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Tibet. and then lost him again for num-
Der of years, but finally came in touch
with him in Persia, where he had
settled and prospered. Thou dost wonder
why 1 took such interest, such trouble?
Well, had come slowly to believe that this
man Rama Lalkura was he of whom we have
spoken, our shadow, whom, as l told thee,
l sent to Yamma in the long ago but whom
Fate had set on earth once more to cross
paths again, thine and mine, I-oda.
Dost thou understand"
You mean, my lord, that II The
girl stammered, gazing at him with great
wide eyes and waited for him to finish.
Eyes, Loda; thou was the Cashmere
girl, my bride that was to be-
"But-but-- Oh, don't understand! How
can 1? Why! if l was that woman. then
the child-the baby-muSt have been mine. -
Naturally"
"Then, this other one, this doctor thou
canst not mean"
Yes; there is never a doubt that he is
the lineal descendant of that child
Then, my lord-my lord this man is of
my own blood!'
"Thy blood, child! PAT! Art thou "a Hindu
Nay, thou art daughter of Isaail Rurad1y
and his wife Fatima, Egyptians of the
house of Edar of the tribe of Maneka. So.
how sayest thou, This man-this English
man-is of my own blood?
1.-The tale that have told thee is old,
old legend. Irkhana Singh and Rama Lal-
kura lived and fought and died near two
centuries since, and yet today this old story
of the coming avatar-for Rama La,kura
has been deifed by his followers-is stronger
and more sure of fulfillment than in all the
years 1t has been a-building.
"Lalkura's son, who settled in Persia
and was called Bemar Meerd.t, developed
the beginning of the scientific strain which,
when later allied to English blood, produced
line of doctors whose name OF Meerdit'
was soon lost in the English Meredith
And of this family there remains now but
one who has not gone hence-even he of
whom we have spoken, the only living de-
seendant of this Lalkura-our shadow.
And thou and /, my lord?" questioned
the girl doubtfully.
Thou, child, hast been behind tine veil
and come again twice since those days of
trouble
And thou, my lord?" she persisted.
"I-well 1 have learned to live, Loda-not
perfectly yet else would not now need this
shadow thing of thine, but-see, [ have
learned that the amount of wick burned de-
ponds on the quality and supply of the oil.
Fools burn the wick, and as 1t cannot be
replaced, they must needs get new lamp;
wise men burn the oil and savs the wick
that is all. Loda."
Surely, my lord, thy wisdom Is greater
than that of any other son of womani" the
girl exclaimed impetuously.
s.Ah, child, II thought so 1t would indeed
show how little really knew. What am I,
after ALL but an old I1an. / have used my
thread of wick with skill and care, but 1t is
nearly done. / might go hence and buy a
new lamp, but am weary of new lamps;
they have an odor and are apt to smoke,
and besides being expensive they are unre-
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L reported the thing to the aiah. who
was thunderstruck at the fellows aucacity,
ana ne sent courier in hot haste demand
Ing Ing the immediate surrender of the girl
IWo days later the man returned and told
his master that Prince Rama Lalkura had
hoisted his standard in rocky defile above
the city, and that the lesser leaders with
thelr clans were fiocking to him hourly;
that even as he left they were more numer-
Gus than the trees; that runners were nut
rousing the tribes hundred miles away;
and he said that answer of the
prince to the kings message had
been thus: This is not thy, quarrel,
my Lord Irkhana-unIess thou makest It
SCOUT that of Mussuman hound, whom
l, frlnce Rama Lalkura, have despoiled
ana whom l now defy; but, my lord, If
for thy friend, the girl is here at Bhaity-
pore, where l will gladly give him welcome
VINO dares TO claim her, be he MoSlem or
Hindu bothn
That night, Lola, the king had his
choice between his friend and brother
ana peace. He chose peace, and I swore
then that II it took ten. Thousand years 1
would wipe out his share in the kingdom
mad helped to build. ] sent runner to
Rama Lalkura telling him what had
done and saying that he was free of the
glrl-that he might dismiss his men, as l
was neither his friend nor foe, but to be-
danger.
now Irkhana was worse than a coward
IN TINS matter-he Was a fool; for / could
nave put thousand Brahnis-the pick of
nghtlng race-against this Raj-bhat
prince, and with the kings army we would
have won. But as 1t was, he lost my sup
port and gained nothing in return. Prince
Kama Lalkura grew turbulent and de-
msnded more and more month by month,
TIL verify the children of the valley were
In doubt as to who was their legitimate
ruler, and 1t seemed in truth that the time
was to hand when Rama Lalkura would
De lord indeed and Irkhana be reduced to
the position of tributary prince, If even
that semblance of power were left him.
