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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-21

the terror he inspired and you shall
be destroyed. Behind me is fire, sud
den death We have many thousand
warriors. We have an Unsuitable god
We brook no strangers-we tolerate
no enemies. You are an enemy, you
and yours. &C, and go at once
We are not enemies returned Her
nandez. We are travelers-weary
travellers. We have lost our way. We
need rest and food. To turn back now
means death
The high priest shrugged his shcul
ders. Follow me- he said.
He turned and passed between the
divided group OF warriors and entered
the gate
Hernandez followed, entering the
walls three PAGES behind the priest.
He led Hernandez to the center OF
the village
With long, lean, skinny finger, the
high priest pointed to the sun god
He prostrated himself, then rose and
gave a sharp command. Two Aztecs,
clad in scarlet robes, darteo forward,
each with burning brand raised high
above his head. Before Hernandez
was a pit sunk into the ground. 1t
was piled high with fuel and from this
pit there rose quite familiar ocor-
the odor Of petroleum. In went the
burning brands and in the twinkling
In a
leaping, twisting fame sprang into
the air
Hernandez drew back The fame
was hot 1t grew hotter as he
watched. In a few moments it was
seething, roaring furnace.
Hernandez stood with folded arms
The high priest swooped down upon
him and denounced him in witherihg
jargon. Hernandez knew what it
meant. 1t meant that they were TO 60
"Ponto," he cried, come here"
Ponto, quivering, crept through the
double line OF Aztec warriors and
through the gate Hernandez jerked
his head toward the priest.
Tell him." said Hernandez, that
he must take US in
Ponto obeyed. He began to plead
In his oiliest accents The high priest
was firm. Once again he held up his
hand and from every hut in the in
closure there sprang forth another
group Of warriors.
Run, partner" cried PoHto run
for your life"
But Hernandez did not run, for sud
denly the countenance OF the high
priest had changed A crafty smile
spread over his leathery old face. Pom
to followed his glance. At the other
end Of the clearing with a ray of sun
shine full upon her crouched Annette
Ilington.
Without removing his glance from
the girl the high priest touched Her
nandez on the arm and spoke in high
shrill accents.
What does he say" demanded Her
nandez of PontO.
Ponto shivered. He says" re-
turned Ponto, the sun goo is angry.
That he has commanded his people
to destroy you all That he will smite
you hip and thigh unless"
Unless what" queried Hernandez.
You give the white girl to the god
and the rest of you can get food and
succor within the walls-the white
girl for the god
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-21
CHAPTER IIIy.
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AttsT Z march ot EoIrs II the very
thicksst Of the Jungle, Hernandez halt.
Cd nls hand Of !nsgrrsctos. The rs-
spite vas welcomed Exhaustion
reigned sggrene. Hernandez p!c.et
out two Of the sleeker looking reyo-
lution!sts.
This trail" he said to them. has
been lately Travelled. See where it
leads"
Hernandez went back TO his cap
tiyes He carried with him thick
pieces Of bread. He unloCse1 the
bandages from their eyes.
Mine hostages" he said lightly,
eat, drink and be merry"
Three miles further On there was a
clearing in the Jungle. Across this
clearing was an ancient gateway and
a crumbling stone wall, older than his
toric man himself Two unprepcssess-
ing stold stone figures guarded this
gateway. A third guard now entered
the foreground and passed through the
ancient ruined gateway.
He was living guard, but Of dead
race He was an Aztec. He had heard
noises and he had come out TO gee as
well as 10 hear.
And suddenly he saw and was seen
in turn. Wriggling through the por-
tions Of the edge Of the clearing sud
denly appeared the two scouts sent
forward by Hernandez They crouched
there, staring speechlessly at the
Aztec warrior. He in his turn stared
gpeechlessly at them.
But they had seen more than he had
They had caught a glimpse through
that gateway OF a mass Of leaping
twisting fame, and they knew 1t for
the thing It was.
An hour later, painting breathless
with their tongues hanging out and
their eyes still wide with terror, they
crept up to Hernandez and clutched
him by the arms.
"Corazon del SOL" they cried, their
faces twisted with terror
Ponto heard them. His eyes cleaned
with sudden interest He waddled to
the side Of Hernandez and nodded
understandlngly.
