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‘The Secret Kingdom
3 A Greater Vitagraph Romance of Royalty.
{ Both Princess Julia and Philip Find Themselves
Chief Factors in Some Stirring Events.
K A A B IS
By Louis Joseph Vance and Basil Dickey.
Tenth Episode,
¢Copyright, 1917, by the Btar Com
pany. All Foreign Rights
Reserved) |
INSTALLMENT 6. |
ADUNTLESELY the two sssayed
D that heart-rending task, The
descent of the one mountain.
#de required 01l of an hour, the ford.
ing of the torrent at the bottom half
of another, the ascent of the other
mountain upward of two hours mare,
The brief tropic twilight impanded
when they arrived at length at the
point where the path struck away
from the brink of the chasm.
No Bigns of Ramon,
Thelr cautions reconnottering dis.
wosed no signs of Ramon, Unques
tionably, thigking them discouraged
to the point of abandoning the pur
puit, he had gone on, with Julia added
to his company.
Night fell as the two fagged man
Jogeed at i dog-trot down the moun
tainside to the gloomy and woodgd
depths of A wide valley
And with the setting of the sun they
heard again that sound which had so
troubled Phillp ere he had forgotten
it In sleep the night before,
But now its goblin rhythm was loud
and seemingly near at hand; ite dread
monotony was llke the pulsing of the
heart of a haunted world; its throb
bing filled the valley, reverberating
from the hfisides that walled it In,
with sinister thunderings.
An hour later the moon topped the
rampart of the hills and lighted them
on their biind, uncertain course.
Thanks to its Illumination, they
were able to find again the path from
which they had strayed in the black
ness, and so presently a man running
In witless panic was thrown into their
arms.
Promptly seizing him, they dis.
armed him of a rifie; then they turned
his face to the light and identified
hm as one of the Swamp Adder's
crew.
In response to their demands, the
Cuban panted out a hasty sketoh of
Ramon's pursuit, of his bargain with
the voodoo woman, of the safe deliv
ery of the Princess into his hands.
Immediately after this, it appeared,
the witch had taken herself off, and
Ramon, satisfled that Phillp and Juan
could never overtake them, had re
sumed the journey into the Interior.
Shortly after nightfall, when the
whole company was suffering acutely
with hunger, they had encountered a
negro leading a young goat with gar
landed horns—a sacrificial goat, ac
eording to the Cuban, dedicated to
the rites of Voodoo. Ignoring the
§uide's remonstrance when his offer
to purchase the animal for food was
rejected, Ramon had struck the negro
dead with the butt of his rifle and
taken possession of the goat.
Some time later, halting in a forest
clearing to kill and cook the animal
for supper, the party had been sur
s:d by an infuriated mob of Voo-
L wuhlpfifl. In the brief strug«
m‘whhh lowed, the guide had
chuuenfo. But he had seen
the Princess Julla made captive by
the negroes and carried off to be a
substitute for the sacrifice which their
dread god had been denied.
~ “A goat without horns'” had been
the burden as their shouts as they
dragged the girl away.
» A Terrible Prospect.
Such is the phrase by which a hu
man sacrifice Is termed among the
devotees of Voodoo.
Abandoning the guide to resume his
fMght, Philip and S\un blundered on
through the baffling obscurity of the
g:‘le, guided to their goal only by
muttering of the voodoo drum,
In Our Wonderful World
- What becomes of the milllons of mil
lons of pins turned out annually by the
factories? If they mersly ‘“got lost”
our floors and streets would be littered
by them. They not only ‘got lost,”
but they vanish by rusting away to
dust. Doctor Xavier, a Paris scientist,
kept observation on individual speci
mens. He found that an ordinary halr
pin took only 184 days to blow away in
dust. A steel pen lasted just under
fifteen months. A common pin took
eighteen months, while a polished
steel needle took two and a half years
10 disappear. |
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Mineral waters are easily analyzed
by means of the speciroscope, as shown
by M. Jacgues Bardet, and this is like
ly;o prove one of the best methods
for this work.: He sends a beam of
dight through the water to be ana
lyzed and thence through the spectro
#seope prism, in order to permit of ex
‘amining the spectrum, this method re
vealing very minute traces of metals.
He finds the most varied metals in dis-
Jerent’ samples of mineral water, and
even the rarest metals, such as ger
manium and galllum, which are very
rarely found in nature.
; ’ . " .
