The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 December 1910 — Page 7

CseriaC? STORY The Courage of Captain Plum By JAMES OLIVER j CURWOOD I CJ I I— Illustrations by ifiagnus G. Kettner 1 ICopyrig'U WOB by Bobbs-Merrlll Co.) P SYNOPSIS. JCapt Nathaniel Plum, of the sloop Typhoon, lands secretly on Beaver island, stronghold of the Mormons. He is sud • denly confronted by Obadiah Price, an eccentric old man and a member of the Mormon council, who tells him that he Is expected. Price Ignores Nat’s protestations that he has got the wrong man, and bargains for the ammunition aboard the sjoop. He binds Nat by a solemn oath to deliver a package to Franklin Pierce, president of the United States. Near Price’s cabin Nat sees the frightened face of a young woman who disappears in the darkness, leaving an odor of lilacs. It develops that Plum’s visit to the island •a to demand settlement from the king, Strang, for the looting of his ship some time previously*, supposedly by Mormons. Casey, the mate, has been left in charge Os the sloop with orders to bombard St. tames if Nat 'does not return within a ■ Certain time. Price takes Nat in the jAarkness, to the king’s home, and through a window’ he sees the king anti "his wives, among whom is the lady of the lilacs, whdm Price says is the sev- , |nth wife. Plum calls at the king’s office, where he !is warned by a young kvoman that hijs life is in danger. Strang receives Plum ' cordially, protases indignation w’hen he hears the captain’s grievance, and promises to punisli the guilty. Plum again receives warning of his dantger. He rescues Neil, who is being publicly whipped. < The king orders Arbor Croche, the sheriff and father of Winn■Bome, the girl who warned Nat, to pursue and kill the two men. CHAPTER V The Mystery. Hardly had Nathaniel fought his i way through the thin crowd of startled spectators about the whipping post before the enormity of his offense ■in interrupting the justice j dawned upon: him. He‘ s was not sorry [ that he had responded to the mute i appeal of thej girl who had entered so > strangely into his life. He rejoiced at • the spirit that had moved him to ac- ’ tion, that had fired his blood and put i the strength of a.giant in his arms; j and his nerves tingled with an unreasoning joy that he had leaped all ■ barriers which in cooler moments . would have restrained him, and which j fixed in his excited brain only the ; (memory of the beautiful face that had ■ sought his own in those crucial moments of its suffering. The girl had turned to him) and to him alone among 1 all those men. He had heard her voice, he had felt the soft sweep of. her hair as he severed the prisoner’s thongs, he had caught the flash of her eyes and the movement of her lips as he dashed himself into the crowd. And as he sped swiftly up the slope he considered himself amply, repaid for all he had done. His blood was stirred as if by the fire of sharp wines; he was still in a tension of fighting excitement Yeti no sooner had he fought himself clear of the mob than his better judgment leaped Into the ascendency. If danger had been lurking for him before it was doubly threatening <BOW and he was sufficiently possessed of the spirit of self preservation to exult at the speed with which he was enabled to Ifeave pursuit behind. A single glance over his shoulder as* sured him that the man whom he had saved ftom the prophet’s wra'th was close at his heels. His first impulse was to direct his flight toward Obadiah’s cabin; his second to follow the path that led to his ship. At this hour some of his men would surely be awaiting him in a small boat and once aboard the Typhoon he could continue his campaign against the Mormon king with better chances of success than as a lone fugitive on the island. Besides, he knew what Casey would do at sundown. At the top of the slope he stopped and waited for the other to come up to him. “I’ve got a ship off there,” he called, pointing inland. “Take a short cut for the point at the head of the island. There’s a boat waiting for us I ” { Neil came up panting. • He was breathing so hard that for a moment he found it impossible to speak but in his eyes there was look that; told his unbounded gratitude. They were clear, fearless eyes, with the blue glint of steel in them and, as he held out his hands to Nathaniel, they were luminous with the joy of his deliverance. “Thank you, Captain Plum!” He spoke his companion’s name with the assurance of one who had known it for a long time. “If they loose the dogs there will be no time for the ship,” he added, with a suggestive hunch of his naked shoulders. “Follow me!” There was no alarm in his voice and Nathanial caught the flashing gleam of white teeth as Neil smiled grimly back at him, running in the lead. From the man’s eyes the master of the Typhoon had sized up his companion as a fighter. The smile —daring, ccafident, and ret signaling their danger—assured him ttu»* he was right, and he

