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ett." II VA. tn. time Tor disappearing.

| etts," II was the time Ter disappearing
AN keep out q my way. I'll git
y yet" growled Blossom.
Keep your mouth shut" said the
mate. cor I'll have you put in irons.
you pig"
All right sir. rye said all I'm goin'
{ say t'day;" and Blossom strobe off.
What was the box like?" asked the
captain of Dunkers.
Chinese ~contraption, sir; leastwise
II looked mat "ag - me. Didn't look
as if it'd been in tn water Ions, s'r
Somethin' lost overheard by some prt
yate yacht. L my thinkin'. I'll keep
out O. Steve's way. III lay low on
shore. sir"
And though Steve made a perfect
range Of the spot. he came back
to find the mysterious box, eve saw
the ellison house back home, nor did
he ever see Dunkers again. On the
voyage home he brooded continually,
and was frequently found blubbering;
and one night he skipped his watch
and went to Davy Jones locker.
Dunkers had not told about the
name he had seen on the box: and
Blossom had not thought to. The name
Hargreave had instantly brought back
10 DunkeTs' mind the newspaper
stories he had recently read. There
was no doubt in the world that this
box belonged TO the missing million
aire, who had drawn a million from
his banks and vanished; and, more
over, there was no doubt in Dunkers'
mind that this million lay in the Ba-
from the bottom of the sound, under
the path of the balloon. He proceeded,
then, to take a most minute range.
Ii would require money and partners;
but half a loaf would be far better
han no loaf at all and he was deter.
mined to return to New York TO find
backing. Finding is keeping. on land
or sea.
Now it happened that his favorite
grog shop was a cheap saloon across
the way from the headquarters OF the
Black Hundred; and Vroon occasion.
ally dropped in, for he often picked up
a valuable bit of maritime news.
Dunkers was an old friend OF the bar
keeper, and he proceeded to pour and
guZzle down his throat a very poor
substitute for whisky. He became
communicative. He Dragged. He knew
where there was a million, and all he
needed was a first-class diving bell. A
year from now he would not be drink
ing cheap whisky; he'd be steering a
course up and down Broadway and
buying wine when he was thirsty.
He was no miser. But he had to have
a diving bell; and where this bme devil
could he get u with $12 and an
Ingersoll watch In his pocket?
From his table Vroon made a sign
which the bartender understood. Thsn
he rose and approached DunlIers.
Il own a pretty good diving appar.
atus," he said. IF you've got thu
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srs tapped his coat pocket suggestive

And Vroon knew that the one thing
he wanted was there. a plan or a draw
Ing of the range. So there was another
man shanghaied that night, and his
destination was Cape Town, % days
voyage by the calendar.
Vroon carried his information to the
organization that same night. They
would start the expedition at once,
and till this was accomplished. Har-
greave's daughter was to be immune
from attacks. Besides, 1t would give
HargreaVe wherever he was) and the
others the idea hat the Black Hun
dred had concluded 10 give up the
chase.
Above. with HIS ear 10 a small hole,
skillfully bored through the ceiling
without permitting the plaster to fall,
knelt a man with a ~bandaged arm. He
could never see any faces; no one
ever took off a mask in this sinister
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met him years ago In China; and
when he started out to do a certain
thing he generally did il. He never
botched any OF his plans. So we all
must wait. Only I'm going TO marry
you all the same, whether he likes {.
or not. The rogues will try to Impose
upon you again; but do not pay n
attention to notes or personals in the
papers. And It was a lucky thing that
was on the freighter that picked you
up at sea. | shall always wonder how
that yacht took fire."
so shall l." replied Florence. her
brows drawing together in puzzle
ment. Sometimes | think ] must have
done it. You know. people out of their
heads do strange things. seem to
see myself as in a dream. And this
mar Braine is q scoundrel!"
60 N ccNTNUED.l
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CHAPTER xu.--continued

In the morning he found his oppoy>
tunity. For half an hour the forecastic
was empty of all save himself. Fever
lshly he pried back the boards. found
the brace beam, and gently laid the
box there. 1t was a mighty curious
the Chinese coast from the Phitp-
pines, and he judged IL to be ChinsSe
In origin He tried to pry open the
eover and feast his eyes upon the
treasure: but under the leather AID
ivory and mother OF pearl was imper-
vious steel. Il would take an AK or
q crowbar to stir that lid He sighed
He replaced the boards. and became
TO all appearances his stolid self
sgain,
Hut ell the way down to the BAHIA
mAs he was moody, and when he an
sTered any questions il was with
words spoken testify and ierkily.
