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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-24
A Merry Christmas
 to. You

lot of men in this town will have their Christmas made more joyful by the receipt of gifts bought at this store In that way contributors to the Chrstmas cheer of these men and that's naturally cause for pleasure to 11s even if they don't count us in on it.
 But beyond that want to extend our greetings and good wishes all customers whenever and what ever they have bought; and to all the and women of Pine Buff whether they buy anything here or not.
 We wish you all a Merry Christmas; we hope the day will be wholly happy that you'll get what you want or want what you get.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07

them back into their fort! Aye! we
slew many!"
"NOt jihad yet?" King asked, as if
the world might be coming to an end
The words were startled out Of him.
Under other circumstances he would
never have asked that question so di-
rectly; but he had lost reckoning of
everything but these poor devils dread
full need of doctoring, and he was like
a man reused out of a dream. If q
holy war had been proclaimed already,
then he was engaged ON a forlorn hope.
But the man laughed at him.
"Nay, not yet. Northumberland
holds back yet. This was a little fight.
The jihad shall come later!''
"And who is 'Bull-with-a-beard'? ?"
King wondered; but he did not ask
that question because his wits were
awake again. 1t pays not to be in too
much of hurry to know things in the
Hills"
AS it happened, he asked no more
questions, for there came a shout at
IhC SoNC CAAIAO "AOSC pun pun
did not catch, and within five minutes
after that, without word of explana-
ton, the cave was left empty of all ex-
cept his own five men. They carried
away the men too sick to walk and
vanished, snatching the last man away
almost before Kings fingers had fin
ished tying the bandage ON his wound.
"Why is that?" he asked Ismail.
"Why did they go? Who shouted?"
at is night" Ismail answered. "It
was time"
King stared about him. He had not
realized until then that without aid of
the lamps he could not see his own
hand held out in front of him; his eyes
had grown used to the gloom, like
those of the surgeons in the sick-bays
below the waterline in Nelson's fleet.
"But who ShOuted?"
"Who knows? There is only one
here who gives orders. We be many
who obey" said Ismail.
'Whose men were the last onesY
King asked him, trying new line.
ull-with-a-beard's."
"And whose man art thou, Ismail?"
The Afridi hesitated, and when he
spoke at last there was not quite the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07
CHAPTER XII.

They came and changed the guard
two hours after dawn, to the accom-
paniment of orders growled through
the mist, and the crash of rifle-butts
grounding on the rock path. King went
to the cave entrance, to look the new
man over; he was a Mahsudi-nO
sweeter to look at and no less treacher-
Gus for the fact. Also, that he had
boils all over the back of his neck. He
was not likely to be better tempered
because of that fact, either. But 1t is
an ill wind that blows no good to the
secret service.
"There is an end to everything" he
remarked presently, addressing the
world at large, or as much as he could
see of it through the cave mouth. "a
hill is so high. pool so deep, river
so wide. There is an end to pain :" he
went on, adjusting his horn-rimmed
spectacles. 81 lanced a mans boils
last night, and it hurt him, but he must
be we'll today"
"Go in!' growled the guard. "She
says it is sorcery! She says none are
to let thee touch them"
81 can heal boils!" said King, retir-
ing into the cave. Then, from a safe
distance down the passage, he added a
word or two to sink in as the hours
went by. At intervals throughout the
day Yasmini sent him, food by silent
messengers. 1t is not easy to worry
and eat heartily at one and the same
time. Having eaten, he rolled up his
sleeves and native-made cotton trou-
sers and proceeded TO clean the cave.
After that he overhauled his stock of
drugs and instruments, repacking them
and making ready against opportunity.
"As / told that heather with q gun
out there, there's an end to every
thing!" he reflected. MAY this come
soonr"
The second guard that afternoon
proved even less communicative than
the first, up TO the point when. to les
sen his ennui, King began to whistle.
Each time he came near the entrance
the new guard could catch few bars
OF the tune. After a little while the
hook-nosed ruffian began to sing the
words to it, in e voice like forgotten
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leads to the Heart of the Hills'r And
after that King had to do his best to
keep the Afridi's back in sight.
They began after time to hear
voices and to see the smoky glare made
by other torches. Then Ismail set the
pace yet faster, and they became the
last two of a procession of turbaned
men, who tramped along a winding
tunnel into a great mountains womb.
The sound of slippers clicking and
rutchfng ON the rock floor Swelled and
died and swelled again as the tunnel
led from cavern into cavern.
In one great cave they came to
every man beat out his torch and
tossed it on heap. After that there
was ledge above the height of a
mans head ON either side of the tun-
mel, and along the ledge little oil-burn-
ing lamps were spaced at measured
intervals. A quarter of mile farther
along there were two sharp turns in
the tunnel. and then at last a sea of
noise and veritable blaze of light.
Part of the noise made King feel
homeSick, for out of the mountains
very womb brayed a music-box, such
as the old-time carousals made use Of
before the days of electricity and
steam. 1t was being worked by mex
pert hands, for the time was some
thing jerky; but it was robbed of it's
tinny meanness and even lent majesty
by the hugeness of cavern's roof, as
we'll as by the crashing, swinging music
it Observation-Disclosures derful-invented
for lawless hours and kingless peo-
pie.
"Marchons -Citoyens ="
The procession began to tramp in
time to it, and the rock shook. They
deplOyed to left and right into a space
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07

