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desired much information and that right

desired mucn lnIofmatlon ana that rlgnt
soon.
'I'H tell you." stammered the young
man. weakly. Tired to the bone. aching
at every joint, he shivered in the raw
night air. Come see my man first"
On the way they passed q gold chain
prints; but no one stopped then to pick
1t from the mud. They crossed-the
planter shielding his lamp-toward where
a second figure lay cruciflxionwise in one
corner of q service court.
"A white MANI" cried Rama; and then,
answering himself, Almost"
This body, stripped to the loin band,
cleaned as wet as the other. Except
for one red bruise from cheek bone to
ear. 1t was Of a pale yellow brown. the
true half-breed color.
Your stable parrot"
And seeing 1t lie there naked, David
saw for the first time how Rosarto's CROP
ped head and coarse. humorous mouth
had steered the banca- Even now he
saw 1t only by hard work. Stupid; he
laughed out loud. queerly and thickly.
II hit him with my fist" he said. In q
slurring voice that he had not intended
Couldn't use your knife. old fellow. Not
fair that way. Only took my fist, and
and l hit him-and something got stuck
in my arm. think"
He wondered why the big proprietor
of Batu Blah should catch at him so
rugby. iiAo OAA1y WIN
pain and resentment. he shook the man
OFF, only to see him set down his lamp
in the mud and take hold again with
both hands.
Help me get his coat OF. Tuan Rama
BY Jove, there's q mess for you! Hand
kerchief in his pockets? Good" Mr..
Hemmes gave orders in a brisk under
tone. Right round. under the shoulder.
Tight. More yet. Twist hard. Now get
him to the house."
David felt himself raised and carried
like a feather. Had his legs only reached
the ground he would have baked. They
ought to reach: they were infinitely long.
his feet excessively light and distant. He
wanted to say something.
''Slipped?" voice grumbled. "Set him
down. Twist it harder. Never mind II
1t smarts, my boy"
At last he could rig both heels into the
mud at the edge OF the tennis court. He
struggled feebly to 60 back, like a dazed
man dragged away from foot ball.
THE chain, Rama" he suffered. 1.-THE
gold chain. BY the lamp
"Oh yes" came the answer. "I'H set
it, Wait Bit
The lamp spread forlorn radiance.
like g. solitary candle set on the door OF
an immense hall. The sultan ran toward
1t, bent over 1t. searched rapidly about.
mot here" he called, In q tone Of dis
tress. Ibid you take It, Mr.. Hemmes?
It's not here. Look!"
He Strengthened up and stood pointing
at the ground.
Both service courts lay bare in the
lamplight The body OF Davidg antag-
onist was gone.
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The planter crossed the court, and
bending, brought his forehead below the
lamp, so that he had the air Of a stout
miner dressed in white pajamas. He
peered about him, then puckered his lips
for mute whistle.
bad pidgin." was all that he said.
The trio exchanged a look Of grim as
sent. Among them, tumbled across the
broad tape at the base line. brown man
lay fiat on his back, with one knee drawn
tightly up one bronze hand rigidly grip
ping his dirty loincloth. as II he had still
been aware of pain. His body glistered
with rain and sweat A strip OF scarlet
cotton-his turban, half torn away in the
straightforward a neat and vivid figure
six on the wet ground. Part over his
face, part blown aside, his hair shone in
tangled bands and witch knots-coarse
yellow hair, of the same unwholesome
hue as the coat of rusty Newfoundland.
"Tupai Tanah." murmured the sultan.
1.-THE Ground Squirrel
Why. this fellow" began David
CTS
He did not need to see, on the mans
broad chest that spreading tattoo mark
as of twin ferns dropping asunder. Amats
Red Squirrel, the face in the red cloth,
the turbaned figure like Sikh on the
box of Rosarios carriage-these had been
but other guises of what now lay before
him. 1t was the dark savage with whom
David had sailed in the banca.
"a Bontoc man. too, declared
Hemmes, incredulously. whats ne DO
ing away down here?" The planter iow-
cred his lamp close to the scowling face
and read every sign with pracdced eye.
''And the bleached hair-see! The brute's
done lot OF diving somewhere, In salt
water Used to see 'em like that down
on the northwest pearl banks in my old
Smelling days. But here-how did he get
here?"
AS the big man knit his brows over this
puzzle the updrawn knee fell topping
sidewise. in lax movement, which cast
the whole de, leg =. free Of shadows ma o,sntsr
David and Rama glanced at each other
but did not speak.
The brown foot thus exposed was like
some relic of torture-a broad, splay
thing. with the great toe wrenched over
"Fa-wing,' said Hemmes, nodding as
at familiar sight. I'D forgotten; the
word. Paving. Many slippery clay
path that beggar's climbed in the rains
to grow such an ugly claw. Hasn't he.
thought"
Brief silence fell.
"a sad. empty doing The sultan
spoke to himself, in the quiet music of
his own language. He drew a long
breath, YEARLY, and let the Mataram
kriss drop unregarded to the ground.
This ape-fOot man assaulted bravely.
And for me. ISLANDER OF the Two Horns
never made fight SO beautiful. Not
scratch on my body. And yet He
raised his eyes mournfully. They were
red, heavy and stated. Yet I have no
pleasure to look on this No, none.''
The buriy Mr.. Hemmes frowned at him
shrewdly; then at David, like ore who
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Actual Recollections.

