and be would be dead. His eyes strayed forward along the deck -and widened with a dawning fear. What were those shapes there! Ile began to mumble to himself, and suddenly shrieked out aloud. It was a horror ship. He shrieked aloud, rushed to the rail, and in the delirium of his mind crouched low to hide himself from this dead throng that raved like detnons for medicine, ran screaming forward to where the ship's boat bumped mo- notonously in its rise and fall against the vesel's hull. He hurled himself over the side, east the boat loose, and snatching at the oars began to pail like a madman away from the ship. Two hundred yards off he stood up and shook both fists and yelled tauntingly—they could not reach him now. But why not? Suppose they should swim after him! He flung himself to the seat again and plied the oars furiously. And then slowly the strokes les- sened, and presently an oar fell from hiegrasp, and after that, with a moan, he pitched forward into the bottom of the boat—and all was blackness. CHAPTER II. On the Road to Pobi. \Mon expostulated the Scotch trader, \but you're fair daft! You're but , out of the jaws of death, and I'd no say you're all the way out at that. Ride a bit, there'll he neither in a month—or In two, anyhow.\ Wallen, standing in the center tit the jittle galvanized -iron -roofed store- . \It'll be that black devil In Singa. pore!\ ejaculated the trader, screw- ing up his wizened face IIIIII pulling viciously at his lieurd. 'You'll no play the fool, Wallen. It's not fit you are to go. Listen to me, mon: it's a mat- ter o' twenty miles, across the island, as ye know well, and no conveyance, ye mind. And it's no re tiler trader that's called, for none 1o4 due—she'll have put in for watet or le like, and will lie sidling again at daybreak.\ \I can make it by daybreak, Mac - Knight,\ WU Ilea stated quietly. For a moment Moe -Knight stared at Wallet), then his hands dropped from Woollen's shoulders. \%Veil go, and be damned to you, then!\ he said gruffly, deep down in his throat to hide his emotion—and, turning, stepped abruptly outside. There were not many preparations to make—very few. %Yellen's worldly possessions were his only through the generosity of the trader. But MacKnight did not stop at that now, for, five minutes later, as Wallen started for the night's tramp across the 'island, a Malay guide, well loaded with supplies. start- ed with him, while MacKnight cursed with earnest profanity as they wrung each other's hand. At the edge of the clearing Wallen looked back. On the great bearded figure that leaned against the door frame of the solitary trading station Wallen's eyes lingered. The man waved his kand and shouted: \Mon ye:II no forget MacKnight o' Arm! Ye'll no forget MacKnight, mon!\ And then suddenly a mist dimmed %Yellen's eyes. lie tried to shout back—and could only wave his own hand in return. And then the trees hid the trader from view. Forget MacKnight! The man who had nursed hint back to life as a mother would nurse her child! For- get that solitary human outpost of civilization—a man with an iron fist, a barbed-wire tongue and a heart as tender as a woman's! No; he would not forget MacKnight I Ile forced a smile to his lips. One made strange friendships in these far parts of the world, and made them under strange eireunistitnees. The he said earnestly. - \There's no use talking about it., What kind of a ship does he say it is?\ MacKnight flung out a question in the native tongue. \He says It is a big smoke-bont,\ translated, the trader, \which will be bS , way of sayin it's some measly steam coaster that's\ so small it's no able tO occommodate its own cock- roaches, d'ye nilnd! Mon, pay no at- tention to It. AVItat's affither month or so—and you'll toe strong then, and— all, mon, but I hate to have ye go!\ Wallen, gaunt and thin from his illness, shook his head decisively again, though the other's words had brought a quick responsive smile to his lips. Six weeks ago a proa from the vil- lage here had picked him up at sea and brought him, as it were, to this big-hearted man's door, Ile owed his life to MacKnight. \It's no use, MacKniglst,\ - he an- swered. \I've got to - go.\ Crouched Low to Hide Himself. chances were a thousand to one that he and MacKnight would never Meet again—but, for all that, it was a friendship that would last. Twenty miles across the island be- fore daybreak! Walien fell to wondering what sort of it ship and, more' pertinent still, what sort of a skipper was on the ship that bad put into Pohl. lie had re- fused MacKnight's offer of an advance of money, and he hadn't a ? penny—but he was satisfied that he would not be refused passage in any case. Ile could work his way. A white man who knew ids business was worth his weight In gold on a ship any time in these parts. It was true he wasn't any too fit 'yet; but he. was fit enough for that,, fit enotigh—a (lull flush came into his face, and his eyes hardened—fit enough to get to Singa- pore somehow! He had not forgotten that ghastly afternoon in the reek of the pest ship, nor the Chinaman who had tiled in his arms whispering of Drink -house Sdm of Singapore! Forget! He bad thought of nothing else all these weeks, raved of it in his delirium, so MacKnight had told him. There was one thing dominant in his life now—Drink-House Sam of Singapore, the man who had tried so mysteriously to take his life, to stab at him treacherously, without warning, out of the dark. Singapore! Singapore! It was never out of his mind now. To get there, to force the truth, the motive, the reason, the story behind all this from the hutnan spider that lurked in his web, and then—his fists clenched fiercely—and then settle with (he man himself And that was why he must get to Pohl before daybreak, before this steamer sailed. 