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kM$t £*f AINDEAI/EE, McHENRY, ILI>< " ^ T'-*" ,, "?",•*{ Bs?'"'} A Romance of Adventure m ' . • • • ' CHAPTER XVI---Continued. ' •%' :10-- t "Listen, while I tell you nil from the ftliginning! The sirkar sent tee to dis­ cover what may be this 'Heart of the Hills' men talk about. I found these caves--and this! I told the sirkar a little about the caves, and nothing at al! about the sleepers. But even at that they only believed the third of what I said. And I--back in Delhi I bought books. When I had ~ad enough I came back here to think. I knew enough now to be sure that the sleeper j* a Roman and the*'Heart of the Hills' a Grecian maid. She is like me. That is why I know she drove him to make an empire, choosing for a be­ ginning these 'Hills' where Rome had never penetrated. I have seen it all in dreams. And because I was all alone, I saw that I would need skill and much patience. So I began to learn. "Times I would go to Delhi and <dance there a little, and a little in other places--once indeed before a viceroy, and once for the king of Eng­ land. And all the while I kept look- ing for the man--the man who should be like the sleeper, even as I am like her whom he loved! There was none like the'sleeper until you came. And •wlien the world * war broke--for it is a world war, a world war, I tell you!-- I thought at last that I must manage frit alone. And then you came! h "But there4 were many I tried--many ,»#*especially after I abandoned the thought that the man must resemble the Sleeper. There was a prince of Germany who came to India on a hunt­ ing trip. You remember?" King pricked his ears and allowed himself to grin, for in common with many hundred other men who had been lieutenants at the time, he would once have given an ear and an eye to know the truth of that affair. The grin transforced his whole appearance, tlBtil > Yasmini beamed on him. "I'm listening, princess!" he remind­ ed her. "Well--he came--the prince of Ger- faaay. I offered him India first, then Asia, then the world--even as I now offer them to you. The sirkar sent him to see me dance, and he stayed to hear me talk. When I saw at last that he has the head and heart of a hyena 1 ,($at in his face and threw food at; him. \ "He complained to the sirkar against so I told the sirkar some--not ' ffjThe Old Gods Who Built These Caves , in the 'Hills' Are Laughing! They Are Getting Ready! Thou and I--" I". . JMueh, indeed, but enough--of the things he and his officers had told me. * And the sirkar said.at once that there ' *as both cholera and bubonic pliigue, •ttid he must go home! His officers laughed behind his back. Ever since that time there have always been Ger­ mans in communication with me, and I have not once been in the dark about /Germany's plans--although they have Always thought I am in the dark. "I went on looking for my man. There came that old Bull-with-a-beard. Uuhammad Anlm. He thinks he Is the man, having more strength to hope and more .will to will wrongly than any man I ever met, except a German. I have even been sure sometimes that lluhammad Anlm Is a German; yet Bow I am not sure,, "From all the men I met and 1 Ht . " . «^stched I have learned all they knew! , t , *ind I have never neglected to tell the ftlrkar sufficient of what men have told I ' toe, to keep the sirkar pleased with ^ > V&' me! It was fortunate that I knew of * German plot that I could spoil at the .|ast minute. A million dynamite #)onibs was a big haul for the sirkar! Jkfy offer to go to Khinjan and keep the •^Bills' quiet was accepted that same ;'||fty! "But what are a million dynamite |t.|Mnbsi Dynamite bombs have been ffoming Into Khinjan month by month jfhese three years! .Bombs and rifles and cartridges! Muluumnud Antra's |nen, whom he trusts because he must, it Jill in a Cave I showed them, that = *hey tlilnk, and he thinks, has only one ntrance to it. Muhammad Anitu sealed t, and he hps the key. But 1 have e ammunition! "There was another way out of that ve, although there is none now, for have blocked It. My men* whom I Jg|hust because 1 know them, carried ev­ erything: out by ihe back way, and i ave it ail. We, my warrior, when Mu- jvimi I rmi A' ?! . By TALBOT MUNDY Copyright by the Bobbt-MerriU Company many and gives the sign, and the 'Hills' are afire, and the whole l£ast roars lo the flame of the Jihad--we will put our­ selves at the head of fnat jihad, and the East and the world Is ours!" King smiled at her. "The East isn't very well armed/* he objected. "Mere numbers--" "Numbers?" She laughed at him. "The West has the West by the throat! It is tearing itself! They will drag in America! There will be no armed na­ tion . with its hands free--and whiie those wolves fight, other wolves shall come and steal the meat! The old srods, who built these caves in the 'Hills,^ are laughing! They are get­ ting ready! Thou and I--" As she coupled him and herself to­ gether In one plan she read the changed expression of his face--the very quickly passing cloud that even the best-trained man cannot control. "I know!" she asserted, sitting up­ right and coming out of her dream to face facts as their master. She looked more lovely now than ever, although twice as dangerous. "You are thinking of your brother--of his head! That I am a murderess who can never be your friend! Is that not so?" He did not answer, but his eyes may have betrayed something, for she looked as if he had struck her. "Oh, I have needed you so mueh, these many years! And now that you have come you want to hate me be­ cause you think I killed your brother! Listen! , "Without my leave, Muhammad Anlm sent five hundred men on a foray toward the Khyber. Bull-with-a-beard needed an Englishman's head, for proof for a spy of his who could not enter Khinjan caves. They trappy 1 your brother outside All Masjid with fifty of his men. They took his head after a long fight, leaving more than a hundred of their own in payment * "Bull-with-a-beard was pleased. But he was careless, and I sent my men to steal the head from his men. I needed evidence for you. And I swear to you --I swear to you by my gods who have brought us two together--that I first knew It was your brother's head when you held It up In the Cavern of Earth's Drink! Then I knew It could not be anybody else's head!" "Why bid me throw It to them, then?" he asked her, and he was aware of her scorn before the words had left his lips. She leaned back again and looked at him through lowered eyes, as if she must study him .all anew. She seemed to find it hard to believe that he really thought so in the commonplace. "What Is a head to me, or to you-- a head with no life In It--carrion!-- compared to what shall be? Would you have known It was his head if you had thrown it to them when I ordered you?" > He understood. Some of her blood was Russian, some Indian. She stood up, and of course he stood up, too. So, she on the footstool of the throne, her eyes and his were on a level. She laid hands on his shoulders and looked Into his eyes until he could see his own twin portraits in hers, that were glow­ ing sunset pools. Heart of the Hills? The heart of all the East seemed to burn in her, rebellious! Are you believing me?" she asked him. He nodded, for no man could have helped believing her. . As she knew the truth, she was telling it to him, as surely as she was doing her skill­ ful best to mesmerize him. But the secret service is made up of men trained against that. Come!" she said, and stepping down she took his arm. She led him past the thrones to other leather curtains in a wall, and through them Into long hewn passages from cavern to cavern, until even the Rock of Gibraltar seemed like a doll's house in comparison. She showed him a cave containing great forges, where the bronze had iwen worked, with charcoal still piled up against the wall at one end. There were copper and tin ingots in there of a shape he had never seen. "I know where they came from," she told him. "I made It my business to know all the 'Hills.' I know things the hlllmen's great-great-great-grand- fathers forgot! I know old workings that would make a modern nation rich! We shall have money when we need it, never fear! We shall conquer In­ dia while the English backs are turned and the best troops are overseas." Then she called him her warrior and her well-beloved and took him down a long passage, holding his hand all the way, to show him slots cut in the floor for the use of archers. "You entered Khinjan caves by a tunnel under this floor, well-beloved. There is no other entrance!" By this time "weli-beloved" was her name for him, although there .was no air of flnalliy about it. ^It was as if she paved the way for use of Athelstan and that was a sacred name. It was amazing how she conveyed that im­ pression without using words. "The Sleeper cut these slots^for his archers. Then he hud another thought and set these cauldrons in place, to boll oil to pour down. Could any army force a way through by the route by which you entered?" "No." he said; fharvellng at the ton- weight copper cauldrons, one to each hole. "And I have more than a thousand Mauser rifles here, and more than a million rounds of ammunition! She showed him a cave in which boxes were stacked in high, square piles. "Dynamite bombs I", she boasted. "How many .boxes?