The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, May 19, 1912, SECTION SIX, Page 7, Image 77

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    TOE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX. PORTI,ATfD, MAT 19,1919.
Whyyoa PhouldritBe
IT TOTJ vr find yourself la tears or
In a Qt because Charlie. Ned or who
ever your husband la. has asked
oma Won a for several iiaftt In one
evening, or yoa cave aaan him lit off
la one corner having a pleasant chat
and a hearty laugh with aome other
woman. Jut stop and think; remember
that Charlie waa not your only suitor
and you accepted hie proposal 6cai
besides haflni other sterling qualities.
be waa well liked by the men and girls
both. Too certainly do not nim
to keep up with hla men acquaintance
and forget every gin rriena n.
and liked because he wanted you for
his wife.
Ynu -a t that this la only one of many
ways In which men arouee a pans; of
Jealousy wblch they hav no right to
awaken. Tour husband sometimes tells
vnti K - k- to vArk occasional 1 y of
evenings: yoa are willing to forgive
this seeming neglect as Ion as It Is
only occasional. But when a man works
more than one evening In the week you
think ha must be watched. So yoa
proceed to watch him and play the part
of a careful and cautious detective.
You saw him slip a letter Into his
pv ket and not open It until you had
left tha room. Tou know It mum ba a
letter from that flirtatious Helen or
Louis ha onca admired, so you proceed
to search through his pockets, and.
though It sometimes takes a lonr
search, yoa catch him at last.
Tha letter Is torn, but, after much
hard work, you succeed In putting
enough pieces together and find a
business letter.
Beat Ceur far asaaad's Felly.
But. should your husband go as far
as to Indulge In some fooiian but harm
leas fllrtatloa with a girl he formerly
knew sr has Just met, you can newer
bring- him to his senses by letting him
feel that yoa distrust him and that he
Is bo longer worthy of your love. If
yon are sura that he has gone too far
tha bast way to core him of this folly
Is to make this gtrl or woman your
friend and let them both feel thst If
she Is worthy of your husband's friend
ship she shall baft yours.
Every sensible woman knows ths
safest way of holding a man's love Is
by convincing him that, while he has
many friends among women, you are
his real comrade and that your lovs
and happiness coma before everything
lea.
If yoa are so unfortunate as to fall
In love and ba married to a Jealous
man. understand his weakness, but do
not encourage him In It- There Is no
need of trying him out by engaging In
as many flirtations as you can. But In
a quiet and womanly way let Mm feel.
If be cannot understand by firm words,
that you promised to be his wife, wits
all that this can mean, but nothing
was ever said about your friends before
yoa were married.
Tell him If yoa must that every maa
la attracted to a popular girl, and It Is
hard for a popular girl to become a aua
or a wall flower Just because she Is
married. Let htm know a little Jealousy
Is flattery, but If this feeling Is la
excess It la foolish and often danger
COS.
Tree Lev a Mesjepoll.
One writer says truly: "True lore Is
a monopolist. As In a sunglass all tha
solar rays are concentrated Into on
burning foeus, aa arc the lover a mo
tlons on his beloved. Not only does he
care for her alone of all women, but
he voluntarily offers her a monopoly
of hi thoughts and feelings. In return
for this, however, he expects and exacts
cf her a like monopoly of her affec
tions and favors, snd this leads to tha
net overtone. Jealousy.
TMs Is the salt and pepper of lova
A little of It Is piquant, too much spoils
t-e soup. The moral mission of Jeal
ousy Is by mesne of watchfulness and
the Inspiring of fear, to Insure fldeMty
and chastity, and thus he:p to develop
the romantic features of love."
It was because of this feeling of
ownership of one or more wlvee that
man developed the deelre to protect
s-me wotr.an and developed a feeling of
love. It Is an Instinct found In many
of the higher memmala. along with
savaere man. Iarwln. who made a
rareful study of tre feellnce and pas
sions bf animals, eays: -The skeletons
BLACKBEARD
thst they bad better repent of their
wickedness, on of the pirate spoke aa
follows;
-Tea, I do heartily repent: I repent
that I have not don mora mischief,
and that we did not cut th throats of
those that took us: and I'm extremely
sorry yoa ain't all handed, a wU aa
W.'
So do L" says another.
"And V says a third.
