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"WEBSTER-MAN'S HAN, GIANTS, Etc. Jfc .ilW Uy wTBR B. KYNB O^flll^lrtaKB. Kyn* ^ 1MIOKS AND FLAHERTY ON VEM* h ' OEANCE BENt. •& fltTMpata.--Captain Phlneaa P. Scraggs sPf grown up around the docks of San pnSfcclaoo, and from mesa boy on a river to the ownership of the MMKie- Since each annual lnn promised to be the last of the old |w«Mh«rbtMw vessel, Scraggs naturally •orae difficulty In securing a crew. the story opens, Adeibert P. Glbney, >l«, hut erratic, a man whom nobody '..jMt Bcraggs would hire. Is the skipper, Halvorsen, a solemn Swede, constithe forcastle hands, and Bart Mca wastrel of the Gibney type, la the engine room. With this crew p.ad hi* ancient vessel, Cap- 8crttg*» t* engaged la freighting gar- %0M> track from Haifmoon bay to Saa Cisco. The Inevitable happens, the gi« g»ing ashore In a tog. A vessel hailing the wreck, Mr. bney get* word to a towing company Baa FYuccisco that the ship ashore is till Yankee Prluce, with promise of a Uoh salvage. ... ^CHAPTER III--ContJnu#^^^ '+/-t 4': •That'll do, bosun," Glbney thun- Then, 1q his natural voice, to ggs: "All set Scraggsy. Guess e're ready to be pulled off. Get down ,/In the engine room and stand by for -,. ' tun speed ahead when I give the {.V'," V<wd " * "Quick! Hurry!" Scraggs entreated |X. - lis he disappeared through the little * „ . Imgine-room hatch, for the tide was j£ «. bow at the tip of the flood and the '$[ Maggie wm bumping wickedly and . fdrlring fuither up the beach. Mr. Glb- Jney turned his stovepipe seaward and - i 'irfiouted: "Tugboats; ahoyt" - ' "Ahoy !** they answered in unison. > "All ready t Let'er go-o-o-oH The Squarehead stationed himself at the bitts with a lantern and Mr. Glbney Chastened to the pilot house and took place at the wheel. When the hawl commenced to lift out of the sea, ^S-rJTbs Squarehead gave a warning shout, llpwhereupon Ur. Glbney called the enroom. "Give her the gun," he <cocomanded Scraggs. "Pull against tugs for all you're worth. Rethis is the ateaiaer Yankee i;/jFHi>e«. Wo must not come off too ^maWy." |P*': Captain Scraggs opened the throttle, O^Jand while the two tugs steadily drew ^ : ber off into deep water, the Maggie ^>1fought valiantly to stick to the beach If^and even to continue her interrupted Journey overland. She merely succeeded tn stretching both hawsers f . ."jtaut; slowly she was drawn seaward, & -*§«tecB first, and at the expiration of '.j* ^fifteen minutes' steady pulling, Mr. Glb- 'y\ "\Mf ooutd restrain himself no longer. S- ' ' file rang for full speed astern--and got |tt promptly. Then, calling Nells Hal- TWM to aid him, he abandoned the wheel and scrambled aft. With no one at the wheel, the Mag tie shot off at a tangent and the hawsers slacked immediately. In the twinkling of an eye Mr. Glbney had cast them off, and as the ends disappeared with a swish over the stern he ran Mr. fiUbmy Turned His $t«yipfp« Seaward aad Ihoutodj ^Tugboata, >* r »*' dUtuyf _ h>>i>#a& . . ' ' ' . back to the pilot house, rang for full -speed ahead, put his helnf hard over, <•4 headed the Maggie in the general direction of China, although as a matter of fact he cared not what direction he pursued, provided he got away from the beach and placed distance between the Maggie and two soon-to-be-furious afcfppers. , , ^ ^ » CHAPTER |jjj£ #„ The crews of the Aphrodtte and the Bodega slept late, for they Were weary and. fortunately, no calls for a tug came Into the office of the Red Stack company all morning. About ten o'clock Dan Hicks and Jack Flaherty breakfasted and about ten-thlrtjr both met in the office. Apparently they were two souls with but a single ; thought, for tiie right hand of each Meght the whereon reposed the | blue volume entitled "Lloyd's Register." Dan Hicks reached It first, carried It to the counter, wet his tarry Index finger and started turning the pages in a vain search for the Amerl $an steamer Yankee Prince. Presently • . be looked up at Jack Flaherty. * "Flaherty," he said, "I think you're r a Mar." "The fcame to yea and many them," Flaherty replied, not a bit •bashed. "You said she was an tight thousand-ton tramp." "I never went so far as to say I'd i .