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Wmm A Romance of Adventure By TALBOT MUNDY Copy»It tit by the Bobba-Merrill Company THE JHcHKNRY PLAINDEA1.KR, STcHENRY, ILfj. , * " ? < * & * * > ' 1 "Vt a h*». >*-•* f .V>v ** H'l I *ik-f Km SEES YASMINI FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN SHE COMES TO DANCE BEFORE THE THOUSANDS OF WARRIORS ASSEMBLED IN THE CAVERN Synopsis.--J fir of thef Bri -At the beginning of the world war Capt. Athelstan King of the/British Indian army and of its secret service, is ordered to Delhi to meet Yasmini, a dancer, and goes with her to Khinjun to meet 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 liewa Gunga, Yasmini's man, who says she has already gone north, and at her town house witnesses qufor dances. Ismail, an Afridl, be­ comes his body servant and protector. He rescues some of Yasuiinl's hlllmen and takes them north with him, tricking the Rangar into going ahead. The Iinngar deserts him at a dangerous time. He meets hi3 brother at Ali Masjid fort. The disguise lfe assumes there fools even the sharp-eyed cutthroats composing his guard. He enters Khinjan caves, thanks to his lying guides, and at a clinic hears of an impending revolt led by Bull-Wlth-a-Beard, and goes to a meeting In the cavern. CHAPTER XII.--Continued. "Aye! The liar says the Germans gave it to him. He swears they will •end more. Who are the Germans? Who is a man who talks of a Jihad that Is to be, that he should have gold coin given Mm by unbelievers? I saw e German once, at Nufclao. He ate pig- meat and washed it down with wine. [Are such men sons of the Prophet? (Wait and watch, say I!" : "Money?" said King. "And should )hq more money come ?** This was courteous conversation and jteceired as such--many a long league jNtooved from curiosity. "Who am I to foretell a man's lclsf imet? I know wliat I know, and I think iwhat I think* I know thee, hakim, for la gentle fellow, who hurt me almost :not at all !n the drawing of a ballet out of my flesh. What knowest thou •about mer "That I wlH dress the wound fai; thee again!" s Artless statements are as useful li^ their way as artless questions. Let the guile lie deep.4Uatls all. "Nay, nay! For she said nay! Shall I fell foul of her, for the sake of a new •feAndager The temptation was terrific t© ask why she had given that order, but King |resisted It; and presently it occurred jto the Pathan that his own theories on rtbe subject might be of interest. "She will use thee for a reward," he {•aid. "He who shall win and keep her VA(jE/Jtv/O£- ; Wretthed-Looking Beluchl Was * Thrust Forward at a Run, With Arms Lached to His Sides. iftvor may have his hurts dressed and Ihis belly dosed. Her enemies may rot." "Does she call the mullah Muham- toad Anim enemy?" King asked him. "Nay, she never mentions him by . laame." "God is great!" the mullah howled. The crowd thundered in echo to him; and then the vault took up the echoes. "And Muhammad is his prophet!" howled the mullah. Instantly they an­ swered him again. "His prophet--is his prophet--is his prophet!" said the stalactites. In loud bnrks--then in mur­ murs--then In awe-struck whispers. That seemed to be all the religious ritual Khinjnn remembered or could tolerate. Considering that the mullah, too, must have killed his man in cold blood before earning the right to be there, perhaps It was enough--too much. There were men not far from Ring who shuddered. "There are strangers!" announced the mullah, as a man might say, "I stnell a rat!" But he did not look at anybody In particular; he blinked at the crowd. "Bring them!" he shouted, and King suppressed a shudder--for what proof hnd he of right to be there, beyond Is­ mail's verbal corroboration of a lie? Would Ismail lie for him again? he wondered. And If so. would the lie be any use? . Not far from where King sat there was an immediate disturbance in the crowd, and a wretched-looking Baluchi was thrust forward at a run. with arms lashed to his sides and a pitiful look of terror on his face. Two more Bu- luchis were hustled along after hiiii, protesting a little, but looking almofit as hopeless. Once in the arena, the guards took charge of all three of them and lined them up facing the mullah, clubbing them with their rifle-butts to get qui*it­ er obedience. The crowd ^egan to oe noisy again, but the mullah signed for silence. "These are traitors!" hr» howled, and his voice was like a wolfs at hunting time. "Hear, and be wr.rned!" The crowd grew verr still, but King saw that some men licked their lips, as. if they well knew That was coming. "These three men *nme, and one was a new man!" the roVJIah howled. "The other two were Ms witnesses! All three