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himself in was entirely due to
reckless drinking. It lost him
Mary Phillips, it saw him an out.
cast from his people. It landed
him in trouble in Sydney, and
finally In the Cardiff jail. He
drank like a fool ashore and Il
kept him circulating in sailor heIls.
Then again, it came to him that
he was false to his class. It was
time he began to study for the
quarterback; to make use Of his
brains instead OF his muscles. In
reviewing his intellectual furnish.
ings he found them somewhat
shabby. His thoughts trended to-
ward the vulgar and the immoral.
He was losing his grip ON mat
ters aethetic, on polite manner.
isms. on the erudition that should
be his virtue Of birth, family and
education. He was becoming
coarsely sensual. brutal, too toler-
ant Of the sordid and vicious. He
thought of his mind as a stag
nant and much polluted pool.
When Arson had served his
Z sentence he was .accosted at the
Jail gates by mission worker.
Brother" said the man unctious-
~, laying an arfesting hand on
Anson's arm, ''you are a sinner
a lost sheep. but they thy sins
be as scarlet, they shall be whittier
than snow =" He was a fel-
-, - ACCOMPLISHMENTS, avr,aar
ance, pasty-faced, patronizing.
"Scarlet?" Campbell spoke. with
sneering turbulence. my sins
are black, brother. blacker than
old black HEIR
BLACK or scarlet, friend, the
blood of the Redeemer will wash
them away. Do you know Jesus
Jesus the Savior2 He who
died to save sinners?"
The sailor laughed jibingly.
Don't start converting me, my
friend" he said assertively. "I
know your Bible from Genesis
to Malachi, from Matthew to
Revelation. I've been a student
OF Apologetics and can read your
fairy tales In Hebrew, Latin and
Greek. I've studied tie Septua-
gint. Josephus and the whole
,prosy mob Of commentarians from
Pool to John Brown. Now, how
do you plan to lead me TO the
Cross-to the fountain filled with
blood?"
The other stared at him with
blinking eyes. And still you
don't believer" he inquired, harsh.
~. You know these truths,
yet you reject them?"
II do-heartily and unreservad.
ly. believe in neither God nor
Devil! And you,- Mister" he
favored the man with a hostile
xpression-"don't know enough
to argue with me. I'd have
you looking forty ways for, Sun.
day in five minutes" He made
a threatening gesture with his
hand "Shove off. now, before
I take and stuff your packet OF
apocryphal tracts down your
throat
Ito. Be Continued Tomorrow
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ADVICE TO
LOVELORN
BY Beatrice Fairfax

oURELY there is not girl
~ who would not tenderly sym.
pathize with Margaret. writer Of
the following letter, in her trouble.
Yet surely, every girl would
know how to advise her.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
"A few years ago, met q
man for whom I learned to care.
I know he care&sx FOR me, though
there was not. q definite engage
ment between as.
/ broke off with hiEa, because
I was in q pre-tubercular condi.
ton, and felt it would not be
fair to him to 90 on with our
friendship, which was growing
into love. But / could not ex-
pain why 1 broke off.
IT am engaged to be married
now, and l find that / have de-
veloped the disease. Do you think
l should tell my fiance? I hate
to do so, because I have already
sacrificed my happiness, once.
Can you help me?
MARGARET"
nEAR MARGARET: We long
~ to help you-not only I, but
surely every reader Of your letter.
Explain all to your fiance If you
are certain you have developed
tuberculosis. If there is any doubt,
learn from your physician just
what your condition is.
But there is hope for you, Mar
garet. tuberculosis can be cured.
II you will go away to one of the
mountain camps, which are many
of them quite free for those who
cannot afford to pay, there is
every chance that you will get
well. Then come back with a clear
conscience to find love, which I
am sure will be waiting for you
in this world.
OF course, having explained all /,
you will release your fiance. That
IL only fair-it would be too long
to ask him to wait.
I personally know several girls
who went to tuberculosis camps
and returned rosy and well to
their loved ones. So promise you
will not be discouraged, Margaret,
but will go through with your task
Of telling the truth to your fiance,
release him, then .oapture lost
health, calamity. cheerily.. All sue.
cess to you, dear.
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CHAPTER VT

The grey dawn came at last and
revealed the riot of lividly cresting
sea through which the ship was
plunging. On deck the clipper APP
peared a complete wreck. In the
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DEER DNJURE
CROPS

