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    THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1914.
PLATTSKIOUTH 8EKII-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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CHAPTER III.
A Jungle Battle.
THE pictures In the books "which
Tarzan found in the cabin In
terested him greatly.
There vrere many apes with
faces similar to his own. and farther
over in the book he found under "M"
some little monkeys such as be saw
daily flitting through the trees of his
primeval forest. But nowhere was pic
tured any of his own people. - In all
the book was none that resembled Ker
chak or Tublat or Kala.
At first he tried to pick the little fig
ures from the paper, but he soon saw
that they were not real, though he
knew not what they might be, nor had
he any words to describe them.
The boats and trains and cows and
horses were quite meaningless to him,
but not quite so bafEing as the odd lit
tle figures which appeared beneath and
between the colored pictures some
strange kind of bigs he thought they
might be, for many of them had les,
though nowhere could he find one with
eyes and a mouth. It was his first in
troduction to the letters of the alpha
bet, and he was over ten years old.
Of course he had never before seen
print, or never had spoken with any
living thing which had the remotest
Idea that such a thing as a written lan
guage existed, and never had he seen
any one reading.
So what -wonder that the little boy
was quite at a loss to guess the mean
ing of these strange figures.
Near the back of the book he found
his old enemy, Sabor, the tiger, and,
just above him, coiled Mistah, the
snake.
Oh, It was most engrossing! Never
before in all his ten years had he en
joyed anything so much. So absorbed
was he that he did not note the -approaching
dusk until it was quite upon
him.
lie put the book back in the cup
board and closed the door, for he did
not wish any one else to find and de
stroy his treasure, and as he went out
into the gathering darkness he closed
the great door of the cabin behind him
as It had been before he discovered the
secret of its lock, but before he left he
had noticed the hunting knife lying
where he had thrown it upon the floor,
and this he picked up and took with
him to show to his fellows.
He had taken scarce a dozen steps
toward the jungle when a great form
rose up before him from the shadows
of a low bush.
At first he thought it was one of his
own people, but in another Instant he
realized that it was a huge gorilla.
So close was he that there was no
chance for flight, and little Tarzan
knew that he must stand and fight for
his life; for these great beasts were the
deadly enemies of his tribe, and neither
one nor the other ever asked or gave
quarter.
Had Tarzan been a full grown bull
ape of the species of his tribe he would
have been more than a match for the
gorilla, but being only a little English
boy, though enormously muscular for
Buch, he stood no show against his cruel
antagonist. In his veins, however,
flowed the blood of the best of a race
of mighty fighters, and back of this
was the training of his short lifetime
among the fierce brutes of the Jungle.
He knew no fear, as we know it; his
heart beat the faster, but from the ex
citement and exhilaration of adventure.
Had the opportunity presented Itself
he would have escaped, but solely be
cause his judgment told him he was no
match for the great thing which con
fronted him. And as flight was out of
the question he faced the gorilla
Bquarely and bravely without a tremor
f a single muscle or any sign of panic.
In fact, he met the brute midway in
Its charge, striking its huge body with
his closed fists and as futilely as if he
had been a fly attacking an elephant.
But In one band he still clutched the
knife he bad found, and as the brute,
striking and biting, closed upon him
the boy accidentally turned the point
toward the hairy breast.
As it sank deep into the body of him
the gorilla Bhrieked in pain and rage.
But the boy had learned in that brief
second a use for his sharp and shining
toy, so that as the tearing, striking
beast dragged him to earth he plunged
the blade repeatedly Into its breast.
The gorilla, fighting after the man
ner of its kind, struck terrific blows
with its open hand and tore the flesh
at the boy's throat and chest with its
mighty tusks.
For a moment they rolled upon the
ground In the fierce frenzy of combat.
More and more weakly the torn and
bleeding arm struck home with the
onz chars blade, then the littla tenrti
EtllTenea vnxa a spasmodic jere, antk
Torzan, the young Lord Greystoke,
rolled senseless upon the dead and de
caying vegetation which carpeted his
jungle home.
