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they drew OF and leveled their
rifles.
"One," cried Louis, and they looked
along the muzzles.
Two" The rifles quivered and
grew firm. And suddenly l cried, with
all my force:
How are you going to escape after
we're dead, when We have the key
to the catacombs?"
The mems heads did not move, but
the word three" failed to arrive.
There was an instant Of sickening sus.
pense. Then the prince said slowly:
Put down your rifes!"
AS he uttered these words | became
conscious that was standing in wa.
ter.
looked down. There was no doubt
OF 1t. BY the diffused glow of the
torches around the area | could see
that a steady stream was pouring
along the catacombs. Even as l
watched I saw 1t catch a piece Of
newspaper and float 1t away into tho
darkness. heard a shout Of fear:
The Seine! The Seine!"
And sudden inspiration came upon
me.
Prince Louis" shouted, 81 have
the only knowledge Of escape for you.
XIII me, and you die like water rats"
The tall man came forward. He was
nearly knee deep in water, and now,
no longer stream, 1t was swirllng
through the catacombs like a torrent
growing more and more swift mo-
mentarily.
You spare our lives" I cried.
He nodded. Men were running to
and fro wildly. A few, more coura-
geous than the rest, stood near to
wait for their commands. At a signal
We were released.
Your map of the catacombs was
made said, before there were
any sewers in Paris worth speaking
OF. l and alone possess the true
map, made so years later by Napoleon
III. Five hundred yards away the
main sewer runs through a vault.
Bring pickaxes and break patch into
1t. 1t Is never full, even In food times.
There Is room enough between the
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End Of TchakirdjaIl and His compan.
Ions Strictly According to
Bandit Tradition.

