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t* '»t *" ; THE BiffMrRf PT.Alr'frbKkti^'. Hid *0 • -w w & U f c ? & xt 1; i®v-^'.;v:^ Rifles •|4 Romance of Adventure By TALBOT MUNDY Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrill Company THE MYSTERIOUS RANGAR DESERTS CAPT. KING AND HIS < CUTTHROAT ESCORT IN A DANGEROUS PART OF KHY­ BER PASS Ar;D ADVENTURES COME RAPIDLY. !t; }: Ss-;. !fl" - : , . • m Synopsis.--At the beginning of the world war Cnpt. Athelstan »Cly>g of the British ̂ Indian army and of its secret service, is ordered to Delhi to meet Yasmini, a dancer, and go with her to Khinjan to quiet the outlaws there who are said by spies to be preparing for a Jihad or holy war. On his way to Delhi King quietly foils a plan to assassinate him and gets evidence that Yasmini is after him. He meets Rewa Gunga. Yasmini's man, who says she has already gone north, and at her town house witnesses queer dances. Ismail, an Afridi, be­ comes his body servant and protector. He rescues some of Yasmlni's hiiimen and takes them north with him, tricking the Rangar into going ahe^dL kr- •'» CHAPTER VI--Continued. It was not a long journey, nor a very Blow one, for there was nothing to block the way except occasional men with flags, who guarded culverts and Uttle bridges. It was low tide under dbe Himalayas. The flood that was draining India of her armed men had left Jamrud high and dry with a little nondescript force stranded there, as It were, under a British major and ®me native officers. Frowning over Jamrud were the lean "Hills," peopled by the fiercest fighting men on earth, and the clouds that hung over the Khy- ber's coarse were an accent to the sav­ agery. * But King smiled merrily as he Jumped out of the train, and Rewa Hunga, who was there to meet him, v advanced with outstretched hand and a smile Ihat would have melted snow 4D the distant peaks if he had only ,/l|okt*d the other way. < •We'cone, King sahib!" he: laughed, with the air of a skilled fencer who admires another, better one. "I shall know better another time and let you : teep In front of me! I trust you had ^comfortable journey?" "Thanks," said King, shaking hands * With him, and then turning away to un- P • lock the carriage doors that held his prisoners in. They were baying now like wolves to be free, and tl^ey surged oat, like wolves from a cage, to clamor wrand the Rangar, pawing him and fltruggling to be the first to ask him v questions. "Nay, ye mountain people; nay!" he laughed. "I, too, am from the plains! What do I know of your families or fJpV/f' of your friends? Am I to 'jC torn to faeces to make a meal?'* r/;\ : At that Ismail interfered, with the an ash pick handle, chance- found beside the track. Laughing as ... the whole thing was the greatest ' J°ke Imaginable, Rewa Gunga fell into rfq ' stride beside King and led him away In s/ the direction of some tents. If/ ¥ ' "She is up the pass ahead of us," he announced. "She was in the deuce V$*." Of a hurry, I can assure you. She want- t° wait and meet you, but matter* - *7 were too jolly well urgent, and we tT. ' Aall have our bally work cut out to 4 iatch her, you can bet! But I have If-:' everything ready--tents and beds and stores--everything!** Iv I . Kl°S looked over his shoulder to p ^ IBake sure that Ismail was bringing Fi" _ k • little leather bag along. "So have I," he said quietly. "I have horses,' said Rewa Gunga, *and mules and--" "How did she travel up the Khy- i*«r?" King asked him, and the Rangar Spared him a curious sidewlse glance. "The "Hills' are her escort. King sa- JMb. She Is mistress In the 'Hills? inhere Isn't a murdering ruffian who ^*ould not He down and let her walk j^n him! She rode away alone on a ^thoroughbred niare and she jolly well fkeft me the mare's double on which to Hollow her. Come and look." Not far from where the fents had ;5been pitched la a cluster a string of Worses whinnied at a picket rope. King , faw the two good horses rer dy for -lliimself, and ten mules" Reside them ; Jtllat would have done credit to any fiutfit. But at the end of the line, paw-ng at the trampled grass, was a black J|nare that nrade his eyes open wide. k)nce in a hvndred years or so a vice­ roy's cup or a Derby is won by an ani­ mal that can stand and look and move as that mare did. "Never saw anything better," King tK"r admitted ungrudgingly. "There in only one mare like this one," laughed the Rangar. "She has her." "What'll you take for this one?