-These speeches concluded th
apeechmaktng. except one abort address
from renals Macarty.
- "Some friend of mine have said
that I would dt with my shoes on,
but they ar liar.' said he. as b
kicked off his shoes."
Captain England was on of th
pirates who reformed but whose refor
mation didn't "take."
As a young maa he was th mat of
sloop out of Jamaica and was cap
tared by Captain Winter, a plrat. Just
before their settlement at New Provi
dence. England was said to b a good
natured man who always treated bis
prisoners well. Also, he wss not avari.
clous, and was content with moderate
plunder. But he was weak and was
generally overruled by his crew, and
thus was led Into doing many vile
actions that he would hav preferred
Dot to do.
For example, while the captain was
liratlng near Sierra Leon, on th
African coast, he captured th Cado
f xn. Captain Skinner, master. . Now.
Ciptala Skinner user! to be la command
of a ship on which some of Captain
P.nittand's pirates serve.!, and one of
the Utter, a cruel boatswain, was de
l::Med to see bis plil master la this
h-ir ' He stored at Captain
Skinner, snd epoke with a savase leer.
)h. Captain Skinner! la It you?
The only nn I wished to see: I am
verv much in your debt, and now I
shll pay you all in your own cola."
The poor captain trembled In every
Joint, but not for lonr: for the wicked
.tra-.e tied him to the wtmllass and
re!:d him with glass bottles: thm they
whipped him about, the deck till they
1 err tired anJ then they said that be--auM
r has been such a good master
be should have sa eay dn'.a, and so
eh"t him through the bead.
Charles Vane waa th plrat who
st stags are often found In various
parts of ths world with their horns In
extricably locked together, showing
how miserably ths victor and van
quished have vanished. Mai sperm
whales are very Jealous, and In their
battles they often lock their Jaws to
gether and turn on their sides and twist
about so that their lower Jaws often
become distorted."
Animal Jealousy differs from human
Je:ousy because It depends on the Im
mediate presence of the rival, while
Jealousy with man and women Is large
ly a matter of Imagination snd Is
awakened In the absence of the husband
or lover.
Jealeasy !ot Fart af Lev.
This passion, though not an Integral
part of love, precedes It. and there are
only a few primitive tribes where men
are eo Indifferent to their wives that
too much attention to some other maa
does not awaken a pang of Jealousy.
Sir John Lubbock once came upon an
Indian trine where the men fight for
the possession of women Just like stags,
and this Ire is awakened by pangs of
real Jealousy. In Madagascar the name
for polygamy Is fampovafesans, and
this means "causing enmity."
In modern Persia, where men have a
number of wives, they often have a
hard Urn keeping harmony among the
different wives. If there are a number
of women Inhabiting the one house they
have their own apartments, their own
servants, and they refuse to touch the
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gowns or to at out of the same dish
with a rival.
Starting among th lowest tribes
such as the Fueglacs there Is much
Jealousy to be found. Strangely, the
men show much mora feeling of this
kind than the women, and this because
they look upon thelr'women as property
to do with as they Ilka They are so
Jealous of their women that they will
not allow anyone. If they can help It, to
enter their huts, not even young boys.
Among some Australian tribes ths wo
men are not allowed to talk to a maa
excepting their husbands. They are
not allowed to exchange a word with a
grown-up brother. However unettrao
tlvs a woman of the Veddahe of Cey.
Ion Is. the men ar exceedingly Jealous
of her. It Is sal.! that when In a fit
of temper they will kill a rival for pay
ing too much attention to on of their
women.
A writer who has spent" soma time
AND OTHER PIRATE CHIEFS
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soaped from Nassau harbor when Cap
tain Woode Roger sailed In. As he
sailed out be biased sway at the Brit
ish warships la a most gallant manner,
and w ar led to believe that he waa
a most courageous pirate. But one
day. after be had been pirating consid
erably, he came la sight of a big
French mxn of war, about ten times a
b:g as Vane's little brlgantlne. Vane
was for making olf In a great hurry,
but Joha Rockham, another officer,
waa In favor of tackling the big man-of-war.
Vane said It waa too rash an
undertaking, and. being captain, his
word was law. So the brlgantlne
sailed away, and soon was out of sight
of the man-of-war.
