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; homet, who was not on speaking terms * with Kamran, king of Herat, and Pot-- tinger's job was to Herat 2 _ horse--copper disguise was useless now, ./: .. #q Pottinger became a Mahommedan > wsyed, or professional holy man. : He . slipped out of the capital on foot by * night and made hbis way to his camp. ; Bo he reached the couptry of the Haza-- : reh tribes, where his whole expedition j was captured by the principal robber, es * Jakoob Beg, who did a fairly good business in selling travelers, as slaves, 1 CAPTAINS OF --____" away his piace was taKeq by a eanuch, . ~who at once got a ball in the lungs. .. "... M# had narrow escapes without end, . * «At the end of six wonths, June 24, & the Porsians trisd to carty the «.. _ panee by a nl "".{""'"" tinger ~was out of place in crowded England. Gunpowder is good exciting stuff to play with, and there could be uo wbjection to his blowing up himself and 'his little brother, because that was all in the family ; but when he mined the garden walil and it fell on a couple of neighbors, they highly took offense ; and when his finely invented bomb went bf at Addiszscombe college he rose to the level of a public nuisance. On the whole, it must have been a reliet to 'his friends when be went to India. There he had an uncle, the president in Bcinde, a shrewd man who .shipped young Pottinger to the greatest possli-- The political situation in Afghani-- 'mvumuulhowl,ludnud oriental kingdomas, and the full particu-- lars wodld bore the reader just as they bored me. It was Pottinger's business to find out and report the exact state of affairs at a time when any. white man visiting the country was guaran-- teed, if and when found, to have his throat cut. -- Being clever at native lnnr with a very fory a] as a pative horge dealer, and reached way ' of covering my --silence, --and <to avold much questioning, took to my beads and kept telling them with great perseverapce, much to the increase of my reputation as a holy personage." ---- Whe trouble was that Pottinger and his devout followers were of the Sou-- nee faith, whereas the robber was of the Sheeah persuasion. 'The difference was something like that between our COatholics and Protestants, and Pottin-- ger was like a Methodist minister try-- ing to pass himself off for a cardinal without knowing the little points of peared a well--meaning, sensgible person. He, however, was quite in the hands of his consin--an i#l1--favored, sullen and treacherous--looking rascal, I, by the one another into all sorts of ridiculous biunders, so that the ill--favored cousin suspected Pottinger of being a fraud. "Why, he may be a Feringhes him-- gelt." said the cousin. "I have always heard that the Hindustancees are black, 'nnd this man is falrer than weo are." But then the Feringhees--the British-- were supposed to be monsters, and Poltinger was in no way monstrous to look at, o that he managed to talk round the corner, and-- at the end of a xflwmpm*v'h' of a fine gun to the chief, 'They set o# very blithely into the mountains, but had not gone far when the chief's riders came romping in pursoit, and herded them back, presumably to have their throats cut according to local turned put, had been unable to make the gun go off, but finding it worked gll right if handled properly, dismissed the spy with his blessing. Kighteen dayw' journey brought him to Herat, where he felt perfectir safe, strolling unarmed in the country outzide the walls, until a gang of slave catchers made him an easy prey. His follower, Bynd Abmed, scared them off by shout-- ing to an'imaginary escort. Bhah Kamran, with his visier, Yar Mahomed, had been out of town, but on their return to Herat, Pottinger in-- troduced himself to the king as a Brit-- ish officer, and his gift of a brace of pistols was graciousiy accepted. MWot long afterward a Persian army came up against Herat, and with that force there were Russian oficers. For onte the Heratis could look for no help From earliest childhood Kldred Pot-- Coppyright by Bobbs--Merril! Company mighty fortress, the key to the gates #f India, was guarded by a cur. If Herat fell the way was open for Rus-- wls, the ancient road to India of all the conguerors. 