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Waffle Plantations.

It is a strange fact that Australia,
the home Of the waffle (acacia),
should import nearly $4,000 worth Of
waffle bark in one year, and that the
chief exporter of the bark to the COM
monwealth should be South Africa
the country which began its waffle
plantations with trees imported from
Australia. Cheap labor in Natal. en-
abling the stripping of bark at one
seventh the cost in Australia, and the
need for expensive wire fences in the
latter country, probably account for
the anomaly. 1t Is worth noting, how
ever. that Victoria has 21,0O0 acres Of
black waffle in one of her state for
ests, and other large areas will be
sown shortly.
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CHAPTER XII.

The memory of that tragic moment,
strangely enough, was not to live in
Andrea's mind by reason Of the sight
of the collapse of MacCloster's bulk,
but by what followed Immediately
after. Never could she forget the
sudden stilling of the ululuing and the
instantaneous smile, broadening to a
grin, that dawned on the face of every
native.
The black throng backed step by
step before the terrific heat Of the
flaming Gaia. Their scorching faces
glistened with sweat, but their eyes
hung greedily on the crumpled sprawl
ing mass that was all that was left of
Manchester. In the pleasurable sur
felt of the moment they were careless
of the fact that the doom Of the entire
craal was fixed.
Trevor turned on them in white
rage and with a well-aimed bullet shot
an assegai from between the legs of
great hulking brute whose mouth was
sIavering with revolving enjoyment of
the scene. The blacks face went gray
with fright; his eyes came back with a
snap from their sensual feast. Many
Of his companions laughed aloud, but
others only licked thick lips in bestial
hunger for more slaughter.
~Youp' cried Trevor pressing the
xsdzzIe of his revolver into the culver
ing naked stomach of the man he had
frightened. "Get your crew together.
Take me home"
Half an hour later Andrea found
herself once more in MacCloster's
boat, but in spite of the fact that all
it's appointments and the crew were
the same with the exception of the one
black who had been killed, it seemed
utterly strange to her eyes, now no
longer glazed by misery. She turned
to Trevor, who had not spoken to her
since first he had joined her In the
Gaia. 1.-THE boat is quite different" she
said. "It's as though / saw it for the
first time"
He gave her no answer beyond q
noncommittal grunt, nor did he look
at her. His eyes were fastened far
ahead on the river, tracing out the
swirl Of the current and deep water.
A troubled look came into Andrea's
face; she glanced at him and her lips
parted twice in the half-smiIe that
precedes kindly speech. "You think |
ought to thank your" she asked. II
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ceased. Presently smoke, pearl-gray,
began to seep through the thatch OF
the roof.
Andrea came fully to her senses ana
called in a clear, high voice: I'm lere,
White Man; I'm here, White Man..
She repeated the cry steadily at snort
intervals until he shouted an answer.
Following the sound of his voice, her
eyes caught the CLEAN of his nuntlhg
knife, hacking way through the
thatch and when, finally, his feet were
thrust through the opening, she seized
and guided them to foothold. In an
other second he was standing before
her. Even in the dim light she could
see that his face was blackened, MS
eyebrows. eyelashes and mustache en-
tirely singed, his hair burnt OH IN
patches. "Oh! White Man J! she
gasped. throwing out both hands TO-
ward him.
Drop it," said Trevor shortly.
(Which way to the ground?'
She showed him. He slid down tne
branch until he struck the first cleat,
and waited there TO catch her. Come
on. now" he said. SIN thirty SECONDS
whoever's left in this hell-hole Will be
baked"
From below them and outside the
Gaia came the ululuing of thousand
panic-stricken voices, overlain but not
dominated by the believing OF Mac
Closter, issuing drunken and impossl-
BILE orders intermingled with horrible
and obscene oaths. AS Trevor and An
drea reached the platform at the main
intersection of the trees branches the
pail of smoke that had been following
close on their heels descended with a
swirl and enyeloped them. He turned,
caught up her skirt and threw 1t over
her head; then he seized her in his
arms, buried his face against her
breast and staggered blindly down the
spiral stairway.
In the van of the smoke, almost as
though he were being propelled by 1T,
he stumbled through the exit into the
cool air of night and glare that paled
the face Of the full moon. He dropped
Andrea to the ground, stepped over
her and stood face to face with the
raving Manchester. On the instant the
giant fell silent He stared vacantly
for the space of second; then his
ravaged face writhed into such an ex-
preston of sublimated hatred as no
man lives to see twice. Murder wrote
itself large across his features, slow
murder with bare hands for this enc
my who had sent up in smoke and
flame the one beloved earthly posses
sion of the wreck of a life. With a
choking gulp that seemed to rend his
throat he charged, head down, arms
thrown wide. talons clutching in an
ticipation.
His mouth twisted in thin smile,
Trevor shot from the hip. The bullet
of the heavy service revolver caught
Manchester in the shoulder and spun
him around three times. Trevor fred
again. The giants body seemed to
waver In the air, then crumpled and
fell sprawling toward the gun, face
down.
you've killed him." sobbed Andrea,
still on her hands and knees.
"In a way" said Trevor calmly and
half to himself. HE really died years
ago."
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Racon,s Rebellion in 1878.

