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r y The Son of Tarzan Ocrrrlxbt, by Fruk A. Miim? Co. KORAK PERSUADES HIS BABOON FRIENDS TO HELP HIM HUNT MERIEM THEY RAID BLACK VILLAGE BUT GET NO TRACE OF HER Synopsis. A scientific expedition olt the Afrlcim coast rescues a human derelict, Alexis Taulvltch. Ue brings aboard an npo. Intelligent and friendly, and reaches London. Jnck, son of Lord Greystoke. the original Tarxan, has inherited n love of wild life and steals from homo to see the ape. now a drawing card in a music hall. The npo makes friends with him and refuses to leave Jack despite his trainer. Tarzan appears and Is Joyfully recognized by the ape, for Tarxnn had been king of his tripe. Tarzan agrees to buy Akut. the ape, and send him back to Africa. Jack and Akut become great friends. I'nulvltch Is killed when he attempts murder. A thief tries to kill Jack, but Is killed by Akut. They llee together to the Jungle and take up life. Jack rescues an Arabian girl and tnkes her Into the forest. He Is wounded and Merleni Is stolen. The bad Swedes buy her from Kovudoo, the black. Malblhn kills Jenssen lighting for the girl. Bwnim comes to the rescue and takes her to his wife. CHAPTER X Continued. 12 He persuaded thein to aid him In rescuing Merlem and attacking the vil lage of Kovudoo. calling to mind how he had saved their king. And so they came, upon the second day, to the vil lage of Kovudoo. It was mldnfter noon. The village was sunk In the quiet of the great equatorial sun beat. The mighty herd traveled quietly now. Beneath the thousands of padded feet the forest gave forth no greater sound than might have been produced by the Increased soughing of a stronger breeze through the leafy branches of the trees. Korak was in the lead. Close beside the village they halted until the strng glers had closed up. Now utter silence reigned. The king of the baboons was anxious to revenge himself upon Kovudoo, nnd so the band was quickly organized. Korak, creeping stealthily, entered the tree that overhung the palisade. He glanced behind him. The pack was close upon his heels. The time had come, no had warned them con tinuously during the long march that no harm must befall the white woman ape who lay a prisoner within the vil lage. All others were their legitimate I prey. Then, raising his face toward the sky, he gave voice to a single cry. It was the signal. In response 3.000 hairy bulls leaped screaming and harking Into the village of the terrified blacks. Warriors pour ed from every hut. Mothers gathered their babies In their arms and fled to ward the gates as they snw the horrid horde pouring into the vlllnge street. Kovudoo marshaled his fighting men nbout him and. leaping nnd yelling to arouse their courage, offered a bris tling, spear-tlppcd front to the charg ing horde. Korak, as he had led the march, led the charge. The blacks were struck with horror and dismay nt the sight of this white-skinned youth at the head of n pack of hideous baboons. For an instant they held their ground, hurling their spears once at the advancing multitude. But before they could lit arrows to their bows they wavered, gave and turned In ter rified rout. Into their ranks, upon their backs, sinking strong fangs Into the muscles of their necks, sprang the baboons, nnd first among them, most ferocious, most bloodthirsty, most ter rible, -was Korak, the Killer. At the village gates, through which the blacks poured In panic, Kornk left them to the tender mercies of his al lies nnd turnad himself eagerly toward the hut In which Merlem had been a prisoner. It was empty. One after another the filthy Interiors revealed the same disheartening fact Merlem was in none of them. That she had not been taken by the blacks In their flight from the village Korak knew, for he had watched carefully for glimpse of her among the fugitives. To the mind of the ape man, know ing ns he did the proclivities of the savages, there was but a single ex planation Merlem had been killed and cntt'i). With the conviction that Me rlon was dead, there surged through Konik's brain a wave of blood-red rage against those he believed to be her murderers. In the dlsfnnce lie could hear the snarling of the baboons mixed with tiio screams of their vic tims, nnd toward this he made Ids way. In tlio distance Kovudoo was gath ' crlnil M Kcuttered tribesmen und tuk- Inn account of injuries und losses, His "poejilo worn panic-stricken, Nothing taVJild prevail upon """" romulu mmr i'1'" wumry. 