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Fully six months before the New
England farmer brushes up his sugar
camp and begins hanging his pals
on the sugar.maple trees. the Turk
ish yillager in the grape growing pro-
vince og Gazlantep Is producing su-
gar. for home consumption. by very
similar process, says Herman A.
Krcider OF the American board Of
commissioners for foreign missions
IN Istaubul. Turkey.
Gathering as much MS 300 pounds
OF grapes from a single vine. the
growers fill a naturalrock wine press
to a depth of feet and sprinkle on
this mass Of grapes n coating Of
crushed limestone from the surround
ing hills
While two or three men tramp the
press for several hours. the juice
flows into 75-gallon copper kettle
which never cools from the begin
ming 20 the end OF the season.
After the first boiling the juice Is
dipped out rs rapidly rs possible In
10 one or more wooden troughs hav-
Ing plugged holes at various heights
In the end board. The grosser I'M
purities are here preclpitated by the
action Of the limestone. and at the
proper moment the hired "pekmez"
specialist. locally spoken OF az "The
Professor" draws out the upper. ana
later the second plug. allowing the
cleared liquid 10 flow back into the
original kettle
During the second boiling the sur
face impurities are skinned Off and
at the proper stage the sirup is
ladled out into empty kerosene tins
or into small wooden drums especial
ly made for the purpose. Here. aft
or some hours. the s!rup sets 10 the
consistency OF very thick molasses.
In which state Il Is transported and
stored.
The market price Of pekmez varies
according to the abundance Of the
grape harvest. but the best slrup Is
usually available az about one-third
the price Of granulated sugar. A still
cheaper quality. used by the produc-
ers themselves. is the product of
special pressing OF the shells and
husks AT the end OF run" this be-
Ing done by means OF an antiquated
type OF screw press.
The presses and boilers are perma-
nent establishments In the villages.
and are operated day and night dur
Ing the grape harvest season. but the
kettles are so expensive that they
are owned only by city men. who ren;
them To the village press owners for
the season.
A special chewing sweet Is pre-
pared by Introducing starch in the
course OF the second boiling. While
stlll soft this slrup Is painted In n
very thin coat on blankets and left
on the housetop TO dry to a quite
leathery consistency.
Bllssfully ignorant OF physical laws
and chemical equations, the villager
pours into his pekmez liberal por-
tion OF superstition and semIrelIgious
lncantations. The itlnerant drummer
Is on tap night and day during the
season 10 announce TO the community
that Hadji Baba's run is finished and
Husseyn Agha's first kettle is boiling.
Equally depended upon. even If
less evident, are the muttered pray
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had one uttack,
but not n cold
You can be just
over one. and
contract anuth-
or the next day.
So far. meoIi-
cal science has
not been able to
Isolate the germ
that causes the
infectious cold.
The germ Is so
lndnltesl m lily
small that IL
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CHAPTER vI-continued
ii

II
'Pcrpcnd. Markham" Vance was
Eeuialiy patient 1T is highly an.
Asciy-Hot 90 say imposslble-thai
TIE dog could have followed any one
o. Use 'front.' door without being seen.
II size bad been deliberately admit
TED. she would probably have not
been Injured and LEFT behind Gle
poriiercS Therefore. IN ylew of tie
various factors % the situation.
believe the dos catered the house
through an open door. And as the
murderer would not have let the
front door open. We may. as a hY-
Tcthesis. assume that he entered by
the rear door. And this would be
In keeping with the nature of the
crime. Furthermore. Il g. not NJ all
unlikely that be would have left
both the gate and the rear door open
50 that ne could make his escape
without unnecessary noise. In that
case the dog could easily have fol-
loved him In through the open gate
and door. without being seen or
heard And the place where the dog
was found-iust outside the library
door-was logical spot. for the dog
would have come In through the kit
chen and dining room and into the
library"
Yes All that Is quite reason
able But after all. anyone could
have come In the rear door,
Provided he knew the lie OF the
land. wns familiar with all the do.
nestle arrangements-and could
have obtained a key. Also. proyld.