BuL at the moment of his greatest promise
Lalkura fell.
There are many versions of the manner
OF his taking off, and they only coincide
IN this one particular-that 1t was a bloody
one The most popular tradition Is that
the secret way of his rock-bound fort was
betrayed to lrkhana, who hired band of
desperadoes from among the criminal ele-
ment that was always seeking either refuge
or plunder in the little principality, and
that these crept past the guards in the
night and broke In on the prince while he
was sti1 abed. Now the prince had always
lived In dread of treason and nightly he
shut himself In the house with the girl he
had stolen and her women, with the guard
posted outside 1t seems he had provided
secret way, passage from the ante
room OF his bedchamber, by which he
could escape down through the very bowels
or the mountain and into a temple of silva,
the passage ending in the hollow belly of
the god himself. Whether this be true,
and the priest who kept the shrine was the
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traitor or some temple girl, deVa-dasl
who had discovered the secret of the shrine,
can never be known. 1t seems most prop
able, however that a rush was mace on
the outside-a diversion, as 1t were, TO
hide the real attack from the secret way.
The thing was we'll planned and even the
elements favored it, for there was terrinc
storm of wind and water raging the hVe-
long night, and many of the guards
had crept away from their posts. Prob
ably 1t is true that Rama Lalkura, the
Hope Of the Hills, and the girl were both
cut down directly. no real defense being
possible though the Wonder-mongers up
there sing of mighty fight where the wo-
man slew score of men in defense OF her
dying lover. That any such thing hap
pened is hardly likely, for these matters are
usually managed in a more businessl1ke
way than that.
"A year after this little game was fin
ished and Irkhana was beginning to feel
safe and strong in the land, whisper grew
in the hills that at a certain time Prince
Rama Lalkura would come agaln-that his
murdered spirit had come to holy Yogi
in little hill temple and babe him tell his
people that he would surely come and set
them Free for them to hold their indie
pendence and wait till he gathered power
for a mighty avatar, when he would come
as messiah, deliverer who would lead
them out of the conquest first OF their own
valley and then of the whole world
"Of course, at first this seems very
crude trick of the enemies of Irkhana to
hold the people and the hills against him,
and so it appealed to me till saw later by
the stars that some such avatar was in
deed promised. 1t seemed preposterous. but
the stars do not lie SO / set myself to
study the matter. Years passed. Irkhana
was slain in the first revolution, and in the
second his son was placed on the throne.
Through all this time l gained no clue to
the true meaning of the whisper which had
now grown to a belief a faith: and Rama
Lalkura had come to be the hope and the
watchword of a thousand warrior tribes.
Then the truth came to me.
II had bought young slave girl in Pc
shawar, and the dealer, an Iranie, whis-
pared that she had come from far Nepauf.
I professed skeptic:sm, and he showed me
some papers written in Parbatiya as saw
at glance. He also produced the yellow
crystal of which we have just been robbed.
I bought these along with few other
trifes which the fellow stated had been
left with him when the little slave girls
mother had died on his hands few months
before To be brief, l found in these pa
pers what l should have thought of long
| before-that Rama Lalkura had left son.
and that son had escaped-been smuggied
away as the child of one of the slave wo-
men all of whom we're spirited away on
the night of the tragedy.
