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little box as II our lives depended upon the
message It had for us.
Downes interrupted the clicking with his
seLding key The noise of the receiver
stopped instantly.
ASK who 1t is, Downes," directed.
He did 80, and while we awaited the Eng
lishman's translation of the reply. 1 doubt
II either Nestor or breathed.
He says he's David Innes," said Downes
He wants to know who we are"
Tell him." said I. land that we want
to know how he is-and all that has be-
fallen him since last saw him"
For two months / talked with David
1nnes almost every day, and as Downes
translated, either Nestor or took notes.
From these, arranged in chronological or
der, have set down the following account
of the further adventures Of David Innes
at the earth's core, virtually in his own
words.
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beauties enthralled me. Her mighty land
areas breated unfettered freedom.
Her untracked oceans, whispering Of vir-
gin wonders unsulied by the eye of man,
beckoned me out upon their restless bosoms.
Not for an instant did 1 regret the world
OF my nativity. was In Pellucidar. I was
home. And was content.
AS stood dreaming beside the giant
thing that had brought me safely through
the earths crust, my travelling companion,
the hideous Mahar. emerged from the inte-
rior of the prospector and stood beside me.
For long time she remained motionless.
What thoughts were passing through
the convolutions of her reptilian brain?
She was a member of the dominant race
Of Pellucidar. BY strange freak of evo-
luton her kind had first developed the pow
ers Of reason in that world of anomalies.
To her creatures such as were Of a
lower order. As Perry had discovered
among the writings of her kind in the bur-
led city of Phutra, It was still an open
question among the Mahars as to whether
man possessed means of intelligent COM
munication or the powers of reason.
Her kind believed that In the center of
all-pervading solidity there was a single,
| vast, spherical cavity, which was Pellucldar.
| This cavity had been left there for the sole
| purpose of providing a place for the crea-
| tion and propagation of the Mahar race.
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BY Ed8ar Rice Burroughs /
II Seque14oA AT the EartlIs GORE"

