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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-11-14

and roam. For information write TO the s
American Shorthorn Breederg' Aes0ciatlon
10 Dexter Park Ave. Chicago. III.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-11-14
GROW SHORTHORN BEEF

The pacheeo Cattle Co.
~ California, reoentlT
marketed 100 three year-old
Shorthorn steers weighing
Lois lbs, off grass. These
steers had never tasted
grain nor hay except the
latter At weaving time
They had both sine Rn6
quality, which ia a Short
horn characteristic. II paya
20 grow ShorthoFna. Tbs
COWS are good mixers. This
breed colors arc red white
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Bring Il Out by Kidding the Face
of Skin Disfgurements, by
Using Stuart's Calcium
Waters.

II all those who have acquired the
loveliest complexion fby using Stuart's
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she exists will she help met"
Il will answer your question
backwards, Macumazahn. l think
that she viii help you IL you help
her, in what way. / do net know, be-
cause, although witch-doctors some
times work without pay, as am
doing now, Macumazahn, witch
doctoresses never do. As for her
name, the only one that she has
among our company is Queen be.
cause she is the first of all Of them
and the most beauteous among
women. For the rest, | can tell
you nothing except that she has al
ways been and suppose, in this
shape or in that, win always be
while the world lasts, because she
has found the secret OF life unend-
ing"
You mean that she is an immor-
tai, zikali." / answered with a
smile.
81 do not say that, Macumazahn,
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"Yes, want you to 60 for three
reasons. First, that you may sat
isfy yeur soul on certain matters,
and l would help you. Secondly,
because want to satisfy mine, and,
thirdly, because ! know that you
will come back safe to be a prop
to me in things that will happen
in days unborn"
'.Have done, Zikali. What is il
that you desire?"
.0hl great deal that shall get,
but chiefly two things, so with the
rest I win not trouble you. First,
/ desire to know whether these
dreams OF mine of a wonderful
white witch-doctoress, or witch, and
my converse with her are indeed
more than dreams. Next, I would
learn whether certain plots of mine
at which / have worked for years
will succeed?"
t. What plots, Zikali, and how can
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~ one thing am quite sure,
we are not always the same.
~ Different personalities actu-
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my taking this distant journey tell
you anything about them?"
You know them well enough,
Macumazahn; they have to do with
the overthrow of a royal house
that has worked me bitter wrong.
As to how your journey can help
me, why, thus: You shall promise
to me to ask of this Queen whether
Zikali, Opener OF Roads, shall tri-
urnph or be oYerthrown In that on
which he has set his heart"
AS you seem to know this witch
so well why do you not ask her
yourself. Zikali?'
ITO ask is one thing, Macuma-
zahn. To get an answer Is another.
have asked In the watches OF the
night, and the reply was, Come
hither and perchance / will tell
you. Queen ] said, how can
come save In the spirit, who am an
ancient and q crippled dwarf,
scarcely able to stand upon my
feet? Then send q messenger,
Wizard, and see that he is white,
for of black savages / have seen
more than enough. Let him bear
a token also that he comes from
you. and tell me Of 1t in your sleep.
Moreover, let that token be some
thing Of power which will protect
him on the journey
"Such is the answer that comes
to me in my dreams, Macumazahn." !"
We'll. what token viii you give
me, Zikali?"
He CROPPED about in his robe and
produced a piece of ivory the size
of large chessman that had a hole
In It, through which ran a plated
cord of the stiff hairs from an ele-
phant tail. On this article, which
was of a rusty brown color, he
breathed, then, having whispered
to 1t for a while, handed It to me.
/ took the talisman, for such
guessed 1t to be, idly enough, held
it to the light to examine 1t, and
started back so violently that al
most I let 1t fall / do not quite
know why / started, but / think it
was because some influence seemed
to leap from 1t to me. Zikali start
ed also and cried out:
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but really took me no forwarder,
since In them found nothing that
/ could not have invented myself
Some months later l was in Zulu
land, and being near the Black
Kloof, where he dwelt, / paid q
visit to my acquaintance of whom
/ have written elsewhere, the won
derfA and ancient dwarf, Zfkali,
known as Neutrality-suspicious..
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." also more
commonly among the Zulus as
Opener Of Roads"
You are named Opener Of
Roads, are you not, Zfkali?" said.
Yes, the Zulus have always
called me that, since before the
days Of Chaka. But what of names,
which often enough mean nothing
at all?"
Only that / want to open road,
Zikali, that which runs across the
River Of Death"
"ohol" he laughed, sit is very
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with you. Macumazahn. Wen, as
to this ! must make inquiry of
those who know. Man, my medL
cines!"
From the shadows in the hut
behind darted out tall figure car
rying a great spear in one hand
and in the other a cat-skin bag.
which, with a salute, he laid down
at the feet of his master.
Zikali groped In the bag and
produced from it certain knuckle-
bones.
Then he breathed upon the
bones, shook them up in his thin
hands and with q quick turn of the
wrist threw them into the air. after
which he studied them carefully
where they lay among the ashes
which he had raked out of the FIRE.
DO you know man named Um-
slopogaas, Macumazahn. the CHEZ
of a tribe that is called The People
of the Axe, whose titles of praise
are Bulalio, or the Slaughterer and
Woodpecker. the latter from the
way he handles his axef He is a
savage fellow, but one Of high
blood and higher courage, a great
captain in his way though he viii
never come to anything, save q
glorious death-in your company,
/ think Macumazahn?" (Here he
studied the bones again for a.
while.) yes, am sure, in your
company, though not upon this
journey"
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She and Alldnaea &HRaer Aaooard