l know that was present when a de-
tachment of my company. and others
went to the junction near Baltimore and
escorted both of those regiments to our
frightened city.
know that my company took posses
sion Of railway, steamboat and telegraph
Offices and guarded the Treasury build
ing, on whose stone floors we sometimes
reclined.
/ know that when Alexandria was
taken, May q, 81 and Col Ellsworth
was killed, a part of the Union forces
went by boat and a larger part marched
over the Long bridge; that the National
Rifles. as Company A, Sd Battalion, Dis
trict Of Columbia Volunteers, had the
post of honor, as the first volunteers, and
led the van, and that-excuse this per-
sonality-as the tallest private present I
was the first of the first squad of skir-
mishers, under Corp. Pyne, to advance
into Virginia on that occasion.
Prior to that date, May Is, I was with
a detachment of the Rifles. Col. Stone and
Capt. Smead in charge. which entered
Virginia over the Long bridge to make a
reconnaissance. This was the first in
stance of the entry of the defenders
army into Virginia
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CASES Of MEASLES
NUMBER NEARLY TOO
DR.. Woodward Warns Against
Regarding Disease as Triv-
iaI in Its Nature.

With 2S4 cases Of measles reported to
the health Office in one week, the medical
officers in the contagious disease service
are having just about all they can posi-
bly, do to follow out the routine pre-
scribed by law to prevent the spread of
the disease. At present there are nearly
700 cases under treatment The total
number reported up to last Saturday was
1865
Speaking of the rapid spread of the
disease today, DR.. Woodward, health Off
Ger. said:
Measles is too often spoken of as a
trifing disease, especially by the general
public. While the disease is often be-
nign In character, It should not be over
looked that the percentage of mortality
can be high,
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May Affect Eyesight.

aside from this. measles may result in
various unfortunate conditions, such as
impaired vision, possibly blindness, par
tial or incomplete loss of hearing, and it
may establish condition which will in
vite the germ Of tuberculosis
Measles usually Is transmitted from
one person to another. The DISCHARGES
from the eyes and nose carry the in
fective material and are disseminated in
the act of coughing or sneezing. The in
fection rs OFTEN conveyed from person to
person before the eruption appears and
before the disease is fully recognized
The early catarrhal stage is. perhaps. the
most dangerous for infection, although
the later eruptive stage is also liable to
infect others who may be exposed. The
mortality caused by measles is not due
altogether to the disease itself, but to
certain complications generally connected
with the respiratory system, the more
common OF which are laryngitis, bronchi-
It's and bronchial pneumonia
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MEMORY OF MR.. BALCH.
Paper to Be Read About Pioneer
Preacher Of GEORGETOWN.

The paper to be read at the meeting
next Tuesday evening of the Columbia
Historical Society is entitled REV. Ste
phen Bloomer Balch, q Pioneer Preacher
of Georgetown" Mr.. Balch was the first
pastor OF the first Presbyterian Church
in the District Of Columbia. He began
his passionate during the revolutionary
period OF moro than half century. He
had the esteem Of eminent men, and
w. w. Corcoran had q tablet crested at
Oak Hill cemetery in his memory
The author of the paper is Allen c.
Clark
The meeting will be held at the WASH
inston Club, ITO I street northwest, and
the public has been invited to attend.
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Rivalry Among District Men.

