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MISERY
HE wireless spark that cries to the
shore for help when night and terror
settle down on the doomed steam
ship, and the wild moment of
thanksgiving as the message of de
liverance drums in. tie weary
operator's ear, has furbished many
a tbtfll, but the cry from shore,
searching the sea and finding the
white speck on Its bosom that means
hope and life, is rare, and to put it
mildly, reversing the order ofthtong,,
Of course, la story boo
often finds himself cast
nut to no great shift to
uncouth putterings turn
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on the evening of f Keenan howled this message to me irenionus
mat curtains drawn' ian and made ready ror runner airetuous.
xA'ar earn
fx Island
rsrf
alius or
natives gesticulated' Ur I "Take a tourniquet," said the wireless. It was
uld enter. The wireless Jars to Deneve tnai out oi bigm uejuuu uw.
rzona trained mind at another instrument, was ui
' "!g hrongh space the way to save a human
" m. VistTtlie awfSYi 4 wloinier..the tourniquet
was applied and a knife Carew'a ownwLTttfliaft
caused the trouble plunged in boiling water to
Vrawn matting, wonder
rinsed Tiirnrpl
ies in the tropic!
off Hondflras if -you vlnsi3r"uS
vour atlas and bv common report I
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forsaken thing in the Caribbean at
baying touch.
It would be hard to Imagine a morel
or one less suited for the local colcj
with a thrill. A few huts scatter!
swampy ground, some palms, son!
trees, and the tally is complete, all 1
less station.
Commerce must be served, and
Fruit company has erected on Swanj
tie station that keeps in touch witli
passing 500 miles out to sea. The J
relays messages from Port Limon,
(see your map again), over to Jamaicl
Nothing else remains In the sunn
Swan Island but scorpions, trantulas
tude of carnivorous insects whose exe
drive the New Jersey product to envil
Thither at the close of a sweltel
autumn came a new wireless operatoj
tor. Necessitv brought the operatr
hrouchf the visitor. The same stea
lted both on the white beachto call :J
with another operator. Keenan, the
was in Hck. for after a month aki
island that is, alone so far as whit'
are concerned except for a single "bJ
nrhlfh is ripfmori Kiiffioipnt bv the Ccl
Bhow the beginnings of. a line of A
conversation which would not entitl
too firmly to the major premise, "Mai
al animal." I
Curiosity and scorpions brought th
Warren Carew, who hailed from Nfl
ahould have known better. Carew
and troops of friends, picked up In ri
the globe, but he preferred to list scc
was a naturalist, he told the w irelessK.TN
Keenan, accustomed to strange men and strange
places, shrugged his shoulders and was glad for
the companionship the naturalist brought
At daylight, before the heat of the sun made
life a burden, Carew collected his ugly specimens,
and later he talked w ith Keenan,1 who furnished
gossip of the world snatched from the passing
craft. Two weeks passed , in desultory fashion,
with morning searches and afternoons looking
over the hot blue sea before and the lagoon be
hind, that lay like a spot of tarnished silver
showing through the scrawny palms.
Carew was careless and one morning It hap
pened. The lobster-like claws of the scorpion
nipped and Carew went off balance. The nip was
not dangerous, but the sprawl threw him into
line for the stinging tail of the holder of venom
that meant death death unless heroic measures
were adopted. Whatever else Carew wa he was
not a coward. The report of Keenan and all in
formation that can be gathered shows he acted
with Spartan courage but again he was careless.
The small spot in the calf of the ieg where the
poison entered was bared by him and a common
Jackknife brought Into play. Quickly Carew cut
at the place, and slashed until there was a free
flow from a wound three inches long. He bound
up the leg with strips of clothing and hobbled
back to his hut."
Keenan saw him and hurried to his assistance.
