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;nc CtannlnS secret defense fund. lou do not know what thai last means. IT is to enlichten you--l"st | ' perish with my secret undvuised-thlt ! am writing tonight l have t0 iniorn you concerning that sacred trust. that bequest of your patriotic forefathers.
 One hundred years ago, almost to q , day, the first John Charming died. He was a Nirginian. q friend of Washing tons. soldier, q, patriot, a gentleman of fortune. character. intelligence and of almost prophetic foresight. He had served through the War of Independ- ence. When the War of 1872 broke out, he resigned his ease and took the field as a colonel of militia.
 In his military capacity John Chan ming the First was an intimate observer of the lack of organization. military spirit, training. ability to fight. that characterised the American forces.
 What he had experienced made q profound impression upon him. He never ceased to plan to protect his country against its greatest weakness and its greatest enemy-itself. In the fntuous blindness of a people who then as today believed a sacred and just cause the equivalent of resistless weapon of defense, who thought they had no need to train themselves for war so long as they warred only for the right. the first John Charming fore saw an intrinsic. inbred weakness of the people. prolific of perils which he conceived it to be his duty tO combat.
 Some time prior to his death, there fore. he consulted with the first Peter Ripley. my forebear and the founder Of that line of legal advisers to the Charming family which must perish when I perish. Between them.. the two schemed out q scheme for a fund for national defense in time of danger through what we have lately learned tO term ''unpreparednesS." One half of the. even then. very considerable Chan. ming fortune was set aside to he th nucleus of the Charming secret defens fund. to be drawn upon or eXpende wholly on!y in Cr;Ivest national emer gency.
 The secret and the custody of T fund wcs hnId @ T f-~',i e1rher
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JOHN CLAIMING. Esq. (B. 1IJI-D. lSl6.)
Patriot. Statesman, Soldier.

