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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

the ramp, and taking the bag away
from him, let him lie there. And It
took him five minutes to drag his hurt.
weary bones up the ramp, for the fight
had taken more out of him than he
had guessed at first.
The mullah glared at him but let him
by without a word. 1t was by the fire
at the back of the cave, where he
stopped to dip water from the null
lah's enormous crock, that the next
disturbing factor came to light. He
kicked q brand into the fire and the
fame leaped- Its light shOne on
yard and a half of exquisitely fine
hair, like spun gold, that caressed his
shoulder and descended down one arm.
One thread of hair that cOnjured up
million thoughts, and in a second
upset every argument!
If Rewa Gunga had been near
enough to her and intimate enough
with her not only to become scented
with her unmistakable perfume but
even to get her hair on his person,
then gone was all Imagination of her
love for himself! Then she had lied
from first to last! Then she had tried
to make him love her that she might
use him, and finding she had failed, she
had sent her true love with the dagger
to make an end!
In moment he imagined a whole
/ picture, as it might have been in a
! crystal. of himself trapped and made
to don the Romans armOr and forced
TO pose to the savage "Hills"-or
fooled into posing TO them-as her
; lover while Rewa Gunga lurked be-
d hind the scenes and waited for the
harvest in the end. And what kind OF
/ harvest?
And what kind of man must Rewa
Gunga be who could lightly let 60 al
the preiudices of the East and submit
to what only the West has endured
hitherto with any complacency-s
"tertium quid?
Yet what fool he, King, had beer
not to appreciate at once that Rewt
Gunga must be her lover. Why should
he not be? Were they not alike a!
cousins? And the East does not lovt
it's contrary, but its complement, bein:
older in love than the West, and wise
in its ways in all but the material
He had been blind. He had overlooked
the obviOus-that from first to last he
plan had been to set herself and thi
Rewa Gunga on the throne of India
He washed and went through tn,
mummery of Muslin prayers for tht
watchful mullah's sake, and climbed
on to his bed. But sleep seemed ou
of the question. He lay and tossed TO
an hour, his mind as busy as a terrie
in hay. And when he did fall asleel
at last it was so to dream and mute
that the mullah came and shook hin
and preached him a half-hour sermon
against the mortal sins that rob mel
of peaceful slumber by giving them
foretaste of the punishment to come.
All that seemed kinder and more re
freshing than Kings own thoughts ha
been, for when the mullah had don
at last and had gone striding back t
the cave mouth, he really did fal
sound asleep, and it was after daw
when he awOke. The mullah's voice
not untuneful, was rOuSing all the va
ley echoes in the call to prayer.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Grant Got Him a Job.

Col. John S. Mosby, the well-known
Confederate cavalry leader, had high
opinion of General Grants magnanim-
ity. He wrote letter, quoted in his
just published memoirs" to General
Grant in 1885 asking the former presi-
dent to aid him in securing employ
ment from some corporation. Grant
was then, unknown to Mosby, on his
death bed. But he dictated q note to
Governor Stanford of the Union Pa
cific, says Mosby, asking him, as a
personal favor, to take care of me.
was made an attorney in the company
and held that position for sixteen
years. In Grants death I felt that
had lost my best friend"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
CHAPTER XXI.

And while King knelt behind the
mullah and the whole camp faced Nee
ca in Observation-Disclosures abasement
there came q strange man down the
midst-not strange to the "Hills,"
where such sights are common, but
strange to that camp and hour. Some
body rose and struck him, and he knelt
like the rest; but when prayer was
over and cooking had begun and the
camp became a place of savory smell,
he came on again-a blind man. He
was clean shaven, and he looked as
if he had not been blind long, for his
physical health was good.
"Oh, the hakim-the good hakim !"
he walled. "Where is the famous ha-
kim? Show me the way to him! Oh,
the famous, great, good hakim who can
heal mems eyes!"
81 am he," said King. and he stepped
down toward him. The blind mans
face looked strangely familiar, though
it was partly disguised by some gummy
stuff stuck all about the eyes. He
stared at the face again.
"Ismail !" he said "You?"
AYE! Father of cleverness! Make
play of healing my eyes!'
So King made a great show of rub
bing on ointment. In minute Ismail,
looking almost like young man with
out his great beard, was dancing like
lunatic with both fists in the air, and
yelling as if wasps had stung him.
"Aieee-aieee-aieee!" he yelled. 81
see again 1 see! Ny eyes have light
in them! Allah! Oh, Allah heap
riches on the great, wise hakim who
can heal mems eyes! Allah reward
him richly; for 1 am a beggar and
have no goods!''
The whole camp began to surge
toward him to see the miracle, and his
chosen bodyguard rushed up to drive
them back. And as they went tall
Afridi came striding down the camp
with a letter for the mullah held out
in cleft stick in front of him.
'Her answer!" said Ismail with q
wicked grin.
"What is her word? Where is the
Orakzai Pathan?"
But Ismail laughed and would not
answer him. 1t seemed to King that
he scented climax. Also he chose In
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
nerve OF Boobies
Police Display Thoroughness
That AstoniShes Colonials.
London of Today a Marvel; Forming
One of the Most Important War
Centers of Entire World.

