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The Washington herald., 1917-10-09
BALTIMORE GRAIN.

Baltimore. Nd. Oct. T.-wheat offerings light,
Spot. No. 2 red soft. n
Com closed sasy. Spot. Iss
Oats closed quiet. Standard white 81 No
). white, 6.
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Actions Speak Loudest---Results
Count---Act Now and Win
Cash Prize
Read the Four Winning Letters Published
Below-Enter Contest Now-Win
Cash Prize.

Herewith publish the four winning letters Of last weeks Shop
ShoppinQ Contest.
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First Prize for best letter, $500
Second prize next best letter, $500
Third prize next best letter. Sl.0o
Fourth prize next best letter; $l.0o
Time Yet to Enter.

Time Yet TO Enter.
1t is not too late by any means
to enter the shopping contest for
this week. as letters will be sc-
cepted from contestants in this ONCE
up to { D. m. Saturday, october IL,
1917 dncluding all mail bearing a
postmark not later than noon Of that
date)
All that you have to do is to save
your sales slips on any of the items
that you find advertised in today's
Herald. or any other issue Of The
Herald this week. In any case where
the store does not issue sales slips
just ring the item in the ad and
send It along with your letter.
Both Save Money and Win Prize.
II several sales items appear on
the same sales slips. ring the one
that, in your mind, represents the
best bargain that you bought. and
mail 1t to the Shopping Editor OF The
heraio' accompanied py ietaer No'
to exceed $50 words) telling why this
bargain appealed TO your needs as the
best buying opportunity for you on
that particular day.
How to write Letter.
The way In which your letter i'm
presses the shopping Editor as to the
value OF the article received for the
money spent will count most Neat
ness and phraseology are but sec
ondary considerations. =
The size Of the article purchased
ana the amount Of the price paid VIII
not figure In making the prize awards.
The purchaser Of q paper Of pins
stands the same chance Of winning on
this score A. the purchaser Of piano
or an automobile
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Extracts from a Few Of Many
Letters of Commentator.

"The Mexican Problem is, to
my thinking. worth its weight
in gold-of all recent books
the best by many degrees"
The Washington herald., 1917-10-09

Many Of the homes Of Chinese IN
Nadoa, Hainan. China, use simply
constructed stoves modelled after one
invented by the missionaries for use
in the hospital kitchen
The Washington herald., 1917-10-09
NEW YORK BOND MARKET.
PHILADELPHIA PRODUCE.

The total sale. Of bond, today ssrt ss,sai. 900.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-09
LIVE STOCK MARKET.
By BRIGGS

Copyright Is By Tribune As.aestion tAc. Yort Irbunt
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07

