VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, fl» . A momenf and expected fd be run deuT of penunsion' to'“ puT fTie Idea below. "We would have "to tight off spite of my reassuring speech."The through with a bayonet, but the firmly into the heads of the two arrest and take the ship In the soldiers were funny. You could see officer In command of the soldiers men that we could not possibly be guise, not of naval soldiers bnt of the goose pimples on the skin be shouted: Germans. It may have been our civilians, and as civilians we would low the lower edge of those short “Serves him right! Good for _ yon, eloquence, or, more likely, the gen­ have to raise our weapons against pants. They edged to the rail, evi count 1” Then addressing himself to ial Influence of the rum, but, at I soldiers. That not only went dently ready to tumble overboard the crowd, he added: “These men any rate, they seemed to lose nil against the grain, but It went against The captain of the schooner and have done nothing to deserve such of their suspicions and became con­ the unwritten laws of the game. his crew now knew wlmt kind ol treatment.” He said It as though vinced that we were the truest There are many sporting traditions guests they had welcomed aboard he meant It. too. That English­ Norwegians from Scandinavia. Kir- that are carefully Inculcated tn They stood gaping. man was u real fellow. I tell you. “I must ask you to stand buck a cheiss and I. somewhat the worse every Oern -in naval officer. If we We were promptly questioned. from our session nt detective work, could have fought in our uniforms moment, lieutenant,' I exclulined Where were the Seeadler and the slept at the Englishman's house. It would have been as honorable na “while 1 destroy m.v war material remainder of its crew? Of course, Copyright by t< i The four others were offered val men. In the end, the odds Overboard with It nil!" I called my boys kept mum. I, on the other Duubioday, Doran & Co. quarters ashore for the night, but would be all against us and the my men. »».in«!. invented a story about sect- Pistols, grenades, nnd machine two of my boys remained In the chances were at least a hundred to t>oat as a precaution. It was well one that we would be captured be guns dropped, sphishlngly luto the dentally getting separated from the rest who were still aboard the they did. too. During the night, fore getting back home. If we water. "And now. lieutenant,” I snhited Seeadier—where, we didn’t know. terrible~Tn It. We were ail In a us" toward the breakers, native swimmers went out to her fought as naval nu n nnd were later $2.00 per year in advance Issued every Thursday The story, of course, wus not be­ deep apathy. Our brains were like “liaise sail.” I shouted. and cut the anchor rope. They captured, we would be entitled to “at your service!” “Illght ho, count," he replied lieved. balls of cotton. Nothing mattered, were put up to It by a Malay police the treatment due honorable pris­ Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at the post We scrambled frantically At first they kept us at the gov­ office at Vernonia. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. certainly not death. Death would raised the canvas. The wind was officer who was suspicious of us. oners of war. If we fought In “you men have made a greht name come, we thought, as a relief from Inshore. We could not head Into Not knowing any of my men citizens’ clothes, we were nothing for yourselves on your cruise, and ernors rest house, a fine place with Foreign, Advertising rates—1 ----- _ . 30c per inch; local, 28c per inch; these sufferings. The prospect of It. We were being blown slowly. would remain on board her, since more than International bandits now you have played cricket with a garden, where visiting white peo­ ’ *' ' per line succeeding I its arrival became more and more Inexorably onto the reef. legal notices, 10c per line first ‘ insertion, 5c she was only an open lifeboat, he nnd as such almost sure to hang me. You will receive decent treat ple often stopped. Our meals were 25c. Insertions; classified lc per word, minimum attractive. People accustomed to the surfs planned to search her. So lie sent finally from a yardarm. They say ment. You have my word as a borne to us by coolies from the “Boys,” I suld, “let us take pieces along ordinary coasts have no Idea his swimmers out to pull her that all Is fair In love and war, but Briton for that.” lie emphasized local hotel. The temporary com­ MARK E. MOE............. PUBLISHER mandtint of the rest house was a of ballast Iron and tie them around of what breakers are like off the ashore and beach her. The wind this