'There is the reason why the British had sent a spy to Herat. The Heratis were,quick to seek the advice of the British oficer, who or-- ganized the defense and in the end took charge, the one competent man in the garrison. Shah Kamran sent him with a fag of truce to the Persian army, The Persian soldiers halled him with rapture, thinking they would soon get home to their wives and families; they patted his lega, they caressed his hores, they sghouted "Bravo! Bravol Welcome! The ERoglish were always Ariends of the king of kings 1" e Pottinger was brought before the shah of Persia, who would accept no MRnglishman ridiculed, ~He went back to 'the city, and the sliege woent on for his quarters, but he took no harm, One ~MWA¢L-M!-N ramparts, watching a Persian attempt A gahell burst the house next door to blackmatli. * ape Ts Tt stogcle wes frich ts was bloody. 'The defenders fell at their posts to a man, and the work was car-- ried by the besiegers. ~EKncouraged by this Arst success, the storming party pushed on up the slope, but a galling Are from the garrison met them as they advanced. The officers and men of the column were mown down ; there was a second brief and bloody struggle, and. while a few of the most daring of the assailants, pushing in advance of uumm--du.wdm breach. But now Deen Mabhomed came thus recruited the defenders gathered new heart, so that the Persiauns in the breach were driven back.' Again and again, with desperate courage, they struggled to effect a lodgment, only to be. repulsed and thrown <back. in con-- fusion vpon their comrades, who were NHerce, the issue doubtful.: Now the: breach was well--nigh carried ; and now the stormers, recolling from the shock of the defense, fell back upon the ex-- terior slope of the fausse--braye. "Startled by the noize of the assault Yar Mahomed (the vizier) had risen up, left his quarters and ridden down to the works. -- Pottinger went forth at the sgame time and on the same errand. Giving instructions to his dependents to be carried out in the event of his falling in the defense, he hastened to join the vizier. . , . As they neared the point-- of the attack the garrison were seen retreating by twos and threeés; others were quitting the works on the pretext of carrying off the wounded. . . . Pottinger was eager to push--on to the breach; Yar Mahomed sat himsgelf down. The vitier had lost heart; his wonted 'high courage and collectedness had deserted him. 'As tonished and indignant, the English of-- ficer called upon the vizler again and egain to rouse himself. The Afghan chief rose up and advanced further in to the works, and neared the breach where the conflict was raging. Yar Mahomed called upon his men in God's name to fight; but they wavered and stood still. 'Then his heart falled him again. He turned back, said he would go for ald. Alarmed by the backward-- ness of their chief the men were now retreating in every direction." Pottin ger swore. j > Yar roused himself, again advanced, shame. "He reviled, he threatened, he seited him by the arm and dragged him forward to the breach." Now comes but again wavered, and a third time Pottinger by word and deed put him to out <language of the official va'iofl-} Yar,.hounded to desperation by Poftin-- ger, seized a staff, rushed like a wild-- cat on the retreating soldiers, and so horrified 'them that they boited back p'vpthchtuchmnthowwdomu the face of the Persians. -- And the Per-- sians fied! Herat was saved. _ inn_u-.unu:mu-j upy, aiso an, ; officer, Aleran der Burnes, Z'Zu.m- been mdjutant of his regiment and rose very steadily from rank to rank . uatil he "was uent as an envoy to Runjeet Singh, the ruler of Punjab, and to thh ameers of Scinde. In those days northwestern army to explain that it was infamous of the Shah Kamran to have an infidel in charge of the defense. "Give him «p," said the Persians, "'ndvu'llnl-o mu,oaa,luhflw-dht gentleman might 'take it into his head to surrender the shah of Herat. Another six months of stege, with famine, mutiny and all the usual wor ries of belenguered towns fnished Pot-- tinger's work, the saving of Herat. Th 1882 he aet out on his second miz sion.through Afghanistan, Bokbara and Persia. See how he wrote from Cabul: "I do not despair of reaching Istam-- bot© (Constaiitinople) in safety, 'They may seize me and sell me for + slave, but no one will attack me for my tHithes, . . . I have no tent, no chair or tadle, no bed, and my clothes altogeth-- er amount ty the value of one pound sterling. You would disown your son If you saw him. My dress is parely Asi-- atic, and since I came into Ca¥ul has been changed to that of the lowest or-- ders of the people. My head is shaved of its brown locks, and my beard dyed black grieves . . . for the departed beauty of youth. 