"Corazon del Sol" repeated Herman
dez The Heart OF the Sun"
POnto nodded again. The Heart OF
the sun" he repeated
We'll, what OF it?" asked Herman
dez
The lost tribe" whispered the
scouts The Aztecs. Come" they
cried, we have no time to lose They
will be upon US Fly"
Hernandez gripped each man by the
wrist. Speak, Ponto, he demanded.
Ponto tapped himself upon his chest.
Il am Of Aztec blood myself" he said.
Il have heard OF this lost tribe have
heard Of this city Of Corazon del Sol
Many assume it to be myth, senior,
but it is 40 myth.
Hernandez nodded How many in
habit. IT'S of Corazon del Sol?" he
quercl
Tradition has it, said Ponto, that
it is town surrounded by wall and
that its population never increases"
He smiled grimly. What human be-
ings It does not need, it feeds to the
Heart OF the Sun the fame"
1T will feed all OF US to the flame"
cried the scouts. we must go back
back"
Hernandez leered. "Ponto," he said,
''in front Of us according tC these in
surrectos, is a fiery furnace with a mil
lion foes Behind us, camping on our
trail somewhere is a handful OF Ameri-
can marines. Which do you choose"
Forward" said Ponto, TO the fiery
furnace Deliver me from a handful
OF marines"
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
BY EGBERT PAYNE

brave stand for bigger army, and they admire his skill at bridge. Crown Prince 1ustaV Adolph is married to Princess Margaret of Connaught. Princess Mar saret is chiefly noted for the way she stahds armed with hockey stick on the Ice In the stadium, and lets the other sioes players hit the ball. King Gustav mas trouble in keeping balance between the high-flying. military eourtiers who remember that Sweden was once a great power and might be again and his mod est bourgeois ministers who lunch every oay m the cheap Rosenbad restaurant. mere are military gentlemen by title mostly counts) who despise the neutralist bourgeois cabinet, and would like Sweden 'o enter the glorious fray
 sweden is mobilized When the war began the reserves were called up also the landsturm. Stockholm, Goteborg anc Maino are fortified and mined Sweden mas got 100000 trained soldiers, but she mas not enough material for war. What material she has is good So are her iiien' ihey look smart in grey uniforms anu three-cornered i,Frederician hats Nominally, Sweden's war preparations are oirected equally against all the belliger ents, any one of whom might violate ""eoish neutrality. In practice, they are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
PAINTING FURNITURE

What is new in furniture?'" asks the woman who is furnishing or refurnishing her home. And the woman who is known for her smartness and good taste replies that the thing to have is the revived painted furniture specially if bedroom or boudofr is under consideration.
 It is cheerful furniture reminiscent of the reign of Louis KY and makes spe- cial appeal to all those who love the past
 Ther- are several kinds of painted furni- ture-the mellowed pieces of the past, the fragments of a hideous revival in mid Victorian times and several grades of modern make. The two former may be dismissed. one as generally too expensive for the woman of limited means. the other as a nightmare; so 1t remains for us to consider the third.
