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The Washington times., 1917-11-22

great height straight ~ palm
tree. and A. Drowned by wind and
sun. Advancing from his tent, ~
the camel driver watered his beast
ana nlled his water bags. the old
sheik cried:
WHO comss In such haste across
the desert7 WHITTIER and whenos
and whyTs
Il am an American I 70 to the
Temple Of the Violet God with I'M
portGnt messages. And I require
food and fresh horses. Can you ac-
commodate met" asked Carslake. In
his most winning manner.
II you can pay-aye-FeAdily,"
replied the 6hsfk.
what price do you aSkr'-
The shsilr> named II. hesitatingiy,
Instantly. CarslAks drew forth hi
bag OF gold and paid out the nee
essary sum. without bargaining.
There remained but . few gold
pieces IN the bag. 90 the Sheik
found no reason for further parley.
BE seated while my servants
food and drink he said.
The Camel Driver Sleeps.
The camel driver threw himself
flat in the shadow Of the tsnt and
fell asleep at once. csrslaks ate
and watched the horizon for . sign
Of the High Prisstsss ana hsr men,
bat they did not appear, HS had
easily outdistancsd them uDon his
camel.
An hour he rested before sOatia-
uinK his journey. this time mounted
upon an Arabian stesd and accom-
panied By several of the Shsik's
followers The sheik had suggest
ed this escort as q protection
against nOmad maraudsrs. and
CarslakS had raised no objection
He thought II q good plan to have q
few fighting men behind him in the
event of = premature meeting with
the Arabs Of Daroon.
So they proceeded on their way.
the sheik's men curious, CarsialCs
uncommunicativs.
They rode through the rest Of the
day, drawing rein only at nightfRh,
when they reached q small. tumbled-l
down hut. abandoned long before to
the uses Of the casual pAsseE-bV.
Get onl No need to stop yetF~
cried Carslal<e. as he saw the others
calmly coming to q halt =
There Is no better place 20 spend
the night" dravied the Sheik's men,
shaking their heads and the Tenn
pie OF Daroon is still too far away
to be reached before we restP
Reluctantly, then, CarsiaI<s als-
mounted. Crude a. tho dwelling
was. II was a shelter. and within
there were sleeping accommodations
Of a sort and some oarthsnwaFO
cooking pots. The Shsik's men
who were quite at honp thsrs-4n-
stantly set about making than
selves comfortable and preparing
food,
They made no AHort 70 safa-
guard themselves from ATTACK. for
they had no tAAa an snAmy waS
close to thsra- Bot one Of ehskr
numbsr-who waS looking altar che
ho-ses-suddSuIy daShAl inAo the
house to warn them.
Led by a Woman,
"A party OF Arehs. lsA ny .
woman, 10 approaching rAOLGkyF he
cried. They come a. though to
do battler'
Led by q woman?T repeated
Carslaka sAEcasticAlly. gnOoaknR 49,
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Led by a Woman,

"A party OF ArsAN lsA ~ .
woman, 10 approaching rA0lGayF he
cried. They come a. though to
do battlef''
Led by q woman?T repeated
caEslaks sAEeAsticAlly. guessing 49,
The Washington times., 1917-11-22
The Fatal Ring
lCNOvsiissd from the photo-play The
Fatal Ring")
By Fred Jackson.
Episode 20.

OSDyEaEht. 1911. b. Fred Jaeksoa. an rEhh
Fossrvsd-l
hTHH Priestess and her Arabs se-
esptsd their loss with the stoio
philosophy OF the desert peolls-
-Al we can do now, brothsrs."
she declared. Is to push on TO the
Temple. defend II with our lives.
and Slay all who would gain en-
tranosr'
Aver they cried in unison. 'Tst
a. All die and our sacred order per-
ish forever from the earth ere We
permit this immortal power to pass
into the hands Of unbslIoverSi"
They set out for the desert with
aying fest
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CARSLAKE STARTS FOR
THE SACRED SHRINE

