The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 March 1912 — Page 7

SERIAL^ >TORY £\J 1 No Man7| ' 3LandH A ROMANCE By Louis Joseph Vance Illustrations fey Ray Walters I ===il iOoernsht, igio, by Louis Joseph VancoJ BYNOPSI6. Garrett Coast, a young man of New York City, meets Douglas Elack stock, who Invites him to a card party. He accepts, although he dislikes Blackstock, the realon being that both are In love with Katherine Thaxter. Coast falls to convince her that Blackstock is unworthy of her friendship. At the party Coast meets two earned Dundas ana Van Tuyl. There is a quarrel, and Blackstock shoots Van Tuyl dead. Coast struggles to -wrest the weapon from him, thus the police discover them. Coast is arrested for murder. He is convicted, but as he begins his sentence, Dundas names Blackstock as the murderer and kills himself. Coast becomes free, but Blackstock has married Katherine Thaxter and fled. Coast purchases' a yacht and while sailing sees a man thrown from a distant boat. CHAPTER V. , Sunlight and shadow playing in gwlft alternation upon his face, as the Echo courtesled to the morning breeze, Coast awakened. For a mojnent almost thoughtless lay drowsily enjoying the rise and dip cf the boat, as drowsily cdnsclous of a faint thrill of excitement; most- ; ly comparable, perhaps, to the first waking sensations of a fourteen-voar-cld boy on a Fourth of July fmorning. Then without warning the t small chronometer o_p the transverse above his head rapped out smartly two dou-ble-chimes —ships’ time: four bells: (ten o’clock lu the forenoon. , j Astonished, he sat up quickly, and fils still sleepy gaze, passing through she eompanionway, encountered the (mused regard of the isoi-disant Melhisedec Appleyard. Promptly Coast ound himself In full possession of his faculties. That in obedience to first instincts he nodded with a' cordial smile, was significant. . Appleyard returned the salutation with a quick bbb of his small head. “Good-morning, hero!” he sang out , cheerfully. He sat In the cockpit, huddled Into the folds of a gray blanket, voluminous for his slight figure, a thin but wiry forearm bared to wield the cigarette he was smoking with every indication of enjoyment "Good-morning,” he returned. “How d'you feel after your adventure?" “Unclothed but In my right mind,” said Appleyard, with a twinkle of anxiety amending: “to the best of my knowledge and belief.” He Indicated airily the various articles constituting his painfully simple wardrobe. “Waiting for ’em to dry.” Appleyard hopped' up, fingered his everyday attire critically and pronounced It then, bundling It up, he returned to the cabin, seat-' Ing himself on the opposite transom to dress. “And the sensations of a hero, re- * freshed by sound slumbers, are —” “Hunger.” said Coast. He moved forward and began to experiment gingerly with a new and untried alcohol stove. “I can offer you eggs, coffee, biscuit —and nothing else,” he added, producing raw materials from a locker. “You see, I hadn’t expected to entertain." “Rotten Inconsiderate of you,” Appleyard grumbled. “I’ll wire you a warning next time it occurs to me to drop in unexpectedly.” Divided between amusement and perplexity, In the course of the meal Coast reviewed a personality singularly enriched by a variety of suggestions consistently negative. The man’s age was indeterminable —somewhere between thirty and forty-five. Loosely summarized, he might have been anybody or nobody on a lark or his uppers. Appleyard looked up quickly, with a shy, humorous Smile “Well, what d’you make of me?" “It’s hard enough to guess wha| you’ve made of yourself.” “Flattery note,” observed Appleyard obscurely. “Yet you win my sympathy; sometimes I am moved to wonder—really." He tapped an egg thoughtfully, a crinkle forming between hiß colorless eyebrows. “It’s really not what’a man makes of himself; it’s what his temperament does to him.” “Temperament!" "Yes; you really ought to keep one, too; they're all the rage just now — and such excellent excuses for the Indulgence of your pet Idiosyncrasies.” "Oh! . - . And you blame yours for what?" "For making me a—l presume posterity, in the final analysis, will adjudge me a Romantic.” “Literature?” asked Coast, aghast. “Good Heavens, no! Nothing like that: Life." He sighed profoundly. “Shall I rehearse to you the story of my life? No, I shall not rehearse to you the story of my life. But at all costs I shall talk about myself for a space: I insist upon it: I love to. You don’t seriously object?*’ he added, anxious,