A Rhodesian who has arrived id
England to "join up" after service in
the three campaigns undertaken by
the South Africans, assures me of his
astonishment at the tact and thor
oughness exhibited in the daily work
of military police, says a writer IN
Westminster Gazette. The London OF
today is, indeed, Il never-ending mar
vel to the colonial soldier. 1t forms
one of the most important military
centers of the world It is inhabited
by a floating population drawn from
one of the most cosmopolitan armies
in HISTORIAN army, too, that is in no
way remarkable for the gentleness of
it's fighting methods when the games
afoot Yet, as my South African
friend phrased it, 'the whole mob
goes about on its business and its
pleasures like a small flock of con-
tented sheep with a couple of well
trained dogs behind them.''
Things were not always managed
that way in the early days Of the
forces raised by the dOminiOnS in the
first year of war. My informant Illus
trates the contrast with an incident
that came under his notice while his
regiment lay intrenched at Swakop-
mund during the German South
west" campaign. One morning the
men of the Union advanced posts saw
approaching them from the desert
three living skeletons, who staggered
like drunken men as they groped
their way blindly through the fur
mace of sand A comrade lay help
less a mile or so behind, too far gone
to walk. He was brought in later,
unconscious, but still alive. The four
! heroes-captives in the hands of the
Hun-had preferred the chances OF
| death to the grim certainty of cruel
and CALLING captivity, and had man
! aged to escape from their jailers I'M
| der cover of darkness. Practically
without food and, for the most part,
without water, they had Travelled
some hundreds of miles-from one
end Of the vast territory to the
! other. Almost naked, the ice-cold
winds of night had crippled them, hun
ger had robbed them of their
strength, and thirst had ali but driven
them to madness. They Lad escaped
shy the skin Of their teeth" from
both vengeful Hun and prowling lion.
And an officious military policeman
greeted them on their arrival in the
British lines with the order that they
were not to loiter in the streets of
the town!
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
d dynamite was

store of cartridges and dynamite was
piled in there. He let them waste.
Watching his opportunity, King
slipped down the ramp and into the
crowd, while the mullah was busy with
personal belongings in the cave. King
left his OWE belongings to the fates, or
to any thief who should care to steal
them. He was safe from the muilah
in the midst Of his nearly eighty men,
who half believed him a sending from
the skies.
eve see! We see!'' they yelled and
danced around him.
Before ever the mullah gave an or
Ger they got under way and started
climbing the steep valley wall. The
mullah on his brown mule thrust for
ward, trying to get in the lead, and
King and his men hung back, to keep
at a distance from him. Two or three
miles along the top of the escarpment
the mullah sent back word that he
wanted the hakim to be beside him.
But Kings men treated the messenger
to open scorn and sent him packing.
IBID the mullah hunt himself an
other hakim! Be thou his hakim !!
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y ~ - hM
02@-4kS+ q u . a n a E&@ha
His Pride.

