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tufts of gag Ges;tiiers.
FollOwir9 them were several hun
dred women and children. the former
bearing upon their heads great burdens
OF cooking pots. household utensils
and ivory. In the rear were a hundred
warriors, similar in all respects to the
advance guard.
That they more greatly feared an at
tack from the rear than whatever I'M
known enemies might Turk ahead was
evidenced by the formation of the
column, and such was the fact, for
they we've fleeing from the white mans
soldiers who had harassed them for
rubber and ivory.
For three days the little cavalcade
marched slowly through the heart of
this unknown and untracked forest.
until finally, early in the fourth day.
they came upon a little spot near the
banks of a small river which SEEM
ed less thickly overgrown than any
ground they had encountered before.
Here they set to work to build a new
village. and in a month a great clear
ing had been made, huts and palisades
erected. plantains. vans and maize
planted. and they had taken up their
old life in their new home. Here there
were no white men. no soldiers nor
any rubber or ivory to be gathered for
thankless taskmasters.
Several moons passed ere the blacks
ventured far into the territory sur
rounding their new village. Several
had already fallen prey to old Sabor,
the tiger. and because the jungle was
so infested with these fierce and blood
thirsty cats and with lions and leop-
ards the ebony warriors hesitated to
trust themselves far from the safety
of their palisades
But one day Kulonga, son of the
old king. Mbonga. wandered far into
the dense mazes to the west. Warily
he stepped. his slender lance ever
ready, his long oval shield grasped in
his left hand close to his body-at
his back his bow. and in the CULVER
upon his shield many slim, straight
arrows. well smeared with the thick,
dark. tarry substance that rendered
deadly their tiniest needle prick
Night found Kulonga far from the
palisades of his fathers village, but
still headed westward. and. climbing
into the fork of a great tree, he fash
toned rude platform and curled him.
self for sleep.
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Standing erect, he threw his head
far back, and. looking full into the eye
of the rising moon. he beat upon his
breast with his great hairy paws and
emitted his fearful roaring shrek.
Once-twice-thrice that terrifying
cry rang out across the teeming soil
tude of that unspeakably quick. vet
unthinkably dead. world.
Then, crouching, Kerchak skunk
noiselessly around the open circle
veering far away from the dead body
lying before the altar drum. but as he
passed keeping his little fierce, wicked
red eyes upon the corpse.
Another male then sprang into the
arena and, repeating the horrid cries
of his king, followed stealthily in his
wake. Another and another followed
in quick succession until the Jungle
reverberated with the now almost
ceaseless notes of their bloodthirsty
screams.
1t was the challenge and the hunt.
When all the adult males had Joined
in the thin line of circling dancers the
attack commenced.
Kerchak, Selling huge club from
the pile which lay at hand for the pur.
pose. rushed furiously upon the dead
ape, dealing the corpse terrific blow,
at the same time emitting the growls
and snarls of combat.
The din of the drum was now in
creased. as we'll as the frequency of
the blows, and the warriors, as each
approached the victim of the hunt and
delivered his bludgeon blow. joined in
the mad whirl of the death dance.
Tarzan was one of the wild. leaping
horde. His brown. sweat streaked.
muscular body glistening. in the moon
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muscular ]

light. shone supple and graceful among
the uncouth. awkward. hairy brutes
about him.
For half an hour the weird dance
went on, until, at a sign from Kerchak.
the noise of the drums ceased, the fe-
male drummers scampering hurriedly
| through the line of dancers toward the
outer rim of squatting spectators.
Then, as one man, the males rushed
headlong upon the thing which their
terrific blows had reduced to a mass
Of hairy pulp.
Flesh seldom came to their jaws in
satisfying quantities. so a fit finale to
their wild revel was a taste of fresh
killed meat, and it was to the purpose
Of devouring their late enemy that they
now turned their attention.