 Beautiful bedroom sets are now manu- factured after good old models. Such furniture is painted in ivory. in gray or In dull soft green, and decorated with stripping or with flowers or both. It Is appropriate for almost any room in a country house, and delightful schemes VII at once suggest themselves to the Imaginative and artistic reader Let me Whisper that this pretty furniture can os produced at home. Large stores sup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-02
By MADGE ARTHUR

ply cheap furniture in plain, good forms. ready Tor painting, and it is an easy mat ter 10 select suitable models that will lend themselves to the desire you have in view
 II takes patience, of course, and an old trock to take the spattering; it is, after all. like play to potter around with a paint brush Having secured your furni- ture, paint the piece and let it dry over night sandpaper all over to make it smooth, and remove traces of brush marks then paint again. Repeat this un- LII four coats have been applied. If liked. the last coat may be enamel
 If one has artistic talent the decoration or the furniture is the most delightful task and one in which there is great scope Tor originality. An inexpensive way of achieving effect is by using a stencil plate and then afterward shading the conventional fiat design by hand. Of course, the result is not quite so artis- tic as the accepted method. but it pro- duces much of the charm that character izes this furniture. If the decoration is to be in lines done in black or in a light color. use lining brush. If flowers are desired q good piece of old howsred
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cynfc, indifferent people who cut their sympathies according to their interests, and have enough intellectual dexterity and physical plasticity to charge their sympathies once a week
 Swedes are frivolous dogs. That is their greatest virtue When Europe is mournful; when horrors abound; when every day you hear that Smith-or smiths ear-has been cut off in the prime or life, levity is pleasant. Swedes parade their levity. The one complaint that comes from their universally smi, Ing lips is that stupid foreigners don't realize how frivolous Sweden is. The stupid foreigners visit solid bourgeois dull. respectable Denmark and stolid Norway, and imagine that Sweden is ina same. They err. Sweden is an airy nuify, aristocratic land smacking more or the French rococo eighteenth century than Of tedious, leaden twentieth cen tury Europe
 That is your first impression of Stool- holm. Stockholm is full of good Ioolrina well dressed men and pretty women. The women In type are North German. but they are simmer, finer more distin gulshed-so distinguished that they look distinguished even in their very undis t1nsuished clothes Stockholm marriages are brief and bright-all Stockholm ladies are olvorced, about to be divorced, or sorry they re not divorced. Stockholm la ules nave no time for marriage as six hours day go in dressing, polishing aooining their wonderful hair. Every street mas three houses marked "Dam- frisering," which means Ladies Hair dresser No women in the world have such lustrous hair; in theatres the rows or polished golden heads shine like aPrus- attack 's'
 Everything in Stockholm is frivolo,,s airy, graceful aristorratic. Take the stores There are. no shoe stores or meal stores, because all the ground floors are occupied by flower stores: scent stores stores Of swedish cut glass, of. British sil- yer or lans' furs, and diamond rings. 9toekhoins funerals are stately enough 10 make you half in love with ga seful death" Swedes are aristocraticallv stand oiiish. They don't ask you to dinner till they've known you 40 weeks When thev oo ask you, You find their apartments fuil Of cold portraits, silhouettes, rustyt brass mirrors with amourettes, real old rococo ehairs' marquetry desks. and Buhl You see at once that Sweden is not tiresome. bourgeois, .up-to-date state like Prussia but an ancient graceful French-mar- quisey land. Swedes are great spend- thrifts. After Moscow, Stockholm is En- ropes dearest capital. Apartment rents are twice Paris or Berlin rates. Swedes live in debt; gamble on the stock ex change and live merrily with dignity. pleasantly Tn true grand seigneur style.
 Stockholm town is sunny. dry, clean lex cept after rain), and umbrageous When lunch Is over, all it's pretty girls parade the Str8ndvaegen, envy one another's glistening heads. and make eyes at lera-
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Stockholm. German cruisers sank a Finnish steamer and seized all enemy subjects on the Swedish steamers. Aft CT that Russians and sub jects of oth- CT anti-German powers had to travel round the Gulf of Bothnia, close to the arctic circle. That meant sledgs ride across two rivers and over a 30-mile gap between the Swedish and Finnish railroads Fifty thousand Rus sians. caught by the war in west Eu rope, travelled this path of tears. Next German mines blew up Swedish steam CTS and sea communication ceased Now the steamers have started ara,n from Stockholm to Apo, but the journey is risky and few take it. The others will go, as Stockholmers say. "by the north pole"
 Sweden and Russia now want to link up their railroads The Russian. have taken the first step. They hava built branch track from Torneo on tfe Gulf of Bothnia to Finnish Kar- ungi which is on the River Tornea Ell only two miles from Sweden,a railroad terminus. If a bridge were built the two lines could be joined. For 10 years Sweden has been arl- tated by bridge plans. She feared . 'rlose would facilitate the Russian in. Nasion. Now the Swedish Parliament i,as approved of the bridge. but noth- ln2 will be done till after the warA Sweden is still a bit in fright.
