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dore, in the flesh. R T T TSRS SHANGHAIED. +esccscsccsccccns By P. Y “Say," sald Rod Noble, Black sssee Took ' at that! the bo'sun—it's Heckles!' ‘Come off, really The likeness, however, of “The Boy Commodore” faced, don’t you know? who sald bis fellow adventurer. “You jay! Heckles was only in the book; he didn't live- between Heckles and clean-shaved, portly man peajacket and seaboots was 80 remarkable that even Frank Noble doubted for a moment if Heckles himself (the man who stood by the boy when quelled the mutiny and sailed the 6,000 miles all by their own selves in the teeth of a hurricane) was not now present So earnest and admiration- the in these red blue upproached commo- prize +@@eccsccscsecssssscsccssccese® Commodore.’ fore going to bed, that upstairs, %o tired were they. £o tired most every night just as tired, without aroused. It was not morning. the tamiliar warning: ‘“Bo , boys, Do you know what time it §; two on a bare floor Ing house, and o the strange & most He insisted upon the lads having a little bite to eat and drink be- and when they had done they went to sleep on their feet going yet they had gone to bed al- of thelr open-alr lives feellng 80 quoer and dizzy as they did when they were now Nobody was knocking at thelr door, or erylng upstairs boys! In a dazed way they realized that they were standing board- extraor- dinary row outside the door had disturbed their sleep. Voices In the corridor, loud, primed were the starcs of the lads that the man relaxed his pace when he noticed them and finally crossed the narrow street by the river. His shrewd, rather humorous eyes surveyed the cousins swiftly and com- prebenstively, *'Morning, shipmates,” sald he from school for Thanksgiving, hey? ing & look at the shipping, hey? My ey it you two ain't clipper-bullt! Clean every line. 'Bout 17 or 18, ain't you?" “No, sir,” sald Rod. “We're 15—both of us_ We'ro cousine.” The man looked at the well set up young- sters 80 cordlally and with such pleasing appreciation that Frank took courage to explain what they wanted down by the ships. “Please, sir,”” said he, “can you tell us where they engage sailors?” “Ho? Want to go to sea? Now, that's my style. It's the finest life for a boy with ambition and some get-up to him Been to sea all my life and look at me Healthy, wise, and as to wealth—why, boys, there's money to burn for a saflor man as knows what's what. Do you boe Jong to the city?” “No, ir, we're from the country." “Ho? And—does pa know?"* The boys hesitated and looked downward, but the man looked so pleasant that Rod spoke frankly “No. We declded ourselves.” “Ho? Kun away?" The boys grinned and nodded. “Then,' 'sald the man, holding out a big red hand, “put it there. Lucky you ‘net me. 1 like a boy with grit to do for him- #olf. You've come to the right place. You Just follow me. 1 can see at a glance you were made for the sea. Seeing it's Thanks- Eiving time, there's something to be thank- ful for.” The faces of the two boys brightened. They had, in fact, become greatly bewil- dered and confused In the tortuous lanes of the seaport and were really thankful to find a friend and guide. In a moment, how- ever, Frank's face clouded. “I wish,” he whispered to his cousin, they followed their friend obediently, *T wish we could have put off golng away until after tomorrow, though. Say, Rod, Aunt Mary will be mighty busy with the turkeys and things." “Turkeys!" Rod sniffed. “‘What are yoy whining about now? What's Thankegiving anyhow more'n any other day? I'm Jjolly thapkful, T can tell you, that I'm done with #chool for good, and farm chores and all that rot. This will be something lfke & Thlnkl!l\lnl Just think, you old jay, we're free. There's nobody 80 free as a sallor. All the books say so. 1 hope we get & ship right away. Turkeys! What's Turkeys? 