| the cave-she, the woman of the faded
photograph the general had given him
| in Peshawur-and that the cave be.
came filed Nth the strange intoxicat-
ing scent that had first wooed his
senses in her reception room in Delhi.
He dreamed that she called lin by
name. First, king sahib!" Then
"Kurram Khan!" And her ~oice was
surprisingly familiar. But dreams are
strange things"
He sleeps!" said the same voice
presently. at is good that he sleeps v'
And in his sleep he thought that a
ShadOwy ISmail grunted an answer.
When he awOke at last it was after
dawn, and light shOne down the pas
sage into the cave.
"1smail!" he shouted. for he was
thirsty. But there was no answer.
"Darya KhanY
Again there was no answer. He
called each of the other men by name
with the same result. He decided to
go to the cave mouth, summon his men,
who were no doubt sleeping. But there
was no Ismail near the entrance-no
Darya khan-nOr any of the other
men. The horse was gone. So was the
mule. So was the harness, and every
thing he had, except the drugs and in
struments and the presents the sick
had given him; he had noticed all
those lying about in confusion when he
woke.
'Ismail - he shouted at the top of
his lungs, thinking they might all be
outside.
He heard man hawk and spit, close
to the entrance, and went out to see.
A man whom he had never seen before
leaned on a magazine rifle and eyed
him as tiger eyes his prey.
"No fartherr' he growled, bringing
his rifle to the port.
"Why not?" King asked him.
"Allah! When a camel dies in the
Khyber do the kites ask why? Go in ~
He thought then of Yasmini's brace
let, that had always gained him at
least civility from every man who saw
it. He held up his left wrist and knew
that instant why it felt uncomfortable.
The bracelet had disappeared
He turned back into the cave to hunt
for it, and the strange scent greeted
him again. In spite of the surround
ing stencil of drugs and filthy wounds,
there was no mistaking it. If it had
been her special scent in Delhi, as
Saunders swOre it was, and her special
scent on the note Darya Khan had car
ried down the Khyber, then it was hers
now, and she had been in the cave.
He hunted high and low and found
no bracelet. His pistol was gone, too
and his cartridges, but not the dagger,
wrapped in a handkerchief, under his
shirt. The money, that his patients
had brought him, lay on the floor I'M
touched. 1t was an unusual robber who
had robbed him.
"Who's Bull-with-a-beard'? he Won
dered. Nobody interfered with me I'M
til I doctored his men. He's in oppo-
sition. That's fair guess. Now. who
in thunder-by the fat lord Harry
can 'Bull-with-a-beard' be? And why
fighting in the Khyber so early as all
this? And why does Bull-with-a-beard,'
whoever he is, hang back?"
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so vast that the eye at first refused t.
| try to measure it. It was the hollow
core of a mountain, flied by the sea
sound of a human crowd and hung will
huge stalactites that danced and shift
ed and flung back q thousand colors a
the Pickering light below. Across the
cavern's farther end for a space of two
hundred yards the great river rushed
plunging out of great fanged gap ant
hurrying out of view down another one
licking smooth banks on it's way with
a hungry sucking sound.
There were little lamps everywhere
perched on lodges amid the stalactites
and they Suffused the whole cavern in
golden glow. In the midst of the cav.
ern great arena had been left bare
and thousands of turbaned men squat.
ted round it in rings. At the END
where the river formed a tangent to
them the rings were f1attened, and al
that point they were cut into by the
ramp of a bridge, and by a lane left
to connect the bridge with the arena
The bridge end formed nearly square
platform, about fourteen feet above the
floor, and the broad track thence to
the arena, as well as all the arenas
boundary, had been marked off by
great earthenware lamps, whose greasy
smoke streaked up and was lost by the
wind ameng. the stalactites.
"Greek lamps, every one of 'em ~
King whispered to himself, but he
wasted no time just then on trying to
explain how Greek lamps had ever got
there. There was too much else to
watch and wonder at.
No steps led down from the bridge
end to the floor; toward the arena it
was blind. But from the bridges far
Their end across the hurrying water
stairs had been hewn out of the rock
wall and led up to hole of twice a
mans height, more than fifty feet
above water level.
On either side of the bridge end a
passage had been Left clear to the
river edge, and nobody seemed to care
to invade it, although it was not
marked off in any way. Each passage
was about fifty feet wide and quite
straight. But the space between the
bridge end and the arena, and the
arena itself, had to be kept free from
trespassers by fifty staggering ruff
fans, armed to the teeth.
Every man of the thousands there
had knife in evidence, but the arena
guards had magazine rifles as well as
Khyber tulwars. Nobody else wore
firearms openly. Some of the arena
guards bore huge round shields Of pre-
historic pattern of size and sort he
had never seen before, even in 1nu-
seums. But there was very little that
he was seeing that night Of : kind that
he had seen before anywhere!
The guards lolled insolently, con-
scious of brute strength and special
favor. When any man trespassed with
so much as a toe beyond the ring of
lamps, a guard would slap his rife-butt
until the swivel ratified, and the Of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07
KING is LED TO VISIT A VAST CAVE THROUGH WHICH AN
UNDERGROUND RIVER FLOWS, AND IN A GREAT
CAVERN MEETS THOUSANDS OF FANATICS