II know whut's tn matter" said
Eunkers. He's in love-"
shut your mouth"
"Didn't | tell yuh?" laughed the tan.
taii2er, dancing toward the compan-
conway "Steve's In love. r he didn't
git drunk enough on shore { satisfy
his whales belly
A boot thudded spitefully against
the door jamb.
You feltahs let me alone. r III bash
IN a couple o. beads,"
20, yuh wiz, will yuh?" cried Dunk
ars from the deck III yuh want 4
little exercise, yuh can begin oil me-.
yuh moohsick ewab, Whut's tn matter
with yuh. anyhow? Where'd yuh git
This crouch? Whut've we lone & yuh?
Suhs"
You keep out o. my way, that's all
Ri mindin' my watches, an don't ask
70 odds OF you buffers. what If ! have
a crouch? Is u any o your business?
All right. When we step ashore at
oh Bahams. Mister Jim Dunkers.
I'll tear the ropes out O. your pulley
blocks. But till we git there, you {
tn upper bunk an me t mine"
Leave tn oil crouch alone, Jim.
tn mate won't stand for no s%crapDin
aboard. Wen have tn thing done
sght In tn custom sheds. Well have
a finish fight. Queensberry rules, an
NAY tn best man win"
I'm willlh.t" said Jim.
Som l." agreed Steve. But his In
sentions were not honorable. He pro-
posed to desert before any fight took
place. Not that he was physically
-f~.{l. ~. - -nnfaA ~ Aiu hto
hands deep into those doubloons and
pieces-of-eight.
So the four days down passed other
wise ~uneventfully. amid paint pots and
iron rust and three meals a day OF
pork, onion soup, potatoes. and strong.
bitter coffee. The winds became light
and balny and the sea blue and gen
lie. The men went about In their
nndershirts and l~ungarees, b~arefooted.
OF course the coming fight was the
main topic OF conversation. II prom
ked to be = rafting good scrap. for
10th men were evenly matched. and
10th had kick" In either hand. Even
the captain tooh > mild interest in the
AFFAIR. He was - old sailor. He knew
that there was - such word as arbi-
krntjou In q ssflGg's vocabulary: his
i;sputes could - settled only in one
manner. by his eelloused fists.
When the old mudhook tand snme
esy Steve was going to buy Il and
hang 1t over the entrance OF the Oh
4 housed slffeered down into the
chilling waters ~ the bay. Steve on
s,uded ttat discretion was the better
.art az valos - would steal ashess
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TheM1|ionDo||ar Mystery
!" BY HAROLD MAC GRATH
Illustrated from Scenes In me Photo Drama of rho
Same Name by fe Tb0nhouser Films Company
Copyright, 1914, by AArold MacGrathl
BY HAROLD MAC A

on the quarantine tug which lay along
side. He was willing t. fight under
ordinary circumstances, but he must
get his treasure in safety first. They
could call him a welcher IL they
wanted to; devil a bit did he care. So
he pried back the boards Of his bunk
wall, took out the box. eyed it fondly,
and noted for the first time the let.
tering on IL:
STANLEY HARGREAVE.
He wrinkled his brow in the effort
to recall a pirate by this name, but
was unsuccessful. No matter He
Rugged the box under his coat and
made for the gangway, and inadyer-
tently ran into his enemy.
Dunkers caught a bit OF the box
peeping from under the coat.
What "a yuh got there?" he de-
manded truculently.
None o your damn business! You
femme by; hear me?"
Amt none o. my business. huh?
Where'd yuh git a box like that? Steal
It? BY cripes, I'm goin' { have "a
look at that box, my hearty. II don't
smell like honest onions"
You femme by" breathed Steve,
with murder in his heart.
Suddenly the two men closed Asurged
back and forth, one determined to
take and the other 10 hold this mys-
terious box. Dunkers struggled to up
hold his word; not that he really
wanted the box but TO prove that he
was strong enough 70 take il IL he
wanted to. The name on the box
flashed and disappeared II was a kind
OF shock to him. he and Blossom went
battering against the rail. Dunkers'
grip slipped and so did Blossoms. The
result was that the box was catapulted
into the sea. With an agonizing cry,
Blossom leaned far over. He saw the
box loscillate for q moment, then sink
gracefully In a zigzag course, down
through the blue waters. Fainter and
fainter it grew. and at last vanished.