followed elose behind without question. A dozen rods up the patch Neil turned into a dense thicket of briars and underbrush and. for ten minues they plunged through the pathless jungle. Now and then Nathaniel saw the three red stripes of the whippet’s lash upon the bare shoulders of the man ahead and to these every step seemed to add new wounds made by the thorns. As they came out upon an old roadway the captain stripped joft his coat and Neil thrust himself into it as they ran. Even in these first minutes of their flight Nathaniel was thrilled by ani other thought than that of the peril behind them. Whom had he saved? Who was this clear-eyed young fellow for whom the girl had so openly sacrificed herself at the whipping post, about whom she had thrown her arms and covered with the protection of her glorious hair? With his joy atjjaving served her there was mingled a chilling doubt as these questions formed themselves in his mind. Obadiah’s vague suggestions, the scene in the king’s room, the night visits of the girl to the councilor’s cabin —and last of all this incident at the jail flashed upon him now with another meaning, with a significance that slowly cooled the enthusiasm in his veins. He was sure that he was near the solution of the mysterious events in which he had become involved, and yet this knowledge brougnt with it something of apprehension, something which made him anticipate and yet dread the moment when the fugitive ahead would stop in his flight, and he might ask him those questions which would at least relieve him of his burden of doubt. They had traveled a mile through forest unbroken by path or road when Neil halted on the edge of a little stream that ran into a swamp, pointing into the tangled fen with a Confident smile he plunged to his waist in the water and waded slowly through the slough into the gloom of the densest alder. A few minutes later he turned in to the shore and the soft bog gave place to firm ground. Before Nathaniel had cleared the stream he saw his- companion drop to his knees beside a fallen log and when he came up to him he was unwrapping a piece of canvas from about a gun. With a warning gesture he rose to his feet and for twenty seconds the men stood and listened. No sound came to them but the chirp of a startled squirrel and the barking of a dog in the direction of St. James. J'They haven’t turned out the dogs yet,” said Nell, holding a hand against /l|j| W\ ( / •' I il $ I/&V n / Im lA JIUI Slmf HW IFJxwRv v\y “My Sister, Captain Plum.” his heaving chest “If they do they can’t reach us through that slough.” He leaned his rifle against the log and again thrusting an arm into the place where it had been concealed drew forth a small box. “Powder and ball—and grub!” he laughed, i “You see I am a sort of revolutionist, and hqve my hiding places. Tomorrow —I wiki be a martyr.” He opoke as quietly as though his words but carried a careless Jest “A martyr?” laughed Nathaniel, looking down into the smiling, sweat ing face. “Yes, tomorrow I shall kill Strang.” There was no excitement In Neil’s voice as he stood erect The smile did not leave his lips. But In his eyes there shone that which neither words nor smiling Ups revealed, a blazing fury hidden deep in them —so deep that Nathaniel stared to assure himself what It was. The other saw; the doubt in his face. “Tomorrow I shall 1011 Strang,” he repeated. “I shall kill him with this gun from under the window of his house through which you saw Marion.” “Marion!” exclaimed Nathaniel. “Marion—” He leaned forward eagerly, questioning. “Tell me—” “My sister, Captain Plum!” It seemed to Nathaniel that every fiber in his body was stretched to the breaking point. He reached out, dazed by what he had heard and with both hands seized Neil’s arm. “Your sister—who came to you at the whipping post?” “That was Marion.” “And-—Strang’s wife?" “No!” cried Neil. “No—aot his wife!” He drew back from Nathaniel's touch as if the question had stabbed him to the heart. The passion that had slumbered in his eyes burst into savage flame and his face became suddenly terrible to look upon. There was hatred there such as Nathaniel had never seen; a ferocious, pitiless hatred that sent, a shuddering thrill through him as he stood before it. After a moment the clenched fist that had risen above Nell’s head dropped to his side. Half apologetically he held out bls hand to his companion. “Captain Plum, we’ve got a lot tn thank you for, Marion and L” he said.