** King asked him. "Name your price!" "The mare is hers. You must ask her. Who knows? She is generous. There is nobody on earth more gen­ erous than Rhe when she cares to be. See what yon wear on your wrist!" "That is a loan," said King, uncover­ ing the bracelet. "I shall give It back to her when we meet." "See what she says when you meet!" p laughed the Rangar, taking a cigarette . '?•« from his jeweled case with an air and £ •' smiling as he lighted it. "There Is Tt. your tent, sahib." With a nod of dismissal. King * BS' 1 walked over to Inspect the bandobast, *, ®n<* finding lt much more extravagant *. than he would have dreamed of provid­ ing for himself, he lit one of his black &v cheroots, and with hands clasped be- $&.•••. hind him strolled over to the fort to f ;. Interview Courtenay, the officer- com- mandlng. / It so happened that Courtenay had gone up the pass that morning with his 'J'. - shotgun after quail. He came back ' 1 into view, followed by his little ten- '/it;. man escort just as King neared the "h , fOTt, and King timed his approach so as to meet him. The men of the escort were heavily burdened; he could see that from a distance. "Hello!" he said by the fort gate, cheerily, after he had saluted and the Heard you were coming, of course. Anything I can do?" "Tell me anything you know," said King, offering him a cheroot, which the other accepted. As he bit off the end they stood facing each other, so that King could see the oncoming escort and what it carried. Courtenay read his eyes. "Two of my men !" he said. "Found 'em up the pass. Gazl work, I think. They were cut all to pieces. There's a big lashkar gathering somewhere in the 'Hills,' and it might have been done by their skirmishers, but I don't think so." "Who's supposed to be leading It?" "Can't find out," said Courtenay. Then he stepped aside to give orders to the escort. They carried the dead bodies into the fort. "Know anything of Yasmini?" King asked, when the major stood In front of him again. "By reputation, of course, yes. Fa­ mous person--sings like a bulbul-- dances like the devil--lives in Delhi-- mean her?" King nodded. "When ,did she start up the pass?" he asked.. "She didn't start! I know .who goes up and who^ comes down." "Know anything of Rewa Gunga ?" King asked liim. ' "Not much. Tried to buy his mare. Seen the animal? G^id! I'd give a year's pay for that beast! He wouldn't sell and I don't blame him." "He told me just now," said King, "that Yasmini went up the pass unes- ii) his hand. He held It out and Cour* tenay took It and sniffed. "Well--I'll be blessed! A note"-- sniff-sniff--"on scented paper!" Sniff- sniff! "Carried down the Khyber in a split stick! Take it, King--it'? ad­ dressed to yon." King obeyed and sniffed too. It Smelt of something far more subtle than musk. He recognized the same strange scent that had been wafted from behind Yasminl's silken hangings In her room In Delhi. As he unfolded the note--it Wras not sealed--he found time for n swift glance at Rewa Gun­ ga's fnce. The Rangar seemed Inter­ ested and amused. The note, in Eng­ lish ran: "Dear Captain " • iCIflff: '• ICIn<py'<-• b« quirk to follow me, because there Is much talk of a lashkar getting ready for a raid., I shall wait for you in Khinjan, whither my messenger shall show the way. Please let him keep his rifle. Trust him, and Rewa Gunga and my thirty, whom you brought with you. The mes­ senger's name is Darya Kahn. Your serv­ ant. Yasmini." > He passed the' note to Courtenay, who read it and passed it back. "I'll find out," the major muttered, "how she got up the pass without my knowing it. Somebody's tail shall be twisted for this!" But he did not find out until King told him, and that was many days later, when a terrible cloud no longer threatened India from the north. Orttfop. He Recognized the Same Strange Scent That Had Been Wafted From Behind Yasmini's Silken Hangings in Her Room in Delhi. t aalute had been returned. s?£.