CLAIMS against the State of
~ Massachusetts, for reimburse,
ment for. damage caused to
orchards by deer have led to an
investigation by the Biological
Survey Of the United States De-
partment Of Agriculture, with a
view to controlling further injury
to young orchards from this cause.
in New England.
In Massachusetts, alone the
damage amounted to $4,000 in
the past year. Deer injury rep
resents q serious problem. It
has recently caused two large
young orchards to be abandoned
and has prevented the develop
ment of orcharding in otherwise
favorable sections, Practical con-
troll is badly needed. but 1t is un.
desirable to injure or kill these
valuable game animals.
In wealth per capita, Canada il
surpassed only by Great Britain
and the United States,
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Novel of Ships and SaiOrmen That viii Make You Long
for the Tang Of the Sea and the Shrek
ing Symphony of the Gale.

London he felt sure Of himself
in any ship environment. But
he had a long way to 20 ere
his ambitions could be realized.
Before he could secure a certifi-
cate as second mate In British
ships, or a mate in those of
British North America, where
the requirements were not so rig.
idly enforced, he would have to
produce discharge papers of SER
vice afioat totaling not less than
four years. Arson fretted against
such regulation. He flattered him.
self that he was competent enough
to secure an officers rating in
much less q period. But the rules
were inexorable.
Three years after his exit from
Anehorville, he was paid off in
Sharpness, England, after COM
plotting a guano voyage as A. B.
in an iron barque. Since the
turbulent Stepney trip. he found
his sea life uneventful, unhur-
ried, unmarried by any incident
worth recording.
Apart from his professional
qualities, Arson became as heed
less as the most ingnorant of his
shipmates to the intellectual ex-
pansion afforded by trayel. His
reading was confined to the per.
usual of newspapers and the Ques-
tionable novels easily procured in
certain ports; his spare time was
wasted in the lounging and yarn
ing beloved my men who have
neither energy nor initiative be-
yond their work, nor any embi.
ton as a goal.
Ashore, he made no effort to es-
cape from the environment of the
forecastle worker. He permitted
himself to be seduced by crimps
into the dives which they kept.
He found enjoyment in immoder.
ate drinking, In the pleasure that
trailed in the wake of hard liquor.
London, Cardiff, New York, Rio,
Callao. Havre, Alden. Calcutta-he
had visited these ports, rejected
their multitudinous offerings to the
cultured mind, and knew them
only in the manner of the sailors
pleasure they offered.
A CalIous Man
Three years Of life on his own
account found Arson unduly sub
versive to his whims. He was cal.
lous, immoral, impious, resentful
Of infringements on his comfort,
careless Of everything save his
work and the goodwill OF his Of
ficers. Cleanliness in person and
clothing and a certain nicely of
speech were seemingly all that re-
manned about him to mark his up
bringing and education. Needless
Of pain. utterly devoid Of fear, his
fist gained for him an ascendancy
over most Of the crews he shipped
with. To successfully boss the
fo'e'sle," was a tribute to the ego
that was so large a part Of him.
1t pleased him to hold domin-
ion. to have the privilege Of
selecting the best bunk in the
ships he joined, of having the
first cut at the beef. and of see.
ing his shipmates defer to his
wishes.
CHAPTER AZ
From Sharpness he tourneyed
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left-enough tae eat the hooker,
so we'll list get her hame without
help. The bosun 'ull TAX the
mates place
II have a second mates ticket"
vouchsafed one Of the seamen.
The master scanned him through
narrowed eyes. AYE, ye MIGHT
have" he observed drily. but a
the tickets in the warld wull
niver max q sailor of We. The
young felIa' here"-he indicated
Campbell with a jerk of his
thumb-"had tae beet ye forrad
tae the forebraces this mornin.'
And I'm thinkin' he MIGHT as
we'll keep on bootin' some Of
yez, 50 I'll max him second
mate as q temporary expedient
He turned to the amazed Arson.
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Read the Thrilling Account Of How
Arson, the Atheist and
Wastrel, Found God.

