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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWtitHERALD
MOND DAT EVENING, DECEMBER 89, 1913
• TOLL OF LIFE IS NOT
SO HEAVY AS IS POPULARLY
SUPPOSED, SAY STATISTICS
iiv asko< i rui:ss.
Washington, Dec. 29.—King Alcohol
does not cause such a heavy percen-
tage of deaths In this country
might be gathered from the talk of
temperance workers according
government statistics. Out of 753,308
deaths during 1910 causes of which
were ascertained by the Department
of Commerce, less than three-eights of
one per cent of them were caused
by alcoholism. One-ninth of these
who Buccombed to the demon rum
were women.
l'nit*d Slnte* Mortality Law
Natives of the United States are
not nearly so addicted to «xces«lv
conviviality as those born In other
countries, and only three-tenths of
one-per cent—one-eighth of these
were women—died from excessive
drinking during 1910.
Scandinavians in the United State*
sacrificed more of their numbers to
drink than any other nationality,
four-fifths of th< usual one per cent
of deaths being due to hard and sin
cere application to it. It appears
to be confined almost entirely to the
men of this nation. Only one twen-
ty-second of the deaths in their
ranks were of the gentler sex.
(fcrniims Vof no Had
Germans, supposed to he of a
heavy drinking nation, were below
the general average in deaths from
drinking, two-sevenths of one per
cent of the deaths of Germans in
America being due to thlt r&uie.
One-twentieth of them we\ e women
The Irish paid heavy toll, five-
eighthB of one per cent dying from
the cause. One-fifth of them were
women.
Italian women may well be proud
of the record set by the women of
their country in the United States.
Not a single d«ith among these rec-
orded among Italian women was
due to the assimilation of rum in
great quantities, although Italian
men died from this cause to the ex-
tent of or >third of one por cent of
the total number of Italian deaths.
DRUGS EXUiFE YOUR
KIDNEYS. USE SALTS
IF VOI It H ACK JU RIS OB HI, A I)
OISB BOTHKKM, DKISh i.OTS
OF MATKK.
When your kidneys hurt and you
back feels sore, don't get scared an
proceed to load your stomach w!f
a lot of drugs that excite the kidmey
and irritate the entire urinary tract
Keep your kidneys cloan like yo
keep your bowels clean, by flushin
them with a mild, harmless sal
which removes the body's urinou
waste and stimulates them to thei
normal activity. The function of th
kidneys is to filter the blood. I
twenty-four hours they strain fror
it 500 grains of acid and waste, p
we can readily understand the vita
importance of keeping the kidney
active.
Drink lots of water you can'
drink too much; also get from an
rmaeist about four ounces of Ja
Is; take a tablespoonful in
gl.iss of water before breakfast eac
ning 'or a few days and your kid
s will act fine. This famou
s is made from tlu acid of grape
and lemon Juice, combined wit
lithia, and has been used for genera
lions to clean and stimulate clogge
kidneys; also to neutralize the acid
in urine so it no longer is a source
of irritation, thus ending bladde
weakness.
.Tad Salts is inexpensive, canno
injure, makes a delightful efferves
cent lithia-water drink which every
one should take now and then t
keep I heir kidneys clean and active
Try this; also keep up the water
drinking, and no doubt you will won
der rfhat became of your kidney
trouble and backache.
AFTERMATH
ICoDyr.«ht.>
HIGHWAY THKKCTORS
Oklahoma, Texas and (Julf Associa-
tion Extends Activities to Take
in Newton, Kansas
Ardmore, Ok., Dec. 29.—The Okla-
homa, Texas and Gulf Highway as-
sociation in session hero last week
Is promoting the building of a high-
way from Oklahoma City to Dallas
through the counties of Cleveland,
McLain, Garvin, Murrayy, Johnston,
TJryan, Graysbn, Collin and Dallas.
Jurisdiction of the association was
extended to Newton, Kansas, and
the northern end of the line will
be organized at once.
In the contests Purcell was given
preference over Washington in Mc-
Lain county and the Caddo con-
test was compromised by allowing
Caddo and Kenefick to build the de-
tour in Bryan county and the asso-
ciation to log it at its expense.