Governor Whitman said at gather
ing in Syracuse:
when the kaiser boasts arrogantly
to a ruined Germany about the bless
ings his rule has conferred upon the
German people, am irresistibly re-
minded of the German prison superin-
tendent.
This old fellow, after 80 years in
Office, was decorated with the order Of
the Red Hat, or Blue Sausage, or
something of the sort. and in his
speech of acknowledgment in the hall
Of the prison he said:
"'As you see, friends, 1 have been
decorated with the imperial order Of
the Blue Sausage, but I willingly con-
feSS that this honor has been attain
ed, not by my own merits alone, but
by he cooperation of all of you. I
car also declare with pleasure that
sim" I have occupied this Office the
nup ber of prisoners has increased
fro:l 430' TO 9S5-a fact Of which both
YOU and 1 may be justly proud"
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KING-.:WG THF
KHYBER RFIFS
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tance; then he drove King into the
cave in front of him, his mouth work
ing as if he were biting bits of ven
geance off for future use,
write thy letter. thoul Write thy
letter! Here is paper. There is a pen
take it! Sit! Yonder is ink-ttutt-
ttutt write. now, write"
King sat at box and waited as if
to take dictation. but the mullah, tug
ging at his beard grew furious.
"Write thine own letterl Invent
thine own argument! Persuade her, or
die in new way! l will invent a new
way for thee!"
So King began to write, in Urdu. for
reasons of his own. He had spoken
once or twice in Urdu to the mullah
and had received no answer. 1t was a
fair guess that Muhammad was ignor-
ant of the scholars language.
Greeting" he wrote ITO the most beau
tiiul and very wise Princess Yasmini. in
her palace in the caves in Khnjan. from
ner servant Kurram Khan the hal1im. in
,ne camp Of the mullah Muhammad Amin
In the Hills"
The mullah Muhammad Amin demands
surrender of Khinjan Caves and of all his
ammunition. Further, he demands full
coItrol OF you and of me and of all your
men.
lie threatens as a preliminary to block
ade khinjan caves, unless the answer to
LIS LIS prove favorable. letting none enter
NJ ~ edlhhg his own men out to join him.
rms would suit the Indian government.
because while the Hills fight among
yourselves they cannot raid India, and
WINE ne blockades Khinjan caves there
VIII be time to move against him.
knowing that he dares begin and can
accomplish what he threatens. 1 am sor-
ry; because know it is said how many
services you have rendered of old to the
government L serve. We who serve one
raj are one-one to remember-one to for
set-one to help each other in good time
II may be that vengeance against me
would seem sweeter to you than return
TO your former allegiance. In that case,
Princess. you only need betray me to the
mullah, and be sure my death would leave
nothing to be desired by the spectators.
AT present he does not suspect me-
BE assured, however, that not to be-
tray me to him is to leave me free to serve
my government and well able to do so.
invite you to return to India with
me. bearing news that the mullah Mu-
hammad Amin and his men are bottled in
khintan caves, and to plan with me to
that end.
IF you will. then write an answer to
Muhammad Amin, not in Urdu, but in a
language he can understand; seem to sur
render to him. But to me send a verbal
message, either by the bearer of this or by
some trustier messenger.
India can profit yet by your service II
you will. And in that case l pledge my
word to direct the governments attention
only to your good service in the matter.
II Is not yet too late to choose. 1t is not
| lmpertinent in me to urge you.
Nor can 1 say how gladly 1 would
subscribe myself your grateful and loyal
servant"
The mullah pounced on the finished
letter, pretended to read it, and
watched him seal it up, smudging the
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

Carp, it appears, were introduced
into the United States in 1877 and
since then they have increased. The
meat is held to be wholesome and nu-
tritious and is declared by experts to
contain as much protein as a sirloin
steak, statement that-like the carp
must be taken with a grain of salt.
There are millions of carp in the
United States. The last census shows
100000 pounds marketed In one
year This leads to the conclusion
that somebody ate carp and evidently
liked the taste.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
china's Great Man Power.

Of the 4OO,OQOOOO persons in China,
it is estimated that at least 100000
are men capable of carrying arms or
doing some sort of labor directly con-
nected with the war. OF this number,
100000 are living within reasonable
distance of transportation facilities
and could be mObilized were it neces-
sary. China has such an abundance of
men that millions could be spared to
the advantage Of those remaining at
home,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Kaisers War Library.