a tremble of the passing emotiofc Vn his voice. “Obadiah told Marion that help might come to us through you and Marion brought the word to me at the jail last night—after she had seen you at the window. The old . councilor kept his word! You have saved her!" "Saved her!” gasped Nathaniel. “From what? How?” A hundred questions seemed .leaping from his heart to his lips. “From Strang. Good God, don’t you understand? I tell you that I am going to kill Strang!” Neil stood as though appalled by his companion’s incomprehension. “I am going to kill Strang, I tell you!” he cried again, the fire burning deeper through the sweat of his cheeks. Nathaniel’s bewilderment still shone in his face. “She is not Strang’s wife,” he spoke softly, as if to himself. “And she is not —” His face flushed as he nearly spoke the words. “Obadiah lied!” He looked squarely into Neil’s eyes. “No, I don’t understand you. The councilor said that she —that Marion was Strang’s wife. He told me nothing more than that, nothing of her trouble, nothing about you. Until this moment I have been completely mystified. Only her eyes led me to do—what I did at the jail.” Neil gazed at him in astonishment. “Obadiah told—you—nothing?” he asked incredulously. “Not a word about you or Marion except that Marlon was the king’s seventh wife. But he hinted at many things and kept me on the trail, always expecting, always watching, and yet every hour was one of mystery. I am in the darkest of it at this in stant. What does it all mean? Why are you going to kill Strang? Why—” Neil interrupted him with a cry so poignant in its wretchedness that the last question died upon his lips. "I thought that the councilor had told you all,” he said. “I thought you knew.” The disappointment in his voice was almost despair. “Then—it was only accidentally—you helped us?” ' “Only accidentally that I helped you —yes! But Marion —” Nathaniel crushed Neil’s hand in both his own and his eyes betrayed more than he would have said. “I’ve got an armed ship and a dozen men out there and if I can help Marion by blowing up St. James —I’ll do it!" For a time only the tense breathing of the two broke the silence of their lips. They looked into each other’s face, Nathaniel with all the eagerness of the passion with which Marion hadstirred his soul, Neil half doubting, as if he were trying to find in thia man’s eyes the friendship which h« had not questioned a few minutes before. “Obadiah told you nothing?” he asked again, e as if still unbelieving. “Nothing.” “And you have not seen Marion—tc talk with her?” “No.” Nathaniel had dropped his companion’s hand, and now Neil walked tc the log and sat down with his face turned in the direction from which their pursuers must come if they entered the swamp. Suddenly the memory of Obadiah’s note shot into Nathaniel’s head, tha councilor’s admonition, his allusion tc a visitor. With this memory there recurred to him Obadiah’s words at the temple, “If you had remained at the cabin, Nat, you would have known that I was your friend. She would have come to you, but now—it is impossible.” For the first time the truth began to dawn upon hijn. He went and sat down beside Neil. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Damages for a Sale of Morphine. An Important decision with reference to the sale of morphine has recently been given by the Tenth Chambre Correctlonnalle. A pharmaceutical chemist having sold morphine without a medical prescription to a student at Nancy, the latter gave It to one of his comrades, who as a result of taking it contracted the morphine habit. The father of the victim then brought an action for damages against the chemist, who in his defense said, in the fix st place, that he was responsible only for his own action, but not for the action of the student who had given the morphine to his comrade, and in the second place, that he had no direct connection with the injury sustained by the consumer of the morphine. The lower court upheld this view, but the higher tribunal ordered the chemist to pay 100 francs fine and 4,000 francs damages on the ground that a pharmaceutical chemist who sells a poisonous substance without a medical prescription knows that he is liable for whatever misuse may be made of It, either by the first recipient or by the next person who comes into possession of it.—Paris letter to the London Lancet Not Very Accurate. Senator Root at Senator Depew's farewell dinner in his honor In Wash* Ington, said, anent his European tour. “Well, I hope I’ll gather over there more accurate information than that which Lady Salisbury’s housekeeper used to give her American visitors. "Lady Salisbury had a housekeeper who, In showing American and other visitors over Salisbury castle, would always pause Before a painting of Catherine d’Medici, sister of Venus d’Medici and say: “ ‘This lovely painting is a portrait of Catherine d’Medici, sister of Venus d’Medici.’" Here’s Another Purist. This verbal diagnosis I make for thee, O sis; Don’t say “apotheceia,” But apotheosis.**