Tarzan more than the apes craved
and needed flesh. Descended from a
race Of meat eaters, never in his life,
he thought. had he once satisfied his
appetite for animal food. and so now
his agile little body wormed it's way
LdI lulO Tic mass vi STRUGGLING apes
in an endeavor to obtain Il share which
his strength would have been unequal
to the task of winning for him.
| At his side hung the hunting knife
Of his unknown father in a sheath self
fashioned in copy of one he had seen
among the pictures of his treasure
books.
At last he reached the fast disap-
pearing feast and with his sharp knife
slashed off a more generous portion
| than he had hoped for.
Then he wriggled out from beneath
the struggling mass, clutching his prize
close.
Among those circling futilely the out
skirts of the banqueters was old Tub
lat. He had been among the first at
the feast, but had retreated with a
goodly share to eat in quiet and was
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SYNOPSIS

The infant son of Lord and Lady Grey
stoke Is mothered by Kala, an ape. after
the death of his own parents.
The boy. called Tarzan by the apes,
finds the skeletons of his parents in their
cabin but still thinks himself a white ape
Tarzan wins renown by killing a goril-
la. He learns to read from books found
in the cabin
Tarzan kills his enemy Tublat Kulon-
ga, savage. shoots Kala and is pursued
by the Infatuated apes,
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CHAPTER v.
The Death of KaIa.

@HREE miles west Of Kulonga,
son Of Mbonga, the negro
king. slept the tribe Of Ker
chalk.
Early the next morning the apes
were astir, moving through the jungle
in search Of food. Tarzan. as was his
custom. prosecuted his search in the
direction of the cabin, SO that by lei
surely hunting on the way his hunger
was appeased by the time he reached
the beach.
Continued on page six)
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a sound OF Eastern music, the shrek of pipes
and the beating of tom-toms and drums, pro-
cession entered the iron gateway and marched
about the interior. First came an old sheikh, with
q green turban and green robes. showing that he
was descendant of the prophet His flowing
beard swept his girdle and dyed a bright
vermilion. After him a number OF men
with banners Then a company of lamp bearers,
carrying lamps with crystal pendants like iccles,
clashng at every step. Then there appeared three
horses robed in white The first two carried
swords bound to their backs, with the edges up
ward The third carried boy, whose head had
been gashed with scimitar, so that the blood
dripped over his saddle. The white robes of all
the horses were smeared with blood and bloody
handprnts
"a palanquin followed, swung between two
mules In it were two gayly dressed boys, who
scattered chat like confetti upon the crowd Then
Their. came a company of fifty men dressed com
petely in black. Their garments appeared to
have been cut away from their backs as far down
as their waists Each carried a scourge of chains
with wooden handle They walked in two
groups, calling upon the names Of Hossem ana
Hassan the prophets grandchildren. At each
shout they smote their bodies with the chains.
This would give sickening thud. had to look
the olneI way NitH tIty Pd'oSN wv 'fNN '''N'E
I stood.
after these passed there was gap IN
the procession and the multitude in the khan
was utterly hushed. Then the white robed der
wishes who had been grinding their swords ad-
vanced upon us in two rows, each holding his
cirdle with his left hand and choppng his bare,
Amounted head with his scimitar in his right.
The cries Hossein!' Hassan!' were tossed be-
tween the two files and at each cry the scimtars
descended
"As the ceremony progressed the crowd be
came wilder. More men joined the group OF
dervishes, all chopping at their skulls with the
sharp swords Some of them were so badly
wounded and so covered with blood that they lost
all human semblance and tottered on the verge
of falling as they swung forward. The torches
Aared wildly and the fezzes and turbans tossed
and surged beneath them. At last the whole
crowd swept from the entrance of the khan away
from us down the hill.
"My companions decided that they had seen
enough and asked me to return with them, but |
was too interested in what was coming next to
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that are traditional in India Fifty per cent OF
the death rate there is due to bad water, direct
ly or indirectly. The authorities are growing to
appreciate this fact and its significance. We have
far to Co. it is true, but it is equally certain that
whoever forces market for American hand
pumps will make an enormous fortune.