the Priestsss and her followers had
overtAksn him, and Wishing 10 hold
the allegiance OF the snelk's fol.
lowers to his own cause. mo very
great WarrtorA evidently, since they
nave . woman for THAR chief,
stand By me. and with tricksry
wen dsstroy themf"
Howr. cried the gheik'n men IN
unison. drawing nearer,
Our shadows are afihouattaA
upon the shade" explained Cara
lake. ALREADY they know our
number But a. ] rise ana
cross to the door they think 1 pass
out, for u is dark outsids,
But see, here In the open doorway.
II - possible to Rot down on hands
ana knees and so re-entsF wtthout
casting . shadow. II all Of you
leave one By one. and rs-sntsr thas
way they viii think me alone ana
wiz enter our trap. Paw No
heed to NJ. but knife each man a.
he comssI"
"Ayel Aver cried the she,k.a
men. roaring with enjoymsAt Of the
game.
They left the room. one By oaa.
and re-sntered a. directed. Mean,
while. Carslaks sat Gown With hia
back to the door and produced the
ring.
Killed as He Entered.
The HiEh PYisstsss ssnt one q
her men creeping stsalthIly into the
house to knife Carsiaks - he sat
there. hnt before the Arab could
reach carsiakSs chair one Of the
sheik's men knitted him. The High
Prisstess, wondering at the delay.
sent her other follower, who met
the same fate, Then she ventured
into the trap hsrsslf-only to be
seized and bound and cast into the
rear room with her dead followers.
Carslake and the SheIk's men. ala
In prime humor after their amusing
adventure with the Arabs Of DarooH,
began To drink and make merry.
Fs Ne conttnusa Fo-norrow.
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CarsIake and the Sheik.

The sand new about them. The
sun broiied them- The Looping Of
the beast beneath than was Siol<-
sninE. But they kept on. grimly.
for carslake realized hIs one chance
Of winning world power lay In h1s
reaching the Temple frst-
All night, they rode, and even
into the break Of another day. But
as the sun rose. they came TO the
AIirror OF Allah. and were well
combed by the old shsik Ihrahim.
chief OF the tribes that held the
w',cie southern desert in their
A picturesque old man. he waA of
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sYNoPSIS

Doris Whitney, heirsss Of J1dSon
WhitnSgs coming TO the library 70
! meet hSrSfaehsr, finds him shot and
a stranger who was calling on him
also shot she calls help, and the
dying man accuses his secretary,
Jack Ramsay, Of ths crime. Whit
ney a1ss, and TIE stranger, who
proves 70 be che Grand Duke Alex
ievitch, ta10 Doris thai abe is bis
Gaughter, ehaS she was condemned
70 eeaAh when q baby by the Gar
On the represantat4ons Of . mad
monk. Rascon, that she would ex-
erc4ss . malignant influence over
the rulers Hfs. The Duke was ex.
Rsd. but Later found his baby had
bad been brought Up by Judson
Wh4trsy and vas SttH alive. He
had come 70 claim her and was
shot down w4Sh whitney. He car
Eiss An explosive packet containing
Doz4Sa eiaEa<prtnts y can be
opened b. httlng Into * tbs loc1et
oozis UsA<A EhS b1ks 6znpS dead
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0esa1 - ahe AcE1g Kennedy
RSSeY SEo1ieA, Vphioh appear e1-
SkzakzSy IN coEnOpoAktm AAEa.lns
EPISODE 1.
Ths 6aUn4Ist of peathP
couzaSht. 1871. Star Company
-LAET seized Ramsay roughly.
Come. noE-E0u may a well
s.ffu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
A STEP FORWARD.

The aviation bill has become a law
and marks another important step in
the prosecution of the war for lib
erty. If no squabble arise over
whether we shall construct mono
planes or biplanes or over other detail
the business of creating $4,000 war
birds should proceed at once
While there appears to be much I'M
necessary delay in our war prepare
lions, yet there has been much accom-
plished.
Altho it has been but a little over
three months since We declared war
on Germany a summary of what we
have done in that time includes more
than a billion dollars loaned to the al
lies; 100000 men registered for
military service; a food administra-
ton organized; an expert food control
council created; a $3,00O.OOO,Ooc war
budget approved; control os foreign
commerce placed in the hands of the
president; scores OF new regiments or
4ganized; nearly $4,000 men sent to Of
Ulcers training camps; nine special
engineer regiments organized COM
aAfoSS0 VI C~ARCA ACAASC0 Od0
men; hundreds of submarine csasers
under construction; a $4,000, 200, 900
liberty loan over-subscribed so per
cent. and a Red Cross fund o. over
sl00,ooo,ooo raised. and numerous
hospital units sent to the front.
There should also be added as
measures showing foresight and en-
ergy on the part of the president, that
so soon after the declaration of wal
our fleet was found to be sp.eHdidly
cooperating with the allied forces
abroad and has been of greatest service
in helping to fight the submarine men
ace, and that a considerable military
force was promptly fitted out. landed
IN France, and is now working shoul-
Ter to shoulder with the other gallant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
TRAVELETTE
By NIKSAH

