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4 Useful Animal.

why do you keep that porcupine
about the placer
"Wsll, those motorists didn't mind
running over my hens, but they give
that porcupins . wide berth. They
don't want no punctured tires"
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FOR SALE Australian Club fall
seed wheat. The same variety
yielded 1913 bushel per acre on
WILDLY Island this season. Phone
5618. James Meyer, Lynden r. l..
1872 1t
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Ssttlne was the Werd.

0ottJh0 W00 tho WoF0s
Those women have been setting
there for an hour or more"
"You shouldn't say setting my dear.
Il 10 sitting"
mo, setting 10 what I meant
think they're Matching out trouble Tor
somebody"
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The Lynden Upper Ten Society Is
now organized. It is composed OF
those who went up in the world re-
Gently. such as Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Robertson, Title Meurer. Martha
Knittle, Pete Van Dyke. Mrs. Dris-
coll, DR.. MOunter. and Gordon and
Beulah Serrurier.
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FOR SALE-1OO April hatch pullets.
A. A. Wolfe, near Greenwood. r..
F. d. 2, Lynden. 10-2-1t
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FOR SALE my modern 5-room
home, Grover between 9th and
10th. Also few household goods.
and stands of bees. ]. C. Beach.
LINDEN. 10-2-2t .
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Shoat. weight about
100. Monday. L. e. Livingstone,
XS61 LINDEN, 1O-2-1~
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1000

They were the crowd who were
divorced from fifteen dollars per to
rise In hunters aeroplane.
1000 I
u--ooo-
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only, to enter a pen In the Poultry
Show at the Fair and carry on the
purple ribbon for tho highest scoring
cockerel at the exhibition.
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PUNISHED ROOM for rent. At
Starks, phone X561. 1O-2-1-o

LOST pocketbook Saturday, bet
ween drug store and Palace Meat
Market. Reward. Return to the
Tribune. 1O-2-lt- o
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FOR SALE-Dry alder and birch
wood. Phone 1908 Lyndon.
10-2-tf- o
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THREE COWS FOR SALE: All are
milking; 2 Jersey, l Durham; one
fresh, others coming fresh. Good
mixers. Dave COlpaert, Hanne-
gan road, r. 2, Lynden. Phone
1902 Lynden. 10-2-2t-
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WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN DIA-
MONDS-The Tribune's nerd rec
ords tell the cows that are losing
money for you. You can't afford
to be without them. &c each. SOC
q dozen.
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WOOD WANTED. B. GALE, Bar
Der Shop, next door to postoffice.
1O-2-3t- .
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oelAshneso.
I wonder Why my wees ohoull -
% serious to ne.
ossm nestly tribes. light ~ air.
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FOR SALE-6-acre tract, southeast
of LINDEN; fine 5-rOom bungalow;
barn; garage; good rOOt-house.
acres cleared. God soil. rs fruit
trees. $4,000. Terms. c. A. Faz-
on, 1000 C. Street, Bellingham.
1O-2-3t- :
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FOR SALE-17.OOO 16 inch clears.
special cut. Bargain. Phone 1903
Lynden. 10-2-tf- o
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NEWS OF LINDEN

The Amphictyon Club will meet
ON Friday afternoon with Mrs. Harry
Fountain.
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ll----ooo-

H. Koert notified the Gimlet today
that he had Q tomato vine on his
place with 238 tomatoes on It by act
ual count. This is q Lynden high
land record, and IL q challenge to the
billionaires to equal.
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FOR SALE-2O0 White Leghorn pull
lets, laying now. Phone NOOksack
1907, Henry Beernink. 1O-2-3t
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LOST-GRAY AUTO ROBE TUES
DAY-Vander Griend Bros. tele-
phone 6318 Lynden. 10-2-1- o
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Mrs. Henry Kuchenreuther, who
has been seriously i'll, is recovering.
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JERSEY COW FOR SALE. coming
fresh about Oct. 6. A. Grommers,
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about 40 lbs. each. Phone 24O2
LINDEN. John Bierlink. 1921"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-08-16