1 now eat my meals tith my hands, and greasy digits they are, though I must say in justification, thait I vash before and after meals. . . . I tfrequently sleep under a tree, but if ® villager will take compassion on me that I am a European, and I have as yet found the character advantrageous to my comfort. The people know me by the name of Sekunder, which is the Persian for Alexander, . , . With all my assumed poverty I have a bag of ducatsa round my waist, and bills for as much money as 1 chooge to draw. . . . When I go into company I put my hand on my heart and say, with all hurility, tp the master of the house, 'Peace be unto thee,' according to the custom, and then I squat myselft down on the ground. 'This familiatrity has given me an lnsight Into the charater of the people . . . kind--hearted and hospitable, they have no prejudices against a Christian and none against our nation. When they ask me if I eat pork, 1, of course, ahudder, and say that it is only }mtut commit such ontrages. God forgive me! for 1 am very fond of #ood horse in case I should find it necessary to take to my heels My whole baggage on earth goes on one mule, which my servant sits supercar go. . . . I never was in better «p.rits." After his wonderful journey FPurnes was sent to England to make his ro-- port to the government, and King WIit Mam IV must neods hear the whole of the story at Brighton pavilion. F The third journey of this groat epy was called the commercial mission to Onbut, There he loarned that the Per-- wlan atige of Herat was beitig more or lran _conducted _by .Russian .o0licers, with we can forsake the tedi-- , and Trugssians swarmed at the court of Dost Mahomed, and an ambassador from the esar was there trying to make a treaty. Great was the indignation and alarm hmhdh.,l.ta'lfir(nnll- sian invasion, in panic has'te the gor-- ernment made a big famous blunder, for, without waiting to know how Dost «wias fooling the Russians, an army was sent through the terrible Bolan pass. That sixty--mile abyss, 'with banging walls, belongs to the Pathans, the fRercest and wildest of all the tribes uf men. 'The army climbed through the death trap, marched, starving,, on advamed on Cabul. But Dost's son, ~were ericket matches, -- thentricals, eports. 'The governor general in camp ; gave a state dinner in honor of Major : "W.fibhlcc-ohmu --iege of Herat, During the reception Obhuznee, a quite i that bad to be taken, Oflx.vhflolm.tuctm betng en the other side of the fortress, Captain Thomson placed nine hundred pounds of gunpowder at the Soot of a walled--up gate, and then. touched off the charge. 'The Twenty-- Arst light Infantry climbed over the amoking ruins and, at the head of bis storming column, Colonel Dennie, in thra hours fighting, took the citadel. ~PDost Mabomed fed and the British en-- tered Cabul to put a puppet sovercign on the throbhe. . watched, leaning against a door--poest, and the court oficials were about to remove this intruder when the gover-- mor general approached, leading his sig-- ter. "Let me presoent you," anid Lord Anckland, "to Mdéred Pottinger, the hero of Herat." 'This shabby Afghan was the guest of honor, but nobody : would listen to his warnings, or to the warnings of Sir Alexander Burnes, as-- vistant resident, Only the two aples know what was to come. Then the vol-- cano blew up. Burnes had a Orother staying with him in --Cabul, also his military secre-- tary; and when the mob, savage, ¢x-- tcited, bent on massacre, swarmsd: round his house he spoke to them from the balcony, 'While he talked Lieaten-- ant Broadfoot fell at his side, struck by a ball in the chest. The stables were qn fAre, the mob filled his garden. ne,oa:ndtomytunha'uflh brother's life and his own, #6 a Cash mirl volunteered to save them in Ols-- guise. They put on native clothes, they alilpped into the garden, and then their guide shouted, "This is Sekunder Burnes!" The 'two brothers were cat Pottinger was political agent at Ko-- histan, to the northward, and when the whote Afghan nation rose in ye-- vonhl-fofimngdymthu be and