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% mmm ̂ Suffered For Years v#: - ,.v,-. , , ^ V •%- A Thrilling Story of Germati Intrigue Among the Fierce HiUmen of India During the War 'mM-M. Talbot Mutidy Goftyright bf Him Bobbs-Msrrill Compm$p f^}. • i-SH s^v' Ifr: KING WITNESSES THE FASCINATING DANCE OF A DUSKY BEAUTY--BY RESISTING HER CHARMS HE OUTWITS . ,QNE WHO WOUU) GLADLY SEE HIM DEAD Synopsis.--At tlje beginning of the world war Cnpt. Athelstan King of the British Indian arniy 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 jqftiietly foils a plan to assassinate him and gets evidence that Yasmini is after him. fSJfi > > • % .vs.-/' * i CHAPTER II--Continued. . --2-- : Within ten minutes Hyde was asleep, * ^»orii*g prodigiously. Then King pulled ...v '• nut the knife again and studied it for hal f an hour. The blade was of bronze, with an edge hammered to the keen­ ness of a razor. The hilt was of near­ ly pure gold, in the form of a woman dancing. The whole thing was so ex­ quisitely wrought that age had only softened the Unes, without in the least Impairing them. It looked like one of those Grecian toys with whioh Roman women of NM?t>'s day stabbed their lovers. But that was not why he be­ gan to whistle very softly to himself. Presently he drew out the general's iwckage of papers, with the photograph <tt: the top. He stood up, to hold both knife and papers close to the light In the roof. It needed no great stretch of imagi­ nation to suggest a likeness between the woman of the photograph and the other, of the golden knife-hilt. And nobody, looking at him then, would have dared suggest be lacked imagina­ tion. If the knife had not been so ancient they might have been portraits of the same woman, in the same disguise, taken at the same time. "She knew I had been chosen to work with her. The general sent her word that I am coming," he muttered to himself. "There must have been a spy watching at Peshpwur, who wired to Rawal-Pindi for this man to jump the train and go on with the job. Why should she give the man a knife with her own portrait on It? Is she queen of a secret society? Well--we shall see !** He lay back with his bead on the pillow, and before five minutes more bad gone he was asleep. His mobile face in repose looked Roman, for the sun had tanned bis skin and his nose was aquiline. In museums, where sculptured heads of Roman generals and emperors stand around the wall on pedestals, it would not be difficult to pick several that bore more than a faint resemblance to him. He had breadth and depth of forehead and a Jowl that lent itself to smiles as well as sternness, and a throat that ex­ pressed manly determination in every •Mlded line. He slept like a boy until dawn; and lie and Hyde had scarcely exchanged another dozen words when the train •creamed next day into Delhi station. Then he q&lutfd stiffly and was gone. I-V- fcv- ." V ' r- '? CHAPTER III. Delhi boasts a round half-dozen rail­ way stations, all of them designed with regard to war, so that to King there was nothing unexpected In the fact that the train had brought him to an unexpected station. He plunged into Its crowd much as a man in the mood Bright plunge into a whirlpool. The Station screamed echoed, reverberated, hummed. At one minute the whole building shook to the thunder of a grinning regiment; an instant later If clattered to the wrought-steel ham- tner of a thousand hoofs, as led troop- horses danced Into formation to Invade the waiting trucks. Soldiers of nearly every Indian military caste stood about everywhere. Down the back of each platform Tommy Atkins stood In long straight lines, talking or munching great sandwiches or smoking. Threading his way in and out among the motley swarm with a great black cheroot between his teeth and sweat funning into his eyes from his helmet- band, Athelstan King strode at ease-- at home--intent--amused--awake-- and almost awfully happy. He was not tn the least less happy because perfectly aware that a native was fol­ lowing him at a distance, although he did wonder how the native had con­ trived to pass within the lines. At the ^ end of fifteen minutes there was not a glib stafT officer there who could have deceived him as to the numbers and destination of the force entraining. "Kerachl!" he tSld himself, chewing file butt of his cigar and keeping well •head of tlpe shadowing native. He did not have to return salutes, because he did not look for them. Very few people noticed him at all, although he was recognized once or twice by for­ mer messmates. At his leisure--In his own way, that was ̂ devious and like a •tring of miracles--he Altered toward the telegraph office. The native who, had followed him all this time drew Closer, but he did not let himself b#; troubled by that. ;.