In 1878, on April 20. Bacon's rebel
lien began. The colonists Of Virginia
were being constantly harassed by the
hostile Indian bands, who descended
on their settlements to plumber and
kill. The people asked Gov. Berkeley
to allow them to form guard led by
Nathaniel Bacon. young planter, for
the defense of their homes. Berkeley
refused, calling the request presump-
ton on the part of the common peo-
pie. In defiance Of the governors or
der. the volunteers set out under Bacon
against the Indians. Bacon was de-
cIared a traitor and ordered to be exc
cuted for his INSTRUMENTATION, but he
fell i'll of a fever and died during the
expedition.
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hung on the verge of further speech
as though he were counting lone, two,
three-go;" then he plunged: swirl
you marry me?"
Here was game that Andrea knew
from it's infancy to its old age. The
first move on its checker board was
as fixed as it was easy. No." she
said promptly and automatically and
glanced up with half-bored look that
said: "Your turn to play"
That look was destined to die sud-
den death. "Thank God!" said Trevor,
fervently. apparently looking into
space but in reality taking in her gal
vanized start through the corner Of
one eye. "You see," he continued. "I've
come to my senses and begun to get
your point of view. It's still true
that you asked me to bring you, but
it's no less true that you thought you
were just going up for a morning
breeze, while knew that once you
were in that flying machine u was
good-by to world. If I'd told you that,
of course you wouldn't have come"
"Of course" said Andrea, family.
Her heart was aching and inside of
her it's pulse was drumming an old IA
miliar childish refrain of helpless rage.
HE didn't play fairI He didn't play
fair !"
Under the circumstances and ac-
knowledging my fault, could do no
less than offer to marry you in spite
of your high station in life. I felt that
you might think yourself compromised
to such an extent that even my humble
person would prove some sort of an
amend. It's great relief to know
that overestimated the situation all
around"
Andrea realized that the false start
had thrown her out Of the normal
stride of the game and she was ready
to clutch at straw. "Why, hadn't
thought of that mean, I'd forgotten
it somehow-but do feel compro-
mised-awfully." She looked hopeful
ly at his set face.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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hairy paws CROPPED helplessly for mo-
ment only; then they embraced the
tree-trunk and he began to swarm up
the easy. slant. waiting up for me,
dearie?" he whispered.
Andrea suppressed an instructive
impulse to fly before his advance, all
the more terrifying because it was so
deliberate. Her face went white, her
eyes narrowed, but her lips set in a
straight line as she waited, trying her
best to quiet her excited breathing lest
it betray her pitiful agitation. She
measured the distance between the
edge of the platform and those slowly
sliding hands. Only when they got so
close that she could see the mist of
fine yellow hair on them did she strike
first at one and then at the other and
not with the edge of the cleat, but
with the three jagged nails that pro-
truded from its fiat side.
With a below Of rage Manchester
snatched back his pierced hands, trust
ing to the grip of his knees. Andrea
clutched the cleat tightly, leaned for
ward and struck him across the side
of the head with all her strength. He
lost his balance and fell. She heard
his body crashing from limb to limb
until it landed with terrific thud on
some platform far below. Up from the
depths came liquid stream of curses !;
he could no longer below, he was
whining with the rage that means to
kill.
Andrea sank back and covered in
the corner Of her hovel. She was
through; that last blow had drained
her of all energy and courage, she was
no longer conscious of desire to live.
Her head rang with incredible sounds
Hallucination tortured her and ever
brought to her longing ears the far
away hum of Trevor's airplane motor.
So vivid was her imagination that the
hum grew louder and louder, as it
would have done in reality, and finally
attained staccato roar. She smiled
wistfulIy. her face illumined by all the
love of the White Man which she had
hidden under mask of flippancy but
which. now that hope was dead, pro-
claimed itself frankly and seemed to
be trying to rock her to comfort and
oblivion.
Suddenly a terrific ripping crash
above her head tore through her numb
ed senses and brought her staggering
to her feet. The whole monster struc-
ture of the Gaia swayed and bent as
though it had been struck by @ lorna
do. Strong limbs creaked and cracked
with reports like pistol shots and
shower of leaves fell with a faint
ciick-clicking that could be distinctly
hcard as if through the interstices of
tie general and grosser commotion.
1ae roanng Of the airrlane that she
had thought an hallucination suddenly
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DADDYJ EVENING
+ FAIRY TALE
W. @MAN 0AHAMN !
. ~ Bonner @I
MRS. HIPPoPoTAMus.