< "Oh, hello, King! Glad to 7' / •- * r#'f < corted, mounted on a mare the very dead spit of the black one yon say you wanted to buy." Courtejiay whistled. "I'm sorry. King. I'm sorry to say he lied." King threw away his less than half consumed cheroot and they started to walk together toward King's camp. After a few minutes they arrived at a point from which they could see the prisoners lined up In a row facing Rewa Gunga. A less experienced eye than King's or Courtenay's could have recognized their attitude of reveren* obedience. Within two' minutes the Rangar stood facing them, looking more at ease than they. I was cautioning tho*e savages! he explained. "They're fin escort, but they need a reminder of the fact, else they might jolly well imagine them­ selves mountain goats and scatter among the 'Hills!'" He drew out his wonderful cigarette case and offered it open to Courtenay, who hesitated, and then helped him­ self. King refused. "Major Courtenay has just told me, said King, "that nobody resembling Yasmini has gone up the pass recently. Can you explain?" "Do you mean, can I explain why the major failed to see her? 'Pon my soul. King sahib, d'.vou want me to insult the man? Yasmini is too jolly clever for me. or for any other man I ever met; and the major's a man, Isn't he? He may pack the Khyber so full of men that there's only standing room nnd still she'll go up without his leave if she chooses! There Is nobody like Yasmini In all the world!" The Rangar was looking past him, facing the great gorge that lets the north of Asia trickle down Into India and back again when weather and the tribes permit. His eyes had become Interested in the distance. King won­ dered why--and looked--and saw. Courtenay saw, too. "Hail that man and bring him here I" he ordered. Ismail, keeping Ws distance with ears and eyes iVeeled, heard instantly and hurried off. Fifteen minutes Inter an Afridi stood scowling In front of yon. them with a little letter In a cleft stick ' CHAPTER VII. "I think I envy you!" said Courte­ nay. They were seated In Courtenay's tent, face to face across the low table, with guttering lights between and Is­ mail outside the tent handing plates and things to Courtenay's servant In­ side. "You're about the first who has ad­ mitted it," said King. Not far from them a herd of pack- camels grunted and bubbled after the evening meal. The evening breeze brought the smoke of dung fires down to them, and an Afghan--one of the little crowd of traders who had come down with the camels three hours ago --sang a wailing song about his lady­ love. Overhead the sky was like black velvet, pierced with silver holes. "You see, you can't call our end of this business war--it's sport," said Courtenay. "Two battalions of Khy­ ber rifles, hired to hold the pass against their own relations. Against them a couple of hundred thousand tribesmen, very hungry for loot, armed with up-to-date rifles, thanks to Russia yesterday and Germany today, and all perfectly well aware that a world war is in progress. That's sport, you know --not the 'image and likeness of war' that Jorrocks called It, but the real red root. And you've got a mystery thrown In to give it piquancy, I haven't found out yet how Yasmini got up the pass without ray knowl­ edge. I thought it was a trick. Didn't believe she'd gone. Yet all my men swear they know she has gone, and not one of them will own to hav­ ing seen her go! What d'you think of that?" For a while, as he ate Courtenay's broiled quail, King did not answer. But the merry smile had left his eyes and he seemed for once to be letting his mind dwell on conditions as they concerned himself. How many men have you at the fort?" he asked at lust. Two hundred--all natives." Like 'em?" What's the use of talking?" an­ swered Courtenay. "You know what it means when men of an alien race stand up to you and grin when they salute. They're my own." King nodded. "Die with you, eh?" "To the last man," said Courtenay quietly with that conviction that can only be arrived at In one way, and that not the easiest. "I'd die alone," said King. "It'll be lonely in the 'Hills.' Got any more quail?" And that was all he ever did say on that subject, then or at any other time. "What shall