his retinve stdis away in the dark, joining a COhoorka regiment. But water supply cut of. Pottinger fought the guns ; the men repolled attacks by night and day untll worn out; dying of thirst in an Intolerable \ngony the Tiie Taip & few wes Poitind toung lillts Only a tew men a Poltinger to fight through to and he was fearfuolly wounded, unable to command, Of hbis staft and the Ghoorka regiment only fAve men weore allve wheon they entered Cabol, . _ _ The officér commanding at Cabul was not in good health, but blsa death ¥as pnfortunately delayed while Jhe %q&m 'F Gordon, World and Mational President; Mre. Vice of the World W, C. Fight: Rits, Sapa H. Hoge, Assistant Eoramg." _ _ | r NRUSADERS of early temper, ember 8. Floats the work Cm&lp'u'"m&bh&d ghm.mnagw I * the organization since 1874, will be 'mmmd "moffim * i the National Woman's 'Christian MJWM". (Temperance® Union which began in m of th)htirl Meimorial Hail, Columbus, O, on Republican Committee by the late Bept. 4, and continues until Sept. 14. &dlwofm' | Several thousand women will--takebus women, who welcomed the W. rflbi\'M'd'Ml C. T. U. delegates from all over the spectacular street parade, in which United States. > . .. ~ . ' i s ns ho t s medepretingsntie pthee 's fions in Col-- Xe Gov. Du;:"y, Miss Grace Ambus, Saturday -- afternoon, Sept-- Cooper, fin. Mabe! Walker Wille-- T. U. HONOR CRUSADERS OF OTHER DAYS IN NATIONAL CONVENTION AT COLUMBUSs, OHIO children, and the British troops, for lack of a leader, funked. Envoys wait ed on Akbar Khan, and were my dered. The few officers who kept their heads were without authority, bi cked at every turn by cowards, by incompe-- tents. Then the council of war made treaty with Akbar, giving him all the guns except six, all the treasure, three officers as hostages, bills drawn on India for forty thousand rupees, the honor of their=country, everything for safe 'conduct in their disgrace. Dying of cold and bunger, the force marched Into the Khoord--Cabul pass, and at the uddrthm"mflnmnhdm were surrendered with their wives and three--fourths were dead when the ofl-- cer commanding and the gailant"Brig adier Skeiten were given up as how# tages to Akbar, 'The survivor .: pushed :!,wm-!mnlflkfl#m ~ =d4 barri here army, one man, Doctor Brydon, on starved pony, sinking with exhaustion, rode in through the gates of Fort Jel Inlabad. t | The captured general had sent : 'ders hmm««mmm.bdm rison thropgh the awful defiles of the 1 KXhyber pass in 'f2ce of a hostile armg, 1 and in the dead of winter; but Gere i eral Sale, commanding, was not mich a mp.hup,urdm.bhtthonrmal rebuilt the 'walls Then they sallied and, leod by Henry Havelock, assa Akbar's camp, smashed bis army to fiying fragments, captured his gu0% 'baggage standards, ammunition and food. Nine days later the bands of the garris a marched out to meet a relier ing army fromm India. 'They were play-- Ing an old tune, "Oh, but ye've been was the lina] masmacte, °* NV 9"°"°~| the Asores, where he wrote a famons | Englisl army, one man, Doctor Brydon, 0N 4) nooy on pfiotege He tells us about| also in starved pony, sinking with exhaustlon;| wmo -- peamanship of Portug5¢8® whose : rode in through the gates of Fort J8F| 'propmeygs in terms of withering cort, w Tha eantured reneral had sent : 'ders ..'.:..:u. --_:m-nl-h'm was S C T. Um&aflh'gw;':i the organization since 1874, will be a feature of this parade. * . Mrs.> John Gordon Battelle, ap-- Tepubliors Cnmantice by the hate ibli &ufl!&u'by ~Jlate President, 'arren ~G.~ héaded a Committee of 5,000 | bus women, who welcomed the W. C. T. U. delegates from all over the well--treated, were hurried from fort to tut.vlthnnolmdmb' for sale at s. much a slave, until they mangged to bribe an Afghan chief, Fhe bribed man led a revolt agninst um.mmmmmml joined him, swearing on th6 Koran ab legiance to Eldred Pottinger, 'When Akbar fell, Pottinger marched as lead~ 'or of the revolted chiefs on the way to Cabul, One day, as the ladies and children were resting in an old: fort for sheliter during the great heai of the afterncon, they heard the tramp of horsemen and, in the dend slience of a 1 ard gralitude too great for utter tmxe, recetved the relleving force. Inng o° comin'" _ We have come to thoclimax of tha great century, the ago of the Renaln mauce, when Rorops was born again; of tha Reformation, when the Protes-- tants