|sso aboard her on trial trip, though --and did *rat down her tonnage, showfraynwat* * science left," Hicks defended himself. He closed the book with a sigh and placed it back on the slielf, Just as the door opened to admit no less personage than Bartholomew McGuffey, late chief engineer, first assistant, second assistant, third assistant, wiper, oiler, water-tender and stoker of the S. S. Maggie. With a brief nod to Jack Flaherty Mr. McGuffey approached Dan Hicks. "t been lookln' for you, captain," he announced. "Say, I hear the chief o' the Aphrodite's goln* to take a three months' layoff tc get shet of his rheumatism. Is that straight?" "I believe it is, McGuffey,** "Well, say, Pd like to have a chance to substitoot for him. You know my capabilities, Hicks, an" If It would be agreeable to you to have me for your chief your recommendation would go a long way toward landln' me the Job. I Td sure make them engines behave." What vessel have you been on lately?" Hicks demanded cautiously, for he knew Mr. McGuffey's reputation for non-reliability around pay day. "I been with that freshwater scavenger, Scraggs, In the Maggie for most a year." "Did you quit or dtt Scraggs fire you?" 4 "He fired me;" McGuffey replied honestly. "If he hadn't Pd have quit, so it's a toss-up. Comln' in from Halfmoon bay last night we got In the fog an' piled up on the beach jut below the Cliff house--" This is Interesting," Jack Flaherty murmured. "You say she walked ashore on yon, McGuffey? Well, HI be shotV "She did. Scraggs blamed tt on me. Flaherty. He said I didn't obey the signals from the bridge, one word led to another, an* he went dandn' mad an' cwtlered me off his ship. Well, his ship--or It was his ship, for Til bet a dollar die's ground to powder by now--so all I could do was obey. I hopped overboard an' waded ashore, j - I suppose all my clothes an' things Is gone by now. I left everything aboard an' had to borrow this outfit from Scab Johnny." He grinned pathetically. "So I guess you understand, Captain Hicks, Just how bad I need that Job I spoke about a minute ago." "IH think It over, Mac, an' let you know," Hicks replied evasively. Mr. McGuffey, sensing his defeat, retired forthwith to hide his embarrassment and distress; as the door closed behind him. Hicks and Flaherty faced each other. "Jack," quoth Dan Hicks, "can two towboat men, holdln' down two hundred- doliar jobs an' presumed to have been out o' their swaddlin' clothes for at least thirty years, afford to be laughed off the San Francisco waterfront?" "I know one of them that can't, Dan. At the yme time, can a rat like Phlneas P. Scraggs and a beachcomber like his mate Glbney make a pair of star-spangled monkeys out of said two towboat men and get away with itr "They did that last night Still, Pve known monkeys that would fight an' was human enough to settle a grudge. Follow me, Jack." Together they repaired to Jackson street bulkhead. Sure enongh, there lay the Maggie, rubbing her blistered sides against the bulkhead. Captain Scraggs was nowhere In sight, but Mr. Glbney was at the winch, swinging ashore the crates of vegetables which The Squarehead and three longshoremen loaded into the cargo net. "We're outnumbered," Jack Flaherty whifcpered. "Let's wait until she's unloaded an' Glbney an' Scraggs are aboard alone." They retired without having attracted the attention of Mr. Glbney. Promptly at twelve o'clock the longshoremen knocked off work for the lunch hour and Nells Halvorsen drifted across the street to cool his parched throat with steam beer. While waiting for Scraggs to come up out of the engine room, and take him to luncheon, Mr. Glbney sauntered aft and was standing gazing reflectively upon a spot on the Maggie's stern where the hawsers had chafed