Have a care, Macumazahn. Am
l young that l can bear being
dashed to the ground?"
What do you mean?" I asked
still staring at the thing which I
perceived to be most wonderfully
fashioned likeness of the old dwarf
himself as he appeared before me
crouched upon the ground. There
were the deepset eyes, the great
head, the toad-like shape, the long
hair, all.
"Macnmazahn, 1t has come down
to me through the ages, for as YOU
may have heard, all great doctors
when they die pass on their wis
dom and something of their knowl.
edge to another doctor of spirits
who is still living on the earth.
that nothing may be lost, or az lit
tie as possible, also that to such
likenesses as these may be given
the strength Of him or her from
whom they. were shaped.
when the ivory Is hung over
your heart, Macumazahn. where
you must always wear It, learn that
with 1t goes the strength of Zikali:
the thought that would have been
his thought and the wisdom that
is his wisdom viii be your com
panion, as much as though he
walked at your side and could in
struct you In every peril. More
over, north and south and east and
west this image is known to men
who, when they see 1t, will bow
down and obey opening a road to
him who wears the medicine of the
Opener of Roads"
You tell me to 60 on this Jour
ney," ! said, "and not alone, and
yet for companion you give me only
an ugly piece of ivory shaped as no
man ever was"-here l got one
back at Zikali-"and from the look
OF 1t stepped in blood, which ivory,
IL ! had my way, | would throw
into the camp fire. Who, then, am
TO take with me?"
Don't do that, Macuinazahn-I
mean throw the ivory into the fire
since / have no wish to burn be-
fore my time, and If you do, you
who have worn 1t might burn with
me. AT least, certainly you would
die with the magic thing and go to
acquire knowledge more quickly
than you desire. No, no, do not try
to take it off your neck, or, rather,
try II you will"
/ did try, but something seemed
to prevent me from accomplishing
my purpose of giving the carving
back to Zikali as | wished to do.
First my pipe got in the way of my
hand, then the elephant hairs
caught In the collar of my coat;
then a pang of rheumatism, to-
which / was accustomed from an
old injury, developed of a sudden
in my left arm, and, lastly, L
seemed to grow tired of bothering
about the thing.
, Zikali, who had been watching
my movements, burst out into one
OF his terrible laughs that seemed
to fill the whole kloff and re-echol
from its rocky walls. 1t died away
and he went on, without further
reference to the talisman:
You asked who you were to take
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CHAPTER /.
The TaIisman.