Although a eontinually greater supply
of petroleum is being placed on the
market, this increased output is secured
_only by sinking more wells and boring
%0 a greater depth, showing that the
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8o elusive was that sound _ that
chance alone oan be credited with
bringing them to its source, A dozen
times they went astray in the mase
of paths that threaded the jungle
When they were on the verge of de.
spalr, of A rudden they came out isto
a wide glade more than half filled by
la great house of thateh and watties
from within which came the rolling
groans of the drum, punctuated ever
| and anon by eerie shrieks of the fren.
| #led worshipers,
There ware no guards without the
structure to hinder them. Cirecling
roand It, the two arrived at a point
whence they oould spy through a wide
entranoe,
Though roofed agalnst the moon-
Bght, the interfor was brightly ifu
minated by the flames of many
torchas. ‘
Baoks all to the entrance, rank upon
rank of squatting negroes, men und‘
women, faced a stone altar of un-‘
couth design against the farther wall,
Before this altar was a wide clear
space, in which a fire of bluish lames
was licking up from a basin of stone,
To one side squatted an aged negro,
the priest of the drum, his hands
playing incessantly over the taut sur.
face of that huge Instrument.
Between the fire and the altar the
voodoo woman of the lowlands, naked
to the walist, was performing a cere
monial dance, holding out before her,
in both hands, at arm’'s length, a
great sacrificial knife,
Athwart the altar lay the Princesa
Julla, bound and helpless, her head
hanging back over the edge, her
throat a taut invitation to the knife.
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With half a dozen whispered words
to Juan, Philip left him and ran to
the back of the structure, pausing im
mediately behind the altar. 'l'hore,‘
throwing himself upon his knees, he
tegan to tear away the wattles of
the wall,
Staadfast at his station, Juan walt
od, gtving Phillp every second of time
he dared.
At length, however, he might hold
his hand no longer. The dance was
ending amid a demoniac chorus of
shrieks and yells, all dominated by
the rowring of the voodoo drum. CCom
ng to a dead standstill of a sudden,
the priestess faced her audience, hold
ing the knife high above her head,
till the tumult stilled. |
Then, turning, she advanced upon:
the vietim, |
The knife was polsed when Juan,
the rifle at his shoulder, pulled the
trigger. The Maxim silencer muffied
the report to a slight cough. The
priestess spun round like a top, t.uwl
complete revolution, then fell back
ward into the basin of fire,
Screaming with terror, excited by
this death that fell like a thunder
bolt for swiftness, yvet unlike it in its
awful silenee, the worshipers sprang
to their feel. As they did so, Juan
dropped three more-—the drummer
and two others. This completed the
panic of the rabble. In a trice they
were milling madly through the en
trance, making the night wild with
their cries,
Lowering the rifle and keeping
within the shadow of the jungle walls,
JuanJrln round the structure and
Join Philip.
The latter was at that moment
dragging the bound body of the Prin.
cess through the opening he had
made.
A moment later she was unbound,
and, with the arms of both men for
support, was being hustled in wild
haste through the jungle,
l (End of the Tenth Episode. The
first instaliment of Episode Eleven
will appear here tomorrow,)
surface supply Is becoming exhausted.
At the beginning of this century the
wells touched 1,100 feet, and today the
average level of the oil may be placed
at 2,000 feet.
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Earthquakes are subterranean distur
bances propagated through the earth in
& series of elastic waves. How they
originate is not clearly known. Many
are assoclated with volcanic actlon,
while just as many occur without any
evidence of such association.
. ..
It is belleved that ultra-violet Il{ht
rays are largely responsible for the
fading of museum specimens in show
cases, and experiments are now being
made with a view to obtaining giass
which will be at the same time colorless
and inexpecnsive. .
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Professor Boss figures the transcon
tinental velocity of the sun through
gpace 149 mileg ror second. He re
gards the speed formerly obtained by
spectroscopic methods, namely, 13.4
miles per second, as subject to syste
matic error.
A Phonetic Mishap.
A gentleman who had married his
cook was giving a dinner party, and
between the courses the good lady sat
with her hands laid on the tablecloth.
Suddenly the hum of voonvufl‘tlon
ceased and in the silence that followed
’ young man on the right of his host
ess sald pleasantly:
“Awful pause!”