« I forgetl Too many to count! Women brought them all the way from the sea, for even Afridi riflemen carry loads. I have wondered what Bull-with-a-beard will say when he misses bis precious dyna­ mite !" "You've enough In there to blow the mountain up!" King advised her. "If somebody fired a pistol in here, the least would be the collapse of this floor into the tunnel below with a hun­ dred thousand tons of rock on top of It. There Is no other way out?" "Earth's Drink!" she said, and he made a grimace that set her to laugh­ ing. But she looked at htm darkly after that and he got the Impression that the man bargain?" King asked her, "What stipulations did they make?" "With the tribes? None! They were too wise. A Jihad was, decided on in Germany's good titae; that time should come .ten rifles 'Hills' and a thousand cartridges would mean not only a hundred dead English- njpn, bht^ten times that number busily engaged. Why bargain when there was no need? A rifle Is what It is. the 'Hills' are the 'Hills 1'" "Tell me about your lamp oil, then," he said. "You burn enough oft In Khinjan caves to light Bombay! That does not come In by submarine. The sirkar knows how much of everything goes up the Khyber. I have seen the printed lists myself--a few hundred cans of kerosene--a few score galiofftfr of vegetable oil. and all bound for far­ ther north. There Isn't eriough oil pressed among the 'Hills' to keep these caves going for a day. Where does it all come from?" She laughed, as a mother laughs at a child's questions, finding delicious enjoyment in instructing him. "There are three village^, not two days' march from Khabul, where men have lived for centuries by pressing oil for Khinjan caves," she said. "The Sleeper fetched his oil thence. The Sleeper left gold In here. Those who kept the Sleeper's secret paid for the oi) in gold. No Afghan troubled why oil was needed, so long as gold paid for it. And I know where the Sleeper dug his gold!" They sat In silence for a long while after that, she looking at the table, with its ink and pens aiyl paper, and he thinking, with hands clasped rountf one knee; for it is wiser to think than to talk, even when a woman is nea* who can read thoughts tftat are hot guarded. "Athelstan!" she said at last. "It sounds like a king's name! What was the Sleeper's name? Was there socb a name in Rome?" - "No," he said. "T~ "What does it mean?" she asked him. "Slow of resolution!" "< " t She clapped her hands. "Another sign!" she laughed. "The gods love me! There always is a sign when I need one! Slow of resolution, art thou? I will speed thy resolution, well-beloved! You were quick to change from King, of the Khyber Rifle regiment, to. Kurram Khan. Change now into my warrior--my dear lord-- my King again!" She rose, with arms outstretched to him. All her dancer's art, her un­ tamed poetry, her witchery, were ex-^ pressed In a movement. Her eyes melt­ ed as they met his. And since he stood up, too, for manner's sake, they were eye to eye again--almost lip to lip. Her sweet breath was In his nostril®! In another moment ehe was in his arms, clinging to him, kissing him. And if any .man has felt on his lips the kiss of all the scented glamour of the East, let him tell what King's sen­ sations were. Let Caesar, who was kissed by Cleopatra, come to life and talk of it! * King's arm is strong, and he did not stand like an idol. His head might .swim, but she, too, tnsted the delirium of human passion loosed and given tot a mad, swift minute. If his heart swelled to bursting, so must hers have done. ' "I have needed you !" she whispered. "I have been all alone! 1 have needed you!" ' Then her lips sought his again, and neither spoke. Neither knew how long It was before she began to understand thnt he, not she, was winning. The human answer to her appeal was full. He gave her all Bhe asked of admiration, kiss for kiss. And then--her arms did not cling so tightly, although his strong right arm was like a stanchion. Be­ cause he knew that he, not she, was winning, he picked her up in his arms and kissed her as if she were a child. And then, because he knew he had won, he set her on her feet on the foot­ stool of the throne, and even pitied her. She felt the pity. As she tossed the hair back over her shoulder her eyes glowed jwith another meuning--danger* ous--like a tiger's glare. "You pity me? You think because I love you, you can feed my love on a plate to the Indian government? You think my love is a weapon to use against me? Your love for me may wait for a better time? You are not so wise as I thought you, Athelstan!" But he knew he had won. His heart was singing down inside him as it had not sung since he left Inuia behind. But he stood quite numbiy berore her, for had he not