away the paint, when suddenly his forebodings of evil returned to him a thousand fold stronger than they had been since Scraggs' return to the little ship, He glanced up and beheld gazing down upon him Captains Jack Fla herty and Daniel Hicks. Battle was Imminent and the valiant Gibney knew It; wherefore he determined Instantly to meet it like a man. "Howdy, men," he" saluted them. Glad to have you aboard the yacht," and he stepped backward te give himself fighting room. " "Here's where we collect the towage bill on the S. S. Yankee Prince," Dan Hicks Informed him, and leaped from the bulkhead straight down at Mr. Gibney. Jack Flaherty followed. Mr. Gibney welcomed Captain Hicks with a terrific right swing, which missed; before he could guard, Dan Hicks had planted left and right where they would do the most good and Mr. Glbney went Into a clinch to save himself further punishment. Scraggsy," he bawled, "Scraggsy- y-y t Help! Murder! It's ,Hlcks and Flaherty! Bring an ax!" He flung Dan Hicks at Jack Flaherty; as they collided he rushed In and dealt each of them a powerful poke. However, Messrs. Hicks and Flaherty were sizeable persons and while, Individually, they were no match for the tremendous Glbney, nevertheless what they lacked In horsepower they made up In pugnacity --and the salt sea seldom breeds a craven. Captain Scraggs thrutt a frightened face up through the engineroom hatch, hilt at sight of the battle thought only of escape. To climb up to the bulkhead without being seen was impossible, however, so, not knowing what else to do, he stood on the iron ladder and gazed, pop-eyed with horror, at the unequal contest Backward and forward the tide of battle surged. For nearly three minutes alJ Scraggs saw was an Indistinct tangle of legs and arms; then suddenly the combatants disengaged themselves and Scraggs beheld Mr. Glbney prone upon the deck with a gory face upturned to the foggy skies. When he essayed to rise and continue the contest, Flaherty kicked him in the ribs and Hicks cursed him; so Mr. Glbney, realizing that all was over, beat the deck with his hand in token of surrender. Hicks and Flaherty waited until the fallen gladiator had recovered sufficient breath to sit up; then they pounced upon him, lifted him to the rail, and dropped him overboard. Captain Scraggs shrieked in protest at this added touch of barbarity, and Dan Hicks, turning, beheld Scraggsy's white face at the hatchi "You're next, Scra&s," he called cheerfully, and turned to peer over the rail. Mr. Gibney had emerged on the Surface and was swimming slowly away toward an adjacent float where small boats landed. He climbed wearily up on the float and sat there, Scraggsy," He Bawled, "8craggsy-y-yt Help! Murder I Ifs Hicks and Fla* hertyi Bring an Axl" gazing across at Hickji and Flaherty without animus, for to his way of thinking he had gotten off lightly. Considering the enormity of his offense. The least be hftd anticipated was three months In hospital, and so grateful was he to Hicks and Flaherty for their forbearance that he strangled a resolve to "lay" for Hicks and Flaherty and thrash them Individually-- something he was fully able to do-- and forgot his aches and pains In a lively Interest as to the fate of Captain Scraggs at the hands of the towboat men. He was aware that Captain Scraggs had failed ignomlntously to rally to the Gibney appeal to repel boarders, and in his own expressive terminology he hoped that what the enemy would do to the dastard would be "a-plenty." The enemy, meanwhile, had turned their attention upon Scraggs, who had dodged below like a frightened rabbit and sought shelter In the shaft alley. He had sufficient presence of mind, as he dashed through the engine room, to snatch a large monkey wrench off the tool rack on the wall, and, kneeling just inside the alley entrance be turned at bay and threatened the invaders with his weapon. Thereupon Hicks and Flaherty pelted him with lumps of coal, hut the sole result