The rivalry among the District of Co.
lumbia volunteers to be the first was very
keen. remember that as my company
Il was a private-went at the double
quick to the place Of muster we saw an
other company hurrying just after us.
do not venture to traverse the state
ment of Secretary Cameron that the
Pennsylvania volunteers were the first
state volunteers to reach Washington
April Is. Those were stirring times and
my personal feelings were so deeply en-
gagged in deciding and backing up the de-
cision to stand by the old flag, although
native and ardent lover of the state of
Virginia, that the matter of the prece-
ence of others was then comparatively
unimportant to me. I have long believed
that the 9th Massachusetts, closely fol-
lowed by the It'll New York, were the first
state volunteers to arrive In Washington.
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Government Increases Morgan stock

The Department Of Agriculture has
horses for Its breeding farm that has
been running for several years at Middle
bury. VT. It has bought the whole stock
OF the Willowmoor farm at Redmond,
Wash. The stock includes five brood
mares and FIVE two-year-oid and yearling
stations. There are also five fltles from
ytariings to four-year-olds.
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CHAPTER XIX.
The Packet.

The chill. had left the morning air. A
delicate vernal sunshine bright4ned the
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where. 1t was prepared from cotempo-
rary notes, conversations and tnvestiga-
tons by committee of whom was one
1t was reduced to writing by the chair
man. Corp. Charles NJ Pyne, who was
subsequently promoted to be captain, I'D
United States Infantry, and, having lost
a leg In gallant action. retired from the
army and became the rector Of q Protes-
tant Episcopal Church at Elizabeth,
N. ].
Some Distinguished Members.
AS the war went on the National Rifles
gave from its original fifty-two to the
Union service. volunteer or regular, one
brigadier general. two colonies. five lieu
tenant colonies, six majors, ten captains
and three lfeutenants; to the navy one
paymaster and one engineer, SO that
about 30 per cent Of the roll attained
distinguished army or navy promotion
In the field Of civil life it gave several
members to the United States Supreme
Court bar, among them Alexander T.
Britton, William D. Baldwin and this
writer Gov. Alexander r. Shepherd was
also a private.
May I add personal experience as
tending to show what tears Of blood"
were shed when members of the same
family espoused opposite sides? AS l
write there lies before me commission
of September, 1861. from Gov. Pierpoint
of Virginia addressed to Capt. ]. C. c.,
Washington, D. c., by which 1 was au-
thorized to raise battalion Of infantry
or cavalry of loyal Virginians for three
years in the United States service, unless
sooner discharged. He also wrote:
-'Whether infantry or cavalry, 1 desire
you to report your company or battalion
to Gen: Mcclellan and ask him to assign
your command a position Of honor, etc.
ETC. l desire to make your company a
nucleus for regiment or ten regiments
Of loyal eastern Virginians, etc.
Brothers Paired.
Many recruits had promised to enlist
with me when a younger brother of six
teen disappeared from our home My father
took horse and buggy and caught up
with him near Port Tobacco, Nd, and
found him hunting for a suitable log to
support him in crossing the Potomac to
the camp fires of the Confederates. The
brave and dutiful son Virginius) said:
rather, of course I'll go back with you,
but You must understand this: Joe (this
writer) says that his sense of right and
honor requires him to espouse the Union
side; !! feel that my sense of honor and
right is as keen cen his and it requires
The outcome was this, we paired off
and we both gave up military service.
To the dear old Virginia lady who gave
us birth we could not give the pain of
seeing ner boys IN fratricidal strife. I
love to feel that the Union gained by
thus pairing. for my brother was born
fighter and 1 was not: he loved a fight
did not. and perhaps my unknown
ministrations to the sick. wounded and
dying in the hospitals and in countless
letters for them to the sweethearts, wives
and mothers at home was a higher serv-
ice.
After all, among peers 1t is small matter
who was primus inter pares. J.C C.
April 30, 1911, 221 st. Johns place,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Southeast.