of the Raltic fooght the Cath and all<ths aplendors of Akbar the Magnifi¢ent, before hoer obb set down-- ward Into ruin, * I Portogal ~and Spato," under one crown, shared the plunder of the Mles and the mastery of the sea. . THE FOUR ARMADAS A. D. 1887 §arTi800| wiot, master and a dozen others on """"'Illmmo-bn!.mnmm assa mntnmndnr.ud" ';r-rbl IM'&.'M'N"" g090% on 'mmm tion and : an Italan staman who cried, "Why ReteG. Daper: Msourt, and Mz elle mlboufi,-dln. : Miss Anna A. Gordon, world and national president of the W.C. T. U. in her address stressed the influ« brandt and Pr. Mary Harris Armor, in ty Ne Sropom acigge Tig ence of women in bringing about the prohibition améendment and the %'W'h' 1924 election, _ _ ...' U"| lards was on --a much Jarger §CC : Where Portugal lost a ship Spain ad bungled awnay & fieet, and never was Incompetence more frightfally pan :m&-umm«mm» * madas, wi * m| ward. They had Ave million people, ";'c-a the ainth part ot:'&m satrongth ; no batileahipa, Im| ty ernisers. 'The merthant servicé rak Then, as theé century waned, a third class power, the island state of Kng-- land, claimed the command of the sea, and planted the seeds of an empire destined to overshadow the roinz of Epain, as well as the wreck of Isolam. Here opened broad felde of adven ture.> There were German and Eng lish merchants secking trade in India, Dutch ganners in the service of east mmmmwm these nations as alaves in gat leys or in Spanish mines; everywhere sea fAights, abipwrecks, trails of lost men wandering in. unknown lands, watters of desert lslands, and wrecked mum-::m': In all this tansle we muost umfl-&nl&nl"{ from a Hollander, Mynheer, J. H. van Linschoten, who was clerk to the Por tuguese archbishop of the Indies and afterward in busipess at Tereeira in the Azsores, where he wroto a famous book on pllotage. He tells us about the seamanship of Portugueso & Spanlards in terms of withering tempt as a mixture of and cowardice, enough to explain the downfall and roin of their empires. deared from Cochin were worth, wilh of modern money. Not content with that, the swindlers in charge removed the 'ballist to make room for more citmamon, whereby tho Arreliquias eapsized and sank. The San lago, having her bottom ripped out by a coral reef, her admiral,. mmm.mm.'- into a boat, keeping it with naked mufllm'tdflr.ud" Left without any oficers, the gopue-m'm-mm an Italan staman who cried, "Why tre we thus abashed?" So ninety vali-- ant mariners took the longboat and teared, hacking off the fingers, hands und arms of the drowning women who held on to her ganwale. As to the pilot who caused this lit-- tHe accident, he afterward had charge of the San Thomas "full of people, and most of the gentility of India," and lost with all hands. <'~>~ _ \ lled a pundred yomselb the slzg of Nsh-- ~ But if the seamanship of the Portn-- yuese made it a miracle if they 0# eaped destruction, that of the Span Incompetence more frightfolly pan-- ished thin If the doom of the four ar-- madas, _ * * mnmmmm tant ahnd in 1087 he resolvea to sond a. mission to England also, but ) he was preparing the Arst armada Drake came and burned :.#-uu-mmmnnu year later the second, the great «fmada, was'ready, one hundred thir» ty thips in line of battle, which was to embark the army in Holland, and Invade Rngland with a feld force of troops in' Rurope. Were the British fleet of today to .mmmmnmunm be much the same, 1t was a comfort to the Rnglish that they had given most ample provocation and to spare, but still they felt it was very awk a comfort had given 1 to apare, very awk-- on people, ie present mase of 'maggots, while the ship's :«dvainage Iuto the ballast turned ev-- ery galleon into a floating pest house. The admiral was a fool, the captains were landlubbers, the ships would not steer, and the guns cou}d not be fought. The soldiers, navigators, boatswaing and quartermasters cwere alike--too proud to help the short--handed, over worked seamen, while two thousand of the people were galley slaves wait-- Ing to turn on their masters. -- Worst of all, this fantastle, dooined armada was to attack from Holland, without mtnm England's | terrific of shoals and quick-- and nobody in England --dared to hope. To do Spain justice she made plenty of nolse, gixing ample warning. Ouly the ° minor details were. overlooked : that the cordage was