Patriot, Statesman. Soldier. Founder of the Charming Secret De
 fense Fund.
 Ignoring all else in the vault. the girl 'atria fingered for many minutes be- ore this portrait of the ancestor whose clear foresight and love of country had treated that trust whose burden had now fallen upon her slender, pretty shoulders.
 Rapt beyond urterance. she signifieti ier wish to confirm her deceased guar iiian's report as to the treasure
 Parr selected one from the nearest stack of wooden boxes. and eSsayed to transfer it to the table But it proved heavier than he had anticipated. and slipped through fingers unprepared for itS weight. There was crash: the aoX lay shattered at their feet. it's con tents Spilled-stack upon stack of gold en double-eag gleS scattered upon the floor.
 There was pause.
 Patria sank into a chair and rested torearus upon the table In her hands Inc held Peter Ripley'S letter.
 After q little. ShufflinC the sheets, he brought that one uppermost which huwcd the words
 Wisely employed. this treasure may 'rove ihc salvation of your country in his it's hour of direct need" ';"d make me wise" she Said-and aliered-"G"d al make me wise to ad- iiniStcr this sacred trust,
 Without wholly annreCiating what he id. transported beyHnd himself. Par l"Scd his fingers over hers.
 ''Amcn to that." said he.
 un thc echo uf his words a dull gr,l ing noise sounded ahov' their hcads
 HOLOCAUST.
 In ,hc jwinkliug nf an ey.t ;h bo- ipprcciSed what hId haul., ard i""r to th" secret r;.sSaS h q .hui sor whatever reason. Martin D .Umahly had Srvn iit jo class it.
 N'i,hout hesitation Parr S'vu,s hnui oui Hf tHy ,arI, and ur the coi. ,rivtcd stairway
 Nl n" top hc Cnuud cnly the Synun urfarv ol the closed tluo-. lis fin-cl roIsi yainly over i' and round it, .l,,US; il any myaus there were Gi .''cniu@ it from the inside. it was too mmin;:ly concc;llcd for his ingenuity. I;u; if closed. the door waS not alto ether light. LighiS from the library ieamod rouud three "f it's edges. Parr rUid uot cnuilivC tn get au eye to q ry ck. hui he could not avuid heariuc. hal l,r heard WgS however. diincul; n interpret. several N,,icc> were 1d!llV from he;.nd tEc barrier all laltrrins rapidiy; and though Far, q 5a.T ,varsiDg Iurvird..,' of th,' '-ancSe tu1isEr ho lacked 8. yet th" ,iily tn ,ri.uSl",r Inc Nrruavular men qu'cSly sUr,cu.
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After a time he crept nOiselessly down the stairs.
 ''There are Japanese-several Of them-in the house. Martin must have seen them coming and locked us in to prevent their discovering us.''
 But Martin? What will they do tO him?' .
 ''I don't know. Let's not think about that. Let's hope for the best. It's all we can do. I can't budge that door up there. and even if ] could. I've got DO weapons of any sort.
 Five minutes passed. Throughout the two could hear faint sounds of hurried footsteps Overhead-for all the world like the scampering of rats in wainscOting. Then were heavier. duller
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over something soft and yielding that obstructed the floor. In stumbling he threw out a hand which encountered an electric light bracket. Steadying himself by this he felt for and turned the switch; the brilliance of a single bulb dazzlingly exercised darkness.
 He stood in small, airless. window less chamber. furnished simply with a square mahogany table and four chairs on rug. Otherwise it was featureless hut for huge safe-door built into the wall close by the foot of the staircase. This door stood ajar. A black void was beyond it. At Parr'S feet lay the obstacle which had so nearly proved his downfall: the body of little Japa- nese clad in the uniform of a tele- graph messenger-in his dead hand an automatic pistol.
 Turning. Parr called to Martin to come down to him.
 The negrO's answers to his questions enabled him rapidly to reconstruct the prelude to a brutal crime.
 IL seemed that. shortly before Pat ria's guardian had dismissed him for the night. Martin had answered the dOor-bell to admit a telegraph messen- ger boy with a telegram for Peter Rip ley. Signing for the message. Martin had told the boy to wait for possible answer, and had taken the envelope to his employer in the library. But when Mir. Ripley had opened it. he had found nothing within the envelope: and when he and Martin had gone back to the hall to interrogate the messenger this last had vanished.
 By this rIISe (Parr reckOned) obtain ing admittance to the house when Mar tins back was turned. the pseudo-mes- senger had secreted himself and waited till, finishing his letter tO Patria, Rip ley had found reason to descend to the treasure vault. Then. following, the messenger had tried to shoot Ripley down. but had met death himself in the attempt. Meantime confederate had entered the houss-gaining admit tance through the front door. left un- locked, as Parr and Patria had found it, hy the first Japanese. And when Ripley. emerging from the secret pas- Sage-no doubt even then fatally wOunded-had called Patria in New port by long distance-the second Japanese had shot to kill and had sue ceeded if at cost of his own life.
 Asking Patria to turn aside while he with Martins aid carried up the dead Japanese and placed him with the oth- erS in the drawing-rOOm. Parr left Mar tin on guard. and conducted the girl be- low to the treasure vault.
 If any traces of incredulity had thus far colOred his thoughts, they were promptly diSsipated.
 The vault was not largtA-perhapS twice the size of it's antechamber-and was so well-filled with boxes. bales and bundles that il afforded scant space in which to move about. Aside from thc entrance, three walls. were hidden by packing-caSes. The fourth the farth- est from the entrance. bOa>ted racks Of pigeOnholes in which were filed and locketed packet upon packet of papers and in addition a richly framed oil DOT trait of q gentleman in continental uni form. bOasting brass plate with this legend:
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THE CAST.
SYNOPSIS.