II. C. Robertson, 9th and s. Car. ave.
r. e. Smith. 9Th and d streets.
g. e. Bohannon, 635 18th street.
Brinkley Bros, 1101 Sd street.
NJ. A. Lusby, 9Th and q streets.
Brinkley Bros. 923 4th street
F. p. Zuschnitt. I'd and N streets.
Rutland & Howes. 18th and A streets.
A. o. Brady & Son. 1857 Good Hope I'd.
Brinkley Bros, 1O8 NJ street.
L. r. Lusby. 9Th and East CAPITOL str.
r. A. Rollins. 18th and NJ streets.
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women NOW BUY
HAND NE DOWNS
JUSTL|KE THE men
Making of Their Ready-to-
Wear Clothes Is Big
Business.

The average man who knows OF the
increased cost OF living from experience
In financing the family larder, rather
than from the present talk about IL,
remembers when his wife used to say:
It's very easy for you TO buy clothes.
You can get a good ready-made suit
for $50 In twenty minutes, but when
want suit I have to go to a dress
maker four or Ave times and pay from
40 up for about the same quality OF
work and material"
But those days are past. Everything
Teady-made for women is now manu-
cloth suits for women, to sell down as
low as corresponding suits for men,
there are now factories all over tho
country, several of them. with an Inn
This business in Its total volume Is
probably as great as the business of
ready made suits for men, and II is as
fully specialized and as completely or
Wherein It differs from the manufac-
ture Of mems suits is in the more rapid
and more complete changes In the fash
lon of the garments.
mems coats and trousers are made TO
be sold as soon as the particular shape
comes, in.'' and the old. unsold stock
which becomes unfashionable is ship
frontiers of fashion, where they are
sold from Fix months to two years later
at prices not so much reduced as one
might suppose.
The same process is carried out In the
matter Of women's suits, except that
the movements must be more frequent
owing to the more frequent and more
violent changes in women's fashions.
This Is a condition which accounts for
the recent outcry OF the cloth manufac-
turers concerning the hobble skirt. The
change from the wide skirt that pre-
vailed before was SO sudden and sc
great, and the cloth needed for the pat
tern was SO much less. that the DENIAL nd
for cloth dropped without warning. 80
for a time at least, the cloth maker
had to reduce his output
But the suit makers were on the job
Mt once, and. though the cutting OF
women's suits. like that Of men. Is
much of II done by special machinery,
they had good-iooking hobble skirts
ready for the shops almost before the
private dressmakers had quite got the
curves and hang OF the new garment
-Phfladelphia Record.
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BALLOONS REMAIN
POPULAR DESPITE
FLYING MACHINES
Number Of Private Owners
Constantly on Increase.
The Expense.

Within ive or six years balIooning has
FOUND increasing favor in this country
as q sport. There are many more in
Europe, but In the United States there
are now nifty or sixty owners of bal
looms who own from one to three bal
looms apiece. The number of owners IL
increasing despite the vastly Increasing
popularity of the heavier than air flying
machine.
Any man who can afford an automo-
bile can afford a balloon. You can buy
one-man balloon made Of linen and
silk, with basket net and equipment
Of every sort complete, for $500. Such
q balloon may weigh I'D pounds. and
defated occupies q space Of about lsx
though commonly It is packed for trans
portation In the basket. A three-pas-
senger balloon can be bought for $500.
Balloons may be had Of any dimensions
persons, but the balloons commonly sold
range from the one-man carrier up 10
those designed for eight or ten. Prices
double walled balloon OF rubberized
cloth designed to carry eight or ten per-
sons, and with all its equipment COM
plo'e. cost about 5000.
Balloons can be rented by men hold
ing pilots licenses Issued by the Aero
Club Of America.
You can't walk into a balloon manu-
facturer's establishment and find new
balloons of all sizes In stock. Balloons
are made only to order. But there are
now so many men engaged IN the bal
looming sport and so many balloons I'm
| use-there are now ten times as many
private as. there are professional bal
loonists-that you may find second hand
balloons A man starting ballooning Is
likely to buy q small one, and then as
his interest and experience increase he
buys a bigger one, and IL he wants to
he can turn In the old one as part pay
ment for the new one. One can buy
second hand balloons with all equip
ment complete at prices ranging from
s275 UP to 300 for two passenger outfits
and UP to 500 for an eight passenger
balloon. Worn out balloons are likely
to be torn UP and given away to truck
men for truck and horse coyers.-New
York Sun.
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SOAPSTONE FORMS
BASIC PRINCIPLE
OF TALCUM POWDER
Grades of the Product Found
in Eleven States of the
Union.