1 want lobscouse, I do. It was near dusk, and it was dusk at the farm al There, there was much bustle and-ehattering and JoIyIhg 1h " the big warm kitchen, where Red's mother, Frank’s aunt, was superintending the thou ::nd needful preparations for the next day's “Back in as “Ellas! Samson!" she cried into the big farmyard through the open door. “Listen! Isn't that the master coming? Sounds like his team. Be ready, one of you, to take the horses. Polly! Run out and get the parcels. the boys were to bring from the city. * Have some coffec hot. It's chilly and they'll be half famished.” The buggy drove up and Farmer Noble came Into the kitchen, puffiog and beating his hands together. “Mother,” he cried, “‘what train did you tell tho boys to come on from the clty? 80 th ain’t come." “What!" cried Aunt Mary and everybody else; “then they can’t come tonight. Good graclous me! Have the boys gone and got loat, or hurt, or—" Tt cast shadows upon the holiday. The cheerful bustle of the homestead died off. Worriment and anxlety clouded the faces of father and mother and sisters and servants and this was all for the sake of two rest- less young rascals who thought they knew what was good for them far better than the old folks. They would have been greatly gratified, no doubt, It they could have seen THE LEAP FOR FREEDOM. much more they were loved than they erved, Just at that moment they were Iaboriously writing two of those letters which are fated never to be sent. “So we've done it after dew delibra- shun," wrote Rod, painfully, “‘for we know its our mishun in life to plow the seas and we both are sorry that we could not walt tlll after Thanksgiving, but it was such a good chance to find @ ship when mother sent up to the city, and what's turkeys to freedom? When me and Frank comes back again ! mean to bring dad a gold watch and you diamond earrings and #is everything she wants If she'll write me to Caloutta, where we're going tomorrow, and a new barn eake send my dog Rowdy after me. You'll have to express him becos dogs can't go by mall. Frank's Romesick, but we are absiloutly detur- mined to g0 to sea and we have found a nice man whose like Hockles to get us a ship." When the boys had written thus to thel» distracted kin, on a greasy table In the back room of a shabby boarding house, Mr. “Heckles" announced that, as they would have to go aboard ship early, it would be well to retire. He was a fatherly old chap, this red-faced, big-fisted fellow, who was so llke the bo'sun of the “Boy hoarse, furfous volces of dreadful strange- ness were ralsed In a din of rage. Chalrs and tables were being upset and banged about. Heavy feet were rushing and crush- Ing desperately. The suddeuness of their awakening and the buzzy, dizzy braios of the lads made the boys stupld and hindered them from realizing that, whosoever the quarrel was, it was not theirs. “Fire!" R ed. “Burglars!" Frank choked. These were the only two alarms they ceuld imagine as occurring In a decent house. They stumbled, In night attire, to the door, which was unlocked, and then across the hall. The door of another room was half open and they halted at the en- trance—utterly amazed, dumbstricken and torrificd. Inside were three men who were to0 busy to notice the would-be sailors They were the cause of the disturbance, There were the table overturned and tho chalrs, one hopelessly smashed, which had been banged about. But the most dreadful thing to the mind of the boys was the sight of thelr friend. He looked no more like the faithful, honest bluff old Heckles of the entrancing story book. He looked, instead, personified dinbolism. His rosy cheeks were 1ivid white; his humorous eyes glared like THE OMAHA DAILY BEE EDNFSDAY DECEMBER 5 1900, trousers, and were barefooted. Now they | @id not remember changing their clothes They were quite unable to do aught but stare at each other. The voice came agaln Tumble up tha jolly ‘Mariner.' ‘Il quicken you."” Then came another voice, and the boys shivered. It was not the cordial voice of the “Hoy Commodore's” Heckles. It was the volce of the savage, rioter of the board- ing house the night before. “Go below and kick out these blasted Kids. They wanted the sen. Now give 'em a taste of it. Lazy little farmers. Lenl ‘em your Is that Frenchman not alive yet? Club him up on deck. Look alive! All hands make sail!" The bloodstained face of the French sallor who had been robbed and shanghaied that night was horrible to look at, as he rose to his fect with a ghastly show of teeth and | satd low to the lads:— “Follow me zea! Ve vill ses who dares | Shanghal Marsetlles Pete.” Still dazed, the boys followed him and when they reached the deck, the master of the ship, the same man who had decoyed them to the houso of the crimp, the ssme man who had attacked Marseilles Pete, that same man was in command of the vessel. All his affccted cordiality and amlable manner was gone. They saw before them in the faint light of dawn a big brutal tyrant of the seas— a man whose name was so well known for a brute in many ports that he could not get a full erew by fair means and had to