Synopsis.-At the beginning
of the British
to Delhi to meet Yasmini with her Knan
outlaws there
jihad holy his Delhi quietly fos
him Yasmini
and at her
himen trucking Hangar
The Hangar him He
disguise there
his
thanks to his lying guides.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07

@yG0 fttfit GO q ttSCt IySS ikS
Prey.
same assurance in his voice as once
there had been.
81 am hers! Be thou hers, too! But
it is night. Sleep against the toll to-
morrow. There be many sick in kim
JAM"
King made little effort to clean the
cave, but the task was hopeless. For
one thing he was so weary that his
very bones were water. He appointed
two-hour watches, TO relieve one an
other until dawn, and flung himself
on a clean bed. He was asleep before
his head had met the pillow; and for
all he knew to the contrary he dreamed
of Yasmini all night long.
1t seemed to him that she came into
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07

King witnesses wild doings In
the cavern and sees narrowing
sights. Yasmini appears, a love-
Iy vision, and the army of fight
ers 90 wild with enthusiasm.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-12-07

(To BE CoNTINUED.)
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29

fOr e organization Of Congress on the second dale SCI ~
Mr. Wilson And on top of that three Of the independents
announced that they would vote with the Democrats on the
organization.
1t will be great blow to few hundred place seekers
In the long run it probably will be good thing for the
Republican party. The parties are so evenly balanced
that at time would it be possible for either one of them
to drive through party measure YET the Democratic party
possession of the machinery of the House and in con-
troll of the government will be compelled to assume respon-
sibiy for whatever that body does or does not do.
This situation will make it possible for the Republicans
to work with free hand during the congressional cam
paisn which will take place 1918 And at time when
the parties are evenly balanced as they appear to be
right now that might be just enough advantage to enable
them to turn the scales in the Congress and thus pave
the way to carrying the presidential election of 1920
While this is the situation as it is viewed from the Re.
publican standpoint possession of the organization now
when the actual control lies in the hands Of the independ
et at any time party lines are drawn aut will prevent
the Democrats from taking advantage of the situation to
do anything that will help them any great extent during
the mdtem elections. AS matter of fact both the polt-
ica situation and the crisis which confronts the nation will
have tendency to discourage the House from playing
politics.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29
RuMcLLMc IN THE ARMY.

