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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05

But the reporters were not the only
people in Keokuk to be hospitable to
the Dozen. Several of the people res
cud lived in Keokuk and were just
coming home from the North. Among
these were the pretty young girl and
the boy they had found trying to take
off his shoes in the water. / need not
tell you how thankful the four parents
of these two persons were.
1t seemed hardly enough just to say:
You saved my child's life. I am very
much obliged to you. Goodbye"
The Lakerimmers looked too prosper
Gus and proud to be offered money. So
there was nothing to do but offer them
something to eat.
They were invited over to have an
early dinner that evening, and were
divided up, half a dozen to each of the
two houses. They accepted the invita-
tons with great giee, because they felt
sure that the dinners they got would
not be in the form of anything con-
densed, or evaporated, or in tablets.
When all these formahties were ar
ranged, they got back into the two ca
noes and hurried across to the camp to
change their wet clothes and beautify
themselves for the occasion. They had
not expected to be invited out any
where and had not brought their An
cry, but they brought what was much
better-to their thinking and that
was the appetite of a pack of wolves.
Il turned out that the girl and the
how were cousins so those who dined
at the house of the boy, were invited
over after dinner to the house of the
girl. The conversation was not long in
getting round to the subject of ath-
letics. Finally the boy, whose name
was Clinton Foster, said:
DO YOU fellows ever play baseball?"
The Dozen looked at each other and
erinned proudly, remembering its
championship in the Tri-State League
Sleepy, who was a great basebalnst,
and who had eaten himself almost
asleep. nearly fell out of his chair at
being asked such an astonishing Dues
ton. Hist'ry was about to claim that
the game of baseball was really in
vented by the Lakerimmers, When
Punk saved the day by modestly say
ing:
yves, play baseball now and then"
Clinton Foster said
81 am glad to hear ii, because we
have a team here which we think is
pretty fair, and maybe we could get
up a little exhibition game"
what is the name of your cluoE"
asked quiz
The Put-'em-Outs.
''WelI, the name Of our club" said b.
j., sis The Bring-'em-Ins because we
always get a. man on each base ana
then the batter knocks a home run.
as that sol" exclaimed Clinton.
WELL" said B. j., ut is so when we
dream about It, but then We always
wake up"
when do you want to play this
gamer" said Quiz.
Clinton answered the question with
another in true American fashion.
How long are you going to be
here?"
wen probably start back to-mor-
row evening" said Punk.
what on?" whispered Quiz. But
nobody heard him.
Clinton Foster said. Then we had
better have our game tomorrow. II
is pretty short notice, and we're not in
very good practice"
"Wiil YOU let us bat with canoe pad
dles?' asked o.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05

most elaborate in appearance by paint
ing them so that they look like fish or
dragons. On feast days they tie
them TO the tops of long bamboo poles
stuck in the ground, and thus produce
the effect of fish or dragons flying
through the air.
Newspaper or other brittle paper is
bad material to use in these kites
The paper should be light but tough.
If you live near a paper mill where
they make linen" paper such as Is
used for writing paper you can get il
in large sheets. You will find 1t ideal,
although a little expensive. So-calied
paper cambric"-a light cloth glazed
on one side-is not bad covering for
these kites, or, indeed, for any other
kites of large size.
The stationary kite will not fly very
high; but If you tie a flying string
from four to six feet long to the top
of a flagpole and put a stationary
kite" at the other end of 1t, q curious
spectacle will be presented every time
breeze stirS
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05

a cargo in canoe. They recognized
the canoe as B. J.'S and a second look
showed them that ne was in the water
hanging on to the stern of the canoe,
and using his feet for a paddle-wheel.
inside his fairy boat there were three
babes and woman.
AS for the Golden Eagle. the rud-
der which had refused to act when il
was first needed, now thought better
of its ill-temper and the pilot found
it answer his wheel. Though the water
was flowing in upon their feet, the en-
gineers stuck to their engines, and the
pilot, like Jim Bludsoe in the poem,
brought his boat to shore we'll down
the river and ran her aground.