END know that the instrument had been dis.
covered In the morning, after carefully
returning the box to its hole and covering
IL over with sand, called my servants
ABOUT me- snatched hurried breakfast,
mounted my horse. and started upon a
forced march for Algiers
II arrived here today. In writing vou
this letter / feel that am making a fool
Of myself.
There is no David Innes.
There Is no Dian the Beautiful.
There Is no world within a world,
"Pellucidar is but realm Of your imag-
matchmaking more.
But
THE incident of the finding Of that buried
telegraph instrument upon the lonely sa-
nara Is little short of uncanny, in view of
your story of the adventures of David
Innes
II have called It one of the most remark
able condolences In modern fiction I called
1t literature before, but-again pardon my
candor-your story is not.
And now-wby am I writing you?
Heaven knows. unless It ia that the
persistent clicking of that unfathomable
enigma out there In the vast sllences of the
Sahara has so wrought upon my nerves
that reason refuses longer to function
sanely.
Il cannot hear It now yet know tina,
far away to the south, all alone beneath
the sands, 1t is still pounding out its vain
frantic appeal.
1T is maddening!
1T is your fault want you to releast
me from It.
Gable me at once, at my expense thai
there was no basis of fact for your story
AT the Earth's Core
Very respectfully yours.
"COGDON NESTOR.
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Everything within it had been put
there for the uses of the Mahar.
I wondered what this particular
Mahar might think now. I found
pleasure in specializing upon just
what the effect had been upon her of
passing through the earth's crust
and coming out into a world that one
of even less intelligence than the
great Mahars could easily see was
a different world from her own Pei
lucidar.
What had she thought of the outer
worlds tiny sun"
What had been the effect upon her
Of the clear moon and myriad stars
of the clear African nights?
How had she explained themc
With what sensations Of awe must
she first have watched the sun mov-
ing slowly across the heavens to dis
appear at last beneath the western
horizon. leaving I'm his wake that
which the Mahar had never before
witnessed-the darkness of night?
For upon Pellucidar there is no night.
me stationary sun hangs forever
III the center of the Pellucidarian sky
directly overhead
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prospector that the needle might not be |
influenced by its great bulk of iron and
steel, I turned the delicate instrument |
about in every direction.
Always and steadily the needle remained |
rigidy fixed upon a point straight out to
sea. apparently pointing toward large
island some ten or twenty miles distant
This then should be north.
| drew my notebook from my pocket and
made a careful typographical sketch of the
locality within the range of my vision Due
north lay the island. far out upon the
shimmerng sea.
The spot I had chosen for my observa-
tons was the top of large, fat boulder
which rose six or eight feet above the turf.
This spot called Greenwich. The boulder
was the Royal Observatory.
had made a start! I cannot tell you
what q sense of relief was impaired to
me by the simple fact that there was at
least one spot within Pellucidar with
familiar name and place upon map.
1t was with almost childish joy that I
made little circle in my notebook and
traced the word Greenwich beside it,
Now 1 felt I might start out upon my
search with some assurance of finding my
way back again to the prospector.
l decided that at first I would travel
directly south in the hope that 1 might
, in that direction find some familiar land
| mark 1t was as good a direction any.
This much at least might be said of it.
Among the many other things I had
brought from the outer world were a num-
Der of pedometers. I slipped three of these
| into my pockets with the idea that might
| arrive at more or less accurate mean
| from the registrations of them ALL
On my map I would register so many
PAGES south, so many east, so many west.
| and SO on. When was ready to return l
would then do so by any route that l
might choose.
| I also strapped a considerable quantity
| of ammunition across my shoulders, pock-
eted some matches. and hooked an alum
mum frypan and a small stew kettle of
the same metal to my belt.
was ready-ready to go forth and ex-
plore world
Ready to search a land area of
124.110ooo square miles for my friends
my Incompatible mate and good old
Perry!
And so, after locking the door in the
| outer shell of the prospector. set out upon
my quest Due south I travelled, across
lovely valleys thick-dotted with grazing
herds.
Through dense primeval forests I forced
my way and up the slopes Of mighty noun
talns searching for a pass to their farther
sides.
Ibex and musl-sheep fell before my
good old revolver, so that lacked not for
food in the higher attitudes. The forests
ana tne pla,hs save pienIIuiiy OF fruits
anu wiz pirus' as.eiope' auIocnseh ana Elk
aIs anJ ths 1,gartic haasts 90 n,.'. aA'
mails ana the glgantic oeasts OF prey. !
useo my oApisns rms Du' tol mo iiiose part
'h9 Ievoiver . niteu ts,a,os q" my S neeus sso .
r,irhtv cave hear a saber.rootbsS t,rsr or q
,rish'y Io s'ao,, onsu - user, OF
NE auan r,,, noyyerfnI riaa ssar,aS nt.,
t,un,,' ,naaaoms+sWhnt s tortmns fannraa ~.
J lui'y nss.a ,,n.oothaa ,hnovnt .ne
s'o,trro, 81 that even the recoiiscttnn y,
,as ~ short hairs to br,st,. at Az No % ~
) Of nv neck. '''N ''' ''''
I do do not know. for shortly after / left tn, the
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ably as much by the noise of the guns ~
by their effects. They never reached ~.
Halfway the three that remained turne4
and fed, and we let them CO.
The last we saw of them they were dr.
appearing into the tangled underground o.
the forest And then Perry turned ana
threw his arms about my neck, and. bury,
ing his old face upon my shoulder, weDe
like a child, 4
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
IN DISTRICT COURT:
DISPOSITION OF VARIOUS MAT
TIERS BY JUDGE, AND JURY.

District court re-convened on Mon
day for the closing days of the Octo-
Der term and the time was spent in
the consideration of law and equity
cases and probate affairs.
In the case of Jane Wilson, eXecu-
triX VS.. Sam Keel ct al the cause was
reported as settled and the costs paid.
In the matter Of Laura L. Hatfield VS..
James Hatfield, ,replevin; the case
was settled at defendants costs. Judg'
ment VS.. defendant for costs.
In the case Of the International
Harvester Co. vs.. C. w. Curry for ac-
count; there was a default of the de-
PENDANT and after trial, judgment on
a verified petition with interest and
costs was rendered. -. .,aG.A
c. G. Nash VS.. Carrie McCutchen ct
al in foreclosure case, was up before
the court, and there was a default of
all defendants and after trial, judg
mcnt was rendered on one prOmisory
note, with interest and costs, includ-
ing the statutory attorney fees. De"
cree of foreclosure as, prayed, ...,,g
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
Mystery Remains UnsoIved.
FOR COMPULSORY LABOR LAW
Congressman Ramseyer Would Pro.
vide Against Shortage BY Forcing
Everyone to Do His Bit:

Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. &c. w,
Ramseyer. congressman from the
sixth Iowa district. is considering the
Introduction of a bill at the coming
session of congress to prevent a short.
age of labor in productive and essen
tial industries during the period of the
war.
IF it is proper, and it is, to draft
men for military service in defense OF
the country" Mr.. Ramseyer said, ut
certainly is no less proper to adopt leg
islation which shall say to every man
who is not contributing to the pro
duction of the land or its factories,
You must go to work or stand con-
victed before the law
81 am convinced there are enough
men in America; between the ages of
Is and 65 years, to obtain maximum
agricultural and industrial production
from all the farms and factories of the
nation, and ct the same time to keep
intact an army of three or four million
soldiers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29

"a a . y . /. D = /.
Then s5iasOn remembered that bur.
glars and house-breakerS and yeagmen
ofteu stole tlicir tools from neighb1r
ing sdops.
"Wcl.,n said the stranger, 81 guess
I'll BEGINNING along"
mo, you won't" answered the I'll.
lager, again raising the cid gun. But,
now that he had Ills bird netted, he
hardly knew what to Go with him.
Somehow, he hated TO have him locked
up. And then fragment of a text
tloated through his mind, THE stranger
within thy gates" 'f.s
you amt out nothing" said the boy.
why can't you let me beat it?"
Perhaps a good talking to, little
encouragement, dollar or two in his
pocket, might straighten this boy up.
Il amt going TO turn you over to no
constable" said Slason, "but l want to
give you talking to. Set down"
They sat down, with their backs
against the repair shop, the gun across
the old mans knees, a cap pulled down
over the young mans eyes. But it
was the young man who did the talk
ing. 4.-.. a
II don't want you to think I'm any
crook, uncle" he began. ("That's what
they all say" thought Slason.) I'm a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
."He's; in the Muskeso,n, county JAIL"

y f-f.. ..|r-f br
chance of him getting away. I hate
to tell you. but he's in the MuskegOn
county JAIL" "u.linr sa r"
Matte shrieked and burst into tears.
ats all right" said the boy. "Him
and me were picked UP for buns, but
got away. He'll be ont in ten, days"
"And well be there TO meet him"
said Slason and, Matte together. II
was the first thing. they, had said to-
gether In long time. 49,, :.
They were there together to meet
Mat, also, as they said they would be.
Slason had almost convinced the moth
or that it was all for the best, although
at first she had thought she could not
survive the disgrace. y
"If boy is little Wild" said the
repairman, philosophlcally, "and run
ming around the country, I don't know
any better place for him than in Il nice
warm Jail under the eye of Sheriff
Collins" 4 ..,.. .,,
Matte told him this was nm awful
thing to say about ones own son. But
she was wise enough to see that all OF
Mats wanderlust and rebellion were
gone. There was nothing like home
and Hometown for him now. he said.
You have heard about the Jones mo-
tor, and perhaps you know what the
Jones Motor Works has done for
Hometown. Perhaps the strangest
thing about 1t Is that there are three
men who singly and individually claim
that the other two are entitled to all
the credit for its Development. His
tory VIII probably say that the In
ventor of the Jones motor is not
known; for when the great cannot be
sure who is entitled to the credit for
their own greatness, how can posterity
be expected to get It rightf
copyright. 1917, western Newspaper Union.)
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
1918 EXPOSITION
September 9-l3
DATES CHOSEN BY SOUTHERN
IOWA FAIR ASSOCIATIONS
NO ELECTION OF SECRETARY 'S'''
Il Il 4t.$t IiE III X I#ET
Several New Candidates In the Field
for Place. Winter Quarters for
horsemen. Starter Van PeIt
Invited to Return.