kissed her? He knew he had won. Yet if anyone had asked him how he knew that he had won, he never could have told. "If you were to go back to India ex­ cept ns its conqueror, they would strip the buttons from your uniform and tear your melals off and ~sho«t you in the back against a wall! My signa­ ture is known In India and I am known. What I write will be believed. Itewa Gunga shall take a letter. He shall take two--four--witnesses. He shall see them on their way and shall give them the letter when they reach the Khyber and shall send them into India with it. Have no fear. Bull- with-a-benrd shall not intercept them, as* I have intercepted his men. When Rewa Gunga shall return and tell me he saw my letter on Its way down the Khyber, then we shall talk again-- you and I! Come!" She took his arm, as If her threats had been caresses. Triumph shone from her eyes. She tossed her brave chin and laughed at him, only en­ couraged to greater daring by his atti­ tude, and by the time they reached the ebony table and she had taken the pen and dipped it in the ink, she was chuckling to herself as If the one good Joke had grown into a hundred. She wrote in Urdu, with an easy, flowing hand, and in two minutes she had thrown sand on the letter and had given It to King to read. It was not like a woman's letter. It did not waste a word. Tour Captain King has been too much trouble. He has taken money from the Germans. He adopted native dress. He ^ miv .. , called himself Kurram Khan. He slew """ " ii' T "v, i his own brother at night In the Khyber carry on their heads to Khinjan. So ' pasa. These men will say that he car* they worked, he and the Germans, for ried the head to Khinjan. and their word I know not how long--with the Eng- 11 true, for I, Yasmlnl, saw. He used the ilsh watching the seas as on land lean 1 •they Will lay Waste India! Thtey Will Butcher and Plunder and Burn! It Will Be What They Leave of India That We Shall Build Anew and Govern." thought was not new to her, and that she did not thank him for the advice. He began to bonder whether there was anything she had not thought of-- any loophole she had left him for escape--any issue she had not fore­ seen. She showed him where eleven hun­ dred Mauser rifles stood in racks in another cave, with boxes of ammuni­ tion piled beside them--each rifle and cartridge worth Its weight in' silver coin--a very rajah's ransom ! "The Germans are generous In some things--only in some things*--very mean In others!" she told him. "They sent no medical stores, and no blan­ kets!" Past caves where provisions of ev­ ery imaginable kind were stored, suffi­ cient for an army, she led him to where her guards slept together with the thirty special men whom King had brought with him up the Khyber. "I have five hundred others whom I dare trust to come in here," she said, "but they shall stay outside until I want them. A mystery is a good thing! It is good for them all to wonder what I keep In here! It Is good to keep this sanctuary ; it makes for power !" Pressing very close to him, she guided him down another dark tunnel until he and she stood together In the Jaws of the round hole above the rlvor. looking down Into the Cavern of Eartli's Diinl;. Nobody looked up at them. The thousands were too busy working up a frenzy for the great jihad that was to come. Stacks of wood had been piled up, six-man high In the middle, and then fired. .The heat came upward like a furnace blast, and the smoke was a great red cloud among the stalactites. Round and round that holocaust the thousands did their sword-dance, yell­ ing as the devils yelled at Khinjah's birth. They needed no wine to craze them. They were drunk with fanati­ cism, frenzy, lust! Yasmini shouted In his ear; for the din, mingling with the river's voice, made a volcano chord. "They will lay waste India! They will butcher and plunder and burn! It will be what they leave of India that we shall build anew and govern, for India herself will rise to help them lay her own cities waste I It is always so! Conquests always are so ! Come!" She tugged at him and led him back along the tunnel and through other tunnels to the throne room, where she made him'slt at her feet again. The fodd had been cleared away In their absence. Instead, on the ebony table there were pens and ink and paper. CHAPTER XVII. "You kn9w where is Dar es Sa­ laam?" asked Yasmlhi. "East Africa," said King. "And English warships watch the Persian gulf and ail the seas from In­ dia to Aden?" King nodded. "Have the English any ships that dive under water, in these waters?" "I think not. I'm not sure, but 1 think not." "The grenades you have seen, and the rifles and cartridges were sent by the Germans