A mile back In the forest the tribe
had heard the fierce challenge of the
gorilla, and, as was his custom when
any danger threatened, Kerchak called
his people together, partly for mutual
protection against a common enemy,
since this gorilla might be but one of
several, and also to Bee that all mem
bers of the tribe were accounted for.
It was soon discovered that Tarzan
was missing, and Tublat was strongly
opposed to sending assistance. Ker
chak himself had no liking for the
strange little waif, so he listened to
Tublat, and finally, with a shrug of his
shoulders, turned back to the pile of
leaves on which he had made his bed.
. But Kala was of a different mind.
In fact, she had waited but to learn that
Tarzan was absent ere she was fairly
flying through the matted branches to
ward the point from which the cries of
the gorilla were still plainly audible.
Darkness had fallen, andean early
moon was sending its faint light to cast
strange, grotesque shadows among the
dense foliage of the forest.
Presently Kala came upon them, ly
ing in an open space full under the
brilliant moon Tarzan's torn and
bloody form, and beside it a great bull
gorilla, stone dead. "With a low cry
Kala rushed to Tarzan's side and,
gathering the poor, blood covered body
to her breast, listened for a sign of
life. Faintly she heard it the weak
beating of the little heart.
Tenderly she bore him back through
the inky Jungle to where the tribe lay,
and for many days and nights she sat
guard beside him, bringing him food
and water and brushing the flies and
other insects from his cruel wounds.
Of medicine or surgery the poor
thing knew nothing. She could but
lick the wounds, and thus she kept
them cleansed, that healing nature
might the more quickly do her work.
At first Tarzan would eat nothing,
but rolled and tossed in a wild deliri
um of fever. All he craved was water,
and this she brought him in the only
wa7 she could, bearing It In her own
mouth.,.
Jso human mother could have shown
more unselfish and sacrificing devotion
than did this poor wild brute for the
little orphaned waif whom fate had
thrown into her keeping.
At last the fever abated, and the boy
commenced to mend. No complaint
passed his tight set Hps, though the
pain of his wounds was excruciating.
A portion of his chest was laid bare
to the ribs, three of which had been
broken by the mighty blows of the
gorilla; one arm was nearly severed
by the giant fangs, and a great piece
had been torn from bis neck, exposing
his jugular vein, which the cruel Jaws
had missed but by a miracle.
After what seemed an eternity to
the little sufferer he was once more
able to walk, and from then on his re
covery was rapid, so that In another
month he was as strong and active as
ever.
During his convalescence he had
gone over in his mind many times the
battle with the gorilla, and his first
thought was to recover the wonderful
little weapon which had transformed
him from a hopelessly outclassed
weakling to the superior of the mighty
terror of the Jungle.
Also he was anxious to return to the
cabin and continue his Investigations
of the wondrous contents.
So early one morning he set forth
alone upon his quest. After a little
search he located the clean picked
bones of his late adversary, and close
by, partly buried beneath the fallen
leaves, he found the knife, now red
with rust from its exposure to the
dampness of the ground and from the
dried blood of the gorilla.
He did not like the change In Its for
mer bright and gleaming surface, but
it was still a formidable weapon and
one which he meant to use to advan
tage whenever the opportunity present
ed itself. He had in mind that no more
would he run from the wanton attacks
of old Tublat
In another moment he was at the
cabin, and after a short time had again
thrown the latch and entered. Ilis first
concern was to learn the mechanism of
the lock, and this be did by examining
it closely, while the door was open so
that he could learn precisely what
caused it to hold the door and by what
means it released at his touch.
He found that he could close and
lock the door from within, and this he
did so that there would be no chance
of his being molested while at his in
vestigations. He commenced a systematic search
of the cabin; but his attention was soon
riveted by the books which jseemed to
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Rice i
Dunvughs
Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A.
