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The Washington times., 1917-07-16
NoW Go On With the StOry

garb OF a LamaiBt monk. His bare
head was covered by closely cropped,
coarse black hair, and a large bony
forehead overhung his great dark
eyes, which were hard and deep set,
The nose was like an eagles beak. II
curved to meet the square chin, close
shaven. like lhe upper lip. which was
thin and straight. His high cheek
bones protruded sharply from his
shrunksn cheeks. and his bare throat
showed large veins and powerful
muscleH,
What was the strange monK doing
In isolation upon that desolate little
isle7
He was waiting.
His wait was not short. The sun
sank into the liquid plain with that
heaviness which precedes a tempest;
night fell without a twilight, upon
the immensity OF space, and the monk
still did not stir. nor take his eyes
from the floating buoy.
Suddenly, as II caught from be-
meath and dragged down, 1t disap-
peared.
The Mysterious GrOttO.
This mysterious disappearance
seemed to be what the heather monk
tApoCtout lot ne rose QUICKLY ana,
springing from stone to stone, made
his way toward the center OF the is
land,
Upon reaching a certain fiat boulder
he stopped and pressed a nervous fin-
her upon it. At once half OF il slid
aside, revealing a stairway cut in the
living rock.
The strange man went down eight
abrupt steps, replaced the stone over
his head by using a lever fixed in
the wall, then pressed down an ivory
switch placed near the level.
The stairway was suddenly illum-
mated by two electric lights swinging
from the roof. The priest went down.
ward fifteen steps more, and at the
fifteenth he pressed ano:hcr ivory
switch, and a bronze door opened on
his right.
He went in. The door closed auto
matically behind him with a great
reverberation through the mysterious
depths. With a quick. light step the
heather priest passed along a natu-al
passage, lighted by electricity. At
the end of the passage a second
bronze door opened automatically.
Has he coms7" cried . clear, Feso-
Rant E0isA.
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
Advice to the Married

10 thoSs they love. but they Yield
little tribute when it II demanded
OF them believe men feel the
samo way about this important mat
ter. know my own late husband
felt that way when he was In Q
condition to feel at all
Aunt Sophie has done a LOT Of
ground and lofty thinklnE about the
problem OF marriage. Being natur-
ally of reflective turn. she has gone
into byways OF meditation seldom
travelled by the rank and nle. And
she has come to the conclusion that
one Of the surest ways In tho world
to get concessions Is to take them
without nrst standing on your dig
nifty and demanding them.
When q man begins his request for
an evening out. for instance. with
the assertion that he II merely ask
ing what Is his due, he has commit.
ted . serious mistake, because he
has put his wife In the position Of
an unwilling EiVsr before she has
had = chance to give q smiling -.
sent / know many married men are
dumb. but surely they can see the
logic Of this theory Of nina
Ny deceased dear used to get up
after = hearty dinner. yank his hat
and coat on the hall rack as II the
Minute Men had BEEN called out. and
beat a hasty retreat without going
to the trouble OF telling me where
he could be reached IN case OF acct
dent There was the hnality about
his every action that left no room
for any chinning on my part. and Il
was surprising how soon 1 became
accustomed to his dear, abrupt ways
Mr.. DewdAd, II you have the nerve
70 emulate the example Of = hero
who 10 now departed. you might fol-
low the system have outlined II
you lack this nerve. fear you are
hopeless.
II you don't assert yourself.
assert you're on the shelf
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
By JEAN DE LA HIRE
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

The story opens with the arrival of Full
bert, q Buddhist monk OF the Tibetan
Lama, at an Isolated and mysterious
house on the western end OF the island
Of Cabrera. By a signal he is admitted
and greets Oxus. the master OF the house.
with whom he Is plotting for the making
Of human creature, which, by means Of
Nvisection, will have such powers that II
will finally bring all the nations of the
earth TO his feet.