Carew was made comfortable in a bunk, and
weltered cheerfully through the afternoon, be
lieving he bad saved himself. Copious doses of
brandy muddled his senses and Keenen returned
to his post. There were no signs of the swift
eath that follows the sting of the scorpion.
fSSiamp, which adu
heat of the hut
d dut; ' What's the ma
air? You'll suffocate."
the curtains, when the
old. My leg will catch
by the shoulders, and
examined the wounded
i'o not the swelling and
ortiflcatlon around the
let in, if it had not come
rtain death.
thrown on him despite
naturalist the story of
an unclean blade, and
Ih men returned to the
helping the now fright-
, over them, and while
ig the outcome Keenan
hen the Idea came.
ds of milts, were ves
only summon one and
irn in to save a life.
man!" Keenan shouted,
Carew on the shoulder,
nazed for the time be
lt after he caught the
ul.
Id not turn so far," he
t: "Promise them any-
smoothly, Keenan ftn
? sparks crackled. He
waited. There was no
receivers. Through the
jup while the awakened
jrried to the station to
Kt snarled out into the
tmon answered, but here
ht the swelling had in
creased, and with the approach of what he be
lieved the end the New York man became calm.
"I am sorry, friend," he said, "but 1 think it's
pretty near over. We are too far from help, and,
besides, it is all impossible. No ship would turn.
I promise not to break down again. If I do be
come crazy ard there is no hope, I depend on you
to" and he nodded significantly toward his re
volver. Keenan did not answer. Somewhere out on the
Caribbean he knew the Santa Marta was plough
ing along, so ho plied the wireless unceasingly.
The answer came about nine o'clock in the
morning from the Santa Marta, which reported
her position exactly 420 miles to the soitheast
Rapid exchanges brought a refusal to turn to
Swan island. The ship's surgeon. Dr. W. S. Irwin,
standing beside the wireless, said it would be use
less. And the nvessage was sent to Keenan, who
dared not look at khe doomed young man.
That seemed to to be the end for a moment
Then there came ilnew sputtering in the receiver.
"The doctor sajBlto.perform the operation your-
"llow can I?" theWark from Swan island ques
tioned the Santa Mirta at sea.
rtnfk rama th instructions.
bald the wireless. lou nave
Aok there and you can go an
A. Describe the symptoms.'
Kpnn told the condition of the wound and
the clrcumstan.es, but he insisted on his fears
when it came time to 4mPuUte-
"No amputation necessary ," came back the mes
sage. "A lot of cutting According to direction and
your man is saved."
make it clean. More brandy was served to niia
by the wireless man and everything' was ready
for the operation. A native boy who acted as
Herman's helper ran after articles as directed.
By turning to the page he had been directed
Keenan found a chart of the leg.
"Ready," he flashed to Dr. Irwin.
The first direction came, he repeated it back
and it was verified, so there could be no mistake.'
Each part of the lancing was gone over carefully
under repeated instructions. Meantime the Santa
Marta continued to plunge along on the blue Ca
ribbean. And when the cutting was over there cama
the query from the ship to shore:
"Have you any tar?"
Keenan bad, and the instruction came to boil
it and pour it on the now clean wound. It was
rough surgery, but the best thing under the cir
cumstances. Carew fainted under it and was r
vived.
"Tell him he's safe now," came the wireless.
The tourniquet was removed and the numbed
leg, still horribly painful under the searing tar,
was bandaged.
"Got plenty of brandy?" asked the spark.
"About the only thing we have," Keenan pound
ed back.
"Let him have enough to forget his troubles,"
ordered the surgeon, and the message was sent.
Now by rights all should have been over with
the saving of Carew. But there remained the one
touch that will be a long time finding its dupli
cate. The following day the young naturalist appear
ed dragging himself along with a cane in defiance
of orders. He stopped by the wireless man who
bad taken his instrument out under the trees.
"Forget it," he said when the other began to
remonstrate. "I feel great. It's wonderful to
know you're going to live after all. I want to
thank that doctor."
