The Taloga Times. (Taloga, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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THE TALOCA TIMED
BROWNLEE A DUNNAQAN
Editors A Proprietors
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SYNOPSIS
The story opens with the Introduction
of John Stephens adventurer s Masaa
ehuaetts man marooned by authorities at
Valparaiso Chile Beins Interested In
mlnlns operations In Bolivia he waa de-
nounced by Chile as an insurrectionist
and as a consequence waa hiding At his
hotel his attention was attracted by an
Englishman and a young woman
Stephens rescued the young woman from
a drunken oIBcer He was thanked by
her Admiral of the Peruvian navy con-
fronted Stephens told him that war had
been declared between Chile and Peru
and offered him the office of captain He
desired that that night the Esmeralda a
Chilean vessel should be captured
Stephens accepted the commission
Stephens met a motley crew to which he
was assigned He gave them Anal In-
structions They boarded the vessel They
successfully captured the vessel supposed
to be the Esmeralda through strategy
Capt Stephens gave directions for the de-
parture of the craft Ha entered the cab-
in and discovered the English woman
and her maid Stephens quickly learned
the wrong vessel had been captured
It was Lord Darlington’s private yacht
the lord's wife and maid being aboard
He explained the situation to her lady-
ship CHAPTER IX
' In Which I Lsam Our Port
I sank down Into the depths of an
upholstered divan without rested my
head within my hands snd endeavored
earnestly to collect thought and nerve
tor the coming struggle The terrible
mbs of our situation only became
more apparent aa I considered it la
thu light of the discoveries already
made and in my understanding of the
nature of those with whom I was now
associated Neither Tuttle nor De
Nova had ever mistaken - the Sea
Qaeen for the warship Esmeralda It
was Impossible to conceive that these
two trained seamen could have made
such an error or that the men under
them could have been so utterly de-
ceived Tuttle’s host came up directly
beneath the bows with the riding
lamps burning brightly snd revealing
the tune every men aboard must
have seen it plainly Tet what ob-
ject could have led to so desperate an
act of piracy? What part was I des-
tined te play in the final working out
of their lawless scheme?
The longer I studied over the prob-
lem th mors thoroughly did I become
mystified and confused What could
these men ever hope to accomplish In
this lawless fashion? They must be
fools or madmen This was not the
age of piracy every league of sea waa
patrolled every port protected by
telegraphic communication
Difficult as my own situation un-
doubtedly was apparently helpless
among this crew of sen devils with-
out n man on board In whom 1 could
put trust It was rendered n thousand
times harder by the presence of those
two women In what way could I pro-
tect and serve them? I wondered If
nil the crew forward were In the plot
or were the leaders nlons Involved?
Could I count on finding n single hon-
est sailor In nil that riffraff who would
stand by ms In revolt? There were
others on hoard — the three seamen
and the engineer of the yacht's crew
tbs Chilean officer captured on shore
— but they were prisoners far more
helpless even than myself The longer
I thought the darker grew the pros-
pect the closer the cords of Fete
pressed about me There waa noth-
ing to do except to face the conspira-
tors boldly and thus aacertala the
whole truth I glanced upward at tba
telltale compass overhead— the ves-
sel'! course bad already been altered
we were now headed westward direct-
ly ont Into the broad Pacific
I met Tuttle at the end of the
bridge clinging to the handrail bis
oilskins flapping In the head wind He
never glanced towsrd me the cool
studied insolence of the fellow causing
me to feel more deeply than ever be-
fore his consciousness of power
“The yacht la several points off her
course Mr Tuttle" 1 said sharply
dstermlaed to test him "May 1 aak
I I the change was mads by your
order?"
