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The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-03-22
SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

The new flag was displayed
for the first time on Tuesday
morning. Il looks fine.
The cooking girls put out,
some very excellent looking
bread few days ago. 1t looked
too good to eat.
Our Easter vacation will begin
on Friday evening, Apri! 9th,
and continue until Monday
morning, April 10Th.
The warm weather has call+d d
forth the base ball again, and
several of the boys are trying
out their wings. Better 40 SLOW
and avoid pains later.
Through an oversight last
week the name of Hazel Deem
did not appear among the re
ceivers of highest marks for the
month. She received an average
of SO, the highest in the fresh
man class.
We are informed that a de
clamatory contest is booked for
the third week in May. We
hope that the boys as well as
the girls wil take hold of this
and give US a good representa-
tive program.
The seniors are talking class
play again There is no reason
why they cannot put on good
play on short notice if they are
willing to apply themselves. We
do not want the play dragged
out for two months as hereto,
fore.
We all want to attend the
wrestling match to be pulled off
at the town hall on Saturday af-
ternoon of this week. We un.
derstand that several of the
! champions are practicing on
their bigger brothers at home
and will he in good condition by
saturday.
; e! C1!ee Club concert given
on last Friday was decided
success. The Orchestra Com
ique was quite an innovation and
made great hit. Under the
leadership of Mr.. Morton and
by the constant oiling ofsqueaky
instruments harmony prevailed
parts Of the time.
| The Mesdames Abbott, Walsh
and Martin visited the schools
on Tuesday of this week. They
we're accompanied by little
Buster" Walsh. He declared
that he is as big as some of the
kids In the first grade. Per
haps he u.s. At any rate he will
soon be among them.
One of the teachers has been
having considerable trouble re-
Gently by mice getting into the
seeds collected for class study
The seeds were finally stored in
an alright box but one mouse
managed to get into the box and
could not get out. 1t foundered
or something and another more
courageous teacher came to the
rescue. What became of The
mouse later need not be told.
Plans for the dinner and pro
gram given in honor of the new
settlers are progressing nicely.
The different committees have
the work outlined and report
that everything indicates good
crowd and unusual interest.
Those expecting to attend should
be sure and reserve their tick.
cts, at the Palm Hotel or at
either of the two banks, by Sat.
urday of this week, March Oath,
so that Landlord Smith will be
able to make ample provision
Remember the time, 1890
(noon) next Thursday, March
Goth. The City Hall upstairs
will be open as sort of recep-
tion hall and meeting place,
where wraps may be left and
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them back into their fort! Aye! we
slew manyW
mot jlhad YETI" King asked, as il
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 dream. If a
holy war had been proclaimed already,
then he was engaged on forlOrn hope.
But the man laughed at him.
NAY, not yet. Bull-with-a-beard
holds back yet. This was little fight.
The jihad shall come later!"
"And who Is ll-with-a-beard'?" 2"
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
the cave entrance whose purport he
did not catch, and within five minutes
after that. without a 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?"
ut is night" Ismail answered. ut
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 ones?"
King asked him, trying new line.
"Bullwith-a-beards."
"And whose man art thou, Ismail?
The Afridi hesitated, and when he
spoke at last there was not quite the
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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 u 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 II Is
an i'll 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 il through the cave mouth. "a
hill is so high, n pool so deep, a river
so wide. There is an end to pain - he
went on. adjusting his horn-rlmmed
spectacles. II lanced a mans bois
last night. and 1t hurt him, but he must
be well today"
"Go inr' growled the guard. "She
says 1t is sorcery! She says none are
to let thee touch them!"
II can heal boils !" said King, retir-
ing into the cave. Then, from a safe
distance down the passage, he added Il
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 l told that heather with a gun
out there, there's an end to every
thingl" he reelected. "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 a few bars
of the tune. After little while the
hook-nosed ruffian began to sing the
words to 1t, In voice like forgotten
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/ 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 Khanl" And her voice was
surprisingly familiar. But dreams are
strange things"
"He sleeps !" said the same voice
presently. TT is good that he sleeps -
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.
'Ismail ~ he shouted, for he was
thirsty. But there was no answer.
''Darya Khanr'
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.
Tsmailr he shouted at the top of
his lungs, thinking they might all be
outside.
He heard a man hawk and spit. close
To the entrance, and went out to see.
A man whom he had never seen before
leaned on magazine rifle and eyed
him as a tiger eyes his prey.
mo fartherw he growled, bringing
his rifle to the port.
"Why notf" King asked him.
"Allahi 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 1t, and the strange scent greeted
him again. In spite of the surround
ing stencil of drugs and filthy wounds,
there was no mistaklng ii. II IL 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 ii 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 handkerchief under his
shirt. The money, that his patients
had brought him, lay on the floor un-
touched. II was an unusual robber who
had robbed him.
who's 'Bull-with-a-beard'T he Won
dered. Nobody interfered with me un-
til / 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-heard,'
whoever he is, hang back?"
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leads to the Heart of the Hills'" And
after that King had to do his best to
keep the Afridi's back in sight.
They began after a 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 winding
tunnel into a great mountains womb.
The sound OF slippers clicking and
rutching on the rock floor swelled ana
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 ana
tossed II on n heap. After that there
was ledge above the height OF
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 sea of
noise and veritable blaze of light.
Part of the noise made King feel
homesick. for out Of the mountains
very womb brayed i music-box, such
as the old-time carOusals made use OF
before the days of electricity and
steam. II was being worked by mex
pert hands, for the time was some
thing jerky; but it was robbed of its
tinny meannesS and even lent majesty
by the hugeness of cavern's roof, as
well as by the crashing, swinging music
1t played-wild-wo nderful-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 space
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so vast that the eye at first refused to
try to measure 1t. 1t was the hollow
core of mountain, flied by the sea-
sound of human crowd and hung with
huge stalactites that danced and shift
ed and flung back q thousand colors at
the flickering 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 and
hurrying out of view down another one,
licking smooth banks on its way with
hungry sucking sound.
There were little lamps everywhere
perched on ledges 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 tuEbaned men squat
ted round it in rings. At the end
where the river formed a tangent to
them the rings were fiattened, and at
that point they were cut into by the
ramp of a bridge, and by lane left
to connect the bridge with the arena.
The bridge end formed a 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 among the stalactites.
"Greek lamps, every one of 'em I"
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
ther end across the hurrying water
stairs had been hewn out of the rock
wall and led up to q 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 10 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 ruf.
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 6 pre-
historic pattern of a size and sort he
had never seen before, even in mu-
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 toe beyond the ring OF
lamps, guard would slap his rine-buti
until the swivel ratified. aud the Of
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same assurance in his voice as once
there had been.
IL am hers BE thou hers, tool But
II is night. Sleep against the toll to-
morrow. There be many sick in Khin-
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.
II seemed to him that she came into
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KING is LED TO VISIT A VAST CAVE THROUGH WHICH AN
UNDERGROUND RIVER FLOWS, AND IN A GREAT
CAVERN MEETS THOUSANDS OF FANATICS