Tchakirdjali, the terror Of the near
east, the most notorious and blood.
thirsty Of modern brigands, is no
more. He died as he lived.-in all the
glamour Of sanguinary melodrama.
Dwellers in Asia Minor can now draw
an easier breath than they have been
able to for years. Wealthy merchants
Of Smyrna, who trembled for their
boards, may sleep in peace. Travellers
over the lonely roads in the neighbor-
hood of the Anatolin mountains need
not urge on their steeds SO appre-
hensively-Tchakirdjal and his band
lurk no more In their old strongholds.
Their deeds will figure conspicuous
ly in the tales that white-bearded
Arabs tell night after night to circles
Of cafe auditors. Like the Black
Douglas, the name of Tchakirdjali
will always quiet the fretful Turkish
child in Its cradle. Some women will
perhaps heave sigh Of sentiment for
one who, feroclous outlaw that he was.
treated them with extraordinary gall
lantry. They, at least, knew them
selves to be safe from his hands.
For them, Tchaklrdjali was not the
brigand but the squire Of danes, a
man to be counted on to revenge their
wrongs, as many a local Lothario had
reason to know. Nay, more than that.
Frequently he was their good genius.
Many maid owes her dowry to
Tchakirdjall's generosity with his i'll.
gotten gains.
1t is pity that Edmond About is
not alive OF do justice to Tchakird-
jali's memory. The author OF "The
King Of the Mountains" would have
understood him. His able pen could
have immortalized him like no other.
Tchakirdjali was Hagdi Stavros to the
life. Only the background was diff.
ferent. Both were Kings" and both
had their Mountains" II was in the
mountains OF Anatolia (look up your
geography that the great Tchakird.
JAii mt hAo Suu. IL WdS heroic emu.
Nobody need say that romance
doesn't exist in our prosaic day. A
detachment Of Turkish soldiers was
sent out against Tchakirdjali. A des-
perate struggle ensued. II was four
/ hundred well.equipped men against
four. The Fra Diavalo saw what the
end must be. Now. II It is a matter
OF principle with Turkish brlgands,
they must not, II possible, be taken
alive.
Tchakirdjali, when the last shot was
fired. called on his boon companion,
Mehmed, to save him from that dis.
grace. Fealty demanded obedience,
and Mehmed was equal to the occa.
sion. With his good Damascus blade
he hewed of his leaders head.
Then, having wrought the worthy
deed. he did what was only left him
to do. he plucked a dagger from his
belt and buried It In his own heart.
So the band OF Tchaklrdjali fell, wei.
tering In their own blood.
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bend In the catacomb. turned to my
left and ran on. till, breathless and e1
hausted, l could travel no longer.
sank to the ground, my pistol in my
hand. waiting. Far in the distance
heard the road Of the pursuers; then
their shouts died away into utter 81.
lence. ,.#
What had occurred? Where was
Talbot? Had he preceded me? Imut.
tered his name as loudly as I dared
then. picking myself up. groped the
path painfully along the passage to.
ward the entrance down which | had
come. Doubtless Talbot would be
there; and, since my attempt had
failed, must be content to let the two
loyal companies and their cannon set.
tie accounts with Louis when he
burst out OF his refuge. All at once
| stumbled over some iron thing.
heard a murmur overhead. Every.
thing being as dark as pitch, | struck
a match. To my astonishment | was
standing at the foot of the ladder
which l had descended, and over.
head-had 1t grown dark already? |
could smell freshly.mixed mortar.
Then | realized the truth.
The president had bungled. had
been walled In alive beneath the
grating!
Move those blocks OF masonry? |
might as we'll have tried to shoulder
the Notifications. l shouted wildly,
shaking the grating with both hands.
In vain. The faint sounds that had
at first heard had died away, and no
noise could penetrate that ever In.
creaslng thickness Of blocks OF stone
am ashamed to say | had not until
then reflected upon Talbot's safety.
Now the reason Of the abandonment
of the flight was borne in upon me.
They had seen only one man; they
had followed Talbot along that branch
OF the catacombs, and, doubtless,
taken his life.
And. whether he lived or died,
must find some other exit from the
catacombs or perish likewise.
| sat down and lit match. spread
the map out hastily. No matter
which way turned, must pass
through the amphitheater to find an
exit. And-why, the three exits were
barred by masonry. had shut my.
self into this trap with the conspira.
tors.
Match after match went out as
scanned the parchment. This way
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, (match) that way (match) l looked in
vain. That amphitheater must be
passed; that rebel camp-then--Ah! !
Here the main sewer ran through a
vault in the catacombs, and down this
one might wade or foat-lt was des.
perate chance.
Swiftly Ietraced my steps in the
direction along which I had come,
shouting now, my Colt in my hand
against emergency. l lit a match
| had but two left now. Then re-
membered the piece Of candle in my
pocket which In my anxiety had com.
pletely forgotten. lit 1t, and went
promenading along the corridor like
some sleep walker. or a man hunting
burglar. until answering cries rang
out, and suddenly fierce looking man
leaped at me out OF the shadows-to
recoil before my pointed weapon.
l handed It to him.
II surrender myself, Prince Louis,
as a prisoner Of war;" said.
"Who the devil are you?" he burst
out.
THAT need not be told" said I. II
am one Of the governments servants.
That Is enough. Where" hest.
tated. II they had not learned Of Tai.
bot would not set them on his trail.
I'VE have the other spy" he said
angrily. What the devil did you come
back for?"
Because the entrance Is blocked ~
answered.
While we spoke men had come run
ming up, and now a motley crew sur.
rounded US. The prince sent two OF
them back to see II my story was
true. Meanwhile they conducted me
to the arena, where I found Talbot,
bound. gagged and bleeding from q
flesh wound In the wrist. He smiled
at me sadly. was bound and thrown
down beside him. A few minutes later
the messenger returned and informed
Louis that the soldiers had walled uE
the exit.
saw the blood fame into his face
Stand them up and shoot them," he
commanded roughly.
A hundred men rushed upon us
and, striking us with the butt ends oI
their rifles, they dragged US to wall
Then. at the command Of the prince
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Three Classes Of individuals In Each
Colony, Each Having Its Special
Duties to Perform.