Ladies'" said Mrs. Hippopotamus,
''are often very vain. They care about
their figures and about their looks and
about their hats and about their shoes.
They care about their dresses and they
care about the styles, while l. the fine
Mrs. HippopOtamus, am above such
things.
Il do not care If my legs are short
and my body enormous and all out Of
proportion to my legs.
81 do not care if my mouth is like
a cavern-it is so large. / do not
mind it that my skin is so queer, of a
funny dark brown color with all sorts
of little holes and marks and such all
over me-
81 have horrible oily stuff over me
too, but do not mind. What is more,
there is great sense to that. That
keeps me from getting i'll when l go
about rivers in Africa where there are
all kinds of fevers and such sickness
about
II have great teeth, teeth such as
no lady would like I'm sure. They like
little white even teeth, silly little
things.
I'm above such things. I'm not
ashamed of my teeth. like them.
They're good sensible, strong teeth.
And I'm not going to worry because
they're irregular. I'm not so vain as
to long for regular teeth.
my teeth and tusks can act like
scissors for they're shaped so as to
act that way. That's better than hav-
ing white even teeth.
81 live in the water and there 1 go
and look for my food. / don't go into
silly shops and to market like ladies
do.
81 sometimes go shopping and swim
ming around lakes and sometimes in
the rivers.
Nov and again become cross at
some trif1ing thing though usually it
has to be at something quite worth
getting angry about.
"But you know how it is? Every
one once In awhile is made angry by
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some little bit of thing. It is a
truth, I am sure.
81 like to sleep in tiny islands where
there are tall reeds along some nice
river. And in home such as / can
have in place like that welcome
my baby. / don't have a number Of
babies arriving at time like the
mother tigers and the mother lions and
many other animals do. No, old
Mother Hippopotamus is good old
mother and she feels she can only do
justice to one baby at a time.
"Ah, have in my great big heart
and despite my great thick hide
(though 1t is a protection 20 me as you
can understand have a great FEELING
of love.
81 don't believe there is a soul who
can love her baby more devotedly and
nurse it with more loving care than
Mrs Hippopotamus can.
''We love sugar and rice and vege-
tables of that sort-we don't care for
meat and fish and such food.
"Of course / started my talk in say
ing how glad was I wasn't vain. ]
said how delighted and happy / was
/ didn't have foolish desires for more
clothes or to be fashionable or any
thing like that.
II don't mind If I do look like a
fright and if the folks do say when
they see me as I've heard them say,
oh, look at that hippopotamus, isn't
she a terrible sight with that great
Jaw of hers. Oh, look, now she is OPEN
ing 1t.
1T is indeed terrible looking
thing
'I'm proud of myself that !, like
ladies often do, do not make myself
unhappy over being out of fashion or
having shabby things.
"But there is just one thing I feel
in sympathy with ladies about-at
least all ladies who are loving mothers
Il can understand what it means to
have baby look at its mother out
of its lovely baby eyes which are as
beautiful as anything in the world.
And can see its love for it's mother,
and oh, my whole heart goes out with
love for it.
'Yes, sometimes when you see the
great old ugly hippopotamus you must
not only think of the ugliness but you
must say, back of that thick hide,
behind that awful jaw and those
hideous features, deep down in the
heart of a mother hippopotamus there
is love and devotion and the beautiful
Joy of giving of that love to ones own
baby
"For baby hippopotamus is a baby
TO be loved by mother hippopotamus."
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deciding that he would feel more AT
home and perhaps more secure In his
own, asked her to precede him there.
She consented and upon arrival made
naturally for the couch.
II think" said Trevor hastily, "you
had better sit here-for a change" He
drew out a straightforward chair by
the table. She cast him an inQuiring
glance but sat down without remark.
Trevor did not sit; he paced up and
down before her till she could stand 1t
no longer; then she said brightly,
'Now know how our old cat used to
feel, watching the canary swing on
his trapeze."
Extraordinary inverted coinci-
dence," remarked Trevor. II feel like
the canary"
Both pondered on this rejoinder for
some moments; there was something
about it that reminded Andrea of
first blood" Finally she realized that
it was her turn to speak. I'll let that
go for the present" she said with
dignity. Suppose you say what you've
got to say"
The man stood squarely before her.
"All right" he said. For second he
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She Seemed very Small, Very Young.