I'm sorry, Steve, but yub wouldn't
let me look at H." said DuDkers, con.
tritely.
Damn you; I'm goin' t Kill y isr
that"
II became a real fight this time, nst
and foot, tooth and nail one mad with
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Half q Million Tons of Hostages.

IN February 10 our government, protesting
ooa;rst certain implications Of the German war
zone" proclamation, warned Germany tnat she
would be held 10 strict accountability FOR the
destruction on the high seas Of an American YES
col or the lives Of American citizens" part OF
the German press is disposed 10 dismiss this
warning as an idle threat. The Berlin "Montags-
zeitung." for instance, said patronizingly the
other dav: What harm can America do to Ger
many? She has no army and her feet would not
dare TO approach nearer our shores than does the
English. The expulsion Of Germans from Amer
lea would mean her ruin Americas threats are
simply ridiculous, and 1t is more ridiculous FOR
US to take them in earnest"
The "Montagszeitung" overlooked one very
important fact. There are interned to-day IN
our ports fifty-fve German and eleven Austro-
Hungarian merchant ships, with total tonnage
of 51S.7O6. The value Of these ships is many
times the value Of American merchantmen likely
10 be impered in the German "war zone" Here
is situation which should have very calming
effect on German opinion.
Apart from the possible damage which our
army and navy would be able TO do to Germany
if we should be driven to protect our rights on
the high seas we are in the most favorable posi-
ton possible to exact compensation for attacks
made on our merchant marine. There are sixty
six perfectly good reasons why the commander
of a German submarine should hesitate about
precipitating reprisals by torpedoing an Amer-
can ship
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Federal Quarantine Preferable.

Governor Whitman can do not only this city
and state but the whole country service IN
causing the transfer of the quarantine station
at this port from state to federal control The
committee on public health Of the Academy Of
Medicine is urging this action on him, as 1t did
on Governor Dix when the latter, for purely
political reasons, removed DR.. Doty as Health
Officer of the Port It was realized then, as 1t is
now, what a menace to New York and to the
United States was the use of this post for pur-
poses Of political patronage.
To-day New York is one Of only two ports left
in the country whose quarantine Is under state
regulation All the others, forty-eight in number
have come under the control of the Public Health
Service of the Treasury Department, service
much less subject to periodic political pressure
than the smaller state bureau, and one which has
been able 70 coordinate its work for the benefit
of the entire nation. New Jersey is as much con-
cerned in the quarantine regulation of the port
Of New York as New York is, yet she has nc
voice direct or indirect in its policy or enforce
ment The bulk of immigrants and Of traffic enter
ing New York is destined for interior points be-
vond the states jurisdiction. Is 1t fair thai
these interior communities, any more than New
Jersey, should depend for protection upon the
caprices of New York politics? Finally, do the
citizens of New York care to continue paying
$4,000 or 100000 year for a service which
the federal government can perform better and a
much less cost?
The only possible argument against the pro
posed transfer is political one. Governor Whit
man should disregard it in the public's favor.
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An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

rangement" a practical mutual dis
armament was agreed TO, and every
warship disappeared from the Great
Lakes; and because OF a further tact
understanding" not fort has been
built along the border line between
this country and it's northern neighbor.
"lf you want peace prepare lot
peace; this was in effect the Monroe
Doctrine, applied in practical politics.
as opposed TO the accursed European
system of militsrism, with It's motto.
"If you want peace prepare Tor war
The present "recrudescence OF bar
barism" in Europe has not only
shocked. il has temporarily para
lyzed, the whole world. The balance
of power failed 70 balance; the concerts
of nations failed TO produce harmony.
The armed peace simply insured war
Something else has 10 be tried, and we
are all, from the youngest 70 the old
est, personally interested in the mat
ter. Everybody has a duty TO give
his best thought as 10 how TO settle
this world question and settle II right
American public opinion Is q ire
mendous power to-day, even In Europe,
and il is desirable in the extreme thas
that opinion conform with the Ameri.
can system and its splendid motto; III
you want peace prepare for peaeel
EDWARD BERWICK,
Vice President American School Peace
League.
Pacific Grove. Cal, Feb. IL. 1915.