swore that ;he first man came from slaying an unbeliever in the teeth tie jewels stitched to her gossamer dress, and when a man once looked at them he did not find it easy to look away again. Even mullah Muhammad Anim seemed transfixed, like a great foolish animal. But King was staring very bard in- deed at something else--mentally cursing the plain glass spectacles • he wore, that had begun to film over and dim his vision. There were two brace­ lets on her arm, both barbaric things of solid gold. The smaller of the two was on her wrist and the larger on her tipper arm, but they were'so alike, ex­ cept for size, and so? exactly like the one Itewa Gunga had given him in her name and that hnd been stolen from him In the night, that he ran the risk of removing the glasses a moment to stare with unimpeded eyes. Even then the distance was too great. He could not quite see. But her eyes began to search the crowd In his direction, and then he knew two things absolutely. He was sitting where she had ordered Ismail to place him; for she picked him out almost instantly, and laughed as if somebody had struck a silver bell. And one of those bracelets was the one that he had worn; for she flaunted it at him, moving her arm so that the light should make the gold glitter. Then, perhaps because the crowd had begun to whisper, and she wanted all attention, she raised both arms to toss hack the golden hair that came cascading nearly to her knees. And as if the crowd knew that symptom well^ J10* it drew its breath In sharply and grew Where very still. ' vauUah "I!" cracked the roof. "If II** 80 that for a second King almost believed he had a crowd of men to swear for him and did not hear Darya Khan at all, who rose from a, place;not very far b e h i n d w h e r e b e h a d s a t . | | Ismail followed him in a hOrry, like ;i man wading a. river with loose clothes gathered in one arm and the other arm ready in case of falling. Darya Khan did not go so fast. As he f<«rced his way forward a man passed htm up the wooden boat that King had used to stand on; he seized it In both hands with a grin and a jest and went to stand behind King and Ismail, In line with the lashless mullah, facing Yasmini. Yasmini smiled at them all as if they were actors in her comedy, and she. well pleased with them. "Look ye J" howled the mullah. "Look ye and look well, for this Is to be one of us!" King felt ten thousand eyes burn holes In his back, but the one pair of eyes that mocked him from the bridge was more disconcerting. "Turn, Kurram Khan ! Turn that all may see !" Feeling like a man on a spit, he re­ volved slowly. By the time he h*»d turned once completely around he had tleclded that Yasmini meant he should be frightened, but not much hurt just yet. So he ceased altogether to feel frightened and took care to look more scared than ever. "Speak, Kurram Khan!" Yasmini purred, smiling her loveliest. "Tell them -whom you slew." King turned and faced the crowd, raising himself on the balls of his feet to shout, like a man facing thousands of troops on parade. He nearly gave himself away, for habit had him un­ awares. A native hakim, given the stoutest lungs in all India, would pot have shouted In that way. "Cappitin Attleystan King!" he roared. And he nearly jumped out of his-skin when his own voice came rat­ tling back at him from the roof over­ head. Yasmini chuckled as a little rill will sometimes chuckle among ferns. It wns devilish. It seemed to say there were ^tyaps not far ahead. was he slain?" asked the "Muhammad Anim!" she -said, and she might have been wooing him. "That was a devil's trick!" It was rather an astounding state­ ment, coming from lovely lips in such a setting. It was rather suggestive of a driver's whiplash1 flicked through the air for a beginning. Muhammad Anim continued glaring and did not answer her. so in her own good time, when she had tossed her golden hair back once or twice again, ,she developed her .meaning. "We who are free of Khinjan caves do not send men out to bring recruits. We know better than to bid our men tell lies for others nt the gate. Nor, seeking proof for our new recruit, do we send men to hunt a head for him-- not even those of us who have a lash- kar that we call our own, mullah Mu- hauimad Anim! Each of us earns his own way in!" The mullah Muhammad Anim'began to stroke his beard, but he made no an­ swer. "And--mullah Muhammad Anim, thou wandering man of God--when that lashkar has foolishly been sent and has failed, Is it written in the Kalar mullah saying we should pretend there was a head, and that the head was stolen? A lie is a He, Muhammad Anim! Wandering perhaps is good, if ij> search of the way. Is It good to lose