TUESDAY evening while Bnsadier General William
i A. Mann was telling the delegates to the National
Defense Convention, which is in session at Now
York. that the National Guard inadequate and nef-
cent body. General Manns office force at Washington
doing its level best to aishten out the mistakes
lad made during the day. One of these mistakes was to
issue an order for suspension of the mastering of the
Second West Virginia infantry-which had been muster
ed out and demobilized on the previous Saturday.
If the Second had been in the Philippines and the cables
all cut. instead of at Huntington within few hun
dred miles of the office of the Chief of the War Depart
mens militia bureau there might have been some excuse
for the lack of knowledge of what going on but as it
is at loss to find any reason why General Mann
who responsible for the mup. should set up shop as
critic of the National Guard.
This newspaper does not believe that the guard has
up to requirements second line of defense but
satisfied that large measure of responsibility for
its failure lies with the Regular army officers who have
supervision Of guard matters and work with when is
in service. 1t has been charged that the army does not
like the guard and is prejudiced against it That may
be too broad charge, but it fact that the guard has
not been given square deal 1t got that might develop
into the very force we need
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29

win z, a. q grsyiousiy saassa,sa si.ssl
Frank Dudley may BE- . cal MIN.
and gas wen owner but the hest thins
he is is chess glayer.
That's where he fiTst learned @ Max
out the soft places for . guy % set
Keeping our sob OPEN for a. "a
no induesment capable Of making as
recruit.
What IN ne dickens has happened
It's etnah no German "a Eclnr 20
Try to blow up the Fairmont bridges
with all tho soldiers We have sohed,
uled for the coming mobilization,
Let's mobilize all tbs fire depart
ment'a autos and ship them to Cen.
Bond.
Says the First to the Second:
Give US back our soldiers, the play,
time days are over and we're gunna
80 to war.
Which leaves the Second out of the
running.
What win the city cops do when the
1900 guardsmen are policing the town.
The city cops will need help,
If they bring Gregory's band. With
it's full quota, as It was before the
Mexican mobilization there ought &c
be some music in camp.
And then-how are we going to pipe
water to the camp so they can cook
and eat and drink out there?
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29
q NOW CAN EAT
PIE, CAKE, ONIONS
And CABBAGE
Thankful Montana Mines
Nerv-Worth User So
Writes to Cranes Drug
Store.

Only those persons who have gone
through the happy experience recoro.
ed in the following signed statement
can fully realize the deep pleasures
of the table. One must have suffered
severely from indigestion aud then
found way TO eat without distress II
he wants 10 know what the enjoyment
OF his meals really means. Mrs. Par
thena Keener. Of Montana Mines, this
county, found such enjoyment by the
use ri Wentworth. as the followins
letter, which she wrote few days
ago to Cranes drug store, fully proves.
Il have taken three bottles OF Merry.
Worth and IL has helped me wonder,
fully.
IL was so nervous that could not
stand the noise Of children plating.
Il now can eat onions, cabbage,
cake and pie.
= Now CAN SLEEP NlNe
HOURS.
c}irs.l "PA9rnENA KEGNEa,
Montana Mines. W va.
YOU doia: Uaci. at tha w il. Crsae
< cos drug store. Fl.rmout, II NerY,l
Worth rocs not benefit YOU. Ask ntN
Cranes Tar the new Ncrv-Worth Tn6ii.
tive tablets - cents box. Wonder
fully good for liver and howolg, espc-
cially in connection with Nery.Wcrth
the tonic
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29
GIVES BARBER
MONTHS TRIAL
And Barber makes good