~ + one thing / am quite sure.
we are not always the same.
- Different personalities actu-
ate US at different times. In one
hour passion OF this sort or the
other Is our lord; In another we
are reason itself In one hour we
follow the basest appetites; in an
other we hate them, and the spirit,
arising through our mortal murk,
shines within or above Us like a
star.
Now, the reason Of all this homily
Is that l, Allan, the most practical
and unimaginatiYe OF persons, Just
a homely half-educated hunter and
trader, who chances to have seen
a good deal of the particular little
world in which my lot was cast, at
one period Of my life became the
victim Of spiritual longings.
l am a man who has suffered
great bereayements in my time,
such as have scared my soul, since
perhaps because of my rather
primitive and simple nature, my af-
fections are very strong. 1 can
never forget those whom l have
loved and whom / believe, to have
loved me. For you know in our
vanity some Of US are apt to hold
that certain people with whom we
have been intimate upon the earth
really did care for US, and, In our
still greater Vanity-or should It be
called madness?- imagine that
they still care for us after they
have left the earth and entered on
some new state Of society and sur
roundings which, IL they exist, In
ferentially are much more congen-
fal than any they can have expert
enced here.
At times, however, cold doubts
strike us as to this matter, Of which
we long to know the truth. Also
behind looms q still blacker doubt,
namely, whether they live at all.
For some years Of my lonely ex.
istence these problems haunted me
day by day, till at length / desired
above everything on earth TO Law
them at rest in one way or another.
consulted a clergyman Of my
acquaintance, good and spiritual
ly minded man, but he could only
shrug his shoulders and refer me
to the Bible.
Then read certain mystical
books which were recommended to
me, that were full OF fine words, un-
discoVerable In q pocket dictionary,
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easy" and snatching up a little
assegai that lay beside him, he
proffered 1t TO me, adding, BE
brave now and fall on that. Then
before have counted sixty the
road win be wide open.
Again / shook my head and aH-
swered:
1T is against our law. Also while
still live / desire TO know whether
shall meet certain others on that
road after my time has come to
cross the River"
What spirits do you desire to
see? II that of a woman called
Mameena is one Of them, think
that perhaps whom she loved"
She Is not one Of them, Zikah.
Moreover, If she loved you, you
paid back her love with death"
Which perhaps was the kindest
thing l could do, Macumazahn, for
reasons that you may be able to
guess, and others with which VIII
not trouble you. But II not hers,
whose? Let me look, let me looki
Why, there seem to be two Of them,
head wives, mean, and / thought
that white men only took one wife.
Also a multitude of others; their
faces float up in the water Of your
mind. An old man with gray hair,
little children, perhaps they were
brothers and sisters, and some who
may be friends. Also very clear
indeed that Mameena whom you do
not wish to see. Well, Macuma-
Zahn, this Is unfortunate, since she
is the only one whom l can show
you, or rather put you In the way
Of finding. Unless, indeed, there
are other Kafir wopen-
s"What do you mean? ?' l asked.
81 mean, Macumazahn, that only
black feet travel on the road which
can open; over those in whom
ran white blood / have no power"
Then 1t is finished" | said, ris-
ing again and taking a step or two,
toward the gate.
Come back and sit down, Ma
cumazahn. / did not say SO. Am
| the only ruler Of magic in Africa,
which / am told Is a big country"
came back and sat, down, for
my curiosity, great failing with
me, was excited.
Thank you, Zikali," said, "but
| will have no dealings with more
Of your witch-doctors."
No, no, because you are afraid
OF them; quite without reason, Ma
cumazahn, seeing that they are all
cheats except myself. But perhaps
there might be a white doctor who
would have rule over white spirits"
"Of whom do you speak?"
That is the trouble, Macuma-
zahn. ] do not know. This lion, or
rather lioness, lies hid in the caves
Of a very distant mountain, and l
have never seen her-in the flesh"
Then how can you talk Of what
you have never SEEM
in the same way, Macumazahn,
that your priests talk OF what they
have never seen, because they, or
a few Of them, have knowledge OF
II. will tell you a secret. All
seers who live at the same time, IL
they are great, commune with each
other because they are akin and
their spirits meet in sleep or
dreams. Therefore I know of this
honess who for thousands Of years
has lain in the northern caves, and
humble though / am, she knows of
me-"
Quite So" / said, yawning, but
perhaps, Zikali, you win come to
the point Of the spear. What OF
her? How is she named, and If
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because my little mind cannot
shape the thought of Immortality.
But when / was a babe. which is
far ago, she had lived so long that
scarce would she know the differ
ence between then and now, and
already in her breast was all wis
dom gathered. / know 1t, because,
although, as ! have said, we have
never seen each other, at times we
talk together in our sleep, for thus
she shares her loneliness, and, l
