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THE WONDERBERRY OR SUNBERRY Has Proved a Great Success-Thousands Say It's the Best Thing They Ever Grew. The Wonderberry or Bunberry the anrolons garden trait originated by Luther ItmlKuik. and Introduced by John Lewis Chllds. the well-known Seedsman of Floral Park, N. Y., has proved a groat success all over the country. Thousands of people say It is the best thing they ever grew. w Mr. John Burroughs, tb well-known author, Naturallsl and bosom-friend of Theodore Roosevelt, says It is the most delicious pie berry he ever tastod, . and a marvelous cropper. I? . A Director of the New York Agrlcul- tural Experiment Station says It fruits abundantly even In pore sand. In tho short season of North-western Canada it Is n gods, nd, and fruits long after frost has killed most garden truck. D. S. Hall. Wichita. Kan., savs thirty people grew it there last season with perfect Mtll 'action. K. S. Enochs, Hammond, La., says it yields Jj.o worth of fruit per acre with him. Mrs. J. H. 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"Oh, but Mr. Blake, I am sure It must be a mistake; I am sure that If It Is explained to papa " "Ten; we'll cable papa to-night. Meantime, we've something else to do Suppose you two get a hustle on your selves, and scrape up something to eat. I'm going out to see what's left of that blamed old tub." "Surely you'll not venture to gwlm out so far!" protested Wlnthrope. "I saw the steamer sink as we east off." "Looks like a mast sticking up out there. Maybe some of the rigging Is loose." "Hut the sharks! These waters swarm with the vile creatures. You must not risk your life!" " 'Cause why ' If I do, the babes In the woods will be left without even the robins to cover them, poor things! Hut cheer up! maybe the mud-hens will do It with lovely water-lilies." "Please, Mr. Hlake, do not be so cruel!" sobbed Miss Leslie, her tears starting afresh. 'The sun makes my head ache dreadfully, and I have no hat or shade, and I'm becoming so thirsty!" "And you think you've only to wait, and half a dozen stewards will come running with parasols and Ice water. Neither you nor Wlnthrope seem to 've got your eyes open. Just suppose you get busy and do something. Wln thrope, chase yourself over the mud, and get together a mesa of nsh that are not too dead. Must be dozons, aft the blow. As for you, Miss Jenny, I guess you can pick up some reeds and rig a headgear out of this handker chief Walt a moment. Put on my coat, If you don't want to be broiled alive through the holes of that peek-a-boo." "Hut I say, Blake " began Wln thrope. "Don't say do!" rejoined Blake; and he started down the muddy shore. Though the tide was at flood, there was now no cyclone to drive the sea above the beach, and Blake walked a quarter of a mile before he reached the water's edge. There was little surf, and he paused only a few mo ments to peer out across the low swells before he commenced to strip. Wlnthrope and Miss Leslie had been watching his movements; now the girl rose in a little Hurry of haste, and set to gathering reeds. Wlnthrope would have spoken, but, Beelng her embarrassment, smiled to himself, and begin si rolling about In search of llsh. It was no difficult search. The marshy ground was strewn with dead sea creatines, many of which were al ready shriveling and drying In the sun. Some of the fish hail a familiar look, and Winthrope turned them over With the tip of his shoe. lie even went .so far as to stoop to pick up a large mullet; but shrank back, re pulsed by its stiffness and tho unnat ural shape Into which the sun was warping it. He lound himself near the beach. Bint Stood tor half an hour or more vaiehlng I he lilaek dot far out in the rater all that was to be seen of Blake, The American, alter wading off-shore tnotber quarter of mile, had reached swimming depth, and was beading out among the reefs with steady, vigorous strokes. Half a mile or so beyond him Winihrope could now make out the l;cu1 for which he was alining Ihe one remaining top mast of the steamer. "liy Jove, these waters are full of sharks!" murmured Winthrope, star ing at the steadily receding dot until ;t