- He swept one long arm toward the
north and following the direction of
his finger 1 dimly peiwelved A spiral
of Mack amoks barely visible abovs
Ite bortio&e
" thought wo had bettor sheer oJ
so- (hero was’ no gnssatig who that
(show yonder might prove to be"
- J remained silent watching the dis-
tant smudge and occasionally lxn-
ring aside la to his Imperturbable face
He yawned sleepily
r “I rather guess one Of ns had better
turn in Mr Stephens" he suggested
finally - "for we'll have to arrange
about our watches aft"
"Presently Mr Tnttle we haven't
breakfasted yet Meanwhile I should
prefer to understand matters n little
more dearly I’Ve Just been through
the cabins None of the yacht's- offi-
cers are oa board"- -- c' J
I could aae his thin lips drawn
hack In n sinister grin Whick re-
vealed his yellow teeth - -r -
"The Lord helpeth those who help
themselves" he returned piously up-
rolling his eyes "The race Is not al-
ways to the swift nor the battle to
the strong" ' ‘s - '
1 also discovered" I went on an-
gered by such abominable cant "that
this vessel we' have captured Is not
the Chilean Esmeralda at all hut the
yacht Sea Queen owned by Lord Dar-
lington and flying the English Sag"
"The hell yon eey"
"Moreover I have not the slightest
doubt that yon knew it from the first
Now 1 demand some explanation Mr
Tuttle What does this mean?"
He stood leaning back against the
rail facing me the disagreeable grin
gone from hla Ups his balf-cloaed
eyes glinting uneasily -“Well
whet of It?"
"Only that we have committed an
"The Hell You Say" '
i i
act of piracy Every naval vessel of
the rivdlsed world will be used to hunt
ns down We ahull not he safe on any
sea nor able to land In any port of
the globe It we realm we ahull he
blown ont of the water if captured
our crime means death You have de-
liberately decoyed me into this affair
for some secret purpose of your own
you have involved me In your crime
end now I insist upon some knowledge
of your plan and an explanation re-
garding my future authority on board"
- "Ob yon are the captain" sneering-
ly "What more can you went?"
"Then if I am we will heed direct-
ly beck to Valparaiso"
"Oh I rather guess not" and Tut-
tle’s eyes became Instantly hard and
ugly “Nevertheless you're captain nil
right Just so long as yon keep the
nose of the old girl pointed the way
we went her to go"
"That is It la Itr
"Yes that's exactly the ticket"
I turned partially aside glancing to-
ward the wheelman The fellow was
leaning forward over the spokes evi-
dently deeply Interested In our contro-
versy and endeavoring to hear all we
had to say Tuttle followed the direc-
tion of my eyes but with apparent In-
difference "Oh they nil understand about It"
be remarked carelessly "And now I
guess maybe It's about time we gave
you the main points to chew on Ifyoull
step down Into the charthouae Mr
Stephens I’ll fetch some things 1
waat to show you an’ be along myself
in n jiffy Then I’ll spin n yarn that'll
eeuee you to come with us wl Ills’
enough or else you’re dam' fool"
There wan nothing else to do and 1
followed him down the bridge steps
to the main deck The charthouae
had Ita single door opening aft and
was a amall - plainly built structure
painted a dingy gray with two narrow
wlndowa on either aide sad Just
enough space within to contain n
deal table locker sad throe rude
benches ' I set down upon one of
these Ailed end lighted my pipe and
waited In silence gaxlng Idly at the
chart planed flat on the table It waa
a map of these watera lying off the
Chilean coast and a veesel’s course
had been pricked upon It from Joan
Fernandes to Valparaiso This did
not particularly intercut me nod my
thought drifted naturally to the wom-
an Impatiently awaiting my return in
the cabin What n distressing situa-
tion for one of Lady Darlington’s birth
and refinement! And yet with what
dignity of Banner had she met the
unexpected I ft usa plain to he aeea
that bars waa n heart of courage not
sally broken under adversity 1
And how aould I hop to aarvu bqr?
What would this crew of hell-hounds
those merciless sea-wolves permit me
to- do? Trans-ship them upon some
passing Teasel? Put into some iso-
lated island port? - This was scarcely
Ukely for either let would Involve
the danger of aa oxpuauro they would
be little Inclined te assume 1 com-
prehended already that It would be
according to their decision and not
mine 1 had bam plainly Informed
how little my control extended over
their desires And whither were' we
bound? lata what strange seas? Into
what species of wild adventure? -The
utter impossibility of keeping those
two concealed be 1st for any length of
time was dearly evident Ship life was
far too restricted Both Tuttle and
Do Nova would naturally expect' fo
lodge aft and ft waa a privilege they
could aot easily he denied Yet what
would they any how would they act
when they finally discovered these two
unwilling passengers aboard?' What
was my duty In all the circumstances?
