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"A Novel Of Ships and SailOrmen That Will Make You Long
for the Tang Of the Sea and the Shrek
ing Symphony of the Gale

probrious when applied to a
sailor) caused resentment to flare
IT Anson's breast. But he stifled
his anger and walked smartly
aft.
Eyes, sir" he answered.
Then I'll take a look at It,"
growled the officer, Gathering
down the ladder.
AS no followed the man. Camp
bell had a premonition that there
was trouble brewing. The other
picked up the wire and examined
the splice critically. He seemed
disappointed.
"Cut that service adriftw he
commanded. Arson. wondering,
drew the sheath-knife and cut
away the MARINE he had served"
the splice with. 1t was a useless
action as anyone who knew could
see that the small job was well
and neatly done.
THAT amt a proper tuck. yuh
- hobo?' snarled Smith after
he had examined the wire and
twisted 1t about to start the
strands. THAT Bluenose blotch.
wolk don't 20 aboard here"
''Then how do you want 1t done.
slr?" The other spoke respectful
ly, anxious to give the man no
excuse to start something and
mindful Of his last "dust-up" with
a ships officer.
Dye want ME to teach yuh yer
rudy woik, yuh stinkin beach.
words out viciously. his cold blue
eyes mere sits in his heavy face.
his upper lip drawn back wolf.
ish:y over his irregular. tobacco.
stained teeth. Coincident with the
speech. his hand shot into his
jacket pocket and without warn
ing, he smashed Arson on the side
of his head with all the weight of
a powerful fiS armored with an
iron staysPh
THE ATTAC
Dazed with the unexpectedness
of the assault. Campbell made q
feeble attempt to strike back when
another round arm swing from
Smith sent him slumping down
into the scuppers, stunned and
with his scalp split from forehead
to ear. "I'll loin youse to rough it
up with me" calculated the buckle
and dropping the hank into his
pocket again. he gave the pros
tratt Arson a violent kick in the
stomach and staggered aft, whis-
Ting.
"Yo dirty - hawg" Kissed the
negro cook. watching him from
the galley door. "Golly. I'll stick
a knife in you yet" And the crew.
working with their scrapers on
the other side of the deck. were
too frightened 10 make a move or
attempt to lift the unconscious
man into the forecastle.
But Mr.. Sankey. during a jour.
new forward a few minutes later.
spied the prone body in the
scuppers and saw the bloody evi.
dence of violent assault. whats
come over this bird?" he NUT.
tered. as he turned Arson over.
It's the Novy is it Aha"
He suddenly recalled the second
officers pleased smile as he went
=, below to his room. TOO dam
free with his fists" he added
frowning. He went to the galley
where the doctor was slamming
pots around and cursing. "Hit
him TO- muffin. Mistah Mate.
Dat man knows his work. Nebber
glib word O. sass cuss
HIM"
'Stow your chatter. cook" said
the mate. impatiently. Get the
man into his bunk and fix him
up. I'll give you some stuff and
bandage for him. If it needs
stitching, let me know"
When Arson came to himself
in his bank the cook advised him
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The knowledge Test for
Times Readers

Which Statements Are True?
]. Asbury Park is in Virginia.
2. The maple leaf is an emblem of Canada.
3. Brandywine battle of the Civil War
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Do You Know
6. In what State is the Penobscot River?
7. What the Christian Egyptians known asf
8. What is anemone?
3. Where is the University of Michigan?
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II. What mountain range the Backbone of Italy,?
r. Who the greatest mathematician who lived before the
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Select the Name Below Which Best Fits
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IT, Poet George Bancroft
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FASHIONS
F AN CIES

