1 I We \ Deep Sea Peril 1 . - f, y I VICTOR ROUSSEAU i A | | COPYRIGHT BY WO. CHAPMAN ami—■— «g CHAPTER Xlll—Continued. —ls— like a fury, the queen rushed at him, and Clouts, at first solicitous about striking a jjwoman, soon found | himself nard it to maintain the ; upper hand, with all his strength and with the use of all the wrestling trlclts ha knew. He pu.ut.ed as ht> PIMM with her. v | "It's all right, inarm!" he pleaded.' "I'll auk him If he'll aee you. If you'll only not lose your head. I didn't mean to put you outside, but orders war I orders. I'm only obeying orders, marm. There ain't no need for them hysterics. Now—now, marm !" He was still fighting madly when suddenly her strength seemed to leave her. Clouts became aware of a spec- j tator of the combat. He glat#cd side wise hastily, to see Ida standing be- j r-idlde him. "What la she. Clouts?" whispered Ida. Clouts scratched his thick head. "I don't rightly know." he answered. "But It'a all right, inarm. I was just stroll ing along, casual like, when I met her. She ain't no friend of mine, marm. Nor of the captain's," he added, with sly emphasis. He turned to the queen. "If you'll take my arm, marm, I'll take you n ways and ask the captain If he'll See you. I can't do no more," he muttered in an audible aside. "I've done the best I knew Imfr' for the cap tain, and now he'll have to make ills | own excuses. And I can't leave a lady j In this here place alone, with all them goings on and Juggllngs with the water like—like Pharaoh." Five minutes later the little middy, seated on deck, saw Clouts and Ida, apparently rearlsen from the dead, ap proach the F. r >s. Between them be fancied he saw a gossamer form that scintillated In the sunlight. There was a space of only a hundred paces between them aud the boat when suddenly the ocean appeared con vulsed. A wall of water bore down upon the flanks of Fair Island. It rolled toward the submarine, fifty feet high, Its mighty crest upreared. "Hun!" shouted Davles. It was a frantic race between the ( oncomers and the sea._ They gained the. submarine with hardly ten seconds tc spare. Davles drew them aboard and clasped the hatches down. Next Instant the boat was lifted bodily from the beach aud spun round like a top. CHAPTER XIV. The Unheeded Warning. On the evening of the same day London was stirred by a sensation which eclipsed even the Interest in the progress of the war. » The- evening, newspapers contained, In full, Donald's 1 narration of the approaching ruin of ... the world. The second sea lord, receiving Don ald's name, came to the conclusion that matters of the most pressing moment must have brought the unknown young American naval ofllccr. He rose from his desk and shook hands with him cordially. "Sit down, Mr. l'aget," be said warmly. Then he noticed that Donald was dressed in a nondescript diving suit and that his looks were de cidedly wild. Donald sat down and plunged In stantly Into the story of the world danger. It did not lose Its dramatic Interest iu the manner of its telling. "You must stop the war at once," Donald ended. "Unite all nations of the earth, for that Is the only way to save the human race. It Is a matter of hours, perhaps. Even now these monsters may be speeding, southward." The second sen lord had been unable to interpose a word by reason of the torrent of impassioned speech that poured from Donald's lips. At tlrst he listened In amazement at what he con sidered an Impudent honx; then In anger; then, after a brief glance at Donald's face, with absolute passivity. "I thank you, Mr. Paget," he said, rising, when Donald had ended. "You have done notable work, and England will not forget it. And now, sir, you must tje conducted to the prime min ister at once, that you may apprise him of these startling events." He touched his bell, and his secre tary, a dapper, alert little man, at once appeared. "Excuse me one moment, please," said the second sea lord to Donald. He whispered with the secretary, whom Dona'd perceived to glance toward him in a rather apprehensive manner. T' e secretary came forward, making a preposterously low bow. M I will conduct you to the prime min ister at once, Mr. Paget," he said. "No time must be lost. *1 um going to have • taxi cab called." Donald addressed the second sea lord again. **l understand," he said, controlling himself with an efforLQf will. "Very well, my lord, I fihall say no more at t»i«« tlipfe. On yon will rest the respon sibility. And you will repent tills bit v terly within a day or two." And be walked quietly oat of the office, leaving the second sen lord ana the secretary staring at each other, lie was at the bottom of the stairway be fore they bad recovered their self possession. Then the sea lord snatched up his telephone. 