the clash of rings on a rod. But he
was beyond being startled. He was
not really sure he was in the world.
He was not certain whether ii was the
twentieth century or - B. c., or car
lier yet; or whether time had ceased.
The place where he was did not
look like cave, but palace chamber,
for the rock walls had been trimmed
square and polished smooth; then they
had been painted pure white, except
for "A wide blue frirze, with line of
gold leaf drawn underneath 1t. And
on the friezc, done in gold-leaf too
was the Grecian lady of the lamps
always dancing. There were fifty or
sixty figures of her, no two alike.
A dozen lamps were burning, set in
inches cut In the walls at measured
intervals. They were exactly like the
two outside, except that their horn
chimneys were stained yellow instead
of red, suffusing everything in a golden
glow.
Opposite him was a curtain, rather
like that through which he had en-
tered. Near to the curtain was q bed,
whose great wooden posts were
cracked with age. In spite of it's age
it was spread with fine new linen.
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Richly embroidered, not very ancient
Indian draperies hung down from it
To the floor on either side. On it,
| above the linen, a man and a woman
lay hand in hand, and the woman was
| so exactly like Yasmini, even to her
clothing and her naked feet, that it
was not possible for man to be self
possessed
They both seemed asleep. 1t was
| minutes before he satisfied himself
that the mans breast did not rise and
fall under the bronze Roman armor
and that the woman's jeweled gauzy
stuff was still. Imagination played
such tricks with him that in the still
ness he imagined he heard breathing
After he was sure they were both
dead, he went nearer, but 1t was a
minute yet before he knew the woman
was not she. At first a wild thought
possessed him that she had killed her
| self.
The only thing to show who he had
been were the letters S. p. Q. r. on Il
great plumed helmet, on little table
by the bed. But she was the woman
| of the lamp-bowls and the frieze. A
life-size stone statue in n corner was
so like her, and like Yasmini too. that
1t was difficult to decide which Of the
two 1t represented.
She had lived when he did, for her
fingers were locked in his. And he
had lived two thousand years ago, be-
cause his armor was about as old as
that, and for proof that he had died
In II part of his breast had turned to
powder inside the breastpate. The
rest of his body was whole and per-
fectly preserved.
Stern, handsome in high-beaked
Roman way, gray on the temples. firm
Tipped, he lay like an emperor In har-
ness. But the pride and resolution on
his face were outdone by the serenity
of hers. Very surely those two had
been lovers.
Both of them looked young and
healthy-the woman younger than
thirty-twenty-five at guess-and
the man perhaps forty. perhaps forty
five. Every stitch of the mans cloth
ing had decayed, so that his armor
rested on the naked skin. except for a
dressed leather kilt about his middle.
The leather was as old as the curtains
at the entrance, and as well preserved.
But the woman's silked clothing was
as new as the bedding. Yet, they both
died about the same time or how could
their fingers have been interlaced?
And some of the jewelry on the wom-
ans clothes was very ancient as we'll
as priceless.
He looked closer at the fingers for
signs Of force and suddenly caught his
breath. Under the woman's flimsy
sleeve was wrought gold bracelet.
smaller than that one he himself had
worn In Delhi and mp the Khyber. He
raised the loose sleeve to look more
closely at It and the movement laid
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07
CHAPTER XVI.
"AthelStan I"

"AthelStan!"
She pronounced his given name as
If she loved the word. standing straight
again and looking into his eyes. There
We're high lights in hers that out
cleaned the diamonds on her dress.
Your gods and mine have done this,
Athelstan. When the gods combine
they lay plans well indeed"
II only know one God" he answered
simply, as man speaks of the deep
things in his heart.
II know of many! They love me
They shall love you. too! Many are
better than one! You shall learn to
know my gods, for we are to be part
ners, you and II"
She took his hand again. her eyes
burning with excitement and mysti-
cism and ambition like fever She
seemed to take more than physical pos
session of him.
what brought them here? Tell me
that" she demanded, pointing to the
bed. ''You think he brought her? l
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07
rs nand. zone lay On her bosom

Kings nand. zone lay On her bosom
and one Oh his when | found them -
she said. "Now, think again."
He did think, of thirty thousand pos
sibilities, and of one impossible idea
that stood up prominent among them
all and insisted on seeming the only
likely one.
81 saw the knife in your bosom last
night" she said, "and laughed so that
l nearly wakened YOU"
why didn't you take it with the
bracelet?" King asked her, holding it
out Take it now. | don't want It."
She accepted 1t and laid it on the
mans bronze armOr. Then, however,
she resumed it and played With it,
Look again !" sine said. Think and
look again."
He looked, and he knew now, But
he still preferred that she should tell
him, and his lips Shut tight.
Can you guess why | changed my
mind about yOu-wise manW
She looked from him TO the man on
the bed and back to him again. HAY
ing solved the riddle. King had leisure
10 be interested in her eyes, and
watched them analytically, like jew
eler appraising diamonds. They were
strangely reminiscent but much more
changcablc and cOlorful than any he
had ever seen. They had the battling
trick of changing while he watched
them.
Having sent man To- kill you, why
did 1 cease To want 10 kill you? In
stead of losing you on the way to Khin-
jan. why did | run risks to protect
you after you reached here? Why did
| save your life in the Cavern of
Earth's Drink tonight? You do not
know yet? Then | will tell you some
thing else you do not know. | was In
Delhi when you were! | watched and
listened while you and Rewa Gunga
talked in my house | was in Rewa
Gunga's carriage on the train that he
at first hand that you are not fCol
But that was not enough You had to
be three thingS-clever and brave and
one other. The one other you are !!
Brave you have proved yourself to
be! Clever you must be, to trick your
way into Khinjan caves. even with
lSmail at your elbow That is why
l saved your life-because you are
those two things ami - and - one
Other!"
She Snatched mirror from little
ivory table-a modern mirrOr-bad
glass, bad art, bad workmanship, but
silver warranted.
Look in it and then at him. she
ordered
But he did not need to look. The
man on the bed was not SO much like
himself as the woman was like her
but the resemblance seemed to grow
under his eyes. King was the taller
and the younger by several years, but
the noses were the same, and the
wrinkled forpheuds both men had the
same firm mouth; both looked like
Romans.
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CHAPTER xIV-continued.