I'll give you one month to stop
That's what want" said the
barber. Everybody else expects it
done in one day"
Your barber can stop YOUR
dandruff if you give him half
chance.
Tell him you want a Pompcian
HAIR Massage! Do this twice
week for a month and your dandruff
and scalp itching will he gone That
means your hair will stop falling out.
VIM. Coborn, Proprietor, Mar
quette Hotel Barber Shop, St. Louis.
Mo. says: Best thing for Dsndruff
ever used. Can't do without IL
Used in 10000 of the hest barber
shops from Maine to California
Made by the reliable makers Of
the famous Pompe;an MASSAGE
Cream.
Sold in bottles, SOC and ST.
Get treatment or bottle Of
Pompeian HAIR Massage from YOUR
barber today. Adv 7. ?.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29
THE BALANCE OF POWER.

u A4MOND CARTER, colored, Of demoYaliz-
IN ing leisure. judging by the records gets out of jail
quite easily some less fortunate folks get in.
Carter is human parasite of the type and he ought
10 be drummed out of town. but he has influential white
fends-and therein lies the explanation of his success in
dodgng the penalty whenever he is caught so dead to
rights that there alternative and they simply have
To send him up.
Garter not the only one. There are others. Just
how many would not attempt say off hand but not
a few Of them. They the basis of the Democratic
Gang it exists today Marion county, where the mar
GIN that separates the two political parties that
few depraved blacks and few more professional re-
peaers constitute the balance of power and determine who
shall hold the county offices. In return for keeping the
henehmen of the Democratic Gang office the booeggers
and worse-among the blacks are given license to
defy the laws. What the point, they get pro-
lection when they caught Democratic county officers
take of that their part of the corrupt and corrupng
bargain.
Some of the good people of the county soohe their con-
sciences when they go into the booths election day with
the thought that the license that given the black law
breakers runs only during campaigns. Nothing could be
further from the truth The records Of Carter and of other
notorious but molcstcd bootcggcs who might be
mentioned proves that goes all the tmc The people
who literally create the Democratic majoes understand
perfectly the power which they possess. and in effect they
hold pistol al the heads of the leaders of the Democratic
Sang all the time.
The whole Infamous situation, SO subvcrsye to law.
order and deccncy. could be cured by simply
cleaning the Gang out Of office and power 1t never will
be cured until this is done 1t high time some of the
people who Halter themselves that they leading citizens
face the issue frankly and acknowledge this. This going
to be rotten town until few church going white men
muster enough moral courage to drop their narrow parl
sanshp and their ballots to make fit place for their
children 10 live in And it might be added that it never
will grow rapidly ought ndusaly and in pop
ulahon until this is done.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29

The Times says there is apparent demand for
additional regulations of the amusement places of
Fairmont. meaning thereby. take it, that Mayor
Bowen's ordinance for local movie censorship does
not have the support of public opinion Our contem-
porary does not to be as familiar as it should be
with the state OF the public mind For the past year
or more there has been organized agitation to bring
about the very thing that Mayor Bowen proposes in
the ordinance he presented Monday If the amusement
interests take it into their heads to defeat
they win few months more of right to do as they
please in the matter of showing films the end they
will get regulatory measures much stringent than
the one now proposed The mothers of the community
the church organizations and the Womans club mem
bers are behind the pending legislation They are de-
termned that shows of the character of that
displayed here last winter must be kept out in the flu
ture and in the end they going have their wishes
respected What they ask is little enough when the
influence the films have upon the young is taken into
consideration If the Fairmont amusement managers
are vrtuous The Times pretends to believe why
should they object to such as the Mayor pro-
poses.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-29
DEMOCRATS TO ORGANIZE CONGRESS.

IN ISPATCHES from Washington indicate that the
u Democrats will not only be able to elect Champ
Clark as Speaker, but 10 organize the entire machin-
cry of the National House of Representatives as we'll The
elections left the representation the House practically
he. and deaths and contests reduced it to dead heat
politically speaking with the deciding votes in the hands
of little body Of Independents.
With this condition 10 start with Republican hard luck
began Several of the Republican members became so i'll
that was improbable that they would get to Washington