way says. King Woo Tong Lai Yao
Ktcd; Ling. which is He tcho tribute
nerer brings, tell surely see the DevtPs
Wings. Now to see the Devils Wings
being the very worst luck for a native
sailor, he generally pays his tribute to
the Goddess promptly. a slxillful dupli-
cate of this painting Of the great junk
was inserted in the r3sht-hand tube of
the wheel-house glasses and with
hasty glance would give exactly the i'm
preston which the Captain and the
pilot received.
who PLACED it there and what was
his object?
Gentlemen. come to my third and
last point. 1t has been my pleasure to
exonerate the Captain and old Ching
it now becomes my duty to point out
to you the actual guilty party. He is
sitting there in the second row of tho
witnesses seats. and his name is Chang:
he Is the second pilot and known on
board the "Tien Pao' as The Admiral.
He had the painting made and thel
glass cut to fit the binoculars He had
planned to hand them to Ching the
first pilot at some convenient hour OF
the night and by making him see the
junk friighten him into going to the
Temple as soon as he got ashore and
making liberal offering TO the Goddess
OF the Sea. The Captain coming in at
the unexpected moment spoiled his
plans for the Goddess and put the old
'Tien Pao' on the reef, that is all.
suspected all this after my visit TO the
Temple with Ching and I found the
glass on the floor OF the wheel--house
while l was disguised as the Consuls
valet and so completed the evidence.
Whether you can convict a man OF
wrecking a vessel when his only inten-
ton was to raise funds out of a fellow
sailor for a celestial Goddess, gentlemen.
| is delicate point of law that you
| and not must decide.
May I ask you just one question,
Mr.. Wang, please" said Inspector Cub
bins of the poolice, as he rose to place
| the second pilot under arrest. What
special interest could Chang have had
| in going TO all this trouble TO raise
funds for the Goddess? Was he spe-
cially devout?"
| mo. not at ALL" replied Wang Foo,
with smile. But you see his brother
is the chief priest Nof the Goddess. and
has charge of the cash receipts, and. as
is usual in China, the family divides
the proceeds"
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1.-the Phantom Junk