“Then compose yourself. . . . Born at an early age—ln fact, at as early an age as you can comfortably imagine—I found myself f immediately the sport of sardonic fortunes. That name, Melchisedec! One felt that there must be* in one's future life some warmth of Romance to compensate for that infamous ignominy. So labelled any reasonable human should logically have looked forward to sure degeneration into the American peasant of the New England magazinestory type, sans brains, bow’els, breadth, beauty. A bom iconoclast, however, as soon as I wakened to realization of my plight I mutinied and resolved to live down my shame Thenceforward I set myself to painstaking muckraking in modem life, seeking the compensating Romance without which life were but death in life.” He paused and cocked an eye at Coast "Not bad for a beginning, what?" “A little prolix,” commented Coast dispassionately, falling in with his humor. “But continue. You found your Romance?” » “What is so-called—alas, yes!' I found it, as a rule, a nom de guerre for crime. . . . Lured by legend, I have traversed much of the known world, only to come to that conclusion. I have penetrated the fastnesses of the Tennessee mountains, nosing the Illicit still: which proved merely sordid. Counterfeiting seemed to promise largely—and discovered Itself the most ill-paid calling In the world. Diplomatic Intrigue unmasked proved to be merely a popular fallacy shining in the reflected luster of the Six Best Sellers. . . . But I refrain from wearying you with a catalogue of the exploded mines of Romance; a list inordinately lengthy, believe me. High finance, I admit, escaped my probe; but the recent plague of Wall Street plays discouraged me, demonstrating there could be no Romance there. . . . So at length you find me turning In despair to the

■ “Thank You,” Said Appleyard -Gratefully.

Seven Seas? afloat, at all events, one must of necessity pursue the glamorous promise of the Unknown that lurks just down the horizon.” Appleyard paused, his mien subdued, his gesture bespeaking resignation. “All of which means—?” Coast Insisted. r * “I hardly know. Frankly, I thought that speech rather stupid myself. That’s why I chopped it ofT. . . . One talks. . . . You may have noticed?” “I have,” said Coast drily. “You would, naturally,” returned Appleyard without resentment. “But would it amuse you to learn how I came to be on board that fisherman?" “You mean how you came to be overboard. . . . Perhaps it would. You’re the best judge of that.” “True.” Appleyard accepted and lighted a cigarette, frowning soberly. “It was,” he began, “due principally to my fatal passion for this Romance thing, sir. I have already acquainted. you with my determination to pursue my quest of that shy spirit upon the trackless ocean. Conceive, now, the bitterness of the disappointment which o’erwhelmed my ardent soul when I applied for a berth as a foremast hand, only to be informed ! was physically unfit, that, as one brutal mate phrased it, I’d blow away in the first half-a-gale. ... I give you my word, Mr. Coast, I’ve been sticking round this waterfront a whole fortnight, vainly seeking nautical employment. Last night, for the first time, for a few brief hours, I was permitted to flatter myself that fortune was on the point of favoring me. For a fugitive moment I sipped the chalice of Romance and rolled its flavor beneath my tongue.” Appleyard half closed his eyes and smacked his lips, his expression one of beatific bliss. “You've a pretty taste in pleasures,” Coast commented, t Appleyard waved the interruption 1 aside. “It came about largely through

a whim of Chance.” he resumed, “as J all true adventure must. Quite CJ ac | cident I fell in with one of the crew of that Asking smack, he being well under the influence of liquor; in a way of speaking, he’d looked too long upon the wine when it was red-eye and half wood-alcohol. Craftily slm ulating a like condition, I plied him fur ther and succeeded in learning the name as his vessel and the fact that she was expected to sail with the j morning tide —together with otner de- ■ tails that intrigued me. Then, leaving the sodden wretch to sleep off his j disgusting debauch. I caused myself j to be conveyed aboard the lugger—l ■ mean schooner —and stowed away in | bis bunk, trusting to luck to avert ! discovery until the morning. Unhap- ; pily I, with the rest of the crew, was 1 routed out incontinently by an un- i mannerly brute with a belaying pin (at ; all events It felt like a be!aying-pin—-an instrument with which 1 am unac- : quainted save through the literature i of the sea) and forced to go on deck j to help heave anchor. ... Or . should I say, *weigh anchor?’ ” “I’m not quarrelling with your style,” chqckled Coast. “Why not put . off polishing your periods until another time?” “Thank you,” said Appleyard gratefully. “To resume: My detection j promptly ensued and my presence was dispensed with, a trace -unceremoniously, perhaps, but no doubt very properly from the skipper’s point of ; view. With the subsequent phases of this most delectable adventure you are familiar; therefore, I confidently assume your concurrence .with my conclusion; which is—here am I. . . • Now,” he wound up, Inclining hla head at an angle, and favoring Coast with a frankly speculative stare, “what are you going to do with me?” Coast opened his eyes wide, with a lift of his brows. “I don’t know that I contemplate doing anything with you, Mr. Appleyard." “It’s not yet too late for the amende

