Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 2

FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1922 (Continued from last issue) — «Tlie next business berore tlle syn- dlcate,” announced Mr. Gibney, “Is a search of this Island for water.” They searched all forenown. At in- tervals they caught glimpses of the two cannibals skulking behin@ sang- dunes, but they found no) water. Toward the center of the islarul, how- ever, the soll was less barrem, and here a grove of coconut palmsy lifted thelr tufted crests invitingly. ' “We will camp In this grove,” said the commodore, “and keep guard over these green coconuts. There must be nearly a bundred of them and I, no- tice a little taro root here and ti\e. As those coconuts are full of mlLlk, that fosures us life for a yveek or two if we go on a short ration. By bathh- in’ several times a day we can keep' down our thirst some and perhaps 1t'll rain.” “What If 1t does?” snapped Captain Scraggs bitterly. “We ain't got noth- tn’ but our hats to catch It in.” “Well, then, Scraggsy, old stick-in- the mud,” replied the commodore quizzically, “it's a cinch youw'll go thirsty. Your hat looks llke a cul- lender."” Captain Scraggs choked with rage, and Mr. Gibney, springing at the near- est palm, shinned to the top of it in the most approved sailor fashion. A moment later, Instead of coconuts, rich unctuous curses began to de- scend on McGuffey and :Scraggs. “Gip, my dear boy” Inquired Scraggs, “whatever is the matter of you?" “Ttat hound Tabu-Tabu's been strippin’ our coconut grove,” roured the commodore. “He must have spent half the night up fo these trees.” “Thank the Lord they didn’t take ‘em " sald McGuffey plously. “Chuck me down a nut, Gib" said Captain Scraggs. “I'm famished.” Tn conformity with the commodore’s plans, the castaways made camp In the greve. For a week they subsist- ed on gooneys, taro root, coconuts and. coconut milk, and a sen-turtle which. Scraggs found wandering on thesibeach. This suggested turtle eggs to Mr. Gibney, and a change of diet resulted. Nevertheless, the un- accusromed food, poorly cooked as it wis, and the lack of water, told cru- elly on them, and thelr strength falled rapldly. {| At the end of a week, all hands were troubled with indigestion and McGuf- fey developed a low fever. They had lost much flesh and were a white, hag- gard-looking trio. On the afternoon of the tenth day on the island the sky clouded up and Mr. McGuffey predict- ed a wHliwaw. Captain Scraggs in- quired feebly if it was good to eat. ‘That night It rained, and to the great joy of the marooned mariners Mr. Glbney discovered, In the center of A big sandstone rock, a natural reser- voIr that held about ten gallons of wa- ter. They drank to repletion and felt thelr strength return a thousand-fold. Tabu-Tabu and the king came into canp about this time, and pleaded for a ratlon of water. Mr. Gibney, swear- ing horribly at them, granted thelr re- quest, and the king, in his gratitude, threw himself at the commodore's feet ond kissed them. But Mr. Gibney was not to bo deceived, and after furnish- ing them with a supply of water in coconut calabashes, he ordered them to thelr own side of the island. On *he ecighteenth day the last drop of water was gone, and on the twenty- second day the last of the coconuts disappeared. The prospects of more ralo were not bright. The gooneys were becomalug shy and distrustful and the syndicate was experiencing more and more difiiculty, not only in killing them, but In eating them. McGuffey, who had borne up uncomplainingly, was shaking with fever and hardly AMa to stagger down the beach to look for turtle eggs. The syndicate was sick, weak and emaclated almost be- yowd recognicion, and on the twenty- fifth day Captaln Scraggs fainted twice. On the twenty-sixth day Mec- Guffey crawled into the shadow of a stunted mimosa bush and started to pray! It waz the finlsh. The commodore knew It, and sat with bowed head in his gannt arms, wondering, wondering. Slowly his body began to sway: he mmnttered something, slid forward on his face, and lay still. And as he lay there on the threshold of the unknown le dreamed that the Maggle II came into view around the headland, a bone Jn her teeth and every stitch of canvas flying. He saw her luff up Into the wind and hang there shivering; a mo- ment later her salls came down by the run, and he saw a little splash under Her port bow as her hook took bottom. There was a commotion on decks, and then to Mr. Gibney's dylig ears came faintly the shouts and songs of the biack boys as a whaleboat shot into the brenkers and pulled swiftly townrd the baich. Mr. Gibney dreamed that a white man sat in