Arras.
There is a new kind of a city on
earth today. a strange, nightmare
kind of a city that has taken on TOT
the people of northern France, al
most q character of permanency, SO
endless is this war. People have lived
thru so much since August. 1914. that
they seem to themselves to have been
ALWAYS at war, and looking forward.
they see nothing but long years OF
warfare. The ruined cities such as
Arras have become a part or the nat
ural order OF things, and the strange
life in them has come to seem nat
ural sort of life. Towns like this are
found Inv the score where the slow
pressure of the allies is forcing the
Prussian back.
They are the towns that have been
bom5arded, and bombarded again.
taken and retaken, assaulted ana cap
| tured, and cannonaded by those who
| held them the day before, until II Is
a marvel that one brick remains on
another. They are full or ruined
houses and shattered quarters OF all
degrees of destruction. and stranger
than all, they have blocks and sec
lions that by some miracle escaped.
Here is a row of houses that might
| be in the far South, two hundred
miles from the battle front The
| shutters are up ana the streets are
| deserted, as tho the people were late
| in rising. Here is a public square
| pitted with shell holes, one side
| fronted by row of buildings whole
save for broken windows. the other
bounded only by shapeless masses OF
| brick and stone. Here and there a
| slow smoke curls upward from some
| gnawing fire. A hundred yards away
there may be a stubborn family still
occupying its old home. but nobody
puts out the fire. The civilians are
too hopeless and the soldiery is too
| busy.
And here is house with the front
sliced off by a shell. and the rooms
still all in order-a strange spectacle,
with beds aand bureaus and chairs and
tables all in order, as tho some en-
terprising furniture dealer had under
taken a new and ambitious form OF
window display. For the most part
the noblest buildings, the churches
and ppblic halls and the lowered
relics of the Gothic period are gone
they furnish too easy a mark for the
range-finder. And ever and again a
dull crash tells of another shell car
rying on the barbarous work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26

defenders of civilization. The num-
bers of this force have not been stated,
but Sir Gilbert Parker openly esti-
mates it at 10000 men, and says that
every man we have sent will look like
ten to our allies and that the great
count is the neral effect of Americans
upon the battlefields of the allies, and
the moral effect not only upon the
spirits of the French, the British Ind
the Belgians. but upon the spirits of
the Germans. THE Americans" he
says, who have gone to France will
do more for France by being there
than ten times the number in training
hereV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26

door came in and greeted the boy
heartily.
William" he said. with undis-
guised admiration, you look exactly
ago, when he came back from school"
Yes" said William, with a smile.
$50 father was just telling me-"
Three o'clock was the very earliest
the man could get up to the store, so
his wife asked him to meet her then.
ct don't know in what department
I shall be at that time" she said, but,
just before o'clock 1 will telephone
to the clerk at the information bu-
you will just step over and ask him
he will tell you where I am"
At two minutes past 3 the man
sought information as to the where's
abouts of his wife.
IT have a message" said the clerk,
from a woman who said her hus-
band would inquire for her about 8
o'clock Maybe it is for you. She
said to tell you she had gone to
Blanks store, over on Sixth avenue,
| to finish her shopping, because the
clerks in this store are impudent. the
place is ill-ventilated and she could
not find anything she wanted here,
anyhow, and never has been able to
find anything here, and this is posi-
| lively the last time She will ever try
TO IlHu anything mere. VI Co4t Sc, Tia
| might not have been your wife,
| "Oh, yes" said the man; that was
her, all right"
| A Quack doctor was holding forth
[ his medicines to a rural audience.
| Yes, gentlemen" he said, II have
sold these pills for twenty-five years
| and never heard q word of complaint
Now, what does that prove?"
| Voice in crowd:
That dead men tell no tales"
| "You have sworn to tell nothing
| but the truth
Nothing but the truth, youl
| honor?"
| Precisely"
Then, judge, with that Limitation
| upon me, I might as well warn 20,
that I'm not going to have much t:
say
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26

