Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 18, 1922, Page 2

(Continued from last issue) YHE BERID.TT DAILY PIONE! o A e ER TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1922 M i I SYNOPSIS. 1. — Captain Phineas P. CHAPTER around the docks Scraggs_has grown u of San Francisco, and from mess boy on a river steamer, risen to the ownership of the steamer Maggle. Since each an- nual inspection promised to be the last of the old weatherbeaten vessel, Scraggs naturally _has some difficulty in’ securing a crew. When the story opens, Adelbert P. Gibney, likable but erratic, a man whom nobody but Scraggs would hire, is the skipper, Neils Halvorsen, a solemn Swede, conatitutes the fo'castle hands, and Bart McGuftey, a wastrel of the Gib- ney type, reigns in the engine room. CHAPTER IL—With this motley crew and his anclent vessel, Captain Scraggs is_engaged In freighting_garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San ITancisco. The inevitable happens, the Maggie going ashore in a fog. CHAPTER 1I1.—A passing vessel hafl- ing the wreck., Mr. Gibney gets word to a lowing company in San Francisco that the ship ashore 1s the Yankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage. Two tugs succeed in pulling the Maggle into deep water, and she sfips her tow lines and gets away In the fog. CHAPTER V. The crews of the Aphrodite and the Hodegn slept late, for they were weary and, fortunately, no calls for a tug came into the office of the Red Stack company all morning. About ten o’clock Dan Micks and Juck FI herty breakfasted and about ten-thil ty both met in the office. Apparently they were two souls with but a single ikought, for the right hand of each sought the shelf whereon reposed the blue volume entitled “Lloyd’s: Regis- ter.” Dan Hicks reanched it first, car- ried it to the counter, wet his tarry index finger and started turning the pages in a vain search for th can steamer Yankee Prince. Presently he looked up at Jack Flaherty. “Flaherty,” he said, “I think you're a llar” “The same to you and many of them,” Flaherty replied, not a bit nbasued. “You sald she was an eight thousand-ton tramp.” < Y o “I never went so far as to say I'd been aboard her on trial trip, though —and did ent down her tonnage, show- In' T got the fragments of a con- sclence left,” Hicks defended himself. He closed the book with a sigh and placed it ‘hack on the shelf, just as the door opened to admit no less - per Te; assistant, third assistant, 3. S Maggie. With a brief nod to Jock Fiaherty Mr. McGuffey ap- proacked Dan Hicks. “I been lookin' for you, captain,” he announced. “Say, T hear the chief o* the Aphrodite’s goin’ to take a three months’ layoff to get shet of his rheu- matlsm. Is that straight?” “I belleve it Is, McGuffey.” 'Well, say, U'd like to have a chance to substitoot for him. You know my capabflities, Hicks, an' if it would he agreeabie to you to have me for your chlef yonr recommendation would go a long way toward landin’ me the job. I'd sure make them engines hehave.” “What vessei have you been on late- 1¥?" Hicks demanded cautiously, for he knew Mr, McGuffey's reputation for non-relfability around pay day. “I been with that freshwater scaven- ger, Scraggs, in the Maggie for most a year." . “Did you quit or did Scraggs fire you?" “He fired me" McGuffey replied honestly. “If he hadn't T'd have quit, so It's a tossup. Comin’ in from Halfmoon bay last night we got in the fog an' piled up on the beach just below the Cliff house—" “This is Interesting,” Jack Flaherty murmured. “You say she walked nshore on you, McGuffey? Well, Tl | be shot!" | “She did. Scraggs blamed It on me, Flaherty, He sald T didn't obey the signals from the bridge, one word led to another, an' he went dancin’ mad an’ ordered me off his ship, Well, it's his ship—or it was his ship, for I'll het a dollar she’s ground to powder by now—so all I could do was obey. T hoppead overboard an’ waded nshore. T suppose all my clothes an’ things is gone by now. Tleft everything aboard an' had to borrow this outfit from Scab Jolnny.” He grinned pathetical- Iy. “So I guess you understand, Cap- tain, Hicks, just how bad T need that i Job T spoke ahout a minute ago.” | ? “Lll think It over, Mac, an' let you' know,” Hicks replied evasively. nge than Bartholomew McGuf- ! chief engineer, first asslst- [ savi r, water-tender and stoker | | voxal Mr. McGuftey, sensing his defeat, retired forthwith to hide his embar-| .rassment and distress: as the door, closed behind him, Hic and Flaherty faced each other. | + ‘“Jack,” quoth Dan Hicks, “can two towboat wen, holdin® down two hun-| dred-dollar Jobs an' presumed to have | been out o' their swaddlin® clothes for