the way, and to lie, thou trUe fol­ lower of the Prophet?" She smiled, tossing her hair back, fler eyes challenged, her lips mocked him and her chin scorned. The crowd CHAPTER XIII. 2J'/ • ; f'V- V v . I? ' " b -.V . - -1 I' w . , / ;^V:'4Ar" U * TSi, mv The dance went on for fifteen mln- Qtes yet, but then--quite unexpectedly •--all the arena guards together fired a •olley at the roof, and the dance stopped as if every dancer had b^en alt. Panting--foaming at the mouth, some of them--the dancers ran to their •eats and set the crowd surging again, leaving the arena empty of all but the guards. Now a man stood up near the edge of the crowd whom King recognized; and recognition brought no joy with it. mullah without hair or eyelashes, Who had admitted him and his party through the mosque into the caves, Btrode out to the middle of the arena all alone, strutting and swaggering. He recalled the man's last words and drew consolation from {hem, either. "Many have entered! Some went <M}t by a different road!" . Cold chills went down his back. All once Ismail's manner became unen- bouraging. He ceased to make a fuss over the dancer and began to eye King •tdewise, until at last he seemed un­ able to contain the malice that would well forth. "At the gate there were onty words!" fct whispered. "Here in this cavern men wait for proof!" He licked his teeth suggestively, as '« wolf does when he contemplates a meal. Then, as an afterthought, as though ashamed, "I love thee! Thou art a man after my own heart! But^I am her man ! Wall and See!" The mullah in the arena, blinking i,:if#th his lashless eyes, held both arms VJOp for silence in the attitude of a Christian priest blessing a congrega­ tion. The great cavern grew still, and only the river could be heard sucSing hungrily betwewr the smooth stone -• ,7-'. ;r-r„ ' „ of written law. they said he ran frotw i |)reathed har<l watched. The mul- * lah muttered something in his beard, and sat down, ahd the crowd began to roar- applause at her. But she checked It with a regal gesture, and a glance of contempt at the mullah that1 was :il<?ne worth a Journey across the "Hills" to see. "Guards!" she said quietly. And the crowd's sigh then was like the, night wind in a forest. "Away with those three of Muhara-45 mad Anlm's men!" : * •twelve of the arena guards threw, down their shields with a sudden clat­ ter and seized the prisoners, four to each. The crowd shivered with de­ licious anticipation. The doomed men neither struggled nor cried, for fatal­ ism Is an anodyne as well as an explo­ sive. King set his teeth. Yasmini, with both hands behind her Lead, continued to smile down on them all as sweetly as the stars shine on a battlefield. She nodded once; and then all was over in a minute. With a ringing "Ho!" and a run. the guards lifted .their vic­ tims shoulder high and bore them for­ ward. At the river bank they paused for a second to swing them. Then, with another "Ho!" they threw them like dead rubbish Into the swift black wa­ ter. There was only one wild scream that went echoing and re-echoing to the roof. There was scarcely a splash, and no extra ripple at all. No heads on me up again to gasp. No fingers clutched at the surface. The fearful speed of the river sucked them under, to grind and churn and pound them through "long caverns underground and hurl them at last over the great cata­ ract toward the middle of the world. "Ah-h-h-h-h!" sighed the crowd in ecstasy. "Is there no other stranger?" asked Yasmini, searching for King again with her amazing eyes. The skin all down his back turned there and then Into gooseflesh. And as her eyes met his she laughed like a bell at him. She knew! She knew who he was, how he had entered, and how he felt Not a doubt of it! i! the law. So, as the custom Is, I let l»1l three enter!" "Good!" said the crowd. "Go«J !*' They might hftve been five thouttaivl judges, judging in equity, so gravr Uo#y were. Yet they licked theii* lipg. "But later, word came to m* Jmylng they are liars. So--again as t«Ve cus­ tom is--I ordered them bou»-id and held! Does any speak for them?" "Speak for them?" said the roof. There was silence. Then there was a murmur of astonishment. Over op­ posite to where King sat the mullah stood up, who the Pathan had said was "Bull-wlth-a-beard"--Muhammad Anlip. \ "The men are mine!" he growled. His voice was like a bear's at bay; It was low, but it carried strangely. And as he spoke he swung his great head between his shoulders, like a bear that means to charge. "The proof they brought has been stolen! They had good proof! I speak for them! The men are mine!" The Pathan nudged King in the ribs with an elbow like a club and tickled his ear