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torrents; my head swan; all was
black. and l went down benG* th them
to Oblivion.
CHAPTER xt.
Chained in Warhoon.

Sndthe0 IN "dFhOOh.
1t must have been several hours he
fore ] regained consciousness. ] was
lying among pile of sleeping silks
and fu.S in the corner Of small room
in which were several green warriors,
and bending over me was an ancient
and ugly female.
As opened my eyes she turned to
one of the warriors, saying:
He will live, . Jed"
IT'S WE'LL replied the one so adj
dressed. rising and approaching my
couch. ''he should render rare sport
for the great games"
And now ;ts my eyes fell upon him.
| saw that ne was no Thank. for his
ornaments and metal were not of that
horde. He was Il huge fellow, terribly
SCARED about the face and chest. and
with one broken tuSk and a missing
ear. Strapped on either breast were
human skulls and depending from
these a number of dried human hands.
HIS reference to the great games of
which | had heard so much while
among the Thanks convinced me that
] had buy jumped from purgatory into
g5henna.
| was strapped securely to as wild
and unmanageable a thOat as | had
ever seen, and. with n mounted war
riOr on either side TO prevent the beast
from bOIting, we rode fOrth'at a furi-
Gus pace in pursuit of the column.
Just before dark we reached the main
body of troops shortly after they had
made camp for the night. ! was i'm
mediately taken before the leader. who
proved to be the jeddak of the hordes
of WarhOon.
Like the jed who had brought me.
he was frightfuify SCARED, and also
decorated with the breastpiate Of hui
man skulls and dried dead hands
which seemed to mark all the greater
warriors among the WarhOOns. as well
as to indicate their awful fProcty.
which greatly transcends even that Of
the Thanks.
The jeddak, Bar COmas, who was
comparatively young. was the object
Of the fierce and jealous hatred of his
lieutenant. Oak K0va, the jed who had
captured me. and | could not but note
the almost studied efforts which the
latter made to affront his superior.
He entirely omitted the usual for.
mai salutatiOn as we entered the pres.
ence of the ieddak, and as he pushed
me roughly before the ruler he ex-
claimed in Il loud and menacing voice /:
81 have brought a strange creature
wearing the metal of n Thank whom It
IS my pleasure to have battle with a
wild thoat 1T the great games"
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Uncle Sam Goes in for "Ratproo6ng"

s. c. Sullivan, has been ordered 10
New York to 90 into the "ratproofng"
question.
The commission also will visit Bos-
ron and make recommendations for re-
organizing the service there.
Surgeon General Cummings said to-
night that 1t was the hope not only to
lessen the danger OF disease being
brought into this country, but to build
nm a quarantine service which will
eliminate much of the delay u han-
ding shipping. ~ T
The fact that several uses II
typhus recently appeared in New York
stressed the importance of a thorough
overhauling Of the quarantine work.
There is nothing alarming in the stu
alton. but Surgeon General Cummings
feels that every precautiOn should be
token and the most efficient organiza-
tion possible created because Of the
extent of disease abroad.
In most of the port cities extensive
are taken TO decrease the
danger of rats from shirs getting into
homes and business buildings along
the waterfront.
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Battling for life in the arena
of Green Martians.
CTO BE CONTINUED
NOT THE ORDINARY ROMANCE
Happily Married Man Has Something
Different to Say About the
Darling of His Heart