1 A curious haze was creeping up from the Thames, spreading perceptibly from corner to corner. It blotted out the redness of the evening clouds and bung overhead Hike a great, smoky pall. A newsboy rushed past, shout ing. the contents of the placard tlfat swung before him. It mentioned a series of local explosions 1 which had been occurring along the i east coast of England. Donald was trying to locate a hotel. He groped his way from corner to corner, clinging to the railings of areas mid pillars of houses. He had reached some open space, which he Imagined to be Trafalgar square, but It was Impossible to cross. 'art«, carriages, omnibuses, stalled by the fog, loomed up on every side. Horses stood snorting Invisibly, a few inches away. Drivers struck out their whips promiscuously. ""Men were shouting, women screaming. Fanlc ! had begun. All knew that this was not I one of those rare black fogs that de scend upon London. Then It was that the news of the man-monsters began to filter through h> crowd. A mnn announcing himself, through a megaphone, to be the police commis sioner, ordered all to remain still until star bombs could be set off. Nobody Ireeded him, and his efforts to stuy the panic were unavallljjg# The mob had begun to flow In one direction, sweep ing a'l before It. Donald had been swept along with It, and then left, stranded and Jammed by the human torrent, Into a small re cess.* In front of him he felt a purapet. He tore himself away and was lost in the crowd. Donald hoisted himself to the parapet, scrambled to the outer coping, and clung there. The shrieking mob rushed past and never touched 111 in. Then ttyere nunc the sound of a mighty explosion, a long volume of re sounding thunder. It went rolling down the river like the discharge of n | thousand cannon. And then, as a flood from a hose* I pipe, a burst of water from the skies deluged the city. It boiled through the air with hissing lashes, as If the por tals of the firmament were broken open. The grinning face of the moon broke through the smoky pull. Sud denly the stars appeared. And It was calm, clear weather. A roar of relief seemed to gq up front the throats of the multitude. And very slowly the traffic began to resume Its course again. What had happened, as scientists afterward surmised, was this: The hy drogen, Increasing until It attained a certain chemical relationship to the oxygen of the atmosphere, had explod ed where It was densest, on contact with fire, as In a laboratory. But the explosion Instantly generated water as the two gases met. Hence followed the deluge. Mill as yet the government was only dimly beginning to understand that this was some unknown natural force and not a contrivance of the enemy. They did not know until Donald pre sented himself In the ofllce of the sec ond sea lord at nine o'clock. The second sen lord grasped him by the hands. "There Isn't time to say more than that 1 apologize," lie said. "The gov ernment has been searching for you "You Must Stop This War at Once." since daylight. We've cabled Washing ton. and they have placed you at our disposal. You are the only mnn who can advise us; and —the prime minis ter wants you immediately. And that's no Joke'this time !" CHAPTER XV, The Battle of the Dogger. Within the next three days a series of phenomena occurred which left no doubt as to the dangers which were menacing the human race. Before noon messages began to pour in from all parts of the country nnd from the licet. The admiral in com mand of the home squadron wired that a torpedo-boat destroyer had ap proached him under a flag of truce, with the singular statement that the ocean had receded all along the Baltic littoral, leaving a vast swamp of mud dy sand, In which ships were embed ded. The Zuyder Zee no longer exist ed. - A spur of land extended from the dogger bank nearly to Ostend. He pro posed a temporary armistice. By evening reports were telegraphed that an army of the monster* had THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA landed upon the shore* of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, hud crossed the Wash, which beeame Jrst a swamp, then an Inundation, and watt moving alony the river beds toward Cambridge, strip ping the land of vegetation. I?,v nightfall nil communication be ! twcen London and the eastern counties had ceased. The telegraph poles were ' washed out of the sodden ground. The approach of the herd was measured by Ihe haze. Already .poultry and domestic ani mals were being devoured. There were i reports that