with hot breath. "Bull-with-a-beard speaks truth !" he grinned. "Truth and a He together! Good may it do him apd them! They die, they three Baluchls!" "Proof!" howled' the mullah who had no hair or eyelashes. "Proof 1 Show us proof!" yelled the' crowd. The Pathan next King leaned over to whisper to him again, but stiffened in the act. There was a great gasp the same Instant, as the whole crowd caught its breath all together. The niuilah in the middle froze Into im­ mobility. Bull-with-a-beard stood mumbling, swaying his great head from side to side, no longer suggestive of a bear about to charge, but of ona who hesitates. The crowd was staring at the end of the bridge. King stared, too, and caught his own breath. For Yasmini stood there, smiling on them all as the new moon smiles down on the Khyber 1 She had come among tliegi like a spirit, all unheralded. So much more beautiful than the one' likeness King had seen of her that for a second he doubted who she Was, she stood there, human and warm and real, who had begun to seem a myth, clad in gauzy silk transparent stuff that made no secret of sylphlike shapeli­ ness and looking nearly light enough to blow away. Her feet--and they were the most marvelously molded things he had ever seen--were naked and played restlessly on the naked stone. Not one part of her was still for a fraction of a second; yet the whole ef­ fect was of insolently lazy ease.. Her eyes blazed brighter the lit- > CHAPTER XIV. "Kutoram Khan !" the lashless mullah howled, like a lone wolf In the moon­ light, and King stood up. In that grim minute he managed to seem about as much at ease as a native hakim ought \o feel at such an initiation. "Gome forward!" the mullah howled, and he obeyed, treading gingerly be^ tween men who were at no pains to let him by, and silently blessing them, be­ cause he was not really in any hurry at all. Yasmini looked lovely trof» a distance, and life was sweet,'. ' ̂ "Who are his witnesses?" Hi" shouted foraatl, jumping un. In the Khyber pass," said King. "Now give proof!" said the mullah. "Words at the gate--proof in the cav­ ern! Without good proof, there Is only one way out of here!" < "Proof!" the crowd thundered. "Proof!" the roof echoed. There was no need for Darya Khan to whisper. King's hands were Jbehlnd him, and he had seen what he had seen find guessed what he had guessed while he was turning to let the crowd look at him. His fingers closed on human hair. "Nay, It is short!" hissed Darya Khan. "Take the two ears, or hold It by the jawbone! Hold It high In both hands!" King obeyed, without looking at the thing, and Ismail, turning to face Uie crowd, rose on tiptoe and filled nls lungs for the effort of his life. "The head of Cappitin Attleystan King--Infidel -- kaffir --British arrfl- cer I" he howled. "Good!" the crowd bellowed. "Good! Throw it!" The crowd's roar and the roofs echoes combined in pandemonium. / "Throw it to them, Kurram Khan!" Yasmini purred from the bridge end, speaking as softly and as sweetly as if she coaxed a child. "It is the cus­ tom !" "Throw It! Throw It!" the crowd thundered. He turned the ghastly thing until It lay face-upward in his hends, and so at last he saw It. He caught his breath, nnd only the horn-rlmmid spectacles, that he had cursed tw*ce that night, saved him from self-betrayal. The cavern seemed to sway as he looked Into the dead face of his brother Charles. If Yasmini detected his nervousness she gave no sign. "Throw it! Throw It I Throw It!" The crowd was growing impatient. Many men were standing, waving their arms to draw attention to themselves. Catching Yasmini's eyes, he knew it had not entered her head that he might disobey. He looked past her townrd the rlrer. There were no guards near enough to prevent what he intended; but he had to bear in mind that the guards had rifles, and if he acted too suddenly one of them might shoot at him unbidden. Holding the head before him with both hands, he began to walk toward the river, edging all the while a little to­ ward the crowd as if meaning to get nearer before he threw. He reached the river and stood there. His next mqve made every savage who watched him gasp because of Its very( unexpectedness. H« held the head in both hands, threw it far out into the river and stood to watch it sink. Then, without visible emotion of any kind, he walked back stolidly to face Yasmini at the bridge end, with shoulders a little more stubborn now than they ought to be, and chin a shade too high, for there never was a man who could act quite perfectly. "Thou fool!" Yusminl whispered through lips that did not move. She betrayed a flash of temper like a trapped she-tiger's, but followed It In­ stantly with her loveliest smile. "Slay him!" yelled a lone voice, that was greeted by an approving murmur. "This is a darbar!" Yasmini an­ nounced in a rising, ringing voice. "My darbar, for I summoned it I Did I Invite any man to speak?" There was silence, as a whipped un­ willing pack Is silent. "Speak, thou Kurram Khan! Tell them why!" she said, smiling. No man could have guessed by the tone of her voice whether she was for him or against him. and the crowd, beginning again to whisper, watched to see which way the cat would jump. He bowed low to her three times-- very low Indeed and very slowly, for he had toP- think. Then he turned his back and repeated the obeisance to the crowd. "My brothers." he said, and his voice became that of a man whose advice has been asked, and who gives it free­ ly. "Ye saw this night how one man entered here on the strength of an oath and a promise. All he lacked was proof. And I had proof. Ye saw! Hbw easy would It not have been, had I thrown that head to you. for a traitor to catch It and hid* it in his clothes. and make away with It I He could have used it to admit to these caves-- why--even an Englishman, my broth­ ers ! If that had happened, ye would have blamed me!" Yasmini smiled. Taking Its cue from her, the crowd murmured, scarcely as­ sent, but rather recognition of the ha­ kim's adroitness. The game was not won ; there lacked a touch to tip th« scales in his favor, and Yasmini sup­ plied it with ready genius. "The hakin^ speaks the truth r she laughed. King ttfrned about Instantly to face her. but he salaamed so low that she pould not have seen his expression had She tried. | "If y« wish it, I will order him tossed into Earth's Drink after those other three." Muhammad Anim rdse, stroking his beard and rocking where he stood. "It is the law!" he growled, and King shuddered. "It is the.law," Yasmini answered In a voice that rang with pride and in­ solence, "that none interrupt me while I speak! For such ill-mannered ones Earth's Drink hungers! Will you test The Crowd Wat Growing Impatient. "Throw It! Throw It!" my authority, Muhammad Anim? Think y?! If that head had only fallen into Muhammad Anim's lap, the mullah might have smuggled in another man with It!" . A roar of laughter greeted that thrust. Many men who had not laughed at the mullah's first discomfiture joined in now. Muhammad Anim sat and fidgeted, meeting nobody's eye and answering nothing. "So It seems to me good," Yasmlril said, in a voice that did not echo any more but rang very clear and trUfe (she seemed to know the trick of the roof, and to use the -echo or net as she chose), "to let this hakim live! He shall meditate in his cave a while, and perhaps he shall be beaten, lest he dare offend again. He can no more es­ cape from Khinjan caves than the women who are prisoners here. He may therefore live!" There was utter silence. Men looked at one another and at her, and her blazing eyes searched the crowd swift­ ly. It was plain enough that there were at least two parties there, and that none dared oppose Yasmini's will for fear of the others. "To thy seat, Kurram Khan!" she ordered, when she had waited a full minute and no man spoke. He wasted no time. He hurried out of the arena as fast as he could walk, with Ismail and Darya Khan close at his heels. Ismail overtook him, seized him by the shoulders, hugged him, and dragged him to the empty sept next to the Oralczai Pathan. There he "hugged him until his ribs cracked. "Ready o' wit!" he crowed. "Ready o' tongue! Light o' life! Man after mine own heart! Hey, I love thee! Readily I would be thy man, but for be­ ing hers! Turned the joke on Muham­ mad Anim! Turned it against her enemy and raised a Iangh against him from his own men! Beady o' wit! Shameless one! Lucky one! Allah was surely good to thee!" "Have they taken All Mafl$d fort?" King whispered. "Nay, how should I know? Afl* berl She knows more than any man knows!" King turrted to ask the same ques­ tion of his frf«id the Orakzai Pathan; but the Pathan would have none of his questions, he was busy listening for whispers from the crowd, watching with both eyes, and he shoved King aside. The crowd was very far from being satisfied. An angry mttrmur had be­ gun to fill the cavern as a hive Is filled with the song of bees af swarming time. But even 96, surmise what one might, It was not easy to persfBade the eye that Yasmini's careless sttffte and easy poise were assumed. If she rec­ ognized Indignation and feared it, she disguised her fear amazingly. Lelstrre- ly, languidly, she raised both arms tro- tll she looked like an angel poised for flight. The little jewels stitched to her gauzy dress twinkled like fireflies as