“Yes, they may be.” sald the one
time cook, with heightened color, “and
X::“ would be Mk’ them If you had
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“No.” Under the frowning mask that the ugly faeries try to hold
down fast and tight, if you are clever to stoop and look beneath
'Good Housekeeping Recipes
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
FLL, sed Pa, T see some of the
W courts has risen in thare might
& gave a desishun aggenst
moving pictures on Sunday. Thay are
wise old Daniels, them gents, sed Pa.
& the peepul that semt them thare
has to be the goats.
Maybe thay thot it was all for the
best, sed Ma.
Ha, Ha, sed Pa, I imagine so, 1 im
agine so. They thot it best to keep
peepul that works all the week from
going to & play house with thare chil
dern & looking at butiful picters in
sted of setting at hoam & looking at
the majestick East River, Pa sed.
You must obay the laws, sed Ma,
thay are made by older & wiser heds
than ours.
Thay are wise enuff along sum lines,
sed Pa, It is a cinch they are wiser
than the gents that voted them into
offis. The next thing we know, them
Judges will fix it s 0 we won't have any
bunday papers to reed. Maybe thay
won't let us go to the labor of eating
on Sunday, Pa sed. It shud be a day
ofrrut. thay say. Then why eat?
ou will always find sum place to go
on SUM.?’. sed Ma.
Maybe, | will, ’:. sed, but thare are a
lot o(.pupul who work hard all the
week walt for Sunday to cum so
thay can taik thare kiddies to see a
nice picter, & now that the wise 'ludtea}
has ufl Nix, ware will thay talk the
Uttle kiddles that bas waited all the
‘week for Papa to taik them to a pret
‘ty picter. 1 wonder if thay will all
i-pend the day In thare limosins, Pa sed,
‘or if thay will com-promise by staying
in thare poor little flats. It is a grand
ol wurld, sed Pa, & it is getting no
better vary rapid, as the old Irishman
onst sed. .
You bhaven't had much respeck for
the law since the time youy got fined
for speeding, sed Ma. It was a good
Joak at that, Ma sed, to think of that
old car you had evver doing such a
thing as speeding.
I have as much respeck for the law
@8 the next man, Pa sed to Ma, but |
must say that 1 haven't got much re-
Speck for sum of the old boys that tin
ker with it. Having met sum of them
in a soshul way, sed Pa, wen thay was
drawing two cards to a three-flush, I
can’'t say that I reegard them
un beeing any Daniels. Most
of them are as human as
the rest of us & a littel moar so, if it
iß_ human to make mistaiks.
You shud have been a Judge, deer
est juv, sed Ma. How smooth yom
wud malk everything §O. You wud
dent pick on anybody's good times,
wud you,
I can tell w one (1) thing I wud
dent do, sed Pa, If I was a Judge, that
wud talk a -In‘lo minnit of pleshur
away from ilttel children. You can
bet yure new fifty dollar hat on that,
Pa sed.
Then Ma laffed & patted Pa on the
heek. | beelleve you, deer, she sed.
Yot are o pritty right old feller,
there you find, perhaps, a smiling “yes” face with all the faeries that
go with it crawling out on rosy wings. Most every girl is “two-faced,”
{ and you mustn't always believe the one on top! ~NELL BRINKLEY.
Little Bobbie’'s Pa
All measurements are level, stand
ard half-pint measuring cups, table
spoons and teaspoons being used. Six
teen level tablespoonfuls equal a half
pint. Quantities are sufficient for six
people, unless otherwise stated. Flour
11.. sifted once before measuring.
' Bpanish Codfish or Haddock.
Two pounds fresh codfish or had
dock, 2 cupfuls cooked tomatoes, 6
eggs (or less, if desired), 6 green pep
pers, 1-3 cupful olive 011, 1 teaspoonful
salt, 1-8 teaspoonful pepper, a little
‘paprika, 3 ¢loves of garlic and 3 large
onions.
Boil and flake the codfish; chop on
fons and garlic together and shred
peppers In small pleces. Heat the
olive oil, add the onions and garhc
and fry to a golden brown. Then turn
in the peppers, seasonings, tomatoes
and the codfish. If the mixture is not
moist enough, add a little extra tom
ato juice or water. Simmer slowly
for an hour, and combine with the
egas. which have been slightly beaten.
Return to heat and cook for two or
three minutes without allowing the
mixture to boil. It should be stirred
constantly. Serve with bolled rice.
Salmon Chops.
One tablespoonful butter, 1.8 tea
epoonful pepper, 2 tablespoonfuls
flour, 1 cupful dried white or entire
By NELL BRINKLEY.