It was all a deep unsolvable mystery
yet out of Ita mist constantly floated
the appealing face of that woman
awaiting me below 1 could not desert
her I could not consider anything
except bow I might beet serve her in-
terests best protect her from the con-
tamination of this boll afloat
Three shadows suddenly darkened
the doorway and Tnttle accompanied
by De Nova and the big seaman named
Bill Anderson entered The second
officer nodded to me In genial fash-
ion hla white teeth gleaming hut
Anderson slouched surlily past and
dropped heavily on a bench bis coarse
bulldog features devoid of all expres-
sion his square Jaws munching the
tobacco In his cheek I took notice of
his eyea staring straight out of the
window opposite dull dog-llke deeply
sunken under thatched brows hla skin
like brown leather drawn tight his
short red neck and gnarled hands Al-
together he appeared n repulsive
brute no more easily subdued than a
Jungle tiger Tuttle sidled along to
the opposite side of the table upon
which he placed n tightly rolled yellowish-backed
paper evidently a navi-
gating chart Aa I watched him curi-
ously he euddenly pressed the point
of hie thumb down upon the paper
"There's our first port Mr Steph-
ens" he announced dogmatically
"There where you see that red cross"
1 bent over startled out of all as-
sumed indifference as 1 studied the
position Indicated
"Longitude 110 S0 west and lati-
tude M 17' south!” I exclaimed
scarcely crediting either ears or eyes
“Why good God man that is almost
upon the antarctic circle!"
He nodded running his long fingers
through hla thin hair
"Right you are air ' 1 guess there
won’t be no warships a-trallla after ns
down la them latitudes not at this
season of the year"
"But there’s nothing there!" I con-
tinued staring Incredulously at the
map "Nothing but fog and floating
Ice There Is no land marked within
600 miles"
"Just the same there’s land there"
he retorted positively bis thin Ups
pressed together "I’ve seen It two
islands an’ that’s where the Sea
Queen pokes her nose”
I could merely alt back staring at
the feUow who remained leaning both
hands on the table hla glinting eyes
on my face - ’
"It’a a rum yarn Mr Stephens I’ll
admit" ha said slowly bis nasal tone
much In evidence "but It’s all true
air so help me God! Here’s the
straight of it an’ you Usten quiet till
I get done Then I’ll answer your
question as long as you’ve got any to
ask"
CHARTER X
In Whleh I Hear the Tale of the First
ORIeer
Tuttle required while getting
started pulling aside Ms dangling
Kitty Wanted
gtery Wall Illustrates thu Workings of
the Childish Mind
When little Catherine first began to
lisp she was suitably Instructed by her
mother In religion The omnipresence
and the omniscience of God were ex-
plained to her In words of primer
length AU this religious training evL
dently Impressed her profoundly hut
ahe kept her meditations to herself
until the other evening '
The four-year-old had been tucked
Into bed after saying her prayers sad
as her mother stooped to hiss her good
night tho child asked eagerly:
"Is mamma going downatllra now?"
'Tea daar"
' "An la Ood going to stay la Hi
room?"