you do first after you get up the pass? Call on your brother at Ali Masjid? He's likely to know a lot by the time you get there." "Not sure," said King. *'May and may not. I'd like to see. him. Haven't seen - the old chap In a donkey's age. How is he?" "Well two days ago," said Courte­ nay. "Here's wishing you luck!" said King. "It's time to go, sir." He rose, and Courtenay walked with him to where his party waited in the dark, chilled by the cold wind whis­ tling down the Khyber. Rewa Gunga sat, mounted, at their head, and close to him his personal servant rode an­ other horse. Behind them were the mules, and then in a cluster, each with a load of some sort on his head, were the thirty prisoners, and Ismail took charge of them officiously. Darya Khan, the man who had brought the letter down the pass, kept close to Ismail. King mounted, and Courtenay shook hands; then he went to Rewa Gunga's side and shook hands with him, too. "Forward! March!" King ordered, and the little procession started. "Oh, men of the 'Hills,' ye look like ghosts --like graveyard ghosts!" jeered Courtenay. as they all filed pdst him. "Ye look like dead men, going to be Judged!" Nobody' answerod. They strode behind the horses, with the swift, si­ lent strides of men who are going home to the "Hills;" but even they, born In the "Hills" and knowing them as a wolf-pack knows its hunting ground, were awed by the gloom of Khyber mouth ahead. King's voicw was the first to break the silence, and ht> did not speak until Cotuteikay was out of earshot. Then: "Men of the •HEtlls}'.^ he cdlled^ "Kucfa dnr nahtti htil!" " * ! "Nahln hai! Hah!" shouted Ismail. "So speaks a man! Hear that, ye mountain folk! He says, There is no such thing as fear!'" In Ids place In the lead. King whis­ tled softly to himself; but he drew an automatic pistol from Its place be­ neath his armpit and transferred It to a readier position. Fear or no fear, Khyber mouth is haunted after dark by the men whose blood feuds are too reeking raw to let them dare go home and fbr whom the British hangman very likely waits a mHe or two farther south. It is one of the few places in the world where a pistol is better than a thick stick. Boulder, crag and loose rock faded Into gloom behind; in front on both hands ragged hillsides were be­ ginning to close In; and the wind, whose home is In Allah's refuse heap, whistled as It searched busily among the black ravines. Then presently the shadow of the thousand-foot-high Khyber walls began to cover them. After a while King's cheroot went out, and he threw it away. A little He Fired Straight at the Blue Light. later Rewav Gunga threw away his cigarette. After that, the veriest five- year-old among the Zakka Khels, watching sleepless over the rim of some stone watch tower, could have taken oath that the Khyber's unbur- ied dead were prowling in search of empty graves. Probably their un­ canny silence was their best protec­ tion ; but Rewa Gunga chose to break it after a time. "King sabib!" he called softly, re­ peating it louder and more loudly un­ til King heard him. "Slowly! Not so fast! There are men among those boulders, and to go too fast is to make them think you are afraid! To seem afraid is to invite attack! Can we defend ourselves, with three firearms between us? Look! What is that?" They were at the point where the road begins to lead uphill, westward, leaving the bed of a ravine and as­ cending to join the highway built by British engineers. Below, to left and right, was pit-mouth gloom, shadows amid shadows, full of eerie whisper­ ings, and King felt the short hair on his neck begin to rise. He urged his horse forward. The Rangar followed him, close up, and both horse and mare sensed excitement. "Look, sahib!" Aft^ a second or two he caught a glimpse of bluish flame that flashed suddenly and .died again, somewhere below to the right. Then all at once the flame burned brighter and stead­ ier and began to move and to grow. "Halt!" King thundered; and his voice was sharp and unexpected as a pistol crack. This was something tan­ gible, that a man could tackle--a per­ fect antidote for nerves. The blue light continued on a zig­ zag course, as if a man were running a'liong bowlders