Cotton is another product that will find
ready market in Indian trade circles. mean, OF
course, the finished product, cotton cloth-for
India exports about four million bales of the raw
cotton to English and European mills where it is
mixed with the American article when prices are
favorable Indian cotton has short staple that
does not permit it to be used in the production
of high grade fabrics and besides this drawback
to home manufacture of cotton cloth, there are
no mills for us to make it in. All the cloth pro-
duced by India is woven by hand with the utmost
patience and by the most laborious methods. In
this kind of work the short staple does not re-
sent so great an obstacle but it is obvious that
the clothes of the Indian people cannot be fur
nished through such Anticipated means.
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tions of India and America. There IS n''F
NAUTICAL formula that plus infnity and minus v
finity are in juxtsposition, and the smilsripa
the American and Hindu minds bear out h' ""
mula to a curious degree. The American w
the Hindu understand each other far more ~"
ly than do the Hindu and the European
Another bond is the position that both es''
tries have taken in regard to war. lndA -
never waged offensive war; America "
stands alone as the champion of peace
at is also curious fact that INDIA '
Oldest member of the Caucasian race, while An'
lea is the youngest. All of our people are
Caucasians, to be sure, but the higher classes !"
And we must always remember that CoiuD''
was seeking India when he discovered Am"~
There is fate in this, and the present orinp
prophecy of closer bonds, better understan'~
and mutual profit between the old and tns
in the future"
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POPULATIONS OF LANDS AT wAR

The survey maps and census returns :"
countries engaged in the great struggle
present time reveal some interesting facts reg.
ing their comparative sizes and popuis'
says Tit Bits" The Russian Bear metapno''~
ly speaking, could swallow gallant little oes-
with slight inconvenience, for, whereas the ~
is only 1873 square miles IN extent, win ~
ulaton of about 100000, Russia, with |"
of S,4l7,ll8 square miles, comprises one-se''-
of the land surface of the globe It's to,al w
lation, according to the figures Of the oe'.
Statistical Committee, is about lS0'Osw"'
whom some 100000 are Germans. -.
Belgium, however, is the most thckly pop''
country in Europe, having 652 people
square mile, while Russia has only Jus' "
twenty.
France, too, is somewhat spsrsely pop''.
when compared with Great Britain and Ie'~s .
France is POI ,O54 square miles in extent VIZ !.
population of 39,700,00O, which works out
people TO the square mile. Germany, gu
other hand although the total area is only 20
more than that of France. e., 2OS,IVo S'
miles-has a population OF nearly oo,VVV''''
average of sic people per square mile.
Great Britain is more densely populs'e' =.
Germany. The total area is 1858 square w..
the population being about 46,00o,OOO, Nei's
$40 people per square mile. Austra'hu"s';
has population about the same as Great D''''
but its area is twice that Of this country
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A sEvENTY-FIvE MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS
IN COTTON GOODS.

England has been the largest buyer of lndia's
raw cotton hitherto, but haf oil Englands cotton
operatives are not working. This means that half
of her export trade TO India is wiped out Who
is going to supply it? France obviously cannot
do so. Germany cannot even be thought Of The
only country left is the United States, which
probably can win trade of S75.0000O0 in cotton
goods alone.
"The demand for cotton cloth is imperative
right now. The bulk of midas need for it comes
in October As America puts on her overcoat in
the autumn, India puts on a garment of cotton.
Clothes in my country superfuous in the
summer time but wanted in the fall.
"When the war is over India will also have
more scope in the making of commercial treaties
with foreign nations. There is practically
doubt of this at all. The has reused India,
and she is giving her best support to England,
not only by sending troops-she may have five
hundred thousand in the field by April or May
but by the general unanimity of cooperation
that she is giving TO the British Empire Writers
like Kipling who know nothing about India,
absolutely disproved by the conduct of peo-
pie in the present conflict They were disproved
in the great strike that took place some time ago
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Fair in Chicago ! came TO know an Arab donkey
how named Toby Muhammed, whose home was IN
Cairo. Although | did not have the least idea
whore he lived | happened TO meet him on the
street soon after | reached the city He almost
fell on my neck for pleasure, and hired MIN
on the spot to show the sights. lie SAID ne
would show me his mother unveiled if desired
and promptly took me to live with him in the
native part of the town.