Conspicuous but chic are the
new bracelets designed to be worn
on the outside of the coat sleeve.
Such a bracelet is a flexible coil
of silver or gold plate. finished
with q button Of semi-precious
stone. Such a jeweled button
has a back that unscrews. thus
permitting the shank to pierce
the cloth Of the sleeve and then
be firmly fastened.
Changeable as women's moods
are the new glace velvets, with
silk back and rayon pile. Their
colors shade in rainbow effect.
making them especially striking
for evening wraps, when some.
thing both elegant and formal is
required.
Particularly Partisan is the
sports enesmble that combines a
sleeveless satin frock with a linen
cardigan jacket of the identical
shade. Although linen and silk
have never before gone hand in
hand in such manner. the effect
is Frenchy and distinctly smart.
Making ends Justify means is
not hard thing to do regarding
the new double scarfs of georgette
whose ends are so smartly Dor.
dered in cut-out suede bands that
they amply justify the extrava.
gance represented by the pur.
chase of such a scarf and the
matching little suede handbag
that completes the set.
Creased Crowns increasingly
Chit, not only in felt, but also in
hats of bangkok straw. One of
the latest adaptations from the
masculine mode is the fedora"
Grease. which is as long and deep
as the one that distinguishes the
manly headgear from which the
term is taken.
MOcking a Monks Cape, the
wrap is one of the latest elabor.
ate three-piece costumes for for.
NAL afternoon wear. represents
one Of the seasons latest novel
ties. Developed in satin-backed
crepe, this model very strikingly
uses both surfaces of the fabric
with heavily embroidered designs
posed on both cape and frock.
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FREDERICK
WILLIAM
WALLACE

men were treated with respect
and had no complaint to make.
Smith, however, treated sailors
and "sojers' alike, snarling his
commands with ugly oaths and
threats, kicking and striking
whenever within or occasion at.
forded. He kept his crowd con.
tinually on the nove-setting
them to harsh and unnecessary
tasks that he might enjoy their
misery. Under this tyranny. the
starboard watch degenerated into
a mob of nervous. apprehensive
slaves, always in fear Of abuse
and muddling their work through
the panic which obsessed them.
Arson. with admirable self-con.
troll, refused to be stampeded. He
obeyed orders smartly. carried
out his tasks to the best of his
ability. Smith cursed him, called
him ugly names. set him at
''work.up' jobs. but fortunately
kept his hands to himself. I'm
doubtedly Sankey, perhaps the
captain, had warned the second
officer to go easy. But every
word and action of the buckle
only served to further intensity
Anson's hatred Of him. Smith
had marked him for life, assaulted
him without just cause. When
fortune favored. he consoled HIM
self, he would give the marker
cause for sorrow.
Making fair sailing, the Passaic
worked out clear of Sape San
Rogue and skirted down the South
American coast in fine weather.
Gear was overhauled and the best
suit of sails bent for the pass.
age of Cape Horn in winter-tiIne.
They had lifted the ATTITUDES to
the south of the River Plate
when a strong gale burst over
them. With overmuch on her
and deep with a dead.weight
coal cargo. the Passaic floundered
along like a hog in a wallow.
filling her main-deck to the mon;
key-rail with solid water.
The going became so desperate
that the watches were kept up
on the poop clear of the deluged
waist with nothing to do but
stand by" The ship was steer.
ing badly, yawing at times three
points on both sides of her course
and necessitating continual
spoking Of her wheel.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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for mental feast, he reported for
duty aboard the Passaic in a con-
dition of what seamen OF those
days termed as Disgusting so.
briefly"
Arson was at the wheel when
they got the topsails on her and
let go the hawser off the Nash
Point. From his position, he could
not see what was going on down
on the main deck, but he could
hear it. The Passaic had a flat.
faced waterfront rowdy as Sec
ond mate, product of New
York's East Side, foul.mouthed
fellow who had no scruples in
using his fist and boot on those
who did not work fast enough
to suit him.
His name was Smith, or
Schmidt, and though he was
scarcely thirty years Of age, yet
his reputation was a bad one. and
it was said of him that the blood
was never dry on his sea boots.
When he was relieved at the
wheel, Mr.. Sankey. the mate, or.
dered him aloft to clear a fouled
down-haul. What that beggar,
Mr.. Smith," the chief officer OBJ.
served to his Junior as he pointed
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FREEDOM OF
CITIES

