- "SV -c- t,, -vi. i-i-t . Jr s? " rtfi N pnraD '-.-- T J j M i l i-i a ROBERT u BENNBT ILLUmAWIfJBmWMTm COPYttCttT SOS- BY A.CftfCtumG cc. SYNOPSIS. Tlie utoiy opr.s with tlm shipwreck of U'e steamer on which Miss Genevieve leslle, an Americnn heiress. I-ord Win t'lrope. an Englishman, and Tom Blake, n hrufxjtrc Ajnrican, wcrf passengers. The three wcr' tosscJ upon an uninhah-iS'-il islantl and were thf; only ones not drowned. Blake recovered from a drunk n stupor. Blake, shunned on the hoat. IveauFe of his roughness, became a hero preserver of the helpless pair. The Knglishznan was ruing for tlie hand ot Miss Leslie. Blake, started to swim back to the ship to recover what was left. Blake returned safely. Winthrope wasted ills last match on a wcarette. for wind he war scored by Blake. Their first meal was a dead fish. The trio started a ten mile hike for higher land. Thirst at-ta-k-d them. Blake was compelled to wry Miss" Leslie on account of weari ness, fie taunted Winthrope. They en tered the jungle. That night was passed roosting high in a tree. Tin- next morn ing they descended to the open again. All three constrccted hats to shield them selves from the sun. They then feasted on cocoa nuts, the only procurable food. MIr.s lslie showed a liking Tor Blake, but detested his roughness. Led by Blake ihey established a home in some cliffs. B'.ake found a fresh water spring. Miss l'slie faced an unpleasant situation. They planned their campaign. Blake re overe(i his surveyor! magnifying glass, thus insuring fire, lie started a jungle lire. CHAPTER IX. Continued. Ti'.ahe picked a path along the edge of the rill, where the moist vegetation, though scorched, had refused to burn. After the first abrupt lodge, up which Rlake had to drag his companions, the ascent was easy. Rut as they climbed around an outfitting corner of the steep tight wall of the cleft Hlake muttered a curse of disappointment, lie could now see that the cleft did not run to the top of the cliff, but through it, like a tiny box canyon. The sides rose sheer and smooth as walls. Midway, at the highest point of the cleft, the baobab towered high . above the ridge crest, its gigantic 'trunk filling a third of the breadth of the little gorge. Unfortunately it stood close to the left wall. "Here's luck for you!" growled Hlake. "Why couldn't the blamed old tree have grown on the other side? 'We might, have found a way to climb it. Guess we'll have to smoke out another leopard. We're no nearer those birds nests than we were yes terday." "By .love, look here!" exclaimed Winthrope. "This is our chance for antelope! Here by the spring are bamboos real bamboos and only half the thicket burned." "What of them?" demanded Blake. "Hows arrows ant! did you not agree that they would make knives?" "Umph we'll see. What is it. Miss Jenny?" "Isn't that a hole in the big tree?" "Looks like iL These baobabs are ofien hollow." "Perhaps that is where the leopard had his den." added Winthrope. "Shouldn'l wonder. We'll go and see." "Hut. Mr. Blake," protested the girl, "may there not be other leopards?" "Might nave been: but I'll bet they lit out with the other. Look how the tree i3 scorched. Must have been stacks of dry brush around the hole, "nough to smoke out a fireman. We'll look and see if they left any soup bones lying around. First, though, here's your drink. Miss Jenny." As tie spoke, Blake kicked aside notne smouldering branches and led the way to the crevice whence the spring trickled from the rock into a shallow stone basin. When all had drunk their fill of the clear cool water Hlake took up his club and walked straight across to the baobab. Less than .'50 stops brought him to the nar row opening in the trunk of the huge . -t ree. At first he could make out noth ing in tho dtmJy lit interior: but the fetid, catty odor was enough to con vince him that he had found the leopards den. He caught the vague outlines of a long body, crouched five or six yards ' away, on the far side of the hollow. He sprang back, his club brandished to strike But the expected attack did not follow. Blake glanced about as though considering the advisability of a retreat. Winthrope and Miss Leslie were staring at him, white-faced. The sight of their terror seemed to spur . him to dare-devil bravado: though his actions may rather have been due to the fact that he realized the futility of flight, and so rose to the requirements 'of the situation the grim need to stand and face the danger. Gel behind the bamboos!" he called, and as they hurriedly obeyed, he caught up a stone and Rung it in at the crouching beast. He heard the missile strike with a soft thud that told him he had not missed his mark, and he swung up his club in both hands. Given half a chance he would smash the skull of the female as he had crushed her blinded mate. One moment after an other passed, and he stood poised for tho shock, tense and scowling. Not -so much as a snarl came from within. The iruVi flashed upon him. "Smothered!" he yciled. The other saw him dart Jn through the hole. A moment later two limp grayish bodies were flung