port forecastle Campbell found but
one Of his. watch-mates--the man
with the broken arm, lying in
soaking bunk, groaning with pain.
The empty place told story and,
for the first time, wave of
something approaching fear came
over the youth as he voiced the
!. question, Where are the men,"
The mates : dragged them
.eout just as she was hove
down. The injured seaman whim-
pered the reply.
Campbell stood dumb for a full
moment. There were eight men
and two mates. Ten men gone!
He felt his knees weakening oddly
at the thought of 1t, and for q
space he had to hang on to a bunk
hoard to keep from falling. Ten
lives the officers his
Observation-Disclosures out of exist.
ence, swept into the NAV of death
in the charge of a laundering
surgei He was trembling all over
when he turned away. His callous
inner ego could not buffer this
shock, and he was temporarily
appalled, by the frightfuIness of it.
The sea was hard mistress to
serve. She was, showing him the
evil side of her face in the sacri-
fees and hazards which she i'm
posed upon her votaries.
Raw Rum
There is a magic potency to
heart stimulating rum after long
hn1Iro nj noII avA vi
ton. Arson, ill-clad for such
weather and work, felt the double
draught holly through his veins,
and the chill in his blood, the
sickening depression which as
sailed him, faded away to be re.
placed by a pleasing conceit in the
part he had played in the events
Of the night. He. had led the way.
he had taken upon himself the
most hazardous tasks, he had risked
his life hundred times and men
had obeyed his directions through
mental and physical dominance.
1t was his first experience Of
storm, Of Tnishap that few ships
survived, and it failed to daunt
him. That fact made him almost
deliriously happy.
And subsequent events PAN
dered vastly to his conceit. The
crew had waited upon Old Jock
with the respectful demand that
he run for Valparaiso and re-.
place the missing men and re-fit
the ship. ma, na," the old sea.
warrior replied. "A matter o.
twa mates mad eight hands isna
goin' tae stop me frae maxim a
passage. The ships a'richt. 1t
wiz the lubbers at the wheel that
got In a blue funk an let her
breach. There's a wheen Of US
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to Bristol in the hope OF shipping
on q British North American
craft. In the "City OF Churches
he struck up q bar-room &C.
duaintancesiaip with an agreeable
fellow who claimed to be interest.
ed in the Canadian timber trade.
In a burst Of lIquorish confidence,
his chance friend explained that
he held shares in some Quebec
timberships and would place An.
SON aboard OF one as second mate
without delay. 81 want officers
to look after my interests" the
stranger confided; men / can
trust. You look like q smart.
brainy chap. I'll get you the
berth and push you on"
When Campbell came to his
senses he found himself in the
forecastle Of a leaky old wooden
barque, moored in the Butte Dock,
Cardiff, and on the eve Of tow
ing out, bound for Rio with
cargo of coal. The barque's mate
fell foul of him as he was re-
covering from his drinking orgy,
and inflamed with the poison he
had absorbed. the knowledge that
he had been flim-fammed on
board Of a tub that no sailor in
his sober senses would sail in, he
assaulted the officer and broke
his jaw. Arson was arrested.
hailed before a hard-eyed Cardiff
magistrate and sentenced to 80
days hard labor.
A Bad Tune
The incident served to apprise
Arson of the fact that liquor al
ways played it's votaries an i'll
tune for dancing to. A month in
prison-faring on skilly and hash.
breaking stones and picking oak
UNI, herding with the roughs and
toughs of Cardiff-afforded him
enough time for contemplation
and self-analysis to realize that
every sorry situation he found
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR1