She wasn't exactly handsome, and
yet you couldn't call her plain.
Her features were irregular. hut
interesting. as | heard one of her
friends remark.
For instance. one pearIy ear of
r1atchless beauty was an inch or 50
lower than the other.
And her teeth were so splendidly
different from the usual. The absence
of twO of them in front relieved the
mOnotony of the faultless rows of
mOlars that most girls have.
Then again she had habit of held
ing her mouth open so that if there
were the slightest breeze stirring 1t
would whistle weirdly in and out of
the space between her teeth.
Her eyes were tishy blue. and slight
ly crossed, so that in walking she
could not help tripping over her own
feet.
She also tOed-in trifie. and when
she sit!fed down the road, daintity trip
ping in her own charmingiy original
way. people stopped to look at her.
1t used TO crafty my vanity to no
stared ut so whenever went out With
her.
In fact, may as we'll out with II.
found her so fascinating that ] mar
ried her. And ours has been the hap
by union.
She never hOres me. She Is con-
tlnual source of interest. keep find
ing new things wrong with her every
day.-LOndOn Answers.
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princess of Helium. / might wiring
mighty ransom from your people
would l but return you to them I'M
harmed but a thousand times rather
would l watch that beautiful face
writhe in the agony of torture; it shall
be long drawn out, that promise you;
ten days of pleasure were all too short
to show the love ! harDOr for your
race. The terrOrs of your death shall
haunt the SlumherS of the red men
through all the ages to come; they will
shudder in the shadows of the night
as their fathers tell them of the awful
vengeance OF the green men; of the
power and might and hate and cruelty
of Tai Hajus. But before that torture
Won shall be mine for one short hour,
Tardos MOrs, Jeddak Of Helium. your
grandfather. that he may grOvel upon
the ground in the agony of his sorrow.
Tomorrow the torture will commence;
tonight thou art Tai Hajus'; come :"
He sprang down from the platform
and grasped her roughly by the arm,
bur scarcely had he touched her than
leaped between them. My short
sword, sharp and cleaning, was in my
right hand; | could have plunged it
into his putrid heart before he realized
that ! was upon him; but as raised
my arm TO strike | thought of Tars
Tarkas, and. with all my rage. with all
my hatred. could not rob him of that
and hoped all these long, weary years.
and So, instead, | swung my good right
fist full upon the point of his jaw.
Without a SOUND he slipped to the floor
as one dead.
In the same deathiy silence | grasp
ed Dejah ThOris by the hand and, mo-
ti0ning to Sofa to follow, we sped
nOiselessly from the chamber and TO
the floor above. Unseen we reached
rear window and with the straps and
leather Of my trappings l lowered first
Sofa and then Dejah ThOriS to the
ground below. Dropping lightly after
them | drew them rapidly around the
court in the shadows of the buildings,
and thus we returned over the same
course ] had so recently followed from
the distant boundary of the city.
We finally came upon my thoats in
the courtyard where l had left them.
and placing the trappings upon them
we FASTENED through the, building to
the avenue beyond. Mounting. Sofa
upon one beast. and Dejah ThOris be-
hind me upon the other, we rode from
the city of Thark through the hills to
the south.
No word was spoken until we had
left the city far behind, but l could
hear the quiet sObbing of Dejah ThOris
as she chung TO me with her dear head
resting against my shoulder.
If we make it, my chieftain, the
debt of Helium will be a mighty one;
greater than she can ever pay you;
and should we not make it," she con-
tiDued! 1.-The debt is no less. though
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Helium will never know, for you have
saved the last of our line from worse
than death"
did not answer, but instead
reached to my side and pressed the
little fingers Of her loved, where they
chung to me for support, and then, in
unbrOken silence, we sped over the yell
low, moonlit moss; each of us occu-
pied with his own thoughts.
Our earlier plans had been so sadly
upset that we now found ourselves
without food or drink. and alone was
armed. We1herefore urged our beasts
to speed that must tell on them sore
~ before we could hope to sight the
ending of the first stage of our journey.
We rode all night and all the follow
ing day with only few short rests.
On the second night both we and our
animals were completely tagged. and
so we lay down upon the moss and
slept for some FIVE or six hours. taking
up the journey once more before day
Hight. All the following day we rode,
and when, late in the afternoon. We
had sighted no distant trees. the mark
of the great waterways throughout all
Barsoom. the terrible truth flashed
upon us--we were lost.
Evidently we had circled, but which
way it was difficult to say. nor did II
seem possible with the sun to guide
us by day and the moons and stars by
night. At any rate no waterway was
In sight, and the entire party was al
most ready to drop from hunger. thirst
and fatigue, Far ahead of us and a
trifie to the right we could distinguish
the outlines OF low mountains. These
we decided to attempt to reach in the
hope that from some ridge we might
discern the missing waterway. Night
fell upon us before we reached our
goal and, almost fainting from weari-
ness and weakness, we lay down and
slept.
i was awakened early in the morn
ing by some huge body pressing close
TO mine, and opening my eyes with a
start l beheid my blessed old Woola
smuggling close to me: the faithful
brute had followed us across that
frackless waste 10 share our fate,
whatever It might be. Putting my arms
about his neck. ! pressed my cheek
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urq on6 Comp pony