1 Twenty miles across the island before daybreak! TO BE CONTINUED.) Men should be temperate in eating as well u in drinking. • COMPOST . PILE IS:FERTILE SOURCE OF VALUABLE : MATERIAL FOR PLANT Roo First Step - iit .Composting (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agricul(ure.) According to the United Staies partittent of agriculture -specialists, t he compat pile is a fertile source ,if vain, able material for replenishing the plant food supplies of the soil. Proper utili- zation of the compost saves much fer- tiliziim material %ditch ordinarily is misisi on the average farm. The ex !tense of making the compost heap is sliglit its compared with the fertilizing value of the resultant motterial. Compost Heap Essential, 'The essentials of the compost heap are to equip it with a water -tight foun- dation by puddling clay. This Is dolie by spreading the clay 1(1 to 12 inches thick and then moistening and tram- pling it thoroughly.. A framework of logs or lumber should be built tip ar:ound the pile and Increased in height as the compost IS I all it higher. Building Compost Pile. A layer of leaves, straw, grass, or even weeds, about 18 incljes in depth, Manure, should be placed over the.elay foundo- don. Above this a layer ;of manure 5 or 6 inches deep should be distributed, :And if raw rock phosphate is available, from 50 to SO pounds S110111(1 be scat- tered broadcast over the manure. l'iten another layer of manure should be added and the process continued. It Is essential to keep the pile of refuse moist by sprinkling it frequently. It Is also necessary to keep the compost heap well packed and tramped. Ordi- narily it takes about a year for the stumble refuse in a conipost heap to rot sufficiently for use, when it should be spread on tile land in the late fall. Manure Thoroughly Rotted: The fundatnental value of the com- post pile comes from the fact that the Manure is thoroughly rotted and its plant food content is In excellent con- dition for immediate soil use when ap- plied to the fields, while during its period of decomposition it is main- (ained In excellent condition to resist leaching and weathering. CUTTING TREES IN WOODLOT Farmer Should Pick Out Those Whose Removal Would Be of Benefit to Remaining Ones. ;Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Trees well suited for fuel and whose removal ivill be of benefit to the re- maining stand of trees in the woodlot are: Sound, dead trees, both standing and clown. 'rrees diseased or seriously injuret1 by insect attacks, or those extremely liable to such injury, such as chestnut ill the region subject to blight, or birelt In the gypsy -moth area ; boldly fire - scot rrini t l'I•eM. Crooked trees flint largoo-crowned shori-leolosi trees which will not make An Old Woodiot Which is Grazed— Very Little Grass and No Young Timoer. good lumber and which are crowding or overtopping others. Trees which have been overtopped by others, stunting their growth. o Show -growing trees crowding fast- growing species of equal value, pro- vided they are not themselves suited for a higher use e as, for extunple, slow - growing willte oak. BIG ADVANTAGE IN CATTLE Animals Assimilate Large Quantities of Roughage and Waste Feeds and Aid Fertility. MONTHS OF HEAVY HARVESTS September Is Most Prolific, Having High Percentages for Many Important Crops. (Prepared by the United states Depart- ment of Agriculture.) There are some months in which more than one-half of the national crop is harvested. June barely misses being SIICII mu month for strawberries, In July 52, 53, and 58 per cent of the entire harvest is performed for barley, eats, and raspberries, and 72 and 74 per cent,for rye and timothy hay. Au- gust is almost devoid of a -harvest of more than one-half of the total, and the list has only timothy. seed, with 54 per cent of the entire harvest, Sep- tember, on the other hand, is most prolific of such hanests. The per centages representing sorghum for sirup, tolipteco, clover seed, 'dry beans. and flaxseed are 52, 53, 54, 55, and tA The high fractions are 64, 65, and 61 per CNA for hops, buckwheat, nue cranberries. Last of 0111 is (Molter's , harvest of sneer beets, 56 per cent of ' the whole harvest, according to the bureau of crop estimates. PERSONAL VISIT TO MARKET (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) One of the chief advantages In keep- Ing.cattle is that they assimilate large quantities of roughage iuuuii waste feeds and carry them to market themselves in it more „concentrated form. The farmer is thus saved the labor of mar- keting bulky farrn products, and the fertility remains on the farm. BENEFITS OF FARM ANIMALS Profitable Work Furnished