There were few deaths from this
strange accident but far fewer than
there would have been had not the
Lakerimmers, by a strange accident,
happened upon the scene, so far from
their home and expectations.
Among the first people to greet them
as they brought their precious freight
to shore were reporters for the two
principal papers of Keokuk.
Hist'ry appointed himself the man to
describe who the Lakerim Athletic
Club was. AS Hist'ry was the least
athletic member of the Dozen-if in
deed you could say he was athletic at
all, except in wrestling with large
words and sprinting with his lessons
Hist'ry felt no modesty about Dragging
the Lakerimmers up to the skies. And
before he got through, the reporters
were terribly ashamed of themselves
for never having heard of either the
town or club of Lakerim. When they
came to write their articles, they made
the townspeople of Keokuk feel equal
ly ashamed of their ignorance.
The afternoon paper had long, long
account of the wreck of the Golden
Eagle" and the heroic rescues per-
formed by the strange young gentlemen
from up the river. The morning pa
per, anxious not to be distanced in
the race, went still further. Between
the two papers there were only two
people left in that county, who did
not know the truth, and a great deal
more than the truth about the Lakerim
Athletic Club. One of those was blind
and the other could not read.
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with such kites as these the boy who is
looking for just plain fun has little to
do.
On the other hand there are certain
things about some of the Chinese kite
making and kite-fying methods which
may be readily adopted by bright
American boys and made most inter-
esting. For instance, there is the bat
tie in the air"
The Chinese kites which fight these
battles are frequently most elaborate
affairs, made to represent men, wom-
en-, birds, beasts, dragons ETC., but
those things are too elaborate for any
boy to try to make. Just as much fun
NAV be had with the ordinary "dia-
mond frame" or the "six-cornered"
kites with which all boys are familiar
in America. This is the way John
Chinaman arranges his battles in the
air." and the way you may arrange
yours if you care to try little Orien-
tai sport.
First of all, you must have a big kite
big enough to carry very long and
heavy tail. The basis Of this tail
should be of tough twine-the tougher
the Irvine the more likely you are to
win in the air battle. But the flick
ers" on this tail are not all of paper
twists as is usual. Take a pane of
old window glass and break it into
number of pieces. If you can break II
into long and narrow pieces, so much
the better, and the sharper the edges
Of these pieces are the more chances
your kite will have.
These long and sharp edged pieces of
glass should be carefully balanced on
one finger until the exact center is
found. Around this center should be
pasted very tough paper so that you
can tie the sharp edged glass on your
own kite tail string without danger Of
cutting It.. They should not be too
close together, for If they are they are
likely to cut your own kites tail as II
turns and twists snake-like in the air;
and that would never do.
AS many kites as you please can
take part in the battle, and the kite
which wins must be flown by a clever
boy. What the fight consists of is
easily understood. The plan is simply
to fly your kite so that its tail, armed
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CHAPTER XVI.

The Lakerimmers were so dumb
founded at what they were seeing that
the current took them at its own will
Rut only for a few moments. Then the
ouick mind of Tug, always thoughtful
for others, woke to the occasion.
Hires where we can be of use" he
cried. Row hard, boys. There are
lives to save.
instantly the paddles of the crew
were churning the water into foam.
Close after them came B. ]. in his rae
ing canoe which never raced so fast
before.
The first victims of the accident that
they reached were three men clinging
70 a large timber which would have
supported them for many weeks as il
took il to grow waterlogged. But the
men were unhappy and uneasy to the
last degree, and they yelled loudly to
be saved.
you're all right" Boobies sang out,
"stay where you are"
But the men still yelled for rescue,
and as the canoe passed, one of them
reached out and caught the edge of the
canoe This swung the timber round
and another man laid hold In the
struggle the canoe was listed far to one
side and was threatening to spill the
Eleven into the river.