So Keenan raised the Santa Marta again and
the surgeon was called to the wireless room.
"Tell him I can't operate the key so it means
anS thing," said Carew, "but if he will sit down at
the instrument I'll make some dots with the thing
and that will serve for the present. You know
our hands will really touch when his has one key
and I the other and the air between."
And so it happened that through the air over
the blue Caribbean there passed sundry dots that
meant nothing and everything.
Different Nationalities Have Own j
Particular Version.
Rtason Is Ascribed to Contemptuous
Indifference to Things Foreign
That Exist More or Leas In
Every Land on the Globe.
Florence, Italy The city we and
the English call "Florence" is by
Italians called Fiorenia. Tfce name of
the British capital is. to the French,
Londres, and to the Italians, Londra.
By English-speaking peoples the Aus
trian capital Is referred to ae Vif niia.
whereas the Austrians spell it Wifrn.
In addition to these differences there
may be cited Dunkirk and Dunkerque,
Cologne and Koln. The Hague and La
Have, Geneva and Genf.
' What Is the reason for these differ
ences? Is it to be sought in philologi
cal influences alone, or is it to be
found in that contemptuous indiffer
ence with reference to things foreign
that exists more or less in every land?
In the first-mentioned case, it has
been pointed out that, had the word
"London" existed at the time the
French word "Londres" came into use,
the French would probably have adopt
ed the English form. But, the French
contend, no "London" name was in use
when 'Londres-' was coined. The
Latin name whereby the British town
first became known elsewhere was
Londlnium. The locative case form of
this noun (the one most often used in
colloquial style) was Londini. It fol
lowed that. In the continuous inter
change of words and their develop
ment into modern speech, Londini
very easily became Ixndri in the
speech of the Frenchmen. Then, as
"i" is an Indication of a Latin plural,
a new difficulty arose. When Londini
was accepted by the French it was for
some time treated, quite mistakenly,
just as a French plural noun would be
and spelled accordingly Londres.
Londres made its way from France to
GAS.
I1GESI1
Pape's Diapepsin fixes sick,
sour, gassy stomachs in
five minutes.
In a Florenlc Cloister.
Italy. As the last two letters were
silent, the Italians rejected them, re
placing them by the favorite unaccent
ed final vowel of their tongue, "a" with
the result tflat the name of the British
capital became Londra.
Vienna in English and Italian and
Vienna in Spanish are simply relics of
the mediaeval days, when Latin was
the universal tongue of the learned,
and the French Vienne is but a slight
variation of Vienna. Geneva may be
explained in the same way.
The nations have taken great liber
ties with the name of the Dutch capV
tal Gravenhage. For the English
The Hague and the French La Haye
we have cause to be grateful. The
Spanish shortened the cumbersome
Dutch name into Haja; the Italians
converted it into Aja; and even the
Germans, cousins, in a sort, to the Hol
landers, boiled it down into Haag.
THE SURPRISE.
"Well, what's the verdict, doctor?"
"You are worn out. The best thing for you to
do is fix up your business affairs and take a
month's vacation."
"Why, confound it. doctor, I just got back!"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HE 80LVEO IT.
"Get him ready."
Warren's medical b
the pages I mention
"Talking about the servant problem. I know
one man who got a woman to do his cooking,
washing, ironing, housework, mending and clean
lng, Just for her board." v
"Where did he get a prize servant like that?"
"She's his wife."
ITS ADVANTAGES.
"There Is one good thing about the stock of
that irrigating enterprise."
"What is It?" ,
"They ought to be able to water it extensively."
CUPID WINS AFTER 50 YEARS
Banker, 88, Weds Widow Who Jilted
Him "When She Was Fussy
Miss" Many Years Ago.
Hartford, Conn. A romance that
began more than half a century ago
reached a happy chapter in the par
lors of the Garde hotel here, when
Wilfred H. Nettleton, eighty-eight
years old, director of the Bristol Na
tional bank, and one of the state's
wealthiest men, and Mrs. Mary K.