In the honey bee we find SO many
and such remarkable instincts that 1t
seems to me impossible that they
could have been acquired by the proc
ess Of evolution.
Three kinds Of individuals exist in
colony Of bees-the queen, whose
sole work is to lay eggs: the drones,
or males, whose only function Is to
fertilize the queen, and the workers,
which are females undeveloped sex
ually.
Only one queen is permitted to live
In the colony at the same time, there
being a mortal antipathy between the
queens. The queen is continually
guarded by number Of workers and
her wants are carefully supplied. II
two queens are in the same colony
they enter combat. being urged by
the workers. and fight till one stings
the other to death.
When a young queen Is ready to
leave the cell in which she has been
reared, she Is not permitted to do so,
but she is guarded by the workers un.
til the old queen has abandoned the
hive with a swarm. and then she ia
permitted to leave the cell. When the
queen has fully matured in her cell
the workers cut away the wax from
the end OF the cell till It Is an exceed.
ingly thin film.
II the colony is deprived Of its
queen, the workers. after searching In
vain for her, set to work to rear a
new queen. For this purpose they
select larva that would develop into
worker, remove some Of the neigh
boring cells and construct for It a
large vertical cell. BY feeding this
larva on royal Jelly It becomes a
queen.
II two queens during combat acquire
position In which they might destroy
each other. thus leaving the hive with
out queen. they refrain from giving
each other the mortal stroke.
When.the swarming season is ovel
the old queen Is permitted by the
workers to sting to death all the
queens that are in the cells.
II the queen loses both her anten
nae she is unable properly to deposit
her eggs, and the workers permit hel
to perish.
At the close OF the swarming sea
son all Of the drones are killed by the
workers. They are no longer needed
for the old queen has already been
fertilized. and new drones can be
reared in the following spring. Thus
food Is saved for the use OF those bees
alone that will be Of future use to the
colony.
II they lose the queen when swarm
ing they return to the hive they have
left-seeming to realize that their ef
forts would be fruitless without 9
queen. II the hive has no queen the
drones are permitted to live through
the winter.
When tho drones are destroyed thu
larvae and pupa which would produce
drones are also destroyed. II pressed
for food, a colony will attack weak
er colony or a hive without a queen
and, II the attack Is successful, the
vanquished colony Joins the conquer
ors. thus strengthening the hlve.-Al
fred Fairhurst. AM. In Organic Evo
luton Considered"
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No Wonder We're Proud Of Il.

Efficiency and snap have always
characterized American sea service. 1t
punished the Barbary pirates when
England and Spain preferred to pay
tribute to them. 1t won about all the
glory on the American side in 1913.
1914, amazing the British by beating
them on even terms. In the civil war
1t did what the old world called i'm.
possible In blockading q long line Of
coast with many harbors. It's proof
OF preparedness In the brief Spanish
war contributed to European prophets
q third surprise. Today, though 1t is
usually classed second In power. and.
by some critics third. our navy has
probably no superior in morale. dis.
cipline and equipment.
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Admiration for Neve.

you admired that man because OF
his speech!"
Yep" replied Farmer Corntossel.
But you didn't agree with his
opinions"
Not as q rule, But It struck me
that man that could git up before a
crowd o people an talk such a lot
o junk at the top Of his voice had
real grit"
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NARRATIVE OF
CAPTAIN ADAMS
Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.)
Detective. Diplomat

7 is not uncommon to
hear the wish ex-
pressed, BY persons OF
romantic tempera-
ment, that the days OF
the present were as
fruitful in glamor OF
great deeds as those OF
past centuries. Such
wishes are made in tx.
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trusts, which have added to the general raise in prices and en- hancement of the cost living.
 Taking into consideration u foregoing it may be seen that there are and have been three determin- ing factors in the advanced cost of living. They have been: manip. ulation of production and prices by the trusts; imitation in the worlds supply of the money metal; superior conditions of the working popula- ton The first named can be reg ulated, and be made to cease as factor Statutes and an upright judiciary can suppress the trusts.
 The other two spring from causes that cannot be reached by law. The constantly increasing supply of gold cannot be checked until the entire deposits on the various con tinents are worked out. The con stantly advancing material condi- tion of the worlds workers is a. factor that the law has encouraged and will continue to encourage. The mandate of the centuryis is that the masses shall be free, intelligent, educated and comfortable. Society has demanded all that, and society has to pay the cost
 As to making some better meas ure of value: that is a problem that no one has solved as yet. The nearest solution that could be offered would he a return to the system that came in vogue when first money was coined. That was to mark the weight and fineness Of the metal in the coin, and leave to the free play of the trading instinct in making it meet the daily condi- tions and find daily adjustment.
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GOLD AND HIGH PRICES.

Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, who is rated by many as one of the chief publicists and economists of the generation, has expressed an opinion that the increased cost of living is due to the depreciation of the relative value of gold than to any other cause. To put the case clearly the immense production of that metal, which has been long the sole and only measure of value, has increased so greatly the stock in hand throughout the civilized world, and so disturbed the propor, ton formerly existing between that and all other commodities produced by men, that the exchangeable value of the metal when taken into the marts of trade for conversion into the other commodities is much less than formerly, as natural consequence, for which reason those holding other commodities will not part with them except for more gold than they could command be- fore there occurred the disturbance in proportion noted herein. That view has been advanced before now by other authority as eminent as is Professor Fisher. A couple of years ago THE OASIS reviewed a work on money which presented the same view and backed it with an analysis of the worlds produc
 tion of gold during thirty years past and comparisons with prices of various commodities at various stages in the great and rapid in- crease in the worlds stock of gold.
 Professor Fishers latest utter ance upon the topic is taken as a text by many writers for a ventil- ation of their views upon the sub. ject. In most cases they indulge in lot of Bunsbyisms, and dismiss finally the subject with some such Bunsbylike utterance as this, taken from one of the latest:
 Economists have often said, for several generations, that expansion will never be escaped until meas. ure of value is adopted by the civil ized world, and this must and will be done at no distant day"
 It is observable that none of them have been able to indicate what
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Thanksgiving Entertainment.

Wednesday afternoon the Elgin school, Miss Ethel Harrison, teach CT, gave Thanksgiving entertain ment which was attended by the parents and friends of the little ones, and appreciated thoroughly by all who had the privilege of attending A very interesting pro gram had been prepared, and it was rendered pleasingly and effect ively Following is the order of exercises:
 1. Appropriate Quotations by the Pupils, individually.
 2. Recitation "The Story ct Thanksgiving" Verna Turner.
 5. Song-"Welcom and Thanks giving" By the school.
 4. Recitation-"East and West" William Holden.
 ,. Concert Recitation. School
 6. Recitation. Thanksgiving Turkey" tstln Holden. | 2. Recitation. John Whites Thanksgiving" Verna Turner | 8. Song, Praise the God ot Harvest.p School. | 9. Recitation. "The First Thanks giving Day" Nela Holden.
 10. Concert Recitation. ."Thanks," Six Pupils
 II. National Anthem. "Amer- ica" School.
 At the close of the exercises Miss Harrison was given many compll- ments for the proficiency shown by her pupils.
 MT. I. c. King, from the King i Camp. on the west side of the Pata
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can be substituted for gold as such