!.
Anson Campbell, semitic college
BY his uncle to study for the
ministry, decides to go to sea.
He arrives at Anch0rville. his
Nova Scotia home town, decided
" the worse for drink, to say
goodbye TO Mary Phillips, .
wealthy ship owners daughter
whom he admires. He sees her
walking with George Page. a
summer visitor. Mary refuses
to speak TO him. Page makes q
Blighting remark, Whereupon
Arson thrashes him and ducks
him in q tub Of dirty water.
Mary's father interVenes. "A
crowd gathers and Arson walks
off to face his uncle. The latter
spends the night with Zel1e
Crosby, an old carpenter. Crosby
has built model of q ship and
Ans0M swears some day he win
build real vessel from it. He
goes to sea and AnchOrviIle for.
gets him. He makes good as 3
sailor and is sent by his captain
to rOut out q lot of rebelIiOus
sailors. With great difficulty the
ship is saved.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
ttEoR'AD you go-all of you"
= Like mailman he leaped In
among the crowd budding to the
rails. flashing out at them with
boot and Delaying pin, needless of
where his blows landed, swearing
torridly. the while. "For'ad you
30! To the fore.braces. you
Like an Ok
One of the mob put up his fists.
Arson rushed him and swung vic.
iously with the wooden pin. 1t
thudded audibly on the others
skull and the man dropped under
theb low like stunned OK and
slumped across the deck to lee.
ward.
He'll go overboard" yelped
someone, fearfully.
Then let him CO." snarled An
son. But the fellow was saved by
fetching up against the skylight.
The others, cowed by the sight Of
such ruthless attack, scrambled
down on the main-deck, growing
throaty oaths and threats, but
more afraid Of their suddenly vic.
ious shipmate than of anything
the sea could do. And herded
like sheep with the Nova Scotian
driving. them, they gained the
shelter of the topgallant fore
castle.
Get under there, you hoboes,
and tally on"' There were four
men to do the kicking and thump.
ing now, and bounded and pound
ed into action, the mob carried
the braces right up into the eyes
of the ship and began hauling.
Haul. curse you; put your rudy
backs into it, you swine!'
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-26
SHOES FROM
PANAMA HATS

MAKING shoes from Panama
WA hats may not sound prac-
ticable. but It is being done with
surprising success. says Popular
Science Monthly. Managers of a
New York department store not
long ago found themselves with
an overstock OF Panamas. They
cudgeled their brains to figure
out some way of disposing of
them profitably. Finally they
found that the hats would make
attractive shoe tops, and accord
ingly turned them over to the
shoemakers. The Panamas were
cut for uppers which were bound
off in black velvet. The result
was declared to be exceptionally
''dressy."
The Midas Touch is affecting
shoes as well as belts. Narrow
gilt leather belts are essential to
the success Of the sports costume,
and now. to keep them company,
sports shoes are appearing with
gilt kid pipinEs.
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the brain and Drawn that was his
to the necessities Of seafaring.
And in the days that followed,
when he carried out to the best
Of his knowledge and experience
the duties Of his office, the ego
in him blossomed and grew until
his conceit approached the colos.
sal. II am proof" he unused,
that intelligence and energy will
get a man anywhere
The voyage of the Stepney wed.
ded Campbell effectualIy to the
sea, and when he left her In
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MEANING OF
A WORD
GONE of the broadest and most

GONE of the Droadest and most
~ useful terms in the I. W.
W. language is dehorn," says
Stewart H. Holbrook. writing in
the American Mercury. This
word" says Mr.. HolbrooE, "origi.
nally had a surgical meaning in
Texas, but since its adoption by
the wobblies 1t has become as
wide as the concept Of 100 per
cent Americanism. In general It
designates anything in opposition
to I. w. w. teachings. When
one has no horns, /. e., no class
consciousness, then one has no
weapons to battle with the mon.
ster Of capitalism Dehorn goes
further. Rum in any form, gam
bling, Ford automobiles. fiction
magazines. the Kept Press, fem
mes de joie-all these are dehorn.
The take the worker mind off
the class struggle. A dehorn
committee Is one which, during a
wobbly strike, pickets bootleg
Joints and proletarian seraglios,
keeps workmen away therefrom,
and thus. in theory at least pre-
vents members from throwing
themselves too quickly upon the
strike fund"
The German postoffice depart
ment, in addition to carrying
mail. serves as a bill collector,
banker, and subscription agent for
newspapers, magazines and books.
Not satisfied with these multiple
activities, it also operates sight.
seeing and regular passenger
buses in regions where other
TRANSFORMATION IL inadAnuafA
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'Ys can shift intae the cabin.
ma lad, an ye can see tae 1t
that yon water-wagtails gle We the
handle tae yer name"
Second Mate
The youth received the promo
ton blinking. Less than six
months at sea and a hard old nut
of a driving Scotsman had picked
him out to act as second mate
of q 1.400-ton wool clipper! It
was the supreme tribute to his
capabilities-the application OF
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The knowledge Test for
Times Readers