courteous,” suggested his guest. “I’ll gladly set you ashore^—” “Pardon, but that’s precisely what I don’t want you to do." “But—” “A moment’3 patience, sir. The Echo lacks a crew; I offer my services unanimously in that capacity.” “But I don’t want a crew.” “Oh, don’t say that!” “And I have no need of one.” Appleyard lifted both hands and let : them fall with a gesture of despair. * “Infatuated man!” he murmured, regarding Coast with commiseration. “Why infatuated?” “What do you know of these waters?” the little man counterquestioned sharply. “Little,” Coast was obliged to admit; “or nothing, if you insist.” “And yet you say you don’t need ar crew!” “But, my dear man, I do know how to sail a boat; and with a copy of tha Coast Pilet, charts, a compass and common-sense—” “You may possibly escape piling her up the first day out —granted. On the other band, I happen to be intimate with these waters; I can pilot you safely whither you will; 1 can afford you infinite assistance with the heavy work —it’s no joke, at times, for one man to have all the handling of a craft, of this size. I’m exceedingly handy, small and inconspicuous, neat, a fairish cook, and normally quite pleasant to be thrown amongst—never savage save when denied the sweet consolation of continuous conversation. Finally, Pm a great bargain.” “What do you mean by that?” “I ofTer my valuable —nay, invaluable services, gratis, without pay.” “But why do you do that?” demanded Coast, blankly. (TO BE CONTINUED.) * See-Saw. As a rule, the melancholy youth makes frivolous old man, while jolly boar grows serious with age

! PERSIANS FIGHTING THE RUSSIANS ■ ■ * ** *■■:! ’ - *• SZ&SASr/f/G Trt/= AOVAA/CE* THIS is one of the first photographs received in this country of the Russo-Persian conflict. It shows the Persian constitutionalists on the hills of Soujah, about two miles from Tabfiz, resisting the ad\anc© of che Russian Cossacks on that city.

1 F.SS GOLD IS MINED

$96,233,528 Was the Total Output in 1911. Silver Production for Year Is 57,796,117 Ounces, It Is Announced in Preliminary Estimate by Director Roberts of the Mint. Washington. —The gold production of the United States during 1911 was was $96,233,528 and the silver production 57,796,117 ounces, according to a preliminary estimate issued by George E. Roberts, director of the mint This is a reduction in gold of about $45,000 '"and in stiver of about 660,000 ounces as compjscjsd with the returns for 1910. Amor jNfte states and territories the [ principal’'gold producers were: Cali fornia, with $30,310,987; Colorado, with $19,153,860; Nevada, with $18,968,578; Alaska, with $16,002,976; South Dakota, with $7,430,367; Utah, with $4,769,747; Montana, with $3,169,540; Arizona, with $2,954,790, and Idaho with $1,169,261. In the order named, Utah, Montana, j Nevada, Colorado and Idaho led as sili ver producers. At the average price for the year the total silver product was worth $30,854,500. The net amount of gold and silver used in the industrial arts was ap proximately $34,000,000 goid and 34,000,000 ounces of silver. The coinage lof the mints was: Gold, $56,176,822; silver, $6,457,301; nickel and copper, j $3,156,726. Total. $65,790,850. The | ner gain in the country’s st ek of gold j coin, including bullion in the treasury | during the year was close to $100,000,000. The director’s report gives the final figures for the production of gold in the world in 1910 at $454,703,900. The director also makes a preliminary estimate upon the world’s production in 1911 of $466,700,000, or a gain of about $12,000,000. The Transvaal Increased its output by about $14,000.000 and other African fields gained $2,000,000.

