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THE FARMER: FEBRUARY 12, 1917
OMAN AND
EVENTS 07 INTEREST
DOMESTIC HELPS AND
IN SOCIAL CIRCLES
AIDS TO HOUSEWIVES
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TODAY'S POiiM
INVTTA MINERVA.
The Bardling came where by a rive
grew,
Tit srsnon ' reeds, that, as the west
wind L?w,
vtleamed and sighed plaintively, as if
iiey knew '
What music slept in each enchanted
; 2a each stem,
- Till -Dan should choose . some, happy
' f one of them, '
.And with wise Hps enlife it, through
and through.' . ,' v ..
The Bardling thought, "A pipe is all
. I need: j'
Once I have sought me out a clear,
smoth reed, "
'. And shaped It to my fancy, lproceed
To breathe such' strains as, 1 yonder
mid the rocks, ,
i The strange youth blows,-that tends
1 ; Admetus' flocks. , i
And all the maidens shall to me pay
heed." , . - S
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The summer day-he spent in questful
' 'round,;'. V U . ' '
And. many a reed he marred, but
never found V
A conjuring-spell to free the impris
oned -sound.
At last :lns vainly wearied limbs he
. laid ' ., :
Beneath , a sacred , laurel's flickering
shade,; . ' ; .
And sleep about' his brain her cobweb
wound. ; ' ' ; ., , - , ' j
Then " strode . the . mighty Mother
' through his dreams, :
. Saying: "The reeds along a thousand
i ... streams . '
Are mUie', and ; who is he tha't plots
. and -schemes J "'.,''';' , -
. To share the.) melodies wherewith my
breath - . ,
Sounds through '' the 'double pipes of
Life and Death, " 1 . .
Atoning what 1 to," men mad- discord
. seems? "''-O ,
"He' seeks not me, but. I seek oft in
varh W : " v,:'-,
For him 'who shall my voiceful reeds
', . constrain, ,V ;..
.nd make them utter their melodious
pain;::: .;j.;-. v - ';vj , . v ;
He flies the immortal gift, for well, he
, knows'--1,, , ; j
His life of life, must ' with ; its over-
; flows .; . , , - ;
Flood 'the unthankful pipe, nor come
"4 '' again.- ' .'J-."'. ? , - .; ';
1 ' . - . - :
"Thou . fool, who dost ' my harmless
subjects wrong, .
' Tis not the singer's .wish that makes
'': theibig; ' - ' '.'
The rhniic5 beautywnders - dunjjj,.
. ; - how long, ; . ' ' - - ;' f
Nor stoops' to any' daintiest " instru
ment, y.'j :) '. ;
Till, f 6und its mated lip"s,their ' sweet
'. consent i .- v. . J'
Makes mortal breath : than Time and
Fate more strong." '
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James Bussell Lowell.
.This is ; a quiet, season ; for police
work, etcept where ; the i; Republican
and -Progressives are hol'dlng harmony
dinners. ; , ..
How can the men "get alohgr if the
women discard their encumbering
skirts for overalls and? compete with
them on even terms?
"Tounf man," said an I inquisitive
old lady to a tram -conductor, "if I put
my foot on that rail shall I receive an
electric shock?" , ,
"No,-mum," he replied,' "unless you
place your other foot on the overhead
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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
, The strike of electrical workers Vnd
other trade unions at Washoe smelter
of the Anaconda Copper Co.' has been
settled.
The Federal Trade -Commission , has
completed its news, print paper inves
tigation and will send its report to
Congress Monday. ' . v
; Henry Eben Burnham, United States
Senator from New Hampshire from
1901 to 1913 is dead. .' -
, The French Cabinet tdecided on the
reduction in the number of pages of
the daily newspapers. ; i ,
The United States government
placed a $3,000,000 order with the
Midyale Steel Co. for 16-inch guns. -
, Gold coin to the amount of $510,000
was withdrawn from, the Sub-Treasury
for shipment to South America.
, A .heavy guard was placed on the
double track railroad bridge across
the Mississippi river at Thebes, 111.
About $500,000 will be spent by the
Ttchison, Topeka & Santa , Fe Rail
way Co. for theinstallation of block
signals.