else. All the large Chinese shipping
firms at Shanghai and at Ntngpo had
been applied to. but none of them
knew of any junk company whose sign
was the three white arrows; and so the
mysterious black flags beagn to have
the mingled fascination and horror of
the skull-and- cross bones of the old
time Western pirates.
The Court of Enquiry decided to
take a recess of a week to enable Its
members to visit the scene Of the dis
aster in person and to make further
private investigations regarding the
characters and histories of the princi-
pal parties concerned. No verdict had
been reached. but the general opinion
seemed to be that the Captain would
be acquitted, because he had chosen
the safer and wiser course when sud-
denly placed in a most difficult posi-
ton that required prompt and decisive
action.
And so the whole question was
thrown into the ring and the. COM
munity was left to decide for itself
Just what It was the Captain saw
II, indeed he really saw anything at
all. In a word, WHAT WAS THE
PHANTOM JUNK? WHERE DID IT
COME FROM AND WHERE DID 1T
GO Tor That was enough to keep all
the gossips and. takers at homes. at
the clubs and in the streets busy dur
ing the next ten days and to abstract
from them every variety of opinion.
Everyone that had ever had any thrill
ing experience Of a ''spoolky" or ghostly
nature trotted 1t cut and touched 1t up
for the occasion-and made 1t doubly
horrible II 1t had been at sea and not
on the land. Old shippers drew out
of the sea-chests of their memories
tales and stories Of serpents and
dragons, phantom ships and spectral
visions OF the deep. Some joked about
1t. some laughed and even ventursd
to ask what Captain Clarke had eaten
for dinner that night, as II his vision
of the junk had been merely a torture
of the demon of indigestion. Some
looked serious-some merely shook
their heads and said nothing. 1t went
SO far that even the Public Library
had special calls for volumes of the
weird and sruesome. and The Ancient
Mariner" was taken down from many
q shelf and read over again in the
silent hours OF the night.
what of Clarke and the phantom
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junk?" became the test-werd that
divided the Coast ports from Hong
Kong to Tien Tsin really into three
separate classes. We will call them
A "B' and &C" as follows:
Glass A believed him to be absolutely
honest and 10 have been the innocent
victim Of a temporary delusion or men.
tai alteration.
Class B believed him to be homes.
but weak and his vision of the junk
to have been the result of some stimu-
liant or drug.
Glass c believed him to be absolutely
dishonest; to have concocted the junk
story to deceive the public and to have
wrecked the steamer for the sake o.
her insurance.
Each one of these classes had it,
own arguments to bring forward and
its own precedents and examples but.
on the other hand. each OF them seemed
to have been thoroughly and satisfac-
torily answered by the testimony or
the other side. Those who knew hin
intimately claimed that he had never
been the victim OF deiusions OF any
kind whatever. but was an exeeedingl,
even-tempered and we'll balanced man
All the stories as to the possibility OF
his having been intoxicated were at
once ruled out by the fact that he was
known to be strict total abstainer
SO when old Tompkins. the tea-broker
remarked at the Club tifTin that it was
nothing at all to see black junks after
spree-for he always saw red and
green and painted ones with monkeys
and parrots on them when he went
out to sea"-his joke recoiled upon
himself
The idea that the Captain had actu-
ally put the steamer on the rocks in
tenticnarly-which idea was only held
| by very few OF the residents-was
based on the fact that he was known
to have bought a considerable share o.
the Company's stock and that he hac
been overheard to say on one occasion
that he hoped the old girl would lay
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he was driven right on to the "Camers
Hump" The party expressed wish
to go on board the hull of the "Tien
Pao," the forward part of which was
still intact. though the after half Of
the vessel was rapidly breakingup.
The sea was moderate enough for small
boats TO approach with safety and the
visitors climbed on board. The Cap
tain took them 20 the whecl-house and
showed them just where he and Dead
Eye" stood when the junk loomed up
in front of them and he gave the order
to put the helm hard over. Not the
least interested among the spectators
was the ConSurs new house-boy. who
was accompanying him as personal
valet and who listened to every word
of the Captains with remarkable at
tention. Nobody, however. noticed
him, nor the fact that he occasionally
made notes in a little Chinese book In
his sleeve, nor that he fingered behind
the others when they passed out of the
wheel-house onto the deck. nor that he
took out a little pocket f1ashlight and
eagerly examined every nook and cor
ner of the room. nor that he got down
on his knees and carefully searched
the floor. and. finding there few pieces
Of broken glass. wrapped them in his
silk handkerchief and carefully tucked
them away in his girdle-nobody no.
ticed this: why should they? He was
only a servant in attendance upon his
master.
Nor did anybody pay special atten-
ton to the fact that he seemed to be
on very good terms with 'Dead-Eye." :"
that he talked with him and smoked
with him nearly all the way down and
hark and asked all kinds Of interesting
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impossible for him to leave. Just what
this urgent call for postponeTneut really
meant nobody seemed to know. but
rumor had II that important evidence
IN the case was being expected from
another port and the Consul thought 1t
best to wait for it.
What really happened was simply
this: he had come to the conclusion to
send for the one man in all China who
could help him TO unravel the mystery,
and had eabled to Hong Kong for
Wang Foo. the Prince Of all native
detectives Remembering his former
successes in matters that had baffied
the English police and his wonderful
skill in getting at the real facts under
lying the Chinese secretiye ways he
felt that the case OF Ching the Pilot
could be safely put in his hands, and
this would undoubtedly throw valuable
light on the case of the Captain. Wang
Foo replied Immediately. stating that
he would leave on the French Mail
Monday and requesting a private days
interview with the Consul before his
departure for the Poo Toos-
No detective appeared at the Con-
sulate and the Consul did not go 10
Police Headquarters to meet any such
oncer-as far as any one knew-but
he did spend several hours Thursday
afternoon and evening in the inner
apartment OF large native drug store
where a supposed physician from Hong
Kong wished to explain to him IN de-
tail the merits OF a remarkable new
cure for the opium habit in which
! cures the Consul was known to be
deeply interested
The Hercules" steamed away
promptly on Friday morning and on
arriving at the scene Of the wreck
the whole matter was gone into most
thoroughly. At the request OF the
Court Captain Clarke took her over
the exact course that he followed on
that day. showing exactly where he
sighted the fatal junk and how by tho
] sudden turning to avoid the collision
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Boys Natural
History
BY M QUAD
THE WoopcHucK.