to Dar es Salaam, "to suppress a rising of African natives. Does it begin to grow clear to you, my friend?" He smiled as well as nodded this time. "Muhammad Anlm used to wait with a hundred women at a certain place on the seashore. What he found on the murder. Hi* next ytm shall hear of your Captain King of the Khyber riftos, ha will be leailng a jihad into India. You would have better trusted me. YASMINI. He read it and passed it back to her. "They wlll not disbelieve me/' she said, triumphant as the very devil over a brandered soul all hot. "They will be sure you are wad, and they will believe the witness**!" - "Rewa Gunga shall start with this today!" she said, with more amuse: ment than malice. After that she was still for a inoment, 'watching hits eyes, at a loss to understand his Chreless- ness. He seemed strangely unabased. His folded arms were not defiant, but neither were they yielding; . "I love you, Athelstan I" she said. "Do you love me?" "I think you are very beautiful, princess!" "Beautiful? I know I am beautftyl. iBttt Is that all?" "Clever!" he added. v She begpn to drum with the golden dagger hilt on the table, and to look dangerous, which is not to Infer by any means that she looked less lovely* "Do you love me?" she asked* "Forgive me, princess, but you1 for­ get. I was born east of Mecca, but my folk were from the West. We are slower to love than some other nations. With us love is more often growth, less often surrender at first sight. I think you are wonderful!" She nodded and tucked the sealed letter In her bosom. •"It shall go," she said darkly, "and another letter with it. They looted your brother's body. In his pocket they found the note you wrote him, and that you asked him to destroy! That will be evl deuce. That will convince! Come!" - , , He followed her through leather cur­ tains again and down the dark pas­ sage Into the outer chamber; and the illusion was of walking behind a gold­ en-haired Madonna to some shrine of innocence. Her perfume was like In­ cense; her manner perfect reverence, fehe passed into the cave where the two dead bodies lay like a high priest­ ess performing a rite. Walking to the bed, she stood for minutes, gazing at the Sleeper and his queen. And from the new angle from which King saw him the Sleeper's like­ ness to himself was actually startling. Startling--weird;--like an incantation were Yasmini's words when at last she spoke. "Muhammad lied! He lied In his teeth! His sons have multiplied his lie! Slddhattha, whom m$n have called Gotama, the Buddha, was before Mu­ hammad and he knew more! He told of the wheel of things, and there is a wheel! Yet, what knew the Buddha of the wh^el ? He who spoke of Dharma (the customs of the law) not knowing Dharma! This is true--of old there was a wish of the gods--of the old gods. And so these two were. There is a wish again now of the old gods. So, are we two not as they two were? It is the same wish, and lo! We are ready, this man and I. We will obey, ye gods--ye old gods!" She raised her arms and, going closer to the bed, stood there in an attitude of mystic reverence, giving and re­ ceiving blessings. "Dear gods!" she prnyed. "Dear old gods--older .than these 'Hills'--show me in a vision what their fault was-- why these two were ended before the end! "I know alt the other things ye have shown me. I know the world's silly creeds have made It mad, and It must rend itself, and this man and I shall reap where the nations sowed--if only we obey! Wherein, ye old dear gods, wjho love me, did these two disobey? 1 pray you, tell me In a vision!" She shook her head and sighed. Sad­ ness seemed to have crept over her, lfke a cold mist from the night. It was as if she could dimly see he£ plans foredoomed, and yet hoped on In spite of It. The fatalism that she scorned as Muhammad's lie held her In Its grip, and her natural courage fought w|th it. Womanlike, she turned to King in that minute and confided te him her very Inmost thoughts. And he, without an inkling as to how she must fail, yet knew that she must, and pitied her. , "Have you seen that breast under the armor?" she asked suddenly. "Come nearer! Come and look ! Did she kill him? Was that a dagger-stab In his breast? I found perfume In these caves--great Jars of It, and I use It always.. I think that scent is the preservative. Athelstan--listen! I think he would have failed heir! I think she stabbed him rather than see liliii fall, and then awuiioweu poison! Afterward their servants laid them there. She smiles in death because she J ] wolves comb the valleys." head for a passport, to obtain admittance. He proclaims a Jihad! Ho urges Invasion of India1. He held up his brother's head "What were the teraa at the Of-!»