Ready, who could get mad more
quickly than any of the Dozen except
his brother Heady, lifted his paddle
quickly from the water and brought it
down on the knuckles of the first man,
who let go with a yowl. Heady, who
had the hottest temper in the Dozen ex-
cepting his brother Ready's, and who
rowed on the other side of the boat,
lifted his paddle in the air and as it
came over he yelled to the other man:
Drop that, or III cave your head
in" And with that he swung his pad
die round with such vim that had not
the man not ducked and let go, he
would have probably lost his life in be-
ing too anxious to save it.
Once released from these selfish
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the start he is almost sure TO be on the
wrong side at the finish.
When all the boys have played each
his two pointers the count is taken
The pointers which are on the side OF
the marker away from the starting line
are known as good" and add to the
score, those which are on the side next
to the starting line are known as
bad" and detract from the score.
The pointer nearest to the marker
on the good side counts, for the boy
to whom it belongs, two for each play
er in the game. II there are five play
ers in the game, IT counts the boy ten.
The pointer next In order counts two
for each player In the game minus one
from the total count. If there are five
boys playing the second pointer counts
nine, the third eight, etc.
The pointers on the "bad" side of the
marker are counted just like the point
ers on the good side of the marker but
the count is subtracted from the score
of those to whom the pointers belong
If the stone or tin pointers have
tendency to hurt the hands of the
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pie laughed at me as they went away,
but others cast looks of pity.
The crowd had hardly left me when
darkness came and heard a hyena
shifting about. Ten minutes later
heard the roar of lion close at hand,
and presently caught sight of the king
of beasts. He marched along, making
a gurgiing noise in his throat, and
finally stopped not more than twenty
feet away. OF course he could see me
better than l could see him, and no
doubt he wondered what 1 was doinF
there and why / stood so still. / ex
Eected he would spring upon me, as he
must have been hungry. but as
neither moved nor shouted he became
puzzled and afraid, and finally walked
off. You may believe l was glad to
see him go, though / knew he would
hardly get out of sight when the hye-
mas would gather.
1t turned out so. In a little time At
least twenty of the fierce and snarling
beasts We're skulk!ng around me, and
now and then one came so near that |
could have kicked him. did not do so.
however. l simply stood quiet, and the
hyenas were for some time afraid OF
me. BY and by their hunger got the
better of them, and they had gathered
In a pack to make rush on me, when
as hard as he could go.
I heard a crashing in the underbrush.
and / thought l caught the voices OF
human beings, and next moment FIVE or
six men gathered around me,
thought they were Makololos who had
come to set me 1t liberty, and l was
about to say that / was glad, when my
eyes told me that my visitors were not
men. One of them put his face close
tn h
a "hu!'-and then I knew what they
were. They were gorillas. I had new
er seen one before. because they were
not to be found on our side of the riv-
er, but many time / had heard the
men of our tribe tell about the fierce
monsters.
l expected to be killed at once, but
20 my surprise the beasts laid their
paws on me in a kindly manner. When
they found that / was tied to the tree,
one of them bit through the bark rope
and released me. l was then pushed
along in gentle way, and understand
ing that they wished me to go with
them / followed the gorilla In the lead.
Where they were going l could not
guess, but l knew l was their prisoner
and could not resist.
In my next story I will tell you how
I began life among the gorillas, and :
think you will be much interested. I
believe ! am the only person ever car
ried off by them who lived to tell his
adventures.
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and a number Of fiat disks, known as
pointers. The pointers may be simply
pieces of stone (Figure ~, or they may
be of elaborate workmanship. cut from
hard wood, weighted by following out
the center and filling the hole with
lead, the edges being strengthened by
lacking ON sheets OF tin (Figure 81.
Two feet sawed from a curtain pole
makes an excellent marker. Each play
er may furnish himself with two mark
ers.
Any number OF boys, from two to a
dozen, may play the game. They may
divide and play one side against the
other. or they may play every man for
himself.
The order of play is decided by toss
ing up. The first boy TO play stands at
a line selected as the starting point,
and throws the marker a short or long
distance, as he prefers. 1t will depend
upon whether he considers himself
most likely to win at short or at long
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05
PLANTS THAT ARE ooMPAssEs.