of this assault was to force Scraggs further back Into the shaft alley and out of range. The towboat men held a council of war and decided to drown Scraggs out. Dan Hicks ran up on deck and returned dragging the deck flre hose behind him. He thrust the brass nozzle Into the shaft-alley entrance and Invited Scraggs to surrender unconditionally or be drowned like a kitten. Scraggs, knowing his own fire hose, of royal taking t^a^e oh the deck aft, hand sn# defend my «k|pt>er agin you»« two. Fact Is, gentttiMa, I got a date •• ttdt h\m first fit what he done to mm lut Bight. Howaomever, that's a private poach. The fact remains that you two Jumped my pal Bert Glbney an' licked him somethln' «c*f»d«!ous Hicks, I'll take you on first. Come up out of there, you swab, and fight. Fla herty, you stay below until I send for you; if you .try to climb up an' horn in on my fight with Htcks, Glbney'U brain you." A faint cheer came from the shaft alley. "Good old Mac. At-a-boy 1" "You're on, McGuffey. Nobody ever had to beg me to fight him," Dan Hicks replied cordially, and climbed to the deck. To his' great surprise, Mr. McGuffey winked at him and drew him off to the stern of the Maggie. "There'll be no fight," he declared, "although we'll thud around on deck an* yell a couple o' times to make Scraggs think we're goln' to it. He Aggers that by the time Pve fought you an' Flaherty I won't be fit for combat with him, even If I lick you both; he's got It all figgered out that I'll wait a couple o* days before tacklln' him, an' he thinks my temper*! l cool by that time an' he can argy me out o* my revenge. Savey?" "I twig." Mr. Glbney bad ' returned to the Maggie by this tlml>';and he now took ills station at the engine-room hatch and grow!ed at Flaherty and abused him. "Keep up your courage, Scrnggsy," he called, as Hicks and McGuffey pranced around the deck In simulated combat. "Mac's whalln' the whey out o' Hicks an* Hicks couldn't touch him with a buggy whip." At the conclusion of the three minutes of horse-play, Mr. McGuffey came to the . hatch again. "Up with you, Flaherty," he called loud enough for Captain Scraggs to hear, "up with you before I go down after you." Flaherty was about to possess himself of a hatchet when the face of his confrere. Dan Hicks, appeared over McGuffey's shoulder and grinned knowingly at him. Immediately, Flaherty hurled defiance at his enemies and came up on deck, and once more to Captain Scraggs came the dull sounds of apparent conflict overhead. Suddenly a cheer broke from Mr. Gibney. "All off an' gone to Coopertown, Scraggsy," he shouted. "Come up an' take a look at the fallen." Oiit of the shaft alley came Scraggs with s rush, tossing his wrench aside the better to climb the ladder. He was half way up when Mr. Glbney reached down a great hand, grasped him by the collar, and whisked him out on deck with a single jerk. Here, to his horror, he found himself confronted by a singularly scathless trio wh£ grinned triumphantly at him. "Seeln' Is bellevln', Scraggs," Dan Hicks informed him. "That's a lesson you taught me an' Flaherty last night but evidently you don't profit by experience. You're too miserable to beat up, but just to show you it ain't possible for a dirty bay pirate like you to skin the likes o' me an' Flaherty we purpose liangln' the seat o' your pants up around your coat collar. Face him about, Glbney." With a qtaick twist, Mr. Gibney presented Captain Scraggs for his penance ; Flaherty and McGuffey followed Dan Hicks promptly and Captain 8craggs screamed at every kick. And now came Mr. Gibney's turn. "For fail In' to stand up like a man, Scraggsy, an' battle Hicks an' Flaherty," he Informed the culprit, and tossed him over to McGuffey to be held in position for him. "Don't, Gib. Please don't," Scraggs walled. "It ain't comin' to me from you. I never heard you callln' a-tall. Honest, I never, Gib. Have mercy, Adeibert. You saved the Maggie last night an' a quarter Interest In her is yours--If