with an unusual sort o< torch; and as there was no answer King drew his pistol, took about thirty seconds' aim and fired. He fired straight at the blue light. It vanished instantly. Into measure­ less black silence. "Now you've Jolly well done It, haven't you!" the Rangar laughed in his ear. was her blue light-- Yasmini's!" It was a minute before King an­ swered, for both animals were all but frantic with their tense of their ris­ ers' state of mind; it needed horse­ manship to get them back under con­ trol. "How do you know whose light It was?" King demanded, when the horse and mare were head to head again. "It was prearranged. She promised me a signal at the point where I am to leave the track!" King drove both spurs home, and set his unwilling horse to scrambling downward at an angle he could not guess. Into blackness he could feel, trusting the animal to find a footing where his own eyes could make out nothing. To his disgust he heard the Ran­ gar immediately. To his even greater disgust the bluck mare overtook him. And even then, with his own mount stumbling and nearly pitching him headforemost at each lurch, he was forced to admire the mare's goatlike agility, for she descended Into the gorge in running leaps, never setting a wrong foot. When he and his horse reached the bottom at last he found the Rangar waiting for him. "This way, sahib!" The next he knew sparks from the black mare's heels were kicking up in front of him, and a wild ride had begun such as he had never yet dreamed of. There was no catching up, for the black mare could gallop two to his horse's one; but he set his teeth and followed into solid night, trusting ear, eye, guesswork and the god of the secret service men, who loves the reckless. • Once In every two miuutea he caught sight for a second of the same .blue siren Uglie that had started the race. He suspected that there were many torches placed at intervals. Ills own horse developed a speed and stamina he had not suspected, and probably the Rangar did not dare ex­ tend the mare to her limit in the dark; at al] events, for ten, perhaps fifteen, minutes of breathless gallop­ ing he almost made a race of it, keep­ ing the Rangar either within sight or sound. But then the mare swerved sud­ denly behind a bowlder and was gone. He spurred round the same great rock a minute later, and was faced by a blank wall of shale that brought his horse up all standing. It led steep up for a thousand feet to the skyline. There was not so much as a goat- track to show in which direction the mare had gone, nor a sound of any kind to guide him. He dismounted and stumbled about on foot for about ten minutes with his eyes two feet from the earth, try­ ing to find some trace of hoof. Then he listened, with his ear to .the ground. There was no result. He knew better than to shout. After some thought he mounted and began to hunt the way back, remem­ bering turns and twists with a gift for direction that natives might well have envied him. He found his way back to the foot of the road at a trot, where ninety-nine men out of al­ most any hundred would have been lost hopelessly; and close to the road he overtook Darya Khan, hugging his rifle and staring about like a scorpion at bay. "Did you expect that blue light, and this galloping away?" he asked. "Nay, sahib; I knew nothing of it! I was told to lead the way to Khin­ jan." "Come on, then!" On the level road above King stared about him and felt in his pockets for a fresh cheroot. He struck a match apd-watched it to be sure his hfind did not shake before he spoke. A man must command himself before trying It on others. "Where are the others?" he asked, when he was certain of himself. "Gone!" boomed Ismail. King took a dozen pulls at the cheroot and stared about again. In the middle of the road stood his sec­ ond horse, and three mules with his baggage, Including the unmarked medicine chest. Close to them were three men, making the party now only six all told, including Darya Khan, himself and Ismail. "Gone whither?" Ismail's voice was eloquent of shocked surprise. "They followed! Was it then thy baggage on the other mules? Were they thy men? They led the mules and went 1" "Who ordered them?" "Allah! Need the