disappeared behind the wall of surf which spumed up over one of the outer '( ( fs. A call from Miss Leslie Interrupted bis watch, and he hastened to rejoin her After several failures, she had connived to Knot mi ike's handkerchief io three or four reeds in the form of a little sunshade. Her shoulders were protected by Blake') coat it made a heavy wrap, but It shut out the biis tiring sun rays, which, as Blake had foreseen, had quickly begun to burn the girl's delicate skin through her open-work bodice, Thus protected, she was fairly safe from the Kilt). Hut ihe sun was by no means the worst feature of the sltua tion. While Winthrope was jrei several yards distant, the girl began to com plain to him "I'm so thirsty, Mr. Ittthropel Where Is there any wa ter? 1'lease gel me a drink at once. Mr. Winthrope I" "But) my dear Miss Leslie, there is no wa'er. These pools are all sea water, i must say, I'm douoed dry myself. I can't see why that I cad should go off and leave us like this. "Indeed, It Is a shame Oh, I'm so thirsty! Do you think it would help If we ate something?" "Make it all the WOTM, Besides, how could e cook sny thing 1 ah I llese reeds are green. "Bui Mr. Hlake said to gather MOM Qsh, Had u not best " r "He can pick up nil he wants. I hall not touch the beastly things." "Then I suppose there Is nothing to do but wait for him." 'Yes. if the sharks do not get him." Miss Leslie uttered a little moan, and Wlnthrope, sei ing that she was on the verge of tears, hastened i re assure her. "Don't worry about him, Miss Cionevievo! He'll soon return, with nothing worse than a blistered hack. Fellows of that sort are born to hang, you know." "Hut If he should be If anything should happen to him!" Wlnthrope shrugged his shoulders. and drew out his silver cigarette ense. ' MS L ) egjK (i 1. It-, a Two or Three Small Fish Lay Faintly Wriggling on the Surface. It was more than half-full, and he was highly gratified to find that neither the cigarettes nor the vesta matches in the cover had been reached by the wet. "By Jove, here's luck!" he ex claimed, and he bowed to Miss Leslie. "Pardon me, but If you have no ob jections " The girl nodded as a matter af form, and Wlnthrope hastened to light the cigarette already In his fingers. The smoke by no means tended to lessen the dryness of his mouth; yet it put him in a reflective mood, and In think ing over what he had read of ship wrecked parties, be remembered that a pebble held in Ihe mouth is supposed to case one's thirst. To be sure, there was not a sign of a pebble within miles of where they sat; but after some reflection, it oc curred to him that one of his steel keys might do as well. At first Miss Leslie was reluctant, to try the ex periment, and only the Increasing dry ness or her mouth forced bdr to seek the promised relief. Though it called to quench her thirst, she was agree ably surprised to find 'bat the little Hat bar of metal eased her craving to I marked d gree. Winthrope now thought to rig a shade as Miss Leslie had done, out of reeds and his handkerchief, for the sun wnn scorching his unprotected bead. Thus sheltered, the two crouched as comfortably as they could upon the half-dried creel of the bum mock and waited impatiently for the return of Blake. CHAPTER HI. The Worth of Fire. PHOUOH the sea within the reels was fast smoothing to a glassy plain in the dead calm, they did not see hlake on bis return until he struck shallow wa ter and stood up to wade ashore. The tide had begun to ebb hefore he started landward, and though he was powerful swimmer, the long pull Inst the current had so tired him ilia! when he took to wading he moved nt a lot toiselike gait. "The bloom In' loafer!" oomaentei Winihrope. He glanced quickly about, and at sight of Miss Leslie's arching brows, hastened t add: "heg pat don: IN' ah- -'minds see so much Of a nai . von know." Mis i i.e lie made no reply, i lasi hlake was out of the water and lolling up the muddy beach to die Spot when he had left his clothes. While dressing he seemed to roooTor from his exertions In the Walter, for the moment he had Mulshed he sprang to his feet and came forward at a brisk pace s in- approached, Wtathra waved