the'stern sheets of this whaleboat, and as the boat touched the beach it seemed to Mr. Gibney that this man sprang ashore and ran/ swiftly toward him. And— - it Was the Finish. The 'Commodore Knew It Mr. Glbnen twisted his suffering lips into a wry, smile as he realized the | oddities of 'this mirage—it seemed to |, him that this visionary white man hore a striking resemblance to Neils Halvorsen. Neils; Halvorsen, of all men! Old Neils, “the squarehend” deckhand of the gieen-pea trade! Dull, bowlegged Nells, with his lost dog smile and{his— Mr. Gibhey rubbeds his eyes feebly and half staggered to his feet. What way that? A shout? Without doubt he Aad het rd a sound that was not the moaning wf their remorseless prison- keeper’,. thie sea. And— “Hands, off,” shrieked Mr. Gibney and struck feebly at the Imaginary fig- ure rushing toward him. No use. He felt himself swept into strong arms and carried an immeasurable distance down the® beach. Then ‘somebody threw water in his face and pressed a drink of btwandy and sweet water to his parched\ lips. His swimming senses rallled a moment, and he discovered that he was\lying o the bottom of a whaleboat. McGuffey lay beside him, and on a thwart inMront of him, sat good old Neils\Flalvonsez with Captain Scraggs’ head ‘on his' knees. As Mr. Gibney looked mt this strange tablean Captain Scraggs opened his eyes, glanced up at Nellg Halvorsen, and spoke: “Why 1t it aln’t old squarehead Nells,” he muttered wonderingly. “If it ain’t Nells, I'll go to hades or some other seaport.” He closed his eyes again and subsided into a sort of leth- argy, for he was content. He knew he was saved. Mr. Glbney rolled over, and, strug- gling to his knees, leaned over Me- Guffer and peered into his drawn face. “Mac, old shipmate! Mac, speak to me. Are you alive?” B. McGuffey, Esquire, opened a palr of glazed eyes and stared at the com- modore. “Did we lick 'em?' he whispered. “The last I remember the king was puttin’ it all over Scraggsy. And that Tabu boy—was—no slouch.” McGuf- fey paused, and glanced warlly around the boat, while a dawning horror ap- peared in his sunken eyes. “Go back, Nells—go back—for God's snke. There's two niggers—still—on the— island. Bring—'em some—water. They're cannibals—Nells,” but never— mind. Get them—aboard—the poor devils—if they're llving. I—wouldn't leave a—crocodile on that—hell hole, if T could—help it." An hour later the Robinson Crusoe syndicate, including the man Friday and the Goat, were safe aboard the Maggle IT, and Nells Halvorsen, with the tears streaming down his bronzed cheeks, was sparingly doling out to them a mixture of brandy and water. And when the syndicate was strong enough to be allowed all the water It wanted, Neils Halvorsen propped them up on deck and told the story. When he had finished, Captaln Scraggs turned to Mr. Giboey. “Glb, my dear b a motion.” “T move,” sald the commodore, “that we set Tabu-Tabu and the king down on the first inhabited island we can find. They've suffered enough. And I further move that we readjust the ownership of the Maggie II syndicate and cut the best Swede on earth in on a quarter of the profits.” “Second the motion,” sald McGuftey. “Carried,” sald Captain Scraggs. A% he safd, “make (Continued in Next-Issue) MICKIE SAYS SEND OUR PADER o /AN QUY-O-TOWN ERIEND, OR b ‘' SON OR DAUGHTER AWAN - AX SCHOOL.. NOUMA- NEVER REALIZLE HOW WUNGRN ONE GIYS FER HOME NEWS UNTIL MER AN MERSELR SOMRYWAR il I 'l;,m”l'flm ¥l IS MARVEL OF MECHANISM “Great Balance” of the Bank of Eng. land Capable of Registering Weight of Thistiedown, The “great balance” stands In the bullion room of the Bank of England. It is a machine that was constructed, primarily, for testing light gold colns, Standing approximately seven feet high and weighing nearly two tons, this wonderful piece of mechanism can weigh a piece of thistledown or a 400- pound gold bar with equal accuracy. Before it can be used it must al- ways be carefully dusted, for other- wise the dust that has settled upon it, even in the course of a few minutes, although invisible to the naked eye, would cause it to register inaccurately. So responsive is the machinery that a postage stamp placed on one of the two weighing portions moves the in- dex six inches. When the mnew English currency notes were issued the grand balance was kept busy virtually day and night weighing the gold coinage that was called in and replaced by notes. It has now been found that the total loss of gold, owing to the abiasion of the coins as they passed from hand to hand in the course of clrculation, amounts to nearly $5,000,000. That, however, is not quite so alarm- ing as it sounds, for the loss is spread over a period of 25 years. Twenty- five years is reckoned in England to be the legal “life” of a sovereign at its full face weight.