L. M. Ward, the secretary, reisgned
to become connected with the Texa
Commercial Secretaries' association,
and L. J. Milburn of Pauls Valley
was elected.
W. N. King of Denison was elected
treasurer.
The association voted to allow
each county to fix its own member-
ship fees.
L. M. Ward went to Dallas to
isomer with the Commercial club
concerning the co-operation of Dal-
las county. The association h^pes
to complete its task within two
years.
oklahoma city candidate
Clearing Hiuise Decides to Support
Neither Dallii* nor Kansas
City for Re*en e Hank
Oklahoma City, Dec. 29.—Okla-
homa City is an applicant for desig-
nation as one of the twelve reserve
eenters under the new currency act.
In their applications both Dallas
and Kansas City asked support ef
the local clearing house, hot the lat-
ter concluded to request the designa-
tion for itself. Bankers discussing
the new arrangement rather incline
to Kansas City, providing Oklahoma
City's claims are denied, as the reg-
ional point for this section of the
United States.
When you feel
vous, tired, worried or despondent it is a
sure sign yon need MOTT'S NERVERINE
PILLS. Th ey renew the normal vigor and
make life worth living. b6 sure and ask for
WILLIAMS MFG. CO.. Prop*., Cleveland, Ohio
oo anaa iq epss ooj
Mattress Renovating
Dene Promptly
Phone 101 J. 19 W. Farrell
Shawnee Bedding Co.
Testimonial From
High Authority
Mrs. Wilson of Nashville, Tenn.,
is famed the world over for
her wonderfully delicious cakes.
They are shipped to ill parts
of the Globe for special affairs
where the best of Cakes are
demanded.
This year, as in former years,
Mrs. Wilson enjoys the distinc-
tion of making the President's
Christmas Cake, using Calumet
Baking Powder.
Mrs. Wilson's Baking Motto is:
"To have complete success with
no failures, care should be used
in selection of Baking Powder."
CALUMET
BAKING POWDER
Some little time ago I made a careful study and investigation of the
baking powder subject and I f«el fully repaid. I am firmly convinced
from the results I have received that there is no baking powder to
equal Calumet for wholesomeness and economy, and I also recommend
Calumet Baking F owder for its never failing results.
December 9, 1913. Mrs. Betty Lyler Wilson.
Calumet al«o received the Highest Awards at the World's Pure Food
Exposition, Chicago and Paris, France, 1912.
Buy a can of Calumet Baking Powder at once, and use
it in your Holiday Bakings, making your Christmas Cakes
as good as the President's.
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The service of our Abstract Department is pleas-
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you. We solicit your business on our merits and
responsibility.
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THE PENNANCE OF
JIM FIDDLER
By CHARLES
FRANCIS BOURKE
THE Jungfrau wan to sail at mid
night, under orders for the
rhlllpplnes, and the Imminent
■departure was being celebrated by
,what the gruff old executive officer
called a "wardroom wake,", a cere
mony necessarily accompanied by
cracked Ice and accessories, tons of
tobacco smoke, larking officers with
visions of a long pell of "loafing duly
ahead; the whole capped by public
ship-knowledge of a lading most elab
orate In view of a multitude of sup
Jplles packed within the transports
white walls. For the "pedlers of the
Junkshop." us the service stjled the
rblg supply ship, lived high when the
gods smiled.
j "Hope your ground tackle will hold
out, Barry. You're Bure one artist at
that box; we'll Just keep you In com
mission this night. Give us another
tu£e, son."
It was tb« executive oJIcer himself
•*fbo spoke, with a shade of anxiety
that did not "Jibe" with so ordinary a
request.
Lieutenant ' Billy" Barry (so-called
to distinguish him from his cousin, the
engineer officer of the same name and
■hip) Bwunf; round from the piano
player, broadly smiling.
"Nay, I'm done, and away. Official
■ uty to finish farewelllng. Special
•ervlce, see?" Harry grinned affably
"Finish farewelllng—yes!" the exec
tttive snorted. "Special service that
you'd chance a wind-up by farewelllng
to us The Jungfrau may not bo so
Attractive, but she's spltefil."