think, though this may be but @
dream, that last night she told me
to send you on to her to seek an
answer to certain questions which
you would put to me to-day"
Now ! grew angry, and asked:
'Why does it please you to fool
me, Zikali, with such talk as this?
If there is any truth in 1t, show me
where the woman called Queen
lives and how am to come to her."
The old wizard took up the little
assegai which he had offered to me
and with its blade raked out ashes
from the FIRE which always burned
in front of him"
These ashes he patted down fat
and then on them drew a map with
the point Of his spear, making
grooves for streams, certain marks
for bush and forest, wavy lines for
water and swamps and little heaps
for hills. When he had finished 1t
all he bade me come round the fire
and study the picture, across which
by an afterthought he drew a wan
dering furrow with the edge of the
assegai to represent a river, and
gathered the ashes in lump at the
northern end to signify large
mountain.
Look at 1t we'll, Macumazahn,"
he said, "and forget nothing, since
IL you make this journey and for
get, you die"
Then suddenly he gathered up
the hot ashes in a double handful
and threw them into, my face, NUT
tering something as he did so and
adding aloud:
There, now, you will remember"
Certainly / shall" I answered,
coughing. "and | beg that you will
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hard facts Of Tife Of sufficient In
terest as they stand.
So it came about that the more
Good bothered me to read this par
ticular romance, the more / deter
mined that / would do nothing Of
the sort. Being persistent per
son, however, when he went away
about ten o'clock at night, he de-
posted It by my side, under my
nose, indeed, so that II might not
be overlooked. Thus It came about
that, I could not help seeing some
Egyptian hieroglyphics in an oval
on the cover, also the title, and-un-
derneath 1t your own name, my
friend, all Of which excited my
curiosity, especially the title, which
was brief and enigmatic, consist
ing, indeed, Of one word, She"
! picked up the work, and on
opening 1t the first thing my eye
fell upon was q picture of yelled
woman, the sight of which made
my heart stand still, so painfully
did it remind me Of certain veiled
woman whom once il had been my
fortune to meet. Glancing from it
to the printed page, one word
seemed to leap at me. It was Korl
Now, OF Veiled women there are
plenty in the world, but were there
also two Kors?
Then I turned to the beginning
and began to read. This happened
In the Autumn, when the sun does
not rise till about six, but it was
broad daylight before / ceased
from reading that book.
Oh! what was to make Of Il?
For here In Its pages Ito say moth
ing OF old Billali and those gloomy
Amahagger scoundrels) once again
| found myself face to face with
Ayesha, the lovely, the wise, the
changeful and the imperious.
Moreover, the tale filed up many
gaps in my own limited experiences
Of that enigmatical being, who was
half divine Though, / think, rather
wicked, or at any rate immoral in
her way), and yet all woman. It Is
true that it showed her in lights
somewhat different from those In
which she had presented herself to
me, but the substratum Of her char
acter was the same, or rather OF
her characters, for of these she
seemed to have several In s single
body, being. as she said Of herself,
mot One but Many and not Here
but Everywhere"
Moreover, l found the story Of
Kallikrates, which I had set down
as q mere falsehood invented for
my bewilderment, greatly ex-
panded.
Lastly, I saw the story Of her
end, and as read it wept; yes,
confess wept, although l feel
sure she viii return again.
I was amazed, / was overcome,
but as I closed that book made up
my mind, first, that / would con-
tinue to preserve absolute silence
as to Ayesha and my private deal.
ings with her, and secondly, that !
would not cause my manuscript to
be destroyed. I did not feel that l
had any right to do so, In view Of
what had been already published
to the world. There let It lie, to
appear one day, or not to appear,
as might be fated. Meanwhile my
lips were sealed. l would give
Good back his book without COM
ment and-buy another copy!
ALLAN QUATERMAIN.
The Grange, Yorkshire.
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not play such a joke upon me
again."
"As a matter of fact, what
ever may have been the rea-
son, l never forgot any de-
tail of that extremely intri-
cate map.
THAT big river must be
the Zambesi," / suffered,
"and even then the mountain
Of your Queen, If it be her
mountain, is far away, and
how can ! come there alone?"
81 don't know, Macuma-
zabn, though perhaps you
might do so in company. AT
least, l believe that In the
old days people used to travel
to the place, since once I
have heard a great city stood
there, which was the heart
of a mighty empire"
Now / pricked up my ears,
for though l believed nothing
Of Zikali's story Of a wonder
full Queen, / was always I'm
tensely interested in past civ
ilizations and their-relics.
How did people get to the
city, Zikali"
by sea, suppose. Macum.
azahn, but think that you
will be wise not to try that
road, since ! believe that on
the sea side the marshes are
now impossible"
you want me to go on this
adventure, Zikali. WhyY"
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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-05-16
Exploded Theory.