1.-THE little girl not only corroborated the
papers, but also told me that-the lost baby
bore a birthmark which was hereditary in
the family of Rama Lalkura, and that the
pearl trimmed crystal was the symbolic dec
GRAFTON of his house.
with much difficulty, and after a long
period OF time, traced the child into
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liable. 1 know what 1 am now, and what
I know-What my possibilities and what my
limita tions but if l go hence and seek TO
come again, who can say whether L shaIi
find conditions that may mold TO my pres
ent desires? Nay, l will not go; and II L
NAV not buy a new wick, verify will take
one-and who shall call me to any account
ing? A.,
part thou shalt assign this doctor man. We
know that the blood of that old RaJ-bhat
prince, Rama Lalkura, has cropped up In
him after the curious ways OF heredlty.
We know this by the Mark. And where
the blood is, there, also, is the splrlt-and
where the spirit is, thou, Loda, canst work.
Twice has this so-caled ayatar been ex-
pected, prophesed concerning-and post
poned. Curiously enough. each of these
times has correspondent with the life of one
of Bemar Meerdits descendants whose body
bore the Mark but whose conditions were
such that the Hindu spirit could not over
come them and force eXpreSSion-Wh:ch
proves what 1 say of the folly of going out
when it is in any way possible to stay In,
though it be under the most adverse conol-
TONS For even today L am quite sure the
oriental would never have been able to
break through the shell which time, en-
vironment and ages of education have built
I'D around this cold English doctor without
the adventurous aid of thy somnambulistc
spells"
And when does this avatar take place.
my lord? asked the girl after a lew MN
utes of silence. during which Mahommed
relighted his hookah and sat gravely smok-
ing.
During the next pilgrimage TO Holy
Pashupati, in February"
1T seems incredible that he will be there,
my lord
'.Tlc child, I have more faith in thy spells
than thou hast myself. Have no fear. The,
stars have spoken. and / know surely that
between this and the time of pilgrimage.
thou wilt have worked the desired change.
That night Loda woke from a dreamless
slumber and gazed about the shadowy room
wondering what had walked her. AS she lay
she became conscious of a depression of spirit
"a sadness-which grew on her till she,
sought to trace its source, and found II in
Mahommed's skllfully woven story. She
did not for a moment doubt its exact truth,
and during the telling his plan of VEN
geance had seemed just, almost poetic. But
now her thoughts went out to the Raj-bhat;
TO the man who had loved her and held
her despite Mahommed and Irkhana-aye,
despite herself. Her thoughts were not re-
sentful-it was night, and her mood sub
jective: but they chung about him like bees,
questioning, plying, perhaps extenuating,
for the man had loved her. Then she grew
distraught-almcst afraid-for Ii seemed to
her that this Shadaw Thing was near her.
appealing to her by sacred right of blood
against cruel wrong. 1t might have been
a recurrence of the doubt Mahommed had.
striven to clear away, but it fell on the
darkness in a sorrowful whisper: IF the
blood of him who loved thee. why not thy
blood whose son he was equally?'
no be continued Monday
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Now when Irkhana in turn swept over
the Moon mountain (ChundragirD, l, Yah
Mahommed, led the way; and together we
conquered the kingdom which is called Ne
paul 1t was hard fight, with three great
cities to overcome-Khatmand Patan, and
later, Bhatgaon. And mark you, Lola, all
this was done by the aid of the strong
hand of his friend and brother, Yah Ma
hommed, who besides restoring freely the
treasure he had saved from the Moslem
raid led his hereditary tribes out against
the HilIsmen who would have disputed lrk-
hana's way and drove them back to their
Businesses while the new lord devoted HIM
self to the conquest of the valley.
This kingdom was small and weak in
its beginnings, but was shut in by mighty
snow-topped hills, and was belted about
by jungle so dense and dank and track
less that none might pass without running
desperate gauntlet; for the place was
quick with hungry tigers and SER
man escaped the beasts and the serpents
there were swamps still more deadly that
belched forth fever and death, so that even
to this day the Terai is practically i'm
pregnable-totally so in summer, and in
winter only traversed on most urgent bust
ness.
so you can see that, if Irkhana was
lonely, he was at least fairly secure, as
his grandson proved when the English
| tried to GUST him from his little garden.