The next day the captain's behavior
waa obllccd to stand th teat of a vote,
lie was recalled, a resolution was
passed branding him as a coward, de
posing him from command, and turning
him odt of the company In disgrace.
Bo Van and his supporters ware put
on board a small sloop, while Rockham
assumed command of th brlgantln.
A few months later, after he had pi
rated more or less la his small sloop,
te vessel was overtaken by a tornado
off the coast of Honduras, and the
luckless pirates were cast upon a small
uninhabited Island For several weeks
Uiey lived there, subsisting an fish and
turtles, until one day a ship put la for
water. It was commanded by a buc
caneer named Ho. ford, wh was aa
acquaintance of Vane.
This seemed a great plc of luck
for Van, and h at one asked his old
friend to giv him a Utt off th Island.
Uo'.frd refused
Vherles. I shan't trnst yoa aboard
my ship, unless I carry yo a prisoner,
for I shall hav you caballing with my
men. knock m on the head and run
off with my ship a-plratlng."
Van protested on his word of honor,
but Captain HolforJ was too well ac
quainted with him to bellv him.
"Tou can easl'.y And a way to get
off If you v a mind to," said Holford
"I am going down th bay." says he.
"and shall return hither in about a
month, and If I And you en the Island
when I come back. I'll carry yoa to
Jamaica and hantr you."
"Which way can I get off?" answers
vn- . . .
"Ar there not fishermen s dories up
on the beach? Can t you tak on of
them?" replies Holford
-What:" says Vans, "would yoa hav
m steal a dory?"
-I ya mak It a matter of con
studying the Indians on the eastern
slds of tha Rocky Mountains says that
these men. when they find their wives
deeply Interested In a rival, make short
work of their flirtation. This Is dona
by cutting off ail the hair from their
heads, and occasionally their noses. If
they do not chance to have a knife at
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Jealousy Has Caused
More Crime and Suf
fering in the World,
Beginning With Eden,
Than Any Vice.
hand they do not hesitate to snap It
off at one bite.
Among the New Caledonians and New
Zealanders It Is considered a crime to
be punished bv death to mention an
other man's wife. With the Malays of
Sumatra the husband Is Jealous of his
wife as long as he has any affection
for her. She knows that when he Is
no longer Jealous all feeling of love
that he once had for her Is gone.
Boaman. who spent some time study
ing the people of Bent Mxab. says that
a man who stops In tha street and
speaks to a woman of quality can be
fined 40 and can be banished for two
years. In Persia. Turkey and In many
other oriental countries It Is considered
a terrible breach of eltquette for a
guest or friend ven to Inquire after
the wife of another, let alone to ask to
see her. This request would awaken
a feeling of awful Jealousy.
Le Bon. who made a study of the so-
science." said Holford, "to steal a dory,
when you have been a common pirate
and robber, stealing ships and cargoes
and plundering all mankind that fell
In your wayT Stay here. If you are
so squeamish." And so left him.
After Captain Holford's departure
another ship put In at th Island for
water, and Van got a berth on this
vessel. mfortunately, this ship met
Captain Holford's ship on day. and
the captain cam aboard to dine. As
he passed along to tha cabin he
chanced to cast his eye down the hold,
and there saw Charles Vane at work,
lie Immediately spoke to the captain,
saying. "Do yoa know who you hav
got aboard hrr "Why," says th
othr oaptxln. "I hav shipped a man
who was east away on an Island In a
trading a'oop. He seems to be a brisk
hand."
"I tell you," says Captain Holford,
"It Is Van, th notorious pirata"
"If It be htm." replies th othr. T
won't keep him."
"Why. taen," says Holford. Til send
and tak Mm aboard and surrender
him at Jamaica"
So Captain Holford took his old
friend Vane to Jamaica, wher h was
convicted and hanged. It Is to be pre
sumed that Captain Holford at last was
satisfied he had don hi duty.
Th plrat In thos days were well
rgnlxed and had an established cod
of bualnas ethlca For example. Cap
tain Bartholomew Roberta, a famous
pirate, had th following set of articles
which each of his plrat crew was
obliged to accept under oath. Why he
thought an oath would make th agree
ment more binding, we don't know; but
It I evident he thought greater se
curity would be Insured by an oath.
"It Is to every one's Interest to ob
serve these articles. If they ar minded
to keep op so abominable a combina
tion." h salJ.