The executive officer frowned por-
tentously. " Twon't he the first time
you've shaved It too close, and there
•re limits, sir Going the pace don't
pay. son—there's nothing lb If
The Jungfrau'e surgeon, s dry old
Scot, selied the miimentarj silence
that ensued to remark: "He's as much
like poor Fiddler as two green peas
Never can resist running ashore at
the last moment—even In a mortal
peat-hole like that Malay harbor. n«
Fiddler did last year."
The silence continued. The officers
of the Jungfrau had all loved Fiddle*
"nobody's enemy but his own," that
old orownlng anomaly of mankind "a
food fellow." And now?
Barry, the engineer 'officer, said
•oberly, flicking the ash from his
cigar: "And to his own death!"
For Engineer Bartf, above all others,
(save, perhaps, hlj cousin, the light
hearted lieutenant), had chummed with
Fiddler since the early days at Annap
oils
Fiddler had been officer on this same
transport— a big, white sided convert
varht .1,. W|- "" * *
the most part, as an "apparatus ship'' dead Jim Fiddler—" The wail came
on the Asiatic station, where she made to them again, weird, eery.
harbora deadly with constructed con Rising from the mldBt of the water,
tact mines, electrical bombs, submi, 1 with the ghostly wail, came a weird
rlne bells, and mysterious floating con green glow. The iron buoy, straining
trlvances. just as she had been em at its anchorage, took on the same
ployed recently by the same old crew;sickly hue, which spread Into the sur-
on the home station, before receiving rounding sea like a reflection of Bouie
orders for the East again. ! central light.
In the meantime, Lieutenant Billy "And I've my penance now to pay,"
Barry was in the stern-sheets of the the wall grew In volume, coming faster
Jungfrau's cutter, shooting shoreward Bni1 'aBtcr. The men sat petrified with
under the Impulse of four oars. And 'Par 'n 'he cutter, her bowB lifting in
Lieutenant Barry's facc was gloomy. the wash from the great barrel on the
Ho had caught the surgeon's men f18* ."i.,"1? Brpt,n hue "Night
tlon of Fiddler's name as he left the ,7 nlgllt J , ,"°w s"me good fellow
wardroom, and that mention had rr myself, joining glass by glass, and
ailed memories that saddened and *ong ^ BOUK with him. Oh, I'm
sobered him, turning his thoughts to
the gay, care free friend who formerly
had always shared bis Jaunts of pleas
ure and pain.
weary, so weary of it all. But on
must go until I send some man back
to duty—*
The grating cry was swamped again,
A . .. even as the voice rose In pain, but the
n . D1 . t ,ea' J? coiswaln capped it with a yell of mor-
Barry pulled bis coatiabout him, «hlv tal terror, his own face green la the
er ®' | light.
The effervescence of the wardroom ' ' Mother of Hope," th stroke-mir
had passed, and that sorry comparison j whimpered " Til no drown' man!
of the surgeon s between himself andl'Tis a dead banshee—a seadivll! Back
Fiddler had brought his Image .clearly
to mind, dismally visualising on his
mental retina his lost comrade—con-
found that Scotch doctor, anyhow!
The night waB very still, with the
crescent moon Just maklpg darkness
visible. The sea-wind hummed low and
mournful over the lapping of the
waters, and the long, slow man-o'-
war's stroke as .the four seamen rose
and fell on the thudding oars. The
stars atsve seemed cold, and the dis-
tant shor*-llghts took on a suspicious
look. Barry shook himself angrily.
"Confound It! I'm getting fbrocastle
mulligrubs, too. Get up mors steam
there men. We're not pleasure rowing
—we're pressed for time."
"Way 'nough berk water har-rd!"
Ihe coxswain's sudden shout electrified
the boat. "Jove, sir, we most ran
down the btioy."
Barry recognized it as the big Iron
catAbuoy the Jungfrau bad r'anted In
the harbor for experimental purposes
in connection with mysterious lignal-
ing apparatus and submarine bells
The Incident rasped on his already
tensed nerveB.
'You're a blind fool
"Shipmate ahoy! Go back! Go
back, I say!"
The ghostly wall floated over the
water from the buoy not twenty feet
away, half-muffied, like the vo'ce of a
man drowning
The officer heard and the crew
they lay on their oars, x/hlle the cutter
rvung closer.
hzsi.
\o the ship for our lives!"
His panic fear roused his mates.
They struggled, rolling and falling
against each other In their haste to
flee the place, and crying out.