at.. least thirty years, afford to be! Jnnghed off the San Francisco water- | ‘front?” Dan. Af the samé time, can a rat like Phineas P. Scrag; nd a beachcomb- er like his mate Gibney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with it “They did that last night. Still, I've known monkeys that would fight an’ was human enough to settle a grudge. Follow me, Jack.” Together they repaired to Jackson street bulkhead. Sure enough, there lay the Maggie, rubbing her blistered sides against the bulkhead. Captain Seraggs was nowhere In sight, but Mr. Gibney was at the winch, swinging ashore the crates of vegetables which The Squarehead and three longshore- men loaded into the cargo net. “We're outnumbered,” Jack Flaherty whispered. “Let’s wait until she’s un-. londed an’ Gibney an’ Scraggs are aboard alone.” ¥ 3 They retired without having at- tracted the attention of Mr. Gibney. Promptly at twelve o'clock the long- shoremen knocked off work for the lunch hour and Neils Halvorsen drifted across the street to cool his parched throat with steam beer. While waiting for Scraggs to come up out of the, engine room, and take him to luncheon, Mr. Gibney sauntered aft and was standing gazing reflectively upon a spot on the Maggie's stern where the hawsers had chafed away the paint, when suddenly his fore- bodiugs of evil returned to him a thou- sand fold stronger than they had been since Scraggs' return to the little ship, He glanced up and beheld gazing down upon him'Captains Jack Fla- herty and Daniel Hicks. Battle was Imminent and the valiant Gibney knew it: wherefore he determined in- stantly to meet it like a man. “Howdy, men” he saluted them. “@lad to have you aboard the yacht,” and he stepped bickward to give him- self fighting room, “Her where we collect the tow- age:bill.on the. S..S. Yankee Prince,” Dan Hicks Informed him, and leaped from the bulkhead straight down at Jack: Flaherty followed, welcomed Captain Hicks terrific right swing, which with «' missed ; hefore ‘he could guard, Dan Hicks had planted left and right where they would do the most good and Mr, Gibney went into a clinch to himselt’ further punishment, " he bawled, #“Scraggsy,” He Bawled, “Scraggsy-y-y! Help! Murder! It's Hicks and Fla- herty! Bring an Ax!" Help! Murder! It's Hicks ! Bring an ax!” He flung Dan Hicks at Jack Fla- herty: as they collided he rushed in and dealt each of them a powerful poke. However, Messrs. Hicks and Flaherty iwere sizeable persons and while, ‘Individually, they were no match for the tremendous Gibney, neverthelesy what they lacked in hordepower they made up in pugnacity —and the salt sea seldom breeds a craven, Captain Seraggs thrust a frightened face up through the engine- room hateh, but at sight of the battle | taking place on the deck aft, | his blood turned to water and he thought only of eseape. To climb up to the bulkhead without being scen was Impossible, however, knowing what else to do, he stood on the iron ladder and gazed, pop-eyed with horgor, at the unequal contest. Backward and forward the tide of | For, nearly three min- | battle surged. utes all Seraggs 8aw was an Indis- tinet tangle of legs and arms: then | suddenly ‘the combatants disengaged themselves and Sernggs beheld. Mr. not | i overboard. i boat me g < Gibney prone upon the deck with a gory face upturned to the foggy skies. When he ved to rise and continue the contest, Flaherty kicked him in the ribs and Hicl cursed him; so Mr. bney. realizing that all was over, beat the deck with his hand in token of rnder, Hice and Fla- herty waited until the fallen zladia- tor had recovered sufficient breath to sit up; then they pounced upon Llm, liftea him to the rail, and dropped him Captain Scraggs shrieked test at this added touch of bar- and Dan Hicks, turning, be- cruggsy’s white fuce at the hateh. “You're next, Scraggs,” he called cheerfully, and turned to peer over the rail. Mr. Gibney had emerged on the surface and was swimming slowly away toward an adjacent float where small boats landed. He climbed y up on the float and sat there, gazing across at Hicks and Flaherty without animus, for to his way of thinking he had gotten off lightly, con- sidering the enormity of I offense. The least he had anticipated was three months in hospital, and so eful was he to Hi and Flaherty for their forbearance that he strangled a resolve to “lay” for Hicl and Fla- herty and thrash them individually— something he was fully able to do— and forgot his aches and pains in a lively interest as to the fate of Cap- tain Scraggs at the hands of the tow- He was aware that Cup- aggs had failed ignominiously tain S ! to rdlly to the” Gibney appeal to repel boarders, and in his own expressive | erminology he hoped that what the nenly would do to the dastard would be “a-plenty.” The enemy, meanwhile, had turned | thelr attention upon Scraggs, who had dodged below like a frightened rabbit and.sought shelter in the shaft alley. He’haq suflicient presence of mind, as he dashed through the engine room, to- snateh a large monkey wrench off the tool rack on the wall, and, kneeling Just inside the alley entrance he turned at bay and threateaed the in- vaders with his weapon. Thereupon Hicks and Flaherty pelted him with lumps of coal, but the sole result of this assault was to force Scraggs further back into the shaft alley and out of range. The towdoat men held a council of war and decided to drown Scraggs out. Dan Hicks ran up on deck and re- turnad dragging the deck fire hose he- hind him. He thrust the brass nozzle into. the shaft-alley entrance and in- vited Seraggs to surrender uncondi- Seraggs. knowing his own fire hose, defied them, so Dan Hicks started the pump while Flaherty turned on the water. Instantly the hose burst up on deck and Seraggs' jeers of triumph filled the engime room. The enemy | was about to draw lots to see which one of the two should crawl into the chtoride of Hme' (for they found a can of this in the engine Toom) in Captain Cernges' face, when n shadow dark- McGuffey demanded belligerently : “What’s goin’ on down there? Who the devil's takin’ liberties in my en- gine room?” Dan Hicks explained the situation and the just .cause for drastic action which they held against the fugltive in the shaft alley. Mr. McQuffey con- sidered a few moments and made his de “If what you say is true—an’ I ain't in position to dispufe you, not havin' heen present when you hauled the Maggie off the beach, T don’t blame you for feeling sore. What I do blame you for, though, is carryin’ the war aboard the Maggie. If you wanted to whale Gib an’ Seraggsy you should ha’ i laid for 'em on the dock. Under the circumstances, you make this a pei- snal affair, an’ ax a member o' the crew o the Maggie T got to take a hand an’ defend my skipper agin youse two. Fact is, gentlemen, T got a date to lick him first for what he done to me last night. Howsumever, that's a private grouch. The fact remains that you two jumped my pal Bert Gibney 1™ liekeil him soniethin® seandalous. Hicks, I'll tuke you on first. Come up out of there, you swab, and fight. Fla- herty, you stay below until T send for you i if you try to climb up an' horn in on my fight with Hicks, Gibney'll brain you.” (Continued in Next Issue) THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS 2 5ou'nces for D¢ ‘ BAKING 5 POWDER No better rrzade regardle:cs of price. | MILLIONS OF POUNDS BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT HUMAN NATURE GAEAT FACTOR INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND PACTS REALLY OF SECOND. ARY IMPORTANCE. WORLD NEEDS QUIET SLEEP War—Action of. Congreasional Ap- propriation Committee Causes Alarm.| By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.—It seemingly can be taken for granted that the treuties proposed by the recent international conference in Washington will go into effect. Will the world, after the agree- ments formally have been sunctioned wherever it ts nece: them, be tlte same old world? Washington officials are like other people, and though the endeavor is to do something to keep war forever from the doorstep, there are those of the. officials who are saying that human nature still is human nature, and that dependence must be placed upon its restraint as much as upon any .treaties locking to “placidity, concord and tionally or be drowned -like' a Kitten. | t alley “and throw a cupful of | ened the hateh and Mr. Bartholomew | peace. The United' States is going to have agreements, treaties, alliances, orwhat- ever: you choose to call them, with other great nations, and war no longer is to be feared, at least so some good folk seem to think. The people of the United States, und the people of other countries, too, fof that matter, are willing upparently in masses of majorities to grasp at anything which will promise peace and which will prevent a repetition of the much worse than untoward things that happened between August 1, 1914, and November 11, 1918. Perhaps it ought not to be written at a time when the hopes of the peo- ple seem to be firmly fixed that peace is_to settle down for keeps upon the world, but nevertheless it must be said that there are plenty of seasoned ones in Washington who believe that hu- man nature rather than four-power, five-power, or even ten-power pacts is to determine affairs in the future, as it has determined them in the past. These skeptics, if you