It is reported that the kaiser is de-
voting considerable time to the crea-
ton of his own var library, and al
ready this remarkable collection num-
bers 10000 volumes.
The war lord is well known as a
vain man and his collection Of photo
graphs runs into thousands. While the
books come from every country, only
German photographs are included, and
those of the kaiser himself are numer-
Gus.
The war collection of the Royal Ii
brary of Berlin now numbers $4,000
volumes, and they are bound in special
covers of gray. stamped with the Prus-
sian eagle.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

toward the tents. but King called to
his deserters and they clustered back
to him. He haG 20 cement their allie
glance now or fail altogether, and he
would not be able to do it by ordinary
argument or by pleading; he had to
fire their imagination. And he did.
"She is on our sidel" That was
sheer guess. "She has kept our man
and sent another as hostage for him in
token of good faith! Listen! Ye saw
this mans eyes healed Let that be
Il token! Be We the men with new
eyes! Give it out! Claim the title
and be true to it and see me guide
you down the Khyber in good time like
a regiment, many more than a hundred
strong!"
They jumped at the idea. The
"Hills" the whole East, for that mat
ter-are ever ready to form a new sect
or join a new band or new blood
feud. Witness the Nikalseyns who
worship a long gsince-dead Englishman.
eve see!" yelled one of them.
''We see!" they chorused, and the
idea took charge. From that minute
they were a new band, with a war-cry
of their own.
1--WE see!" they hOwled, scattering
| through the camp, and the mullah
came out to glare at them and tug
his beard and wonder what possessed
them.
"To Khinjanr they roared. Lead
US to Khinjan!"
''To Khinjan, them" he Numbered,
throwing up both arms in sort Of
double apostolic blessing, and then mo-
tioning as if he threw them the reins
and leave to gallop. They roared back
at him like the sea under the whip of
a gaining wind. And Ismail disap-
peared among them, leaving King
alone. Then the mullah beckoned him
and showed him a letter he had crum-
pied in his fist. There were only q
few lines, written in Arabic, which all
mullahs are supposed to be able to
read, and they were signed with a
strange scrawl that might have meant
anything. But the paper smelt strong
ly OF her perfume.
Come, then. Bring all your men, and !
will let you and them enter Khinjan
caves. We will strike a bargain in the
Cavern of Earth's Drink.
That was all, but the fire in the mul-
Iah's eyes showed that he thought ii
was enough. He did not doubt that
once he should have his extra -four
thousand in the caves Khinjan would
be his; and he said so.
"Khinjan is mine!' he grOwled. I'm
dia is mine!'
King did not answer him. He could
only be still and be glad he had set the
camp moving and so had forced the
mullah's hand. "The old fatalist would
have suspected her answer other
wiseI' he told himself, for he knew
that he himself suspected it.
While he and the mullah watched
the tents began to fall and the womer
labored to roll them. The men began
firing their rifles, and within the houl
enough ammunition had been squaD
dered to have fought a good-sized skir
mish; but the mullah did not mind
for he had Khinjan caves in view, ans
none knew better than he what vas
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

hot wax with his own great guarded
zai Pathan, who came striding in, all
grins and swagger.
"There-take it Make speed" he
ordered, and with his rifle at the
ready" and the letter tucked inside
his shirt, the Pathan favored King
with a farewell grin and obeyed.
"Get out !" the mullah snarled then
Immediately. "See to the sick. Tell
them l sent thee. Bid them be crate
full"
King went. He recognized the al
most madness that constituted the null
lah's driving power. 1t is contagious,
that madness, until it destroys itself.
1t had made several thousand men fol-
low him and believe in him, but it had
once given Yasmini a chance to fool
him and defeat him, and now it gave
King his chance. He let the mullah
think himself obeyed implicitly.
He became the busiest man in all the
"Hills." While the mullah gowered
over the camp from the cave mouth or
Illuminated from the Duran or fought
with other mullahs with words for
weapons and abuse for argument, he
bandaged and lanced and pOulticed and
| physicked until his head swan with
weariness.
The sick swarmed so around him
that he had to have a bOdyguard to
keep them at bay; so he chose twenty
Of the least sick from among those
who had talked with the Pathan after
sunrise.
And because each of those men had
friends, and it is only human 20 wish
ones friend in the same boat, especial
ly when the sea, so to speak. is rough
the progress through the camp became
a current of missionary zeal and the
virtues of the Anglo-Indian raj were
better spoken of than the "Hills" haC
heard for years.
Not that there was any effort made
to convert the camp en- masse. Fal
from it. But the likely few were
pOunced on and were told of n chanc,
to enlist for a bounty in India. Ant
what with winter not so far ahead
and what with experience of former
lighting against the British army, tht
choosing was none so difficult. From
the day when the id first feels sof
down upon his face until the old man
beard turns white and his teeth shak
{ out, the hillman would rather figh
than eat but he prefers to fight on tn
{ winning side if he may, and he like
| good treatment.
Before it was dark that night ther
$ were thirty men sworn to hold thei
] tongues and to wait for the word t
e hurry down the Khyber for the pun
a pose of enlisting in some British-Ir
dian regiment. Some even began t
t urge the halSim not to wait for tn
n Orakzai Pathan, but to start with wha
J. he had
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
CHAPTER Xxx.