-j &•••/ , He wh'pPered propf of his Identity k- to the telegraph clerk, who was a Royal engineer, new to that job that morn­ ing, and a sealed telegram was handed , I® him at once. Because it was war- * time, and the censorship had closed ' isn India like a throttling string, it was not in code. So the Mlrza All, of , the Port, Bombay, to whom It was , 7,: addressed, could be expected to read ^ * between the lines. ' p Cattle Intended for slaughter, dispatched Bombay on Fourteen down. Meet train. Will be inspected en route, but should be dealt with carefully on arrival. Cattle inclined to stampede owing to bad scare ,v Received north of Delhi. Tako all pre- and notify Abdul. ST7LIMAN "Good l" he chuckled. "Let's hope we get Abdul too. is!" I wonder who he Still uninterested in the. man who shadowed him, he walked back to the office window and wrote two tele­ grams ; one to Bombay, ordering the arrest of All Mirsa of the^Fort, with an urgent admonition to discover who his man Abdul might be, and to seize him as soon as found; the other t<* the station In the north, insisting on close confinement for SuMman. That being all the urgent Business, he turned leisurely 4o face his shadow, and the native met his eyes with the engagtng frankness of on old friend, coming forward- with outstretched hand. They did not shake hands, but the man made a signal with his fingers that Is known to not more than a dozen men In all the world, and that changed the situation altogether. "Walk with me," said King, and the man fell into stride beside him. He was a Rangar--which is to say a Rajput who, or whose ancestors had turned Mohammedan. Like many Raj­ puts he was not a big man, but he looked fit and wiry; his head scarcely came above the level of King's chin, although his turban distracted atten­ tion from the fact. The turban was of silk and unusually large. The whitest of well-kept teeth, gleaming regularly under a little black waxed mustache betrayed no trace of betelnut or other nastlness. King was not so sure that the eyes were brown, and he changed his opinion about their color a dozen times within the hour. Once he would even have sworn they were green. The man was a regular Rangar dandy, of the type that can be seen playing polo almost any day at Mount Abu--that gets into mischief with a grace due to practice and heredity-- but that does not manage its estates too well, as a rule, nor pay its debts in a hurry. "My name is Rewa Gunga," he said In a low voice. "I have a message for you." "From whom?" "From her!" said the Rangar, and without exactly knowing why, or be­ ing pleased with himself, King felt ex­ cited. They were walking toward the sta­ tion exit. King had a trunk check in his hand, but returned it to his packet, not proposing just yet to let the Rangar overhear Instructions regard­ ing the trunk's destination; he was too good-looking and too overbrimming with personal charm to be trusted thus early in the game. Besides, there was that captured knife, that hinted at lies and treachery. Secret signs as well as loot have been stolen before now. "I'd like to walk through the streets and see the crowd." He smiled as he said that, knowing well that the average young Rajput of good birth would rather fight a tiger with cold steel than walk a mile or two. He drew fire at once.. "Why walk, King sahib? Are we animals? The^e is a carriage waiting --her carriage--and a coachman whose ears were born dead. We might be overheard in the street. Are you and I children, tossing stones Into a pool to watch the rings widen!" "Lead on, then," answered King. Outside the station was a luxurious­ ly modern victoria, with C springs and rubber tires, with horses that V(*CfV»Wlr- I Have a Message for You.* ness' sake and took occasion to admire the man's slender wrist, that was doubtless hard and strong as woven steel, but was not much more than half the thickness of his own. One of the questions that occurred to King that minute was why this well-bred young­ ster whose age he guessed at twenty- two or so had not turned his attention to the army. "My height!" The man had read hia thoughts I "Not quite tall enough. Besides-- ycu nre a soldier, are you not? And do you fight?" Then, after a minute of rather strnlned silence: "My mes­ sage is f-' -ii her." "From Yasmini?" "iVho else?* King accepted the rebuke with & lit­ tle inclination of the head. He spoke as little as possible, because he was puzzled^ He had become conscious of a puzzled look in the Rati gar's eyes and it only added to his problem if the Rangar found In him something inex­ plicable. The West can only get the better of the East when the East is too cock-sure. "She has jolly well gone North!" said the Rangar suddenly, and King shut hy teeth with a snap. He sat bolt upright, and the Rangar allowed him­ self to look amused. "She has often heard of you," he said. "I've heard of her," said King. "Of course! Who has not? She lias desired to meet yon, sahib, ever since she was told you are the best man i» your service," "How long have you known her?" asked King. The Rangar eyed him sharply. "A long time. She and I played to­ gether when we were children. It Is because she knows me Very well that she chose me