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I f. J I H 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY 1 HI Koran were committed to the flames. For more than 1,200 years HI Othman's text had been preserved in Mahomet's holy city of Medina h and had been duly venerated. t Y General Allenby, ai'ter conquering Palestine, approached Medina H and the accursed Enver Pasha, tyrant of Turkey, retired to the Hi north. With him he took the Koran of the Caliph Othman. HI But why, it will be asked, should the book be restored to the Hj ; King of Hejaz ? Four years ago there was no King of Hejaz. There H was only a Sultan's viceroy in Arabia, ruling over the sacred cities of i Mecca and Medina and all of Araby. H ' Know, therefore, that the present King of Hejaz is that very h viceroy. Neither he nor his predecessors had borne strict allegiance K ; Constantinople. Being, as is believed, a direct descendant of Maho- jH ; to the usurper in Constantinople. Being, as is believed, a direct de- B sccndant of Mahomet, who, as we know, was an Arabian, he held in M t contempt the descendant of the Seljuk invaders who pretended to rule by right divine the temporal and spiritual kingdom left by the 1 Prophet. Joining with the allies some time in 1916, the Arabian ruler fought loyally on their side until Turkey, capitulated and now, as one M I of his rewards, he demands and justice sustains him in demanding 1 the restoration of the Koran which was purloined by that monster, m I that betrayer of the people, Enver Pasha. 1 But what of the skull of the Sultan Okwawa? Its history is 1 much more obscure than that of the Koran of the Caliph Othman, but H its sway over the minds of men is not dissimilar either in character ij or influence. It is the symbol of power and authority to millions of B natives in central and southern Africa. They look up to its possessor a as the rightful sovereign. Without it, the ruler is no more than a H pretender. He can assert and maintain his sovereignty by one thing B and one thing only the skull of the Sultan Okwawa. H How the skull came into the hands of the Germans and thus en- H abled them to rule more or less peacefully in East Africa will furnish H forth an interesting narrative when all the details are made public. H ( There is story going the rounds that once it was in the possession H ' of the representatives of the mighty monarch of the Northland, his H Brittanic Majesty, George V, king of Great Britain and Ireland and H Emperor of india. If so, the symbol of kingly power was H lost or stolen and passed into the hands of the Teuton, who going Hl down to defeat, secreted it and carried it away with him. Like the H sword "Excalibur," which was a sacred symbol of power and author- H ity in lengendary Britain, the skull of the Sultan is needed now by H ' his Brittanic Majesty for the peaceful extension of British rule in H the African domains wrested from the wicked Kaiser. 1 -r H -K -T H- AVE ATQUE VALE. IT is difficult to conceive of an act more heroic than that of Harry Hawker, the Australian, and Commandant Grieve, his navigator, H who, for the honor of the empire, risked and lost their lives in an at- H tempt to fly across the Atlantic. The empire was worth of the sac- H , rifice, but the little men who sit in the admiralty office in London H are about as worthy of Hawker as a company of overfed snails are H worthy to be ranked as thoroughbred race horses. H The competition was not for personal glory. It was a contest H between nations for the honor and glory of nations. t Hawker would H nt have risked his life simply to win the crown of victory for himself. H When he saw that the United States was about to wrest 'lie palm H from the British empire he could not endure the agony of remaining H idle on the coast of New Foundland. H Taking to the air in a biplane he essayed to fly 1500 miles to H Ireland. Not only did he dare the perils of the sea, but he dropped H his landing outfit so that he was almost sure to smash his machine H , and injure himself when, if he won the contest with Death, he tried H to nd on the Irish coast. The American airmen were as brave as Hl ' he but it required incomparably more courage to attempt his feat than K theirs. H The American navy deserves due credit for its wisdom in plan- Bf ' ning and its energy in executing its plans to help the American avi- Hi jl ators achieve victory. Had the British admiralty, moved by pride of H j country, acted with as much promptness Hawker probably would I1 have won the British empire the honor that now belongs irrevocably H to the United States. . B American soldiers say Europe has nothing like "good old Ameri- can tobacco." That's because Europe raised kings while we raised cabbages. v m Germany looked over the president's fourteen points again to see whether it was "self-determination" "or self-extermination." I When the Americans in Arizona heard that the Mexican prov- ince of Sonora had gone wet it had a kind of sonorous sound. I H One paper said the American aviators sailed to "Trespassy." I It probably seemed that way to the New Foundlanders. ' I , M It is now alleged that the Germans called the Scot soldiersthc- H "Ladies from Hell" because they played the bagpipes. H I When congress repeals the "luxury tax" we won't have to pay so much for the necessaries of life. ispmngT EXCELLEWT! l - f A"NTVON That's the way they describe 0. COAL Jesse Knight's -for Spring Canyon i SPRING Coal TIM ,- It is a fuel that you gladly - reorder. 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