sis-A beginning the world Ahelstan
Indian its service ordered
with her to Kinjan
who said by be preparing for
his Delhi King quietly foils
evidence that Yasmn after him. He meets
has already north
at Ismai Ad be-
He of Yasmns
north with him. rckng the Rangar into
deserts him dangerous time He meets his
he his Khnan
thanks TO his lying guides
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King witnesses wild doings In
the cavern and sees narrowing
sights. Yasmini appears, love-
'y vision, and the army Of fight.
ers 90 wild with enthusiasm.
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(ro BE CONTINUED,
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POSTOFFICE AIDS AIR RACE.
Designstes Transcontinentai Course as
an Official Mail Route.

Washington. - Delivery of United
States mail by aeroplane will be a
feature of the cross continental race
planned for next June, as the route of
the contest will be designated as an
aerial mail route by the postofice de-
partment.
In accepting the Aero clubs offer Of
cooperation the second assistant post
master general, Otto Praeger, says in a
letter read at the aeronautics exposi-
ton In the Grand Central palace, New
York. by Alan X. Hawley. president
Of the club:
The field superintendent of the rail
way mail service have presented to the
department thirty : seven practicable
aeroplane mail routes. The postoffice
department will appreciate it il you
will designate Il committee to cooperate
with this bureau in making an investi-
CATION as to the designation Of such
cities in various states as aerial mail
stations. where satisfactory landing
places can be provided"
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SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City. March 20.-Strike sit
uation clears. This was the most
important announcement in live
stock circles today. The threatened
railroad tieup, together with the
heavy fall of snow practically para
lived traffic and only a very few
loads of stock arrived for the days
trade.
Hardly enough cattle arrived TO
test market conditions, estimate
calling for 200 head, and the under
tone to the market was strong in all
branches. Wires from outside points
indicated strength with receipts very
small. due to the same causes that
eurtailed the local supply.
Buyers took their time in looking
over the modest assortment of hogs
at hand, and while they were willing
to add a dime To Saturdays prices
sellers held out for a sharper up
turn, and for this reason there was
little actual business transacted on
the early rounds. few sales being 10
@15c higher. Tops. $14.45; bulk.
s14.25 a 14.35.
Market was rather draggy, but for
the most part sales looked 10 a zoe
higher than on Saturday. Best price
for porkers reached $14 SO, with the
low end of the range at S14.25.
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OFFER THEIR FINE YACHTS
Many Wealthy Persons Willing to
Give Them to Navy.

New York, March 20.-Some of the
finest American yachts have been Of
fered to the government for auxilaries
to aid In the defense of the coast in
the naval district extending from New
London, Conn, to Barnegat, N. j., 1t
was announced.
Among the 375 craft thus far volun-
teered toward the 500 that the navy
department considers a minimum nee.
essary for the district are j. p. Nor
gan's Corsair; Mrs. 4. Fl. Harriman's
Sultana; John Borden's Kanawha;
Mrs. John S. Kennedy's Cherokee:
George 8. Baker. Jr.'s, Viking and Vim
cent Astor's Mona.
Many of the yacht owners not only
have offered their vessels free, but
their crews services as we'll.
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WOMAl GETS A FARM.
Mrs. Reagan Went to California With
Her Parents In 1853.