to travel North with you, when you start to find her in the •Hills' r King cleared his throat, and the Rangar nodded, looking into his eyes with the engaging confidence of a child who never hfcs been refused anything, in or out of reason. King made no ef­ fort to look pleased. ' Just then the coachman took "a last corner at a gallop and drew the horses up on their haunches at a door in a high white wall. Rewa Gunga sprang out of the carriage before the horses were quite at a standstill. "Here we are!" he said, and King noticed that the street curved here so that no other door and -no window overlooked tliis one. He followed the Rangar, and he was no sooner Int^^e shadow of "the door than the coachman lashed the horses and the carriage swung out of view. "This way," said the Rangar over his shoulder. "Come!" CHAPTER IV. It was a musty smelling entrance, so dark that to see was scarcely possible after the hot glare outside. Dimly King made out Rewa Gunga mounting stairs to the left and followed him. When he guessed himself two stories j at least above road level, there was a King grunted, thinking of the knife! sudden blaze of reflected light aud he beneath his shirt. Again, it was as if,? blinked at more mirrors than he could the Rangar read a part of his thoughts, i count. Curtains were reflected in each If not all of them. It Is not difficult tOj mirror, and little glowing lamps, so counter that trick, but to do it a -man > cunningly arranged that it was not pos- Y • ';A'* would have done credit to a viceroy. The Rangar motioned King to get in first, and the moment they were both seated the Itajput couchman set the horses to going like the wind. Rewa Gunga opened a jeweled cigurette case. "Will you have one?" he asked wl'.h the air of royalty entertaining a blood- equal. King rccepted a cigarettefor polite- ^ are nothing* ' •: \ '"ST" N "f ; . . . v.#" L must be on his guard, or the East will know what he has thought and what he Is going to think, as many have dis­ covered when It was too late. "Her men are able to protect any­ body's life from any God's number of assassins, whatever may lead you to think the contrary. From now forward your life is In her men's keeping!" "Very good of her, I'm sure," King murmured. He was thinking of the general's express order to apply for a "passport" that would take him Into Khinjan caves--mentally cursing the necessity for asking any kind of favor --and wondering whether to ask this man for It or wait until he should meet Yasmini. The Rangar answered his thoughts again as if he had spoken them aloud. "She left this with me, saying I am to give It to you! I am to say that wherever you wear it, between here and Afghanistan, your life shall be safe and you may come and go!" King stared. The Rangar drew a bracelet from an inner pocket and held It out. It was a wonderful bar­ baric thing of pure gold, big enough for a grown man's wrist, and old enough to have been hammered out In the very womb of time. It looked dl- raost like ancient Greek, and it fas­ tened with a hinge and clasp that looked as If they did not belong to It and might have been made by a not very skillful modern jeweler. "Won't you wear it?" asked Rewa Gunga, watching him. "It will prove a true talisman! WHat was the name of the Johnny who had a lamp to rub? Aladdin? It will be better than what he had! He could only command a lot of bogles. This will give you authority over flesh and blood ! Take It, sahib !* So King put it on, letting it slip up his sleeve out of sight--with a sensa­ tion as the snap closed of putting handcuffs on himself. But the Rangar looked relieved. "That Is your passport, sahib! Show It to a hillman whenever you suppose yourself in danger. The Raj might go to pieces, but while Yaraini lives--" "Her friends will boast about her, 1 suppose!" King finished the sentence for him because It is not considered good form for natives to hint at possible dissolu­ tion of the Anglo-Indian government. Everybody knows that the British will not govern India forever, but the Brit­ ish--who know It best of all,, and work to that end most fervently--are ,the only ones encouraged to talk about It. For a few minutes after that Rewa Gunga held his peace, while the car­ riage swayed at breakneck speed through the swarming streets. King, watching and saying nothing, did not believe for a second the lame expla­ nation Yasmini had left beliind. She must haye some good reason for wish­ ing to be first up the Khyber, and he was very sorry indeed she had slipped away. It might be only jealousy, yet why should she be jealous? It was the next remark of the Hangar's,that set him entirely on his guard, and thenceforward whoever could have read his thoughts would have been more than human. He had known of that thought-reading trick ever stnee his ayah (native nurse) taught him to lisp Hlndustanee; Just as surely he knew that its Impudent use was intended to sap hi* belief In himself. " "I'll bet you a hundred dibs," said the Itnngar, "that