81 he knew that all the servants
would he away that night"
I; vas about half.pas, three when
We returned to the Coe house. The
sergeant was busiling about. giving
orders
I've got something FOR you. sir"
He staggered a little as be led Us
into the library aud pointed 20 the
large center table There's the
poker-and It's got blood on IT,"
Vance went up 20 Il and examined
u closely. He picked something
from II between his thumb and fore
nnger. and went TO the window.
Yes. there's dried blood on 1t
and also a coarse brIndle hair" He
turned and nodded. 1T was this
poker. Markham. which wounded
the Scottie. And undoubtedly. too.
Archer Coe was struck with this
poker. The shape o. Its blunt end
comedies perfectly with the wound
on Archer's head"
He frowned and looked at the
vase In which he had found the
bloodstalns.
And. Markham. that poker be
longs In this room-In that rack be-
side the fireplace. just In front OF
the place on this divan where Arch
er Coe was sitting when Gamble
went out last night More evidence
that something sinister and horrible
preceded the crime upstairs And
II took place In this room"
And" argued Markham. dog.
gedly. Archer Goes body was found
upstairs, with his clothes changed.
and the lights on. and the door bolt.
cd on the inside"
Yeah" supplemented Heath.
and with gun In his hand and a
bullet In his head"
Vance nodded despondently.
Il know all that, Sergeant. That's
the terrible and barling thing about
the crime The signposts OF death
all Indicate this library. yet death
Itself was elsewhere. And there's
no clear road leading between the
two places. By the By, Sergeant
where did you find the pokerYr
That's one on you, sir. You
looked at Il this morning and didn't
see IL I found the poker In that
chest"
The teakwood chest beneath the
east Window You found the poker
an that cheSt7"
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Pekmez May Be Called
Maple Sirup of Turks

ers and "Blsmillahs" OF the village
patrlarchs. who gather around the
steaming kettles 10 swap yarns OF
the bumper crops OF pekmez history.
Boston Globe.
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Doctors Know!
80. and they use
liquid Iaxatives

You'd use a liquid. too, if you knew
how much better it makes you feel.
A liquid laxative can always be
taken in the right amount. You can
gradually reduce the dose. Reduced
dosage is the secret o. real and safe
relief from constipation.
Just ask your own doctor about
this. Ask your druggist how popular
liquid laxatives have become. The
right liquid laxative gives the right
kind OF help-and the right amount
OF help. When the dose is repeated,
instead Of more each time, you take
less. Until the bowels are moving
regularly and thoroughly without aid.
People who have experienced this
comfort, never return to any form OF
help that can't be regulated The
liquid laxative generally used is DR..
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. II contains
senna and cascara, and these are
natural laxatives that form no habit.
II relieves a condition OF biliousness
or sluggishneSs without upset.
To relieve your occasional upsets
safely and comfortably, try Syrup
Pepsin. The druggist has it.
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Named for Cheyenne Indians

Cheyenne, Wyo., was named for
the Cheyenne Indians. The name
is said 10 have been given them by
the Sioux Indians and means for.
eigners" or "alienG."
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End of the Trail

rhe annual crime investigation is about over and Wash
tngtOn can now breathe sigh Of relief or disgust tor it
that this investigation has gone the way Of all others
The House undertook investigation this year through
subcommittee Of the District Committee and it looked for
O time though something might be accomplished.
The committee brought in bitter report District crime
branded the city having abnormal amount of ser
crime.
But developed that the subcommittee findings fact
were questionable, its figures dsputable'
The subcommittee made few constructive recommends
lions.
The constructive proposals were largely overlooked be-
the subcommittee report INDUCED savage per-
sonalties which made much hotter reading.
Then the real work started the crime report.
First of all the recommendation that the ranking officers
Of the police department be retired thrown out
Then the Congress whole refused accept the
endaon that the police force be increased to an adequate
basis.
Then friends of the District Attorney who
mended for dismissal, got busy.
They have succeeded in expungng that part of the
committees report which dealt with the District Attorney
office being attributed various although
is pretty generally believed that Old Man Political Pres
sure functioned in high gear.
The subcommittee found member of Congress dealing
with the police department to give his favore the job Of
Assistant Superintendent.
There was much indignation BUT THE FAvoR1TE GOT
THE JOB
None of the various laws that the subcommittee
nended of curtailng crime has been enacted
And there little likelihood that any Of them will be at
this session.
