Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 23, 1914, Page 7

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It’s full Come in and get RN SAVED BY EARTHQUAKE By NELLE SCOTT BARBOUR. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) A brilllant flash shot across a stretch of greenery where a valley cut the contour of a flowery isle, set like & glowing gem in the midst of an em- erald sea. Instantly a responding flash criss-crossed the other. There was more rapid heliograph signaling. Then within the hour two young men met on the shelving beach. Each carried a netted knapsack across the shoulders. From it pro- truded the signal mirror, and through |the meshes could be seen various passes, theodolites and measuring and surveying devices. Besides this outfit, a package now produced held a goodly array of compact but nour- ishing edibles. selves on the grass and began to dis- cuss them. “Well, Harper,” spoke the one who had waited for the other, “I came out here on this geographical survey for health and adventure. The first phase of the situation has come out all right, for I am eating like a horse and sleep- ing like a top. The other end is rather tame, though. The natives on | these islands seem mild as mush. I've | seen no stir since we left Borneo.” “If you will cast your eye due west towards that distant speck, Elliott,” and Harper pointed, “you will view a spot scarcely as quiescent as when, a week ago, we spent a pleasant three | days there with that rich exporter and i his daughter.” “You mean Hedza?’ asked Bruce Elliott, his face instantly manifesting quickened interest. “Just that,” assented Harper. “On the other side of the island here this morning I ran across a native pearl diver. He informed me that the Briti, i ! i | | sclentific instruments, such as com-' They seated them-' l gentle, refined young lady who had g0 attracted him at Hedza. Elliott beached his canoe and set out equipped with his usual surveying : outfit. He skirted the shore for some { hours without discovering any signs ! of the natives. As, however, just after ruminated Elliott, correctly, and at the ' apex of the hill he unstrapped his out- fit and made a play of being busy at his usual scientific observations. He' counted on the natives accepting this ! invasion as peaceful, still he could not reckon on this absolutely. The sun was just right for heliographic signal- ing. He began to flash a message across the water, hoping Harper would catch it. Ellott stated his situation, telling of the approaching savages and directing if he did not soon rejoin ' his friend that Harper should hasten' to Hedza and urge forward a rescue party. | It Elliott had not used the helio-, graph his reception at the hands of the natives might have been friendly. | The flashes, however, excited their suspicions. He was rudely seized. The menacing actions of his c-ptm‘li were shortly emphasized by the ar- rival of a plumed and bedizened chief, who gave some gruff orders. Elliott was bound hand and foot, placed on & litter and borne along in ominous si- lence until a spot was reached where a great high post was set in the ground about two hundred feet up ll steep declivity running sheer down to the sea. I “Horrors!” gasped Bruce Elljott, as nearing this giant stake he saw a hu- | man form tied to it and recognized Eleanor Dewar. Great heaps of dried brush and dead tree wood were massed up some twen- ty feet away. From what he had learned of the hideous customs of these people, Elliott at once surmised that this fair captive was about to be offered up as a living sacrifice to the + deities of the superstitious tribe. Her lips whitened, a new despair; l] . came into her anguished eyes as El- liott was led to the great stake and secured to it with stout withes direct- ly at her side. Both comprehended the flery doom that hovered. “I hoped for better fortune in seek- ing to be of aid to you,” he said. “Then I am, the cause of this fate— yours as well as my own!” breathed Eleanor, distractedly. He tried to comfort her, to arouse her courage. All hope died out as he , saw a procession from the near vil- ! lage approach them, a gaudily be- ! decked priest at their head. A num- | ber of the natives bore bundles of 1stlcks. evidently meant to feed the | sacrifice fire soon to surround the | stake. { Suddenly there was a rumble, and [ | Joined with it frightened yells from 8aw Coming Rapldly a Group of War- rlors. 