On the eve of inheriting sole control of Channings, Inc, Americas largest arms and ammunition industry, Patria Charming Is mysteriousiy summoned from Newport to New York by Peter Ripley. trustee for her estate. Baron HurOki. chief of the Japanese secret service, busies himself to hinder her response to this summons; but Patria overrides his opposition with the aid of Capt Donald Parr. United States secret service who suspects Japan of in triguing to emSroil the United States with Mexico
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him hut for you I do fear, when yon shall have set your hand 10 the task which mine must yield. l know your breed well enough to know you will not falter in the discharge of this sacred trust, know Japan well enough to know she will stop at nothingto dis courage you.
 I charge you above all things tn be ware the man who calls himself Baron Hurcki-who poses as a coSmo- polite of Japanese birth-whO K in reality secret chief of the Japanese secret service in this country.
 More than this hope to tel; you in detail-if live to see you again. Oth- erwiSe-I shall die content in the knowledge that I have. at least, done my best to warn you against the chief est dangers you must apprehend as eNecutriX of the Channing secret de fense fund.
 Your affectiOnate guardian,
 PETER RIPLEY.
 GOLD!
 " Utn fhII nau IiilNiifi itauiii- titF last page of Peter Ripley's letter he looked down to encounter Patria's di- rect uncompromising gaze. To her un- uttered inquiry he nodded slightly.
 He was sane" said Parr He feared Iapan-aud Japanese aSsaS- sinated him. That much confirmation 0f what he wrote We possess. beyond refutation. There remains only rO be determined the actual existence of thlS defense fund .' In secret vault beneath this room to which the password is your name.' What do you make of that?"
 Patria shook her head.
 It's all too strange. .. . I never had any suspicion of anything of the sort. I'm afraid l don't quite grasp it yet!''
 It was patria who stumbled upon the solution haphazard-or, as woman would claim. intuitively.
 "The password my name-Patria That sounds as though there must be . safe door somewhere with g lette. combination or else = "Or elSe-?" Parr prompted as she lesitated
 v -, -',orc '"
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Her cutfung hand indicated the mas- stvs marble chimney-piecc Parr knit ted his browS. staring The thing was { Interesting if only as a relic of the curious artistic taste of bygOne day none but q mid-Victorian intelligence could have tolerated the thought of such q m0nstrous monument to home lineSs. And yet the carving was ex- guisitely done He crossed to ii. with iairia by his side, for closer inspec- ton.
 In whatever brain the design had originated. il was q patriots: the , American eagle Screanied in sculptured stone. inc flag Haunted hlatantly its mcvcleSs folds. the arms of Virginia thanked the arnS of the United States. immediately above the fireplace the Tanning arms were emblazoned upon ' shield. beneath this q scroll bore the motto of the house. PRO PATRIA NoBIS."
 "ro which the password is my nMne,"
 Patria put forth fingers which touched lightly, the initial of the word Patria on the scroll. She withdrew her hand with an exclamation; the let fer she had touched had fallen in flush with the surface of the scroll. Parr nodded cxcitedly Try the next let trr!"
 To her pressure the letter A became IS the letter r; the remaining letters of tho word followed suit as readily And when the last had been depressed they heard q curious grating noise be meath the manjcl and. lookiug down >aW the apparently solid stone backing nf the fireplace proper swing uassivciy inward and disclose thc mouth cf d uarrow paS>agcUay.
 Let me go iir>t,"
 Parr'> tone WIS imperative. Won lorinc q little nt rhe insiinctiyc docility with which she oheycd him. Palria stood aside lIc ducked beneath the munirl and disappeared.
 1irc passJ-rWay proved short upon
 hal level. rarr advanced three raccs iu utter dHrkues> Then it turned H~i1c at a right au-ir. Al thr foot of some twelve steps ho found another o'rI advanced -'U-yrl, pace intp tbc icuser ina sinablc murh, aud stumbled
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sleep pur'r latr 0hru he doue work late the night hofo'-"
 i"pitl he H'Tk tate lasi ni-hr, Mar nnT
 He sho' did. Mi-~ Path -lcastways tr done say lie -1Sinc iuh hen lle send uc oft fo i"i 'hoHi 1reen "r!o"k.
 ~l~ tll;t fhc library" i'arr asked, with q nod indicating d 'ioor coward
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT

Popular Kathlyn Williams and
House Peters are co-starred in the
latest co-Paramount Picture,
"The Highway Of Hope" powerful
story of the great west, written by
William Mack. 1t is smashing big
story of the gold rush days when
desert spots bloomed into towns over
highland withered between suns.
Part Of the action is placed in that
great wilderness, Death Valley.
In this. story Miss Williams under
goes one Of the most remarkable
transformations that has ever been
shown on the screen, developing
from a mere slavey in a typical min
ing town saloon to wealthy woman
who is one of the leading citizens in
the town which has sprung up
around her mine. She has struggled
and fought with Death itself for the
gold she finally wins and when the
hubsand whom she has lost, returns
to her, a new man, one feels that she
deserves the happiness which is hers
The tale is a gripping one, full Of
action into which has been breatheG
the spirit of the great out-of-doors.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
THEY ARE ALL DOING 1T NOW

If you think that your family
paper, or the daily to which you
subscribe regularly, is talking too
much about the war, the Red Cross
etc. and is given over to offering
too many suggestions, and lecturing
Just nlcls up any paper in America
and you will change your mind and
rest content.
OF course, the Ladies Home Jour
nal is constantly boosting the wo-
men; and why not? The reason is
clear. Never before in the history of
the world has woman been so con-
spicuous out of necessity. House
keeping is now a business matter
scientific business. Living at home,
cutting corners, consuming less,
saving more and wasting nothing,
are absolute conditions upon which
the issue of the war with Germany,
depends. The boys win fight; the
government will raise the expense
money for the armies-but the indi-
vidual man, the family, must do
their own financing, and must get
eats the best way they can; for eats
will be very, very scarce this Win
ter, and will be worse next summer.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
'Tarzan Of The Ape"
ToBe Exhibited Here