"Yea yes gear”
"Weil Gath’ta waata mamma to loll
coat-talla to alt down feeing me and
than twiddling hla long fingers with
hla gaxe beat on the deck - I take lt
that hla In tell actual operations- were
naturally alow although ha was swift
enough In all matters appertaining to
seamanship Anyhow ho sat thoro for
o long hla whole appearance eo sleek
end oily that I lost all patience shuf-
fling my feet on the dock The noise
served to arouse him - p- i
’ "ft commenced somethin’ like over
two years ago air"' ha begin jnouth-
lng each word with cary "a little
earlier In the season than this la now
I - waa master of ' the whaUn baric
Betsy sailin’ from Province town
an' we were homeward-bound after
about It months' cruisin' In the South
Pacific earnin' a fair cargo of oil an
whale trimmings We were roundin'
the Horn being about 70 degrees west
and 60 degrees south -when the real
trouble began I know that was rath-
er' n low latitude but we had been
buckin’ against head winds an’ n high
sen for more’n n week an’ besides
were short-handed five of the crew
havin' skipped out at Somers Island
where we put In after fresh water
Anyway It was about there that a
storm hit -ns from out the nor'east 1
guess It must have been one end of n
hurricane 1 never see nothin’ fiercer
even In thoee seas There was nothin’
to do but turn tall an’ scud the ropes
and canvas being so stiff with Ice
Well we battened Sown- an took
chances but for a while I thought
every wave was goln to do for the ol’
hooker an send na nil to Davy Jones’
I couldn't see five foot from the rail
an’ I had to keep dlggin’ Ice out o
my eyes to see at all The wind had
the feel of a solid wall sir”
Tuttle was leaning forward now hla
elbows on the table Hla lean solemn
countenance had lost Its llstlessnoao
and I also noticed the eager Interest
Imprinted on the faces of hla two com-
rades "We was Jest roundin’ the point"
he went on as soon aa he took a long
breath "the Betsy keelin’ over ao’a
her deck wee halt awash an with no
more than maybe 100 yards o’ clear
water to the good Back o’ aa ugly
lookin’ headland the coast seemed to
fall away sudden into n sort o cove
which wee piled high with greet lee
hammocks behind which the Ice well
rose up sheer almost to the top o’ the
rocks There was a sorter shelf along
the edge of It an’ a-settin’ up there In
full view was the damndest lookin’
vessel ever 1 saw In 60 years o’ sea-
farin’ So help me God air I saw
It with my own eyes as plain aa I’m
lookin’ at you! ft was h’lated np nil
o’ SO feet above the lower Ice-field an’
sort o’ 'careened over where It was
frote Teat so as to show thu decks
amidships clear to the Inner ran You
remember them ships what Columbus
sailed In? Well this hooker was that
kind only n blame’ sight bigger I
guessed her at 860 or 900 ton but ahe
had the seme sort o’ build — a big high
stern with an after-cabin clear acrost
It the waist sunk down In n curve an’
the fo’castle raised np like n house
with blunt bows an’ n monster bow-
sprit forkin’ straight up Into the sir
The whole outfit was so cased with
Ice an' glittered so In the sun that It
seemed like e part o the Ice cliff
which had took that queer shape from
thawin’ an freexln’ Damme it 1
didn't think It was somethin like that
for n minute — a blame’ freak o' nature
—hut when 1 grabbed the glasses an
got a good look through them it was a
ship all right the kind yon reed
about In the' books wbat navigated
these waters a hundred or more years
ago I waa still a-staria at it with all
my eyes - when we raised the stem
which stood b’lated up a bit higher
than the how an’ where the steady
dash of tba waves didn’t break clean
over It an' the eun fell just right so
1 rend the hooker's name By God I
did sir! ft was there plain aa day:
Donna Isabel Cadis"
- (TO BE CONTINUED) -
to be Alone
God to go downstairs too ’cause she
wants to wear dat'pretty dress to-morrow—
de one dot’s on da chair— an’ If
God sits down In dot chair he’ll must
dat dress all up An’ God can see de
candy In de drawer dot Tm saving te
eat In de morning an he might eat
It ail up In da night if he feels hungry
Bo Cath’ln wants mamma to taka God
downstairs to play bridge"
— ! I
Easy Money
Orlff— You look prosperous old man
Grafton— Yes 1 suppose you road
about Nuritch’a ambition to ha n aea-
atorf ’
Orlff— Well yes'' 1 see by tbe pa-
pers that ha says he’s la the hands
of hlo friends—”
Grafton— That’s K I’m one of hlo
friends— CethoUe EUadard and
Tlmoa
TKS m$ CF PTm jCAYS
‘ - i ‘
WriteiV Memory Geos Back "to 'Dm
lights af Whleh thaFreoont Aon -I
Oration Knew- little ?