 In spite of this war dread, Swe- den is a placid, pleasant place and Stockholm is pleasant town. It grows more and more indifferent to the war Newspapers print less and less war news; and next to tedious bits on Jeffres offensive" and Hin cenourg's new coup you see notes on municipal loans. jokes on the masked ball at Hasselbacken and fulI-length ortraits of actresses with slim ankles. The true Swedish levity! Pleasant it is to find land which is not full of the war: which has time, spirit, money and frivolity to think of nobler thingsi
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ton attaches. It is correct and even ia sh ionable to make eyes. On Sunday the pretty girls make for Saltsjobaden by the sea, sail on skates across perilous ice, and make ski tours and eyes. Stockholm has good theatres, bad moving picture shows one cabaret, and fourth rate va riety hall It has a royal opera owned by a syndicate subsidized by the state to the tune of s5o,0OO and well managed by a courtier Count Stedingk. The opera house Is plain outside and georgeous within It has the best purely native opera of any small state, played on a small stage with first-class scenario and costumes The bright, particular stars are the baritone, John Forsell, and the soprano Fanny Larsen. The best seats cost S7ia cents Stockholm has fine. new dramatic the atre. also subsidized by the state. It counts as Europe's best decorated theatre When it was building, Sweden's cleverest artists did gratis work.
 Swedens royal family is Stockholm s only democratic thing. This is because it is plain Bernardotte descended from Napoleon's marshal, and still has in southern France cousins who sell vege- tables, flour and rice. King Gustav V. looks like a Frenchman. also like pro- lessor. Swedes respect him. He has char acter, they say; they back him in his
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directed against Russia, the only power which Sweden suspects
 Sweden's feeling against Russia is strong. It has three causes, old and new. Swedes never forget that it was Russia which dealt the first blow to their coun try's position as a great power. and that Russia hundred years ago dealt tn, last blow by taking Finland. Then there Is the modern question of Finland The Swedes are Finnophiles. The Films that count are of Swedish race. Every second Stockholmer has Finnish cousins. In peace time when the Films want recrea tion they come to Stockholm The Swedes resented the Bobrikoff despotism in Fin land and today they resent the aggra vated despotism of Seyn. They would like to see Kaiser Wilhem's hosts in Helsingfors. These are old grievances.
 Most immediate of grievances is the suspicion that Russia, wants to grab Swedish territory. The Swedes sus- pected Savinsky, a former Russian minister resident, of espionage; there was Russian military attache scan cal and when Russia's Grand Duchess Marla Pavlovna ran away from her swedish husband people accused her too. of espionage. That was untrue. The war made acute the old Swedish
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gether as in the sum districts of New

gether as in the slum districts of New York and London.
 The tenement sections are largely made up of conventillos. These are immense buildings of one or two stories, running along narrow passages or around small courts. Each oonventillo contains scores upon scores of tiny, one-roomed homes. A single room forms the dwelling place of one or more families and in some cases it is so small that the washing and cook ing has to be done outside in the court. The most of these homes are without ven tilation except through the door, and their only light comes in the same way Many of them navs but one bed, oc- cupied. perhaps, by the parents. and the rest of the family sleep on the floor. There are no means of heating such dwellings, and they look more like caves than the homes of twentieth century humans
 Buildings of this character are to be found scattered throughout Buenos Aires. Many have been destroyed by the new street improvements, but others still ex- ist under the shadows of the great stores and fine public buildings I visited such a one the other day. It was not far from the Grand opera house, where the charge for seat in the pit is sl6 per night, enough to feed a poor family two weeks. This conventillo consisted of a two-story building surrounding a court about six feet in width and 200 feet long. The walls on the longer sides of the court were so close together that the stone Tagging vas perceptibly wet. and I could feel the dampness through the soles of my shoes as I walked over it. There were galleries along the outside of the second stories. and these half-shaded the court roofing the streets as it were over the apartments below. I peeped into some of the rooms, each of which held a fam
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lTOCKHOBM, April a.-(Special Correspondence .)-Sweden s basas:z,s war-ravaged Europe's softest vS1Ezl1I haven of rest. It's neutral.