These fanatics, working with the fright
ful strength Of their kind finally decide
on the means by which they will attain
this goal. The replacing OF human lungs
by the breathing organs OF nsh will
make q man-nsh, creature that may slip
into the sea, and from below sweep the
oceans Of every ship that floats.
OIus had expected his own daughter
Bertha TO give birth TO a male child, but
q little girl was born instead The plot
ters then decided to look elsewhere, and
Fulbert, in a LAmaist mona stery in Spain,
brings the search TO a successful close
when he takes from Martha de Bliguires
her male infant born out OF wedlock.
The mother goes mad when the child 10
torn from her breast.
Eighteen years pass. and the scene is
Shifted TO the messroom OF tho French
torpedo boat Cyclone in ViilefTanche har-
Dor. II Il February ]. The commander,
Lieut.. Louis de Ciserat, is talking TO his
friend, Ensign Sainte-ClAire. Ciserat
calls attention TO newspaper article
which tells OF the visit Of a mysterious
stranger to the palace Of the Kaiser On
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January /. The stranger, Il seems, hand
ed the Kaiser q parchment IN which he
1.-THE Emperor) was commanded to dis
solve the Reichstag, dismiss his minis
tiers and substitute others. 20 Be names
by the Unknown. Failure to do this
means the destruction Of tho German En-
pire. II the commands are obeyed, the
parchment stated. the Unknown" prom
ised to pay all the debts Of the nation.
to unburden the people OF their taxes Cor
q year. and also TO do away with the
standing army.
The two French officers then look at
newspapers OF later date and ses that
similar proclRmAtions were received
through the mail by the rulers OF France,
Belgium. Denmark. Great Britain. Aus
tria, Ruasin and Holland.
Ciserat and the other ofhcorB Of the
French squadron are summoned on board
Admiral Gerninet'E flagship. Ths AZ
mirai announces that the Unknown" has
blown up q German and Z British hattie
ship, and has also destroyed Fort Char-
aganAc. CherbourEs
The squadron thsn departs for the
Straits Of Gibraltar, where II Is Jc!nod by
q British feet. The ships block the
Mediterranean ir an effort to keep the
Unknown" out, but while thSy are wait
ing IN tho Straits . British and . French
battieship are blown up. Following that
q fort at Malta IL destroyed, and then .
Russian. cruiser IN the Black BeA IL blown
UP. After this the Unknown" went oa
to the Bosphorus, destroying the Turk
ish cruiser Soian1fAh
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"Yes. and the sun sst at the same
moment He has precisIon"
The heather priest crossed tho door
sil as he spoke and entered q great
brilliantly lighted room. In tho osn.
ter ot which stood q man.
The room7
1t was a natural Rrotto, with walls
OF masonry ten feet high and equip
ped like the laboratory In which an
electrical engineer and a chemist
might work together, At tho right
were electric BIplian1es. Ilanked by
glass slabs laden with strange in
struments. On the left were q kiln.
various Instruments, apparatus -fiRsas.
mortars. and pestles and chemicals,
The man?
He WAS u dark, heavily built man Of
about forty, with an energetic face.
He wore dropping mustaches. and his
black, rather long hair curled on his
high forehead and was clustered on
the back of his neck like the name
OF a lion. A white blouse enveloped
him from head to foot, and he wore
leather sandals.
'Oxus," said the heathen monk, I'VE
must look him over at once.'
GNoA lS III y uA-
bert. Shall we talk with him bo-
sides"
'No, tomorrow will do. II will suf-
fice today to see him and make sure
that he has not been injured by any
animal or one of the explosions
HE would surely have telephoned
us IL anything had happened said
ONus
mot necessarily. for he is brave and
proud"
Yes, that is true" OXus assented as
he went toward a square table upon
which were placed several keyboards
of electric buttons. He pressed No.
OF the row labeled STAFF"
Almost instantly the door opened
and a man entered, a magnificent ne
gro OF great height. whose 1.-THE body
was naked but for q cloth girding his
loins.
Dress up. scipio," Oxus ordered.
For diving. master. or for inspec-
tion?"