'I'lwy would lint umu rui'Jrn in iu villus for Uuir "By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS belongings. Instead they Insisted upon continuing their flight until they bad put ninny miles between themselves nnd the stumping ground of the white demon whose' hordes had so bitterly attacked- them. And thus It befell that Kornk drove from their homes the only people who might have aided him In n search for Merlem and cut on the only connect ing link between htm nnd her from whomsoever might come In search of him from the douar of the kindly Hwa na who had befriended his little Jungle sweetheart. It was a sour and savage Korak who bid farewell to his baboon allies upon the following morning. They wished him to accompany them, but the npc man had no heart for society. Jungle life had encouraged tnclturnlty In him. His sorrow had deepened this to n sul len moroeness that could not brook even the snvage companionship of the Ill-natured baboons. Brooding nnd despondent, he took his solitary wny Into the deepest Jun gle. He moved along the ground when he knew that Numn was abroad and hungry. He took to the same trees that harbored Shceta, the panther. He He Wound His Trunk About the Ape Man's Body. courted death In u hundred ways and n hundred forms. His mind was ever occupied with reminiscences of Merl em and the happy years that they had spent together. He realized now to the full what she had meant to him. The sweet face, the tanned, supple little body, tho bright smile that always had welcomed his return from the hunt, haunted him continually. Inaction soon threatened him with madness. Ho must bo on the go. He must fill his days with labor und ex citement that ho might forget that night might find him so exhausted that he should sleep In blessed unconscious ness of his misery until u new day had come. Had ho guessed that by any possi bility Merlem .might still live ho would ut' least have had hope. Ills days could liavo been devoted to searching for her, but lie believed Implicitly that she was dead. For a long year ho led his solitary, roaming life. Occasionally ho fell In with Akut and Ills tribe, hunting with them for a day or two, or liu might travel to tho hill country, where the baboons had come to accept him us a mutter of course, Hut most of ull wus ho with Tuntor, Iho elepliittit tlmt great gray battleship of tliu Jungle, tho HuperdreurinuuKlit of Ms mvugo world. Tho peaceful quiet ut tho monster bulls, the watchful solicitude of the mother cows, the, awkward playfulness of the calves, rested, Interested nnd amused Kornk. Tho life of tho bilge beast took his mind temporarily from hts own grief. Ho came to lovo them as ho loved not even tho great npes, and there was one gigantic tusker In particular of which he was very fond tho lord of the herd, n savage beast that was wont to charge a stranger upon the slightest provocation or upon no provocation whatsoever. And to Konik ti ls mountnln of de struction was ns docile nnd affection nte ns a lnpdog. Ho enmo when Korak called. Ho wound his trunk about tho apo mnn's body nnd lifted him to his broad neck In responso to a gesture, nnd there would Kornk He nt full length, kick ing his toes affectionately Into tho thick hide nnd brushing the tiles from about the tender ears of hts colossal chum with a leafy branch torn by Tnntor from a nearby tree. And all the while Merlem was scarce a hundred tulles away I CHAPTER XI. A Lion and a Lamb. To Merlem, In her new home, 'the days passed quickly. At first she was all anxiety to be oft Into the Jun gle searching for her Kornk. Bwana, us she Insisted upon call ing her benefactor, dissuaded her from making the attempt at once by dis patching u head man with a party of blacks to Kovudoo' village, with In structions to learn from the old sav age how he came Into possession of the white girl nnd ns much of her antecedents ns might be culled from the black chieftain. Ihvann particular ly charged his head man with the duty of questioning Kovudoo relative to tho strange character whom the girl called Korak and of searching for tho apo man If he found the slightest evidence uion which to ground n belief In the existence of such an tudlvldunl. The white man's wife, whom Merl em had christened "My Dear" from having first heard her thus addressed by Bwana, took not only n deep Inter est In the little Jungle waif because of her forlorn and friendless state, but grew to lovo her ns well for her sunny disposition nnd natural charm of tem perament. And Merlem, similarly Im pressed by like attributes In the gentle, cultured woman, reciprocated the oth er's regard and affection. And so the days flow by while Me rlem waited the return of the head man nnd his party from the country of Kovudoo. They were short days, for Into them were crowded many hours of Insidious Instruction of tho unlet tered child by the lonely woman. She commenced at once to teach the girl English without forcing It upon her ns a task. She varied the Instruc