so choose to call them, say that you cannot legislate acrimonies ,out of the world afairs, nor can you legislate today against the human, nature which will be the same toinorrow and the day after to ‘morrow as:it is this day and as it was yesterday. There are government officials and members ‘of congress of both parties who believe -that the solving of the | economic. problems of the world will be a harder task than that of solving, or seemingly solying, its wag problems. Washington recognizes the fact that there i instability among the peo- ples - which. comes from something ‘other than the economic disturbances which naturally have grown out of the war. . There is a restlessness everywhere, .and it is particularly evident among men who served in whatever army, but it_is also evident among the peo- ples who never saw the front line, and who never were found back of the front lines. The whole world seems to be nervous and unable properly to get to work. The diplomatic and leg- {islative doctors say that the world needs a natural sleep, one not pro- ;duced by a sedative and which will leave no headache in its wake. A senator said the other day that the world has been disturbed many times before, but that it always has | come back to its poise. It reminds one of the ancient story of the woman ‘who asked if it was going to rain. and received the answer “It always has.” Committee’s Action Alarms. Recently an appropriation commit- tee of congress made what was a seem- ing attempt to fix a policy for the gov- ernment rather than simply to make a recommendation for an appropriation to carry out a policy already fixed by the government. It is charged in Washington that this act of the appropriation commit- field of its rights, its privileges and common sense. This charge is made both by Democrats and by Republi- cans, who see danger in what the com- mittee has done. house virtually said it would recom- mend that only a small amount of money should be allowed for the army | of the United States. at once what this will mean if it shall be carried through to its conclusion. 1t means that the government, through ' the military committees of the house and senate, can not fix the size of the army or of the navy in‘accordance with thoughts®on safety for our Insti- tutions, but necessarily will be com- pelled to keep the army forces down within the pay limits made possible by jthe sum allowed by the appropriations ‘committee. Here is the way that it has been put by some of the members who think that” the appropriations committee's suggested plan is dangerous and | wrong: “If in a great city a riot should hold its sway for four or five months, but finally after great destruction of prop- | erty the rioters should si go good,” would it be wisdom for the city, simply on the word of lifetime agents of destruction, instantly to cut ordinury safety?” Only Lasting Cure for the Ills That}: Have Ever Followed in the Wake of | tee takes that body far out of the; The appropriation committee of the ! It can be seen | v, ‘We will! its police force below the limits of temporarily notorlous and the illus-| | In the past we have had forelgn ene- mies and of course we may have themn in the future. There is no doubt at all that we have domestic enemles with us at all times, Destruction still has its advocates and their preachings are heard and their writings are read. The fight to cut down the army, In a way, bas been as hard and as hot as some of the fights in the Argonne forest. The udministration seemingly believes that the men who hold the money bags in congress are willing to iput their country in danger in’order ito save a few dollars. There is an- iother side: than that of money to. this /matter, as it affects the regular army. Question to Be Considered. | ! Can the United 'States, it-is asked, afford to be Wholly ungrateful to the men who ‘have given their country their life’s. service? Today there Is .unrest in the regular army, because of :the apparent willingness. of congress ‘to take away from the men of years iof service their means of liveiihood. Admittedly, if the good of the people ishall demand the dismissal ot some of :Its servants, well and good, but what :of a coundition which involves the dis- missal of the faithful ignd as a com- ‘panion act the loss of:safety for our institutions? H e Your correspondent - knows ‘some- ‘| thing personally about the'conditions itoday in the regular sirmy. : He has :been a regular ‘and he has ‘been an emergency officer. Service men have ilost heart. They do not know what is going to happen to them and their families. They are trained to serve itheir country along certain lines and now they fear that their