Up to that moment Barry had stared,
helpless to do anything. In his condl
tlon of mind his faculties had failed
him. Imagination It might be—but the
men had heard—and, as well may hap-,
pen to the beBt of men in moments of
great doubt and peril, hit Only feeling
was one of lMewlidermenl, Incredulity,
amusement. But, as the cutter swung
round, his Bfttoes rallied. What to the
Superstitious tailors was the cry of
some sea wraith became again to him
a stricken cry for help from some <et
low mortal.
With a passionate cry, he Bpr*«g up
In the well, felling the gawknij; stroke
with a back handed Wow tW keeled
him over the thwart.
Even as he did so, ttve buoy swooped
down upon him like n great black bat,
and again the Uurora of green burst
out of the water, Illuminating the
whole ugly bulk.
Barry glared, wild-eyed, at this mys
tery that mocked them—the buoy, the
eery green 1 :ht—his brain whirling.
For, as he looked, fascinated, nil re-
gurdleBB of his own hazard ottndlng In
the plunging boat, from the green
water something rose, as though lifted
by some unseen power from the heart
of the ocean.
fl-wlv t'.ft thins ascended the bulg-
'nt huoysldo. It reached the to ef
Ijr
Standing upright against the swaying
Iron sides of the float without apparent
support, It slowly and solemnly turned,
as on a pivot, facing him—a tall, spare
figure with arms that rose and fell
with the lapping of the water around
the buoy, with an odd, familiar gesture.
The coxswain's eyes bulged with
horror; there was a note of absolute
conviction In his yell of terror.
"It Is Left'nant Fiddler!" he howl&J,
and dropped on his knees, with hands
uplifted as If to ward off some over-
powering peril.
The ghostly wall rose once more In
distinguishable anguish.
"Give heed! Go back! For my sake.
Harry! B. B. O. Barry, B. B. O."
Then there was a pause.
For an Instant, as he faced the thing,
Barry's brain still strove toward sail
Ity; but that half-forgotten secret call
from out of the old days at Annap-
olis—only he and his cousin and Fid
(Her knew that And the coxswain had
seen I
Marry missed going overboard as he
dropped, flung Into the stern-sheets by
the roll of the cutter and the savage
tug of the four panic-stricken men at
the oars. But the coxswain caught him
and eased the fall, while the cutter,
traveling faster than she had been
rowed since she was built, made for
the Jt^ gfrau.
From that night forward Lieutenant
Barry was a changed man on the
transport Jungfrau,
In fact, he ceased to be Lieutenant
"Illlly" Barry at all. He was another,
man -as the Worried executive officer'
put It—from keelson to truck, fore
aft, Port And starboard.
Mm-* than once his englheef fcousln
apj^ached him. looking gwflty. But
h*. like all the other*, fatlej to break
through the barrier of "resc-ve which
Barry shod about the 'occurrences of
that fateful night.
So the Wardrov*. left him severely
alone, to go his Kiwn sinful route of
reformation, fot Barry was in dead
earnest.
While Barr) remained simply a
harmless "craSik" In the wardroom and
a martinet Ht duty, the high powers of
the (|uurtft dork did not Interfere; but
wheu s transformation took place
twesn,'decks, the commander took a
hand. And the "Old Man" was wroth.
For almost a week the transport
JungTrau had become a "rterve-shlp."
Whispers of spooks and spirits and
hobgoblins and wraiths were alwuys In
the air. Men shuddered at nljiht duly
and almost mutinied when sent aloft
In the dnrk In cno nor,lug expedition
to a derelict at night (for the Jungfrau
duties) a boat-crew had to be driven
over the side. Another cutter outfit
flatly refused to visit a be!l-buoy adrift
and mournfully tolling. They pre-
ferred irons and hardtack and water,
and said so.
The surgeon Anally went scouting,
for nerves belonged to his department,
and his report "broomed the truck,"
otherwise capped the climax, of the
commander's wrath and worry. The
old man wasn't running ghost-ships,
and he said so 'urldly.
" 'Tis miraculous," the doctor said,
'though you'll mind I've prognosti-
cated our estimable lieutenant was no
Socrates for brains. The smash was
fated to come."
"Go on," said the commander sternly.