"Inspection only"
Scipio opened a chest and took
out some strange garments, which
he placed In two groups upon a d.
van. Oxus took of his blouse, the
Rsnk dropped his robe. and In . few
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
The Unknown and MeI.eIIn.

Tho most desolRte and unfrequent-
ed portion of the Persian Gulf is that
which stretches from the island of
Bou Ali, on the Arabian coast. to Bu-
shire, on the northernmost point of
those steep and dangerous Persian
cliffs which begin at the village of
Zlrou,
In the midst OF the vast stretch of
sea, a bleak little island just raises
it's rocky head above the surface Of
the water,
The great waves, blown up by furi-
Gus winds from the Arabian desert
to the southwest pound upon 1t
ceaseIessly, and often it is completely
submerged.
No one in the history of navigation
has ever set foot upon those inhos-
pitabls rocks, nor landed upon this
lost isle, SO remote is II from the
route usually taken by those infre-
Quent vessels which cross the Persian
Gulf.
In spite of this. on the 18th OF
March, ten days after the convenIng
of the world congress at Marseilles, a
man was seated upon one OF its rocks
by the waters edge.
His elbows were On his knees, his
chin was in his hands, and he was
watching the sea intently to the
southeast.
His bright black Eyes often fixed
themselves upon a floating buoy some
forty yards from the extreme end OF
the Lost Isle"
Tbs naa VezS ths long. sIiaEiaE
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brown eyes = minute, ana then de-
nberately laid his head on the girls
knee. Mary flushed dslightsdly. and
James Warhsld. who knew that Ned
never went wrong In his ehoies Of
friends. came over and spoke to
Mary lightly.
you must like dogs
-oh. I do. But I haven't known
many"
Ned doesn't take to svsryona
Don't you want to join the party We
are getting up to drive to the Fallsf
We are going to start In half An
hour"
%oh. yea Mary responded eagerly.
She did not stop TO realize how dif-
ferent she was In her sailor blouse
and out-of-date skirt from the other
girls who loungsd about the
veranda, nor that she didn't know
anyone at all She simply accepted
delightedly. and James Waraeld
made up his mind to look out for
her.
And % they started.
who is the queer little giri yoa
were talking tor Phyllis ehided
gently, As they drove on side By
side. The young people were packed
into two huge carryalls and Phyllls
sat next to James Warneld. while
Little Mary Field was tucked away
into an undesirable corner. But shs
was happy, the drive In the morn
ing air nllsd her with delight and
Ned, the collie. who had insisted
upon croWding in with her. sat Gt
har feet
"Just . little girl who. looked
lonely" WaTaeld responded care
lessly. The charm Of the girl with
him made him forget everything
else. and he had put Mary out Of his
mind already. And 90 she vas alone
all day. She sat alone when they
opened the picnic baskets. and al
though she ate the food placed be-
fore her. she began 10 realize that
she was very much OF an outsider.
And then Fate played her trumS
card for Aary's benefit A hugo tour
ing car appeared down the road in =
cloud Of dust, and Ned who had been
sitting contentedly on the grass ran
out and began to bark at Il. War
neld did not pay much attention.
and II was not until there was .
yelp OF pain from the animal and
the car had WhizSed by and dIsap-
reared down the road. that be
turned from Phyllis.
Ned" he gASped. Ned. old boy
%. he's hurt shrieked PhylltsL
Hes bleeding. Don't let him get
near me. I'm afraid he'll have q 1T"
The other girls drew back and
huddled In q heap. while the men
clustered around Warheld- At least
all the girls did excepting the little
brown girl who had been sitting
alone on the grass She pushed her
way through the crowd and took
the dogs head on her lap. It was
she who fixed the tournaquet about
the broken leg, and who bandaEsd
with small nimbis fingers the torn
dssh-
At last when the dog licked her
hand feebly. she looked up and met
Warneld's eyes. There was some
thing IN their depths that made him
wonder what he had ever seen IN
Phyllis GrAham's blue onos. But
then James Warneld hadn't seen
Fate lowering around IN the back
ground Neither had Phyllis, nor
little Mary Field
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
'The Man Fish 1.-The Marvellous
Story of HOW He Succeeded In Sinking Navy
By JEAN DE LA HIRE

moments each presented the sams
remarkable appearance.