Oroville, Cal. -"Onee "A pioneer, al
ways "A pioneer said Mrs. Charlotte
Reagan, seventy years of age. who
proved UP on a homestead claim near
Blomer mountain recently.
Five years ago Mrs. Reagan filed a
homestead under the old law and since
then has lived almost continuously on
the tract of 100 acres. She has built
a home. planted an orchard and devel
oped an irrigation system.
In addition. she has enrolled as n
student in one Of the correspondence
courses of the University of California.
Mrs. Reagan came to California with
her parents I'm 1853.
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I e m a trou b Q
that caused a great
deal of n e s 8
across my back, and
through my aldo
men. Sometimes il
would be very pain
full after q h lard
days work. read
a about Lydia z.
Pinkham's Vege-
t a b Compound
and tried it and it
hos holroJ ma mDr
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mated at 12J,OO0 miles across. Une
spot In 1851 was 10000 miles across,
but they seldom are larger than this.
The appearance of large u spots,
according to scientists here. generally
is followed by magnetic disturbances
in the earth's atmosphere. That IL has
any connection with the weather is a
theory not credited by professors at
the observatory.
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Chicago live Stock.

Chicago, March 20.
Cattle-Receipts. 500; steers, $500
m12.60; cows and heifers. S5.70610-
Is; calves, S10.00m14.25. Hogs-Re-
ceipts, $1,000; light. $l425014.9 30;
mixed, s14.50415.00; heavy, S14.45m
1906; rough. $14.45 ut4.60; pigs. $40
75G1325. Sheep-Reeeipts. 1900;
native. $1,000 1865; lambs. $12.350
14.S5.
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NEW YORK HARBOR
CLOSED AT NIGHT

+ The port OF New York at Quar-
I. antine has been closed to out
+ ward and inward bound vessels.
4 Any vessels arriving at Ambrose
1. channel after shutdown will he
!. compelled to anchor in the lower
+ bay, and outward bound vessels
+ will be held up either at the
+ Statue of Liberty or off the
+ Staten Island shore.
1. This condition will prevail I'M
+ til after the dispute with Ger
+ many is definitely settled.
4
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South ST. Paul Live Stock.

South st. Paul, March 20.
Cattle-Receipts, 100; steers, $500
0fO.50: cows and heifers. s6.50Q9.00;
calves. $10.0061225. Hogs-Receipts,
$50; range, $13.S0Q1430. Sheep-Re-
ceipts, 100; lambs, s12.00G14.25; ewes,
SS.00@1075.
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No. l hard, $2.0O@2.01; No. ( North.
ern. $1.91G1.95; No. 2 Northern, ST.
S76195; No. 3 Northern. S1.S1G1.S4;
No 8 yellow corn. S1.oST1.09; No. 3
white oats, 56& G57Ac; flax, s2.95.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, March 20.
Wheat-May, s1.84; July, $1.55h;
Sept, S1.431a. Corn-May. $1.09h;
July, s1.07s; Sept, $1.96b. Oats
May, STAG; July, 56Ac. Pork-May
s33.25; July, $32.55. Butter-Creamer
les, 3sm3ec. Eggs-27@2shc. Poul
try-Springs and fowls, 23hc.
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ST. Paul Grain.

st. Paul, March 20.
Wheat-No. l hard, $2.00& 42.01a "a /;
No. 1 Northern, $1.91h @2.00h No. 2
Northern. s1.S7h@1.95h; No. 2 Mon.
lana hard. $1.s1a 91.93as; corn. $1.0s
01.09; oats, 56% G57c; barley. 96c0
1924; rye, $1.55Q1.56; fax, 32.95A.
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derfully, SO the soreness is all gone now.
/ believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound is just the remedy for
female troubles" - Mrs. ELIZABETH
JOHN, r. F. D. Nc. 4, Toledo, Ohio.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful
drugs, and today il regarded as the
most successful remedy for female ills.
There are thousands Of voluntary testi-
monials on file in the Pinkham labora-
tory ct Lynn, Mass, to prove this
fact
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London, March 20.--German torpedo
beats shelled towns along the Kent
ish coast early Sunday morning, but
did little damage, according to an Of
fcial statement.
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
Duluth Wheat and Flax.
Duluth, March 20.

DUIUtH, MARCH 70.
Wheaton track and to arrive, No.
! hard. $1.914; No. | Northern. ST.
904 No. 2 Northern. $1.S4H al .86A
Flax-On track and to arrive, $3.50.
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NURSE HAD
POOR HEALTH
Suffered Much Pain, Yet Had
to Work. Finally Cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Toledo, Ohio. ID am a widow and go
out nursing, and suffered from a
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Minneapolis Grain.
Minneapolis, March 2,

Wheat-May, $1.S5; July, $.7Sh;
Sept, 's1.47h. Cash close on track:
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Solid One-P Piece Shaft

You wouldn't discover that the crankshaft is a single
sturdy shaft of drop-forged heat-treated carbon steel.
Nor would you discover that the Chalmers pis-
tons are die cast from Ignite, a special aluminium
alloy, and weigh only 1213 ounces each.