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IS LAVISH IN FURS SEASON’S FASHION DEMANDS THE MOST LUXURIOUS. Increased Popularity of Motoring Calls Forth Fur Coats of Entirely New Type—Proves Parisiennes Leaders of Fashion. Nothing is too luxurious in furs! This Beason fashion simply demands the best Just another instance that proves that Parisiennes are leadeis of fashion. Last summer fair Frenchwomen wore stoles of ermine with lingerie frocks —regardless of heat or cold. Now, that winter is here, heavy fur garments are their whim. The increased popularity of motoring has called forth fur coats of an entirely new type. These garments are fashioned on the lines of smart mannish topcoats and, of course, unique furs were necessary to make the vogue a success —as every one always wants something different. Leopard skin, antelope and baby deer are quite the most popular, although pony skin and raccoon are also noteworthy. Fur-lined coats for motoring, as of yore, are favored by conservative women. These luxurious topcoats are mostly of heavy broadcloth, lined with squirrel and with large shawl collar of skunk or Persian lamb. Caracal coats of generous length are most befitting for shopping and daily events. Broadtail and Persian lamb are also included in the same category. Evening coats —also worn for formal afternoon affairs —are simply superb. Full length coats of Russian sable or ermine are the most queenly. One exquisite coat recently seen was of snowy ermine with broad band of skunk around the bottom, which curved gracefully at each side of the front. Sable and ermine are frequently combined, while white fox and sealskin is another joyous harmony. Muffs are simply enormous and absolutely flat. Indeed, some are so large and flimsy that they are almost burdensome. Quite the most extreme styles have wide centers of Persian silk, or velvet, with wide bands of fur. The large stoles to match are fashioned likewise, only so wide that they are more like shawls than mere neckpieces. These particular modes were created by Madame Agnes—and Parisiennes have thoroughly approved them. Women of moderate tastes are quite

TASTY VELVETEEN COSTUME Pretty Effect Obtained by Using Shade of Amethyst With Wide Braid Trimming. Velveteen in a rich shade of amethyst is used for this most effective costume, the trimming being wide braid that is now so much used, and which looks specially well on velveteen. The Skirt has the braid carried from the front panel round the sides - I Wk ' ». i Velveteen Walking Costume. and back; it is also carried in the same lines round the sides and back of coat, the fronts and “V” shaped opening being edged by it. Tabs of braid and buttons form a further trimming. The muff and toque are of velveteen to match the costume; both are trimmed with ermine. Materials required: 12 yards 24 Inches wide, about 7 yards of braid, if yards silk for lining Jacket.

satisfied with the round and pillow muffs of conservative size, and stoles of usual proportions. PEN-RACK AND PEN-WIPER Very Useful Article for Hanging on Wall Near Wrting Table. In our sketch may be seen a very useful little article for hanging upon the wall by the side of the writing table, it consists of a combined penwiper and pen-rack. The upper part for the pens is made of a square piece of stiff cardboard, smoothly covered with silk and edged with a silk cord carried into three little loops at each co.ner, and there is a long loop above by which it may be suspended from a nail in the wall. Two straps of ribbon are arranged on either side and foldc ' so that they form six little loops into which the pens may be slipped in and held in the manner illustrated. Sewn on to the lower edge is a pea wiper, made in the shape of a small book and covered with the same silk I Fl yUL— Pen-Rack and Pen-Wiper Combined. that has been used for the upper part, with a simple design worked upon it, and bound at the edges with narrow ribbon to match embroidery. Cloth leaves, on which the pens may be cleaned, are tacked inside, and any small odd remnants of cloth will serve for the purpose, but they should be of a dark color for preference. The combination of pen-wiper and pen-holder is always a useful one, as it enables the pen to be cleaned after it has been used, prior to being slipped into the holder, a thing which is apt to be forgotten with a separate pen-wiper.