1. Who wrote gables In Slang?
2. How many pounds in a long ton?
s. To what political party did James G. Blaine belOng
4. At what exposition President Mckinley shot?
In what book by Dickens does this occur Acct
dents will happen in the best regulated families?
s. Who painted Aurora?
z. What the winds of Southern Asia called?
8. On what lake is Cleveland?
From What Country Did We Get Each Of the Following?
8. Alaska
10. California
II. Florida
IL. Louisiana
What Word Is Omitted From These Quotations.
IL. You may fire when ready, --" Dewey
IA Absence makes the heart grow --" --Bayly
Fill Each Blank
ID The largest ocean is the --
To- Erie Canal extends from Albany to -
IT, Standard time was adopted in -.
See TomorrOw's Paper TO- Verify Your Results
Answers to Yesterdays Test
l. Mississippi Seine g. Thames; Arno sculptor; writer;
naturalist; g. senators artist TO- poets H. university pres
dents ~ Asia; 49, Portsmouth; H. Richard Bnsy Shdan 49,
Rouen, Frances 16, Quebec; II, Beauregard
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-26
Finger-Prints in Ancient Days

ON the brick tablets Of Royal Library Nneyeh
" which suggest the science Of ngerpn under
stood in Assyria that fngerpnts were used
for identification purposes in China in A. D. 7O0
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-26
EATS FRUIT
PESTS

TNHE orchard oriole, sometimes
called basket bird, is found in
Eastern North America, over the
central plains. south to the Gulf
OF Mexico. The tribe is Of suffi-
ciert numbers, says Nature Maya
zine. to be useful to the agricul-
turist as a destroyer of Injurious
insects and their larvae, especially
those affecting fruit trees.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-26
This Day in Our History

VEN E. KIRBY SMITH Confederate general surrendered the.
" last army the Confederacy numbering $4,000
Candy Union; Brazo Tex May g. 1865 This marked
the close Of the
Evening star., 1927-05-18
BOARD TOREvEAL.
PROGRAM TUESDAY
$50 Stations viii Undergo
Power or Wave Shifts,
Commission Holds.

The new national wave.length alIo-
cation plan for radio broadcasting
stations will be made public next
Tuesday.
Six hundred and ninety.one sta
tions which were on the air up to
February "a will be grouped into
an entirely new alignment of wave
length and power under the new
arrangement, which is to become
effective at 1901 am. June I, local
time.
OF the 691 stations to be licensed
to broadcast. ESQ of them will be
changed from their present wave
band or power or both. The new
broadcasting pattern will bear little
relation to the present layout of
stations and the new arrangement
will render virtually all present sta
ton logging on receiving sets obso.
lete.
Commissioner Henry A. Bellows Of
the Federal Radio Commission said
radio listeners are to be urged by
broadcasting stations at the request
Of the commission to exercise patience
in the logging of stations because the
entire alignment will be changed and
ten days or TWO weeks OF new logging
will elapse before the new frequen.
cies of stations can be located on dials
of receiving sets.
The wave length changes on i'm
pOrtant stations will not be pro-
nounced in 50 far as receiving sets are
concerned. and a few of the larger
stations will remain on their present
waves.
Commissioner Bellows made it
plain that the new layout will in.
volve a radical departure from the
present station assignments and that
radical reductions in power win be
made in the case of many high-power
stations. Only one or two stations
have been licensed TO use higher
power than they now use, these be.
ing relatively low-power stations in
the South. whose output will not in
terfere with other broadcasters If
higher power is used
Sixty day licenses to broadcast will
be issued, effective June 1, to give
the commission a true idea of how
the new ALLEGATION scheme is to work
out.
Evening star., 1927-05-18

thousands in the street against the
Y. M. c. A. and Christianity. but so
far as we can see it has done no
harm. There are fully twice as many
young men coming to our building
now as at any time in the past.
II do not mean to minimize Difficult.
ties" Mr.. Brockman's letter stated
They are unbelievably great. The
Communists have avowed their de-
termination to destroy the association
and have declared it the greatest bull
wark against their revolutionary pro-
gram.
81 see no indication that the asso-
citation is to have a smaller place In
China, but rather larger one: nor
that American cooperation will be
less needed, less welcome or less
effective in the future than In the
past"
Evening star., 1927-05-18
TRAIN HAS RADIO SETS.

Special radio equipment, represent
ing the latest in design, forms one Of
the features of new parlor cars built
especially for the fast day train
operated between Montreal and Bos-
ton by the Canadian National Rail-
ways. to be known as the Ambassador.
At each chair is a radio outlet with
head phones. All outlets terminate
flush with the panel and provide for
% head sets and one cone type loud
speaker, which may be used when
desired.