Next morning the Orakzai Pathan
sat and summed himself in the cave
mouth, emitting worldly wisdom un-
adulterated with divinity. AS King
went toward him to see TO whom he
spoke he grinned and pointed with his
thumb, and King looked down on some
sick and wounded men who sat in A
crowd together on the ramp, ten feet
or SO below the cave.
They seemed stout soldierly fellows.
Men of another type were being kent
at distance by dint of argument and
threats. Away in the distance was Mu-
hammad Amin with his broad hack
turned to the cave In alteration with
dozen other mullahs. For the time
he was out Of the reckoning.
Some of these are wounded" the
Pathan explained. "Some have sores.
Some have the bellyache. Then again,
some are sick of words, hot and cold by
day and night All have served in the
army. All have medals. All are de-
serters, some for one reason. some for
another and some for no reason at all.
Bull-with-a-beard looks the other way.
Speak thou to them about the pardon
that Is offeredr'
So King went down among them
taking some Of the tools of his SUP
posed trade with him and trying tc
crowd down the triumph ahat would
well up. The seed he had sOwn hat
multiplied by fifty in night. He want
ed TO shout, rs men once did before
the walls of Jericho. Possibility of par
don and reinstatement, though only
heard of at second hand, had brought
unity into being. And unity brough
eagerues1.
"Let us start tonightr' urged on,
man.
"Nay! :" the Pathan objected a
once. "Many Of you can hardly march
Rest SO here and let the halzim trea
your bellyaches. Bull-with-a-bear,
babe me wait here for letter tina
must go 70 Khinjan today. Good
will take his letter. And in Khinjan
will spread news about pardons. It
likely there are fifty there who Wi
dare follow me back, and then w
shall march down the Khyber like
full company Of the old days"
King cot busy with his lancet, bu
the muliah Cama back and called hiI
or and drove the crowd away to a dl!
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

that instant to force the mullah's hand.
on the principle that hurried buffaloes
Will blunder.
''TO Khinjan!" he shouted to the
nearest man. "The mullah will march
on Khinianr'
They murmured and wondered and
backed away from him to give him
room. Ismail watched him with
dropped jaw and wild eye.
"Spread it through the camp that
we march on Khinjan! Shout it! Bid
them strike the tents! !!
Somebody behind took up the shout
and it went across the camp in leaps,
as men Toss a ball There was surge
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Another Obiector.

Pal am afraid that boy of ours
has been reading scme of this German
propaganda.
Ma-Why so?
Pa-When I took him out to the
woodshed just now he said he didn't
think relatives ought to fight relatives
Judge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28

Stay, we will give thee a lesson in
how to use a knife!''
The man ran, lest they carry out
their threat. FOR men joke grimly in the
"Hills"
Ismail came and held Kings stirrup,
striding beside him with the easy hill
man gait.
art thou my man at last?' King
asked him, but Ismail laughed and
shook his head.
Il am her man.
where is she?" King asked.
NAY, who am I that should kncw?'
But she sent theeT'
AYE, she sent me-"
ITO what purpose?"
'To her purpose!" the Afridi an-
swered. and King could not get another
word out of him. He fell behind.
CTO BE CONTINUED
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
chore lime Lona Past.

Uncle Lige bought clock. One
night the clock got out of order, and
began to strike.
The old man awoke and counted
102. He promptly sat up in bed, and
calling to his wife, said, Cynthia, get
up, get up. It's later than I've ever
knowed it to be."-Everybody's Maga-
zine
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Must Find Trouhie

There are some people in this world
who would not be just sure they were
living if they couldn't scrape together
a collection of small troubles, either
their own or other peoples, about
which they might fee! irritated.-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
Domestic Economy.

Not infrequently a man is such
good domestic mathematician that he
can save the price of a new suit by
persuading his wife to have her last
years street dress made over.-Syra-
cuse Post-Standard.