TO HOLD VEIL IN PLACE One Method Which Saves the Veil and Involves Hardly Any Trouble. A number of clever expeditions have been devised to hold a veil snugly under the chin without giving it an ugly line. Here is one method which saves the veil also and involves hardly any trouble. Get the narrowest kind of round elastic, the same color as the veil (paint the white elastic with water colors for a colored veil) and whip it over the extreme edge of the veil, taking up only a single thread all around. Include any cut edges, but afterward pare thme oft neatly with a small pair of scissors. Fasten in back with a tight knot. The veil is slightly gathered on the elastic, fits nicely under the chin and over hat, and stretches when it is raised. It seems the best solution of a vexing problem of dress. New Embroideries. Wonderful effects of color are obtainable in new embroideries. The tones are of autumn and possess the deep violet and purple and green of the grape. This is done on linen, which is tan or a shade of brown, and rich effects are accomplished by this combination. Soft pillows and table covers dcjpe in these tones on brown linen or crash and used in a room with brown wicker furniture and hangings would be most effective. The new Dresden embroidery is usu< ally attractive. It is dainty and suit able for a bedroom. It is done on selfcolored linen in a dozen different tones with a single stitch and mads in the form of garlands of prim little flowers. Outing Hats Large. Many of the felt .outing hats are large, with rolling brims. This line is becoming to the majority of women. The-scarf, with its ends dropping over the side, softens any line that may be too hard. You can depend upon a milliner to do all in his power ( to make an outing hat becoming, for the cost is comparatively reasonable, and therefore the popularity assured. Bags fdr Parasols. Put them in a bag till next season. Make it of unbleached muslin, cut in V shape. Finish at the top with a drawstring. If the bag is to protect white parasols, make it of bide eamr ba\

THIS FAMOUS OLD TIMEPIECI Owee Owned by a Distinguished Revo lutlonary Surgeon, It Is to Be Bequeathed to Other Doctors. New York. —Distinguished physi clans from now until perhaps hun dreds of years are to pass from one to the other the watch which was once the property of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Revolutionary fame. The present owner of this precious relic, Dr. Robert Abbe, of this city, announces that he intends to bequeath it to Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of PhUndelphia, who In turn is to dispose of It by will. Dr. Rush was surgeon to the army of General Washington and the perW /f V I I w <\ l I. RICHARD RUSH f | 1 wA t BENJAMIN RUSH % / > Doctor Rush’s Watch. scrnal physician of the father of his country and the Intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin. He was also a founder of the Rush Medical college, an institution of which Dr. Mitchell was once the president, and It is considered especially appropriate in the circumstances to make the distinguished neurologist the next custodian of the venerable timepiece. “One feels something of a thrill,” writes Dr. Abbe, “as he holds it in his hand and thinks of the hand which held it long ago at the death bedsides of many great heroes of the Revolution, or when keeping appointments with the early presidents, the highest statesmen, Franklin, Humboldt and a host of others. “I have been asked to bequeath this souvenir to the most distinguished member of our profession whom I consider to represent the spirit and qualities Imminent In Dr. Rush and by him to be passed on to successive custodians as the years pass. Thus it is believed that it will be a mark of distinction to be one of a chain of honored names perpetuating the just renown of Rush. We have in our country none too much of the oriental hero worship. We may well keep alive the names of good men.” The watch was owned by the son of Dr. Rush, Richard, who became attorney general of the United States and later minister to France. IS IT CORONADO’S HALBERD? It Is Held to Proof That the Explorer Camped at independence, Mo. Kansas City, Mo. —The accompanying picture is of Capt. Joseph A. Wilson of Lexington, Mo., and an old Spanish halberd, which is supposed to have been lost by Coronado the same year that DeSoto discovered the Mississippi river. It was found on the McClelland farm, two miles south of Wellington, Mo., in the early ’7os, and has been in the possession of Captain Wilson about 22 years. It is made of the finest steel, and is heavily plated with silver. The accounts of Coronado’s search for Quivera and the Seven Cities of Cibola, in 1541, wditten by one of Coronado’s comrades, proves that the party camped on the banks of the Missouri the same year that DeSoto reached the Mississippi. At a recent meeting of the Kansas City. Historical Society, the theory w I' livnH'l° ' Captain Wilson and tha Ha (bred. was advanced that Coronado camped on the present site of Independence in 1541, and the finding of this Spanish halberd was offered as partial proof of that contention. It was pointed out that the route through Independence was the natural highway from the southwest long before the [ days of the Santa Fe trail