she moved. The crowd gasped sharp­ ly. She had it by the heart-strings. She called, and four guards got un­ der one shield, bowing their heads and resting the great rim on their shoul­ ders. They carried it beneath her and stood still. With a low delicious laugh, sweet and true, she sprang on It, ahd the shield scarcely trembled; she seemed lighter than the silk her dreas was woven from! They carried her so, and In the midst of the arena before they had ceased moving she began to sing, with her head thrown back and botom swelling like a bird's. The East would ever rather draw Its own conclusions from a hint let fall than he puzzled by what the West be­ lieves are facts. And parables are not good evidence in courts of law, which is always a consideration. So her song took the form of a parable. And to say that she took hold of them and played rhapsodies of her own making on their heartstrings would be to undervalue what she did. They were damb while aha sang, bat Umv rose at her. Not a force in the world could have kept them down, for she was deftly touching cords that stirred other forces--subtle, mysterious, ines- tnerlc, which fhe old East understands *--which Muhammad the prophet un­ derstood when he harnessed evil in the shafts with men and wrote rules for their driving in a book. They rose in silence and stood tense. She sang of a wolf-pack gathering from the valleys in the winter snow-- a very hungry wolf-pack. Then of a Stalled ox, grown very fat from being cared for. Of the "Heart of the Hills" that awoke In the worm of the "Hills," and that listened and watched. "Now, Is she the 'Heart of the Hills?'" King wondered. The rumors men had heard and told again In India, about the "Heart of the Hills" In Khin­ jan seemed to have foundation. He thought of the strange knife, wrapped in a handkerchief under hte shirt, with Its bronze blade and gold hilt In the shape of a woman dancing. The woman dancing was astonishingly like Yasmini, standing on the shield! She sang about the owners of the stalled ox, who were busy at bay, defending, themselves acyS tbelr ox from another wolf-pack lh another di­ rection "far beyond." , She urged them to wait a little while. The ox was big enough and fat enough to nourish all the wolves in the world for many seasons. Let them wait, then, until another, greater wolf-pack joined them, that they might go hunt­ ing all together, overwhelm Its pres: ent owners and devour the ox! So urged the "Heart of the Hills," speak­ ing to the mountain wolves, according to Yasmini's song. The little cubs In the burrows know. Are ye grown wolves, who hurry so? She paused, for effect; but they gave tongue then because they could not help It, and the cavern shook to their terrific worship. "AHab! Allahr!_ ^ They summoned God to come and see the height and depth and weight of their allegiance to her! And because for their thunder there was no more chance of being heard, she dropped from the shield like a blossom. No sound of falling could have been heard in all that din, but one could see she made no sound. The shield bearers ran back to the bridge and stood below it, eyes agape. Disguised as he It, King It . placed on trial for his life. At a critical moment a human head it thrust into his hands. When he sees the face, the shock it ter­ rible. The victim ia-- (TO BE CONTINUED.) "OLD PARR'S" AGE BELIEVED Said to Have Lived to Be 152 Year* Old--Lived Under Reigns of Ten Princes. "Old Parr" was an Englishman whose proper name was Thomas Parr and who broke the modern record by living to the ripe old age of one hun­ dred and fifty-two years, an exchange says. The British cyclopedia gives this account of him: "Thomas Parr (1483-1635), English centenarian, known as 'Old Parr," Is re­ puted to have been born In 1483 at Wlnnington, Shropshire, the son of a farmer. In 1500 he is said to have left his home and entered domestic serv­ ice and in 1518 to have returned to Wlnnington to occupy the small hold­ ing he then inherited on the death of his father. In 1563, at the age of eigh­ ty, he mari'ied his first wife, by whom he had a son and a daughter, both of whom died in infancy. At the age of one hundred and twenty-two, his first wife having died, he married again. His vigor seems to have been unim­ paired, and when one hundred and thirty years old he Is said to have thrashed corn. In 1635 his fame reached the ears of Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, who resolved to ex­ hibit him at court, and had him con­ veyed to London in a specially con­ structed litter. Here he was presented to King Charles I, but the change of air and diet soon affected him and the old man died at Lord Arundel's house In London on the 14th of November! 