Now what the of all this investigation with its
sational charges and its serious allegations?
It hasn't given better police force.
It hasn't given of keeping politics out of police
appointments and promotions.
It hasn't given aggressive prosecutors office
All it has done has been to spend money make few head
lines and disturb the ninety of the police force
who seriously and earnestly trying to enforce the law
Nevertheless we'u probably go through the same
procedure next year.
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red man suffered for three cen.
turtles at the hands of the white
man.
On the whole, we can be
proud of the history of our
country and of the history of
the colonies which gave it birth.
But there is one major episode
in that history in which we can
find little but shame.
The treatment of the Amer
lean Indian by the Washington
government and by various
State governments is scarcely
less censurable than the bar.
barous treatment by Spain of it's
unhappy subjects in Mexico and
Central A erica and South
America.
When the white man first
came to these shores in Virginia
and in Massachusetts,, the red
man received him amiably.
When Plymouth colony was
starving, about to be extin-
guiShed by starvation. indeed, it
was the red Indians Of the for
est who came to the rescue of
Governor Bradford and his
people with game and grain.
That was the first Thanksgiving
America ever knew.
But in a little while the friend
ship of the Indian was turned
into bitter hatred by unjustifi-
able. exactions and crueltieS.
And as the white man spread
his dominion westward over the
Cumberland Trace and down the
Ohio River to Tennessee. Ken
lucky and the Northwest Terri"
tory, the same ruthless, relent.
less policy of Selling the lands
of the Indian and discriminating
him to clear title was followed
out.
The common phrase in the
mouths of men was: "The only
good Indian is a dead Indian"
WORD BROKEN
When the civilization of the
white man resumed it's west
ward march to the Mississippi
and beyond, over the Great
Plains. over the Overland Trail
and the Santa Fe Trail, the
story, IN essence, was one of ex-
termination and broken treaties.
Scarcely a treaty ever made by
the United States with an In
dian nation was ever fulfilled.
The five natichs of the South
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Yes, Drive Carefully

An unpleasant pamphlet being circulated throughout the
United States.
It is entitled: "And Sudden Death
describes automobile accdents-not in dry Statistics but
in plain words that will make the most empty headed speeder
think before he steps on the gas.
At the risk of offending super-refined sensbies
quote few excerpts less grisly
working safety poster depict the
itself picture would include motonpcure
effects toothe Hopping pontlesS efforts Of the
stand the grunting the
ing groanng being with pain creeping him
the shock off.
should portray the slack face Of drugged with shock
staring the Zwist his broken Leg the crumped
effect of chds body after its bones crushed inward
realistic portrait of historical with her screaming
mouth.
Etc
ghosts put useful purpose" the article
nues every bad stretch Of road in the United States would
the oncoming moor with and the
educational spectacle Of ten dozen all Sizes
lying horribly still on the bloody grass"
! As said unpleasant pamphlet.
The Readers Digest, which is circulating it, agrees
But auto accidents not pleasant either and this second
hand glimpse Of them should do for the of safety
than ton of figures automobile mortality rates.
Let hope that you are spared F1RsT-HAND glimpse.
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duced in number that it was
thought, half a century ago,
that they were a disappearing
race.
Confined to such reservations
as were doled out to them,
they were swindled unmerci-
fully by thieving Indian agents
and harshly treated by cattle
men and white settlers.
Moreover, the Government
attempted to deprive them of
every vestige of their ancient
culture. But something vital
in the Indian, that something
which enabled him to put up
against vastly superior num-
bers of white foemen one of
the longest and hardeSt-fought
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Evil in Force Bill
Blu James T. Williams, F.

Whether the Senate Commit
tee on Military Affairs will hold
public hearings on the Nye
Force bill to cripple the Reserve
Officers aiming Corps
throughout the Union is a ques-
ton still under consideration.
Further examination, how
ever, of this Force bill shows
that it involves much more
sweeping attack upon the COM
mon defense than appeared
upon the casual reading of the
measure.
Instead of exempting the
land-grant colleges in which
President Lincoln installed a
system of training with the Col
ors, maintained by these institu-
lions until the present, the Nye
Force bill would subject them
to the same Federal boycott
provided for other schools, col
leges and universities.