children had been seized I from riverside houses. The docks, the I shores of Essex and the Thames estrn ii ry were abandoned. The flats weke a level stretch of water, above which the steeple* of the churches stood out as isolated landmarks. Everywhere the war had been halted by a short armistice. The governments of the civilized world devoted their whole attention to the consideration and solution of this new and stunning problem. _ _ , 1b the meantime there had been a good deal of activity on Fair Island. The tidal surge created by tbe depar ture of the herd soon subsided, break- He Saw the F55 Btart In Their Wake. lug Into a choppy, turbulent sea. The l-'fift, tossed and battered as she was by the waves, neveptheless held tight. The locked rudder prevented her from submerging. Within the messroom the queen of the swarm was housed securely. She was almost invisible, and not at all visible by daylight. A silent, phantom figure, she created fear and awe In each of them. They did not know what her connection with the swarm might be. They knew she had not human Intelligence. • • • • « • « From his position upon the highest point of Kiilr Mill !»• (,rrt Wff the swarm vanish at sea. lie saw the Ff>s start in their wake, and threw up his hands anil raved. Coward as he was, he could not let tils Inst hope slip from Itlm like that. lie was the loneliest man in the world, as be had always been. Hut he bad not known It or cared, lie had rebelled against the human race, lie was the modern Cain; he had plotted the ruin of the world, over which he was to rule, godlike. Hut that was be fore he had set eyes upon Ida Ken nedy. The thought of her renewed his cour age. lie found his motorhont upon the shore, uninjured by the Inundation, since the point of rock had acted as a breakwater and protected it. Within a few minutes he had filled his great gasoline reservoir with a supply suffi cient for several day*, and set out In pursuit of the herd, lie knew that he could easily outdistance the subma rine. Presently he came upon the mon sters. Their first wild dash had taken Them In all directions, so that little vapor had formed, but now they were to congregate, and a wall of black cloud, rising In the distance, In dicated their direction. The monsters mnde no effort to mo lest him, but they would not, at first, heed his tuning fork. Later, however, he managed to assemble a small bodyguard about him. Macßeard pursued them down the east coast of England.' Ills boat, hid den In the cloud, remained undetected by the patrol vessels. It was not until the second morning that he guessed where the herd would make Its main rendezvous. It was a simple deductive process, though nobody else had thought of It. It was the Dogger bank, swarming with fish, which would provide the monsters with food. He believed that, once the first dash of the monsters was over, they would obey his call again. And his first sum mons proved successful beyond his ex pectations. Exhausted by their dasl southward, numbers of the herd con gregated about the motorboat to th« (3L sound, which was perceptible tt for a much greater distance thai the tone carried to the human ear From within n radius of twenty mllei a cloud rolled In upon the motorboat until Macßeard, Invisible In the hears of Its blackness, like some arch-devtl controlled his devil crew. This cloud was njUickly seen by the renr-admlral's patrol vessels, while U had this disadvantage—it prevented Macßeard from discovering the F55 as she slipped past ou her way south ward. (TO BE CONTINUED.) , o Many Can Answer Her. Will you t£U me what way I can $f rid of my character. —Lady Gregt r/» iNHENfiTIONAL SJNMCSQIOOL LESSON (By E. O. BEI.LEKB. Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1»17, W--»ti rn Nt-wapaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 30 REVIEW—IOOD'B REDEEMING J LOVE. LEBBON TEXt-Read Pnalm* 1:21; 1:24. OOLDEN TEXT—With Jehovah there la loving klndneaa. and with htm la plenteous redemption. : 7. The leSsoni of the past year are Ihe only ones In the six years course which are divided J>etween the Old and the New Testament; therefore, at the close of this year we will review only the last two quarters, emphasizing the fourth which has just been completed. Like Moses on Mount Nebo, let us glance over the whole period of the monarchy and note the progress and development of the Jewish people. The Jewish,race Is the marvel of all times, a nation without a country, scattered and peeled, chastised and driven from sea to aea, even slain In large num bers ; yet possessed of a vitality which has caused them to endure through the centuries. Their contribution to the