night be ordered to follow the day?" "And thou?" "I am thy man! She bade me.be thy man!" "And these?" "Try them!" King bethought him of his wrist, that was heavy with the weight of gold on It. He drew back his sleeve and held it up. "May God be with thee!" boomed all five men at once, and the Khyber night gave back their voices, like the echoing of a well. King took his reins and mounted. "What now?" asked Ismail, picking up the leather bag that he regarded as his own particular charge. "Forward!" said King. "Come along!" He began to set a fairly fast pace. Ismail leading the spare horse and the others towing the mules along. Bxcept for King, who was modern and out of the picture, they looked like Old Testament patriarchs, hur- ryjng out of Egypt, as depicted In the illustrated Bibles of a generation ago- all leaning forward---each man carry­ ing a staff--and none looking to the right or left. "Forward?" growled Ismail. "With this man it Is ever forward I' la there neither rest nor fear? Has she bewitched him? Hal! Ye lazy ones! Ho! Sons of sloth! Urge the mules faster! Beat the led horse I" So in weird, wan moonlight, King led them forward, straight up the narrowing gorge, between cliffs that seemed to fray the very bosom of the sky. He smoked a cigar and stared at the view, as if he were off to the mountains for a month's sport with dependable shikarris whom he knew. Nobody could have Rooked at him and guessed he was not enjoying himself. "That man," mumbled Ismail v be­ hind him, "is not as other sahibs I £ grow very narrow, and All Masjid fort could not be much more, than a mile away, at the widest guess. Then King drew rein and dismounted, for he would have been challenged had he ridden much farther. A challenge in* the Khyber after dark consists inva­ riably of a volley at short range, with the mere words afterward, and the wise man takes precautions. "Off with the mules' packs!" he or­ dered, and the men stood round and stared.- Darya Khan, leaning on the only rifle in the party, grinned like a post-office letter box. "Truly," growled Ismail, forgetting past expressions of a different opinion, "this man is as mad as all the other Englishmen." ; "Were you ever bitten by,one?" won­ dered King aloud. j "God forbid!" "Then off with th* packs--and hurry!" Ismail began to obey. "Thou! Lord of the Rivers! (For that is what Darya Rlran means.) What is thy calling?" "Badragga" (guide), he answered. "Did she not send me back down the pass to be a guide? If she says I am badragga, shall any say she lies?" "I say thou art unpacker of mules' burdens I"1 answered King. "Begin !" For answer the fellow grinned from ear to \ ear and thrust the rifle barrel forward insolently. King, with the movement of determination that a man makes when about to force conclu­ sions, drew up his sleeves above the Wrist. At that Instant the moon shone through the mist and the gold bracelet glittered in the moonlight. "May God be with thee!" said "Lord of the Rivers" at once. And without another word he laid down his rifle and went to help off-load the mules. King stepped aside and cursed soft­ ly. But for a vein of wisdom that un­ derlay his pride he would have pock­ eted the bracelet there and then and have refused to wear it again. But as he sweated his pride he overheard Is- mail growl r " "Good for thee! He had taught thee obedience in another bat of the eye!" "I obey her!" muttered Darya Khan. "I, too," said Ismail. "So shall he before the week dies! But now It Is good to obey him. He is an ugly man to disobey!" "I obey him until she sets me free, then," grumbled Darya Khan. "Better for thee!" said Ismail. King meets his brother at Ali Masjid fort and,they hold a me­ morable conrerence. The British captain disappear# in the dark­ ness and a strange native medi­ cine man takes flla place. (TO BE CONTINUED.) NAME MIGHT BE QUO VADIS At Any Rate Brilliant Young Chi­ nese Who Studied in United States, Has Kept on Going: A brilliant young Chinese gentle* man, Quo Tl-Chl by name, Is among the eminent military and naval lead­ ers conferring at Shanghai In the name of the Chinese Republic, writes Glr- ard In the Philadelphia Ledger. "Quo," as everybody called him, graduated several years