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The Rah.Rah Remains.

Our forefathers preferred small towns for
their colleges. Their reasoning was perfectly OBJ
vious-the small town they considered safer"
morally and less distrsctng mentally. An Off
hand survey Of the older typical colleges shows
what an astonishing majority Of them were
founded in small towns-Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton, Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst
some of them in otherwise tiny hamlets far re-
moved from the lure Of the metropolis.
1t was the old idea of the cloister, descended
from an age when scholars were all monks and
intended for one in which most scholars became
ministers Of the gospel. The product Of these
institutions In a subsequent era Of materiaism
and irreverence has been the rah-rah boy.
But Mr.. Joyce Kilmer tells the readers Of
"The Times" that the rah-rah boy has given
place to a new type of American student, "a nor
NAL young man, aware that the campus is not
the most important place in the world aware,
in fact that the university is not the universe"
Unfortunately for Mr. Kilmer's argument, he
takes his samples Of this super-youth from Co
lumbia, with an incidental reference to their ex-
istence in Harvard. Brown of Harvard Is no
more" he ssseverates, but Brown of Harvard
hasn't existed for more than a decade-at Har-
ward Harvard, though founded in a small town,
is now part of large metropolitan community.
Her faculty and students have reacted TO this
environment by secularizing their point Of view
and taking themselves less seriously. This, OF
course, is even truer Of Columbia, one Of the few
older institutions to brave the moral and cultural
hazards Of a city home. In these institutions
as Mr.. Kilmer points out, faculty member are
men of the world, and students actually profess
enthusiasm for literature, even TO the point OF
creating it. In Columbia they write for the mag
aznes, and so they do at Harvard and have done
for years "The Brown of Harvard of to-day
must be represented not a crimson-sweatered
gladiator, but as cross between Strindberg and
George NJ. Conan"
But is all this true Of the product Of those
institutions which still dominate and overwhem
their little communities? BY no means TO the
same extent, either in faculty or student body
Back where the campus is the towns greatest
asset there are still left plenty Of dry-ss-dust
professors and their rebelious rah-rahs. 1.-THE
College Widow" remains transcript Of phase
Of contemporary life decreed by our ancestors in
an excess of solicitation for their descendants.
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to be thus hampered in its service to one OF 'ne
most helpless classes of unfortunates' OhiesS
they are taught to help themselves the pima are
hopeless. The Lighthouse gives them nope .!
teaching them to work, furnishing them OPP
portunities to work; and helping them 70 under
stand and take part in the pleasures OF Ire 10
see the results of this work is to sympathi1e WIN
it and desire TO help in it. 1t would be fine thins
If many people able to give substantial help 10
others would visit the Lighthouse and see 10Y
themselves what lie being done for the blind Af'er
such q visit there would be a generous response 70
the associations appeal for contributions.
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FAITH INSTEAD OF LICENSE
The Attitude of Christian Science
Toward Medical Practice.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In reply TO an article entitled
"Healing with No License" in your
issue of February 10 permit me to as
sure you and your readers that Chris
tan Scientists have no desire TO amend
the medical practice act in so far as
that act applies 10 the practice of medi-
cine, but they certainly have q desire
to amend it in so far as il goes out
side its domain TO place spiritual COM
munion with the Almighty in the same
category with drugs and surgery and to
drag the law of God down to the level
of human codes. God, not man,
spiritual understanding, not human
knowledge, is the healer in Christian
Science.
The attitude of the medical profess
sion toward Christian Science is not
unlike that at Ephesus. when the sill
versmiths cried for the blood of Paul
because his preaching was interfering
with their trade of making shrines for
the worship Of Diana. eye know" said
Demetrius TO his fellow craftsmen,
that by this craft we have our wealth
but = this Paul hath per-
suaded and turned away much people,
saying that they be no gods which are
made with hands"
Your readers will doubtless readily
admit that il would be most unjust to
require a member Of one religious be-
lief TO subscribe TO the doctrines Of
another before he would be permitted
to worship in his own way, and as
sumo they will as readily admit that
it would be equally unjust to require
the Christian Scientist, who, of course,
does not employ medicine, 70 take an
examination in materia medica before
he would be permitted to practice
Christian Science. The Constitution OF
the United States declares that all men
are born with certain inaliensble
rights" among which are life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness"
This sacred privilege is as priceless TO
the Christian Scientist as II is TO other
liberty loving Americans. and because
Of this the Christian Scientist has dedi-
Gated himself TO defend it against every
foe. ROBERT s. ROSS,
Christian Science Committee on Publ
cation.