—New York Herald. Vast Sum Spent for Food. The people of the United Stutes spend more than $49,000,000 a day for food, or nearly $1,500,000,000 a month, Nearly one-third of the money goes for bread, potatoes, fruits, sugar and oth- er food of a vegetable nature. More than two-thirds is spent for meat, fish, eggs, cheese and lard. The average hduseholder hands over to the butcher more than one-fifth of his income. The people of this country consume in a year two and a half billlon eggs and near ten and a half billion gallons of milk. But a large part of the milk goes to make 1,600,000,000 pounds of and 260,000,000 gallons of ice cream, butter, 400,000,000 pounds of cicese —Philadelphia Ledger. PUZZLES MEN OF LEARNING Whether Petrified Sole of Shoe Is a Fosgsil or Freak of Nature, 1s Question. ‘What appears to be the petrified scle of a carefully made shoe has been submitted by John T. Reid, a mining engineer of Lovelock, Nev., to Dr, James F. Kemp, professor of geology at Columbia university, and to Dr. William D. Matthew, paleontologist of the American Museum of 'Natural History.,”™ 3 If it is what it looks like, it is proof that human beings were walking about in shoes of finer workmanship than are made today on this continent, be- tween 10,000,000 and 300,000,000 years ago, the New York Times states. The seeming fossil was found in blue lime- stone of. the Triassic period on a sum- mit in the southern extremity of the Humboldt mountain range in Nevada. Both Doctor Matthew and Doctor Kemp said that the object was the most surprising imitation by nature of the workmanship of man which had ever come to their attention, but that it was absolutely impossible that it could be a genuine fossil because the evidence was overwhelming that the career of human beings on earth was not over half a million years, wheve- as the Triassie rock of which the neat- ly sculptured sole is made more an- cient. It would fit nicely a boy of ten or twelve years. The edges are as smooth {as if freshly cut. But the surprising part of it is what seems to be a double line of stitches, one near the outside edge of the sole and the other about a third of an inch inside the first. The “leather” is thicker inside the inner welting and appears to be slightly bev- eled so that the margin, half an inch wide, which runs outside, the sole is something like an eighth of an inch thick. The symmetry is maintained per- fectly throughout. The perfect lines pursued by the welting and the ap- pearance of hundreds of minute hole through which the sole was sewed tu the shoe are the things which make the object such an extraordinary freak in the cves of the scientists who ex- amined it. Had Idea of Horseless Carriage. December 8, 1821, the Journal De- pats published the following item: “There is now much tolk in Milan of an invention for which the author, a certain Cantaneo, has just got a li- cense from the emperor of Austria. Several times already they have tried in England.apd France to make a-car- riage move without horses, but every time it was observed that the mechan- ism gave rise to insuperable difficul- ties. Mr. Cataneo not only dispenses with the team,” but by means of_his mechanism one single horse keeps up and accelerates tle movercent to 8 point at which he does easily the work of four norses.” Names of Indians and Orientals. Like our American redmen, the Ori- entals put a goed deal of poetry as well as keen analysis of character Into their personal names, writes Garrett P. Serviss In the Chicago American. Thus Isanc meant “laughter,” Jacob “supplanter,” “Isalah “salvation,” De- borah “bee,” Sarah “princess,” Hanne “graclous,” Rachel “ewe,” David “be- loved,” Ruth “beauty” and Tamar “palm tree.” Fenimore Cooper, in his matchless “Leatherstocking” tales, finely illustrates the American Indian method of bestowing personal names when he makes his great hero of the woods explain some of the successive names which his admiring friends gave him. . \gpo” T e It lasts longer—goes farther be- cause it contains more than the or- dinary leavening strength — there- fore you use less. s g3 ‘When a recipe calls for two tea spoons of baking powder, use two level teaspoons of Calumet, the te- sults will alwa g?ectly raises this when you buy baking pow- der and don’t forget thag Calumet is the economic buy because it goes A pound can of Calumet contains full 160z, Some baking powderscome in 12 oz. instead of 16 oz. cans, ¥ou et a pound when you want it A can of Calumet Baking! 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