Baldwin, sixty-eight years old, were
married.
"Why didn't you marry her fifty
years ago?" he was asked.
"Lord knows, I tried to. But she
was a fussy young miss of eighteen
then, and I vas nearly forty. So
she picked a younger, but 111 be
durned if he was a handsomer man."
Mrs. Baldwin's husband died seven
months ago.
Alderman Not Worried.
Chicago. "I should worry," said Al
derman John H. Bauler when the Mu
nicipal Voters league applied the term
"amoeba" to him. "I don't know what
the word means and neither does any
one In my ward." The "amoeba" is the
lowest form of animal life.
Would Prevent Hasty Marriage.
Chicago. A bureau to prevent hasty
marriages is being organized here. A
card index eystem and court record of
every person entangled in domestic
troubles is being gotten up. Pastors
are requested to look up the index be
fore tying a marriage knou
Time it! Ia five minutes all stomach
distress nil! go. No Indigestion, heart
bum, souriiess or btlcaing of gas, acid,
or eructations of undigested food, no
dizzlceys, bloating, or foul breath.
I'ait s Diapepin is noted for its
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
It is the surost. quickest and most cer
tain indigestion remt-dy In the whole
wcrld, and betides it is harmless.
Plt-ase for your sake, get a largo
fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin
from any store and put your stomach
right. Don t ker p on being miserable
life is too short you are not hero
lcrg, so make your stay agreeable.
Eat what you like and digest it; en
joy it. without dicad of rebellion in
the stomach.
Pape's Diapepsin belongs in your
home anyway. Should one of the fam
ily eat something which don't agree
with them, or in case of an attack of
indigestion, dybpepsia, gastritis or
stomach derangement at daytime or
during the night, it Is handy to give
the quickest relief known. Adv.
Unappreciative.
"My nephew doesn't seem to appre
ciate that oil field I deeded him."
"Why not?"
"He has made liht of it"
ft You Can't Get It In Town.
Someone in almost every town in
the United States sells Hanford's Bal
sam of Myrrh. If you can't get it,
write G. C. Hanford Mfg. Co., Syra
cuse, N. Y. Price 50c and $1.00. Adv.
Many a man has real money in fcia
pocket because he doesn't own an automobile.
For hot grease burns apply Han
ford's Balsam lightly until the fire is
extracted. Adv.
It pays to be honest, but sometimes
pay seems far off.
For lame back use Hanford's Bal
sam. Rub it on and rub it In thor
oughly. Advv
Most of us are apt to make light of
the fellow who has money to burn.
For calks use Hanford'a Balsam.
Adv,
Life is full of paradoxes. Many a
dark secret comes to light. '
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STELLA VITAE
STOPPED IT!
This has a world of meaning
to every woman who suffers
as Mrs. J. S. Blair, of Enter
prise, Okla., suffered and there
are many thousands such.
Mrs. Blair tells the story of her suf
fering and cure much better than we
can tell it We quote her own words:
"I had been flooding, cramping and
vomiting for Sts month and taking
medicine from at cood a doctor a tne
country afford, bst be did me no food.
cot tired ot doctor' medicine and tent
to the drag store for a womaa'i medi
cine and the druggist lent me STELLA
VITAE.
"One bottle stopped erery thing and
I felt like a different woman. I nave
ncd liz bottles already and will
continue to use and praise STELLA
VITAE whenever I need a woman's
medicine."
What STELLA VITAE did for Mrs.
Blair it will do for you. We guar
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Your money back if it don't. Yon
cannot afford to not try it when
you have all to gain and not a penny
to lose.
Go to vour dealer todap and begin
trying STELLA VITAE, trying to
become well. We lose the pike if
you are not benefited. In many
years of guaranteeing STELLA
VITAE less than one bottle out of
every thousand has failed to benefit.
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