ago at the University of Pennsylvania. He was president of the EconomU club, an editor of the undergraduate magazine and a skillful debater. I met him at a Phi Beta Kappa din. ner at the University club, when ha was one of the speakers. "Do you say 'a Chinaman' or *a Chi­ nese'?" I asked him. He smiled. "You wouldn't say 4an America man,' would you?" he an­ swered. He told me that when he went hom« for vacation he had to travel 2,000 miles inland up the treacherous Yangtse-Kiang to reach his home. Quo became secretary to the flrsj vice president, later the president oi the republic. Young as he Is, he la one of the big men among his people today. Judge Gest suggested that his last name might well be "Vadis." At any rate, he has kept on going. At Tfiat Instant the Moon 8hone Through the Mist and the Gold Bracelet Glitfered in the Moonlight. have known. He Is a man, this one! He will do unexpected things!" "Forward!" King called to them, thinking they were grumbling, Ward, men of the 'Hills F" •For- lli •* r'-tv" - V , CHAPTER VIII. After a time King urged his horse to a jog-trot, and they trotted forward until the bed of the Khyber began to Motor-Driven barges a Success. A train of barges driven by rnotoi traction recently reached the Regent's canal with loads of coal from the Mid­ lands in England. These • were thti first motor barges to navigate the Eng­ lish canals for any distance, and tha beginning of a development which thev board of trade is watching with In­ terest. In their journey of 150 miles from Cannock Chase, to St. George'i wharf, King's Cross, the motor barges navigated seven different canals, and managed all the locks with ease, leav­ ing the horses on the towpath panting after them in vain. The motive power is a small motor driven by a mixture of paraffin and petrol. This is fixed to the stern, and can be transferred from one barge to another in a few minutes. Didn't Love Her Enough. "No, Herbert," she said in a low tone, "it Is Impossible. I fear to trust my future with you," ; "And why?" "I have watched your conduct very closel^. It lacks the mark of such de­ votion as my soul craves." "Do I not come to see you four nights in the week?" "Yes, but I have detected a calcu­ lating selftsbne88 In your nature which I fear." . "What do you mean?" "You have never yet failed to leave la time to catch the last bus." "But that Is only common sense." "I know It is, Herbert, and, there­ fore, It is not love." feEvery 8crap of Value. Every scrap of waste fabric, rope or paper Is of value. Clean white cot­ ton rags are the most valuable, but ev­ ery species of rag, no matter how old or soiled, can be utilized. Even our old black stockings return to us In the form of roofing paper and afe highly valued by the manufacturers pt thll material. And there Is going to be a tremendous demand for roofing paper after the war, because of the whole­ sale destruction of buildings for whicb It has been responsible. Woolen rag« that are not good enough for rerun n» facture are uas4 &tf tto# >tnna |mryo--• Hn-hy n|̂ , > > •' WHIR BRIEFLY TOLD ',5V 11. Vl< Wire Reports of Happenlno ̂ From Afl Parts off the Stafo V4 ANTIWAR ISSUE A CHIMERA i Judicial Election at Chicago 8ho>V9 That Socialists Cannot Win . v Such Issue. ; | . Chicago.--While politicians, whose judicial candidates profited largely by the cry of patriotism, gave out con­ gratulatory Interviews and claimed credit for a great victory in the elec­ tion of the full fusion slate by a ma­ jority of 80,000, insiders who analyzed the election returns admitted that the possibility of a Socialist victory on an antiwar issue had been from the be- ' ginning a chimera. Sterling.--A calf that weighs leas ^ V, tlxani nine pounds is a curiosity oh the ' •'&> farm of Mahlon Meyers, near here. Chicago. -- Granville W. Browning was appointed receiver for the All- Package Grocery Stores in Chicago. The company was started In Chicago two years ago, with a capital of $25,- 000,090. Chicago.--Edward G. Westlake, late automobile editor for the Chicago Eve­ ning Post, left an estate of $22,500, according to his will, which was filed for probate. The estate Is left to his widow, Mrs. Catherine E. Westlake, 1446 Chase avenue. Litchfield.