reason why gold was adopted by the commercial nations was the fact that Is was the most compact, most durable and the most beauti- ful of all the commodities brought into the marts for exchange. Be- fore gold the metal selected was silver, and for generations gold and silver wrought together in carry ing the exchanges of the commercial world.
 At first the gold and silver were weighed out to those accepting them for other commodities or any thing of value. In the Book of Genesis we read that Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hit tite the cave of Machpelah for. a tomb for his wife, Sarah, paying for the same in silver "the money of the merchant" and that the metal was weighed out to the vendor. Payment of a money metal by weight was the method employed through many genera tions. Then, to facilitate exchange, governments took to stamping up on various sized pieces of gold and silver symbols expressive of their weight. Had the designation on the coins remained as it was at the beginning, each piece called by it's actual weight, with specified num- bers of ounces of any commodity, such as coffee, exchanging for specified number of grains of gold or pennyweights of silver, then ex- changes would have accommodated themselves from day to day to the relative differences in the suns of each commodity meeting in the mart, and variations would have seemed natural and easy. the busi- ness world accommodating itself to constantly changing conditions. In other words measures of value would have retained the sliding scale they held before their weights were stamped thereon, and long after, But when there were put upon the coins fanciful names such as drachmas, talents, doubloons, dollars, etc., then there entered in to the equation hard, infexible measure of value, that made diff cult of comprehension the relative proportions of money metals to other commodities entering into marts of the world ior. exchange, | fluctuations in prices as expressed ! in the nomenclature of the meas ures of values, instead of being continued and operating always, became instead occurent at interv- als and operating violently Now men find the dollars they get for their labor or other commodities sold diminishing in exchangeable value when they need other com modities. Had the measure oi values remained grains, penny weights and ounces of gold and sil- yer, from day to day dealers could have exacted more or less of such ounces, pennyweights and grains. as their relative proportions Auct- uated, and would not have had tc await the violent demonstration oi a disturbance of such relative pro. portion as the world Is feeling now
 Finally, about a century ago silver began advancing so rapidly in its relative production wher compared or contrasted with the
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production of other commodities, that first one nation and then an other, has thrown the white metal into the discard as money metal and measure of value, reducing it to token money. But owing to the remarkable increase in the pro- duction of gold in the last half of the nineteenth century, the same trouble that followed silver has overtaken gold. Those who pro- duce it have more to exchange than ever before, and as it IS more durable than all other commodities, the accumulated stock of gold is far greater than ever before in the worlds history, for which fact those who have other commodities to exchange exact more gold. That is the inflated currency" discover ed by Professor Fisher.
 THE OASIS has held that to the imitation that has taken place in the volume of gold's accumulation may be chargeable to an extent it's depreciated purchasing capacity, and the consequent rise in the cost of living under which everybody groans. But there are other factors entering into the equation. which, were they more fully understood would explain more accurately the greatly increased cost of living, as shown in recent years and as meas ured in dollars and cents. One potent cause for the great imitation in prices is the fact that the great mass of the people are exacting and receiving d greater share of the worlds production of commo- dities of all kinds than ever before.
 Men and women of all classes are better fed, better clad, better housed than ever before in the worlds history, and enjoy far more of luxuries of life, as well as the ne- cessaries. The mechanic, the art isan, the clerk, the railway bra ke- map, and all followers of all the various avocations demand more and receive more of those things men eat and wear and enjoy than they did fifty years ago, and what they demand and receive are count ed in the cost charged to the world for commodities it produces or aids in producing and conveying tc the ultimate consumer The editor of TIE OASIS can recall that previ- ous to the Civil War his father rau country newspaper in Illinois
 and in the office employed several
 good printers who were paid nine dollars per week each. Now tbt wages of printers in Illinois in like communities run from twelve tC fifteen dollars per week. And upor their present wage the Illinois ] printers live better, and enjoy fal more of the conveniences and com forts of life than did their proto [ types of ante bellum days. The con dition here described runs througf all the various walks of life. AnC THE OASIS believes that were Pro lessor Fisher, and other economist , who are giving attention to thC : high cost of living, to turn thei , investigations in the direction in [ dicated, careful analysis of th' difference in conditions then anC l, now would be found chargeable tC the general raise in the standard , of livinp that the American nennl,
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Mir. I. c. King, from the King Camp, on the west side of the Pata- ,gonia mountains, was at Nogales Tuesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-15
BACK TO THE FARM

2S6 acres good land, 60 acres ricf
bottom; running stream; on county
road; close to two railroads and
Iacoma. Price only $40 per acre, or
easy terms.
1875 acres improved river bottom
Iarm; best land in the state and
has lake frontage. The place has
produced 100 bushels of oats, 35C
bushels of potatoes and ~ tons OF
nay to the acre; house, barn, out
buildings and bearing orchard. This
farm is bargain at the price, $16,-
500, on good terms.
172 acres waterfront, one-fourth
mile on salt water and / mile facing
on a beautiful lake; fine beach,
boating, fishing, hunting and near
Tacoma. Price only $50 per acre, on
terms.
s acres, improved waterfront
home; acres cleared and in culti-
walton, $50 feet of waterfront, low
bank; good house, barn and out
buildings; near Tacoma, and the
price is right; only $500, on terms.
8 acres good land for $3.50; $25
cash, balance monthly.
l acre good land and a Groom
new house, &c car fare; 2 blocks to
car, for $3.50. on terms of $50 cash,
balance to suit.
6 nice lots on South State ST, one
block to new boulevard, blocks to
efferson av. car, for only $3.50 for
the 6 lots on easy terms.
acres waterfront, rich soil, fine
view, nice beach; close to Tacoma,
for only $500, on terms of $50 cash
and balance monthly.
H. p. LAWHORN