does not biter the fact tlint the word "Briton.” LEE SCHWAB EDITOR 1 hud no doubt as to what our Lieutenant Wodehouse, a fine fel­ our necks. One plunge and In a Islands of the South Pacific. The was Inshore. The anchor rope cut there are things you can do Hint few seconds all of our pains will surf all over the Pacific Is particu­ the boat drifted In. Our two men are not playing the game, Of first ordeal was to tie. Unless »he low. After a day or so he wus re­ be gone.” larly strong. But when It breaks were asleep, and only awakened course, each side has Its spies, and British bad more recent news than placed by Lieutenant Whitehouse, INADEQUATE TELEPHONE SERVICE “Yes. All right.” There were over a mld-oceanlc coral reef noth­ when the keel jarred against hot a spy, if caught, expects no quar­ we concerning our comrades whom whom we didn’t like so well. He we had left at Mopeiia. which was I was wiiat the British themselves mutterings of assent. ing can live In It. The strongest tom. Dark figures were nround In ter and gels none. Vernonia needs service. But 1‘armien. the youngest, the swimmer Is sure to be dashed to the water, trying to pull the boat But during the War of 1870, nnd not probable, we would be ques would call, “a bit of ah ass, The rates warrant on the beach. Our men, pistol In duilng the late war, too, we Ger­ tioned as to the whereabouts of the y’know.” Whenever he talked with one who was nearest death, picked pieces against the Jagged coral. up the comic volume, Fritz Reu­ And there wasn’t the slightest hand, drove them away and then mans were most severe with franc- Seeadler and the remainder of her me lie kept his hand on his pistol, The night is discontinued ter’s “Trip to Constantinople.” and hope of our moving against the pushed out Into open water. tlreurs, civilians who sniped at crew. I told my men that the\ lie apparently thought me a sort until a.m. with no Sundays began to read a funny story. We wind and bucking away from the On the following day. we made soldiers. It Ims been one of our should give the same reply to all of ogre, a bad man sent to frighten laughed. That book had eased reef. Slowly, slowlj- we were near­ our final costly error. The ships cardinal principles that war must interrogations, namely that I Jiad nice young lieutenants. Presently 7:00 until the following morning at 7:00 a.m. all many a hard hour before, on this ing It. The breakers roared like In the harbor weighed anchor and he waged by uniformed soldiers. In bidden them to keep silent and he came, hand on pistol, and an­ is an old grievance. For the two ghastly voyage, and uow, perhaps, thunder. In a few moments we raised sail. We picked the one the World war. both sides were that I would answer for all. That nounced : “General Mac kenzie wants to see it saved our Ilves. would be Hung into that death trap that seemed the newest and ar­ charged with Introducing new would prevent us from tripping one have tried in vain the ranged with the skipper to take us methods of warfare that were not another up. We Imd taken care to you. all of you.” And so we continued on with blit of waler and coral. throw away any notes or papers we “ Mme questions, by Joe,” 1 thought manager of the telephone and the ­ one instinct left in us, the sailor’s Pistol In hand, I shouted some along with him to Suva, on the In accordance with the ethics of Appearing before a general was instinct to navigate his craft. Me- thing to the effect that I didn't In­ main Island Vltl Levu. Of course, the game. But you will recall that had that gave any hint ns to where at to which chanically. without any partlcular tend to he ground to death by the our plan was simply to sail a few even Allied cargo and passenger we had gone ashore in the Society an event <’f some moment. We felt city the population of Vernonia demands. hope, without any miles out to sea with him and then ships armed with guns to fire on islands. They could search us as we had to look worthy of the Ger­ particular breakers on that Jagged coral. much as they liked, hut they would man navy. We had our uniforms, thought, we trimmed the sails, On Sundays after 2:00 the local The others looked for their pls- take the ship ourselves after don­ sumbarines made it a general rule find nothing One mischance, though which were somewhat faded after guided the helm, and calculated tots. One could not find bls. Re­ ning our uniforms nnd getting our to carry gun crows of uniformed befell us. I was to learn in a few the long trip at sea. But we slicked Union telegraph office so the our position as best we could. Nau­ tween the pull of the current ami all of our weapons. A sudden marines