Each was completely covered with
q loose garment IN one piece, which
seemed to be made OF silver scales
like those OF certain fishes.
Each face was hidden in q diving
helmet, whose edges were clamped
to the collar OF the other garment.
This helmet, however, was OF alum
mum instead OF the customary cop
per and was rather an imitation he'll
met than = real one. Numberless
perforations let In the air at the top
and around the neck.
One little difference was notice
able: The monks mask was
dead black, while Oxus' had . sill
very sheen
Having hooked mp the two he'll
Questioningly. His master made q
sign, the negro made an obeIsance
and left the room
Oxus went TO the signal table,
pressed button No. 1 of the row.
marked Closing"
The lock of the door was heard 20
click sharply. No one could enter
now from the outside.
Swiftly passing his hand over the
keyboard labeled aquarium" Oxus
lightly touched something which
rang Q bell beyond the wall OF the
laboratory. He pressed again and Q
faIry-liks transformation took place.
All the electric lights OF the room
went out except ono In q little blue
glass lamp. which shed q vague,
cloudy light. At the Same time half
OF the wall facing the entrance rolled
slowly aside from left to right, re-
VealinE q giant window OF tremend-
Gus thickness, with panes ten feet
square, separated By copper bands
three inches wide.
Beyond there lay q vast submarine
grotto lighted by electric lights,
which studied the walls as II by an
accident OF nature or hung from the
ceiling like stRlactites.
CTO Be Continued TonOrrow.)
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
Uncle Sam Says

Every BIT OF meat and fish can be
combined with cereals or vegetables
for making meat cakes, meat or
fish pies and 80 on. and to add ia
vor and food value to made diShsH
Every spoonful Of left over EraVy
can be used In soups and sauces or
As navorinE for meat pies oro-
Quettss and vegetables
Every bit of clean fat trimmed
from meat and every spoonful Of
drippinEs and every bit OF grease
that rises when meat Is boiled can
be clarined and IL valuable In cook
cry. Don't fattsn your garbage pail
at the expense or your bank account
When meat II boiled the water
dIssolves out valuable food and nA-
vorinE material Save such water
for soup or for use in SteWs or
Eraviss. or for cooking vegetables
Save and keep soup stock
Valuable food and navoring get
into the water In which rice and
many vegetables are cooked Use
such water for soup making 10 t
has an agreeable navOr. Dent pour
nourishmsnt down the sewer.
Careless pairing OF potatoes or
fruits often wastes as much a. -
pa aAnt Of thaiE feOA nAtaSaA1
The Washington times., 1917-07-16
All's Well That Ends Well
By JANE MCLEAN
The Story of a Rich Man, Two Girls,
and Collie Dog.
and a Collie Dog.

"THEN three people TAXA 4 nnts
w their hsSds to HDSnd = week.
snd vacation at thu sAms
Tine and In the sAms plaza, anA
FEtS takes . hand In the ezmA
strange things happen Ths rich
JAnss Warneld packed up and
sped away to the Mountain House
for . few dayS rest from Irkuoms
businssA Miss Phyllis Graham.
who up TO the time that she was
introduced to Mr. wArneld, had no
idea that he existed. packed
steamer trunk full OF pretty clothes
and decided to run up to the Noun
tain House for ever Sunday.
Ltt1s Mary Field, who had read
about the Mountain House In the
paper, and had written for accom-
nodstionA, found that she could
Squeszs into thu smallest room for
the amount OF twelve dollars for
three days 30 she did up her
simple white orEandis. and packed
Il with some white skirts and
MILDLY bIouses In her weI-worn
suit case. and set out for the Noun
tain House, too.