>•*<*>• Jfr* |h»>paad mea awl fcoaate* VS*c£fTI7' "Do You Love Me?" 8he Asked. knew the wheel will turn and that death dies too! He looks grim be­ cause he knew less than she. It is al­ ways woman who understands and man who fails! I think she stabbed him. She should have loved him bet­ ter, and then there would have been no need. I will love you better than she loved him!" S^fe turned and devoured him with her eyes, so that It needed all his man­ hood to hold hlm back from being her slave that A<hlnute. For in that min­ ute she left no charm unexercised-- >«»•-- mesmeiiam -- baa»ty -- flattest (l»r eyes could flatter as a dumb dog'* flatter a huntsman)--grace unutterable --mystery--she used every art on him she knew. Yet he stood the test. "Even If you fall- me, well-beloved I will love you! The gods who gave you me "v^lll know how to make you Jove; and lessons are to learn. If you fall me I will forgive, knowing that In the end the gods will never let you fail me! You are mine, and earth is ours, for the old gods intend it so!" , She seemed to expect him to take her, in his arms again; but he stood re­ spectfully and made no answer, norj any move. Grim and strong hls.jow! was, like the Sleeper's, and the dark hair three days old on it softened noth­ ing of its Waes. His Roman nose and steady, dark, fa?! eyss suggested no compromise. Yet he wee good to look at. She hnd not lied when «t» said she loved him, and he understood her and was sorry. But he did not look sorry, nor did he offer any argument to quench her love. He was a servant of the raj; his life and his love had been India's ^since the day be first buckled on his spurs, and Yasmini would not have understood that. ' ' Nor did she understand that, even supposing he had loved her with all his heart, not on any conditions would he have admitted it until absolutely free, any more than that if she crocked him he would love her the same, supposing that he loved her at all. Npr did she trast the "old gods" too woll, or let them work unaided. \ "Come with roe, Athelstan!" she said. She took his arm--found little Jeweled slippers In a closet hewn In the wall-- put them on and led him to the cur­ tains he had entered by. She led down the steps, and at the foot told him to put on his slippers, as If he vere a child. Then, hurrying as If those opal eye: of hers were Indifferent to dark or daylight, she picked her way among bowlders that he could feel but not see, along a floor that was only smooth in places, for a distance that was long enough by two or three times to lose him altogether. When he looked back there was no sign of red lights behind him. And when he looked forward, there was a dim outer light In front and a Whiff of the cool fresh air that presages the dawn! She led him through a gap on to a ledge of rock that hung thousands of feet above the home of thunder, a ledge less than six feet wide, less than twenty long, tilted back toward the cliff. There they sat, watching the stars. t And there they saw the dawh come..' s (TO BE CONTINUED.) ASSISt IS REMARKABLE CITY Shows How Influence of One Man With an Idea Can Persist Through the Centuries. . ^ t • A remarkable city is AMtat; show­ ing how the Influence of a man with an idea can persist down the changing centuries. It is seven hundred years and more since St.v Francis lived and died here, and yet today Assisl Is lit­ tle besides the city of St. Francis. His name lends it whatever fame and im­ portance it may have, and something of his kindly spirit seems to hang about it still. Assisl is a bare little Italian hill town, built of dull stone, with narrow, winding rocky streets, looking out over one ef the fairest prospects in all Italy. Here St. Francis was >orn of rich parents, here he led an idle, spendthrift youth, and here he was suddenly seized with the idea of uni­ versal brotherhood and the necessity for poverty. 4lere he founded the Franciscan order, praying that its dis­ tinctive sign might be "never to pos­ sess anything under the -sun and to have bo means of living 'save by beg­ ging." He carried out his rule in strictest practice, living in a hut of reeds built where now stands the church of St. Mary of the Angels. He felt a great love for all things created, so that he hailed the sun as his. brother and preached to the fishes. All of these In­ cidents In his career and many oth­ ers are set forth in noble frescoes by Giotto in the Franciscan church at Assisl. ' " ~ In Assist, too. Is the tomb of St. Francis, in a little chapel of the Fran­ ciscan monastery. The tomb Is sur­ rounded by beautiful marbles and rich work In beaten bronze. The world has loyed St. Francis, but apparent­ ly It has never understood him. Else It would not In all reverence have surrounded his vault with the rich luxury of beuuiy u^uir>at v.'IiiCu whole lite and all his teachings were but one great protest. 