"Tobv had two donkeys named Grover Cleveland
and Theodore Roosevelt, which occupied the parior
of the house in which he lived. He straddled
these beasts all day and in the evenings would
sit in the little cafes in the native quarter slipping
coffee and playing Arab games, while the turkeys
ran under the tables and the germs hoated
through the air The dance of the 0ued Nail
as viewed by the average tourist is tame IN com
parison with some of the dances we saw.
"In the course of our wanderings made inc
acquaintance of melancholy Arab who piled the
trade of undertaken He became distinctly frlenc
". One night when asked Toby where we shoul'
On for amusement the undertaken who often
ACCOMPANIED US, suggested that it would be well
TO show the howadji the rites of the Sunni der
wishes.
eve went to the Tulan quarter of the city,
where | promptly lost all sense Of direction and
wandered as in maze. The streets are often
rooted over and are veritable tunnels.
after wandering through an interminabic
number of these crooked lanes we came to wider
street that was brightly lighted with lanterns
In the centre was domed structure, the tomb OF
a saint About it sat the dervishes, prepared for
the religious ceremony that is not intended for
a spectacle Their street clothes were placed IN
the tomb
They were angry when they saw me, and
engaged Toby in Arabic, of which | understood
enough to learn that | de trop. Tony kept
explaining that was his friend and brother, that
| loved the deryishes and was half dervish my
self that he had made my acquaintance at the
Worlds Fair over the sea and that in every way
| was practically as desirable as one Of the faith
full.
THE Arabs decided to let me stay, and began
their performance. IL commenced with mo-
notonous bowling of the name of Allah and slow
rocking of the body that increased in violence.
Working themselves into frerzy, they tossed
madly to and fro, frothng at the mouth
And then the rites really began.
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leave, and consequently found myself alone in
that sea of Mahometans. Following the crowd, !
came TO an opening through which a group of
people were peering eagerly Looking in. ! saw
q number of the dervshes receiving medical aid
Some of them were badly injured and | heard
that many of them died Of the wounds they had
inflicted Death is not desired in this rite, and
il is not intended by the swordsmen and the
hageants.
81 decided at last that had seen enough and
tried to find my way to the Galata Bridge, but
found that ! was practically lost. As | stood
near the wall the whole procession swept by me
on its way back to the khan. | tried to re-enter,
feeling that should be safer where the soldiers
were, but my way was barred
81 tried to follow the WALL which led toward the
water but soon it took bend and commenced
running up the hill | struck at random through
the streets making my way as well as ! could
remember in the direction OF the water but the
walk that | took was that | shall not forget
in long time. Alone in throng OF Mahometans
on one of the first festal days of the year, aware
that one of the ways to the Eastern heaven is
through the blood Of the nfdel, without any
disguise of fez or turban, and as the hour grew
late threading my way among the bodies OF SUM
bering Turks who lay in the streets, ] felt that
was in an unwholesome predcament. 1t was
after midnight when | found the entrance OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-08
IRON MOUNTAIN DISCOVERED YEARS AGO
IN WESTERN BENGAL.

Ten years ago iron mountain discov-
cred in Western Bengal containing enough ore to
supply the whole world for generation. You
for yourself the great advantages in
mining this supply, for the force of gravitation
becomes an assisting factor. The Bengal supply
is also conveniently located in regard to the
railroad and river systems, and is in easy reach
of the seabosrd. When this enormous supply
was discovered company was organized and
men we're dispatched to find the best experts in
the world for organization of the mine. An
American was given the entire responsibility, and
the mine is being to-day according to the
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Mystic Rituals Seen BY
One Who DweH among
Onenfs Rabble.

zone after one produced stiicttoi. with BID.
foot and haf long. cylindrical 10 shape "a.