Time was when the woodchuck was
considered as harmless as a frog but
something has changed him. Maybe II
is politics or the war or the high taxes.
No one seems to know just what It is,
but all seem to know that there has
been a change.
In Wisconsin. the other day. a woman
started out to go over to a suffrage
meeting. leaving her daughter. eleven
years old. to take care of a younger
sister and brother. When the suffrage
meeting had voted that the women of
the country should run the whole gov
ernment, this Wisconsin mother ambled
her way hemeward. There was Joy
in her heart, but it soon turned to
grief. Through an open window. a
chuck had made his way in through
the house and an awful tragedy was
the consequence. There, on the floor.
lay three children half eaten up. They
had been playing leap frog over the
parlor chairs. when the savage mon
ster attacked them. There was no one
to heed their cries One by one. they
perished.
The chuck had left some tufts of his
hair scattered around the house SO
they knew 1t was a chuck instead OF a
tiger who was guilty of the awful deed.
He was followed a distance of nine
miles by a crowd of men and dogs. and
then all trace of him was lost. He
probably Jumped into the water and
swan across the lake.
The woodchuck has been thought all
along good-natured animal. but we
can see by this tragedy that ne is a
creature to be dreaded. once saw
one in the backyard. behind bunch
of catnip, but as 1 was armed with a
gun and knife, he did not dare attack
me- never walk out. neither day
or night, without something to defend
my life The tiger is a dreadful anil
nal, but the woodchuck is dreadfuller.
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THE RABBIT.

We have read in books that a rabbit
Is a harmless animal. and Is very
tinid in the presence of a human
being. 1t Is not true; they have de-
ceived US. as shall relate.
/ was walking up a dark alley, one
night. when a ferocious rabbit sud-
denly appeared. He growIed; lie
gnashed his teeth and dug In tfis
ground with his claws. am bravo
boy, and did not run While he was
trying TO scare me off. hunted up 4
ick-bat, and presently I threw II az
him. 1t did not hit him, but aroused
his anger, and the next moment he
was upon me. was thrown down
and bitten thirteen times II ! had
not cried out for help. he would have
devoured me alive. called at the top
of my voice, and four policemen.
who had been asleep. woke up and
came to my assistance By -four
ishing their clubs and shouting at
the rabbit they made him move
of, but his chops were stained with
my blood I was In the hospital seven
weeks. and at times, the doctors de-
SPARED of my life One doctor told me
was just as much OF hero as a
soldier who had been down on the
fighting line. The government may
give me a pension. but think not.
Let my sad fate be q warning to
other boys. If you are out In the
evening and see a rabbit. don't stop
to hght him. even though you are a
brave boy. Take to your heels a.d
run and no one viii call you a coward
Days and days have passed since 1
had my adventure. but can still feel
that rabbits teeth knawing at nv
vitals. Had his teeth reached my
heart. it would have been all over
with me,
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her bones on the rocks before she got
much more cranky" That being a very
common remark however. among the
shippers assigned to the old and worn
out coasters. it failed to have much
effect upon the Court.
Wide and divergent as were these
opinions there was most striking
agreement upon one point. viz: that
no real Junk had ever appeared upon
the scene and that what the Captain
saw was entirely subjective. The Eu-
ropean mind~seemed to be a unit on
this, but It utterly failed TO shake the
testimony and the obstinacy of old
''Dead-Eye," the Pilot. who swore with
a choice variety Of Chinese oaths that
what he had seen was decidedly OBJ
jective.
My talkee tlue. my no speakee lies.
my no smokee opee. my no dlinkee
wisky, my no go claEy makeeA fool
pidgin. Ny can Aavee look see debbil
junk come dat side. My b'longee
pilotee more ten years time; how fash
ion you tinkee my no can. savee? ?
Chinaman Pilotee no b'longee fool
So the public still awaited a perma-
nent solution of the problem.
The sea-Eolng tug-hoat "Hercules'
Of the Shanghai Lighter Co. had been
chartered to take the Consul the mem
bers Of the Court. Captain Clarke. Mate
Jackson, "Dead-Eye'' Ching the Pilot,
and several European and Chinese wit
nesses down to the Poo Toos and the
scene of the wreck, and was all ready
early Monday morning for the trip,
when word was received by the agents
asking them to hold the trip over until
Friday as very important business de-
tanned the Consul and it was absolutely
The Topeka state journal., 1919-08-16