--While walking to his son's home, a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad train camouflaged by Tog, struck and killed J. B. Weather- ford, highway commissioner here. Peoria.--Korwin King was killed and Harry Homer and Ben King were injured when their automobile went into the ditch eight miles south of Pe­ oria. The Injured all will recover. All are residents $f Victoria In Knox county. Springfield.--Urging conservation of materials during wartime and better environment for telephone operators, George H. Crabdall of Freeport and C. H. Cheadle of Jollet addressed the thirteenth annual., convention of the Illinois Independent Telephone associ­ ation. Chicago.--His $25,000 bonds still lacking, Theodore H. Lunde, wealthy manufacturer and former treasurer of the People's Council for Democracy and Terms of Peace, Is still In Jail here. He Is under arrest for alleged violation of the espionage actl Lunde is alleged to have told District Attor­ ney Clyne since his arrest that if the kaiser were running for president of the United States he would vote for him. Government agents are continu­ ing their Investigation of Lunde's al­ leged pro-German activities. Cherry.--Memorial exercises on the eighth anniversary of the Cherry mine disaster will be held here Tuesday, November 13, under the auspices of the local miners' organization. Two hundred and fifty-six miners lost their lives in the disaster at Cherry In 1909, the result of a mine fire. Champaign.--The Champaign board of education has dpened night schools for the purpose of instructing men subject to draft In the code of the sig­ nal corps of the United States army. Decatur.--The famine In pennies, due to the war tax, was relieved in part whten the American Ice Cream company of Decatar deposited 6|.300 coppers, the accumulation of the last year. Dekalb.--Anthrax has broken out in Dekalb county and hundreds of cattle and hogs are said to have been ex­ posed to the disease. ( Washburn.--Although closely con­ fined to her home by household duties and the care of her invalid mother, Miss Ella Hess of Washburn, has mas­ tered four languages: Spanish, Italian, Esperanto and German, and Is now taking up French. Chicago. -- Miss Grace Thompson was awarded the steel engraving of the White House at Washington, pre­ sented by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the closing session of the war bazaar of the Girls' Friendly society in the Hotel Sherman. She guessed nearest the number of petals In a chrysanthemum. Chicago.--Joy riders *tole a United States mall truck, which was left by Its driver near $e Chicago 4k North­ western railroad station at West Ran­ dolph nnd North Clinton streets. The car was recovered later at West Mad­ ison street and Trumbull avenue. Chicago.--By a decision of Judge Foell, superior court, Arnold Heap, municipal court Judge, has been un­ seated and his opponent In the elec­ tion of 1914 has been given his place. Springfield.--A pamphlet by Prof. Evarts B. Green, head of history de­ partment, Illinois university, to aid teachers in presenting the issue* of the war, has been distributed through­ out the state. Rockford.--Nearly all of the union barl»ers< of the city are on a strike. They struck a week ago, but agreed to return to work for a week. Meanwhile committees representing the boss bar­ bers and the Journeymen have been. trying to agree upon a wage scale. Thp journeymen met later and voted to strike. Peoria.--Korwin King was killed and Harry Homer nnd Ben King were injured when their automobile went into the ditch eight miles south of Peoria. The Injured all will recover. All are-residents of Victoria, In Knox county. Fo*t Sheridan.--November 24 will be "Governors' day," wh«4l the gover­ nors of six states will be present. Bloomington. -- Snow and colder weather last week furnished the com­ bination of conditions for which duck hunters had been vyaiting and hii0Q, dreds of nlmrods sought the birds along the Illinois river, while the nu­ merous Imntlng clubs which dot the hanks of the stream reported a ma­ jority of their membership on hand. nxlous to secure their slmre of the •irds while on tfyeir tliulit {o the feed- ag prouads of the South and rht guU.