tion with lessons in sewing anil de portment, nor once did she let Merlem guess that It was not all play. Nor was this dl!!lcut, since tho girl was avid to learn. Then there were pretty dresses to bo made to take the place of tho single leopard skin, and In this she found the child as responsive nnd enthusiastic as any civilized miss of her acquaintance. A month passed before the head man returned, a month that had transform ed the savage, little, half-naked Man ganl Into u daintily frocked girl of at least outward civilization. Merlem had progressed rapidly with tho Intricacies of the English language, for Bwann nnd My Dear persistently refused to speak Arabic from tho tlmo they had decided that Merlem must learn Eng llsh, which hnd been a day or two nfter her Introduction into their home. But, docile us Merlem was In these matters, there was ono thing that sho Insisted on during her entire stuy with tho kind white folk, und that was her personnl freedom to make excursions into tho Jungle, nttlred very much us she had been when with Korak, when ever she chose. Bwann nnd My Dear got used in tlmo to finding her room empty and to havb her turn up hours later, flushed and rndlant, after u wild romp through tho treed nnd Jungle. Thus It was thut, despite tho civiliz ed boots she woro nnd tho confining femlnlno garb, tho soles of her hard little feet und tho palms of her capa ble bunds remained exceedingly serv iceable, nor did her gruco und cglllty suffer. The report of tho head man plunged Merlem Into n period of despondency, for ho hud found tho vIIIuko of Kovu doo deserted, nor, seurcli u ho would, could ho discover u single native any whero In fliu vicinity, I'or somo tlmo ho luid nimpud near tho vlllnge, upend I UK tliu day In u wyoleimllc search of Ilio tnvlroii for truvvH ut Mrloi Kornk. But In this quest, too, ho had failed. Ho hnd seen neither npeit nor npo man. Merloni nt first Insisted upon setting forth herself in search of Korak, but Hwana prevailed upon her to wait. Ho would go, ho assured her, nit snnn ns ho could find tho tlmo, nnd nt last Me rlem consented to abldo by his wishes. "Hut It wits months beforo h censed to mourn almost hourly for her Kornk. It was nbout this tlmo that n runner brought n letter that, when sho learn ed tho contents, filled Merloni with excitement. Visitors woro coming I A number of English Indies nm gentle men hnd ncceptod My Dear's Invltn Hon to spend n month of hunting nnd exploring with thorn. The Honorable Mr. Unynes meets Merlem nnd fulls In love with her. She Is threatened with an old danger In a new guise. (TO UK CONTINUED.) HOW MATCH FIGURES IN WAR Scarcity of Orlmstone-Headed Sticks Results In Special Controller De. Ing Named In England. No commodity has hnd more adven tures than tho match. Tho announce ment of tho appointment of a special controller all to Itself Is r. fitting cli max to n checkered history, says tho Manchester Guardian. In the memory of our grandparents tho cumbrnui 'Tromethonns" thut sought to displace flint and steel were n high-priced lux ury Impossible to the jwor. In tho memory of our fathers Henry fieorgo, for ono, condemned the match ns one of tho articles that were "too cheap." Ho had In mind, of course, the sweating nnd the poisoning of workers that for too long went to the making of chenp "matches. Yet the popular Insistence on cheap matches turned out of olllco a British chancellor of tho exchequer and coined nn Immortal epigram; and tho superi ority of the mutches that can normal ly be bought In this country over tho flimsy, lifeless, expensive sorts sold across tho channel under government control has given the free-trailer ono of his most homely anil Incontestnblo arguments. Tho British match must now suffer control. Such matches as there are will be fairly apportioned at llxed prices. Wo do not doubt that there will be enough to go round, for, faced with n famine In some districts and with loose" matches at 30 for a penny In others, people Imvo already begun to mnko that economy In consumption which, with no greater sacrifice than a lltllo care, might easily save a half of iht matches burned. Dyes and Worms. In order to determine the action of dyes when taken Into tho system, N. A. Cobb of tho United .Htntos department of agriculture, selected for experiments tho tiny worms called nematodes. It Is welt known that certain of tho anlllno dyes have peculiar afllnltlos for cer tain sorts of living cells, observes n chemist, so Sir. Cobb tried various dyes on these worms nnd watched their action under u microscope. Ho found that different organs received different dyes, so that he was ablo to tint tho Internal apparatus of tho nematodes In several colors and thus wntch them clearly under his