Under the Nye Force bill,
every State in the Union and
every city in every State main.
tanning the Lincoln system OF
training with the ColorS, would
be deprived of further Federal
aid of any sort unless 1T
scrapped this system and
dropped this training from its
required courses.
When the same reds, pinks
and yellows, with whom the
Nye bill originated, sponsored
a similar measure in 1925, it
was overwhelmingly rejected by
the House. At that time an
attempt vs. made to attach a
rider to the War Department
appropriation bill prohibiting
the expenditure of any Federal
funds in any school, college or
university maintaining the Lin
coin system of required train.
ing with the Colors.
CUTS CRIME
The only exceptions included
in this amendment were a few
essentially military schools. The
amendment was defeated by a
vote of 1862 to so. Congressman
Collins of Mississippi, who
sponsored the amendment, was
repudiated by the people of
Mississippi at the last Sena-
torial election.
The House then took the
view that it would be an un-
warranted invasion of the
rights of the States for the
Federal government to forbid
them to continue a system of
military training commended
by George Washington, installed
in the land grant colleges dur
ing the Civil War by Presi-
dent Lincoln, extended to other
educational institutions after
the Great War by the provis-
ions of the National Defense
Act, and strongly supported by
every President from the Civil
War to the present time.
In opposing this amendment
on the floor of the House in
1926, Congressman Mas of
Minnesota, who, unlike Senator
Nye, is a veteran of the great
war, challenged the supporters
of the amendment "to mention
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10enC. vice EFcSs UdEHeF
When Garner wants to be
facetious, and he usually does
in that rasping way of his, he
is won't to tell people who ask
favorS:
go over to my office and
see my man Friday, Saturday"
People 1Oho don't cnoU the
situation usually think Garner
has been affected by his duties.
There has been considerable
reference of late to the term
"boondoggling" and "boondog-
GLE"
1t is usually used tD11en some
one 1D1ntS to make q rather
Slurring remark about the e.
penditure OF money by the
po1OerS that be.
London'S Punch once said:
"BOOndOggle! 1t is a word to
cOnjure with, to roll round the
tongue; an expressive word to
set the fancy moving in strange
and comforting channels; and
it rhymes with google 'wOggle'
and 'boggle'; three of the most
lighthearted words in the Eng
liSh language.
"It sounds like the grooming
of a mother to her child; like
the bubbling of q brook to q
thirsty traveller"
In a Boy Scout magazine it
was told:
"The word 'bOOndOggle' was
coined out of the blue sky by
a 15-year.Old veteran ScOuter,
Robert H. Link. of Rochester,
N. Y. and has absolutely no
significance except for the fact
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a single instance" where any
-.eServe Officers Training
Corps has been inculcated with
un-American sentiments. AS a
result of careful, independent
study made by him of the re-
suits of this training, Congress.
man Mas gave the House the
following information:
Il want the members of the
House to know that the de.
hnquency records of the coun.
try show a most surprising con.
ditiOn with respect to boys who
have had military training.
The number of boys who have
had military training who get
into difficulty with the law and
with police officers is about one.
fifth of those who have not
had military training, and who
do get into such difficulties"
How false is the charge by
those SapperS seeking to DIES.
troy the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps that the system of
training for which it provides
is an inSidious device to bring
up students as militarists" was
shown b. survey made sew
eral years ago.
Sixteen thousand, four hun
dred and sixteen missionaries
were sent to R. o. T. C. gradu.
ates of the period 1929-l93O,
representing 50 institutions.
Ten thousand replies were re-
ceived.
APPROVED DECISIVELY
OF these 10000 replies, 93.6
per cent indignantly denied
that the R. o. T. c. course of
instruction developed a mill.
taristic attitude inimical to
world peace. Eighty-one per
cent strongly favored the R.
o. T. C. as required subject
in colleges for the first two
years.