COON or late the cities Of ths
~ United States will have to.
throw off the .yokels who now
prey upon them. If they can't do
it by Constitutional means they
will have to do it by other means.
Bit by bit. as the cities gain in
size, wealth and strength, they
will force the barnyard politicians
to yield them some of their
rights, and, in the end. if re-
sistance is kept up, they will take
them by force. Well have free
cities in the republic yet-inde-
pendent of the States. and mis-
tresses in their own houses. They
are coming as inevitably as they
came in the Middle Ages, and for
the same reasons. Once they APP
pear, civilization in the United
States will have a chance to
spread its wings. Delivered from
the extortations of the country
politicians and from the oppres.
sion Of country.made laws. they
will prosper and expand as they
can't prosper and expand now.
III. L. Mencken, in the Amer
lean Mercury.
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NEW WOOLFOR
BLANKETS

IN order to get more beautiful
Il wool for their famous blankets,
Navajo Indians in New Mexico are
breeding a new kind Of sheep, a
cross between the rare Karakul
sheep from Asia and the native
sheep. says Popular Science Mon
thly. The KaraKul sheep is the
animal that supplies the fur
known as broadtail, astrakhan or
Persian lamb.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-27
AMERICAN
FILMS

INCLUDE the American film
~ and the British screen would
soon be confined to pictures of
the cuckoo laying another birds
egg in its own nest, warn-out
horses being stabbed to death by
officials of the S P. c. A. dis
guised as Belgian sausageers, and
a dramatized version of 1.-THE Mill
on the Floss" in 10 reels with an
interval for tea.-C. H. Brother
ton in McNaught's Monthly.
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ADVICE TO
LOVELORN
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Drop the Matter
EAR MISS FAIRFAX:


DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
~ As 1 am a foreigner in this
country, will be very thankful
for your advice as to how to get
introduced to q young lady.
/ have seen a very fine young
lady a good many times, with
out having a chance to be intro.
duced to her. l haven't any
friends in this town Last Sat
urday / happened to learn where
she lives. l walked right into
her house and asked to see the
advertised apartment on the third
floor.
In this way, 1 also found she
is living with a married sister.
Then / made a great mistake.
l said was married, because ]
talked about the apartment and
did not know anything else to
say.
The young lady seems to be "a
refined girl with very good edu-
cation. l am willing to apollo
gize for what l have done.
Would you advise me to send
her some flowers and ask for a
chance to meet her?
VERY PUZZLED.
VOU could not have chosen a
Il more unwise way of becom-
ing acquainted. A friendship be.
gun with a lie seldom has a
chance.
Why do you not let the matter
drop? After all, you cannot be in
love with young girl who is not
even an acquaintance. If her
friendship is worth having she is
for too particular to accept the
attentions of a mar to whom she
has not been introduced.
The only alternative / can see
is to try to become acquainted
with some one who knows her
and will take the responsibility Of
introducing you. Possibly IL you
find what church she attends and
conscientiously interest yourself
in the same church, you may meet
her in this way. But the sensible
plan is to forget her, rather than
force the acquaintance
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job" he said to himself. He re.
turned his tools to the bosun's
locker and was about to enter the
fo'c'sle when Smith hailed him.
Hey. there, yuh gaudy sojer.
wherein hell yuh sneakin' off to?
Hev yuh finished that job Of
woik gave yuh?" The mans
tones were insulting and venom.
Gus and the epithet soldier" zap.
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NOw Go On With The Story