Article L Every man has a vot in
affairs of moment: has equal title to
tho fresh provision or strong liquors
at any time selxed. and may use them
at pleasure, unless scarcity make It
necessary, for the good of all, to vot
a retrenchment.
Art. II. hlvery man to b called fair
ly In turn, by list, on board of prizes,
because lover and above their proper
share) thev were on these occasions al
lowed a shift of clothes- But If they
defrauded the company to the value of
a dollar. In plate. Jewels or money, ma
roorlng was their punishment.
This waa a barbarous custom of put-
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clal life among th orlentarraees. says
that Jealousy la a powerful agent In
tha social life of civilised nations. This
Is shown, by th fact that In Moham
medan countries a woman Is not al
lowed to receive male visitors, or to go
unveiled. It being unlawful for th
Moslem to sea tha faces of any other
women than those whom h is for
bidden to marry and his own wives and
female slaves.- A man who penetrates
Into ths harem of any other man may
easily lose his life. In Japan It Is
often the custom for women to have
their eyebrows shaved off, because
thick and beautiful eyebrows are con
sidered a mark of beauty and often at
tract other men than their husbands.
It is for ths same reason that their
teeth are stained black. Th blacken
ing of their teeth makes them less at-
ting th offender oa snore on some
desolate or uninhabited cap or island
with a gun. a few shot, a bottl of
water and a bottl of powder, to sub
sist with or starve. If th robbery
was only between en another, they
contented themselves with slitting th
ears and nose of him that was guilty
and setting him on shore, not In an
uninhabited place, but somewhere
where he was sure to encounter hard
ships Art. in. No person to gam at cards
or die for money.
Art, IV. Th lights and candles to
be put out at o'clock at night. If
any of th crew after that hour still
remained inclined for drinking, they
wer to do It on tha open deck.
Captain Roberts believed this would
check their debauchee. He was a sober
man himself, but found at length that
all hla endeavors to put an end to their
debsuchery proved Ineffectual.
Art V. To keep their piece, pistols
and cutlasses clean and fit for service.
Art. VI. No boy or woman to be al
lowed among them. If any man car
ried a woman to sea disguised he was
to suffer death.
It seamed that Captain Roberts re
garded a woman as a dangerous In
strument of division and quarrel.
Art. VII. To desert th ship or
their quarter In battle was punished
with death or marooning.
Art. V1IL No striking on another
on board, but every man's quarrels to
be ended on shore, at sword and pistol.
Art, IX. No man to talk of breaking
up their way of living till each has
snared $5000. If, In order to do this,
any man should lose a limb or become
a cripple In their service, h was to
hav $800 out of th publlo stock, and
for lessor hurts proportionately.
Art. X. Th captain and quartermas
ter to receive two shares of a prlxe;
th master, boatswain and gunner, one
share and a half, and other officers,
one and a quarter.
Art. XL Th musician- to have rest
on th Sabbath day. but th other six
days and nights move without special
favor.
Th foregoing list of articles, copied
from Johnson's "History of Pyrates,"
are Interesting, as Indicating th dis
cipline necessary on a pirate ship.
When we. who wer out exploring
pirate Islands, arrived In Nassau, it
waa with the knowledge that w wr
treading upon historic pirate territory.
The events immediately following our
arrival were most piratical In nature,
for a mutiny broke out In our ship, one
of th crew got drunk and accidentally
walked the plank, and there were many
other happenings of a most exciting
nature. Wa certainly were in th pi
rate atmosphere, as shall be described
In th succeeding story.
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tractlve to all men, even to their hus
bands. This feeling of Jealousy led to
the custom of having th women
burned on the funeral pyres with their
JUVENILE ORDER OF KNIGHTHOOD
th helpless child and h was being
carried out Into th river at a rapid
rat when Homing, dashing from th
bank, swam to him with th agility
of a fish. But young Fred, after con
tinued effort, found that he was not
strong enough to tow the unfortunate
ashore. Instead of abandoning the
crlppl until other help could reach him
he went to the bottom, grasped th lad
by the legs and after difficult maneu
vering, with his own head under water,
managed to lift the boy on his should
ers, so that the tatter's head might
be lifted above tb surface. This dif
ficult position he maintained nntli his
scout commissioner reached th seen
and completed the rescue.
Six other Maryland scouts have late
ly entered the same category of heroes
by performing similar acts of courage.