Copyrigtt, 1017, International News Service,
wheat bread crumbs, 1 cupful milk, 1
teaspoonful salt, 1 can salmon.
Make a white sauce thus: Melt the
butter. add the flour and seasoning,
and blend well. Add milk slowly,
stirring constantly. Cook until mix
ture thickens. Add to this the bread
crumbs and salmon, which has been
drained and washed after removing
skin and bones. Shape Iltke chops,
roll in flour. Put a stick of macaroni
In the end to simulate the chop bone,
Fry in deep hot fat. Serve with peas
and small potatoes. Flour, in this
:«;ue. is used instead of the usual eggs
and crumbs and thus eliminates the
additional cost of eggs In a dish of
this charcater,
| Cabbage Au Gratin.
Two cupfuls chopped boiled cab
bage (seasoned' lightly with salt and
pepper), 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 ta
blespoonfu] butter, 1-2 cupful but
tered crumbs, 1 cupful milk, few
grains of pepper, 1-2 teaspoonful salt,
1-4 cupful grated cheese.
Put the chopped cabbage into a
buttered baking dish; pour over this
white sauce, made as follows: Melt
the butter, add flour and seasoning,
and blend well. Add the milk grad
vally, stirring constantly, and cook
until the mixture becomes thick.
Cover with buttered crumbe and
grated cheese and bake until brown.
SUFFRAGE
Edited by Mrs. Emily MeDougal
MEETING of the county central
committee of the Equal Sus.
frage Party was held at head
quarters, No, 111 North Pryor street,
this afternoon. The report of the
chairman of the organization com
mittee was interesting. A number
of parlor meetings had been held In
different wards of the city at which
addresses had t;un made by able
suffragists, who were in Atlanta for
short visits, either upon business or
pleasure, A peport from the treasur
er of the tea-room and shop for the
first month’s business was more en
couraging than the most optimistic
had anticipated. It is well worth the
helpful co-operation of all suffra
gists. as a means of fulfilling our ob
ligations in the victorious struggle
which women are making for the up
lift of women and children through
out the nation,
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URGES WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
At a meeting of the Boosters’ Clud
in Augusta a few nights ago, which
wag largely attended by prominent
men and women of the city, Judge
Henry C. Hammond, one of the most
brilliant men in the South, made a
r'nging speech for a greater Augus
ta and paid an eloquent tribute to the
helpfulness of women in public af
fairs. He sald he would welcome the
day when women would be given the
ballot.
“In this sordid thing of politics,”
he said, “we need you, mothers, wives,
daughters of Augusta—need your
moral and refining Influences. You,
exercising the ballot, are to be our
redemption. Men have made a mess
of it. If in the counclls of the na
tion#® the voice of women had been
raised and heeded, who {s it that
would dare to say that this man
slaying tragedy of a world-war would
now be in enactment?”
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VICTOR YIN INDIANA,
The novel features of the Indiana
situation are set forth in the follow
ing telegram received by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman, president National Woman
Suffrage Association, from the legis
lative couneil of Indiana: ,
“Senate partial suffrage bill, un
amended, passed the House, 67 to 24.
When signed by the Governor In
diana women will vote for more of
fices than any other State excepting
those having full suffrage. For the
first time in history women will help
elect delegates to a State Constitu
’tional Convention, with vote for rat
ification of the Constitution which, in
ithll case, will include the privilege of
‘women voting themselves full suf-
Mrage. Indiana women present to the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association fifteen electoral votes."
~ This makes the third complete suc
cess registered since January 1 in
the efforts of suffragists to obtain the
passage of presidential and munici
pal suffrage.
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EDUCATOR AND THE VOTE.
Since education ceased to be the
peculiar possession of the clerie, the
training of children has been, up to
adolescence at least, largely In the
hands of women. They have taken
possession of a field vacated, in a
large measure, by men. The 1910 cen
sus shows almost four times as many
women as men teachers in the United
States; the rchool figures for 1913
show' more than four times as 1| any
girls as bo)s actually training in the
normal schools. If it is right and nat
ural tc expect those who bring chil
dren up and form their minds, then
the invasion of education by women
is right and natural, and women
should rightly have a large part of the
control of education, and, as profes
sionals, should be pald at least the
same wages As men. This has not
been the case, however, in the past,
and the great reason for it has been
because women have not had the vote.
As proof of this, women educators in
the equal suffrage States are better
off as to “honors apd emoluments”
than those of the nonsuffrage States.