and invited him to be his guest at the
Tea Theatre in the Nanking
Road that evening-nobody, ! say. paid
any especial attention to these things,
except the Consul himself. who after
the theatre that evening had a long
and secret interview with this self
same house-boy in the Office and list
'ened with eager attention to every word
he bad to say.
The Court of Enquiry at His Britain
mic Majecty's Consulate was again in
session, having been postponed a week
owing to the unfortunate indisiposi-
tien'@so the papers stated-of a very
important witness. The room was
crowded with spectators who awaited
with no little eagerness the final settle
ment Of the case and the solution-if
solution there was TO be-of the mys-
terry Of the phantom ink which had
wrecked the good ship "Tien Pao".
Captain Clarke" began Sir William
Walpole. the Nice Consul. there Is one
very important point which seems to
have hitherto been overlooked in the
examination and that is the question
Of the glasses you used when you saw
the junk through the wheeI-house win
dow. The window, Of course, was open
was 1t not?"
Yes, sir. being warm summer night
all the windows were wide open"
You had a perfectly clear field OF
vision, had you not? No person was
standing outside upon the deck? Moth
| ing was In the way7"
Nothing whatever, sir. Captain and
! Mrs. Duncan were on the other side Of
the ship. sir. just outside their cabin
door"
The smoke from the funnel was not
blowing that way at all. was it?"
No. sir, you see the wind was on ths
beam and all the smoke was going OF
on the starboard side"
Now, Captain Clarke. please state Il
/ the Court very distinctly whether yor
| saw the approaching vessel with YOU
The Topeka state journal., 1919-08-16

A IL was hustle and confusion az
~ the wharf OF the China Mutual
Navigation Co. IN Shanghai on
tho July afternoon that the good ship
"Tien Pao" was taking on her passen-
gers and cargo for Ninspo. And when
We say Confusion" We don't mean the
orderly American kind that we are ac-
customed to. but the real Chinese
variety, which is a very different
thing. To the ordinary visitor from
Western lands It was simply pan
demonium let loose. Coolies were
rushing in every direction with bags
Of rice and beans and compradores
Cor "overseers'D were shr.eking to
them at the TOP OF their lungs. Native
passengers wero pushing and Jostling
each other in mad efforts to get aboard
and only the huge nets spread out on
either side prevented their falling
overheard into the river. The only
quiet spot seemed to be the little for
ward gang~ay where a few European
passengers were climbing up TO the
cabins especially reserved for them.
Ching. the FIRST Pilot. was on police
duty here with n long bamboo TO irdi-
cate forcibly to the Asiatics that East
IS East and West is West" and that
they belonged only on the after part
OF chaos as the whistle blew for the
departure. Captain Clarke-ever pop
ular with his European passenger
took his place on the deck Just in
front OF the wheel-house. Ching pulled
IN the little gans-plank and shut the
gate, and with the order Let her 60!
the chains ratified along the sides and
the "Tien Pao" swung out into the
stream.
She had been an old P. and o.
Coaster IN her better days and was
certainly the worse for wear. but she
was holding f.er own with the larger
and iner.llners because Of the sasnin-
cance OF her name-which with tho
Chinese meant everything ''Tien Pao'
or Heavenly Protection" was their
great guarantee OF safety and 1t was
a lucky day for her owners when those
Ercat golden characters were painted
On her sides Even the hundreds Of
little red paper slips which were tossed
into the stream as she churned up the
foar, could add but little as offerings
10 tho river ghosts when high heaven
h-d her under its benign protection.
Down she steamed between the two
lo-- lines OF shipping. Over the Hoo
sung Ear and out into the yellow
waters OF the great Delta Of the Vans
Tee. the father OF Chinese waters. aho
took her course southwark toward the
Islands oe Poo Too. All went we'll
r-til just after the hour OF dinner
wscn she started to enter the Blaei;
Ca1rl Channel and sighted straight
arcad the warning beacon on the Cliff
roar the dangerous reef known TO
rav'Eato-s as the "Camsrs Hump.
What happened to her therein spite
cf the protection OF the heavenly name
was told In the "EStra' issued early
tho next morning by the Shanghai
Daily News.