rotten, the pow-- der dawp, the wine sour, the water putrid, the biscuits and the beef a squadron leaders were Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher. The leaders were prac-- tical seamen, who led, not drove the Bmall were her ships and woetfully. short of powder, but they served the wicked, valiant queen who pawned her sou! for England. Her admiral was zfl.flv "'W'rb--o-lm iish line of battle seven miles across, but when the moyth Hoe, had time to finish his game of bowis before he puat to sea. ¥From hill to hill through Engiand the beacon fires roused the men, the church bells called them to prayer, and all along the #gouthern coast fort echoed fort while guns and trumpets ap-- nounced the armada's coming. The fearfully swift to eat up stragglers, snapped like a wolt--pack at the heels Dbf Spain. Four days and, nights on end the armada was goaded and torn in sleepless misery, no longer in line of battle, but and fiying. At the straits turned at bay with thirty-- five guns, but eight ships bore down on fire, stampeding the broken fieet,._to _be slaughtered, foundered, burned or cast away, strewipg the coast with wreckage from Dover to Cape Wrath and down the Western Isles, Wifty--three ruined ships got back to Spain with a tale of storms and the . English which Europe has never for-- gotten, insuring tlie peace of English . homes for three whole centuries. | A year passed, and the largest of all the armadas ventured to sea, this time from the West Indies, a treasure fieet for Spain. Of two bundred twenty whips clearing not than ffteen uuna.un-tu:":rw-tm 'or taken." Storms and the English de stroyed that third armada. The fourth year passed, marked by a burricane in the Western Isles, and & great increase of England's reckoning, :2".""-'.-"':::: fourth armade. To meet and convoy. her treasure fieet of one hundred ten sail from the ships to the Asores, 'There lay. an English squadron of sixteen vessels, also in waiting for the treasure fieet, whose policy was not to attack the es-- gort, which carried no plunder worth taking. Lord Ho#ard's vice admiral was Sir Richard Grenvillie, command-- ing Drake's old flagship, the Revenge, of seven hundred tons, This Grenville, sys Linschoten, was a wealthy man, a little eccentric also, for dining once with some Bpanish oficers he must wmamotm-ho- glasses, and believe to swallow ma-mmmm-hhlln He was "very unquiet in his mind, and greatly affected to trar," dreaded by the Spaniards, detested by his men. On sighting the Spanish squadron of escort, put to sea, but Greom yille a bhundred sick men to bring an board the Revenge; his hale men were skylarking ashore, He stayed be-- hind, and when he attempted to reJoin ho squadron the Spanish fleet of e# cort was in hbis way. On board the Revenge the master gave orders to alter course for flight until Grenville threatened to hang him. It was Grenvilic's sole fauit that he wmmwdflm each of them double the size of the Revenge. Bo one astall cruiser for the reat of the day and all night fought a whole feet, engaging from first to last thirt¢en ships of the line. She sank two ships and wellmigh wrecked five more, the Spantards losing four bun-- dred men in a fight with seventy. Only when their admiral lay shot through the head, fnd their last gun was silenced, their last boarding pike bro-- .mmmmmmmm left alive, made terms with the Span lards and lald down their arms. Grenville was carried--on board the fagship, _officers of the wm.b"hhh or, and in their own Iahguage he spoke mmumm:ma& Richard Grenville, with a joyful and 'qulet mind, for 1 have ended my life nl-mfidlm""'"hfi M(.m , gueen, rellglon ,M"tm-'""" fully departeth out of this body; and aball leave behind it an everlasting fame of a vallant and true soldler that hath done his duty s# he was bound to 40# * , With that he died, and his body was committed to the sen, As to those who survived o6f --his--ship's company, the Spaniards treated them with honmot ; mm-- as free mon home to But they believed thas the body ot Grenville too weak to attack, but PE its eactort, in all one bundred seven r Fucus un Bonus rayments -- !