Rewa Gunga spoke truth in Dem
when he assured King he should some
day wonder at Yasminrs dancing.
She became Joy and bravery and
youth She danced story FOR them
OF the things they knew. She was the
dawn light, touching the distant peaks
She Gas the wind that follows IT,
sweeping among the jumpers and KISS
ing each as she came. She was laugh
ter, as the little children laugh when
the cattle are loOsed from the byres nj
last to feed In the valleys She was
the scent of spring uprising She was
blossom. She wns fruit Very dnugh.
ter of the sparkle of warm sun on
snow, she was the Heart Of the Hills"
herselfl
Never was such dancing Never
such an audience! Never such mad
applause! She danced until the great
rough guards had to run round the
arena with dubbed butts and beat
back trespasserS who would have
mohbed her. And every movement
every gracious wOnder-curve and step
with which she told her tale was as
purely Greek as the handle on Kings
knife and the figures on the lamp-bowls
and as the bracelets on her arm.
Greek
And she half-modern Russian, eX-
girl-wife of semi-civilizcd hill rajah
Who taught her? There Is nothing
new. even in Khinjan, In the Hills"
And when the crowd defeated the
arena guards at last and burst through
the swinging butts To seize her and
fling her high and worship her with
mad burbaric rite. she ran toward the
shield. The four men raised 1t shOul-
der high again. She went to ii like
n leaf In the wind-sprang on it as if
wings had lifted her, scarce touching
IL with naked toes-and leapt to the
bridge with laugh.
She went over the bridge on tiptoes,
like nothing else under heaven but
Yasmini at her bewltchlngest. And
without pausing on the far side she
danced up the hewn stone stairs, dived
into the dark hole and was gone!
"Come ~ yelled Ismail in Kings ear.
He could have heard nothing less, for
the cavern was like to burst apart
from the tumult.
"WhitherP the Afridi shouted in
disgust. Does the wind ask whithert
Come like the wind and see! They
Will remember next that they have
bone to pick with thee! Come awayp
That seemed good enough advice He
followed as fast as Ismail could shoul-
der way out between the frantic hill
men, deafened. stupetied. numbed. al
most cowcd by the ovation they were
giving the Heart of their HIS
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CHAPTER XIV.

AS they disappeared after scramble
through the mouth Of the same tun-
mel they had entered by, roar went
up behind them like the birth of earth
quakes. Looking back over his shoul-
der, King saw Yasmini come back into
the holes mouth, to stand framed In 1t
and bow acknowledgment. For the
space of five minutes she stood In the
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07

tell you she was the spur that drove
him! Is it a wonder that men called
her the Heart of the HillsT l found
them ten years ago and clothed her
and put new linen on their bed, for the
old was all rags and dust. There have
always been hundreds-and sometimes
thOusands-who knew the secret of
Khinjan caves, but this has been a
secret within secret. Someone. who
knew the secret before /, sawed those
bracelets through and fitted hinges
and clasps. The men you saw in the
Cavern of Earth's Drink have no
doubt / am the Heart of the Hills
come to life! They shall know thee
as him within q little while!"
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great hole, smiling and watching the
crowd below. Then she went, and the
guards began to loose random volleys
at the roof and brought down hun
dredweights of splintered stalactite.
Within minute there were hun
dred men busy sweeping up the splin-
ters. In another minute twenty Zakka
Khels had begun sword dance. yell
ing like demons. A hundred joined
them. In three minutes more the
whole arena was dinning whirlpool.
and the rivers voice was drowned in
shouting and tbs stamping Of naked
feet on stone.
'COmef" urged Ismail and led the
way.
Kings last impression was Of earth's
The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07
Crushed Possibilities