THE CENSUS OF CANADA ITS GROWTH IN TEN YEARS PAST. A census of the Dominion of Canada will be made during 1911, It will show that during the past decade a remarkable development has taken place, and, when corhpared with the population, a greater percentage of increase in industries of all kinds than has ever been shown by any country. Commerce, mining, agriculture and railways have made a steady march onward. The population will be considerably over 8,000,006. Thousands of miles of railway lines tiave been construction since the last census was taken ten years ago. This construction was made necessary by the opening up of the new agricultural districts in Western Canada, in which there have been pouring year after year an increasing number of settlers, until the present year will witness settlement of over 300,000, or a trifle less than one-third of the immigration to the United States during the same period with its 92,000,000 of population. Even with these hundreds of thousands of newcomers, the great majority of whom go upon the land t there is still available room for hundreds of thousands additional. The census figures will therefore show a great—a vast —increase in the number of farms under occupation, as well as in the output of the farms. When the figures of the Splendid immigration are added to> the natural increase, the total will surprise even the most optimistic. To the excellent growth that the western portion of Canada will show may largely be attributed the commercial and Industrial growth of the eastern portion of Canada. All Canada is being upbuilded, and in this transformation there is taking -start the people from many countries, but only from those countries that produce the strong and vigorous. As some evidence of the growth of the western portion of Canada, in agricultural industry, it is instructive to point out that over 100,000 homesteads of 160 acres each have been transferred to actual settlers in the past two years. This means 25,000 square miles of territory, and then, when is added the 40,000 160-acre preemption blocks, there is an additional 10,000 square miles, or a total of 35,000 square miles —a territory as large as the State of Indiana, and settled within two years. Reduced to the producing capacity imperative on the cultivation restriction of 50 acres of cultivation on each IftO-acre homestead within three years, there will be within a year and a half from now upwards of 5,000,000 additional acres from this one source added to the entire producing area of the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AJ berta. ™ In 1901, at the time of the last census of Canada, successful agriculture in the Provinces of Monitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta was an ? experiment to many. There were skeptics who could not believe that it was possible to grow thirty, forty and even fifty bushels of wheat to the acre, or that as high as one hundred and thirty bushels of oats to the acre could be grown. The skeptics are not to be found today. The evidence of the hundreds of thousands of farmers is too overwhelming. Not only haVe the lands of western Canada proven their worth in the matter of raising all the smaller field grains, but for mixed farming, and for cattle raising there is no better country anywhere. . The climate is perfectly adapted to all these pursuits as well as admirable for health. The Dominion government literature, descriptive of the country, is what all that are interested should read; ~ Send for a copy to the nearest Canadian government representative. A Tripe Famine. *T want to get two pounds of tripe,” said the lady, entering the shop. , “Sorry, ma’am,” replied the keeper, “but we haven’t any tripe today.” “No tripe? Why, It’s in season.” “No, ma’am, there’s no tripe being shot just now.” “No tripe being shot! Why, what are you talking about?” “I—l should say, ma’am, that the fisheries commission won’t allow tripe to be caught now.” ; “Are you crazy, man? I don’t want fish! I want tripe.” “Well, what In thunder is tripe, ma’am?” •‘Why—why, I don’t know just what it is, out if you haven’t got any I’ll try some other place.” Worth Its Weight In Gold. PETTIT’S EYE SALVE strengthens old eyes, tonic for eye strain, weak and watery eves. Druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, rt. y. Cause and Effect. "He’s a poet of passion, Isn’t he?” “Yes; I’ve seen him fly into one when his verses were returned.” In case of pain on the lungs Hamlins Wizard Oil acts like a mustard plaster, except that it is more effective and is so much nicer and cleaner to use. A girl who is truly modest doesn’t feel called upon to blush when there Is no occasion for It Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny, granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. The valuable feature of success is the struggle that precedes It Buy Mrs. Austins Famous Buckwheat Hour, fine for breakfast, all grocers. Why Is It that a large woman ah ways a small man seriouslyf