During Winter titeason—Rfmunerative Labor Distributed. (Prepared by the United State. Depart- ment of Agriculture.) The keeping of feria animals fur- nishes profitable work during the win- ter, when other work is less pressing and when they require most care. This distributes remunerative labor khroughout the yeez more evenly than vtlierwine would be possible. Shipper Will Be More Than Repaid in Picking Up Many important Little Details. (PrePared by the' United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) A personal visit to the market which the shipper patronizes will more than repay expenses, for points which sem e n trivial to hitn.nre often very im- portant to dealers, anti the producer should get time proper market perspect- ive. Such a visit enables. the grower to get into personal touCh with the distributors, to select o reliable rep- resentative. to learn the difficulties tinder which the car -lot receiver la- bors, and to appreciate the problems with which he Is constantly confront- ed, ELIMINATE ALL SCRUB SIRES \CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP\ IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poison' from stomach, liver and bowels. Accept \California\ Syrup of Figs Only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harm- less laxative or physic for the little 'stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bob - tie, Give it without fear. Mother I Xou must say \California.* —Adv. Suggested That Census of All Animals .Be Taken to Aid Campaign for Better Stock. (Prepared by the United States Depatt- i ment of Agriculture.) That officals in every stock -raising coenty In tile country should take a census of the sires In their respective territories, so that the elimination of scrub sires may be carried on sys- tematically, is a suggestion which has been made recently on -behalf of vari- ous' live stock interests as a result of the agitation for better . sires Instituted by -tile United States department of agriculture. STOP TUBERCULOSIS IN HOGS The Natural Law. \Do you know figures give Over g thousand tires In New York every year as the resu.t of throwing away lighted cigars and cigarettes?\ \Well you know, where there is so much smoke. there must be some fire,\ Prevention Lies in Pasteurization of 'Milk- Fed to Animals and Cook. • ing Various Feeds. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment oi'Agriculture.) . reventIon of tuberculosis in hogs lids in the pasteurization of milk fed . to , hogs, r espeelally that froth cream - and In allowing hogs to feed behind adult cattle only when the cat- tle have passed the tuberculin test; also In thoroughly Cooking alt garbage, offal, or carcasses before they are fed BOSCHEE'S SYRUP. - 0111 Is probably the most corn. mon of all disorders and when neglect- ed is apt to be most dangerous. Sta- tistics show that more than three times as many people died from in- fluenza last year, as were killed In the greatest war the world has ever known. For the last fifty-three years Boschee's Syrup has been used for coughs, bronchitis, colds, throat ir- ritation and especially lung troubles. It gives the patient a good night's rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration in the morning. Made in America and used in the homes of thousands of families all over the civilized world. Sold everywhere.—Adv. All Lit Up. Mr. Lqftout—Pitssin' your house last night I saw It was brilliantly illuminat- ed. Party of sonie kind? Miss Comingon—Just a few of the relations in te celebrate my birthday. Mr. Leftout-ii (tee, And the candles on your birthday cake had been lighted? Important to all Women Readers of this Paper Thousands upon thotuni' nds of 'women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy con- dition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, head- ache and loss of ambition. Poor health makes you nervous, irrita- ble and may be despondent; it makes any one so. But hundreds of women claim that Dr. Khmer's Swamp -Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Many send for s sample bottle to see what Swamp -Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine, will do for them. By enclosink ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., you may receive sample size bottle by Parcel Post. You can purchase medium and large size bottles stall drug stores.—Adv. Otherwise Occupied. \Nobody said Mr. Groucher, \Is generous enough to sympathize hon- estly with other people's troubles when he has a toothache of his own.\ HURRY! YOUR HAIR NEEDS \DANDERINE\ Gat rid of every bit of that ugly dandruff and stop fail- ing hair, To stop falling hair at, once and rid the scalp of ever x particle of dandruff. get a mall bottle of \Danderine\ at any drug or toilet counter for a few cents, pour a little In your band and rub well into the scalp. After several applications all dandruff trinutfly goes and hair stops coming out. Every hair ' In your head soon shows new life, vigor, brightness, thickness and more Color. —Adv. In the Hospital. ( \The girl . patient over yonder \ Is -light-headed, doctor. Will she die?\' \Shea dyed already to get it that color, nurse.\ No woman considers n dress becom- ing If It is becoming threadbare. 4 4 4