Jones, the cub reporter, was fat. but
he looked as melancholy as a fat man
can when he entered the city editors
Office.
"Why was my story killed?- he
asked gloomily.
"An act Of mercy" said the editor.
You fell down on It drst"
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
GRAMMAR SCHOOL NOTES

The high fourth graders have com,
pleted their third book i'm reading. One
Of these books being the regular text
book called for in our New Course
of Study" and the other two are
books recommended for supplement.
tary reading. During the remainder OF
this semester different method will
be used in teaching reading. Supple
mentlTy readers will not be used iu
se,s. Each pupil will have differ.
cnt book. During study period the
gus lis will BE- allowed TO select thcii
own stories to read. the object being
10 have them read for content rath :
than for practice. During the rec,,a.
II :: period each pupil will be given
an Opportunity to read aloud TO the
urFcr member nr :rr class. They will
be reading To express thought to those
who do not have access To the same
material. The reader gives better cx
preston TO a selection he Is reading
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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
WOMAN ASSESSOR
FOR CLARK COUNTY

FOn+, OF the first and important ac'
itIons OF the board Of county com
mIsslonets of Clark county in session
Wednesday and Thursday was the aP'
pointment Of Mary E. Mccarthy
county assessor, to I'LL the unexpired
term OF her husband, c. L. Mccarthy
formerly assessor. now captain IN
the 18th regular infantry OF the army
says the Review. The appointment
iimu ediately followed the acceptance
I6t the resignation OF Captain McCar'
THY. the action being unanimously
,adopied by the commissions Mrs
Mccarthy, whp has been acting asses
lsor lin the absepce of her husband
who has been attepding the officers
training camp AT Sap Francisco 10
1.-THE past three months. has the dis
ttlnction OF being the nrst woman u
Nevada to receive the appointment o
county assessor. The appointment
was made effective at once. followin
the filing OF necessary bonds and tai
siaes.ho oath OF Office, which was don
ThurAfay afternoon,
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
A MOTHERS PRAYER FOR HER SOLDIER SON

. God of infinite mercy Of hj land
sending
bowed with
God of low" for them
the We willing suffer- and
II need be- q
We loved dtar'r
q u-
10
hold back
= others.
manhood this OF life.
battle
o children them with Divine
though they walk
Thy bansh
g Thy Thy comfort them
allies batltd for
loved endured the
which forth help
glory in
dedicate this Great Cause that
behind the lines while they forward the hag Of
. civilization
prayers whom these loved
hEhtng lifted Thee for these The" Offering al
calling
nobcst which lives Onsccratcd Thy
all human love- leave them with
9 70 Thee committed them.
brCuhd the breath life largest
and
God Himself who died
to Thy watChU Hold them as
Of doing Thy and full
O dune the teachings o pabc pakc when
hath than that he willing
my his life for others
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
GOTHAM TRAFFIC
IS CRIPPLED BY
BIC SNOW STORM
All Wire Service is Interrupted
and Intense Suffering is
Brought to the Poor by Cold
and Shortage of Coal

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE snow.
storm which was almost blizzard
that ragged throughout the night Grip
pied all the traffic of New York and
interrupted the telegraph and telc-
phone service, brought intense suffer
ing to the poor which was accentuated
by shortage OF coal.
In the Bronx the entire supply of
coal was exhausted and crowds be-
seiged the empty yards. In Brooklyn
and on the east side there were many
small riots in which the chief partlci.
pants were women who plead that
their children We're dying of cold at
home.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14

carefully watching for mistakes in
English both in the class room and
on the play ground A pupil who
hears another pupil or teacher make
an error in English. writes the cor
rect form, gives the name OF the one
who made the mistake, signs his own
name, and drops the paper into the
box prepared for It in the corner OF
III" room. Every Fridtg this box Is
opened and the papers Are read by the
teacher. Already this has done much
toward correcting many Of the more
common mistakes in English. EYi-
dcnce Of this Is that fewer mistakes
are reported each succeeding week
although the pupils are just as yigi-
liant as nj first Needless to say the
teachers should be on their guard or
they may be called TO account We
are sorry TO lose Dorothy Haigh from
this grade, but our best wishes go
with her to the Reno school. Glcnua
Bunch Of Winnomucca schools. took
DOrOthy's place this week in our room.
There are very few who are not help.
ing win tho war in one way or an.
other. Certainly the newspapers are
doing their share. Without them we
would not have the crystailizatiou Of
patriotic sentiment that is doing won.
ders IN arousine our people TO action.
And when We consider the amount OF
free advertising that is done through
tho press for the Red Cross and the
!. NJ. G. 4. to say nothing Of the
many other activities that arc given
space in its columns, we cannot but
feel how much the victory that We
arr sure to win will be due TO the
American newspapers. The schools
dous influence for the 600 dof th'
cause Think OF the number OF youn.
men and women who have given VI
their courses and taken mp relic
work, The American people in gen
rral are more patriotic than the mos
anguinc thought that they could b'
, The safety and comfort OF this Who'll
J nation depends Upon the patriotisJ
Of each individual and none shoul
p lose an opportunity to do his duty.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14