you don't kick me!" Mr. Gibney paused, foot In midair; surveyed the Maggie from stem to stern, hesitated, licked his lower lip, and glanced at the common enemy. For an Instant it came into his mind to call upon the valiant and able McGuffey to support him In a fierce counter- attack ^upon Hicks and Flaherty. Only for an Instant, however; then his sense of fair play conquered. "No, Scraggsy," he replied sadly. "She ain't worth It an' your duplicity can't be overlooked. If there's anything I hate It's duplicity. Here goes, Scraggsy--and get. yourself , a new navigatin' officer." Scraggs twisted and flinched Instantly, and Mr. Gibney's great boot missed the mark. "Ah," he breathed, "I'll give you an extra for that" "Don't! Please,,- don't" Scraggs howled. "Lay ofTn me an' PU put In a new boiler an' have the compass ad- Justed." ^ The words were no sooner out* of his mouth than Mr. McGuffey swung him clear of Mr. Gibney's wrath. "Swear It," he hissed. "Raise your right hand an' swear It--an' I'll protect you from Gib." Captain Scraggs raised a trembling right hand and swore It "I'll get a new flre hose an' flre buckets; I'll flx the ash hoist and run the bedbugs an* he added. McGuffey crowded the rail as the enemy swam to the float, crawled up oa It and departed, vowing vengeance. "All's well that ends well, gentlemen," Mr. .MwtffBy announced. Scraggsy's goln' to buy a drink an' the ps st is bnri€d SQ* forgotten. Didn't old Scraggsy put up' a fight ou>r "No, but he tried to, Mac. I'll tell the world be did," apd he thrtist out the hand of forgiveness to Scraggsy, who, realizing he had come very hand- "I'll Fix the Ash Hoist and Ron the Bedbugs and Cockroaches Out of He*."- . somely out of in unlovely situation, clasped the hands of Mr. Glbney and McGuffey and burst Into tears. While Mr. McGuffey thumped him between the shoulder blades and cursed him affectionately, Mr. Gibney retired to change Into dry garments; when he reappeared the trio went ashore for the promised grog and a luncheon at the skipper's expense- This Scraggs penes Is HM Km little promiser. (TO BE CONTINUED.) "BLANCHE* BLAIR, 4 - V STEEPLES OF MANY DESIGNS No General Rule Has Been Followed by Architects In Centurlos of Church Building. i«4l defied them, so Dan Hicks started the pump while Flaherty turned on the cockroaches out of her, water. Instantly the hose burst up oi. "You hear that, Gib?' deck and Scraggs' jeers of triumph pleaded. "Have a heart" filled the engine room. The enemy "Not unless he gives her a coat of was about to draw lots to see which i paint nn' quits bickerin' about the one of the two should crawl into the shaft alley and throw a cupful ol chloride of lime (for they found a can of this in the engine room) In Captain Scraggs' face, when a shadow dark ened the hatch and Mr. Bartholomew McGuffey demanded belligerently: "What's goln' _ on down there? Who the devil's takin' liberties In my engine room?" Dan Hicks explained the situation and the just cause for drastic action which they h«Hd against the fugitive in the sfeaft alley. Mr. McGuffey considered a few moments and made his decision. "If what you say Is true--an' I ain't In position to dispute you, not havln' been present when you hauled the Maggie off the beach, I don't blame you for feeling sore. What I do lUame you for, though, is carryln* the war aboard the Maggie. If you wanted to whale Gib an' Scraggsy you should ha' laid for 'em on the dock. Under the circumstances, you make this a s'nal affair, an' as a member o' the Steeple Is a gentfal architectural name for the whole arrangement of tower, belfry, spire, etc. The origin of steeples is obscure, the term spire (Old English, "splr," a blade of grass, and so anything tapering to a point), is the specific architectural term giv<ta lofty roofs In stone or wood, covered with lead or slate which crown the towers of cathedrals, churches and various other buildings. In plan they are conical, or pyramidal or octagonal, or hexagonal, often