1 -sfjsr-Ef-e-rr -?-r "V-v " t s W" Watt forty fia, keaYr draacat hones at oace. Mast fee aoaaaaa wtigh over 1W lbs., state aje, we) (rkukeicht. color, coa- .''" nsrntt seaapaotarraaa. KAME PRICET. SniMl9iilm.CNlCiMlnli s."' KES WalTEl f 3"- , Cranhnt ilrRelixethXptaIn - Mai Givati Him a. Bifl , ttfrtract. w - H . Ia the keicnt of tae recent wheat ta ult Broker Patten, diecnasla the goTerameat's wheat estimates with a reporter, aaid calaily: "But some of the men the govern ment takes its figures from are green horns. Perfect greenhorns. As, bad as the Dutch sailor, you know. 'The captain said to the sailor, when the ship came to port: - Take a boat, ran ashore and bay two dollars' worth of vegetables.' "The sailor didn't know what vege tables were, bo as soon as he struck land be said (o a 'longshoreman: " 'What is vegetables, mate?' "'Oh, dried peas, for instance,? tic longshoreman answered. "So the Dutch sailor spent his twc dollars on a huge sack of dried peas. "When be drew near the ship again with his load the captain called him from the bridge: "'Well, have you got those vege tables?' " 'Aye, aye, sir,' said the sailor. "'Then,' said the captain, 'hand them up to cookie one at a time.' '"Shiver my timbers!' said the sailor, 'I've got a job before me new, and no mistake!" NEVER DONE. Slimkins I I hope you didn't mind my putting that little matter of $5 in the hands of the bill collector yesterday? Podger Not at all; I borrowed a dollar from him. Forestalled. "Well, Mrs. Dennis, what are yon going to give Pat 'for flhristmas this year?" inquired the recipient of Mrs. Dennis' regular washday vists, one day "at the beginning of .the festal season. " 'Deed thin, ma'am, I don't know," replied Mrs. Dennis, raising herself from the washtub and setting her dripping arms akimbo. "I did be thinkin' I'd give him a pair of pants, but. Lord bless ye, ma'am, only last night didn't he come home wid a pair on." Success Magazine. 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Yet Lsdy Bayrose was too conscien tious a chaperon to be fully satisfied with her countryman's bare assertion that he was engaged on a diplomatic mission requiring reticence regarding his identity. She did no see why this should prevent him from confiding in her. Notwithstanding this, Winthrope came aboard ship virtually as a mem ber of her ladyship's party. He was so quick, so thoughtful of her comfort, and paid so much more attention to her than to Miss Leslie, that her lady ship had decided to tolerate him, even before Blake became a factor in the situation. From the moment he crossed the gangway the American engineer en tered upon a daily routine of drinking and gambling, varied only by attempts to strike up an off-Hand acquaintance with Miss Leslie. This was Wln thrope's opportunity, and his clever frustration of what Lady Bayrose termed "that low bounder's impu dence" served to install him in the good graces of her ladyship as well as in the favor of the American heiress. Such, at least, was what Winthrope intimated to the persistent engineer with a superciliousness of tone and manner that would have stung even a British lackey to resentment. To Blake it was supremely galling. He could not rejoin in kind, and the slightest attempt at physical retort would have meant irons and confine ment. It was a British ship. Behind Winthrope was Lady Bayrose; behind her ladyship, as a matter of course, was all the despotic authority of the captain. In the circumstances, it was not surprising that the American drank heavier after each successive goading. , - Meantime the ship, having touched at Port Natal, steamed on up the east coast, into the Mozambique chan nel. On the day of the cyclone, Blake had withdrawn into his stateroom with a number of bottles, and throughout that fearful afternoon ;was blissfully unconscious of the danger. Even when the steamer went on the reef, be was only partially roused by the shock. He took a long pull from a quart flask of whisky, placed the flask with great care in his hip pocket, and lurched out through the open door way. The sea was breaking over the steamer in torrents; but between waves Blake was dragged across to the side and flung over into the bot tom of the one remaining boat. He served as a cushion to break the fall of Miss Leslie, who