country is going to turn them adrift without So ‘much as a straw of safety. Today there is an actual attempt 'being made to force willing and able men out of the army. Soldiers who -physically and mentally are capable ¢f ‘years of work are being ordered be- .fore examining boards of doctors, in ‘the hope—yes, in the hope—that the ‘examiners will be able to find some little thing physically wrong with them which will give the government an ex- cuse for dismissing the faithful ones. Crowds Visit Lincoln Memorial. Visitors of the springtime are be- ginning to come to Washington in s. Almost the place which they visit is the Lincoln memorial, within which stately building is the seated statue of the war-time Pres ident. John Boyle O'Reilly once wrote a poem cailed “The Statues in the Block.” In a sense it described the emotions of the man who was gazing upon a block of marble and’ thinking upon the possibilities in the way of lifelike impersonations which could be brought by the chisel of the sculp- tor from a cold stone. The statue of Lincoln is herolc in size. The face is wonderful. This _masterpicce came from a block -of ‘'stone. I made some little inquiry as to the methods of sculptors who were to make statues of men whom they had never seen in life. The face, and in a way the figure, is known to the sculptor from photographic or paint- ing reproduction, but almost always it is necessary to get some living man to pose as the subject in order to get ‘the living effect. | After looking at the statue of Lin- coln a day or two ago I went to Du- ont circle, where recently there was' statue of Admiral Dupont, a statue, which was taken down because it is ‘not thought to be a properly artistic Tepresentation of the sailor. Great Sculptor’s Methods. By a curlous coincidence, almost im- mediately after looking on the Dupont circle fountain I met a man whom I} had known for some years, Arthur G. Fuller of Groton, Mass. Mr. Fuller had known the sculptor, French, virtu- fally all his life. He told me some things concerning the labors of this man whose work is known throughout the country which to me were inter- esting, and may not prove to be unin- teresting to others, It was French who did “The Minute 1iMan,” which stands at Concord bridge, the rude bridge “which arched the ‘flood where once the embattled farmer istood.” The Minute Man is a statue jlof extreme simplicity, but full of sig- nificance and of action. It represents a young farmer with one hand upon the plow while the other hand holds a rifle. He is looking far off and lis- tening for the call to duty. Memorial hall, so called, in the cap- itol. the old nall of representatives, | has in it many atrocities. Each state of the Union has the right to place in this hall statues of two of its great citizens. The states not always have chosen well. Sometimes legislatures | have been moved by political consider- | ations or considerations even less worthy when choosing men to be rep- | resented by memorials in the capitol of the United States. There are some statues in Memori#l hall of men of whom the average person never heard, and some of these statues are an abomination to the eye of uny one who has the slightest knowledge of what art should be. One of South Carelina’s memorial statues in the hall is that of John C. Calhoun, a great wan, no matter how some people may view his political convictions. When the time came to s statue the South Carolina representatives asked Henry Cabot Yodge of Massachusetts to deliver one | of the addresse: Mr. Lodge did so, and having in mind the general char- | acter of most of the other statues in.! Memorial hall, be framed in his speech. | a phrase which wit live, i Speaking of the great Calhoun and of | ilhe emplacing of the statue in Memorial | hall. the Massachusetts senator said: | {*He will stand there elbowed by the, S | | | | | | trious obscure.” " DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS RUBBER MASKS LATEST INVENTION FOR ACTORS| (By United Press) Berlin, April 18.—Theater masks made of rubber are the latest crea- tion for German actors invented by Heinrich Hall. The masks are paint- ed beforehand and the actor draws the well fitting mask over his face. The new invention is now bing tried by film actors and is considered af great advantage, especially by such who have to play various roles in quick succession. As the masks are not made after a pattern, but for every special actor, each mask must be made specially. For this purpose an exact copy of the head of the actor is made. This is covered with shallac over which the rubber is pastd and torn off after it gets dry. 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