Leaves of ROsin-Weed and of Ger
tain Lettuces Point North.

Leaves of ROsin-Weed and of Ger
tain Lettuces Point North.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Ibid you know" said one of the gard
eners at Horticultural Hall, that
there are some plants which point
north and south as truly as any COM
pass?"
He put down his spade and lighted
cigar.
Yes" he resumed: 1--WE have an
American weed-the Sitphium lacinia-
tum-that on this account we call the
compass plant. The secret of this
weeds strange power lies in the fact
that the numbers of stomata. or
breathing pores, are equal on both
sides of it's leaves. and both sides,
therefore. are equally acted on by the
light. Hence, if the leaf is equally
exposed to the morning sun and the
afternoon sun it will naturally assume
position of equilibrium between the
two forces. turning one side toward
the morning and the other side toward
the evening sun.
1.-The leaves of several other plants
point north, too" the gardner conclud-
ed. Some kinds of lettuce leaves
have this property, and SO, too, has
the Chinese arbor vitae"
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with the goods" and punished by be-
ing paraded around town on a donkey.
face towards the tail, with the pants"
tied around his neck.
The soldiers are not volunteers.
When the government wants troops.
1t simply sends into the country dis
tricts and seizes the laborers in the
fields and the travellers on the roads.
At first they are naturally distontent-
ed, but when they find that soldiers
have no work to do, they like their
new job.
They are furnished with a suit of
clothes every year, but it doesn't last
them long. They are inveterate gam
blers. After they have lost all their
money they gamble away their uni
form, keeping nothing save their rifles,
an old pair of trousers and a ragged
shiT,. Naturally, the army is move
picturesque than splendid when rnus-
tered for review
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play. II the players have divided into
sides, the turns will alternate between
each party. The exact order in which
the boys will play is left entirely in the
hands OF the captain.
The object of the game, after the
marker has been thrown out into the
field Is to get the pointers as near the
marker as possible without landing the
pointer between the starting line and
the marker. II other words, 1t is the
object of each boy to so arrange his
play that when all the pointers have
been thrown his pointer shall be just
the other side of the marker
OF course, the first boy that plays
must take into consideration the fact
that those who follow him are almost
sure, either by deliberate intention or
by accident, TO knock the marker from
five 10 twenty feet further away from
the starting line. II his pointers are
just the other side Of the marker at
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05
JOE, THE JUNGLE DO
Being the Adventures of a Bow
Who Was Carried Off by
GOrillaS.
ADVENTURE No. 4.
In Which He TIE Is How the CO.
rillaS Came.

During the rest of the day, after saw
ing the life of the chiefs wife. was
treated we'll. I got plenty to eat and
drink and orders were given that no
one should annoy me.
hoped that my two guards would
grow careless, and that 1 might have
chance to dash for the woods. but
they were keen fellows and kept sharp
watch on me. OF course, / knew what
the forest was at night. In Central
AFRICA there is no twilight. AS soon as
the sun goes down darkness comes on
ana an the wild beasts who have been
asleep during the day come forth tn
drink and satisfy their hunger. There
We're lions, wolves, hyenas and nan
theirs in plenty, with MANY notsopo,is
serpents, and IL was tied to a tree +
could look for death within an hour
tried not to think of IL, as / wanted
10 go forth with a brave heart. and 7
was talking and laughing with nv
GUARDS when the chief came for me
about an hour before shutdown. He
seemed surprised to find me in good
spirits, and, placing his hand on my
shoulder. he said:
am sorry Tor you, boy, but you
must die. You are only boy, and vet
you are as brave as any man, / ever
saw. ] shall send word to your father
that you died as a chiefs son should"
! was then taken into the forest, a
rul mile from the village, and made
secure to the trunk of a banyan tree
MY hands were tied behind me and
then to the tree, and when they were
through knew / could not get away.