to handle the guns. tical science was at a low ebb the [tower of our sails, we were squall blew up and forced the ves­ “No,” I said to my men, “In tlx days tiiat one of my comrades had them up as best we could and gen­ of 00 a.m. our dropped a notebook, which present erally made ourselves as present­ among us now. We were too far along the reef, edging to­ sel back to port. We returned uniforms of our iuntry we can ly was found. In it he Imd a brief as possible. They loaded us the outside world cut just as ­ gone to reckon exactly where we drifting ward It. The wind gave us an with her. And now we should have tight. As civilians we cannot, At diary of the Seeadler’s voyage. I able into slinking cattle cars. For a taken her while she lay nt anchor. were, and were only vague In our extra push. We were In the hack though surrounded an invad­ steering. any rale, we are not going to drop questioned tlie diarist who had kept All we knew was that only a few yards nway from The people ashore would have seen' a bomb down there nnd kill that the unfortunate record, and he told visit to a general? Qurre! we ing army wished communica­ we should steer to the west where wash, the breakers. And still one man what was going on. hut we could poor defenseless police officer and me that Ids notes about Mopeiia thought. They led us to a stone building and ushered us In. It have held up the Island and then Island groups were could not find Ills pistol. Instinc­ tion. time again injured the I won bls men in those slmrt pants! There ’t try to say how we felt tively, we all waited. And that was put to sen. storm or no storm. That I would he neither flin nor glory in were very sketchy, lie remembered was a jail! clearly that he had written we had ‘ Is this your General Macken­ became sick at camps in the night and it when we saw a speck on the hori­ what saved our lives. Suddenly we was our first Impulse. We should captured (lie sailing ship Manila zie?” I sneered at Whitehouse. zon ami the speck grow bigger and saw the reef drop nway, slanting have followed It. Always trust that." desired telephone for a doctor My officers were with me, nnd “You’re a tine British officer.” turned into the familiar green of back at a slmrp angle, nnd a mo­ your first Impulse— nt any rate. If the men also saw the point. Iml After that was a single entry. “ Landed stores at Mopeiia. ” lie walked away, ashamed, him­ But the happens with a tropical Island. We had been so ment Inter we were drifting paral­ you go Into the pirate business. It agreed with much reluctance, t'er is the boldest and best. Instead, There Ids diary broke off. There self. of the dodge he had used to h like dead men, who bail lel to the coral. the approval in with no one but the ­ rnu< tainly. none of us wanted to go to was no mention of our having sunk get us to the jail without the des- we chose a more cautions course. thought that nothing could ever It was then that 1 discovered British prison camp. But there the Manila or of our having lost phone company themselves was discontinued make us glad again. By. Joe, that there were two kinds of breathing. We resolved to wait until the fol­ a seemed no help for It. lowing day and capture our ship the Seeadler nt Mopeiia or taken sight gladdened our hearts, though. In times of terrible danger, the 11:00 p.m. to a.m. it impossible It «arf* the twenty-first of Sep We grew even weaker, hut It Was breath comes tn short, quick puffs when It had got out to sea. While teniber, just two days short of a refuge on the island. get a doctor as it should have the weakness of happiness. As we The danger gone, you breathe deep we watted, another vessel arrived. month since cur departure from She was a beauty, too. and would near, we thought of nothing ly. By Joe, when we got dear of CHAPTER XVI the phone open these drew but land, fresh water, and soft Hint reef I breathed such a breath have delighted any seaman's eye Mopeiia. The lieutenant and Ills four men food, a soft banana, for our loose, that It seemed to go right down ns she came sailing Into the har­ in those short punts and bare knees Jailed in Fiji. teeth Never mind ships or to my heels. 