President Wilson has cut the. Cor
dian knot which bound the sh,pbuild-
ing program of the country by accept
ing the resignation of General
Goethals and calling for that OF Mr..
Denman. The time lost while these
two men squabbled can never he re-
gained. but the country will be glad
that the disgracefuI controversy has
ended. While these gentlemen quar-
relied, the people have been forced to
stand by and see a work important to
the prosecution of the war held up.
All the evidence indicates that
Goethals was right and his past rec
ord for doing things in an efficient
manner was in his favor. but he was
powerless to proceed. Rather than do
anything contrary to his judgment.
and in order to avoid further embar-
rassment 30 the president and the war
program, he resigned. 1t is doubtful
that his place can be fully filled but
snything is better than the stagnation
which has prevailed. We shall prob
ably see the Cocktails program carried
out without the generals efficient
management and direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
SIDE T ALM S
The Arrogance of Ignorance.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

me Arrogance OF Ignorance.
There is nothing in the world so
arrogant and so cocksure and so I'M
sympathetic as ignorance.
And there is nothing in the world
that can make one more humble and
more understanding than experience.
A young business woman whom I
know has recently married. Previous
to her marriage she always had her
sewing done for her. She had never
made garment.
One of the first usages to which
she put her newly acquired leisure
was to try to make herself a dress.
She told me about it the other day.
ut wasn't a success" she said, land
did it once. 1t was such a lesson
to me. You know I never could I'M
derstand why the dressmakers and
the seamstresses 1 hired took so long
to make a dress. They'd progress
fast enough up to a certain point and
now, well I'll never be impatient
again. I know what finishing off a
dress means"
Her story struck several chords in
my memory. The loudest was this.
When 1 was a young girl we used to
have good sized lawn and garden.
1t took two men a whole day to cut
the grass and tidy up the place. Now
I had sometimes run a Iawn-moWer
few feet and I knew how easily it
could be done and it seemed all non
sense to me that it should take so
long. 81 know 1 could do it in less
time" 1 said. They're simply put
tering."
And then one college vacation be-
! ing in sore need of extra spending
money, 1 tried it. One fine summer
morning 1 set forth behind the lawn
mower. 1 had the grass cut long be-
fore the day was over and 1 was iubi-
liant. And then 1 got down on my
hands and knees and started to clip
the edges of our multitudinous ESQ
they seemed to me) paths. And then
my jubilation began to wane. By the
time 1 had cut, raked, trimmed and
/ generally tidied up that place, I was
| a sadder and wiser girl.
The other day I heard a man who
| had never done any of this sort of
! work say, 1.-TWO men a day? Nom
sense, could do 1t in half that time
| And I smiled.
| If everyone could have a try at a
| great many kinds of work this would
be a much more tolerant world
Discomforts too are liberal edu-
cation. 1 shall never forget my own
short lessen in the discomforts OF
being deaf. The next time you are
passing thru any disagreeable expert
ence, remind yourself, This is lib
eral education
wonder if it will comfort you
any.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.1
People invent boost stuff for their
heroes.
A man with a real pull never goes
around exhibiting it.
History surely repeats itself. Eve
wore very few clothes.
A large vocabulary and a large
nerve generally go hand in hand.
What has become of the oldfash-
toned man who used the term "gin
drinkers Hver?"
This is no time to hug babies. If
a baby has any sense it will kick any
hugger in the face.
Most Kansas people will agree that
about the only law enforced in this
state is the prohibitory law.
Good housekeeping seems to con-
sist largely of putting things away
where no one else can find them.
The most contemplate fish we
know anything about is a man who is
a roaring lion at home and a rabbit
down town.
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ceedings of congress be printed Con-
gressional action was slow even in
those days, however and it was five
years later that the first official ap-
ing This was for $4,000 which was
to be spent for "firewood, stationery
and printing"
After this, the government printing
was annually let by contract-a sys-
tenn which resulted in general chaos
and. it has been said, not little
graft Then congress tried appointing
printers for each department. There
was a printer for the house, a printer
for the senate, and one for each bu-
reau. This also failed. Next, super
intendent of public printing was APP
pointed, the office being established
by act of congress, to supervise all
contracts let for printing. 1t was
Lincoln, in 1861, who forced the issue
of a public printery-something that
had been agitated off and on for years
but had never materialized. A printer
by the name of Cornelius Wendell had
a large printing plant not far from
the capitol, and congress bought this
plant for $4,000.
This old printery is still standing
next door to the new government
printing office. 1t is used for a ware
house and a mailing room, and car
penter shop at various intervals. while
a new fireproof, seven-Story building
houses the present United States
printery, the largest printing plant in
the world.
Its working equipment is the very
finest that can be procured. Electric
trucks carry the material from one
process room to another, and an cleo
trio chute carries the mail matter, of
which there is an immense quantity
each day, underground to the city
postoff1ce that lies between the print
cry and the union station. Not the
fraction of a second is lost.
The government is fortunate to
have such plant now that it is at
war. When the public printer says
| that a job will be completed at a GER
tain hour, the government may de-
pend upon it. Every employee is
| proud of the plants efficiency and
would work overtime to see that it
maintains its superior standard-if
| the government would let him. How
ever, in the interest of efficiency and
| his health, he is allowed to work only
| eight hours at a stretch. Meantime
all the extra war printing is received
| quite cheerfully. For, as has been said
there amt no limit to the plants
| capacity
Questions on the above or any sub
! Ject upon which the reader desires In
formation should be addressed the To-
| peka State Journal Information Blu
! reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director
Washington, d. c., with 2-cent stamp
e;.closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26