shanghal drunken satlors and delude likely lads. He spat out some angry oaths when he saw them, for the ship was just clearing tho harbor, the sails needed quick attention, he was still short-handed and he was in a hurry “Lively, you slobe! Get a move on you, you brats from the farm! You, there, you, Marsellles Pete, you long-nosed knifer, lively about! I'll show you whom you're No shirkers allowed aboard Step lively or my boots 106, “Shipped be—I signed no articles. me ashore!" “You were too drunk to know what you did, but sign you did, for sure. Lively now.” “Put me ashore, you crimp!"” Put yelled the (hmo of a panther; his pleasant tongue wax | Frenchman. PIQHT IN THE TAVEK\' recling out most te mmylng curses and hin Dbig, tarry fists were hammering hard at the face of a most dilapidated stranger. “You swindle me! Robbaire! Flef! Crimp! You 'ave take my money! Give me my money. Ab, tr-raltor—from be- hind! Fight fair! Ur-r-rh!” So screared the stranger. The boys, now wide awake, called out in- dignantly as the strange man screamed, for all thelr sense of falr play was outraged. The third man, whom they recognized as a waiter In the dining room below, had rushed on the victim from behind and felled him with a stick. “Ur-r-rh!" gurgled the man hideously and lay still and bleeding. At the cries of the boys, the Heckles man turned on them. His fury, fed by fighting, was beyond control. He ran madly at the lunocent young lads from the coun- try, and they were too astonished at his transposition to resist. Bing, biug—Frank and Rod got them in rapid succession on the ears, and landed in the hall, after smashing up against the doorposts bruise- tully, “Who gave you kids permission to leave your bed, hey?' crled the man. ‘‘Look allye there, Jack! Dope the bables ageln —the other's settled for an hour or two anyway, It he ain't killed outright. Tustle ‘em down to the carriage. Lively, now A glass was placed to each of the boys' mouths, and they were forced to drink. In a second they were again asleep. And at that time, although it was late at night, Mr. and Mrs. Noble were sitting in the parlor of the farm and the mother was crylng. “I can't help it," she sobbed. ‘‘They were never from home so long before. Something must have happened to them. I've no heart to go on fixing things. What use would a Thankeglving dinner be with- out the boys to eat {t?" “'Nonsense, they'll eat it, wite, turn up.” AT ] “I'm afraid—I'm afrald. They've never been away before, and—and I loved them so. Oh! Do you think they can have done it, and gone away to sea? They were always talking of the s “Hope not—hope not,”” said the farmer. “It they have they'll mighty soon wish themselves back. Listen. No. I thought ‘twas steps in the lane.” While these good hearts walted and watched and feared and hoped, Rod had a dream that he was in a rowboat, and the stranger who had been knocked down was lying beside him under the seats, and his blood was wet on Red's hand. The dream was so real that he noticed the clouded moon high over his face, and the ripple of water and the splash of oars, and saw the face of Heckles in the stern steer- ing. But he was 8o sure it was a dream that he went more soundly asleep. When he awoke it was still dark and what had wakened him was the hurt from tumbling out of an evil smelling berth In a ves- sel which seemed to be sailing altogether on the ribs of one side. He sat up on the floor and found Frank sitting up be- side him rubbing his eyes and yawning, “Jiminy!" sald Frank. 1 fell out of bed. Is it breakfast? Halloa! This ain't our room! Where—are—we A flerce voice from across the dirty dog- hole answered him. “Vere? 1 tell you vere! napped, hey? Shanghaled? Same like me. Me also. 1 am Shanghaied. ‘Zey dare shanghal! Marsoilles Pete! You vill sce! Vere are you? I tell you. T raleonize ze tirty hole. 1 tell you. 1 ees ze ‘Mariner,' Captain Welsenberg— and eot ees Licufer, and ko is the dalvel. Lof vou go ashore alive after a voyage w im--you airy vairy lucky! Me=1 keel him first or ho keel me." ‘Below, thore! Are you dead uns come 1o life again The bovs sat still, sick and gaping and too palsied with amazement to move. They uoted, however, with a stupld nightmarish glance at each other, that they were dressed in very shabby, salty jerseys and greasy they'll You s kid- A mate rushpd at him with a club, think- ing Pete had been disarmed, as victims such as he usually are. They had over- looked the long knife stuck down the Frenchman's