Ninety-eight and five.tenth
per cent earnestly opposed abo.
lltion of the R. o. T. C. from col.
legiate institutions either by d.
rect or indirect action. OF more
than SO presidents of colleges
and universities commencing
the system of r. o. T. C. train.
ing, which Senator Nye has re.
vlVed the attempt to cripple, one
of the strongest arguments in
favor came from the president
of the University of North Da.
kota in 1881:
"AS to the r. o. T. C. work be.
ing voluntary" said the then
president of that institution. 81
am opposed to that as a citizen,
because if this policy of prepar.
ednesS on the part of the Gov
eminent is sound, and believe
1t is, then it should be carried
out by men for whom provision
is made by the public for their
preparation for life, and there
is no more logic in having mill. !
tary training voluntary than
there is in having tax-paying
voluntary.
$50 far as I know, the people
who are advocating voluntary
military training are using that
as a method of attack on mill.
tary training"
Copyright. 1885, Washington Times)
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stronger. Motherhood is my
favorite profession. And I'm
all for charging and improv-
ing it and advertising the
Grade A results. But that's the
basis of my present protest.
We're not interested in the
CUNTS because they are Quality
Products-but merely because
they happen to be a Quantity
phenomenon. And this business
of judging the human increase
for Quantity rather than Quail
ity rouses my ire.
We Americans do some curl,
Gus reasoning. No people could
be more inSiStent upon or proud
of quality in their products, pro
vided those products are auto
mobiles, refrigerators, breakfast
foods, prize hogs, beauty creams,
corn plasters, trick roofing or
similar insensate merchandise.
BANKRUPT PRICE
But, to our everlasting shame,
we're the most easily satisfied
nation on earth when it comes
to our human output.
We show a thousand times
more concern over the genesis
of a guinea pig or an automo-
bile tire than we do over the
background and condition of a
human infant. Almost anything
can become a parent in America
and almost anything does.
Whereupon said parent demands
and receives all honors. regard
less of capacity or performance.
Mama may have the intelli-
gence of a fishworm and the
disposition of a rattleSnake. And
Precious Darling may be two
jumps from a congenital idiot.
But s'long as they satisfy Iour
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east were torn from their lands
and driven into the Indian
Territory. BY solemn treaty the
Sioux nation was guaranteed
the region of the Black Hills
for all time. But the discovery
of gold in the Black Hills re-
duced that solemn obligation
to a scrap of paper.
Every Indian war we fought
proceeded from the broken
word of Uncle Sam to his red
wards.
Finally, by the nineties of the
last century, the Indian tribes
had been driven from their
once-vast empire and confined
to small territories, usually
sterile. They had been so re-
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Listen, World
BIZ Elsie Robinson

cute notions of a A Happy Fa-
mily it's jake with us.
AS a consequence, our iailS,
hospitals, reform, schools, in.
sane asylums and breadlineS are
crammed with tn pitiful and
poisonous result of our vicious
sentimentality. And our tax
payers are going bankrupt in
desperate attempt to pay the
price.
Any way you look at it, there
could be nothing more Grim
inally stupid than our excite
ment over mere numbers in
childbirth. BY that reckoning,
a female tarantula, that mum.
bers her offspring by the hun
dredS, has it all over Mama
Jones.
Wherefore, I'm starting this
one-Woman revolt against this
wholesale and indiScriminate
Quint celebration. Not that I'm
inSinuating the CUNTS are any.
thing but perfect. And here's
my personal and Lightly enthu.
slaStlc kiss on each curly top
knot.
count ME OUT"
But suppose beneath all those
dimples they aren't ideal honey
punches? Who'd know? Or
care? Has anyone given a mo-
ment's concern to the QUALITY
OF these adorable mites? Do we
think of the consequences of
their possible mass stupidity
or is anyone taking steps to
avert those consequences? No.
We are simply Tickled Pink
because there are five of 'em
instead of one, and we won't
be a particle concerned, for at
least sixteen years, as to their
actual nature.
Then what? Why, then we'll
act as we always dolly all to
pieces and raise hell if they
happen to be a public pain-in.
the-neck. And never dream of
laying the blame on ourselves.
So I repeat-I'm sick of see.
ing pictures of the CUNTS, hear.
ing stories about them, or listen
ing to broadcasts about the;r
First Tooth and First Step. And
I refuse to be excited because
there are five times as many
babies as in a normal birth.
Give me, says I, Certified Par
ents and babies that are up to
the standard, as far as it's pos
sible to produce them. Then,
and only then, will see reason
for all this wild whoopee. But
as for applauding indiscriminate
filters count me out!
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