time the adiutant general makes
drawing and assigns to the first card
drawn the serial number FIRST re
manning open on the list OF the board
and the next card the second number
until each card has It's serial NUN
Der.
These cards thus numbered are
then returned to the local board
which Immediately applies the master
list and fixes the order number of the
rcgistrant. If the number which is
allotted by the adjutant general
proves TO be one of those at the top
Of the list, the registrant Is placed on
the order list in the place in which hs
originally would have been placed hat
he registered at the proper time.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
JOIN THE RED CROSS

The American Red Cross is Offering
every one. rich and poor alike, Il
chance to contribute personally TO the
Christmas spirit of the enlightened
world At such an anomalous season
when there is not peace on earth,
when good Will toward man is mockrd
by death. dealing cannon and blood
stained steel--what could be more
blessed than 10 comfort and cheer the
suffering thousands OF Libcrty's de-.
tenders in the hospitals behind the
battle lincS2
To relieve the suffering Of thr
wounded and TO salvage battered hu.
man wrecks Is the primary Junction OF
the Red Cross. Let Us not forget that
very soon our own boys in large mum
bcrs will be carried In Red Cross am
balances to Red Cross hospitals. there
to receive every care scientific Red
Cross methods afford.
Where q few millions will start tol
over there" many more million:
must remain at home. To these latter
the Red Cross. In lis drive for 10.
! 00O.0O new members between De
cember l6 and December %, offers th'
best form of stay.at.hOme service
| membership in the cooperation viii
the Red Cross. II urges that you joir
the Red Cross, and then influence
others to Join by displaying from youI
home. your office. your store, or youI
factory the Red Cross service ilaf
which bears one small red cross foi
each member where the llag Is dis
played.
Isn't II worth dollar 60 you t'
know that you are privileged TO tiy the
service flag and that YOU are helping
even In a small way-tO lessen the
agony OF the boys in the trenches
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
DECLARES NO
SHORTAGE Of
SUGAR HERE
President of Sugar Refining
Company Declares That Su-
gar is Being Shipped to
Canada for Higher Prices

WASHINGTON, Dec. li.-Declarina
that there Is no shortage in sugar in
the United States and that the fam.
ines local TO the Atlantic seabOard
President SpTcckles OF the Federal
Sugar Refining Co, testitying at the
senate committee investigation. placed
the blame on the food administration.
He declared that sugar was pass,
ing through New York for Canada
because of the higher prices being Of.
fered.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
HONOR WASHINGTON
IN N. Y. CHURCH

NEW YORK. Dec. li.-Flags oI
much historic significance were this
morning placed on the Washington
pcw in old st. Paurs Chapel in lower
broadway TO mark tho anniversary
of the death Of George Washington.
The Sons OF The Revolution present.
cd two flags to be permanently
ptaced in the pow where "rhC
Father Of His Country" was accuS
toned 10 worship.
! One Of the rlags Is facsimile o
the colors that flew Mt tho Washing
ION hcadauarlers with tho Con,incn
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-14
TOO LEARNED

That ere Sammp's an educated toff
from award" said Tommy Atkins.
leaning on his spade. I'm jolly well
weary of is learnln', too, that am.
We're ordered 20 throw up trenches
along the Marine, and as e picks up Is
spade, tn bloomin' college blighter
says, says e: Well, Tommy, come
on; ii looks like we're infra dig" And
wot says IS: Blarst college eduea-
ton, anyhow, eh?"-Richmond Times
Dispatch