his lift li cigarette at him with languid enthusiasm, and called out as heartily as his dry lips would per mit: "I say. HI. ike. deuced glad the sharks didn't yon!" "Shark " bah) All you have to do Is to splash a little, and they haul off" "How about the steamer, Mr. Hlake''" asked Miss Leslie, tinning to face him. "All under but the miilntopina si -curse It! Wire rigging at that! Couldn't even gal a holt." "A bolt'.'" "Not a boll; and here we are as good as naked on this Infernal I ley, you' what you doing with that match? Light your cigarette -light It! Dam nation!" Heedless of Blake's warning cry, Winthrope had struck his last vesta, and now. angry and bewildered, he stood staring While the little taper burned Itself out. With nn oath hlake Sprang to Catch It as It dropped from between Winthrope'i lingers. Bui he was too far away. It fell among the damp rushes, spluttered, nnd llared out. For a moment hlake knelt, staring at the rushes as though stupefied; then he sprang up before Winthrope, his bronzed face purple with anger. "Where's your matchbox? (lot any more?" he demanded. "Last one, 1 fancy yes; last one, and there are still two cigarettes. But look here, hlake, I can't tolerate your talking so tleucedly " "You Idiot! you you Hell! and every one for cigarettes!" From a growl I Hake's voice burst into a roar of fury, and sprang upon Wlnthrope like a wild beast. His hands closed upon the Englishman's throat, and he began to Bhake him about, paying no heed to the blows bis victim showered upon his face and body, blows which soon began to les sen In force. Terror-stricken, Miss Ieslle put her hands over her eyes, and began to scream the piercing shriek that will unnerve the strongest man. Blake paused as though transfixed, and as the half-suffocated Englishman struggled In his grasp, he (lung him on the ground and turned to the screaming girl. "Stop that squawking!" he said. The girl cowed down. "So; that's better. Next time keep your mouth shut." "You you brute." "Good! You've got a little Bpumv eh?" "You coward to attack a man not half your strength!" "Steady, steady, young lady! I'm warm enough yet; I've still half a mind to wring his fool neck." "But why should you be so ungry? What has he done, that you " "Why why? Lord! what hasn't he done? This coast fairly swarms with beasts. We've not the smell of a gun; and now this Idiot this dough-head has gone and thrown away our only chance fire und on his measly ciga rettes!" Blake choked with ret timing rage. Winthrope, still panting for breath, began to creep away, at the same time unclasping a small penknife. He was while with fear; but bis gray eyes which on shipboard hlake had never1 seen other than offensively Biipereill- ous now glinted in a manner that served to alter the America. i'h mood. "That'll do." he said, "Come here and show me thai knife." "I'll show it you where It will do the most good." muttered Winihrope, ris ing hastily to repel the expected at tack. "So you've got a little sand, too." said hlake, almost good-nai uiedly. "Say, that's not so bad. We'll call it quits on the matches. Though how you COUld go and l brow them away " "Deuce take it, man! How should I know? I've never before been in a wreck." , "Neither have I this kind. Hut 1 tell you, we've got to keep our think tanks going. It's a guess if we see to morrow, and that's no Joke. Now do you wonder I got hot ?" "Indeed, no! I've been an ass, and here's my hand to it If you really mean it's quits." "it's quits all right, long ns you don't run out of sand," responded hlake, and he gripped the other's soft hand until the Englishman winced. "So; that's settled. I've got a hot temper, but I don't hold grudges. Now, whet, re your tish?" "1 well, they were all spoiled." "Spoiled?" "The sun had shriveled them." "And you call that spoiled! We're like to eai them rotten before We're l through with this picnic. How about H the H "Pobls T io you know. Blake, I never H thought of the pools. I stopped to H Watch you, and then we wen so anx- H Hlake (runted nnd turned on his H heel to wade Into the halt ill allied pool In Whose midst he had been deposited the hurricane. U Two or three small fish lay