after first determining as nearly as
possible which of the buildings she oc-
cupied, for l had never observed them
before from the court side, took adj
vantage of my relatively great
strength and agility and sprang up
ward until | grasped the sill of sec
ond-story window which l thought TO
be in the rear of her apartment. Draw
ing myself inside the room l moved
stealthily toward the front of the
building, and not until | had quite
reached the doorway of her room was
made aware by voices that it was &C.
cupied.
did not rush headlOng in, but lis
tened without to assure myself that II
was Dejah ThOris and that 1t was safe
to venture within. 1t was well, indeed,
that / took this precautiOn, for the
conversation | heard was in the low
gutturals of men, and the words which
finally came to me proved most time
Nv warning The speaker was chief
tain and he was giving orders to four
of his warriors.
"And when he returns to this cham
ber," he was saying, 'as he surely will
when he finds she does not meet hifa
at the city's edge. you four are 70
spring upon him and disarm him.
When you have him fast bound bear
him to the vaults beneath the jeddak's
quarters, and chain him securely where
he may be found when Tai Hajus
wishes him. There will be no danger
of the girl returning, for rby this time
she is safe in the arms of Tai Hajus,
and may all her ancestors have pity
upon her. for Tai Hajus will have
none; the great Sarkoja has done d
noble nights work. l go. and if you
fail TO capture him when he comes,
commend your carcasses to the cold
bosom of ISIS"
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MOST of the decorations on the
AVA capitol at Washington are the
work of the Italian artists, according
to an article by Prof. Enrico SartOrio
In "Carroccio," an Italian magazine,
published in New York.
The dome was decorated by young
Italian painter. Pietro Bonani, who
had previously worked in Rome. He
died in 1919. The cast Of the Statue
of Liberty was done by Causici, who
died before he could put it into mar
bic.
As the hall of representatives
neared completion, in 1906, Giuseppe
Frazoni and Giovanni Andrea, sculp-
tors, were brought over from Italy.
Their work was destroyed when the
capitol was burned by the British dur
ing the war of 1912. The clock in
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Everyone Wants BergdoN Home Again

to discuss the possibility Of his extra
diti0n by Great Britain for violation
Of British passport laws. but did say
that he assumed that if the state of
war between the United States and
Germany We're declared at an end
eNtraditiOn of the draft eyader would
be possible.
Ii was said that the state depart
meHt had made no request Of the Brit
iSh government that il assist in bring
Ing BergdOll TO justice. Bergdou es-
capped into Germany by obtaining a
passport in Canada. Un0rr the Brit
iSh law. Justification of a passport is
a felony punishable by Imprisonment,
and in diplomatic circles the opinion
was advanced that the British gov
eminent could demand that the Ger
man government surrender BergdOll
for trial. Doubt was expressed
whether he could be returned to the
United States by British authorities.
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RECAPTURED.