1635. He was buried In the south transept of Westminster abbey, where the inscription over his grave reads: "Tho. Parr, of ye county of Salopp. Born in anno 1483. He lived in ye reigns of ten princes, viz: King Ed­ ward 4, King Edward 5, King Richard 3, King Henry 7, King Henry 8, King Edward 6, Quetrn Mary, Queen Eliza­ beth, King James and King Charles, aged 152 years, and was buried here November 5, 1635.'" That the son of a small farmer who had started In life as a hftred man (tlto British cyclopedia says htf left home and entered domestic service), should have been buried In WestmlnMer ab­ bey, shows that the atory of his great age was believed. Buttons a By-Product of Beer. The spent yeast which collects In breweries and distilleries is put, through a process which turns it out in the form of buttons, door-bell plates and knife handles. Formerly this left­ over material was considered to be a bothersome waste; now it is utilized, every bit of it. As It is gathered from the vats the yeast Is of a dirty, gray- brown color. The first operation is to dye It and then to work It over until It assumes the form of powder and can be hot-pressed into any form. In this stage It is called "ernollth." It may be sawed, scraped, filed, drilled, engraved* turned to art edge and polished.---Popu­ lar Science Monthly. ^ The No-Breakfast Plan. The breakfast-eating habit often cre­ ates an abnormal stomachic condition, says Physical Culture Maguzine. If one is in perfect health, and arises with a keen appetite for breakfast, there will be no occasion for omitting the meal. There are, however, but few in perfect health, and the omission of breakfast gives the stomach a chance to adjust itself. It has an opportunity to develop a keen appetite for the par­ ticular character of nourishment most needed by the body at that time. The no-breakfast plan is a splendid means of properly adjusting one's appetite, both as to quantity and character of food. ' Lungs Are Weakened By Hard Colds# CASCARA^pUININf ft®#; The old family remedy--la tifcln form--Mfe, aura, easy to take. Hm opiate*--no anpleaaaat titer •fifcete. Cures colda la 24 b Cur«s colda la 24 hom-Ofto ia 3 day*. Money back if itfaila. Octtka genuine bos with Red Top and Mr. HUJ'l picture on it 24 Tab lata far lh. AtAay Dru«Sta*a * T'i' 4 . , • > 1 Status of Arab Nation. The Arab nation is without money for natural resources, Its territory con­ tains neither mineral nor external agri­ cultural wealth--but the redemption of Mesopotamia will afford the Arab of the future opportunity for aggran­ dizement. There, under semi-inde­ pendence, after barrages on the Tigris and Euphrates have been built by Brit­ ish energy and cash, Bagdad may riss to a higher scale of learning, splendor and wealth than under the callphat of Haroun at Raschld. Of the entire outcome from tho war, thereforg, notes a correspondent, the Arab renaissance is assuredly not the least momentous. Historically, It will mark the advent of a new era ; ethno- logically it becomes a charming study of futurists of literature. 8tate of Ohio, City of Toledo^ Loess County--as. ' Frank J. Cneney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. .Cheney St Co., doing business In the City of To­ ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN­ DRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 18M. (Seal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak­ en Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Druggists, 75c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo. OhUk Collecting Military Stamps. Collectors in the United States-am now gathering postmarks of letters sent from the American camps in France, which are" stamped "U.1 S. Army Postal Service." They figure that If anything definite results from yie peace talk, the expeditionary force's postmark will be valuable be- caus of Its comparative rarity, as they believe that most of the letters com­ ing to the United States from the sol­ diers abroad are sent to close friends and relatives who, for sentimental rea­ sons, will have the missives, envelopes and all. Only One "BROMO To mt the kentiine.oaU for full' BROMO QDININ" 2 _ GiiOVU. Uares a Gold In One Day. 4B. Look for RSSffiS;™ •Ignatnra of a. W. >ay. SOo. , Some Speed Car. j "What did you do yesterday?" "Psmythe took me for a drive out in the country in his new car." "Has Psmythe got a'new car?" "Well, he calls It a car, but I'd call it a thunderbolt." "What kind of a car is it7J' "It's this kind of a car: The man who is driving says: 'Isn't that a fine view ahead of us?' And you say, 'Tea, wasn't it l'" He Is Mistaken. 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