Of course the nrst morning these
three young people spent In the
mountains MIss Phyllis Graham
swept down to breakfast In the
crispest of Summer gowns Her
blonde hair shons with careful
brushing. she was Immaculate from
her hands to her feet. and she was
enormously interested in the rich
James Warnsld. who was eating his
breakfast at table across the
room
Neither the girl nor the man saw
the little brown girl IN the corner
IN . white sailor blouse and well
cleaned canvas pumps. who Eazed
sestatically out Of the window a.
she mechanically ate her elaborate
breakfast
Perhaps this story might not have
been . story II Fate had not de-
cided to take . hand. Fate gen
orally keeps q pretty good watch
on things and gives people boosts
just when life itself seems unfair,
and 80 II was Fate who introduced
Miss Phyllis Graham and little Mary
Field to the rich James warneId
within fifteen minutes from the
time breakfast was over. The hotel
proprietor performed the ceremony
in the case OF Phyilis- He knew
the girls father, and Phyllis her-
self was under his wifs's care while
she sojourned at the Mountain
House. 30 he made IL q point Of
having her meet the most eligible
man there. and James WGrheld was
not at all sorry to meet Phyllis,
who was beautiful enough to satisfy
any mans standards
But no one would have taken the
trouble to introduce Mary Field II
Fate hadn't taken the matter into
her own hands. James Warneld
had his dog with him. q handsome
collie. and while Mary was sitting
on the wide VerandA trying to de-
eide what to do nrst. Ned. the collie.
came up to her, locker into her
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What the CalOrie Means

body produces . like amount Of
heat
You read and hear Of eGlories In
discussions about foods. You will
hear and read Of oGloriSS more and
more acute and troublesome.
What IL . calorY or osIorisf
A oaIoriO 10 q unit Of heat pro-
duosd by the burning Of food in
the body. II 70 . measure OF fuel
value.
A large caloris u the amount OF
heat required to raise the temperA-
ture OF one ntSF OF water one de-
gree oentiErGds or one pint Of
water four degrees Fahrenheit
A man OF average weight 15o
poundS) At ordinary work produces
and gives on $500 to 1000 calories
OF heat daily.
To produce $500 eAiories of heat
daily you must consume food of
such quantity and character as to
yield 2.5oo oAioriss by combustion
within the body.
Laboratory tests have determined
the fuel or ealorio value OF diff
ferent foodstufIS.
Dihersnt types or food yield dif-
ferent amounts OF heat in the body,
The caIorio value Of q food de-
psnds upon its chemical compost
tion. PROTEIN, as the white OF
eggs. yields four cAlories per gram,
and SO do BtArches and sugars.
Fats supply nine calories per gram.
II you know the composition OF
a food II IL possible TO estimate its
heat and energy value,
II Is not necessary for you to
make computations Of oalorio
values. That has been done for
you.
1t is important, however, 10 know
what ealories mean and to under
stand that the direct fuel value of
. food IL stated IN tSTms Of cAloFiSs
per pound.
Become familiar with the word
eGloFiON. Learn TO know foods IN
terms Of thsiJ relative caIoris
values.
II you must use foods to keep
your human machine in smooth
working order. know the worth of
the fuels you use.
CaiortAs indicate the number Of
HnitS Of hSAt and energy q food
80 sAR1F thS-eunaR OAdpA
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By Aunt Sophie.

When Freedom from her starry
height
Proclaimed that men arc free
and equal
She didn't have the dope just
When AfEtrimony II the
sequel
THIs IL the sad little verse that
hit me . bat In the eye while
was opening my mail this
morning. II Was at the top Of .
whining letter from EthSlridEs
Dewdad. whoever he may be. I sus-
peet ''Dswdad" Is an assumed name.
but the grief In his letter u not as
Sumsd grief II Aunt Sophie knows
anything about sincere sQuawkA
Mr.. Dswdad complains that after
one short year of welded life he
has come to the conclusion that
mRtrimony 10 . shine He says that
before he stumbled up to the altar
he was under the impression that
married men had certain rights
which should be respected Who
gave him that impression I do not
know. though do know It was not
. married man
Mr.. Dewdad. one OF the most
dangerous reefs In the sea OF matrf-
mony IL the word ''rights" I hold
that the moment q man and his wife
begin dwelling on the question of
rights" they lose something more
precious far than all the riRhta In
Christendom. They lose each others
trust and respect.