2 who live on that nearest island to the east, had made a sudden onslaught on Hedza, looted the temple and car- ried away half a dozen native women, and among them this Miss Dewar.” “Why, this is simply terrible!” ex- claimed Elliott, greatly concerned. He had a most pleasing memory of the young lady named. All his heroic and chivalrous instincts were immediately aroused. He recalled the generous hospitality extended towards himself and was not ungrateful. “Now, don't get excited, Elliott,” the natives. The ground rocked, the scurrying throngs seemed to flatten | | out and vanish, the earth yawned! “An earthquake!” voiced the ap- palled Elliott, as the great stake was torn up and they, bound to it, shot ! down the steep incline and into the ! sea. One of those glant convulsions of nature common to the island group | | had intervened to save those two im- | i periled souls. The rough progress of | the stake loosened one of the withes holding Elliott captive. “Courage!” he spoke as they were | spubmerged, but Eleanor had fainted. | As he freed himself and then his help- less charge, it was to hold to the tim- ber, safer afloat than on land. The natives were too concerned for their own security to note or care what had become of their captives. In two hours they reached the island! ! | \ | | sunrise, he mounted a steep declivity | ! to take a general survey of the island, | he saw coming rapidly in the same di- rection a group of warriors armed with ! spears, | “They have caught sight of me,” 3 BLOBOTOH OHOIOS RO HOFOIISTHOH G FOBOLCAO4 OHEIEBIOERCH BN B0 OB OION0 OB OB ST Christmas Candy We will make you attractive prices on Christmas Candy in plain boxes, or in fancy baskets or holiday boxes. We han- dle nothing but first class goods, and our stock is fresh. Nothing makes a daintier Christmas gift than a box of our delicious candy. Stationery Our line of Correspondence Cards, Stationery, Monogram- med and plain, is attractive, and reasonably priced. We cater to the fastidious, and our stationery is guaranteed to please. We also have a varied stock of Christmas tags and seals of attractive design. 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Dickson k RO DO OO Ot SOPOBOBOSAPIVOFOTOFOPOHIFOPIEI PRI EOFOBOIOSOHO S 1L JOIN THE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF USELESS GIVING SPUG ALSO THE spoke Harper. “We can do positively | W]’;;!::(’rE“::g d‘::,d ‘:ir: :‘::rvta;;;le;ere | nothing in this affair except to get cut | ble to hall & boat from Hedza, and ! up or roasted alive it we venture out- | £°¢ . ot rebtaved hik side of our province and intrude on | the following day Elliott res 7 v t those close neighbors of ours, the: precious charge to her anxlous fa- S P U G e, SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF USEFUL GIVING 1in With Us ‘large and varied stock many handsome, use- ental gifts may be selected. The home com- jits that count, and why not get HER a Com- tina? Either Haviland or the less expensive e found here. :time to give her that range she’s been want- be one of our gasoline or oil stoves that she i cutlery is the most complete to be found ‘it only has to be seen to be appreciated. ~ perculator she’s been talking about would wkiast better, so let us show you one. {many othed innumerable gifts can be found *to Show You. 1LSOI IDWARE CO. Britl. If you are very anxlous, as our work here is done, we can take each our canoe and make for Hedza, and it our services would be any good in a rescue party, why, then the adventures oy S0 crave may come thick and gn‘l.” " Harper was of an easy-going, phieg: ; Yedding. matic nature, and soon threw the in-| cident of the moment off his mind. Not so Bruce Elliott. He had not for-; gotten Eleanor Dewar. Now that she was in deadly peril, he could not rest. | When they stretched out for a night's | sleep he rolled and tossed. | Harper was snoring in dense :1um-% ber as Elliott arose shortly after mld-i night. He directed a brief note to his i companion, telling him that he was de- termined to reconnoiter Briti island i and would return that morning. He took his traps with him, so as to im- | press any stray natives he might meet | with the idea that he was simply on duty and business bound. Then he got into his canoe and paddled in the direction of the little spot on the water a few miles distant to the north- cast. Elliott had heard at Hedza that those patives isolated from the main islands resented the invasion of civilization. Colonel Dewar had encouraged com- mercial activities, and & brisk exportl trade in the spices, dye woods and | metals of the archipelago had resulted. | The inhabitants of Briti had shown their enmity toward the new system | trom the beginning. Now they had | been guilty of an overt act of defiance and viciousness. As Elliottl realized that some of the tribes were still given to cannabalistic orgles and i human sacrifices, he shuddered at & | thought of the possible fate of the Tl;ere could be but one natural out- | come to so impressive a eituation. l,tl ' was “Eleanor” and “Bruce” before a week had passed by, and then, in| | rapid sequence, an engagement and & § | g : : Problem for Inventors. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of choice nut oil are being lost every British Honduras because no practical means has been found for its recovery. The nut, toward which attention is turning, is the cohune, and is rich in an excellent oll, used locally for cooking and lighting pur- poses. The cohune palm bears nuts in bunches or clusters of eight hun- dred to a thousard. Three patents have recently been granted for ma- chines to crush the shell without in- juring the kernel, but none of them has proved entirely successful. 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