pierced by ornamental openings where they are enriched with crockets. On the coottqj^ at the architects aimed to make the steeple and spire one, merging them Into each other, while In England they openly confessed it was a separate structure by making Its point of origin behind a plain dr pierced parapet or ornamental battlements. A spire properly belongs to pointed architecture and hence has never been fully developed except tn Gothic buildings. AS early as the Twelfth century they took on different forms, and almost everywhere from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth century became the terminating construction of every ctiurch steeple, tower or lantern, and also those Of similar buildings, more especially In Germany and France. In England Norman churches were without spires, but with the coming of early English, short ones were introduced; decorated Gothic called for much higher ones, and the perpendicular still higher. The earlier spires were generally built of timber, and they were always so when the building was roofed with wood. These early timber spires were, as a rule, not very tall, but later reached.a greater elevation; that which crowned old St. Psul'8 In London Is said to haije been 527 feet in height. 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Sinee taking Tanlac, she has already gained 10 pounds, her color is better than It ever has been and she looks and acts like a different girl." Mrs. Catherine McCabe, 414 Dickens Ave., Scranton, Pa., said: "The •flu' left my_ little Regina in such" a bad condition that I have no idea she would be with me now if it hadn't been for Tanlac. It is a mystery to me how she lived on the little she was eating and was so lifeless she never even cared to play with the dolls and toys she got at Christmas. Since taking Tanlac she is as hardy and well as any child could be and has gained 15 pounds in weight. I will always praise Tanlac for restoring our little girl's health." Richard Leary, 2342 Palethorpe St, Philadelphia, said: "There Is no doubt in my mind but that Tanlac saved my little boy's life. For two Jrears I wouldn't have been a bit surprised to have seen him drop off at any time. He had stomach trouble and many a time the gas pressed up Into his chest until his heart palpi- 4> sir/ S •..* ' - OZONE AND THE SANDMAN overtime, Bart.' "I promise," Scraggs answered him. "Pervlded," he added, "you an' dear ol' Mac promises to stick by the ship." "It's a whack," yelled McGuffey Joyfully, and whirling, struck Dan Hicks a mighty blow on the Jaw. "Off our ship, you hoodlums." He favored Jsck Flaherty with a hearty thump"" and swung again on Dan Hicks. "At 'fcra, Scraggsy. Here's where you prove to Gib whether you're a man-- thump--or a mouse--thump--or a-- thump, thump--bobtalted -- thumprat." Dan Hicks had been upset and aa he sprawled on his back on deck, he appeared to Captain Scraggs to offer at least an even chance for victory. So Scraggs, mustering his courage, flew at poor Hicks tooth and toenail. His best was not much but It served to keep Dan Hicks off Mr. McGuffey while the latter was disposing of Jack Flaherty, which he did, vin the rati, even as the towboat men had disposed of Mr. Glbney. Dan Hicks followed The Two Are Quits Closely Relate^ Though Probably Few People _ Could Tell How. People who spend their vacations at the seashore at this time of the year usually find that their nights are dreamless and restful. They say that the sea air makes them sleepy. Wheeled along in a beach chair, one is likely to feel drowsy/ or even go to sleep. it Is the ozone in the air that dojM It. Tin* air at the seashore Is ftHl *>f ozone, which might be called a concentrated oxygen. Ozone is a powerful and healthful stimulant Whence, by the way, comes the nursery idea of the Sand Man, herald of sleep? The unsvver is that the approach of sleep checks the flow from the earducts which keeps the eyes moist. 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