The disturbing circumstances pre-
vailing at present, aside from labor
subjects, are located almost wholly
at Washington. They are. generally
speaking: Delay of important meas
ures in congress; conflict of author
ity in the furtherance of great prof.
ects necessary to success in war; ap-
prehension as to too drastic price,
fixing measures. Added to these is
the unsettled question of extent and
method of excess-prcfit taxing and of
income taxing. In appraising the
whole situation, however. it should
be remembered. says The Bache Re
view, that we are in the midst of the
atupendous transformation of a ma
ton Of 100 millions, from a peace to
war basis, and the process, where
olitics is so large part of the gov
erning power, is subject to clumsy OBJ
struction due to a certain amount of
narrow prejudice. or of malicious
lemagogery. Obstruction also is in
some cases due. it is to be feared, to
downright treason, in delaying meas
ures to defeat the enemy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT

Dog Days.
Now come the days that fret and irk,
Now come the days of heat that's prickly,
We're feeling fretful, sour and sickly;
Now come the days when pups you meet
May make you feel trifle frantic
with fevered antic.
What tho we try to mind it not,
What tho we try to treat it lightly?
We're sure upon the downy cot
To moan and toss in torture nightly;
Thru all the day We curse the heat
That every misery imposes,
Our dripping brows, our blistered feet.
Our sticky noses.
Some sort of comfort we pursue
With lighter clothes or cooling ices,
How vain the many things we do,
How vain our various devicest
The heat attacks on every side a.
And vain our efforts are to rout It,
It's vain as well to scold and chide
And kick about it.
1t seems whatever we may wear,
Tho we may seek the shady shelter,
We're simply sure to drip and swelter
We sahd Of oiS so the duer
Except to see that we are all
Prepared to suffer.
A mans friends will say he is Re-
firing and others will say he's Sleepy.
Remorse.
For all the wisdom that is spilled,
for all the punishment that's earned.
it seems that life Is always filled
with lessons that are never learned;
mortal creature it appears will sell
dom fail to grab the chance to fill
his little lot with tears and wall In
woeful circumstance. He knows the
paths that he should shun. he knows
the better ways. of course, he knows
the folly of the fun, that brings him
weeping and remorse, he knows that
it is all a snare, yet falls he for
temptations vile to later moan and
tear his hair and beat his bosom for
while. This train of moral plati-
tude Though wise, its nothing new,
in TRUTH the writer pens in pensive
mood for woes have prompted it for
sooth; a many times he'd thought
were learned the lessons that had
cost him pain, but ah, the evil hour
returned and he had slipped from
grace again. Oh Fates, endow him
with the strength to see the folly of
his way, to find the better course at
length and nevermore to fall or
ways beset with thorns and rocks
and holes and mire-he simply can't
afford to get another sixty-dollar tire.
Seldom.
do not like Alexis Deli,
He rather pains and pricks me,
For when l underrate myself
He seldom contradicts me.
The Bright Side.
Your prices are. awful, just awful.
think"
The customer said at the butcher mans
stall,
And the butcher replied with a smile and
wink,
But they're better, b'gosh, than nc
prices at ALI"
A Gift.
clever lad
Is Hermann Bends,
He borrows from
His closest friends.
Enfreaty.
| o tenor singing In the night,
Pray have an end. desist and cease,
Cease thus to sing with all your might
That piece.
Determinatio il is true,
Is fine, like 1t, we allow,
And yet we like IL not in you
Just now.
| How can sleep the while you screech?
Pray leave the song and let IL be.
You've tried and tried enough to reach
That c.