civilization of the world has been immeasurable. There Is no walk or rank In life, In politics, literature, art, science, business, religion, or any oth er realm where they have not made their Impress and 'rendered their con tribution. Any movement which seeks to promote their welfare and to strengthen the bonds of sympathy which preserve race feelings, deserves the aid of all patriotic, liberty loving. Hod fearing people, for tbe Jews are still Ood's chosen heritage. t The united kingdom with Its three kings, Saul, David nnd Solomon, last ed from about 1100 It. C. to IW3 (Mee cher), it period of 120 years. Then be gins the divided kingdom—Judith and Israel side by side, a double experi ment In the progress of the kingdom of Hod. Tills period extended fromabout OS2 B. C. to approximately 723, or 721 B. C. Judah ha-l a territory of about ,'1,4(i0 square miles; Israel 9.400. Ju dith's capital was Jerusalem; In which was the temple; Israel's capital was Samaria, while It had two centers of false worship. Judah was more shel tered than Israel from close contact with heatheulsm, especially politically and religiously. 4»idah had one dyn asty of rulerseleven kings and one queen, all of them from the house of David. Israel hail nineteen kings, be longing to nine different families or dynasties. Judah had several very gootl kings, nnd there were marked re vlvn|H of religion ot prosperity nnd of deterioration of varying degrees, though resisted from time to time nnd helped along moral and religious lines through the work of Elijah and Rllsha the prophets. The final period of events of this past quarter have refer- , ence to Judah alone from the days of Ilczcklali. B. C. 72*2, to the time of the destruction of the city nnd the temple being destroyed .ISO B. C„ nnd lastly we have the period of the exile from the first captivity In 00ft B. C. to the restoration and the new temple being erected filfl B. 0. This was a period of great discipline nnd sifting as like Unto wheat or of a purifying fire. The return from exile nnd the new Spiritual nation, dates from about Mfl to the close of Bible history, say 400 ' years before the coming of Christ. A ! map should be used, and the scholars ought fo he familiar with the contem poraneous secular history. There are several particular lessons we ought to learn from this history. First: Every fnllure, every mornl wrong,, every fall Into Idolatry, every diminution of power for good Is the result of a separation from Ood, —a departure from the ways of Ood and rithteousness. It nlso shows us that Ood's constant solicitude flint the Jews should he kept separate from heathen ism and Idolatry, had In It the best Interests of his own people nnd could only lead to those blessings which he had prepared for his particular people. Secondly; The overthrow of Israel Is directly attributed to Its complete abandonment to Idolatry. Beginning with fnlse worship nnd a dependence upon men, there wns the Introduction of Idolatry and a development of evil which led to a rapid decline, the In troduction of revolutions and the final extinguishment of the kingdom. As to Judah. It finally was brought Into captivity because that was the only way that Ood could purge the na tion from the Bin of Idolatry. They must be taught thnt there Is but one Ood, that the word of Ood must be obeyed, nnd that their safety lay In the faith which they placed In his promises. The leaders of this period were Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemlah, heroic men, men of great consecration and power; also, Esther, the heroine. The prophets of this period are Dan iel, Isaiah. Haggal. Zecharlah, Malachl. Notice how each and every one aided the cause of righteousness. There are two great heroes of the return, Ezra and Nehemlah. Take up the actions of each and show how he proved his heroism. A good method of receiving the past quarter will be to summarize the teachings which cen ter about these two great men. The period of the return Is the one that we should emphasUfe, showing how a return to Ood and an obedience of his law Is the paramount need of the pres ent day In which we live, these days of darkness and evil upon which the world has fallen. | STATE PROHIBITION CANVASS To Create Pro-Seritiment for Nomineea to Next General Assembly Opena at Aaheville, January 6. Raleigh.