| In fact, on it's outer boundaries this indie
| pendent little kingdom is invulnerable to
| DOM lllult ana lIDel-OT WOulu Ue With the
| use of little more brains and money than
| the present rulers have to expend-but in
| side, the hills themselves are alive from the
! snow to the foothills with countless tribes
| OF hardy fighting men headed by turbulent
princes who fear neither Allah nor the King
! of Nepaul, and who are at present held in
| check, not Sc much by the standing army in
| Khatmandu, as by the numberless bounties
| they enjoy from the government and by
| their own lack of ability to organize.
| when 1rkhana was settled in his new
| capital, he aided me to build GirZa-il-Kab
my house in the hills. built 1t with rIn-
| ming and much care. fortified 1t with san
| gars and girded it about with mighty rocks
| till today. with food enough, ! would defy
! the armies of the world to fetch me out!
| And being generous, Irkhana presented Ia
| me flower from his Zennana, a Cashmere
| girl of great beauty and wit; and on a GER
| tain day, my house being finished, I sent
! an escort to bring her home in state TO be
| my bride.
| Now, there was a man in the hills, a
! Raj-bhat prince. a wild fellow to whom tire
| tribesmen looked up as in some sort little
! deity, and toward whom on account of his
| large influence. Irkhana had been most
| conciliatory. This man, Rama Lalkura, had
! seen the girl at the palace, where he had
| often been entertained, and coveted her
! Instead of speaking out, for she was but q
| slave, he waited till she was promised to
/ me, and later. as my escort was bringing
| her home to Girza-il-Kab. he broke on ii
| like sudden hail storm with host of his
| hillsmen and, sweeping my guards off the
| hillside, made or with the girl
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A Corean Cinderella.

From the Chicago News.
In Corea the people tell a Cinderella story
that is much more ancient than that ia
miliar to western people. The key of the
latter story is the slipper, but not so theirs
Peach Blossom, the Corean Cinderella
name, was the family drudge. One day as
the mother was starting off with the IA
vorite daughter to a picnic she said 10
Peach Blossom: You must not leave until
you have hulled a bagful of rice and filed
the broken crock with water" While sit
ting there bemoaning her hard lot she heard
a twittering and fiuttering of wings. LOOK
ing I'D she saw flock of sparrows pecNng
the hills off the rice. Before recovering
from her surprise little imp jumped out
of the fireplace. and so skillfully repaired
the crock that but a rev minutes work
was required to fill ii with water. Then
she went to the picnic and had royal time,
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The Morning Walker.
From the London Chronicle.

TUH lHt LoDUOn Chronicle.
writer in Scribner's Magazine has been
much surprised by finding a sign in
Dutch town. Il. Y. D. sZwaan, Morgen
Wekker," which is Dutch for morning
walker" But this is an Industry common
in the districts where London workingmen
live, and sixpence week from each client
IS the usual walkers wage. All over
London, too, policemen make a little extra
in waking those whose work calls them
early. Only few nights-or rather morn
lngs-ago the present writer found in South
hensington constable clambering sus-
piclously on to wall. There he caught the
end OF a rope and pulled till an answering
shout was heard. The constable explained
that the other end of the rope was affixed
to the bakers bed clothes. And as the
writer went home to bed his baker arose to
bake the writer's breakfast roll.
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CHAPTER TX.


Mahommed stood frowning at the cryst1l
long after the vision had passed; he seemed
quite nonplussed by what he had seen and
heard. Later he raised the curtain and
passed from the alcove to the outer room.
Loda had not yet returned, and he straight
way caught up the gongstick and struck
the bronze disk sharply.
Tell your mistress / desire to see her
urgently, Ben .Alif.' he ordered the
dwarf appeared in the doorway: and then
hs fell to pacing the floor till Loda should
come.
She gazed anxiously at him as she
tered: ii was so unusual for him TO show
any sign of haste. She saw his perplexed,
frowning face and cried out Immediately:
What is it, my lord: what is wrong?
Nothing much. child trust; but tell
me. what ddst thou with the yellow m oon
that curious Rajput toy?'
why. my lord, L sent ii to this man.