Insanity on the Increase

! Population of County Has Enlarged | -n per Cent, and Cases of Insanity Is 25 Per Cent. , Washington.—lnsanity in the United States is increasing twice as fast as the population, according to figures gathered by the federal government In a special inquiry through the census bureau. The figures show that while the popalation of the country grew 11 per cent, in the five years from-1904 to 1910, th-e population in asylums for the insane rose about 25 per cent. As ;o the number of cases of insanity not resulting in commitments to hospitals, ‘.he census bureau has no data. “Our figures,” says Director Durand, ‘afford a striking indication of the prevalence of insanity, if ncit an exact neasure. It Is somewhat startling to ■eflect that the 187,454 patients conined in hospitals for the insane make ip a population larger than Columbus, 3.” The state which. In proportion to fts population, had the largest number >f insane reported in institutions on fmiliary l, 1910, was Massachusetts vlth 344.6 per 100,000 population. New fork, however, had almost the same proportion, namely 343.1 per 100,000 population. The number of insane in institutions n Missouri is 6,170. More than 8,500 persona were cemnitted to asylums in New York statue last year, 4,517 in Pennsylvania, 4,236 In Massachusetts, 4,085 in Illinois and 1,337 in Ohio. Arkansas had (*vw insane commit-

On the ether hand, Australia showed a continuance of the decline which has been persistent since 1903, the loss in 1911 being about $4,000,000 The production ot&North America was about the same as in 1910. , These three grand geographic divisions produced nearly $400,000,000 and the gains and tosses in other producing countries probably about offset each other. Australasia has fallen from $59,210,100 in 1903 to $62,000,000. Although gold production continues to increasei the increase was at a diminishing rate and the director expresses the opinion that there is nothing In the present outlook to Indicate a repetition of the phenomenal gains that were made between 1890 and 1899 and between 1901. and 1908. They were the result of the discovery of the cyanide process and of the development of the wonderful Transvaal field. The only country in the world that is showing notable gains at this time is Africa, and the Transvaal field is nearing its maximum.

Woman to Be an Engineer

Has Had Much Experience With Her Father in Ore Districts—He Will Coach Her. Spokane, Wash. —Randie Jeldness of this city, w-ho was graduated recently from an eastern college for women, has decided to become a mining engineer under the tutelage of her father, Olaus Jeidness, known as a successful operator in the foremost camps of Colorado, Nevada, Washington and British Columbia. Miss Jeldness was initiated in the dry ore district, north of Bear Lake, in the Canadian province, where, with her father, she ascended a mountain rising 8,500 feet above sea level, making the trip with a pack over a trail through the heavy tfinber. Afterward they attended several

jfc- . ted last year than any state in proportion, IS per 100.000, according to Mr. Durand’s figures.' New Mexico comes next with 25.7 per 100,000, and Utah with 27.6 per 100,000, is third. After then, in order, come Wyoming, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi anil Alabama. ROBERT KNIGHT REACHES 85 Owner of Vast Textile Interests Entered Factory When a Lad of Eight Years. Natick, R. I. —Robert Knight, the largest Individual cotton mill owner in the world, who owns cotton mills here and others in this state and Mas-

Says Youth Should Dance

Author In Minneapolis Asserts There Is Much Good in Bringing Young Together. Minneapolis, Minn. —Dancing was called -a natural and proper outlet for the play impulse by Dr. Woods Hutchinson of New York, physician and author, in an address here before the members of the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce association. “If the opportunity for young people to dance is not properly afforded under proper management,” he said, “the city should concern itself with such provision. The dance hall problem may be helped greatly by using!

BELL BUZZARD BACK AGAIN Establishes a Winter Home on Roof j of “Haunted House”—Also Visited Flocks of Chickens. Dover, Dei.—The “bell buzzard;.” j which has been seen and heard in ! different localities in Kent county foi j the past eight or ten years, is now in Dover, making its resting place dr j the roof and chimney of the old Cow- , gill house, or “Haunted House.” It J can be seen every day. and the jirig- j ling of the bell on its neck attraqt* \ the attention cf passers-by. 'Evidently driven to town by the qx | trenfe cold weather and snow, buz j zards ara. frequently seen in the back j yards of tß*t residences. . But a few day&Jlgg a. buzzard land . ed among a flock of at the i home of L. Schabinger here, 300 remained with the chickens day and night until forced to fly away by one j of the family. Bureau Kept Busy. Springfield, Ill.—Through its six of ; ficers, the Illinois free employment j bureau found jobs for 59,827 met j and women during 1911.