His grouch was the more humiliating
because Barry had been his particular
pet. "The lad's breaking down, you
mean?" he asked.
The surgeon grinned like a Cheshire
cat, for he was a gray monkey for
mischief,
ill Just tell you. The superstition
that's rife aboard ship Is superinduced,
as you may say. Artlfeeclal, In a way,
like to a small turret riding In ft big
turret. I'm told Ballormen believe In
spirits by natural preference and swal-
lpw 'em neat; but when I find that
Lieutenant Barry has shut off the sea
men's bottled beer—without complaint,
which Is mirtttle number one, and "also
discover Visually that he presohes to
tho bte sed crew—"
"What! Billy Barryf" th* "Wardroom
g<* |)ed.
Ne other, gentlemeft ih squads and
groups and severally. And, further-
more, on my medical word, the lieu
tenant's preachments Include ghosts—"
"Send for Lieutenant Barry ;'jstaht-
ly." A Junior Jumped at the command-
's tone.
The commander of the Jungfrau was
not In the habit of standing on cere-
mony with the Junior officers/and he
relieved his mind as soon as Barry
appeared.
"What do you know about this ghost
business on board my ship?" he
growled. "They say you're In It end
encourage It."
"Some of the men received a shock
before we sailed, sir," Barry answered
promptly. "I did myself."
"Well?" The commander's face was
Implacable. For a second Barry hesi-
tated. But he remembered the boat's
crew that had been with him and
blurted out his experience at the buoy.
"That is what I heard, sir, and that
is what has influenced the men, and
myself as well."
In the dead silence the commander
glanced at the surgeeon, then turned
bis black brows upon the engineer.
The latter was condemned already as
a known practical Joker.
"1 have wafited to tell Billy all along,
sir, he said frankly. "It was the big
electrical idea that I reported I was
working on.
The commander smiled grimly.
I got It nearly perfected, sir, when
the Manila orders came, the telephon-
ograph, I mean. We worked secretly,
of course, and ak the apparatus was
In the big buoy, to be takeq ashore
bodily till we returned — eoundlng-
boards, magnets, horns, and all. But
the wires were still connected. You
know, sir, we Intended to experiment
talking from the buoys to passing
ships by a sort of wireless telephone
method Of course Billy knew nothing
about this. So I uet talked to him
myself. The sound would project
twenty feet from the buoy, even then,
when I was talking Into the receiver
In my quarters on the ship. That Is
all, sir, except that It was rather a
sorry Jest. 1 confess I counted some
on scaring the crew, and maybe forc-
ing Billy to come back to the ship.
Of course I expected to explain after-
ward."
A titter ran round the ofBceri.
"But I saw Jim Fiddler," Billy cried.
"And the cox saw him."
"Too bad, sir," the engineer grinned,
feeling easier. "I told cox to row close
to the buoy. He was merely pretend-
ing to be scared."
"Send for that man," the commanded
growled.
The cox of Lieutenant Barry's boat
did not feel easy in his mind. When
the engineer questioned nim, he stam-
mered, shivered, and burst out;
"I did see I.eft-nant Fiddler, slrj
that's the truth! It was a warning to
let 'em alone once they're dead. I saw
him rise from the sea all In the green
light with my two eyes—"
The engineer exploded. "Now I un-
derstand Barry's queer notion. That
was the submarine electric light at-
tached to the buoy, under water, te
preserve them," he laughed. "It's in-
tended to signal passing ships as well,
and flares the moment the machine
talks I didn't know the thing would
worV. so well, really."
"t nythlng else you wish to know.
Lieu enant Barry?" the commander
asked quite sarcastically.
Bairv had listened with stolid face.
Taking the commander's question ai
a dismissal he bowed and went out|
without a word.
"He'll never believe you've explained
the thing If you showed him a thou-
sand devils' doings from your bag of
tricks, Mr. Wizard Barry," the doctor
said dryly. "I know what it 1b—and
that's where I get a rise out of you,
sir."
" 'Twas reminiscent retina, because
of his wiought-up nervous condition,"
the Scotch Burgeon said, "If you know
what that Is. 'TIs a well-established
phenomenon. As for that coxswain,
he'd see anything!"
(Copyright, The Frank A. Munity Co.)
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