- - f (VV
' We ' eharfnlly admit that the fur-
asm and the hard ooal base burner
’ hdd a whole lot to modern comfort
but after all they have their- draw-
hacks -For Instance you can’t Tory
- well pop oora In either a furnace or
a taw burner It took 'those -old-faahlooed
stoves la whleh we used to
'bum a two-foot length of hickory
1 wood for that sort of thing: Whoa
-the wood had burned down to glow-
tag coals we’d open the front door
’ rah the coals down In front and pro-
ceed to pop eofo Whoa we get rich
we are going to have one of those old-
fashioned atoves put up In our room
with n lot of two-foot seasoned hickory
to tho basement and every now and
then we are going to start a fire In
that stove get a good bed of coals
and then pop n dlsbpan full of corn
just as a reminder of old days Of
course well eat the popcorn wot ns
a reminder of old days but because we
are awfully fond of popcorn— Will M
Twe Votes — ’ - -
- Tba first time I ran for the general
assembly one of the prominent citt-
seas of my community told me that
' he waa going to vote against me be-
es use when 1 was h shaver 1 threw n
rotten apple at hla horse Another
prominent cltlsea told me that he woe
going to vote for me because when 1
waa a shaver I put a rotten egg In n
buggy cushion belonging to the wom-
an ha worked for and bo had never
liked tbe woman' Think of It! And
yet such stuff has thrown the scales
where thrones have been at stake —
From n speech at Norwich by former
Gov George P McLean of Connecti-
cut '! - -
THISTORY OF THE PEANUT
SHEllE "
Aa everyone knows C W Post of
Battle Creek Michigan la not only a
maker of breakfast foods but ha Is a
strong Individ uni who believe that the
trades-unions are n menace to the lib-
erty of tho country ' -
Believing this and being a “netaral-
bora” scrapper for the right as he
sees 11 Pool for several years pool
has been engaged la n eseeslseo war-
fare against "The Labor Trust" ns he
Bkso to can ft
Not befog oblo to secure free and
ua trammeled expression of hlo opia-
tono on this subject through tbe regular
rending pages of the newspapers be
has bought advertising apace for this
purpose Just as he Is peeustomod to
for the telling of hlo Postum "story"
and ha has thus spent hundreds off
thousands of dollars la denouncing
trades-unionism
- As n result of Post's activities tho
people now know a whole lot about
these organisations: bow they are
honeycombed with graft how they ob-
struct th development of legitimate
business curtail labor’s output hoM
up manufacturers graft upon tbclr own
membership and rob tho public Natu-
rally Post la hated by the trades-
unionists and In tensely
He employe no union labor oo they
eon not call out hlo men and he defies
their efforts ot boycotting hie products
Tho latest moaao of "getting” Poet to -the
widespread publication of the story
that n ear which was recently wrecked
In transmission waa found to bo loaded
with empty peanut shells which were
being shipped from tho south to Post’s'
establishment at Battle Crook
This canard probably originated with
PraaMaat John Fllsgerald of tho Chi-
sago Fsderatloa of labor who It to ’
cold stated It publicly oo truth
Post comes back sad gives Uto-
geraM the He direct Be denounces
FltxgeraM’s statement as a daUhento -tolaahood
aa underhaadil and aowarfl- -ly
attempt to Injure hlo huotoooo hev-
tog not the slightest boots la foot As
ouch aa effort It maat bo regarded Jt
to aigntleait that Uto otatomsol about
aowapupor ptoMiy U tho "putout
Inside" of an eastern sous try paper 1
Bad ft and thu tofotunee naturally to
that lebor-ualoattau art tnaHtonalj
praadtag this He -Aa
- Institution (or a man) whleh
will resort to moral intimidation and
to physical torse that will destroy aa
ehtaary and bun hulldtags that wlH
malm and kill If necessary to effect Us
ends naturally would not hesitate to
spread falsehood for tho asms pur-
Wo admire Post While wo hove aa w
comity toward labor unions so tongas
they are conducted la an honest "livw
nnd-lst-Uvs" kind of away w have had -enough
of tho tarred and of th stick
to sympathise thoroughly with what ho
to trying to da Ho deserve support
A man like Post con aot be killed evea
with Use They are a boomerang every
time Again w knot for hasn’t this
weapon ovary weapon that eould ho
thought of boon uaod (and aot simply
by labor unions) to pat no nut of bust- "
aess too?
I na going to drink No oupg of
Poatnm every mors lag froas this ttm
so and put myself an a dtot of Grape-
Nuta Silty tor Pootl— Edttortal fa
ftolnfftoi onmitpf CTtotaf CO
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