New York, Feb. 10, 1915.
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Turn About's Fair Play.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: While our American-Germsn
friends are shouting because the
Lusitania few the flag OF the United
States, permit me TO remind them that
they thought it a "cute" trick when
the Emden, flying the Japanese nsg'
sank several ships in a Far Eastern
harbor.
And for the particular benefit Of Mr..
Benedict Prieth, of Newark, y. j., let
me suggest that Germany did a four
ishing business in the year 1898 In
exporting rifles and ammunition 10
Spain, and during the Balkan war
Krupp armed Turkey.
OF course, il makes a difference when
the other fellows OK is gored.
New York, Feb. 7, 1915. W. p. +.
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ritory of Belgium. the rights Of every
neutral were in jeopardy. The man
who is false to one will be false TO an
other. But the neutral powers could
not see that. Belgium seemed 80 far
away. And in the United States we
were so entirely surrounded by water
so comfortably safe. So, although as
Joint signers of the agreement made
at The Hague it was our privilege and
duty TO protest, we said nothing. Nor
did any other neutral. And, embold-
ened by the silence, Germany broke,
one after another, all the rules of war
All war is wasteful, unintelligent, in
decent. But steadily, for several nun
bred years, the effort has been made
to make it less inhuman, to limit the
death and suffering it entails TO the
actual combatants. The effort has
been made to get away from the days
of the Huns, who sacked, looted and
raped; from the days of our Indians,
who burned villages; from the ethics
of Raisuli, the Moorish bandit, and
the Mexican cattle thieves, who with
threats OF death held up non-com-
batants for money. But TO the days
of these outrsges Germany has re-
turned. Instead Of the neutrals set
ting the standard for war, they al
lowed Germany to set It. They have
allowed her to drag it back eight hun
dred years. And, guilty as she Is, |
cannot see that those who stood by
while Belgium WAS desolated, and chill
dren and women were killed by bombs,
and mines were spread in the open sea
that belonged to all of them, are not
equally guilty.
II you go TO a fight at the Garden
and one OF the men strikes below the
belt you will hear from several thou
sand spectators. The spectator is in
no danger No one is hitting him. He
is comfortably, safely seated far from
the combat, smoking cigar. But still
he yells, Foul" and threatens the
referee. Why? Because he is IN dan
ger? No, because he desires fair play
and insists that the rules Of the game
be respected.
IT,, at the start OF this war, our gov
eminent and those Of South America,
Italy. Spain, Norway, Sweden, Den
mark, Holland and Switzerland bad
jointly protested 70 Germany against
the outrages she committed, against
her breaking all the rules of civilized
warfare, they might not only have pre-
vented the destruction Of lives and of
cities, but even might have brought
the war 20 a close.
To a committee who came to discuss
our attitude toward the nations at war
President Wilson used these words:
Think of America first"
Spoken by Holland or Switzerland or
any neutral nation that is small and
weak. that sentiment might be under
stood. Coming from a great and pow
erful nation of hundred millions, il
is most unpleasant Nor do | believe
the American people are as selfish as
that. | also like TO think of America
frst, and had she made protests against
the outrages Of Germany in behalf of
the Allies as affronts 70 humanity and
civilization. when this war Is over she
would have stood first. But now it is
too late.
When the burglars are finally driven
away the man who thought Of himself
first and crswled under the bed Is not
given much consideration.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
New York, Feb. 81. 1918
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PREPARE FOR PEACE"
The Lesson of the Centenary of the
Treaty Of Client.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: To lovers of humanity, to-day,
the centenary Of the ratification Of the
Treaty of Client, should be marked as
the reddest OF all red letter days.
It offers a suggestion for a sane and
satisfactory settlement OF weary
worlds woes and wars.
The Treaty of Client was derided
by contemporary diplomats as ridicn-
lous and contemplate. but il has kept
the peace for 100 years. Why?
Simply because there was nothing in
il to humilste either signatory There
WAS no cossion Of territory; no talk of
any cash indemnity; not a clause TO
rankle and sting and call for revenge;
no Sitting on bayonets"; nothing to
breed future war.
By subsequent Rush Bsgot ar