 Neutral countries are calm soothing, idyllic All belligerent peo- pIes are physically overstrained. They think, dream, talk only war. Visitors must live in tune with them. To every tale of the foes iniquity you must go ono better; and If you don't swear (ac- ccfding to country) that Joffre, Grand Duke Nicholas or Hindenburg Is great erer than Caesar, you are suspected of treason and secretly counted a spy. This strains your nerves. In sleepy, restful. unbloody Sweden you find incommuni- cable joy. Everything's so calm. There are stolid newspapers that do not scream: white bread without potatoes and winter. blue-eyed maids who gush: "We love Americans," Why do you love them?" you ask. expecting the an- swer: You're all so good looking" "Because you're not in the war" they say. we hate these fighters. They'll get killed; so they're, no use as hus-
 
 husbonde! Jar
 o course, even Sweden lazily follows the war. Newspapers mention 1t, and you see big headlines: "Framgangr tadvance"'; Till bakaw (retreatD :: 'Seger.' tvictoryD. But Sweden chiefly regards the war neutral, with com plaints against both sides. Sweden is rather pro German. Stockholm city lives in Berlins shadow. It gets Berlin newspapers a day after issue; London newspapers week after issue; and no French newspapers at all. It takes Der lin books, plays. clothes. It's only Brit ish thing is "A Long Way to Tippera " r' was at a ball at HasseIbacken S where the band played "A Long Way six times. All the dancers joined in singing the English words. Sweds who speaks no English is as rare as Swede who starts supper without Smorgasboard. and ends it without punch.
 Sweden is correctly neutral. but se cretly, Foreign Minister Wallenberg. a multi millionaire of the Enskilda Bank family, Is pro British His main desire Is that the war should end. Swedes daily buttonhole you and say: Tram gang, Tillabaka.; did you hear that States Minister Wallenberg is nego- tiating peace?" Sweden's pro-German exigencies intervene, Sweden is not pro. German at all. She started pro- German Then Kaiser Wilnelms mines sank three Swedish ships off Finnish Mantyluoto. and for three days Sweden was pro British When Herr Ballin (inspired by Kaiser Wilhelm) collected s500OO for the drowned sailors widows, Sweden grew pro-German again. That is nice In the Swedes. They are an eQipoised,
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belief that Russia wants an ice-free port on the Atlantic. Russia cannot export her grain by the Dardanelles Vladivostoek is too far; and the White sea is closed for half the year. Rus sla has possible ice-free ports on the Murman coast, but these are undevel- cped, no railroad runs near them and sceptics doubt whether they are real ly ice-free. The Swedes suspect that Russia wants to cut across Swedish Lapland to Norway's port Narwik, and while on the way to take pos session of Sweden's phosporic iron mines, the best that Europe has. Swedes pray that Russia may get the Dardaneiles, so that she may keep quiet in the north Suspicious have teen strengthened since Russia started to build railroad running obliqueIy rom Petrograd to the Swedish from tier This would shorten by a third the Railroad journey of an invading army The Swedes retorted by fortify- ing Boden near their northern from tier. Boden is now held by strong garrison. Blackest of all are the sus- pfcions spread by Explorer Sven HeI- in, whose alarmist pamphlets got him expelled from the Russian Academy Of science. Hedin is now running d strong pro-German propaganda He has frightened the judicious Swedes They fear that his too zealous champioring may get their land in trouble
 Sweden's lot is made harder by the position of Stockholm as the neares- neutral city. to Russia and Germany Stock kholm is full of mysterious agent s frr t,Ath taf~ Russian grain and Russians come to buy German field glasses. Devious per sonages abound. You hear tales of Va st smuggle deals; of phantom ships. of mysterious train loads; of clerks il, shipping offices who supply the enc my's consuls with copies of steamer Elanlrests of mine boats which ,ay mines Tn the paths of doubt tful ships or German financiers who speculate in Russian paper money; of Russian hhanclers who speculate in German pa per money Nominal1y the smu.gline business has been dealt a blow by 'Su-a. den prohibiting the export of graf. Ihls makes it hard for Germany to puy Russian grain. Sweden has now a Iuie against letting contraband of war go through to Russia. But contrabard goes beth ways.
 SWeoen has privileged position Shs IS Russia's only window toward Eu- rope ana without her Russia, at least in winter when the White sea is closed. would be altogether cut off Even now there Is difficulty. There Is no con tinuous railroad connection and there Is nn intermittent steamer service which stops for months at time. When war began Apo and Hango. Fin Ia nd's chief ports were closed: and Russia's only communication with Eu- rope was via the little Yin.,ish port. Raumo whence Stsamere ,went to