TINE mission worker glared
i around at the grinning loafers
on the avement. Then, with
a hopeless shrug of his shoulders
he turned and hurried off Camp
bell, sighting a policeman head.
ing In. his direction, swung away.
The little exchange pleased him.
put him in a better humor.
a stroll aound the Butte Docks
brought him to the American ship
Passaic, just berthed after being
under the coal staiths. She was
big lump of wooden main.skys'l.
yarder hailing from Bath, Me-, and
he liked the smart appearance Of
her.
At the United States Consulate
he found the ships master, Capt.
Amos Palmer-a tall, gentlemanly
Connecticut Yankee, and after a
quiet-spoken Interrogation. the
American skipper signed him on as
an A. B. "for the voyage to Anto-
fagasta, Chile, and to a port of
discharge in the States, U K. or
continent With a months ad-
vance wages in his pocket, he pur.
CHASED some necessities for the
trip. And in Difference to his
prison resolutions, he browsed
around secondhand bookstall,
picking up some volumes on navi.
cation and seamanship
Books Instead
"I'll pass up the whisky this
time" he suddenly determined, and
the silver coins went in payment of
a dozen "sup'ny bargains" consist
ing in part of Homer's "Iliad," the
'Argonautica, Ovid's cart of
Love" and Pope's Essay on Man"
Voltaire's "Candide" and the "Pan-
tagd Del of Rabelais," in French,
wereN Hnong the bundle of reading
matter which he slowed in his can.
vas "round-bottomed trunk" Hav.
Ing sacrificed his carnal appetite
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scalp stitched. With his face,
streaming blood from under the
bandaRe he staggered dazedly aft
along the broad decks, his mind
q turmoil of seething passion.
CHAPTER 8
On the poop q sailor was haul.
ing down the large ensign from
the monkey gait and at the sight
Of Old Glory blazoning before
his eyes Campbell turned to the
basun standing nearby. "See that
flag, Boss? See that nag?" he
questioned in a voice hoarse with
suppressed fury. We'll. by the
nine gods Of hell, tin cover
Smith or me before this trips
overY And, with a smouldering
menace in his set visage, he
lurched toward the poop, bare.
footed, clad in blood-stained blue
dungaree shirt and trousers, a
desperate.looking character.
The mate had to put 10 stitches
in the wound to draw the scalp
together. AS Arson passed into
the cabin Captain Palmer gave
MN q hSOAA CNA ASAAAJt OAS AAuAS AAO
remark. Damaged seamen were
no novelty to him and he cared
little about the tactics his mates
used in securing a reasonable
amount of smartness and obedience
from q crew. But the chief
officer was kindlier. He knew
how Campbell was feeling and
gave him some good advice.
you'll get over this, young
Teller, but you won't get over
a bullet in your skull. Don't you
be foolish enough to try any
paying.back capers or you'll get
plugged, sure as hell's hot. Do
your duty. forget your spite, and
youTl travel along all right"
Law Of Force
In all his seafaring thus far
Campbell had never been struck
by an officer. He had never
given one any occasion to try
it, and in British ships it wasn't
done. But on the Passaic he saw
the law Of force applied to good
and bad, young and old. In the
mates watch, capable. willing
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replied In the affirmative and a
job was given him to make an eye
In a new brace-pennant. The
mans manner somehow warned
Arson that there was a motive in
the order.
He completed the work about
the end of the watch and had
coiled the wire up. "a Blackwell
ribber couldn't make a better
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-27
Your Garden Calls You

BOUT the time the first fer
A tilizer is done in your garden
IL is time to do the wedding. The
most critical period in the vegeta-
BILE garden is during the week after
the plants break thu ough the
ground, says Nature Magazine of
Washington. The easiest way to
kill weeds is to get them before
they break through the ground;
and this is done by keeping the
garden soil we'll broken up and
hoed. A few minutes of that now
not only saves the food you want
to save for the plants, but saves
you lots of work when the weather
gets hotter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-27
TIPS FOR THE
GARDENER
How to Kill Insects

CUCKING insects have a beak
~ which they push through the
outer layers of the leaf tissue and
through which they suck out the
sap, says Nature Magazine of
Washington in talk to gar
deners. The action is similar to
that of the mosquito. They in
clude plant lice. scales and the
young of some of the other in
scots. If you have no sprayer.
sprinkle the tops and bottoms of
the leaves with tobacco dust. If
you have sprayer, get some
nicotine sulphate at drug store
and use it as recommended on
the containef.
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Read the Thrilling Account Of How
Arson, the Atheist and
Wastrel, Found God.
Read This First:

Arson Campbell, college study for the
Elnstr decides GO to sea- He arrives AnchOrv his Nova
Mary Phillips wealthy ship owners daughter whom admes.
fuses to speak to him. Page makes sighting remark wheupon
Arson thashes him and ducks him in tub dirty
father
uncle The latter dsowns him and the night with
Zee Crosby, old model shin
and Arson day he vessel from it. He
AnchOrVile He
and is sent by his captain beIiou sailors With
great dfnculy the ship Is saved Arson
gets into Jail after realizes that he becominr
and brutal - ~ S "o % "''"s
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Fairbanks, Pa.-"with pleasure I
write this and may God help DIR.
Pierce with his noble work of help.
ing others to health and strength.
| would not be without the Favor,
lite Prescription in the house. I am
feeling so good and strong since
using this medicine. / can work all
day long now and do not have to
stop to rest and l am sure / owe 1t
all to DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. Mrs. Ben Campbell.
Gilbert Mines) Box S21.
All druggists. tablets and liquid.
Send 10c to DR.. Pierce's Invalids
Hotel, Buffalo. N. Y. IL syou desire
. trial package 81 tablets,
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Across the North Sea Alone