Munsey company.
exert a strange ancTpowoif ul Influence
over him, so that he could scarce attend
to aught else for the lure of the won
drous puzzle which their purpose pre
sented to him.
Among the other books wore a
primer, some child's readers, numerous
picture books and a great dictionary.
All of these he examined; but the pic
tures caught his fancy most though
the strange little bugs which covered
the pages where there were no pic
tures excited his wonder and deepest
thought
In his hands was a primer opened
at a picture of a little ape similar to
himself, but covered, except for hands
and face, with strange colored fur, for
such he thought the jacket and trous
ers to be.
Beneath the picture were three little
bugs:
And now he had discovered in the
text upon the page that these three
were repeated many times in the same
sequence.
Another fact he learned, and that
was mat there were comparatively
few Individual bugs. But these were
repeated many times, occasionally
lone, but more often in company with
others.
Slowly he turned the pages, scan
ning the pictures and the text for a
repetition of the combination b-o-y.
Presently he found it beneath a picture
of another little ape and a strange
animal which went upon four legs like
the Jackal and somewhat resembled
him. Beneath this picture the bugs
appeared as
A BOY AND A DOG.
There they were, the three little
bugs which always accompanied the
little ape.
And bo he progressed very, very
slowly, for it was a hard and labor
ious task which he had set himself
without knowing it a task which
might seem to you or to me impossible
learning to read without having the
slightest knowledge of letters or writ
ten language or the faintest idea that
such things existed.
He did not accomplish it in a day or
In a week or In a month or In a year,
but slowly, very slowly, he learned.
By the time he was fifteen he knew
the various combinations of letters
which stood for every pictured figure
In the little primer and in one or two
of the picture books.
Of the meaning and use of the arti
cles and conjunctions, verbs, adverbs
and pronouns he had but the faintest
and haziest conception.
One day when he was about twelve
he found a number of leadpencils in a
hitherto undiscovered drawer beneath
the table, and In scratching upon the
table with one of them he was delight
ed to discover the black line it left be
hind it
He worked so assiduously with this
new toy that the table top was soon a
mass of scrawly loops and irregular
lines and his pencil point worn down
to the wood. Then he took another
pencil, but this time he had a definite
object in view.
He would attempt to reproduce some
of the little bugs that scramble over
the pages of his book.
It was a difficult task, for he held the
pencil as one would grasp the hilt of a
dagger, which does not add greatly to
ease in writing nor to the legibility of
the results.
But he persevered for months, at
such times as he was able to come to
the cabin, until at last by repeated ex
perimenting he found a position in
which to hold the pencil that best per
mitted him to guide and control it, so
that at last he could roughly reproduce
any of the little bugs.
Thus he made a beginning at writing.
Copying the bugs taught him an
other thing, their number; and, though
he could not count as we understand
It, yet he had an idea of quantity, the
base of his calculations being the num
ber of fingers upon one of his hands.
His search through the various books
convinced him that he had discovered
all the different kinds of bugs most
often repeated in combination, and he
arranged them in proper order with
great ease because of the frequency
with which he had perused the fasci
nating alphabet picture book and the
huge illustrated dictionary.
By the time he was seventeen he had
learned to read the simple child's
primer and bad fully realized the true
and wonderful purpose of the bugs..
No longer dll he feel shame for his
hairless body or his human features,
for now his reason told him that he
was of a different race from his wild
and hairy companions. lie was a
Wil-A-N," they were "A-r-E-S," and
the little apes which scurried through
the forest top were "M-O-N-K-E-Y-S."
He knew, too. that old Sabor was a
MT-I-G-E-U" and Htetah a "S-N-A-K-E"
and Tantor an "E-E-E-P-H-A-N-T."
From then on his progress was rapid.
With the help of the great dictionary
and the active intelligence of a healthy
mind endowed by inheritance with
more than ordinary reasoning powers
he shrewdly guessed at much which
he could not really understand, and
more often than net his guesses were
close to the mark of truth.