—Starting in Aaheville on January 6. the prohibition forces of N'orth Caroliua, reinforced by a num i ber of well known National speakers, will begin a campaign in the interest of nation-wide prohibition, the imme- • date objective being to create suffici ent sentiment to nominate members of the next General Assembly who whole heartedly favor the ratification of the amendment. Superintendent It L. Davis wi'l largely direct the campaign ln c , this Btate, although half his time in the fu ture is to be devoted to speaking in other States. In Ashevllle and the mother larg-? cities of the State field days will be observed between the opening date and the latter part of March. Five speakers will open the campaign In Ashevllle and three weeks later ten apeakera will luvade Charlotte. Every town of more than 250 Inhabitants will be reached and between 326 and 350 : apeeches will he made by National apeakera. Superintendent Davis will apeak every Sunday during the cam paign. Everywhere the meetings will be free and will afford the general pub lie an opportunity to hear some well known orators. Included in the list of speakers wl'.l be Capt R. P. iiobson, of the Merrlmac and Alabama; Malcolm E. Patterson, former Governor and United States Senator from Tennessee; Dr Sam W Small, Oeorgla evangelist, newspaper man, lecturer and one time partner of the late %im Jones; Dr. Adam Clarke Dane, financial secretary of the Antl- ■ Saloon League; Dr. Madison Swaden eg, the gentleman with the sunnv smile and glad handshake, a veteran league worker who lives In Indianapo lis; I>r. George W Young. Louisville, Confederate veteran, Methodist preacher and prohibition fighter; Dr. Rdwln I. Stearns, a good talker; ex Congressman Minor Wallace, of Little Rock; e* Mayor Fred O Hale, of Westerville. and Rev. Edward Hanson Dalley, a young man who has done notable work In the cause Union County Canning Clubs. Monroe.—The home demonstration and canning club work In Union coun ty, under the direction of Mrs. R 11. Griffin, has Just closed a most success ful year which began Marc h 1. When the work began this year there were only 25 members and now there are 204 and all taking an active part Dur Ing the canning season they filled 65, 000 cans and 70,000 glass Jars The estimated' value of the goods Is ?10,- R2R. In tarrying out this work Mrs. Grlf fin traveled 928 miles by rail and 4.042 miles In auto and buggy organizing six home demonstration clubs and 11 canning clubs and holding 140 meet ings, the attendance at which is esti mated at 6,554. Johneon Engaged to Women. Raleigh.—-It developed that L. J. Johnson, a dentist of Middlesex, whose wife last week died mysteriously In - Richmond. Va.. and who two days later took poison at Wilson, N C„ on his re turn from Richmond, was engaged to a young woman at Middlesex It is said that Johnson will recover. Letters were found in the room at the hotel wehere the doctor took pois on which make the case more sensa tlonal. One of these letters was to a.young lady In Middlesex to whom he made profession of love; another was to Doctors Powell and Lewis, of Mid dlesex. telling them of his trouble. In one of these letters he said that he had ruined himself to protect the char acter of another, and that his troubles were more than he could bear. I NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. A statement given out at the state j department of insurance shows the | department has during the past year Investigated 131 suspicious fires and j carried 46 cases for burning into the courts. Of these 17 were convicted and 17 acquitted and there are now 12 of the cases awaiting trial The remaining 85 cases were either con sldered not guilty by the deputy in vestigating. or there was not sufficient evidence gathered to warrant court procedure. Eighty-eight quarts of whiskey, all j of the best bonded variety, one trunk, five suit cases and two bags, together j with two men, constituted a day's haul by the Ashevllle police for violation j of the "bone dry" law. Dr. Kemp P Battle Wednesday cele brated his eighty-sixth birthday, still j full of vigor and of love for the uni-1 verslty. For nearly three-quarters of a century Dr. Battle has been closely , connected with the. life of the Uni versity of North Carolina. In 1845 he entered as a freshman. After the war he was elected president of the In stitution The old ladles at the state home for Confederate women, near Fayetteville, are doing their bit by the American soldier. The latest box of knitted sup plies sent to Southern Red Cross head quarters by the local chapter contain ed 11 pairs of beautifully knit socks, the work of the ladies of the home, whose fingers have not lost the deft ness they acquired in knitting for the boys who followed Lee and Jackson 1b the 60's. Fate Rankin was shot and killed by / Ered Lineberger in the "bull pen" at tke barracks at Spencer mountains are o»U*d Both men were nerroes SKINNER* SfcSp MACARONI |HCEDBBBftB B§Hy FORDS START EASY IN COLD WEATHER if you use oar new 1918 carburetor; 34 miles per gallon guarantee; 1-9 mora power. Uae cheapest gasoline or half kerosene. Quickly starta cold motor, even at aero and moves right off with full power. No spitting or popping. Blow apeed on high. Flta exactly. At tach it yourself. SO off list where no agents. Big profits selling our goods. We lit all motors. Write for 30 day trial offer snd money back guarantee. Tba Air-Friction CtftwUr Cow 70S MmUmw St. Dayton, Okie Halo for Satan. Certainly most of us would he t»ur pri.