They are: Earl Cummins, of Baltimore,
who plucklly saved the life of a swim
mer who had gone under three times
after, having been drawn In a suck
hole; Scouts B. Dushana, H. Ensor and
Bosley Ensor, of Mount Washington,
who saved a swimmer by a concerted
act of daring, and Gordon Gommer, of
Baltimore, who rescued a skater who
had fallen through the loe. Scout Gom
mer swam to-the latter victim through
freezing water and bravely held him
up while other boys, elapsing hands,
formed a life-chain which reached th
young rsouer befor h became x-.
hausted.
Still other lads who hav lately been
admitted to the Boy Scouts" hall of
fame are: Charles Scruggs, Cuero, Te.x,
who saved a fellow-scout from tha
Guadalupe River: Walter William
Waller, of Brooklyn, who with great
heroism rescued a drowning boy and
a dog from th water; Willie Hoyt,
East Bridgewater, Mass, who, support
ed only by som small twigs and de
spite bis heavy rubber boots, delivered
a companion from a watery grave, and
Virgil Chambers, Barboursvllle, W. Va.,
who performed a. similar courageous
water rescue.
Drag see Hint TJader Twice.
On of thee plucky scout medalists,
desplt th fact that he Is only IS,
came to th rescue of a grown man at
Clayton. N. J. This was Charles Starr,
of Woodbury, In th same state. H
hung on despite th fact that th
drowning man dragged him under
twice.
Then there is a UtU soout up in Buf- J
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husbands. In days gone by the men
of India were so Jealous of their wives
that they made it an unwritten law
that when they died th women must
lay themselves on the pile and be
burned with them. They could not
bear the idea of having some rival en-
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falo. J. Alden Daniels, oals- 14. who
baa won a cross of honor for proving
himself an Ideal scout In the face of
danger and great suffering. After he
and a companion had saved William
Simmons from death in the Niagara
River about a half mile north of Fort
Erie, Daniels was badly hurt at the
time Dixie IV. the world's champion
motor boat, ran ashore near Riverside
Park, in Buffalo. His right leg was so
badly crushed that ths surgeons were
compelled to amputate It below the
knee.
- In th hospital after tha operation he
was as brave and as cheerful as ever,
and asked his mother to tell his Boy
Scout friends not to send him any flow
ers, because he did not wish them to
spend tha money. Ha was gritty at all
times throughout this awful ordeal and
repeatedly said that Boy Scouts should
smile even in suffering.
Fear Brave Gopher Sceats.
During th recent state camp at Br,
Paul of the Boy Scouts of Minnesota the
Governor of that commonwealth pinned
upon the breasts of four young heroes
crosses awarued by th National Court
of Honor.
One of these was a youngster of only
18. Glenn Dudley, of St. Cloud, Minn,
who bravely saved the life of a swim
mer who had been seised with cramps.
After swimming to the victim's aid
Scout Dudley brought him to shore,
with great personal risk to himself.
Another young scout of St. - Cloud
decorated by the Governor at the same
time was Walt hex Jerrard. 18 years old,
who gives this modest account of his
deed:
"One afternoon I was swimming In
the Mississippi River. We had a boom
In the river making a 46-degree angle
with the shore line. Th far end of th
boom was about IS feet out, Th water
was over your head. We had a small
pole nailed to the top of the boom and
from there to the shore, thereby hold
ing the log in place.
"I was on the side of the pole away
from the boys when I heard th boys on
shore yell. Looking around I saw Har
ry Peterson struggling In th water. I
started at once and In diving over the
small pole I received a long scratch un
der my left arm. I reached Harry and
with one arm under his arms - and
around his chest I got him Into shallow
water, where he was taken by th other
boys.
"I think the boy lost confidence In
himself finding he was in water over
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Joy their friendship and affection.
For the same reason until recent
times ths women In Polynesia and in
Melanesia were strangled or burled
alive as soon as they were left widows.
If a woman objected to this harsh
- - . . 1 M..M..t ..nwAfthV
of any good man's affection. For the
same reason, on the slave coast of
Africa, when a woman Is left a widow,
she Ib shut up In a room six months
at least and Is not expected to look at
any man, not even a relative.
These examples and many ethers
that may be given prove beyond a
doubt that among primitive and ori
ental peoples this feeling Is muoh mors
common to men than It Is to women.