out into the open, immediately after Blake reap peared, dragging the body of the moth er leopard. it's all right; they're dead!" cried Winthrope, and he ran forward to look at the bodies. Miss Leslie followed, hardly less curious. "Are they all dead. Mr. Blake?" she inquired. "Wiped out whole family. The old cat stayed by her kittens, and all smothered together lucky for us! Get busy with those bamboos Win. I'm going to have these skins, and the sooner we get the cub meat hung up and curing, the better for us."' "Leopard meat again!" rejoined Winthrope. "Spring leopard, yqnng'and tender! What more could you ask? Get a move on yon. I .fPv" -N a "4rv. ' "I -CT Stls .illlav ' ISIH OIIKISBn I5JvviI IB IIIII One Moment After Another Passed, "Can I do anything, Mr. Blake?" asked Miss Leslie. "Hunt a shady spot." "But I really mean it." "Well, if that's straight, you might go on along the gully, and see if there's any place to get to the top. You could pick up sticks on the way back, if any are left. We'll have to fumigate this tree hole before we adopt it for a residence." "Will it be long before you finish with your with the Tjodies?"" "Well, now, look here, Miss Jenny; it's going to be a mess, and I wouldn't mind hauling the carcasses clear down the gully, out of sight, if it was to be the only time. But it's not, and you have got to get used to it. sooner or later. So we'll start now." "I suppose, if I must, Mr. Blake Really, I wish to help." "Good. That's something like! Think you can learn to cook?" "See what I did this morning." Blake took the cord of cocoanut fi ber which she held out to him, and tested its strength. "Well, ill be blessed!" he said. "This is something-jlike. If you don't look out. you'll make quite a camp mate. Miss Jenny. But now, trot along. This is hardl arctic weather, and our abattoir don't include a cold storage plant. The sooner these lambs are dressed, the belter." CHAPTER X. Problems in Woodcraft. T WAS no pleasant sight that met Miss Leslie's gaze upon her return. The neatest of butchering can hardly be termed aesthetic; and Blake and Win thrope lacked both skill and tools. Be tween the penknife and an improvised blade of bamboo, they had flayed the two cubs and haggled off the flesh. The ragged strips, spitted on bamboo rods, were already searing in the fierce sun-rays. , Miss Leslie would have slipped into the hollow of the baobab with her armful of fagots and brush; but Blake waved a bloody knife above the body of the mother leopard, and beckoned the girl to come nearer. ,..,, , more difficult to withstand the odor of the fresh blood. Winthrope was pale and nauseated. The sight of his dis tress caused the girl to forget her own loathing;. She drew a deep breath, and succeeded in countering Blake's expectant look with a half-smile. "How well are you getting along!" she exclaimed. "Didn't think you could stand it. But you've got grit all right, if you are a ladjV Blake said admiringly. "Say, you'll make It yet! Now, how about the gully?" "There Is no place to climb up. "It runs along like this, and then slopes down. But there is a cliff at the end, as high as these walls." "Twenty feet," muttered Blake. "Confound the luck. It isn't that jump-off; but how in how are we going to get up on the cliff? There's an everlasting lot of omelettes in those birds' nests. If only that bloom in' how's that, Win, me b'y? that bloomin', blawsted .baobab was on t'other side. The wood's almost soft as punk. We could drive in pegs, and climb up the trunk." "There are other trees beyond it," remarked Miss Leslie. "-:;". T"r ,- - now lnat Bake had attention What did you And out? to the possibnjty of thclr preseaCe. Miss Leslie drew a few steps near-1 He laughed at his hesitating com er, and forced herself to look at the j panions. "Go on. go on! Don't squeal revolting sight. She found it still til! ,you're bit. Most nnVP hi.- t and He Stood Poised for the Shock. "Then maybe we can shin up " "I fear the branches that overhang the cliff are too slender to bear any weight." "And it's too infernally high to climb up to this overhanging baobab limb." "I say." ventured Winthrope, "if we had an ax. now, we might cnt up one of the trees, and make a ladder." "Oh, yes; and if we had a ladder, we might climb up the cliff!" 'But, Mr. Blake, is there not some way to cnt down one of the trees? The trea itself would be a ladder if it fell in such a way as to lean against the cliff." "There's only the penknife." an swered Blake. "So 1 guess we'll have to scratch eggs off our menu card Spring leopard for ours! Now, if you really want to help, you might scrape the souj) bones out of your boudoir, and fetch a lot more brush. It'll take a big fire to rid the hole of that cat smell." "Will not the tree burn?" "No; these hollow baobabs have green bark on the inside as well as out Funny thing, that! We'd have to keep a fire going a long time to burn through." "Yet it would burn in time?" "Yes; but we're not going to " "Then why not burn through the trunk of ono of those small trees,, in stead of chopping it down?" "By heck, Aiiss