Synopsis.-The author tells of his
acquaintance with the hero of one
of the most remarkable adventures
ever recorded. From a manuscript
left by his friend he has wildly set
out the strange happenings which
brought together a brave Virginian
gentleman and a Princess of Mars.
In the Arizona hills John Carter,
mining prospector and eX-Confed-
crate soldier, fleeing from a war
party OF Apaches, takes refuge In
a cave the atmosphere of which
has a remarkable effect on him.
Yielding to its influence he sinks
into unconsciousness, his last
thoughts conferred on the glow from
the planet Mars. Awaking, Carter
realizes that he has. in some in
comprehensive manner, been trans
ported to Mars. He is captured by
Tars Tarkas and a party of Mar
tan warriors. He is conveyed, a
prisoner, to a Marian city. Three
days later a feet of airships from
the neighboring state of Helium is
attacked by Carter's captors, the
green Martians. One of the air
ships is captured. Among the pris-
oners is young woman of a race
different from the green Martians
and closely resembling the women
OF the earth. Carter ascertains
that the fair prisoners name is
Dejah Thoris. granddaughter of the
teddak, or ruler, of Helium. Ac-
cording to custom she is doomed to
die by torture. He fights for her
and assures her of his sympathy.
John learns the language and be-
comes a chieftain, though still a
nominal prisoner Dejah is put In
charge of Sofa, a friendly woman.
The two prisoners plan to escape
before Dejah Thoris is taken be-
fore the supreme ruler of the green
Martians, Tai Hajus. John fights
a sword duel to the death. Sofa
tells her unique secret,
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Rules

of accounts and thousands of employ
ees. Congress, they argued, it was
shown by the terms of the bill and
the record of its passage intended
the commission to he a supervisory
body, and, they argued, congress
showed its intent when it limited the
appropriations for the commissions
work to 100000 year
By amended regulations, the power
executives maintained, the govern
ment could do the work with a small
personnel and at a moderate expen-
diture by utilizing the services of the
army engineers. Present regulations,
1t was argued, were contrary to intent
of the law.
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French Claim to Mont Blanc.

Mont Blanc, the monarch of noun
tains," as Byron called IL, is mainly in
France, and the ascent is commonly
made from Chamonix. Chamonix and
Mont Blanc are in the French de-
partment of Haute-SavOie. And the
fact that most persons believe them
to be in Switzerland annoys the
French very much indeed. especially
the residents of that region. So there
is a campaign on foot now TO rebap-
tie the department de la Houte-
Savoie" and call 1t department du
Mont Blanc"
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w ASHlNGTON.-"We are going TO
W get BergdoIl if 1t is possible to
get him. Secretary Weeks declared
In discussing the case Of the PhfIa-
delphia draft eyader now in Germany,
Il don't believe we will recognize 8nv
statue of limitation in his case if one
should exist"
Secretary Weeks would not say
what steps would be taken to get
BergdOIl out of Germany. He refused
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what game or birds are needed for
their actual necessities when short o:
food. All other hunting and killing
Of wild life is prohibited and offend
ers are liable to a fine of $500 or six
months Imprisonment, or both. and
will be adjudged to pay the cost OF
the proceedings.
With the completion Of the govern.
sment railroad from Seward to Falr-
banks, which approaches the south
eastern corner Of the park within M
teen or twenty miles, tourist travel to
Mount Mckinley Park will be an ac-
cOmplIshed fact.
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A SURVEY of methods in "ratproof-
"A ing" will be one Of the important
features of the work of commission
sent to New York to study quarantine
conditions by Surgeon General Hugh 5.
Cummings of the public health serv-
Ice.
The commission is headed by DR.. ].
r. White an expert on quarantine who
fought successfully the yellow fever
endemic in 1908. Associated with
him will be Doctor Glover. who was
for years chief quarantine officer at
San Francisco, and DR.. A. ]. McLaugh-
lin, another authority on quarantine
work. Assistant Sanitary Engineer b.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-05
DRUED|NG TEAM
IN FIELD AGAIN
Former College Stars Signed to
Play for Uptown Ball Club
This Season