was tossed in after him. At the same time, Win thrope, frantic with fear, scrambled into the bows and cut loose. She and Winthrope saw. the steam er sup trom me reel ana smK oacK into deep water, carrying down in-the vortex the mate and the few remain ing sailors. After that all was chaos to them. They were driven ashore be fore the terrific gusts of the cyclone, blinded by the stinging spoondrift to all else but the hell of breakers and coral reefs in whose midst they swirled so dizzily. And through it all Blake lay huddled on the bottom boards gurgling blithely of spicy zephyrs and swaying hammocks. There came the seemingly final mo ment when the boat went spinning stern over prow. Half-sobered, Blake opened bis eyes and stared solemnly about him. He was given little time to take his bear ings. A smother of broken surf came seething up from one .of the great breakers, to roll him over and scrape him a little farther up the muddy shore. There the' flood deposited him for a moment, until it could gather force to sweep-back and drag him down again toward the roaring sea that had-cast him up. Blake objected not to the danger of being drowned, but to interference with his repose. He had reached the obstinate stage. He grunted a protest Again the flood seethed 'up the shore, and rolled him away from the danger. This was too much! He set bis jaw, turned over, and staggered to his feet Instantly one of the terrific wind-blasts struck his broad back and sent him spinning for yards, die brought up in a shallow pool, beside a hummock. Under the lee of the knoll lay Win thrope andMiss Leslie. Though con scious, both were draggled and bruised and beaten to exhaustion." They were together because they had come ashore together. When the boat cap sized, Miss Leslie had been fiun-;, against the Englishman, and they had held fast to each other with the des perate clutch of drowning persons. Neither of i them ever recalled how they gained the shelter of the hum mock. Blake, sitting waist-deep in the pool, blinked at them benignly with his pale blue eyes, and produced the quart flask, still a third full of whisky. "J shay, rren's." he observed, "ha WfSsSSmlBgl&EB m I he g-Bj J . t iwk a-' mmi ""-aw--av V-Aoav wi L - - IxJiiamaawfe I -. -fc MM43'20Biil aaaakh iaaaBa9"aaaaaaaw " T "saBs'Bs.Mi3B I J" .- m CJEaaaaaaanr ac7w bbvmmmm .bbbbw viu awMMT " MMi i Sleeping the Sleep one onn me. Won' cos you shent notta e-shenU"ft', .- "You fuddled lout!" shouted Win thrope. '"Come out of that pool." "Wassama'er pool? Pool's allri'!" The Englishman squinted through the driving scud at the- intoxicated man with an anxious frown. In all probability he felt no commiseration for the American; but it was no light matter to be flung up barehanded on the most unbealthful and savage stretch of '-the Mozambique coast, and Blake might be able "to help them out of their predicament. To leave him ih the pool"was" therefore not to be thought of? So soon as he had drained his bottle he would lie down, and that would be the end of him. As any attempt to move him forcibly was out of the 'question, the situation demanded that Winthrope justify his intimations of diplomatic training. After consid ering the problem for several 'minutes, he met it in a waythat proved be was. at least not lacking in shrewdness and tact. "See here, Blake," he called, in an other lull between the shrieking gusts, "the lady is fatigued. You're too much of a gentleman to ask her to come over- there." It required some moments for this to penetrate Blake's fuddled brain. After a futile attempt to gain his feet, he crawled out of the pool on all fours, and, with tears in his eyes, pressed his flask upon Miss Leslie. She shrank away from him, shuddering, and drew herself up in a huddle of flaccid limbs and limp garments. Winthrope, how ever, not oaly accepted the flask, but come near to draining it Blake squinted at. the diminished contents, hesitated, and cast a glance of maudlin gallantry at Miss Leslie. She lay coiled, closer than before, in a draggled heap. Her posture sug gested sleep. Blake stared at her, the flask extended waveringly before him. Then be brought it to his. lips, and drained out the last drop. "Time turn in," he 'mumbled, and sprawled full length in the brackish ooze. Immediately he fell into" a drunken stupor. Winthrope, invigorated by the liquor, rose to his knees, and peered around. It was impossible to face 'the scud and spoondrift from 'the furious sea; but to leeward he caught a glimpse of a marsh flooded with"' salt water, 'its reedy vegetation beaten flat by the storm. He himself 'was beaten dowji by a terrific gust. Panting and trembling he waited for the wind to lull, in hope that he might obtain a clearer view of his surroundings. Be fore he again dared rise to bis feet darkness swept "down 'with tropical suddenness and blurred out everything. 