-- State bonus payments, according to the department commander's ad-- vice, stopped temporarily about Aug. 1, af claim No. 59,404, after a total of 41,050 claims had been pald. On !uu. 1, a total of 253,536 ¢laims had been filed, and 71,843 had been making within Ave years a total loss of four bundred eighty--nine capital "Fortune, or rather dod, was wholly ships, in all the greatest sea calamity that ever befell' a nation. Mear then the comment of Linschoten, the Dutch» against them. Which is a sguficient cause to make the Spaniards out of-- heart; and on the contrary to give the Englishmen more courage, and to make them bolider. For they are victorious, stout and vallint; and wl their enter« prises do take so good an effect that they are, hereby, become the lords and masters of the sea."* : The Portugnese were by no means the Arst seamen to round the Cape of Good Hope. About six hundred yeare B. C, the Pharaok of Egypt, Niko, sent a Phoenician squadron from the Red Sea, to find their way round Africa and through Gibraltar strait, back to the Wile, "When autumn came they went ashore, wherever they wight happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited (ill the grain was At to eat. 'Haying reaped it, they again _m.'g:g-dwuua-flonthn two whole years went by, and it was not until the third year that they dow BONUS, BONUS, _ wHo's GO1MIT? __ VETERANS ASK question, "Did you get your bouns?" at the fifth annual convention bere of the Americen Legion Sept. 17 and 18. <» Department Commander . Charles W. Schick has noticed the incréased importance the bonus had aittained: recently, and at state headquarters at Bloomington. -- Department" Adju-- tant Perey Owen says a day doeen't pass now without a dozen or #o per-- Danville, BDL, Sept. -- 18.--Ds guished vidlor& and internal polli will share 4n t --with one . 8 State Payment to Vets to Be -- Discussed at Convention of _ LOCAL VETS TO-- ATTEND= turn, they decliared--for my part, 1 do not believe them, but perhaps others may--that in sailing round Lybia (Af-- rica), they had the sun on their right»-- band" (1, e. in the northern sky). sonal calls by service men who are still watching for the mail for a ii;t;di}:mmm Bchick bas an« nounted lllinols convention prob» ably will give an unexpeclid impet-- approved. The average claim among the first 70,000 was §$21% Both United Btates senators from Hilinois who coted for the bonus later vetocd By the president, are erpect-- ed at the convention. SBenator Me-- dill McCormick having . deélinitely promised to be there, the convention committee has announced. A number of lilinolis congressmen are also ¢%-- pecicd. geve=ys 7 Beside legisiators, the distinguish-- ed visitors list will include at least five generals: Gen. Heary Reiliy, Gen. Milton J. Foreman, Gen. Dawes, Gen. Bell and Gen. Berry; also Na-- tional Commander Alvina Owsley, if he is back from Europe, former Nal tional Commander Hanford MacNid« er and National Vice Commander George Berry, who is also intern@¥ tional president of the pressmen's union. + Expect® 15,000 Visitors Preparations are being made here for a gathering of from 15,000 to 18000 visitors. According. to an-- nouncement by the local committte, "plans have been completed whereby, everyone will be assured a place to sleep, and for those who drive io mobiles. After the garages are filled automobiles® will be eystematically parked, in vacant loto near the heart er and Nalionai YVe . Wornuntmnt George Berry, who is also intern® tional president of the pressmen's union. », Expect 15,000 Visitors \tor a gathering of from 15,000 to 18 anD0 visitors. _ According. to an free of charge." * Twenty bands will march in the parade, whicsh . will divide chief in-- térest the second day of the conven-- tion with the annual election. The first day will be devoted largely to organization, appointment of com« mittees and speeches of distinguish ed guests. Reports of committces and the bulk of business will reech the convention floor the second day. Decision on next year's risetiog place will bo one of the. important matler® of business. f w use #] tees massos--the mateAs'*s--Re erory-- where about us, 'What w¢ asad is th¢ tclestlat fire to changs twt Sint Inteo transparent inprerraenffedinne t pa sn l O highoo 4 e -- Ddospreaating B4A 1. cologhire !s aw,. cludd the umsst NA.j 1 tv--* mwitwaitas * *# what yon t:*. 14 compitah i thrie,. tLeairn t wwk l&» tt*:*%i:J»KRamen W, $H0t, _ ~mmogar) Work a* Geniug. _ .o=!\ _ A\l the mears atf action, the abape Pilliars of Hercules, and made city, under special guardd, um en comtrnh AMRGhe ce ce by hi