The married man concluded to try
out his new theory. Addressing his
spouse he said:
''My dear. should like to go to
Jones' tonight for several hours. Mr.
Jones is not i'll and does not require
any sitting up with. If he did should
let his wife do 1t. Mr. Jones is per-
fectly well. so far as know, except
for a certain itching for poker game
He is VIGOROUSLY rotten poker
player, and very likely could be nlcked
for several dollars in the course of
the evening. There might be some
thing to drink-he did not specify con-
corning that. He only said my pres
ence would be appreciated. l am sure
that since l have told you the truth
about this affair you will consent to
my going. Am rightT
He was not.-Kansas City Star.
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ALL FROM ONE TURKEY EGG
Here's Example of Taking Advantage
Of Opportunities Which Should
Teach Good Lesson.


An old farmer and his son we're at
work In the Geld near the roadside
when his son discovered a dead turkey,
which probably was discarded by an
other farmer who was on his way to
the market. Both were curious to learn
the cause of its death. They brought
the turkey to the barn, dlssected the
fowls body and obtained an egg. The
boy set the egg and the result was a
fine turkey gobbler that was sold the
next summer for IS. With this money
the boy purchased a pig. The next
summer the young capitalist sold his
sow and eight pigs for $50. He then
bought two thoroughbred heifers.
The ensuing fall he bad two mich
cows and calves which he sol0 for
$500. His final investment was Ia two
one-year-old FLY colts.
After a lapse of five years the lad
was the custodian of two good mares
and $1,000 in gold which he procured
in the sale of their colts. And today
this farmers son is studying agrieul-
ture and animal husbandry in a state
university as the result of one turkey
egg. Thrift Magazine.
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The ADVANTAGE.

The garrulous gentlemen talked and
talked and talked-about himself The
only other occupant of the carriage
an elderly gentleman--w1s bored stiff.
But there seemed no remedy. The
train was an express. But suddenly
with q screeching OF brakes the train
pulled up at little out-of-the-way
station.
Halo! What on earth are we stop
ping at a station like this for?" asked
the old gentleman. who wished TO
get his journey over.
"To allow me to get out" said the
bore.
"Ah, seel 1t has It's advantages,
thenI" said the old gentleman.-Lon-
don Answers.
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ENGLISH AS WORLD LANGUAGE
Writer Sees Strong indication of It's
Supremacy as One Result of
the Great War.

All the indications are that the uni
versal language will be English. Tie
formal draft of the treaty of Versailles
will be couched in the traditional Ian
guage of diplomacy, the language of
Foch and Clemenceau, but the discus
sions at Paris and Versailles wern IN
the tongue which President Wilson and
most of our peace delegates have best
at their disposal. Perhaps it Is no
compliment to us that the European
peaeemakers should be in a position
to meet us more than half way In the
matter of foreign tongues, but the fact
is there.
The French language viii prosper
after the war In more or less perfect
form it will be brought back to Amer
lea, to Australia, to Canada, to South
Africa by soldiers and auxiliary war
workers to the number of many tens
of thousands. But for every Anglo
Saxon whom the war has taught
French it is safe guess that there are
a hundred mid Europeans to whom as
a result of the war, emphasizing al
ready existing conditions, the English
tongue will be brought close to home.
Because the new Czecho-Slovakia must
be in intimate touch with a million
Czechs and Slovaks In the United
States, because there are several mil
lion Poles in this country, because
every one of the new nationallties in
central Europe looks in the first place
to these United States. the American
language will be familiar among all
foreign languages to these people. For
that matter, the numerous commits
sions and propagandas of mid-Europe
which have been busy in the United
States will have brought back with
them the use, If not the idiom, of our
anguage.-Exchange
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Liked rheIr sults

Little Bobbie Swineford. who lives
at New Augusta. Ind, has, at the age
Of two and a half years. become a
very enthusiastic basketball fan. A
few evenings ago the visiting team
came into the gymnasium for little
goal practice, wearing the customary
basketball garh. The color being very
fascinating and the cut OF the suit
looking to Bobbie like something he
had seen before. he turned to his
mother and said, Il think they got
pretty underwears." Indianapolis
Star.