-ud to see a picture Of the devil with h halo above his head. We have become accustomed to recognize the halo mm a perquisite of sacred persona, most of whom are painted with this aura around their head, states a writ er. But In the olden times the devil also was painted with a halo of hia own, as medieval pictures will bear witness, and long before his satanic 4 majesty came to l»e a figure In Chris tian , religion, other men were repre aented by palhters and mosaic work ers as having a halo over their heads. In fact, this custom antedates Chris tianity itself. The halo, sacred now, was a pagan Invention. Koiimn em perors and other personages were al ways accorded a halo by painters. It WHS a symbol of power. And what more nutural than to Invest satan with a halo when Christianity took hold of man's' souls? For he was the supreme embodiment of wickedness, of power diverted to bad ends. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications hs they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There la only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness, snd that la by a constitutional remedy If A i.i.'S CATARRH MEDICINE acta through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the flystem. Catarrhal Deafneaa la caused by an Inflamed condition of tha mucoua lining of the Eustachian Tube. When thla tube la Inflamed you have a rumbling aound or Imperfect hearing, and when tt ia entlreJjr closed, Deafness la the result.,. Unless the Inflammation con be re duced' and thla tube restored to Ita nor mal condition, hearing may be destroyed forever. Many cases of Deafneaa are caused by Catarrh, which la an Inflamad condition of the Mucous Surfaces. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any caae of Catarrhal Deafneaa that cannot be cured by HALL'B CATARRH MEDICINB. All Drugulata 75e. Clrculara frea F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo. Ohio. Met Him Faca to Face. One of those persistently wrong headed persons who voted against votes for women was asked by a cow ardly acquaintance how he liiul dared vote as he had done In face of the fnct that his wife was an ardent and lead ing upholder of the cause. "Not only that," said the wrong headed person proudly. "Not only that. She was actually a watcher at the polling place where I voted." lie added that the world was going to the doggg. —-New York Cost. CUTICURA HEALS SORE HANDS That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and Bleed—Trial Free. In a wonderfully short time in most cases these fragrant, super-creamy emollients succeed. Soak hands On re tiring In the hot suds of Cutlcura Soap, dry and rub Cutlcura Ointment Jnto the hands for some time. Remove sur plus Ointment with soft tissue paper. Free sample each by mall with Book. Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Quite True. Wlfo—Do you know, deary, that minds are vehicles? When without a load they make much noise and when loaded they run smoothly. Husband (sarcastically)— Yes, that's the reason why your mind Is like a flivver, while mine Is like a truck. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. Yon know what yon are taking, as the formula ia printed on every label, showing it is Buiniae and Iron in a tasteless form. The uinine drives oat malaria, the Iron builds np the aystem. 6o cents. Begin at Home Firat. It's a poor piety that sees the short comings of others only and doesn't ace them In self. It's the better to find fault with self first.—Exchange The Qmmimt Thai Den Net Effect Heed Rmkuh of Its tools and laxaUve effect. Laxative Bromo Quinine eaa be taken by anyone without reusing nervousness or ringing In the bead. There Is only one "Bromo Qalalae." ■. W. QSOVB'S •Igaalare Is oa box. Mo. * ' Minnesota produced 86,900,000 hush els of corn and 06,470,000 bushels of wheat. When you hare decided to fet rid of worms or Tapeworm, use "Dead Shot." Dr. Peery" a Vcrmlfuce. One doee will expel Adv. Humanity Is more extravagant with .anathemas thnn with praise. When Your Eyes Need Care Try Marine Eve Remedy

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