back in Cuban fashion. In a sccond it flashed. Pete leaped to one side, missed the mate's blow and stabbed him to the heart. There was a howl from the demonized skipper and one or two of the dumbstricken crew dashed at the mariner. With the flashing skill of warfare Pete dddged and ducked and stabbed right and left. The man had run amuck. His eyes were wide and bestial. His lips foamed. He had gone mad with drink and rage and abuse. Another assistant fell dead. Two ran off cut and shrieking. The boys staggered backward to the rall, clasping hands, their faces white, thelr tongues speechless from fear. The skipper himself charged down on Pete, an enraged devil. Pete dashed at him as quickly, leaped at his throat through the air and sank his bloody knife to the hilt. The boys gave one great cry of horror and the crazy man turned on them. He was too mad now to recognize friend or foe. The wind blew the foam from his mouth us he came. Then the boys, between the devil and the deep sea, chose the latter and leaped the rall and threw themselves, screaming, overboard, They got home. A passing tug plcked them up, when they were nearly exhausted after a long swim. Put ashore, the police heard their story, and, the vessel coming in again with captain and mate dead aboard it, and Pete wt the bottom of the sea, to which he had leaped after the boys, the lads were sent home, There they arrived mls- erable and repentent, just In time for Thanksglving dinner. Of course they ought to have been thrashed, but equally of course they were not. They were hugged by weeplng women, which very wrong. Never had the farm looked so welcome. Never had home seemed &0 preclous. Never was a Thanksgiving dinner so grate- tully eaten. When old Mr. Noble rose at the end and made bls anbual little speech thanking Providence for many mercles, praying that all there might be content and bappy, nor wander afar like the Prodigal Son, Rod and Frank collapsed with thetr head on thelr arms and sobbed. “Dou't, boys, dear,” whispered the mother. “Wo'll forget it all and forgive it all this happy Thanksgiving time. Don't cry. Let us all give thanks you are saved from a What Shall We Have for Dessert ? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day, Try Jell-0, & delicious and healthiful dessert, pared in two minutes, baking ! add boiling water and set to cool. “Flavors: —Lemon, Orange, Rasp- berry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocers to-day. 1o cts, l’re-- No boiling! no seeesecceccey ABOUT BEER It you are willing to test our st tle the b claim o glve you b heer than any ot belfeve (Cluima ure wise In a minute p 1 Qur beer i : GLTTELMAN'S N,\TLRAI PROCESS BEER wtel ¢ SWING CO, OI" MILWAUK J. SHOKLY, Manager Omaha H Branch, 624-28 South 16th Street. Telephone 1124, ..’m.mm dreadtul end or a cruel life. Don't cry." “I'm crying” Rod blubbered, “because I'm so jolly glad I'm alive! And he had reason, for golng down to the sea in ships I8 a risky venture R d TABLE AND KITCHEN, Practical Suggestions About Food and the Preparations of It H seescsccsscssssssccscccsocee Daily Menus, THIUTRSDAY, BREAKFAST. Frult real Brofled Chopa Corn Muffing LUNCH Ronst Beef Sandwiches French Fi Potatoes, Coffee, R « Vmu" flnu). 1t Panned Ham Giblet Grav, Sweet Potatoes Brown Turnip Lettuce. Devonshire Junket Fig_Compote. Coffee. FRIDA BREAKFAST Frult, Cereal. Cream Baked Salt Mm-kpnl Rolls, l 4 ggs 0 o Tripe Drr-ad S erenl Coftee Celery Soup. Mushroom Sauce, Corn Cream of ed Rrapper. Scalloped Cucumber Salad o .pu..( a Bolled Potatol ewed Tomatoes, Apple BATURDAY Toa Applo Sauce m. Patiled Oyatars, o Brown Bauce. Bacon. Pop Ov ori« NCH Nut Sandwiches, cig and 4 Waters. Cottage Cheese " Ten. SR i Soup Onfon Sauce. Cauliflower, Vermic Brofled Steak. Mashed Potatoes. Lettuce. Clder Jelly. Bponge Cake, Coffee SUNDAY. BREAK T. Stewed Figs Breakfast Relish Hashed Brown atoos. Griddie Cakes. Maple Syrup. Coftee Cereal. Cream. Ceiory Stufmng. amed Parsnips TR Ulized Swoet Potatoes. Endiye and Bscarolle Salad Apple Snow Cake. Nut Sandwiches o Cheese, Fruit c Tea. ‘ake. Vegetable s in Nutrition. From whatever source the individual de- rives a sufficlent amount of protein food, whether furnished by meat, milk, eggs or cercals, there s still a deficlency in the required nutri- merts that must be supplied by fats, sugars and starch. 