There were many breaks In his edu
cation, caused by the migratory habits
of his tribe, but even when removed
from recourse to his books his active
brain continued to search out the mys
teries of his fascinating avocation.
,Nordid lie iClect the sterner dgtles
of life while following the bent of his
inclination toward the solving of the
mystery of his library.
He practiced with his rope and play
ed with his sharp knife, which he had
learned to keep keen by whetting upon
flat stones.
(To Be Continued.)1'
FOR THE CHILDREN
Spring on the Way.
Up the gray trunk of the roadside
trees the black and white of the wood
pecker jerks in a businesslike manner,
lie does not so much care whether
spring comes soon or not, for food is
always to be found, and he does not
feel the cold. He cocks his red crested
head and listens, then pecks with light
ning strokes at the bark, tearing off
whole strips and diving after the grub
underneath. Sometimes he finds him
at once, and again he has to chisel
deep and send his curious fishhook
tongue far along to spear him, but he
always gets him and then stops for a
moment with a conceited air of tri
umph. His loud decided "peck, peck,"
is a familiar sound of the woods. The
larger birds are the hairy and the
smaller ones the downy varieties, and
the ones without the pretty red cap
are the ladies of the family.
Nature dreams in the noontime, con
tent that her babies are asleep while
Jack Frost is still about She is tired
with the rough frolics of the winter
and glad to rest for a little while be
fore they all awake up and raise their
myriad voices in countless demands on
her time and care.
Advice Gratis A Game.
Each player is provided with a slip
of paper on which he is to write a
piece of advice, which may be original,
or, if he lacks imagination, a proverb,
or a mere piece of copybook morality.
The papers are then folded and shak
en up In a hat Each person draws
one and reads aloud for the informa
tion of the company, first declaring, be
fore looking at it, what sort of advice
it is. whether good, very good, uncall
ed for or totally mistaken, etc.
Thus one declares that her advice is
"very good," and then reads that she
is told to spend less time at her look
ing glass.
Mr. B. says that his piece of advice
is "extremely appropriate" and finds
that he is told that "if he were not
quite so conceited he would not be a
bad sort of fellow."
One says her advice is "quite unnec
esssary" and finds it to be "Never kiss
and tell."
It is well to write the advice on dif
ferent colored papers for the girls so
there may bo a semblance of suitabil
ity in it
Riddles.
"What Is the difference between forms
and ceremonies? You sit upon one and
stand on the other.
Why is Buckingham palace the
cheapest place in the world? Because
it was bought for a crown and kept up
for a sovereign.
"When is a man immersed in busi
ness? "When he Is giving swimming
lessons.
In what trade can one cut a figure?
In the sculptoring business.
now do little fish give us a proper
idea of business? They start on a
small scale.
When do cards most resemble
wolves? When they belong to a pack.
When is a sick man a contradiction?
When he is an impatient patient
What bird Is in season all the year
around? The weathercock.
When does water resemble a gym
nast? When it makes a spring.
A
Headliner
The star act on every Bill
(of fare) is an
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WHISKEY
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this craod cM Kentucky brand.
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ROUND THE WORLI
'A Washington tree stump makes a
stable for two horses.
St Louis now marks with signposts
safety zones in downtown streets.
Russian Poland has 570,200 cattle
now as compared to 2,825,023 in 1903.
Italian authorities have been using
automobile trucks In Tripoli with great
success.
Berlin, Germany, under normal con
ditions, employs almost 1,000,000 work
ers in its industries.
The city of Faris has Issued a map
showing where within its limits the
tango may and may not be danced.
The number of postage stamps print
ed for the United States government
last year amounted to 9,773,424,000.
Radium water to be used as a medic
inal beverage has been introduced in
Holland, acording to Vice Consul De
Young.
Under forest regulations in Colombia
rubber gatherers are required to give
the trees a rest period in tapping them
for gum.