1 sat looking at my bor. She imd just arrived, we were enme aboard. Followed by Ills men. injured have caused unnec­ shaky PR ARRIVAL as prisoners capturing ships. Never mind being boys' faces. When we gut our pis told, from Suva. She ran regularly ''S the event of the year at Suva, stepped up to me. essary pain suffering in for such time taken prisoners. We headed straight tols ready, their faces had set among the islands, carrying mer­ he “I've got to arrest you,” he began the capital city of the Fiji islands toward a crude pier that stuck out chandise to the traders. She was tense, ns if cast from bronze. With until aid summoned. decently enough. "Who are you?” Our capture was the only warlike Into the water. the danger past, their faces held a haudsome three-masted schooner “Allow me." I responded, "to In­ happening that had come along in A doctor reports two A crowd of n hundred natives, the «nine set expression It was with auxiliary motor power, new, troduce myself. I am Count I.tick- those parts to break the monotony perhaps less, were gathered at the an hour before their old expres­ clean, and trim. Just the kind of ner, commander of the Seemlier. of life In the dreary South Seas Helens to get landing place watching mir ap- sions came buck again. Two of m.v ship we wanted. These men here are part of my The newspaper got out a lurid spe­ with here after 7 advise p roach. They were ferocious look- fellows found patches of gray In "By Joe,” I said to my boys, crew." cial edition filled with a harrowing hla< k warriors. We had now bln« Ing "there ’ s our ship. ” their hair afterward. (Maybe they one his patients, a child aged was dying “Are you Count von Luckner?” account of the capture of the cap passed from the region of the had been there for years only to he We immediately dismissed all tain and a part of the crew of the “Yes." that the parents him at the bedside to brown. indolent Indolent Polynesians to discovered now!) Another's leg Idea of the old windjammer we had He gazed around bewildered, desperate raider, the Seeadler. It those of the black, warlike Mela was blue In spots, hi those fright­ intended to capture, and devoted frightened and certainly nonplussed. gave the hour when we were ex render aid neslans. ful moments he had without know­ ourselves to this new beauty. A 1 imagined 1 could see Ills legs pected to reach Suva. So a huge Vernonia received the ­ “What ugly customers.*’ 1 said to ing ft, grasped his thigh in a dutch council of war was held, after shake. Apparently, he was digest crowd, that is a huge one as Leudemann. “ They look like can ­ like n drowning man. I tell you, which Klrchelss went to the cap­ Ing the fact that he and Ills men crowds go in Fiji, had gathered at ing morning the away. nibals.” by Joe, It was the hand of God tain of the vessel, which now were practically unarmed and Hie the pier to look us over. A com by the Escaping Service phone hours is good, The forbidding battle array on that put the curve In that reef! had docked, and told him that we certainly that we must be armed pany of Infantry lined both sides Moa, Captured P- isoners. Norwegians who, while mak­ to the teeth. the telephone operators are quick al­ shore stirred a new strength in us. When one of the boys, I don't know were of the approach to the pier with ing a cruise in a lifeboat, had "We have," 1 continued, “hand bayonets fixed. They certainly Iterate attempts he, In bis stupid It certainly looked like a cannibal which, said 111 surprise. "We are missed our ship, which was taking though in the tliulilllv expected US tp make. — Island, nnd miserable us we were, clear!" I knew It was the hand of coal fiom Australia to Suva. Could grenades and firearms enough to were »1 comic-opera-looking lot in send you and your knee-pants army their hot-weather knee pants. distance calls the Forest (Continued next week) still we could not escape the thought God. we not take passage witli him to here to Kingdom Come, and if we During our march down (he street but from endeavor to the of our skin and bones being fatten­ Suva instead of on the other slower were in uniform, you would be our between the gauntlet of bayonets CHAPTER XV ed up In preparation for an old Portland—Plans underway fqjr craft, so that we could get back to prisoners. However, be that ns it nnd the crowd behind them, a half best service. time South sea banquet. our own ship? We would pay regu­ may, you have caught us in civilian caste fellow, seeing us unarmed erection of three-story Spanish “Clear the boat for action!” I Caught by the British at Wakaya. lar rates for the passage. clothes—but look here.” nnd helpless, stepped forward and »type apartment house at 640 ordered. Even in our present T he ISLAND was Wakaya. Sev- “All right,” replied the captain, a We took our weapons out of our spat in the face of one of my boys. Flanders street at estimated cost made Smith, the local manager, to ­ straits, we could still remember our .ini' old sailing ships were in * eral Jovial unsuspecting fellow. "Come pockets. 1 had had two of our I jumped out of line nnd gave him of $150,000. naval ways. i ceive an emergency after 11:00 p.m. ­ ol