&. ,barp a. reedics he blade we're crox,.s
18th brass balis the size Of an orange. Ts..
balls took the place OF hits The balls themsslr.,
werc surrounded with chains and spangles
"Rolling the balls in their palms the derysh,,
40. the s.ilettos twrlng until the spangles ss,s
o,, NJ right angles and hummed as they s,,,
through the air. One by one they drove the m.
volviny blades right through their cheeks viii.
ON, anv sign of pain visible loss Of blood
was a sickening sight and doubted the eyidsas
~ NV ewes. As though dyning my thoughts
dervi,h approached me grinning like chs,hir,
%, opening his mouth he showed me the b..
,,oar,;rg above his tongue and even forced a.
20 feel of it with my hngero.
az drew back with shudder The derviA
nulled the blade from his cheeks and plunged
into his right breast Selling another s.il..,a
no stabbed himself in the left breast and I'll
=, full length on the ground with the two brss,
globes protruding from his body. The otssr,
c,ustered about him and an old sheikh who u,
Leading them, and who had been unplesssasy
hrouobt 10 my attention b. reason Of the seos,,
he cast in my direction, approached the Prs.
,ra,e man. Placing one foot on each Of the bns,
halle he stood on the fanatics body until he
Leen blades drove into his yItals, shriehsf
screaming and foaming at the mouth like YER.
liable mailman
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In South Africa, when the Indian coolies fore
bore to support the strikers, even though they
knew that by so doing they might gain their
own ends in the colony. If this is true OF the
coole in foreign country, how much more must
it be true Of the higher orders of the population
who have remained in their own home? The ac-
ton of these coolies has practically proved that
India is ready for self-government TO the same
degree as Canada and other of England's more
privileged dominions.
"The dream of all true Indians is to gain this
self-government. We shall prove that we are
worthy of it, and we have already proved this.
Our princes and our men of power who are lead
ing their troops to fight for England in foreign
country prove it beyond all words. By taking
part in England's vital problems they show that
they are distinctly capable of participating in
their own private affairs England is bound to
give India more commercial freedom, at the least,
and there will be nothing to prevent India from
making a preferential treaty with the United
States or with any other country.
Concerning midas exports have also some
thing to say, for | believe that in future these
will benefit the United States to an extraordinary
degree The development Of the Pacific Coast is
startling; and not far in the future, in my opn
ion, the Pacific states are going to gain the
prominence nov held by their older sisters
the Atlantic. All that has been needed for this
development is coal and iron. Coal will soon be
supplied in enormous quantities from Alaska
Iron will come from India. India land pl
iron of high grade upon the Pacific coast and
sell it 81 so ton cheaper than iron from any
part of the United States.
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India and the United States, declares that since
England. France and Germany are now hors de
combat industrially the United States has an
excellent chance to supply India's imports and to
,,i, +berebv an annual income of nearly half
billion dollars.
Prince Ghosh has the traditions of long lire
Of rulers behind him and one of the ENJOYS
of the Indian people TO meet King George at the
Durbar. He is a nobleman in his own right and
mis- family is wealthy but he likes the American
snirit so we'll that he intends TO work for his
living in this country He has studied at Oxford
and Cambridge and is we'll known in England
as a writer and an economist. He has also con-
tributed a number Of short stories and specia!
articles to American magazines. He believes
;bat there are more natural bonds between the
United States and India than between India and
NV other country in the world. America, he
r,aintains has the best understanding Of Indian
deals. the greatest similarity of purpose with
That Of India and the most interesting OF racial
bonds with her genuine mother country 1t IS
time he SAYS for Americans to profit by these
EOS and 10 gain the enormous prize of India's
rich trade.
Prince Ghosh, who is staying IN New for"
to a lecture tour, was enthusiastic a.
N the prospects for a commercial alliance be
tween India and this country. All that is neceS
sarv is for American manufacturers TO ma
market ne believes, and such market Is eaSly
established in a land that desires so greatly the
goods that America can supply.
"Tbe war is going to hurt us. That is matter