many seconds, it took him exactly
thirty minutes to get from his end of
the passage to Andrea's door-and
knock. She opened to him at once
ard the sight of her made him tremble
Never before had she seemed so al
together adequate to every demand of
life. He looked upon her lovely tum-
bled hair that was still laughing from
its bath; on her deep blue eyes, each
cuddling devil of mischief; on her
adorable nose, always shifting for trou-
BILE: on her red lips, ready to call a
man on; and on her hard fists, backed
by sturdy youth, still more ready to
keep him off, and felt the bones Of his
determination turning to water She
stood with her feet Slightly straddled,
her hands stuffed in the side pockets
of her khaki jacket--a pose often as
sumed by professional fighters. He
glanced neryously about her room and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26
II You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that SO many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
preparation / have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has SO large
sale"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of DIR.
kilmer's Swamp-Root is due to the fact,
so, many people claim, that it fuiflls al.
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.
Count 1,or1r hIoCCtyo,e nxyor1, y,,orpiYno,
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Our closest Associates.

It is well-recognized fact that we
become like those with whom we asso-
ciate, but few of us carry that prfn-
ciple quite far enough and realize that
we take on the color of our mental as
sociates, our thoughts. We should
avoid the society of one mentally de-
ficient, but some of us spend days
and even weeks or even years, with
foolish thoughts unworthy a rational
being. We should be careful as to
our associates, and particularly re-
garding the closest associates of all.
our thouQhts.-Girls' Cnmnaninn
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Cant Cut Off My Leg
Says Railroad Engineer