she decided to be there first and get control of the situ­ ation ! She's slippery, and quick, and like all women, she's Jealous!" The Rangar's eyes were on his, but King was not to be caught again. It Is quite easy to think behind a fence, so ;to speak, if one gives attention to ft. "She will be busy presently fooling those Afridls," he continued, waving his cigarette. "She has fooled them always, to the limit of their bally bent. Yasmini plays ,her own game, for amusement and power--a good game-- a deep game! You have seen already how India has to ask her aid in the 'Hills!' She loves power, power, power--not for its name, jtor names slble to guess which were -real and which were not. King stood still. Then suddenly, as If she had don.e It a thousand times before and surprised a thousand people, a little nut-brown maid parted the middle pair of cuiv tains and said "Salaam!' smiling with teeth that were ao white as porcelain. King looked scarcely Interested, and not at all disturbed. _ Rewa Gunga hurried past him, Crusting the little maid aside, and led the way. King followed him Into a long room, whose walls were hung with richer silks than any he remem­ bered to have seen. In a great wide window to one side some twenty wom­ en began at once to make flute music. Silken punkahs swung from chains, wafting back and forth a cloud of san« dal"'ood smoke that veiled the whole scene in mysterious, scented mist. "Be ^welcome I" laughed Rewa Gun­ ga ; "I am to do the honors, since she Is not here. Be seated, sahib." King chose a divan at the room's farthest end, near tall curtains that led Into rooms beyond He turned his back toward the reason for his choice. On a little ivory-inlaid ebony table about ten feet away lay a knife, that was almost the exact duplicate of the one Inside his shirt. He could sense hushed expectancy on every side-- could feel the eyes of many women fixed on him--and began to draw on his guard as a fighting man draws on armor. There and then he deliberately set himself to resist mesmerism, which is the East's chief weapon. Rewa Gunga, perfectly at home, sprawled leisurely along a cushioned couch with a grace that the West has not learned yet; but King did not make the mistake of trusting him any better for his easy manners, and his eyes sought swiftly for some unrhythmic, unplanned thing on which to rest, that he might save himself by a sort of mental leverage. Glancing along the wall that faced the big window, he noticed for the first time a huge AfridI, who sat on a stool and leaned back against the silken hangings with arms folded. "Who is that man?" he asked. "He? Oh, he lq a savage--Just a big savage," said Rewa Gunga, looking vaguely annoyed. "Why Is he here?" He did not dare let go of this chance side issue. He knew that Rewa Gun­ ga wished him to talk of Yasmini and to ask questions about her, and that If he succumbed to that temptation all his self-control would be cunningly sapped away from him until his se­ crets, and his very senses, belonged to some one else. v "What Is he doing here?" he insisted. • "He? Oh, he does nothing. He waits," purred the Rangar. "He is to be your body-servant ^n your journey to the North. He Is nothing--nobody at all I --except that he Is to be trusted ut­ terly because he loves Yasmini. He is obedience! A big obedient fool! Let him be!" "No," said King. "If he's, to be ray man I'll speak to him!" , He felt himself winning. Already the spell of the room was lifting, and he no longer felt the cloud of sandal­ wood like a veil across his brain. "Won't you tell him to come here to me?" Rewa Gunga laughed, resting his silk turban against the wall hangings and clasping both hands about his knee. It was as a man might laugh who has been touched In a bout with foils. "Oh!--Ismail!" he called, with a voice like a bell, that made King stare. The Afridi seemed to come out of a deep sleep and looked bewildered, rub­ bing his eyes and feeling whether his turban was on straight. He combed his beard with nervous fingers as he gazed about him and caught Rewa Gunga's eye. Then he sprang- to his feet. - "Com®!'* ordered'Rewa Gunga. The man obeyed. "Did you see?" Rewa Gunga chuckled. "He rose from his place like a bu >. rump first and then shoulder after Mioulderl Such men are safe! fiufih. Ittfill ilhSA u?hot will help them to obey! Such men think too slowly to invent deceit for Its own sake!" ' " t The Afridi came and towered above them, standing with gnarled hands knotted Into clubs. B "What is thy name?" King asked him. " v "Ismail!" he boctned. "Thou art to be my servant?" "Aye! SO said she. I am her man. I obey!" "When did she say so?" King asked him blandly. The hillmati stroked his great beard and stood considering the question. King entered a shrewd sus­ picion that he was not so stupid as he chose to. seem. His eyes were too hawk-bright to be a stupid man's. "Before she went away," he an­ swered at last. "When did she go away?" He thought again, then "Yesterday," he said. . "Why