Surely thou dost remember our discussing
the matter"
Eyes. yes; but 1 wanted to be sure. 1t
was. 1 fear. a mistake. 1t gives double
reason for this attack which may have
peen partly successful, after all. There
was no sign of this thing on his person
when Ben Alif brought him in?''
Surely no, my lord. oh, / understand
you-you think he was carrying II here
when he was waylaid-of course. / should
have known. Is 1t vital, my lord? All, l
knew See my lord, we have had the
evil chances in this matter since its first
inception"
And then she stopped before the imperi-
Gus gesture of the man. 1t was useless to
say more. so she paused little falteringy
and sat down among the cushions. watchi-
ing him as he paced restlessly up and
down.
BY and by he stopped before her: then,
sealing himself. he lifted a hot coal from
the brazier and set it in his pipe, and for
some minutes there was no sound save tee
deep. low-breathed gurgle of the water ii,
the bowl Later he began to speak, slowly
at first and between long, smoky exhaja-
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, left, the he. men , =, he'll, q: s and one of

left the men held q n5eet1hg and one Of
them got up and said. r. - =
How do we know thbsoSA man II telling
the truth, and that we are getting our full
per cent think We ought to have q
committee appointed to go and look at
his books ex~e..,6
on the employer and asked for the books
1.-THE employer looked up n surprise, say
ing: don't UNDERESTIMATE
"'Well.' replied the committee. you say
we are partners and that you have given
us per cent of the profits of the business.
How do we know that wei got our full s
per cent We should like 70, see the books. !
This almost paralyzed the employer"
continued Mr.. Parry. He waited mo-
ment and then said: Why, men, that money
was present from me- You are not en-
titled to any more than your wages. and I
need not have given you a cent He there
upon dismissed them, and that was the last
time he took his men into partnership"
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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to them. I am friend Of the workingman.
but not of him as a trades unionist
How One Man Was Boycotted.

'Have you had any personal experiences
with unions in your work."
"If you mean in my factory have not.
l have always run an open shop, and so far
the unions have refrained from making any
demands upon me in my capacity as an
employer. Since 1 have been denouncing
their methods, however, l have had one
little experience which shows that the agi-
tators were looking for an excuse to ruin
my business 1t is a little matter and
hardly worth mentioning
"A painter one day asked me for job.
/ had nothing for him in the factory and
told him that he might paint the steps
of my house, although they hardly
needed it, When he got through /
paid him what he asked, but few days
later the walking delegate of the Painters
Union called upon me and said that my
steps had been painted at a rate less than
the union scale. / told him l knew nothing
about his union scale and cared less, and
showed him out of my office. Then the
Painters Union applied for national boy
colt on my factory. The application passed
through the Central Labor Union of In
dianapolis and was sent up to President
Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor. Mr.. Gompers came out to Indian
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latest and most efficient type There will,
be large refrigerating chambers for the car
riage of chilled beef.
Powerful Engines.

riage of chilled beef
Powerful Engines.
The Baltic will be fitted with engines OF
quadruple expansion type. about 1890 !. h.
p. and the speed viii be about 16 1-2 to II
knots. The engines are arranged on the
balanced principle, which practically does
away with vibration. The two engines and
twin screws afford another element OF
safety TO the ship and passengers. and the
possibility OF dangers is reduced to a mini
num-
The Baltic Is the fourth largest vessel in
the world built during the last few years.
The others were the Oceanic in 1899. the
Celtic in 1901, and the Cedric In 1902. The
Oceanic has gross tonnage of 17,214. while
her length is 705 feet, her depth 40 feet, and
her breadth IS feet. Compared with these
dimensions the Baltic has a gross tonnage
of 23,000. her length is 1859, her depth 40
feet, and her breadth 1916. The Celtic and
Cedric, launched respectively in 1901 and
1902, had gross tonnages of 209o4 and TO-
$50, the length, depth and breadth OF each
being 700 feet, 40 feet and T5 feet The Ham
burg American liner Deutschland. which
held for length of time supremacy as
the largest vessel, has a displacement OF
only % 200. and her dimensions are: Length,
6S4 feet; breadth, 81 feet; depth, 40 feet,
and gross tonnage, 1920.