NORWEGIAN recently the Sea alone in
a sailing boat Is feet long, Two days the boat
sprang leak and for eight days the sailor had
every three hours, day and night.
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Scotland Yards Memorial

IN long wide corridor that leads the Chiefs" Scot
land Yard stands lamp that burns day and night 1t is the
yards" memorial Civil Servants who fell in the
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to go to the mate and have his
scalp stitched. With his face,
streaming blood from under the
bandase he staggered dazedly aft
along the broad decks, his mind
q turmoil Of seething passion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-17
ADvERrIsEMENT
KEEP KIDNEYS
CLEAN, DRINK
MORE WATER
II Back Hurts or Bladder
Bothers, Also Take a
Little Salts

Eating too much rich food may
produce kidney trouble in some
form. says a well.known authority,
because the acids created excite the
kidneys. Then they become over.
worked, get sluggish. clog UP and
cause all sorts of distress. particu-
larry backache and misery in the
kidney region. rheumatic twinges,
severe headaches, acid stomach.
constipation, torpid liver, sleepless-
ness, bladder and urinary Irritation.
The moment your back hurts or
kidneys aren't acting right, or if
bladder bothers you, begin drinking
lots of good water and also get
about four ounces of Jad Salts from
any good pharmacy: take q table
spoonful in a glass Of water before
breakfast for few days and your
kidneys may then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid
Of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and has been used
for years to flush clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to activity; also
to neutralize the acids in the sys-
tenn SO that they no longer irritate,
thus often relieving bladder dis
orders.
Jad Salts can not injure anyone;
makes delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which millions of
men and women take now and then
to help keep the kidneys and urin-
ary organs clean, thus often avoid
inr serious kidney disorders.
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bis FORT UNES
INCREASE

CHICAGO, March IT,. Tradition
that big American fortunes break up
~ passing from generation to genera
tion Is a myth, according to DIR. joan
3. Noffsinger, director of the Ma
tional Home Study Council. in an adj
dress here.
Shirt sleeves-t O-shirt sleeves theory
that grandchildren of I1lillionaires
have to go to work is all wrong,
said DIR. Noffsinger Examination OF
widely known fortunes shows that in
many cases they increase tenfold
from generation to generation. The
Guggenheim family is an example Of
this trend. When Meyer Guggen-
helm died in 1905 he left $50, 900, 900.
His six sons today have fortune Of
$500,O00,000 and control half the
worlds copper supply.
Alexis /. du Ppnt died in 1921 and
left a fortune estimated at $31, 000,-
900. Today the du Pont heirs are
worth half a billion There are
scores of four and fifth generation
du Points now alive, any one of whom
Is worth more money than Alexis.
circumstances and luck have
been responsible for many fortunes.
Most men cannot achieve wealth.
Only one out of every Is people in
America earns enough to pay an
income tax. Without education or
specialized training, the average
worker rarely achieves more than
the bare necessities Of life. Home
study courses have been developed
by high-grade correspondence schools
70 give adult toilers the opportunity
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during the last six years has en-.
joyed good income at the bust.
ness Of planting mice in loayes Of
bread.
His stock in trade was baked
mice. done to turn In a coat Of
flour. His procedure was to pur.
chase q loaf Of bread In first-class
bakery, take the loaf to his hotel
room, cut In 1t two, hollow out just
enough OF the interior to ut baked
mouse neatly, insert the mouse, then
return with the loaded" loaf to. the
bakery, and hand It to the proprietor
with an offended air and, a few
pungent remarks.
Sheilko reports that he often re-.
ceived as high as so roubles from
bakers to keep the matter quiet, |"
and seldom received less than 10
roubles. He had worked" nearly
all the principal cities Of Russia,
including Leningrad, Odessa, Kha-s