did you Walt before you an­ swered?" . ' -" \ The Afridl's eyes furtively sought Rewa Gunga's and found no aid there. Watching the Rangar less furtively, but even less obviously, King was aware that his eyes were nearly closed, as If they were not Interested. The fingers that clasped his knee drummed on It Indifferently, seeing which King allowed himself to smile. "Never mind." he told Ismail. "It Is no matter. It is ever -well to think twice before speaking once, for thus room from behind the tit*, tfengfngs 1|» a concerted movement that was all lithe slumberous grace. Wood-wind music called to them from the great deep window. They began to chant, still dreamily, and with the chant the dance began, in and out. round and round, lazily, ever so lazily, wreathed In buoyant gossamer that was scarcely more solid than the sandalwood smoko they wafted into rings. King watched them and listened to their chant until he began to recognize the strain on the eye muscles that pre­ cedes the mesmeric spell. Then ho wrote and read what he had written and wrote again. i "What have you written?" asked a quiet voice at his ear; and he turned to look straight in the eyes of Rewa Gunga, who had leaned forward to read over his shoulder. Just for one second he hovered on the brink of quick defeat. Having escaped the Scylla of the dancing women, Charyb- dis waited for him In the shape of eyes that were pools of hot mystery. It was the sound of his own voice that brought him back to the world again and saved' his will for him unbound. "Read It, won't you?" he laughed. "If you know, take this pen and mark the names of whichever of those men are still in Delhi." Rewa Gunga took pen and paper and set a mark agalpst some thirty of the names, for King had a manner that disarmed refusal. King began to watch the dance, again, for it did not feel safe to look too long Into the Rangar's eyes. It was not wise just then to look too long at anything or to think too long on any one subject. "Ismail Is 'slow a{>out returning," said the Rangar. "I wrote at the foot of the tar." said King, "that they are to detain him there until the answer comes.'* Back and Kidneys Were in Bad Shape, But Doan's Removed all the Trouble. "My kidneys were so weak that the least cold i caught would aflfect them and start my back aching until I could hardly endure the misery," say» Mrs. D. C. Ross, 973 Fulton St., Brook­ lyn, N. Y. "In the morning when I first got up, my back was so lame, I could hardly bend over and any move sent darts of pain through my kid­ neys. It was hard for me to walk up stairs or stoop, and to move while lying down sent darts of pain through "The kidney secre- t MRS. ROSS tions were scanty and distressing and the water remained in my system, mak­ ing my feet and hands swell. There were dark circles under my eyes and I became so dizzy I could hardly see. I had rheumatic pains in my knees and it was all. I could do to get Around. For years I was in that shape and I wore plasters and used all kinds of medicine to no avail until I tried Doan's Kidney Pills. They rid me of the trouble and strengthened my back and Sidneys. When I have taken Doan'a since, they have always bene­ fited me." Staorn to before m«. L. N. VAUGHAN, Notary Public. Gel Doan's aft Aay Store. 80c D O A N ' S FOSTER R/SFLBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. \ TA The Afridi Came and Towered Above wiem. mistakes die stillborn. Only the mon­ key-folk thrive on quick answers--is it not so? Thou art a man of many inches --of thew and sinew--hey, but thou art a man! If the heart within those great ribs of thine is true as thine arms are strong I shall be fortunate to have thee for a servant!" "Aye!" said the Afridi. "But what are wdrds? She has said I am thy servant, and to hear her is to obey!" "Then, take me a telegram!" said King. He began to write at once on a half- sheet of paper that he tore from a let­ ter he had In his pocket, transposing into cypher as he went along. Yasmini *has gone North. Is there any reason at your end why I should not follow her at once? He addressed It In plain English to his friend the general at Peshawur, and handed it to Ismail, directing him carefully to a government office where the cypher signature would be recog­ nized and the telegram given prece­ dence. Ismail stalked off with It, striding like Moses down from SInal--hook­ nose--hawk-eye--flowing beard--dig­ nity and all, and King settled down to guard himself against the next at­ tempt on his sovereign self-command. Now he chose to notice the knife on the ebony table as If he had not seen It before. He got up and reached for It and brought It back, turning It over and over in his hand.