A St Louis Inventor of a life pre
server which has metal webs on the
legs claims they enable a person to
walk in water.
Boulogne-sur-Mer is the leading fish
ing port of France and is one of the
most important centers for the fishing
industry in the world.
Where the garden of Eden once flour
ished, according to some eminent au
thorities, irrigation is about to be in
troduced from the Euphrates.
In New Zealand every man out of
work has the right to demand employ
ment on work of public improvement
at the prevailing rate of wages.
In southern France the fig tree is
now cultivated almost exclusively for
the production of the fresh fruit which
always has a ready sale in the large
centers.
There are no producing nickel mines
In the United States. The output of
nickel from domestic ores Is merely a
byproduct from electrolytes of the cop
per refineries.
The Berlin telephone station has a
scheme by which the movements of
physicians are recorded in case of an
urgent call when their services will
be desired quickly.
A French scientist is experimenting
to prevent fogs by floating small quan
tities of oil on the surface of rivers to
check evaporation, to which he con
tends fogs are due.
A rancher has applied for rental of
320 acres of the Tike national forest
Colorado, to be used in connection
with private land for raising elk as a
commercial venture. .
Baseball for its male employees, ten
nis for its women and other recrea
tions for both are provided by a Chi
cago department store on the roof of
its extensive building.
A new English mine rescue appara
tus does away with the helmet and
weighs only twenty-eight pounds, yet
with it a man can work in deadly
gases more than five hours.
Flint pebbles gathered on the coast
of France and of which about $40,000
worth are annually exported from
Havre to the United States, are valued
at present at $7.75 per metric ton.
Lead pencil manufacture in the Unit
ed States is consuming 73,000,000 feet
of lumber annually, of which about
one-half is estimated to be wasted in
sharpening or throwing away short
ends.
Women of the Portuguese province
of Mozambique in Africa make a white
cosmetic by grinding a certain kind of
wood in water. They assert it removes
wrinkles and prevents eruptive blem
ishes. In the city planning congress at
Ghent there was much advocacy of
streets so laid out as to allow the
greatest possible amount of sunlight in
order to secure the fullest microbici
dal action of the rays.
The United States Steel corporation
has paid $1,003,053.43 in pensions to
more than 2,000 former employees dur
ing the past three years, according to
the third annual report of the pension
fund, recently published.
In these days of big libraries it
seems odd to spread the news that a
collection of books at Princeton has
been brought up to eight volumes. But
they are all early books on Amerigo
Vespucci, which makes a difference.
About 5,000 tons of cork sawdust are
used in Spain annually in packing
fruit3 for shipment. Some 40,000 per
sons are employed in some manner in
the cork industry in Spain, with an
average wage of about C7 cents a' day.
Cotton promises to be one of the
great crops of the Tanama canal zone.
One grower has hybridized wild cotton
with plants from the United States.
He also has an ever bearing variety
which is pruned to produce a new
growth.
Both Colombia and Peru are competi
tors of Ecuador in the manufacture of
Panama hats, though Ecuador has the
advantage of being the sole producer,
so far as is known, of the best grade of
"toquilla," the straw or grass from
which the hats are made.
Russia produces nearly all of the
world's supply of platinum, about 13,
250 pounds annually. In 1392 it cost
$89 a pound and It Is now worth $iSS
a pound. Extensive deposits found in
Germany will, it Is hoped, considerably
increase the world's supply.
By a new process pineapple leaves,
which were formerly waste, can be
made into paper fiber at a profit The
fiber Is a tough substance that can be
used for insulating purposes, and sev
enty pounds of fiber can be manufac
tured from a ton of pineapple leaves.
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Good
Breeding
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PRIZELANDER A thoroughbred trotting stallion, is a jet
black and weighs 1200 pounds. He was "foaled in 1907, by
Borolyptol 32229; dam Minaletta, by Wrestler 18754; grand dam
Minola, by Alpine 9611; sire Borolyptol 32229, Electioneer, Jr.