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For ‘example, we know that the meat of the fat animal is better than of the lean kind and we im- mediately conclude, therefore, that the very fat animal will furnish us with the groatest percentage of mourishment, inas- much as we get both fat and nitrogenous substances. In buying the over-fat meat we pay for a great amount of material which is wasted in the cooking and not suitable for food. The meat that shows less fat on the surface, or in solid lump, but has it distributed in minute subdivi- slons between fiber, where it is not rec- ognized as fat, is the moat wholesome meat. Many nut fats do not readily become rancid, presented in their natural form in nut foods, properly prepared, or In the fats when all such substances as gum, fiber and | like clements are eliminated by a careful refining process. Nut and vegetable fats, | when sweet and fresh, cannot in any way Interfero with the digestion of other foods as the animal fats will. These facts, coupled with so many other featus thelr favor, make the vegetable fats a suitable and desirable food for those of delicato organism, as well as the robust. Dellcate children and epaemic subjects | will improve rapidly when palatable and digestible fats are Introduced into their diet in amounts as large as they cam readily assimilate. Another point In favor of vegetable fats |15 that they can be taken into the system unchanged by the process of heat and are therefore more digestible and valusble aw focd. Amimal fa on the other hand, cannot be eaten In an ubcooked state. And, granting that they are tree from germs Spaulding & Co. ‘ Chicago. Diamonds and Pearls for Christmas. Our ‘‘Suggestion Book” mailed on application.... the vegetable fat they are improperly cooked they ar Spaulding & Co. irritating to a delicate stomach. must soften the cellular fiber structure which encloses the globules of fat aad meat, in order to advance digestion. It Just the right degree of heat {s not applied the object is not accomplished. Too fre- quently such a high temperature 1s applied | the fat is scorched and thus rendered | totally unfit to give any one as food. Vogetable fats do not scorch easily, as they reach the browning point for frying before there is any danger of burning Purpose of Animal Fats. We know that fat people and fat animals can endure longer deprivation of food than the thin ones. This does not prove, how- ever, that by eating animal fats the human being will increase its powers of endur- ance to any great extent. The chief pur- pose of animal fat is not to benefit man- kind, except ndirectly, but to conduce to the creature’s comfort. The fat Is stored in its body for the same economic purpose as necessitates this provision in the human system; to supply force and endurance as well as to guard against the waste of vital power. In the minds of many It seems that the only design in this accumulation of fat in| the animal is for no other purpose but to pamper the meat eater and supply the cook with plenty of grease with which she may recklesssly and lavishly sow the seeds of indigestion and future misery. The animal derives its supply of fat trom the vegetable kingdom and not second-hand, as we do. It seems strange that in a civilized country the people can prefer the unclean product of the packing houses for no better reason, ofttimes, than the abun- dant supply it gives to them at a compara- tively low price. They do not know how greatly they oblige the packer Ly taking this otherwise unprofitable material off his bands, enabling him, and also the doc- tors, to live well from the profite gained through the ignorance of the buyer. The mources of the pure vegetable fats are just as prolific as are the animal, be- sides being specially deslgned by nature for the single purpose of bodily nutrition, whether applied inwardly or by outward absorption. And no question but what they would be even cheaper than animal fats 1f the demand was more general. Vegetable fats have a very distinct ad- vantage over animal fats, as they are naturally entirely free from any bacteria or germs of any sort, which are always liable | to be founa lurking in fats of animal | origin. Jacki Boulevard, cor. State St. Chicago. Mrs. Win w's Seeth ' l"‘ . Has been ueed for over FLETY YEAR HLLTONS"of SEOTHER. Tor thelr CIUL: NOWHILE TERTHING. with DR EECT SUCCERS, 1T 80OTHIS the CHILD! BOFTENS the G LLAY! PAL | CURES WIND ¢ aum.b.-:n Sdv for DIARRIORA, “Boid b e JSYOEY, ARt of the world. Bo sure and k fol Winslow's Soothing Syrup,' and l: @ no other kind. 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