- s A strange knife," he said. Yes--from Khinjan," said Rewa' Gunga, and King eyed him as one wolf eyes another. What makes you say It is from Khinjan?" , "She brought it from Khinjan caves herself! There Is another knife that matches it, but that is not here. That bracelet you now wear, sahib, is from Khinjan cuves tool She has the secret of the caves!" "1 have heard that the 'Heart of the Hills,* Is there," King answered. "Is the "Heart of the Hills' a treasure, house?" Rewa Gunga laughed. "Ask her, sahib! Perhaps she wlll tell you! Perhaps she will let you see! Who knows? She Is a woman of resource and unexpectedness--let her women dance for you a while." King nodded. Then he got up and laid the knife back on the little table. A minute or so later he noticed that at a sign from Rewa Gunga a woman left the great window place and spli*' Ited the knife away. "May I have a sheet of paper?" he asked, for he knew that another light for his self-command was due. > Rewa Gunga gave an order, and a maid brought scented paper on a sil­ ver tray. He drew out his own foun­ tain pen. and since his one object was to give his brain employment, he wrote down a list of the names lie had mem­ orised In the train nn the Journey from Peshnwur. not thinking of a use for the list until be had finished. 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"Well, you see," he answered with a chuckle, *the German sailors like to stick to *port.'" $100 Reward, $100 Catarrh is a loc^l disease greatly Influ­ enced by constitutional co nditiona. It therefore requires constitutional treat­ ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sys­ tem. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE destroys the foundation of the disease, gives the patient strength by improving the general health and assists nature in doing its work. $100.00 for any case of Catarrh that HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE) fails to cure. Druggists 76c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, ZAPATA KEPT HIS PROMISE . * , l.f. T .. .. 1. Apple Fruit of Many Uses. There is no fruit that lends Itself to so many varied uses as the apple. It may be evaporated or dried and kept an Indefinite period and then cooked in much the same way as fresh fruit. There are also mapy by­ products. The juice Is pressed and used according to its age and stages of fermentation as sweet cider, hara cider or vinegar. The whole apple and even the parings from the evap­ orators are used for apple butter, jel­ lies, Jaibs, etc., and In recent years the culls and cores from the evapo­ rators have been dried and sold for $4 a ton for export to Europe and re turned to us later in the form of high priced "Imported wines." t _r Brlckley Psar a Pest < In Queensland the prickly pear is literally overrunning millions of acres of rich land. All efforts to eradicate the pest have proved futile. The rapltf spread of the thorny plants and the Im­ possibility of killing them off so that the land that they occupy can be uti­ lized for fanning or grazing purposes has so alarmed the government of Queensland, as well as that of the com­ monwealth Itself, that scientists have been Invited to study the perplexing situation with the view or devising ways and means for ridding the coun­ try of the ruinous pest. Famous Family of Preaehera. Rev. Lyman Beecher, sometimes re­ ferred to as "founder of the Beecher family," had seven sons who wera preachers. Beginning with the oldest, they were: William Henry Beecher, born in 1802; Edward Beecher, born In 1803; George Beecher, born In 18091 Henry Ward Beecher, born In 1813; Charles B«*eohpr, born In 1815; Thom­ as K. Beecher, born In 1824, ami ' X' : -- 1-- • With Reservations. ."Do you care for jam?" "On the supper table, but not III ilttt, trolley cars." i The defeated candidate always hatatf' to meet the sympathizing friend. There's . Superior Flavor P0STUM at a table beveragel A package horn the grocer is well worth a trial, in place of coffee--espeda% When Coffee* Disagrees I •• Paid Back 50,000 Pesoa Ha Forced Bankers to Qlye Him to Faad Hungry Man. One morning Emllio Zapata Issued two proclamations. One was a pro­ hibition edict closing the saloons; the other a command for the bankers of the city to assemble for a conference. The bankers attended the meeting. T*|iey went in fear, dreading confisca­ tion of their deposits. Only a few days before the armies of General Car- ranza had collected a "forced loan" of ten million pesos from the banks. What mercy could be expected of tHe'. bandit leader? Zapata's speech was short and to the point. "Caballeros," he said, "my men are hungry. I want 50,0000 pesos to feed them for a few day. You will pay this. I promise you protection. You may carry on your business with­ out molestation as long as you do not aid the enemy. You may go when yon sign the order for the money." Thank­ ful to escape with-such a modest de­ mand, the bankers did as ftiey wera ordered. Zapata kept his part of the bargain, and for months, the city was better policed than It has ever been since Porfirlo Dla* waa driven from Mexico. But this is the strange part of the story--strange to one who knows the system of confiscation which has bled the business men of the country. Ten days later Zapata paid back the 50,000 pesos. ~