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LAURA JEAN LIBBY;S DAILY TALKS ON
HEART TOPICS
, Copyrighted, 1913. McCl are Newspaper Syndicate
DO INEXPERIENCED
YOUNG COUPLES FIND
HOUSEKEEPING FUN ?
"Old men look troubled, youth alone
grins
Not knowing when a man marries his
trouble begins, .
When ' I was single my pockets did
jingle, '
I wish to the Lord I was single
again." ,
Was there ever any very young
couple who considered anything but
love when they met on . Monday, he
called Tuesday, went out for a walk
Wednesday, he proposed Thursday,
parents gave their consent Friday,
married on Saturday, went for a day's
honeymooning on Sunday, started
housekeeping on Monday? - Do they
ever dream ' of . the seriousness of the
whole business? The youth's t heart
was caught in the meshes of the young
girl's curls. That was all there was
about it! She was very young and
j pretty. He thought of nothing beyond
I that. Ten to one the girl had never
! cooked a meal in her whole life. Many
a mother has such a way of keeping
.her daughter's white hands from la
borious work. Notwithstanding that,
the girl plunges into housekeeping as
though it were the greatest fun, in
stead of the solemnest, hardest of du
ties. :' ,'.' :"'
The person who wrote ' the article
on: "Housekeeping made easy," has
a lot to answer for in giving doubtful
advice to inexperienced young house
keepers. She says: "A dinner can be
got up in twenty minutes. Warm over
a can . of. corn, - which is three-fourths
cooked. 'Av five cent carton of Sar
atoga chipped potatoes needs ibut a
few minutes' . warming over in the
oven. Delicatessen sliced tongue needs
no preparation. A pan of pork and
beans from. , the same store can be
served cold or heated. A-coffee pellet
can be dropped into hot ;water. Lo,!
you liave. a bubbling hot coffee fit for
a king. A little luke-warm water,
mixed with flour and lo you have
delicious biscuits' ; ;
Why wouldnf a bride consider that
she is getting out of the toils of housekeeping-mighty
easily. Blithely she
tries her hand in this sort of cooking;
But the frown on . young hubby's face
tells her more plainly than words that
there's a mistake somewhere. It
doesn't ' take long . to have ;tho, new
hubby sick on her hands- He will
have to go back to mother, or. she will
have to learn to cook good substan
tial meals in the old-fashioned way,
to keep a man fit for work. !-..-,-
The first slap hubby gets at mother-in-law
is: "Why the Sam Hill didn't
she teach her girl to cook?" Of course
she learns in time, but it takes time,
vexations, burned hands and aprons,
and tears. The "Housekeeping made
easy" article did not mention that
there were -dishes to wash and pots
and pans to scour. Every girl should
take a course in housekeeping before
txiping gaily to the altar.
I CORNER i OC Cuuikd S
The educational . department, New
England Fish Exchange, has sent out
the following fish recipes of famous
chefs: " , .''; '
Lobster Bungalow Style.
(By Grant II. MacGillivray, Quincy,
House, Boston.);
Cook Ihree ounces butter, two tea-
- '
kspoons finely chopped , onion until
brown, stirring constantly. To this
add two teaspoon's flour and stir until
well blended, then pour on gradually
while stirring one cup -stewed and
strained tomatoes, well seasoned with
salt and paprika; bring to boiling
point. Add 1 1-2 cup lobster meat
cut small; 2 teaspoons Sherry wine;
serve hot in lobster shell.-
Lobster Supreme.
One lobster cut in ice, 1 ounce but
ter, 1 cup cream, 1 gill vinegar, 1
hard boiled egg, chopped fine. Melt
butter in pan. When hot add lob
ster, and season with paprika 'and
salt, also a dash of Sherry wine.
When the lobster begins to crisp, add
the vinegar and boil until the vine
gar is reduced to half, add the cream
and boil for two" minutes. Serve on
hot toast garnished with the chopped
egg and chopped parsley.
Finnan Haddie A La Tokio.