My feet were left free, and there was
no gag put in my mouth to prevent me
from calling out, but / could not ex-
pect to brighten away a lion by my
shouts, or defend myself against a
hyena with my feet. Some of the neo-
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brutes, the canoe sped swiftly on.
Back water!" yelled Tug, ara the
canoe stopped as if checked by an air.
brake. Right in front of it was a wom-
an clinging with one arm to a spar and
holding in the air little child with
the other. Punk, who was in the bow
shipped his paddle quickly and caught
the babe in his two arms and took it
from the mother. Tug reached out a
quick hand and caught the mothers
arm. She tried to thank him, but her
weakness and her fear were so great
that she let go the spar as she spoke.
1t was only Tugs grip that held her
from sinking. And now the task of
hitting her into the canoe was criti-
cal one. If they tried to bring her
over the side the canoe would be tilted
so far that all the men would spill out
and the canoe fill with water.
The woman was far too weak to crawl
IN over either end of the canoe-it
takes pretty strong man to do this
easily But by passing her along care
fully to the stern of the canoe where
b. } S seat was vacant, they managed,
after terrific struggle, to lift her in,
ana she sank down, dripping and ex~
hausted.
And the canoe sped on.
~ ~ AAlAGC OlIClS VIII sum
GENTLY safe, and could be picked up
oy some of the many rowboats already
putting out from the Keokuk shore,
me Dozen passed by.
Inc next they met was a very pref
" young girl, who would have been
swimming like a mermaid, had she not
oeen hampered by her heavy shoes and
skirts. 1t was plain to see that she
Oo1Id not make the long swim to shore.
Punk who had quickly passed the
eaoe back to it's mother, now leaned
forward and caught this girl most I'M
dramatically by her two long braids of
nalr. Once more there was the prob
rem Of getting her into the boat. But
Win the added problem of where to
PuI her once she was there.
mis- problem was quickly solved.
INK caught Tug by the hand ana
made him take the girls hair Then
INK stood up straight on his rowing
seat and with a word of warning to
.,le others, made clean jump over the
siae of the boat into the water. Down
ne went far over his head, and they
thought he would never come up. But
they remembered a certain desperate
ooat race against rival eight-oar
crew, when Punk's oar had snapped
III TWO, and he had saved the day by
Ieaplng overheard.
BY the time Punk came back to the
ar the Lakerimmers were giving him
q rousing cheer. Punk, with a few
quick overland strokes, came round
70 the bow of the boat, and, treading
Mater, helped as well as he could to
M the girl into the canoe.
and on it sped.
me next one rescued was a young
10Y of their own age, also swimming
anu trying hard to take off his shoes
Is ne swan. This was no light task,
ana he had swallowed a deal of water
~ the struggle, and, good swimmer
as ne was was growing desperate.
When he was reached most of the
men in the canoe made ready to dive
mo tr. the water as Punk had done, but
lg restrained them, and, by hard
OIowding. they got the. boy in,
., by this time they had rescued all
mat they could see afioat except those
"uo were well provided for. So they
- lIned shorhward, Punk hanging o
~ me side and swimming with his feet.
'aey neared the shore they passed
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POINTING.
A Game Equally Good for Coun-
try or City.
BY j. CARTER BEARD.

There are few games as adaptable as
pointing" to the limitations of play
grounds. The game can be played
equally well in the open country or in
the streets of a city, and this is true of
very few games worthy the attention
of an energetic boy.
The outfit for the game consists of a
round stick about two feet long and
from one to three inches in diameter,
known as the marker (see Figure y,
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Sam DomIngo,. aueer soldierr.

Some Of the queerest soldiers in the
world are to be found in San Domingo,
or the Dominican Republic, as it is
Cfficially called.
An Englishman who ran a steamship
business in San Domingo City says
there were four or five generals
among the hundred coal carriers he
employed. They coaled the steamers
by carrying big baskets on their heads
at 25 cents a day. Now and then they
would take day off to review their
armies, conduct maneuvres or fight
revolutionsts.
One of these generals had no uni
form, SO he stole a pair of goId-laced
pants" from a shop. He was caught