3 The effect of the cwhisky soon, passed, and Winthrope . huddled be tween his companions, drenched and exhausted. Though he -could bear Miss Leslie moaning, he was too miserable himself to inquire whether he could do anything for her. u Presently he became aware that the wind was falling. The center of the cyclone had passed before the ship struck, and they were now in the out ermost circle of the vast whirlwind. With the consciousness of this change for the better. Winthrope's fear-racked nerves relaxed and he fell into a heavy sleej?. j, CHAPTER II. lw Wcrse Than Wilderness. WAH from Miss' Leslie roused thenglisbman out of a dream in which he had been swimming for life across a sea of boiling oil. He sat u and gazed about him, half-dazed. Tie cyclone had been followed by s C d calm, and f T51.! tM00" mmimmWbW aaVoaV. of the Just and the Drunkard. the sun, already well, above the hori zon, was blazing Tup6n"' them over the glassy surfaces' Of -tb'e-dying swells with fierce heat Winthrope felt about for his hat. It had been blown off when, at the stri king of the steamer, he had rushed up on deck. As he remembered, be straightened, and looked at his com panions. Blake lay snoring where he had -first outstretched himself, sleeping the sleep of the just and of the drunkard. The gfrl, however, was already awake She sat with her hands clasped in-her lap, while the .tears rolled 8lowly""d6wn'"her cheeks. "My ah dear Miss Genevieve, what is the matter?" exclaimed Win thrope. "Matter? Do you ask; when we are here on this wretched coast, and may not get away for weeks? Ob, I did so count on the London season this year! Lady Bayrose promised that I should be among those presented." "Well,1 I all fancy, "Lady i Bayrose will do no more presenting unless it may be to the heavenly choir, you know." "Why, what do you mean, Mr. Winthrope? You told me that she and the maids had been put in the largest boat" "My dear Miss Genevieve, you must remember that I am a diplomat It was all quite sufficiently harrowing, I assure you. They were, indeed, put into the largest boat Beastly mud dle! While they waited for the mate to fetch you, the boat was crushed alongside, and all in it drowned." "Drowned! drowned! Oh, dear Lady Bayrose! And she'd traveled so much oh, oh, it is horrible! Why did she persuade me to visit the Cape? It was only to be with her And then for us to start off for India, when we might have sailed straight to England! Ob, it is horrible! horrible! And my maid, and all It cannot be possible!" "Pray, do not excite yourself my dear Miss Genevieve. Their troubles are all over. Er Gawd has taken them to Him, you know." "But the pity of it! To be drowned so far from home!" "Ab, if that's all you're worrying about! I must say I'd like to know how we'll get a snack for breakfast. I'm hungry as, a er groom." "Eating! How can you think of eating, Mr. Winthrope and all the others drowned? This sun is becom ing dreadfully hot It. is unbearable! Can you not put up some kind of an awning?" FIRST CHARGE Somewhat Novel System in Vegua in Stores of Salem. Evidence of that thrift which con tributed its share in maklngSalem the prosperous little ofty it is' to-day smote me unawares the first day I ventured into one of the numerous "antique" stores. The shop's 'exterior was tempting and I entered, to find some indifferent mahogany littered 'about a severe maiden lady who stood framed in an extremely interesting interior. I noted the disposition of things and was preparing to leave, having just replaced something on the shelf where it belonged, when the lady said '-That will be ten cents." "Thank you; I really couldn't use it" I replied, edging away for the door. "But the charge is ten cents," she added, coldly, moving nearer. "So I understand," said I, skillfully j .. "Well, now, I must say, I was never much of a hand at such things, and really I can't imagine what one could rig up. There might have been a bit 'of sail in the boat, but one can't see a sign of it. I fancy it was smashed." Miss Leslie ventured a glance at Blake. Though "still lying as he had sprawled in his drunkenness, there was a comforting" suggestion of power in bis broad' shoulders and square jaw. " "Is he still in that condition?" 