1 pound finnan haddie, cut in dice,
2 teaspoons, butter, 1 teaspoon flour,
1 1-2 cups thick cream, 1-2 red pep
per cut Julienne. Scald the fish in
boiling water, then place in pan with
cream and peppers. Boil five min
utes. Soften the butter with the flour
and add to thicken the sauce. Cook
for two minutes adding salt and pap
rika to taste, a dash of Sherry wine
enhances th flavor and hard boiled
egg chopped fine may be added if de
sired. The dish is now ready to
serve, but, it is vastly improved if
sprinkled with a mixture of bread
crumbs and grated. cheese and baked
in hot oven to a golden brown.,
Fresh Crab Hakes. ,
One green pepper, 1 red pepper,
6 fresh white mushrooms, 1 pint
heavy cream, 1 pound fresh crab
flakes, 2 cups mashed potatoes. Cut
peppers and mushrooms. Julienne.
111 "" -.u-v-t
add the cream and boil five minutes; ;
with salt, paprika and fresh butter.
Remove and put in bking dish. Gar
nish with , potato border and place in
oven to brown.
. - Oyster Salad.
Bring to a boil four dozen small
oysters in their own liquor, skim and
strain; season with a little salt and
pepper' and vinegar. When cold add
about half the quantity of chopped
celery and a cup of salad dressing;
garnish the dish with celery leaves
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
(Correct name and address mnst bo
given to insure attention, not to print
Cso ink. Write short letters, only o
one side of paper. Address Miss Idb
bey, 010 President Street, Brooklyn
N. Y.)
FATHER MUST SET . v
HIS FOOT DOWN
Mr. H. C. writes: "It may seem
strange a man of 52 asking advice of
a woman but I think you can set me
right as to the following: I have. two
daughters 17 and 19. .My girls have
begun to defy me and my authority,
aided and abetted by their mother.
They insist upon going to' dances (that
are held in a hall over a' saloon) three
or four, nights a week, not coming
home until two or three o'clock in the
morning. The young men who take
there visit the bar between dances, I
am told, and can hardly keep their
feet in seeing them home. I would
put a stop to it pretty quick, but my
wife won't hear to.it. Sfhe says the
girls won't get married unless they
can go to dances, and after matri
mony, the boys will sober down. Can
you do anything to help my argument
that this is not so?" '
As a father, you have not only the
right but .it is your duty, to safeguard
your foolish,, but thoughtless, daugh
ters. Attend each and every dance
from start to finish. Censor critically
the conduct of these -young men, and.
all others who participate. ' If you find
it as bad as ydu fear put your foot
down gently, ', but firmly, against their
attending these dances. It is a grave
danger to allow young girls to be
alone, at. night, in company with In
ebriated youths, who, in1 that condi
tion; are anything but safe, depend
able escorts.
GIVE THE CliOWN A CHANCE.
Miss C. B. writes: "I am a young
woman- of 20, an orphan living eco
nomically on the interest of .what my
parents left me which is Just enou'gh,
with little or nothing to spare. A
young man connected (as clewn) with
a circus- and earning a large salary,
who has been wintering here, has pro
posed marriage. I am in a quandary
as to. whether I should accept him or
not. I care for him but the problem
is, if I , married' him would I have to
travel about ' with him constantly, a
day in a town, which would tire me to
death very quickly or, after marriage,
live alone, seeking my. husband only
a few weeks in winter, each year?
Please advise."
' It would certainly require the wis
dom of Solomon to decide this case
wisely. Love must : b your pilot. If
you love him so well that you cannot
give him up, wed him and trust blindly
to the future for a' happy married life.
If your heart is but lukewarm toward
him, give some, other girl who can
love and a appreciate him a chance of
winning him. ; '
and thin slices of lemon, sprinkle with
parsley over the top.
Potato Salad.
Have your potatoes perfectly col4
and cutthem in small chunks, then
I chop or grate teaspoon of onion arid
iui ii in me potatoes. Mix thoroughly
with one cup 'of salad dressing.
Salad Dressing.
One-half pint ' vinegar, . pinch of
salt, two-thirds cup of sugar; set to
simmer;, take one-half cup of sweet
cream,, one egg well beaten, one tea
spoon of cornstarch, one teaspoon of
ground mustard; strew these well to
gether and stew into the boiling vine
gar. boil a' minute, stirring constantly
one . way. '
Lobster a La Quincy.
One live lobster; butter, size of egg,
1. large onion, 2 teaspoons beef broth,
1, carrot, 1 small glass Sherry, 1
small glass brandy. Cut lobster in
dice shape, melt butter and when hot
put in lobster, keep covered. - Chop
carrot and onion together, add to lob
ster and season with salt. Cook for
as-few minutes, then add Sherry.