26257.
The season of 1914 for these horses will be made at my farm
one mile south of Mynard.
The Great Breeding Jack "Tom"
Tom is a black jack with white points and weighs 1000 lbs.,
good bone and a sure foal getter. He will also make the entire
season at my farm.
Tnrmn For Herbert an(1 Prizelander $10 to insure colt
I Rl flirt 2 t0 stan(1 and suck- For Bodenham and jack Tom
1 Ul IllUB $15 to insure colt to stand and suck. Care will
be taken to prevent accidents but will not be held responsible
should any occur. When parties dispose of mares or remove from
the county service lee becomes due and payable immediately.
A.
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CHANGES EK BOLES
FOR CORN GRADING
Will Bs Voted en by Chicago
jJoard of Trade April 13,
Chicago, April 9. Proposed changes
In the rules of the Chicago hoard of
tiade, with reference to ths grading
of corn, will be voted on April IS. The
changes place a premium on unmixed
corn and otherwise are necessary to
conform to the United States govern
ment's new corn rules, which go into
effect July 1.
Alter July 1 all contracts shall be
for "contract" corn, according to the
text of the new rules mailed to all
board of trade members. Nos. 1 and
2, mixed corn, shall be at contract
price; Nos. 1 and 2, white, or Nos. 1
and 2, yellow, unmixed, have a pre
mium of K- cent a bushel; No. 3, white
and yellow, unmixed, are 2 cents un
der contract price; No. 3, mixed, is 3
cents under contract price; No. 4, un
mixed, is 41-!. cents under contract
price, and No. 4, mixed, is 5 cents un
der contract price.
REVENUES COVER BUDGET
Treasury Figures Show Income Will
Meet New Estimates.
Washington, April 9. Figures were
made public in a treasury department
statement showing that the revenues
from the customs during the fiscal
year which ends June 30, 1914, almost
certainly wil meet and probably will
exceed the estimates made when con
gress passed the new tariff law.
Do you know that the Journal
office carries the finest line of
stationery In the city?
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TOGO
will make the season or 1914 on the G. W. Rhoden
farm, three miles west and two miles north of Mur
ray. He is a black Percheron. nine years old, and
weighs 1800 pounds he was imported in 1907.
SERVICE FEE $12 to insure colt to stand and tuck.
MOBO
Morg is an excellent grade stallion, Morgan stock,
black and white spotted, seven years old, weighs
1050 pounds. He is a good fool getter, and has some
fine colts. He will make the season at my home.
SERVICE FEE $10 to insure celt to stand and suck
Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but should any oc
cur owner will not be held responsible When parties dispose
of their mares or remove from the locality, service fee becomes
due and must be paid immediately.
G. R. RHODE
Sta ons
BODENHAM MATCH
LESS 22132 is an Eng
lish Shire and was foaled
in 1903. Bred hy Mrs. Medli
cott, Bodenham, Leomins
ter, England. He is bay in
color, with white face, and
weighs 2000 pounds. Boden
ham is an excellent breed
er and has many fine colts
in Cass county that will
prove this statement.
HERBERT is a sorrel horse
weighing 1800 pounds
and is a good foal getter
and producer.
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FRECKLE FACE
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly
Spots How to Remove
Easily.
Hero's a chance, Mi Freckle
fare, 1o try a remedy for freckles
willi the puarantec of a reliable
dealer that it will not co-t ymi a
iM'imy unless it removes the
freckles; while if it does jrive you
a clear complexion the expense
is trifling".
Simply get an ounce of olhine
double strength from any
druj.-pist and a few applications
should show you how easy it is to
rid yourself of the homely
freckles and jret a beautiful com
plexion. Rarely is more than one
ounce needed for the worst case.
lie sure, to ask the druggist for
the double - strength othincras
this is the prescription sold un
der guarantee of money back if
it fails to remove freckles.
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