'fMust have slept it off by this time, and there's no more in the flask," an swered Winthrope. Reaching over with bis foot, he pushed against Blake's 'back. "Huh! All ,riht," grunted the sleeper, and sat up, as had Winthrope, half dazed. Then he stared around him, and rose to his feet. "Well, what in hell! Say, this is damn cheerful!" "I fancy we are in a nasty fix. But I say, my man, there is a woman pres ent, and your language, you know " " Blake turned arid fixed the English man with a cold stare. "Look here, you bloomin lud," he said, "there's just one thing you're going to understand, right here and now. I'm not your man, and we're not going to' have any of that kind of blat ter. Any fcol can see we're in a tight hole, end we're like to keep com pany fcr a while probably long ai we last." "What ah may I ask, do you mean by that?" Blake laughed harshly, and pointed from the reef-strewn sea to the vast stretches of desolate marsh. Par in land, across miles of brackish lagoons and reedy mud-flats, could be seen groups of scrubby, half-leafless trees; ten or twelve miles to the southward a rocky, headland jutted out into the water; otherwise there was nothing in sight but sea and swamp. If it could not properly be termed a sea-view, it was at least a very wet landscape. "Fine prospect," remarked Blaka, dryly. "Well be In luck if the fever don't get the last of us inside a month; and as for you two, you'd have as much show of lasting a month as a toad with a rattlesnake, if it wasn't for Tom Blake thatmy name Tom Biake and as long' as this shindy lasts, you're welcome to call me Tom or Blake, whichever suits. Bui un derstand, we're not going to liave any more of your bloody, bloomin English condescension. Aboard ship you bad the drop on me, and could pile on -dog till the cows came home. Here I'm Blake and you're Win thrope." - - - "Believe me, Mr. Blake, I quite ap preciate the ah situation. And now. I fancy that, instead of wasting time" "It's about time ycu introduced me to the lady," interrupted Blake, and he stared at them, half defiantly, yet with a twinkle in his eyes. Miss Leslie flushed. Wintbropo swore softly, and bit his lip. Aboard ship, backed by Lady Bayrose and'the.- captain, he had goaded the American at pleasure. Now, however, the sit uation wa8 reversed. Both title and authority had been swept away by the storm, and he was left to shift for himself against the man who had every reason to hate him for his over bearing insolence. Worse still, both he and Miss Leslie were now depen dent upon the American, in all prob ability for life itself. It was a bitter pill and bard to swallow. Blake was not slow to observe the Englishman's hesitancy. He grinned. "Every dog has his day, and I guess this is mine," he said. "Take your time, if it comes hard. I can imagine it's a pretty stiff; dose for your ludship. But why fn why In frozen1 hades'-aa American lady should object to an in troduction to a countryman who's go ing to do his level best to save her pretty little self from the hyenas well, it beats me." Winthrope flushed redder than the girL "Miss Leslie, Mr. Blake," he mur mured, hoping to put an end to the situation. But yet Blake persisted. He bowed, openly exultant "You see, miss," he said, "I know the correct thing quite as much as your swells'. I knew rall along you were Jenny Leslie. I ran a survey for your dear paipa when he was manipulating the Q. T. railroad, and he did me out ! of my' pay." (TO BE CONTINUED.) TO CUSTOMERS - maneuvering for a hurried but digni fied .exit "The admission to the store Is ten cents." she put. in here,, with chilly distinctness, outflanking me. Foe anything savoring of novelty in this fin de siecle business world let us be truly, thankful! 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