OSkaloosa's 1913 fair dates are Sep
TENDER 8, 10, IL, IL, and 10, 1918. AT a
called meeting Of the executive board
of the Southern Iowa Fair and Expo,
sition association held yesterday af-
tcrnoon in the committee room of the
Oskaloosa National Bank the above
fair dates Were chosen, Thus again
the Oskaloosa fair will occur during
the second week of September.
.-.,, No Secretary Yet. lily
Although Mondays executive board
session was called for the purpose, of
selecting new fair secretary, no, deflG
mite action was taken. In addition to
the two names submitted at the an
nual meeting one week ago, three 9th
er names were added to the list of
candidates. Kryne Yer Ploeg, J. L. Lee
and John Garrett are seeking the of.
fee, together with George Bamford
and Albert Roesch, whose names, were
previously mentioned. =. eHir
r. .,- Free Shelter for Racers.
Horsemen who desire to winter in
Oskaloosa will be met more than half
way by the fair association. a motion
adopted yesterday provides free shell
ter for race horses during the winter.
This will bring a number of well
known horsemen and their stables to
Oskaloosa. Everywhere one of these
horses is entered in a race meet Os-
kaloosa's fame will be carried. Oska-
loosa's horsemcn are among her best
boosters. ISIS. ..... &c.,. g.sA
Invited to Return.
F. d. Van Pelt, the Omaha starter
who won favor here last fall as q
starter for the racts, will be invited
to return next year BY the unanimous
consent of the board and invitation
was extended. as.. .....s .,,....
Only Charles Bass was absent from
yesterdays executive board session.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29

not receive form, or that he didn't
know how to fill out the form ex-
cuses truthfully made as general
rule. The government officer will
have forms enough and he will him
self fill out the form.
Every married man whose income
from wages, profession, business,
farming, interest, or otherwise is over
$4,000 for 1917 would do well to see
the income tax man. This applies
with equal force to the unmarried
person with an income over $1,000"
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severe. In their hearts fun of memo
ries, "the boy was the place that
hurt.
Matte said nothing. 81 wonder what
kind of a Thanksgiving the boy will
have" ventured Slason..
THAT'S his lookout" was the reply
but the words were sterner than the
tone. So
Il was thinking all through the SER
mon, Matte"
"That was better than sleeping, like
you generally do"
SlasOa avoided the interruption as
one brushes away q fly. Il was think
ing that the boy next Thursday might
be a stranger within the gates some
where, and I wondered if they would
take good care of him"
Matte looked straight down the
road.
81 was thinking that, If maybe we
took care of the stranger within our
gates, maybe the good Lord would
prompt them to take care Of the stran-
ger inside of theirs"
Matties reply was silence, but a
look that seemed to presage speech.
II don't think it would be any more
than fair of the Lord, and them"
"What do you want to do now, for
goodness sake|
81 want to find some poor cuss and
ask him in, that's ALL"
iy,1t IN oil
The church is going to take. care. of
the two families in the hollow. and
that's about all the real poor HGme-
town has" -..i .s.>-
''But the bible says. something about
the highways anG byways--"
"Are you going to look for your
Thanksgiving company along the coun-
ty road?" -. .....
mo, not exactly; was thinking Of
looking along the railroad track" a,
'What do you mean--a common
tramp" @rsTEs :. s.t
Matte, the boy; the boy might be
a-cOmmon-tramp." .-- p.
'DOn't you worry; if he's living. and
the Lord tells me he is, he's too smart
for that. And you're not going to
bring any burglar to my ,tabIer' . ~.
That settled 1t. But Matte couldn't
imagine what had got. into her few
days later when she bought her
Thanksgiving supplies, to buy chick
en- a little larger than the two OftheIE
could ever eat. AnG when she got
home she looked at the side Of the
table where the boy used TO sit, looked
at it a long time and looked back nt
it as she passed into the other room.
"Thc ideal" she said to herself, as if
to convince herself Of the utter folly
Of Slason's proposal. -,
The first fowl was beginning to stir
in the Reynolds henhouse next door
when Slason awoke Thanksgiving
morning, or was awakened. 1t waa
not the stirring of the chickens that
woke him. 1t was the unmi5takable
sound Of someone breaking and en-
tcring!"
At first he supposed it was at the
Reynolds henhOuSC; but, as he slipped
quietly into his clothes, without walk
ing Matte, he stopped and listened
again. lie heard the crunch of lever
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29

of some kind under q window sash,
and it sounded very near. 1t was-lt
was the repair shop that. was being
broken into, sure enough! ....
Slason was out of the side door III
his stocking feet in q twinlillng. stop
ping only to get his old shotgun from
the corner back of tile flour barrel.
There were two shells in 1t. He ran
over the grass without sound, around
the corner, and had his man covered
without n chance of escape. go
There was no word spoken; but the
stranger, catching sight Of the repair.
man out Of the corner of his eye, start
cd dropped his chisei on the ground
Mt his feet. and threw up his hands.
The hands shook little. Slason's.
to tell the truth. were none too steady
but his courage was rising.
"Well, guess you got me-" said the
stranger, with slclily sort of smile.
He was q young man, rot a bad look
Ing fellow. and 1t wasn't bad look
ing smile. In spite Of the fuzzy chin.
Slason was madden than n halter at
This intruder on his property; but, I'M
der that smile, some way his mad be-
gan TO ooZe,
"You dumb fool" he said. lowering
his artillery. "thcre amt nothing any
good In that shop but some old tools
'syell, pardncr, that's what I WIS
after"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
Many Dodge Work.