Talcum powder is made from the soap
stone. some grades of which are pro-
duced in eleven States-California, Geor-
gia, Maryland, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey, New York. North Carolina.
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont.
and Virginia. New York's output of
n.71o tons forms nearly half OF the to-
tai production OF the country.
Tale is usually marketed as rough
from the mine, sawed into slabs and
made up into manufactured objects such
as laundry tubs or ground into powder.
In 1910 SO per cent OF the tale was
and manufactured. The product Of New
York is practically all ground.
Most Of the ground talc is used In tho
manufacture OF paper, says Health Gull
ture. 1t finds, application also in the
manufacture Of nodded rubber forms
and as foundry facings and paints. 1t
readily absorbs grease and Is used to
remove spots from silk and to bleach
cotton goods.
On account Of its slipperiness it Ia
widely used to lessen friction and for
| this purpose 1t 10 busted into gloves and
shoes and blown into conduits to ease
the introduction OF electric wires OF
other conductors. One of its widest ap-
plications is In toilet powders, most OF
which are made from high grade tale
imported from Europe.
manufactured from soapstone. The
higher grades of massive tale free from
flaws are sawed up to make pencils OF
crayons, French chalk, gas tips, and
other special articles.
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Events Will Precede Bach.
elors' Cermans--Miss
Taft to Be Guest.

Miss Laura Merriam will entertain al
dinner Wednesday, January and IL,
before the bachelors germans. the first
and second OF which are scheduled for
these dates.
Miss Helen Taft will be the guest of
hon0r at the dinner on January II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes are
entertaining at a dance for young peo-
pie tonight at Rauscher's In honor OF
their debutante daughter. Miss Eliza
beth N0yes. II will be a domino party.
-
Miss Jean Oliver, daughter of Senator
and Mrs. oliver, IL entertaining a small
company informally at dinner tonight
Mrs. Reyburn
Is Hostess At Dance.
Mrs. Reyburn was hostess at an. in
formal dance for young people last
evening for her daughter. Miss Eleanor
Reyburn. The guests, who numbered
about seventy-five. included number
OF the seasons debutantes and young
people home from school for the holt.
days.
Christmas green's and red blossoms
adorned the house for the occasion and
string orchestra played throughout
the evening for the dancers.
Miss Reyburn received her guests in
a white satin gown with red satin
poppy on the bodice.
Mrs. Reyburn and Miss Reyburn will
entertain party Of young people at
dinner on January IA.
The Charge d'Affsires of Persia and
Nine. All Kuli Khan entertained at din
ner last evening. Their guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Morgan shuster. par.
Of Persia. and their house party, the
two princes, Mozaffer ed Dine Khan
and Self ed Dine Khan, cousins of the
charge, who have returned from Mer-
cersburg Academy to spend the holt
days.
-
Mrs. Sullivan. wife of DIR. Robert
Young Sullivan. will entertain at tea
her apartment In the Burlington, In
compliment to Mrs. Whitney Kipp. OF
Christmas greens and red blossoms
will adorn the apartment for the. occa-
sion.
Mrs. Frederick SWEET, mother of the
hostess. and Mrs. w. Scott Smith. moth
err Of the guest OF honor. will preside al
as tea M sass aSssisd ~ Mss Ms.
Helen Durnin, Miss Hattie Snow, Miss
Jane Gardner, and Miss Edith SWEET
Mrs. Sullivan will wear white satin
trimmed on the bodice and sleeves with
baby Irish lace and Mrs Kipp will wear
white satin embroidered in crystals and
pearls.
The German Ambassador and Count
ess Won Bernstorff. who have been
spending some time in New York, will
return to Washington this evening.
-
tho newly appointed Japanese Ambas.
sador. Baron Chintla. will arrive In
Washington early next month.
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Bryan'S Income.

whats the chief source OF your in
he was in Kansas recently. my iec-
lures and the Commoner the weekly pa
per / own" said he. 1.-THE most I ever
took in for a lecture was at Wichita.
where the contract was that should
have a certain percentage Of the gate
receipts. My part was about $I.50o.
Generally, however, I get from $500 to
$500. I must add, though, that much OF
my speaking and lecturing Is done free.
paid my own expenses. Charity lectures
are numerous and those for patriotic
purposes. Counting political speeches,
lectures for charity for libraries. for pa
triotic purposes and the like, more than
without price."-Kansas City Journal.