Jenny, you've got an' American headpiece! Come on. Sooner we get the thing started, the better." Neither Winthrope nor Miss Leslie was reluctant to leave the vicinity of the carcasses. They followed close after Blake, around the monstrous bole of the baobab. A little beyond it stood a group of slender trees, whose trunks averaged eight inches at the base. Blake stopped at the second one. which grew nearest to the sea ward side of the cleft. "Here's our ladder, he said. "Get some firewood. Pound the bushes, i hough, before you go poking into them. May be snake? Wre." "Snakes? oh!" cried Miss Leslie, and she stood shuddering at the dan ger she had already Incurred. The fire had burnt itself out on a bare ledge of rock between them and the baobab, and the clumps of dry brush left standing in this end of the cleft were very suggestive of snakes. if you give them half a chancel Take a stick each of you, and pound the bushes." Thus urged, both started to work. But neither ventured into tho-thicker clumps. When they returned, with large armfuls of sticks and twigs, Acted Upon By Suggestion Thak Thought May Produce Blister on - Hand, Is Medical Fact. It is not generally known that thought may produce a blister on the hand or an ulcer on the foot, as well as many other actual physical changes Jn one's organism which are little short of miraculous. I have no doubt that St. Francis of Assisi re ceived the stigmata of the crucifixion on his hands and feet as historically described. I have no doubt, because Its possibility has been -put to the proof within the past few years, and by a friend of mine whom I will name. Prof. Krafft Ebing of Vienna told a young woman be would place a small they found tnat Blake had used his glass to light a handful of 'dry bark, out in the sun, and was nursing it in to a small fire at the base of the tree, on the side next the cliff. " . "Now. Miss Jenny," he 'directed, "you're to keep this going not too big a fire understand? Same time you can keep on fetching brush to fumi gate your cat hole. It needs it, all right." "Will not that be rather too much fcr Miss Leslie?" asked Winthrope. "Well, if she'd rather come and rub brains on the skins, Indian tan, you know, or " "How can you mention such things before a lady?" protested Winthrope. "Beg your pardon. Miss Leslie! you see, I'm not much used to ladies' com pany. Anyway, you've got to see and hear about these things. And now 111 have to get the strings for Win's bamboo bows. Come on. Win. We've got that old tabby to peel, and a lot more besides." Miss Leslie's first impulse was to protest against being left alone, when at any moment some awful venom ous serpent might come darting at her out of the brush or the crevices in the rocks. But her half-parted lips drew firmly together, and after a mo ment's hesitancy, she forced herself to the task which had been assigned her. The fire, once started, required little attention. She could give most of her time to gathering brush for the fumigation of the leopard den. She had collected quite a heap of fuel at the entrance, of the hollow, when she remombered that the place would first have to be cleared of its accumulation of bones. A glance at her companions showed that they were in the midst cf tasks even more revolting. It was certainly disagree able to do such things: yet. as Mr. Blake had said, others had to do them. It was now her lime to learn. She could see him smile at her hesitation. Stung by the thought of his half .contemptuons pity, she caught up a forked stick, and forced herself to en ter the tree-cave. The stcr.ch met her like a blow. It nauseated and all but overpowered her. She stood for sev eral moments in the center of the cav ity, sick and faint. Had It been even the previous day, she would have run out into the open air. Presently she grew a little more ac customed to the stench, and began to rake over the soft, dry mold of the deu floor with her forked stick. Bones! who had ever dreamed of such a mess of bones? big bones and little bones and skulls: old bones, dry and almost buried: moldy bones: bones still half-covered with bits of flesh and gristle the remnants of the leopard family's last meal. At last all were scraped out and flung in a heap, three or four yards away from the entrance. Miss Los lie looked at the result of her labor with a satisfied glance, followed by a sigh of relief. Between the heat' and her unwonted exercise, she was great ly fatigued. She stepped around to a shadier spot to rest. With a start she remembered the fire. When she reached it there were only a few dying embers left. She gathered dead leaves and shreds of fibrous inner bark, and knelt beside the dull coals to blow them into life. She could not bsar the thought of hav ing to confess her carelessness to Blake. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Drudgery in the Kitcncn. The path of progress is clear. There is no more reason why the woman in modern civilization should scrub and cook and darn and dust than there is why these things should be done by men. The development of im proved machinery and the growth of labor saving devices of all kinds will finally obviate the necessity of doing these things each day in each borne through the land. Co-operation, which we are slowly learning to greet as a friend, will overcome the drudgery and make the life of a woman as en joyable and eventful as that of the man. Nearing and Watson in "Eco nomics." Their Marks. "The seal or signet ring," said a jeweler, "once had a very practical use. In the Middle Ages, when no body but the priests could write, men stamped documents with their signet rings, as the illiterate now make their marks. "The signet rings of noblemen bore the owner's crest or arms. The rings of merchants bore intricate mono grams, trademark or the like. There are certain old continental firms that preserve in cabinets the seal rings worn by their founders rings whose seals- arc inscribed with the trade maiks still in use." Help us to remember that greater than any church or creed is kindness. fnmmj fly plaster upon her which would pro- uuce a mister in a few hours. Ho actus I ly only put a postage stamn i upon the skin, without her knowledge, and covered it over so securely with bandages that she could not interfere with it. The blister appeared as sug gested. Frederick Peterson, M D In Collier's. " Not the Kind They'd Keep. "Is your climate rather changeable?" asked the tourist. "No. it isn't." answered the old set tler who always contradicts. "If it was, don't yon suppose we'd have changed it for something else vears asp ? Stray Stories. The Sunshine Ginger Wafer These are called Yarn Yums they are made at the "Sunshine Bakeries" too with the other "Sunshines." Baked in white tile top floor ovens 1amid pure air and sunshine. They are the best ginger snaps you ever tasted. Sunshine Turn Yums tt tThe Dainty wafers with just enough spice to be appetizing. We employ infinite still and costly material to create them. You miss the best in ginger k-e jQpSE-YlLES Biscuit Co. NOT QUITE SO FOOLISH. -Her Father Have you and Ned quarreled? His Daughter I should say not. My birthday is next month. Fifty cents per acre is the price at which the State of Colorado is- selling land in the Little Snake River valley, Koutt County, Colorado, which is open for entry under the Carey Land Act. Purchasers of land must also con tract for a water right, to be paid for in ten annual assessments, the total cost including a perpetual water right in the Little Snake river canal system, being thirty-five dollars per acre. This is pronounced one of the most ' fertile valleys in Colorado, and record crops of all grains, grasses and roots are now being raised there. Both the Moffat Road and the Union Pacific ' are building into the district. Persons desiring full information ' about the land and water should write , to the Routt County Colonization Co., 1734 Welton St.. Denver, Colorado. I The land is sold in tracts of 40, 80, ', 120 and 160 acres. Those desiring land will have to f act quickly, as the applications be ing received indicate that the desir able land will be quickly disposed of. The canal plans, water supply, etc., are all investigated and approved by the State Engineer. Wedding Fee In Installments. Some of the 'squires in rustic New Jersey seem to be pretty hard pushed for cash. To get the cash they do not hesitate to use most unusual methods. One of these J. P.'s advertised the other day that be was ready and will ing to marry couples at any time, day or night, for a consideration of 5 and that he was willing to accept Si in cash down and the rest in weekly in stallments, of Si until the fee of $5 was paid up. The very night after the first appearance of this advertisement the J. P. referred to was called upon to "make good" his bluff. Shortly after midnight a couple which had come in an automobile awakened him from his sleep and asked to be married under the installment plan offered in the advertisement. And the J. P. was game and made good. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it- is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. A Poser. The wife addressed her husband plaintively John William! You are taking salmon again, and you know that you must never take anything which does not agree with you. John William smiled sadlyj I wish I never had, my dear; but" where would you have have been? Stray Stories. Their Appropriate Place. "What is this Institution?" "One where all the next-to-nature's-heart faddists ought to go." "Why so?" "Because it is a home for the feeble- minded. where all the inmates lead i ik Aa t vthe real simple life." Importanrto Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see tbit it Signature olffiggjgf 1m Use For Over 30 Tears. The Kind Ton Have Always Bought What Was? Miss Orange Do you know Poe's "Raven?" Mr. Biack Wny," no; what's the mattar with hiral Harvard L7S;J..'E gingery ginger snap" snaps until you taste the shine" kind. 'Sun- Sunshine Yum Yums arc packed in thrice sealed cartons amply protected from dust and moisture. x They are at your grocer's in 5c packages. 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