81 am railroad engineer: about 20 years
ago my leg was seriously injured In an
accident out West. Upon my refusing to
allow the doctor to amputate it / was
wound. have tried all kinds of salves
and had many doctors in the past y
years, but to no avail Finally resolved
leg. You cannot imagine my astonish-
ment when I found it was doing what
over 100 things had failed to do. My leg
is now completely cured. Gus Hauft. T99
Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y. Great
for piles, eczema, old sores and all skin
diseases. IS cents. Mail orders filled.
Peterson Ointment Co Tnr- Rrffaln NJ "
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lines. whether you want me or
mock me, the die is forever cast; your
truth and your untruth, your weak
ness and your strength, purity or
faint; 1 shall take you all and taking
you, take only myself; for love is an
indivisible, an integral possessionI"
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Just Now.

spa, what's an optimistic"
'He is a dealer, my son, who has a
large stock of what people want very
much, and who thinks that the higI
cost of living might be very muc1
worse"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26

cuticura for PimpIy Faces.
To remove pimples and blackheads
smear them with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off in FIVE minutes with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water. Once clear
keep your skin clear by using them for
daily toilet purposes. Don't fail to In.
clude Cuticura Talcum.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26

Jonah was a cunundrum, and the
whale had to give him up.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26

Count your blessings every morning.
1t should make you an optimist till
noon, anyway.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26

Nearly all meE believe that honesty
In moderation is the best policy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-26
1907 PEP!
If Constipated, Bilious
or Headachy, take
s'Cascarets. -

Feel bully! Be efficient! Don't stay
sick, bilious, headachy, constipated.
Remove the liver and bowel poison
which is keeping your head dizzy,
your tongue coated, your breath bad
and stomach sour. Why not spend
few cents for a box of Cascarets and
enjoy the incest, gentlest laxative-ca-
thartic you ever experienced? Cas-
carets never grippe, sicken or incon-
venience one like Salts, Oil, Calomel
or harsh Pills. They work while you
sleep.-Adv.
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fatigue ana munger he lOOKeu DdCk
with exultant pride upon the mael-
strom of emotions that he had ridden
to reach this haven Of his souls peace.
The feyerish haste with which he had
dug out the airplane and patched it
up, the white rage in which he had
hurled himself with it into the air, the
absolute and marvellous determination
Of the steady, unwavering flight that
had carried him straight to MacCIos-
ters craal, all became emblems to him
Of the power of that which is within
us to rise eternally to superhuman
heights on the wings of little love.
He glanced downward at the fair
head pressed so close to his shoulder
that the wide brim of his helmet
shaded it as well as his own and let
his eyes follow along the curled-up
length of Andrea's figure. She seemed
very small, very young, infinitely
potent. For the first time in their in
tercourse he consciously remembered
who she was and all his bravado in the
face of false values. all his logical In
difference to established forms, fell
from him. He trembled for the things
he had done to, the murder he had
coolly committed on, the person of the
Honorable Andrea Pellor!
She had said that she knew herself
safe with him forever and forever and
while he recognized the gentle mood
that had so overburdened her tongue,
he felt now an aching within him to
guard. not the Honorable Andrea Pei
lor. but this much dearer creature of
his own making, from the harming
touch of tongues as well as hands.
He threw up his head as though to
a revivified and ennobled determine
ton that was above fear and muir
INJURED a confirmation of the. creed that
had been born. full-fledged, from her
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-09

Sea IL their favrotite resort. Running
away from something, ofttimes Just
monOtony, they trickle along the
water fronts Of the world, board
ing ships here and there until nnal-
IS they get into the land where food
is easy 10 get and morals are not
considered. There they live, walk
ing miles along the shore 20 pick mp
whatever the waves may bring the N
floating in from the ships that get
into trouble in those erratiC waters.
some OF them prosper greatly of
their salvage. but most get just
enough 70 keep life easy. There Is
a beachcomber. a handsome. deter
mined one in The Idol Dancer. %
the ID. w Griffith production which
will be shown at the oliver theater
for four days. starting Thur day,
different from most, a mighty in
teresting fellow, who shows just now
they live and how he changed in
20 a trader. Clarine Seymour and
Richard Bartlemess appear i'm the
leading roles in this production.