No male State has an equal pay
statute among ite school laws. Of the
twelve equal suffrage States flve—Ne
vada, California, Ilinois, Oregon and
’tah—have equal pay statutes, In
Arizona, Kansas and Montana the
particular class of position carries ite
own salary, regardless of sex, and
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'This Boy Isn’t
“Dosed” f
ose or
CrouporColds
His Mother Oays—'‘When the
Oildren Are Croupy I Just
Apply a Good Application of
Vick's Vapoßub Salve at
Bedtime, and Go to Sleep,
Sure That the Little Ones
Will Be All Right.”’
Mre. M. Z. smx;r;, 8;0 Wood street,
Johnstown, Pa., is one of the many
mothers who have found the South
ern remedy—WVick's Vapoßub Salve,
much better than internal medicines.
Mrs. Smith writes:
“1 ind your Vapoßub the finest
remedy for croup and colds that |
hgve ever used, and now we would
not be wit.hmx_t__l_t, as we ?)_ava two
children and they are
both subject to croup.
I use Vapoßub as a
"-Htch in time'—put on
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appoiniments are made on the basly
of experience and record. The four
States which remalnr have no equal
pay law. But there seems littls nead
for special legisiation to protect wom.
en on this point, for these are the
four States in which women are mog
completely In econtrol of the 4 108~
tional system. In each of these fowr
States the head of the educational .
partment is a woman, and has hea
ever sinca the granting of woman guf.
frage.
The State of Washington, whieh in.
cidentally, stands first in the [Unjiad
States In the excellence of it publia
education system, according to the
Russell Sage Foundation Btudy on
Public Schools, has, besides a woman
Commiesioner of Education, two oyt
of its other five State educational ex.
ecutives. It is a significant and inter.
esting fact that one-half the oounty
superintendents in the United Btatas
are _women, and that two-thirds o
these women superintendents ars to
be found in equal suffrage States
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HALF DAY FOR WORKING
WOMEN.
French military authorities in De.
cember made regulations for wors.
ing women with children to Bpend a
half day only in military kitchens
laundries and offices. The National |
Council of French Women urges man
ufacturers to adopt the same plan
believing that the half day, with the
minimum wage, will prove to be ihe
best - principle for working out the
economic role of the women wil
young children to care for.
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BRYAN EMPHASIZES SUPPORT,
When interviewed in New York on
February 2 by Mrs. Robert Adamson
and Mrs. Willlam Colt, Mr. Brvan
gave them this signed statement
“I am in favor of woman suffrage.
State and national. Tam anxious to
see it adopted In every State and bv s
national amendment. [ hope the Dem.
ocratic party will take the lead in this |
great reform.
“W. J. BRYAN"
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A WAR REFENDUM,
Representative Callaway, of Terxas,
recently Introduced in th~ House 4
measure providing for a referendum
to the men of the country op (he |
declaration of war. This is in re
sponse to the resolutiong that have
been passed by many BToups o. peo
ple in the last week calling on (on
gress and the President to practics
democracy by vesting the right
declare war in the people of the
United States instead of in Congress
A referendum vote by men alone
on war would make clearer than e\or
‘before the injustice of unequal suf
frage, since war weighs equally on
both men and women.
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WOMEN IN MUNITION PLANTS.
The Russell Sage Foundation in its
investigation into the working hours
of women_ reports that in Bridgeport,
Conn., there are 4,000 women ecm
ployed in the Remington (. M. (.
Company plant making cartridges to
be shipped to the battle fields of lu
rope. In order to circumvent the
law of the State, which forbids r»m]
working of women after 10 o'clock
at night, these women are given two
hours at that time for rest, but
promptly at 12 o’clock as snon as m!d
night ushers in the next day, the
resume their labors. Owing to the
loose phraseology of the law, it fails
to designate at what hour of the
morning women can be put to work
This condition proves the ahsolit«
necessity for revising the factor
laws so that women shall be pro
tected from this terrible overstrain
and from the diseases Incident to that
industry. Shorter hours are consid
ered as esgential for ‘increased pro
duction as well as for the conserva
tion of the workers' strength. In the
case of these munition workers, thr
have been induced to work long hoi
by the high wages and to satisfy th
urgent need of speed. At the san
time. this increase in wages has beer
parallelled by the increase in the co= X
of living, and the increase In the
number of labarers, caused an un
precedented rige in rents. These poor
women therefore have ruined thelr
health without improving their con
dition financially.
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