In 0ttumwa, for instance, there are
many men who are engaged in bust
nesses which are not essential to the
conduct Of the war. In addition, there
are many men who. having made their
pile have retired from active life but
who still are able to do a full days
work every day. Last and not least.
there are many loafers, as we cali
them. who are able to exist some way
II don't know how-but who appear
to be doing no work and certainly are
not doing all they could or should.
"The same. condition prevails in
every city; 0ttumwa is an average
community in that respect. There is
no reason, in my judgment, why a
law should not be adopted compelling
these men to go to work at some trade
or business which will assist the gov
eminent in the task which is greater
than any other task can be-that OF
winning the wor over Germany" b
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
I ,,ss,, ..

,-e ss s,N'EA ssE 4-ss FY.Ass
Of t,nkerlng sheY might az well save
her breath. She aid
1t was exactly II 80 noon, or just
past noon (the exact time is set down
because it is an historic moment in mo-
tor manufacturer tliat Slason Jones
burst open the kitchen door, nearly
knocked Matte over with an embrace,
and emitted these words:
at works ~ ~ r"
"What works?" 7arl
1.-The motor-a new idea--a new
principle, Mattie-notfiing like it--half
the weight-a third more power -
Matte was bearing the roasted
chicken into the Sitting room, which
was also the dining room ON impor-
tant days and occasions. The mere
discovery of a new principle IN me-
chanics that was TO give America mas
terry of the air was not to be permit
ted to interfere With anything as i'm
portant as Thanksgiving dinner.
"'Did you invent it?'. N+,''''".'...--. =
"No, that boy did--or a friend of
his, rather" -
The question and the answer had
brought the boy back to his mind, the
astonlshed boy, even now wondering
If the great idea had been stolen from
him by this crazy old man who had
run off so suddenly. The boy espied
the shotgun. He decided to take it
and go up to the house and demand his
rights. While the old man had per-
,fected, it after all, the idea was his
or, his pals. .'.'' Ill., $,
Slason was at that very instant
thinking about the young tramp in the
shop, Would Matte, he wondered
but he wondered no more. Looking
over her shoulder he observed that the
table had been set with three plates.
Out he dashed again. MY boy" he
said, "you've got a fortune, you and
your pardner :" ' 4
The stranger dropped the gun. "of
course, you got some rights. We
couldn't make it work.
"Rights, nothing! You was on the
right track, and you would have hit 1t
yourselves before long,"
You may some time have a happy
Thanksgiving dinner, gentle reader,
but it will have to be mighty happy
to equal that one at SlasOn Jones.
"You say you and your friend was
separated, but you didn't say how"
"Wen, I'll tell you now--but don't
want you to think he's any crook,
either. He come of good folks. He
used to say that he got his brains from
his dad and his stick-to-it-till-you
from his ma. Things wasn't just right
at home, some way, But he said he
was going back home some time and
show 'em; and he. wasn't going home
until he could show 'em. His name
was Jones-Mat jones'
If the Jones Thanksgiving. dinner
was happy before, it now positively
blew up. 1.-THE poor child!' my boy'!"
allow is hep Where is he?" "Slason,
you go telegraph But after, awhile
1t sImmered down to the question that
should have been asked first:
do you think you can find him?"
II can find him all right. 1t won't
be no trouble at all. There amt no
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-11-29
FEAST FOR WINNERS
PYTHlANS ENJOY BIG BANQUET
AT THE NEw HALL, q

Rabbit, squirrel, pigeons, chicken
and a barnyard goose, victims of ar
dent Pythian hunters in last weeks
annual X. of P. side hunt, cooked by
c. E. Brooke, and served by r. j.
Woodlands losing side, made merry
the several hundred Pythians who
gathered in the X. of p. hall last ev-
oning, attending the annual game sup
per. This food steaming hot was SER
we'd cafeteria style, and was repass
not soon to be forgotten.
Following the game supper the reg.
ular lodge session was held and fifty.
eight candidates were given second
degree work