microscope. And ho discovered some strange facts, not tho least of which Is that tho dyestuffs un dergo a chemical action In the crea ture's body to such an extent that you can never tell what color your dyo will produce until you linvo tried It. An other fact of great Importance Is that ho has found that different grnnules of the same cell absorb different dyes and manifestly perform different roles. Women as Jockeys. Since Jockeys from tho race courses In England havu gone, almost to u man, to the firing lino, women have professed themselves oh eager to take their places. Homo already are trained for tho purpose, among them not u fow who, In more prosperous nnd less belligerent days, rodo to hounds ove.r Kngllsh fields und' mondows. Many of these, confident In their riding ability and skill, havu petitioned tho stownrds of England's governing Jockey club the arbiters of tho turf to grant them Jockeys' licenses. Itecent reports bore tho Information that tho stewards are giving tho petition serious considera tion and that thero Is strong prob ability of their granting it. The White Sea. Tho White sou in northwestern Ilus sla Is u branch of tho Arctic ocean extending Into tho provinces of Arch angel. Tho sea Is about 100 miles wldo between tho Kuulnskulu and Kolu peninsulas, but It narrows to loss than fXJ farther iioutli, widens ngaln und forms thrco gulfs tliu Kandalak gulf, that of Archangel, Into which lbs Itlver Dwliiu fulls, nnd that Into which the Itlver Onega fulls, Tho sea-route Into the Wbl I o seu wun discovered In JKi'd by Jlltiinri) Chancellor, ii during English mi 1 1 or, who was brought up la tho household of Urn father ot tliu fa mous Mr J'hlllp Hldtiey, , . n SHORTAGE OF SUGAR BEET SEED IN 1921 American Producers Urrjcd to Grow Supply (or Their Needs. Situation Considered Serious Decause of Lack In Europe Compared With Former Years Prices In Netherlands High. (l'repnrcd by th United Hlntes Depart meat of Agriculture.) That thero Is Itkoly to bo n serlnui hhortngo of sugar-beef seed for tho spring of 1021 unless arrangements uro Hindu Immediately by beet-sugar companies In tho United States for their planting requirements In that j ear Is Indicated by recent ciiblpgrnms from u ropresentntlvo of tho United States department of agriculture In tho Netherlands, taken In connection with Information regarding stocks on hand and contemplated plantings for seed In this country. Tho situation for 1021 Is serious, becauso of tho shortage of sugar-beet seed In Europe ns compared with former years, and because of tho Increased activity In beet-sugar production In European countries, which will probably requlro a Inrgo part of tho European boot seed on hand and of tho European production this year and next. Tho present Indications are that there Is sulllclont sugar-beet food now In tho hands of tliu beet-sugar compa-. ales In tho United .Slate to tako caro of tho entire acreage to bo planted to sugar beets In 1010, Tho most recent Information In regit nl to tho sugar-beet seed supply for 1 1'0 hull- Harvesting Sugar-Deet 8eed. cntes that thero Is at present n short ngo of from 25.000 to 10.000 bngs. This Is being met through Importations In order to provide sutilcleut seed for u normal planting next year. Dutch growers nnd dealers nro un able to book further orders for 1010 seed and orders for 1020 delivery must bo received by them quickly. At tho present time surplus stocks In the Netherlands are selling nt HI florins n kilogram (approximately 20 cents u pound) nnd up, though uomo dealers are holding for from 2 to 2.fl florins n kilogram (approximately 115 to -15 cents a pound). It Is possible that subsequent In formation may modify tho situation somewhat, but department of agricul ture ofllclals believe every effort should bo mndu to produce In this country during 1010, and especially In 1020, all the good quality sugar-beet seed possible. USEFUL TO -MEASURE FENCES Contrivance Made of Strips Bolted To gether In Shape of Wheel Count Revolutions, Tho accompanying Illustration shows a contrivance that Is handy for ascer taining tho number of rods of fenco you need or to Hud how many acres uro In u field. Bolt together four by 2-Inch strips so us to mnko u wheel, says n writer In Indiana Farmers' Ouldo. Muko tho strips long enough so that they will For Uso In Measuring Fences. inciisuro oven feel In ono revolution, or If preferred, n half rod. Various forms of tallying uro used, hut paint ing ono end of u upoku.ls very practi cal, It Is easy to count tho revolu tions us tho painted end comes round, while following um ono follows it cul tivator, tho bundles being fastened to- gelber by u small strip, Tho num ber of revolutions times Ilio number of feet n revolution gives Ilio dls-