The Drueding baseball team has or
Ganized for the ason Of 1921 under the
management Of Charles Carter. formerly
OF the Northeast Professionals. He has
secured a fast combination TO represent
the club and the lineup includes High,
formerly Of Swarthmore Tyler, OF Cor
nell: Bryant. Of New York University,
and Wctzel. OF the Paterson Silk Socks.
The pitching will bc taken care by
by Bremen. formerly Of the Chatta.
nooga Southern League team. and
Sharpley. Of Oil City. Behind the bat
will be Fletcher. Of Brooklyn. Other
Park, and Jasket, formerly OF Gibson
A. A.
Drucding would like to arrange games
with first class clubs, especially those
, on the schedule last season. Address
Charles Carter, 51S West Susquchanna
avenue. or phone Diamond 1885.
Quaker City Pros Busy
The Quaker City Pros have big sea
son ahead, and 10 date have been booked
as the opening attraction by six of the
DIX teams in this section. They de-
| leated Conshohocken Of the Montgomery
on the latter's field.
The Pros were scheduled to travel to
Souderton, champions Of the Mont
gomery County League, last Saturday,
but Jupiter Pluvins put dent in their
plans. The game on Sunday at Phil
| hpSburg, \. j., was also Cancelled on
| account Of rain.
Quaker City will travel to Lansdale
on Saturday and oppose Lansdale OF
the Montgomery County League. A
few dates are still open for home clubs.
Address Manager. 504 Norris street.
Norristown Pros Open May 9
The Norristown Pros open the homo
Q. with Hllldalc. The Pros will be
managed by Howard Lohr. former
Philadelphia outfielder, from the bench.
while tho business supervision will be
in charge Of DR.. James 7. Farrell.
The lineup includes Bill Haeffncr.
last year with the Pirates. as catcher !;
Morgan. Gibson. McKcnty and Tarr,
pitchers; Eube eastman. first: Ally
McWilliams. second; Pres Cruthers.
short Peploski. third; Dick Spaulding,
Sid Agnew. Howard Lohr and Stew
| Harkness. outfelderS.
Mervine A. G. has booked many i'm
portant games for the coming season.
Contests have been arranged with Mel
rose. of Atlantic City; Hunting Social.
burlington. Collingswood, Bartram Park
| and West Park SparrOws. Games are
pending with Badcr, OF Atlantic CITY.
and Pottstown. Manager Rarock still
has open dates on May l4-2l, Memo
rial Day two games and dates in
June. Teams playing on Saturday or
Sunday should get in touch with Her.
bert Barock, 026 North Eleventh
street.
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ARMY MAY ENTER
RELAYS IN 1922
West Pointers Would Meet the
Navy in Special Race, If Per-
nitted by Authorities

hr relay carnival OF tho University
~ PCnnsyIvania may have the other
branch Of tho service, the Army, listed
~ a contestant next year. II reports in
collegiate circles are true.
Major DAILY. the West Point foot
nal coach Major Phillip Hayes. who
> the officer in charge Of all athletics
'hc n Point, and Lieutenant Elmer
olphant. one Of the greatest Rridiron
warriors ever to play against the Navy
eleven, were present at the relays last
"""H. II is said that they were greatly
Impressed with the big carnival and
after seeing the Navy run in several
races on" of the party is reported to
nay" said that they would start the
bal n rolling for the Army to be entered
III The games next year.
Since permission was granted this
wear 10 the Navy TO enter the carnival
for the first time in its history it is
hardly unlikely that the other branch
OF the servic" will be denied the priv
ilege of having its athletes compete.
George Orton. the publicity man of
the University, and the man who IS re-
SNnnSiblc for the great success Of the
relays, sayE that ne has been desirous
OF having special Army Navy race
for the last fifteen years.
h' .NdNN mas Hbu a lIdNh Ntuul ltl
many years. but until recently the Army
has been without one. BY recent
order Lieutenant Oliphanr was assigned
10 the Point TO get the Army men into
shape for track and field sports. II is
said that he has a great array Of ath :
lCtes working out daily and that they
are capable now Of meeting most any
college team in the country.
Next wear. after this year 5 expert
cnCe. the men from the Army are eX-
pNCted TO cut wide swath in college
track affairs. The annual MILDLY Army
track and field championships of the
future should prove almost as inter-
esting as the gridiron struggle between
the two schools.
II is a surprising fact, but true
ono. that George Orton has already
started in to prepare for the carnival
next April. II find it necessary said
Orton this morning, 10 get ready for
rho races Of the noXr year the day after
IN" present years races are finished.
With The contestants numbering we'll
over the 5000 mark and the necessity
for Classifying Of SO many schools and
colleges it is easily realized how much
time Is necessary TO get the relays over.
New schools and colleges. knowing OF
the fame Of the relays, write in early
10 have their names affixed to the pro-
gram for tho following year