sessions of the western branch of ths Canadian Mining Institute at New Denver, B. C., where some of the mosi prominent mining engineers and man agers in the Canadian northwest en cquraged the girl’s undertaking, say ing it offers exceptional opportunities and advantages for those who are no) afraid of hard work and pays the high est remuneration of any cf the protes- j sions in America for intelligent and j persistent effort. . j* Board Walk Bars the “Trot.” Atlantic City.—The “turkey trot,” “bunny hug,” “grizzly hear” and other extremes in dancing have been put under the ban here by managers of the board walk dance halls. Special officers have been placed on the job to halt such exhibitions.

sachusetts, employing in all 7,600 hands, celebrated - the eighty-fifth an niversary of his birth. He started to work in r cotton mill 77 years ago, when a boy of eight years, for 75 cents a week and never attendedschool until he was seventeen; tjhen only for a year and a half. So fast o did he learn, however, that at the age of nineteen he was a teacher in the district school of Exeter, Mass., his native,.town. During the Civil war the Robert Knight mills were among the very few that continually kept going, and ki3 profits were large. The Knight company now owns $20,000,000 worth of cotton mills in this town, Pontiac, Providence, Arctic, Centreville, Jack son, White Rock and Phoenix, all in Rhode Island; Reidfrille, Dodgeville Hebronville and Manchaug, in Massachusetts; Augusta and other points in Maine, and some in Connecticut

¥ the public school houses for dances under proper supervision. Young men and women should have greatei opportunity to mingle among whole some surroundings and there is mucl good in any plan that will bring their together more frequently. Much ol the evil that besets the young in th« cities could be avoided in this way.' Actress Cares for Father. New York. —Mrs. Oscar Lewlsohc (Edna May) has furnished an elabor ate apartment here for her father who haß carried the mails in Syra cuse, N. Y., for a score of years.

INCREASE IN NUMBER OF AMERICANS GOING TO CANADA Although Western Ctnada suffered, as did many other portions cf the west, from untoward conditions, which turned one of the most promising crops ever seen, in that country, into but little more than an average yield of all grains, there is left in the fanners’ hands, & big margin of profit. Os course there were many farmer* who were fortunate enough to harvest and market a big yield, and with the prices that were secured mado handsome returns. From wheat, oats, barley and flax marketed to the Ist of January, 1912, there was a gross revenue of $75,354,000. The cattle, hogs, poultry and dairy proceeds brought this up to $101,620,000 or 21 million dollars In excess of 1910. There vat still in the farmers’ hands at that time about 95 million bushels of wheat worth a* least another sixty-five million dollars (allowing for inferior grades), besides about 160 million bushels of oats to say nothing of barley and flax, which would run into several million of dollars.” 1 There is a great Inrush of settler* to occupy the vacant lands throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The reports from the Government show that during the past year upwards of 131,000 Americans crossed | the border into Canada. A great many of these took up farms, over ten *hou- ; Eand having homesteaded, in fact the : reeords show that every state in th* ; Union contributed. A larger number, not caring to go so far away as the \ homesteading area, have purchased ; lands at from fifteen dollars an acre to twenty-five dollars an acre. The j prospects for a good crop for 1912 are as satisfactory as for many years. | The land has had sufficient moisture, j and with a reasonably early spring. It ; Is safe to predict a record crop. , Those who have not had the latest j literature sent cut by the Government agents should send to the one nearest. ; and secure a copy. When Mamma Failed to Beam. A 'little girl, who attracted all the ! passenger on the tram car with her • singular sweetness, was asked by » l lady who sat next to her: “And d!d | Santa Claus bring you a dolly at ! Christmas?” “Yes, indeed,” little gTI. ; and all the passengers smiled, while | the mother beamed at the attention her child was receiving. “He brought me two dolls,” contini ued the child to the strange lady, j “and, do you know, the hair on ofie of my dolls’ heads comes right off —just i lik" mamma’s.” \ j And tynSAii- ; mother did not beam. Stop the Pain. The hurt of a burn or a cut stops when Cole’s Carbolisalve is applied. It heals ; quickly and prevents scars. 25c and 60c by druT'lists. For free sample write to J. Tv. Cole & Co., Black River Falls, Wia. Hope is a good thing to have, but you can’t hang it up with the three ball merchant. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stoifiach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. « The microbe of love Is often destroyed by the germ of suspicion. It is better to appreciate wisdom than to be appreciated by fools. i — PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Tom- druggist will refund money If PAZO OltrP. MHNT fails to cure any eat>o of Itching, Blind, Blaedins or Protruding Piles in Sto 14 days. We. All things come more quickly to him who tips the waiter.

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