After a special conference of the
members of the National Film Cor
poration in Morgan City, at which
the first positive proofs of the pro-
duction "Tarzen Of the Apes" were
exhibited, it was announced that the
first public presentation of the pic
ture would be at a local theatre I'M
der the auspices of the Ladies Altar
Society, of which Mrs. NJ. Shannon
is President and Mrs. Frank Price,
Secretary.
The Directors of the Production
state that they are well pleased with
their work here and that the local
atmosphere and color are highly
gratifying from a critical viewpoint.
The picture when completed will
cost approximately 100000.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
HOME READING COURSE
CONTINUED from page u

ian life are incomplete. In the new
Army the evils of sexual Immortality
will be reduced to a minimum. The
men will find their time and energy
so fully occupied that they will have
fewer temptations and dangers of
this type than in everyday civil life.
One of your obligations as citi-
zen-soldier is to conduct yourself in
such a way as to create and spread
the true imprsssion-namely, that
the National Army is made up of
men too much in earnest in the
task assigned to them to indulge in
lewdness and vice.
The only sure safeguard against
venereal disease is to avoid illicit
intercourse. A clean life is the best
guarantee Of sound health. To main
tain a clean life, keep away from
those things which tend to promote
sexual excitement and desire, parti-
cularly obscene conversation, read
ing matter, and pictures.
The moral reasons which should
impel every self-respecting man to
avoid debasing himself by sexual
vice are well known to every man
who joins the National Army and
need not be recounted here. In addi-
ton to the moral reasons there rests
upon every soldier the especial duty
of avoiding everything that may I'M
fit him for active and effective SER
vice. This obligation in the present
crisis is even greater and more ur-
gent than in normal times. The SOL
diers of the National Army will. be
expected and required to maintain
especially high standards of conduct
and to honor the uniform they are
privileged to wear.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
WHY THE CAR SHORTAGE
WAS MADE NECESSARY

Under normal conditions traffic
increases far more rapidly than pop
ula ion In the decade 1879 to 1907
the freight traffic of the railroad in
creased nearly 100 per cent where
the population increased only % per
cent.
Between 1907 and 1915 the inter-
est charges for investment in Amer
lean railways, for extensions, more
tracks, terminal facilities and equip
ment increased over 46 per cent;
and taxes, representing the asses
sor's estimate Of the value of that
investment, increased over 70 per
cent Between the same years the
net revenues Of the railways, after
deducting operating expenses and
taxes, showed an actual decrease of
over a per cent. Meanwhile average
receipts per ton mile had declined
from 7.59 mills to 1882. mills.
This is why the railways in the
year 1916 faced the heaviest traffic
in their history with an absolute
shortage of equipment.-Slaton
Thompson, Bureau of Railway Sta
tistics. ~.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21

A~s~oS
kraut.
Mr., Temple paid three or four more
calls before he began sketching that
ideal face. He was no longer Mortified.
He finally got that face on the canvas,
but it required many trips to the
rooming house, and he: generally found
beans or sausages awaiting him. The
charming young lady was the first to
see her portrait. She kindly told Mr..
Temple that he was fooling away his
time. There was work for him in this
world, but it was not work at portrait
painting. He had best change his oc-
cupation before he grew any older.
Mr.. Temple was crushed and humili-
ated, and he returned to his studio
with tears in his eyes. He was hardly
seen for the next three days. Then he
was noticed talking very earnestly
with a builder and contractor. That
evening he made his appearance at
the room of his friend and quietly
said:
"Honore, l have given up portrait
painting and have contracted to paint
all the buildings which a large con-
tractor is to build in the next three
years. ] guess that is where / ought
to have begun. VIII you be my wife
and set up housekeeping with mel
And she said she would, and did.
1911, by the Mcclure NoWspAs
Per eyndicatA)
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
FATTY ARBUCKLE'S VALET
HAS A HARD LIFE