The strange part of this Is that prim
itive women seldom have any feeling
of Jealousy,
According to Mr. Reads, wh has
spent years In equatorial South Afri
ca, th women are th strongest be
lievers in polygamy. "The more th
merrier," they say. If a man marries
and his wife thinks that he oannot af
ford another wife she pesters him to
take another, and if he declines to do
so she taunts him and oalla him a
stingy fellow.
Livingstone told hla story about the
women of the Makalolo: "Hearing that
a man In England Is supposed to be
satisfied with one wife, one of these
women said: 1 could not live in such
a country, where the men axe not
wealthy enough to own more than one
wife.' "
Hodoe Wemea Want Company.
Among the Modocs, of California,
when the women are told that a man ,
should ba satisfied with on wife, '
they answer: "Our way is better, for
we should be lonely If we had to be
In a house alone." But still there are
tribes where a second wife or rival
is only accepted after some strict dis
cipline on the part of the husband.
The natives of Guiana often experi
ence some stormy scenes when they
decide to bring a second or third wife
Into their homes. There have been
cases where the first wife has been so
aroused by a feeling of Jealousy and
remorse that Bhe has committed sui
cide. A missionary a .few years ago
waa visiting among the FIJI Islanders,
and he noticed that one woman was
minus a noss. When he asked what
had caused this accident he was told
"It Is due to a plurality of wlvee, for
Jealousy causes hatred, and then th
stronger tries to cut off or to bit off
th nose of th on she hates."
Th men of ancient Oreec and Rom
were also exceedingly Jealous of their
wives. Th women- had their own
apartments and never mingled with
any men exoept their husbands and im
mediate relatives. The Greeks were so
jealous of women, especially if they
had any claim to good looks, that they
would not even allow them to attend
any of the publlo spectacles whloh wer
the chief means of Athenian culture.
It would have been considered ex
tremely unwomanly to have asked to
attend any large banquet; this privi
lege was only given to the hetaerae,
who were generally the most emanci
pated and brilliant women in those
days. The wife was not even permit
ted to eat with her husband. If any
of his men friends were present sh
was expeoted to retire to her rooms or
some other part of the house.
his head. But he himself oould not give,
an excuse. He was going down for the
third time when 1 reached him."
This testimony waa verified te the
National Court of Honor by witnesses
of the rescue.
The third of these especially honored
knights of the Gopher state. George
Morris, upon seeing two children 4 and
6 years old fall from an overturned
boat. Jumped overboard, Bwam to their
rescue and kept them both afloat at
once until assistance came from shore.
Faille- Cliff.
The remaining member of this
plucky quartet is Edward Grout, mem
ber of the Sioux patrol, Daytons Bluff,
Minn. Grout lately led bis troop on a
hike to Battle Creek, a few miles from ,
Daytons Bluff. Here the boys hit upon
the Idea of damming the creek, and a
party of them began to pile stones
while Grout and Floyd Rogers, another
scout, went around by a path to a point
above the proposed dam. At that point
Is a Jagged cliff, and Grout began te
chisel out the soft sandstone Just under
the path that led down th cliff and let
it ran down to the boys below. Rogers
came along the path above Grout's
head and stepped on the spot that waa
undermined, and Grout, seeing th
sand cave In, Jerked hla head back out
of danger Just in time to see Rogers
pitch headlong through the air and
straight for the edge of th ollff oa
which he was sitting.
He screamed, and ths falling bar
stretched his hand toward him. Grout
made a grab at the Imperiled boy's arm
and caught him by the wrist with his
left hand. At the same time he took
hold of a small eak imbedded in the
rock and braced himself Just In tim to
prevent his being Jerked over the ollff
by the shock. And there, with Rogers'
body over the ollff and his companions
below gazing in terror at his dangling
legs, the pair hung.
But the strain was too much for th
oak and it began slowly to pull out by
the roots. Grout felt it give, and now
followed an awful moment of suspense.
But presently the young hero braced
his feet against a small projection In
the rock and pulled Rogers upon the
cliff Just as the tree gave way. Then,
after a short rest, they gradually made
their way down the path.
If there be better stuff than is in
these youngsters, verily. It will be hard
to find!
(Copyright, 1912, by John Elfreth
Watklns.)
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