faintly wii; lin; on the surface. Ah hlake H splashed through the water to seize M them bis loot Struck against a living H body which Boundered violently and H Unshed a brilliant forked tail above the M muddy water hlake sprang over the M Qsh, which was cntnuulcd In the :H reeds, and with a kick Hung II clear H out upon the ground M " etorypbene!" cried winthrope, H and he ran forward to start1 at the M BOrgBOUSly colored prize. M "Corypbene?" repeated Hlake, fol- H lowing bis example, "Good t eat?" H "Fine as salmon. This is only a H small one, hut " H "Fifteen pounds If an ounce!" cried H Hlake, and he thrust his band In his H pocket. There was a moment's si- H lenoe, and Wlnthrope, glancing up, saw H the other staring In blank dismay. H "'What's up?" he asked. H "Lost my knife." H "When? In the pool? If we felt M about " H "No; aboard ship, or In tho surf " U "Here is my knife." H "Yes; almost big enough to whittle - H a match! Mine would have done us H rood." H "It Is the best steel." sH "All right; let's see you cut up the bH fish." H "Hut you know, Hlake, I shouldn't ! know how to go about It. I never did jH such a thing." jH "And you, Miss Jenny? Hirls are jH supposed to know about, cooking." H "1 never cooked anything In all my M life, Mr. Hlake, and It's alive and M and I am very thirsty, Mr. Blake!" H Lord!" commented Blake. "Give M me that knife." H Though the blade was so small, the H American's hand was strong. After H some little haggling, the coryphene M was killed and dressed. Blake washed M both ii and his hands In the pool, and H began to cut slices of flesh from the )M fish's tail. H "We have no Are," Wlnthrope re- ,M minded him, flushing at the word. '.M "That's true," assented Blake, In a lM cheerful tone, and he offered Win- M throne two of the pieces of raw flesh. jJ "Here's your breakfast. The trimmed H piece Is for Miss Leslie." H "But It's raw! Really, I could not U think of eating raw fish. Could you, H Miss Leslie?" Miss Leslie shuddered. "Oh, no! M and I'm so thirsty I could not eat any- tM thing." ' JM "You bet you can!" replied Blake. rM "Both of you take that fish and go to chewing. It's the stuff to ease your fH thirst while we look for water. Good 11 Lord! In a week you'll be glad to eat M raw snake. Flnnlcky over clean fish, VM when you swallow canvas-back all but M raw, and beef running blood, and raw M oysters with their stomachs full of dls- M Integrated animal matte., to put It M politely. You couldn't tell rattlesnake M broth from chicken, and dog makes M flrst-rate veal when you've got to eat M It. I've had it straight from them that M knows that over In France they eat M snail: and i. b win in,, ii all a mat- M i.i custom or the st j le H (TO BE CONTINUED.) M JUST WHAT HUNTINGTON SAID. ' Clever 8alesman "Got" Railrosd King M In Book Purchase. S The late Henry Miller, who was M guide, philosopher and friend to many M booklovers within a thousand miles of M New York, was a most successful M salesman. One day he called on Col- M lis i' Huntington and showed him a M rare copy of . U "There are two volumes of this," M said Mr. Miller. The other volume la M in perfect order, as you see this one M Ik. You cannot possibly let them es- M cape you, for you know you have noth- M Ing like this In your library." M "What Is the price?" usked the M railroad king. IR "Seven hundred dollars," said the Bfl bookman. M "Those are too valuable volumes for H my library," Mr. Huntington ex- M H Mr. Miller wont back to his place, WM ami sent the books to Mr. Hunting- WM tons house wiih a bill for $700. Next I day tho railroad king sent for him. IB "Why did you send me those books?" he demanded, sharply. H "Because you bought them," was the IH calm reply. B "I certainly did not!" cried the mil- flfl llonaire. WM "Oh. yoB, you did," answered Mr. JB Miller. "You'll remember perfectly tW well when I tell you what you said. Ifll You told me distinctly: 'Those are V two valuable volumes for my library.' " BB Harper's Weekly. H A Success. M hirst Broker How's that mining l Bcheme of your coming on? VJ Second Broker Splendid. Why, we M sold every share before we found the ofl mine. Unidentified. H pm il IflVJ m