It's a hard life for Fatty" Ar
buckles valet. Perhaps you did not
know he had one. Which shows con-
clusively how little the average sp-
preciates the complexities Of come
dams existence.
Ordinarily, the handsome hero of
the parlor drama is supposed to
monopolize all the masculine sartor-
ial successes of the stage and screen.
His costumes are the latest thing
from Paris or London. His .haber-
dashery is above reproach and three
or four tailors are continually busy
keeping his wardrobe in order. But
now Mr.. Arbuckle is to be heard
from on the subject Of clothes. Audi
ences who have become familiar
with the work Of the genial come
dian consider his costuming minor
consideration and pass his wardrobe
by with the mental comment that it
seems to have been built for comfort
and not with an eye to fashionable
cut. his is not borne out by fact,
however.
The valet of the genital Mr.. Ar
buckle is sponsor for the statement
that the jovial fun maker has the
most complete and up-to-date 'rube'
wardrobe Of any actor now in the
public eye, and that he is unqualifi-
eddy the Beau Brummel of slap-stick
comedy. According to the same au-
thority. Mr.. Arbuckle in his provin-
cial makeup has keen eye for COL
or. He would no more consider wear
ing pale pink shirt with pair of
lavender socks than he would think
of acting like matinee idol in the
role of the clerk Of country store.
Fatty" Arbuckle will be shown
tonight at the Opero House in "A
Reckless Romeo"
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
Movie Party

Miss Mildred Norman entertained
the Little Women Society" Monday
evening with moving picture party
in honor of her thirteenth birthday.
Very dainty refreshments were
served.
Those entertained were: Mildred
Norman, Ninette and Bertha Roes,
Clara Blum, Gertie Lee Connor,
Maize Bourgeois, Mary Louise
Storm, Dorothy Bass, and Hattie
Price, Misses Leah Norman, and
Frances Peterman, Messrs. John
Grant Bourgeois, and Mrs. M. E..
Norman.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
BAND ORGANIZED


The Morgan City and Berwick
Chamber of Commerce Band va.
otSnized last Tuesday night at City
Hall. The follow. ng officers wG,r..
eIr'ted:
Nj. S. 7. Ro6ridge, Directo...
Mr.. A. J. Gautraux. Assistant Dir
ector.
Mr.. Henry Mimicelli, President.
Mr.. Owen Young, Secretary
Treasurer.
The organization will meet Tues
day evening Of each week at the
City Hall for band practice and dis
position Of official business.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21
PERSONALS

ohe Angelica has return
Mss D visit to friends in Frank
D. Albert Mire of Houston lex
NJ .r.,t yesterday in Morgan CITY, y,
" and Mrs. -christy and fan fanny tg
-, Yesterday from a WISH 70
fanburg, La :, ] da,,,b.
MI Miss Gertie Lee Conner spent
e i a with relatives in Patterson
=. nave Frohlichstein Of Pensa-
Nj rI., enrOute to San Francisco ,
aA' off here to be the guest OF
70 '''p and Mrs. Maurice Greenwa''
v,.. c. Dupris returned yester-
~. ..ou, a visit to her daughter
's. Joe. Joe Newman Of Lafayette
,,, Carrie Nutter, who has been
AI ,ost of Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
.snvald has returned 20 her nome
!. Meridian, MS
=, TYLER Howell of Fort Morgan,
Al, has returned to camp
NJ. and Mrs. Robert Morgan and
d baby Of charamie are the guests
! Mrs. D. Breaux'
Misses Lottie Morgan and Laura
sanders spent Sunday in New Or
leans
Ill Greenwald spent Sunday in
N Orleans
E baby Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
fem was christened yesterday by
q, Father Souby. The sponsors
|vae Mr.. John Rodridge and Miss
Della Guidry.
NJ. John Rodridge and Miss jose
,sne Rodridge of Houma, is visit
H. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Picou.
Yrs NJ. E. Young, and her grand
A.uehter. Miss Eunice Berwick, left
Ais morning for New Orleans.
Mr.. L. S. Smelton Of Baton Rouge
in Morgan City for a few days.
Mr., Theo. Schmidt spent the week
end in Patterson.
Mr.. Carrot Lnych spent Sunday in
New Orleans.
Miss Frances Peterman of Frank
F lin is the charming guest of Miss
Leah Norman.
Mrs. Joe Evans returned yester-
day from Crowley.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21

Il you sit in a cool draft when you
re heated and get a stiff neck or
ane back, you are looking for
0nethlng that will ease the pain.
tx your mind on BILLIARDS.
sNoW LlNlMENT and don't be
nlked out Of it because it is the best
PAN relieving liniment you can get
aa'snere. Price Csc, 5oc,and $1.O0
= bottle, Sold by Belanger Drug
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-21

Mr.. c. n Crowell of Houston,
Texas, government superintendent
of shipbuilding for the Emergency
Fleet Corporation in the Gulf Dive
sion, was here on an inspection visit
to the Union Bridge and Construc-
ton Company shipyard Monday.