4 Colors of the Rainbow. The colors of the rainbow vary ae* cording to their size, and the slxe dif­ fers according to \he bigness of the raindrops. Large drops produce nar­ row rainbows and bright, clearly de­ fined colors. The Colors are general­ ly as follows: When the raindrops are in the average one millimeter in diam­ eter we see a violet, pale blue, bluish green, green, yellow, orange, pale red and deep red rainbow; when the drops average three-tenths millimeter, the rainbow Is violet, pale blue, bluish green,, green, yellow and orange. Drops of one-tenth millimeter produce the succession of a very pale violet, vio­ let, whitish blue, whitish green, bluish yellow and pale yellow. Drops of one- twentieth millimeter (fog) give white tinted with violet, a very vivid white, a white tinted with yellow and a very pale yellow. Washington's Tfo Birthdaya. . In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII ordered that all the dathollc countries should adopt a new. calendar. This calendar was correct and Is at the present time in general use throughout the world. In the year that the calendar was adopted ten days were dropped. Thus the day after October 4 of the Julian calendar became October 15 In the Gregorian. This calendar was not adopted by England nntll 1752. Wash­ ington being born in 1732, he Aras twenty years old at the time the new calendar was adopted. Thus his jQrst 20 birthdays fell on the 11th of Feb­ ruary and the others fell on the 2'*nd. . • J • <• h • • , •» y "* . , 11 " \ • w. 1 * [%Lt.i&lf * 1 •«, t: 'Arklng Back. 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The horizontal axle of­ fers space for a crew and 14 gyro- scoplcally stabilized to support a fight­ ing mast. Opposite ends of the axis are utilized as gun turrets. 1 -vi' Vrv4 T .7*$ : 1. -iLiii. '••vSI CUTICURA HEALS SORE HANDS That Iteh, Burn, Crack, Chap and Bleed--trial Free. In.a wonderfully short time In most casea these fragrant, super-creamy emollients succeed. Soak hands on re­ tiring in the hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub Cuticura Ointment into the hands for some time. Remove sur­ plus Oiutment with soft tissue paper. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.--Adv. Conservation. She had long been noted for he* economy in the culinary line, but It Re­ mained for conservation to bring out just what she could do, relates an ex­ change. They sat down to dinner and the soup was served. To the man-of-the- house it did not seem familiar. It < certainly was a new variety for, float­ ing on its surface were queer little puff balls. He prodded one and then he tasted. They wgre good and t|P tried another, but curiosity getting the better, he inquired: "Would you kind­ ly tell me just what this is I am eat­ ing?" "Well," she replied, "if you must know, there was one batter cake left from breakfast and I put it in the soup." To Cura a Cold lo One Dar _ „ Taka LAXATlva BBOMO QUININB TablaW. Drnsfflsts refund monsr if it falls 1 QOOVB'S signature 1# on eaoh box. to ears. SL W. A Berlin Advertisement. In Gerqaany now there are advertise­ ments which are not only news, but imply a great deal outside of the direct news sought to be conveyed. As an Instance the Berlin Tagea Zeitung recently contained a want ad, reading as follows: "For exchange, 50 Polish laborers, 20 men and 30 girls, for the same number of other hands." Polish laborers In Germany are not permitted to change masters or to move from place to place without gov­ ernment authorization. With such au­ thorization, however, the masters can tiiunv; , Av i»S3 ""c ^"55 and mules, or as our housewives ex­ change soap grease for soap, or old rags for door mats, kitchen tins and such.--Exchange. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cored by local applications as they cannot reach th« diseased portion of the ear. There la only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness, and that Is by a constitutional remedy. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE acts through th« Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Catarrhal Deafness la caused by an Inflamed condition of tho mucous lining: of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed you have a rumbling: sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely closed, Deafness la the result. Unless the Inflammation can be re­ duced and this tube restored to its nor­ mal condition, hearing may be destroyed forever. 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