When a man goes to his wife with
plea for more freedom. for instance,
he will get this freedom nine times
out Of ten II he refrain from claim
Ing Il as his right" Women give
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Holding a Mans Love
T. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX ss
No Wife Can Be a JailOr or Jealous
and Expect to Maintain a
Happy Home

sEpresssd m Settfuds HO~1na mar
SHaGS which ~r1 sound pAAlnan WHEN
1~% 1pV road 4. bus Ta5ch has no
basic RUaiErS % sorDd. sane 1cnUx1-
eoSS % human nature. Beside love,
ehs man ! marry Il gpenS to promise
me rhres rhfnEs-or rhedr aaternn-
tires ] v3n4 resDsct and nds1tSz
and compSntonHhip. He must prom
toe - g1Ts rAeD 70 ne %. Il - fsels
10 DARE not EnaraR1eS rhHs hs v1n
1noSsnnS chen a3@aS4 hs mus
1nODass ne &1seaad rhs nans trn.-
don he takAA~
rbS poaR4 - NOD zhSchsr = woman
taAAs Advantage 81 sueh . prondssz
= Il 1ha+ she gives a man n onos
ths 11ght to freedom II he wants
T. and insists IN turn chaS hs xrusr
b 3nst enSRgh To Ernr1 hsr free
dom. toNL
Al rhS so-c1r1ed -o1o-1aGhdonSds
men are gOSnE to grit rhe4r teeth as
th1s $rnctEre and rezaArk soto vocs
that they ~oa1G lore to ten Rita
and hsE -b4ographer- Mat rhs1
think Of theR- But people vhs
really think S111 Ses the nA1sEuard
TO lore there is In suea an honest
nftS-nfty- division Of freedom
The very tSrptatons men feel
~Aea they are bouad. when they
are hsld by necessity, when they
hsei the bah and chain upon their
Gnh~ are removed vhsa decent.
Aon~S Freedom 70 sznrsss person-
ATTY u g1Tsa them am neither
ultrA-ooderR. cynical nor inclined
TO cass1 At the beauty Of marriage.
What I want to DO l. to save mar
Rage from EubterfnGs and lies and
disao>alty and sneaIIinE as well a.
rom Its pJ1son-lIks Qualitisa
Suppose . man does take his
pretty Stsnographer to lunch. In
that any reason why his wife should
imagine . eisndsstins romance and
feel the broodInE wings Of traxsdy
A0E AOLnos
She can invite disaster Just BIZ
making much ado about nothing.
By restraining her husbands frss-
don. b7 saSEsst1nS that hS ts q
gay LothAz1o. By making him sorry
for The poor suspected partner OF
his lsncheoa snSAssmsnt By In.
Testing . mere -1AEk~ vita . hale
OF romance, Friend Wife offers 70
TbAgsdT . hAAat1fui1y engraved in
Tttation Vhi%A reads almost Ike q
royal command,
30 tnhsrsotty decent 70 human
nature that ths average boy plays
fair at "a examination where he In
tSft unWAtSaAd and put on his honor,
Aud hA feels . great Joy In Cheating
In exams when monitoFs are watch
ing him. We all like TO siude cap.
tors. II we are made 70 feel that
we are the hAFes in the FaSs our in.
stinct Is 10 get away from the
hounds,
The woman WHO adds TO the beau.
tifui basic qualities which MAKE her
wife and sweetheart and mother the
common sense which makes her ab.
solutsly refuse TO be a JaiIeT or .
captoF or q superintendent wins,
Real friends don't spy on each
other. True friendship is based on
respect for personality and Iadiyid-
uality, Il marriage 70 fail of the
generosity which makes friendship
80 spIendid1