Cooking must go on incessantly over
hot fire. When cooked remove from
fire and add glace de viands, stirring '
well. Mix the tomale frpm a boiled
lobster with butter and add to the hot
lobster, sprinkle with chopped parsley
and serve. . '
Boston Schrod Rarebit a La Quincy.
Two pounds Boston Schro'd, 11-2
pounds old American cheese, .juice 1-2
lemon. Bone and skin fish, cut in
halves and put in chafing dish with
bufter, salt, paprika, and lemon juice.
Cook thoroughly in separate dish.
Plaee the cheese well ground up with
a little ale.. Fait, Worcestershire sauce,
English mustard, paprika and mush
room catsup;; bring to boiling point,
stir constantly until cooked; then
turn into the fish dish and serve hot
on hot toasted bread. Place ?i,in
slices of broiled bacon on top.; Y
HIGHWAY INSPECTORS EXAM.
I
An examination for inspectors of
contract work on stt-.te highways and
other state work will be held at 1:30
o'clock on the afternoon of Feb. 26 in
the state civil . service room at thp
Capitol. Several appointments will be
made. The entrance silrv win
made,
a aay ana upwar(js Applications may
be filed up to noon on Friday. Feb. 23.
A WOMAN'S APPEAt
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neuralgia pains, to write to her for a hoi
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Tee . Gods
d Mars
By
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Copyright by Frank A.-Munsey Co.
(Continued)
'Again she spoke to them, but in
tones so low I could not catch the
words, ancl then she started toward
the opposite side of v the chamber with
the six mighty monsters trailing at
heel.
One by one she sent them through
the secret panel into the room beyond,
and when the last had passed from the
chamber where we stood in wide eyed
amazement she turned and smiled at
us and then passed through herself,
leaving ns alone.
CHAPTER VI.
Thuvia.
OR a moment neither of us
spoke. Then Tars Tarkas said:
"I heard the fighting beyond
the. partition through which
F
you passed, but I did not fear for you,
John Carter, until I heard the report
of a revolver shot. I knew that there
lived no man upon all Barsoom . who
could face you with naked steel and
live, but the shot stripped the last ves
tige of hope from me, since you I knew
to be without firearms. Tell me of it.''
: I did as he bade, and then together
I we soyght the secret panel through
which' I had just entered the apart
ment the one at the opposite end of
the room from that through which the
girl had led her savage companions.
' To our disappointment the panel
eluded our every effort to negotiate its
secret lock. We felt thai once beyond
it we might look with some little hope
for success for a passage to the out
side world.'
The fact that the prisoners within
were securely chained led us to believe
that surely there must be an avenue of
escape from the terrible creatures
which inhabited this unspeakable place.
Again and again we turned from one
door to another, from the baffling gold
en panel at one end of the chamber to
its mate at the other, equally baffling.
When we had about given lip all hope
one of the panels turned silently to
ward us, and the young woman "who
had led away the banths' stood once
more beside us.
"Who are you," she asked, "and
what is your mission that you have the
temerity to attempt to escape from the
valley Dor and the death you have
chosen?'V ' : . A
"I have chosen no death, maiden," I
replied. ''I,am not of Barsoom, nor
have I taken yet the voluntary pilgrim
age upon the river Iss. My friend here
is jeddak of all the Tharks, and, though
he has not yet expressed a desire to
return to the living world, I am taking
him with me from the living lie that
hath lured him to this frightful place.
, . "I am of another world. I am John
Carter, prince of the house of Tardos
Mors, jeddak of Helium. Perchance
some faint rumor of me may have
leaked within the confines of your
hellish abode."
She smiled. '
"Yes," she replied; "naught that
passes in the world we have left Is un
known vhere. I have heard of you,
many years ago. The therns have oft-
times wondered whither you have flown
since you had neither taken the pil
grimage nor could be found upon the
face of Barsoom." ? '
"Tell me," I said, "and '-who are you
aiid why a prisoner, yet with power
over) the ferocious beasts of the place
that denotes familiarity and authority
far beyond that which might be ex
pected of a prisoner or a slave?"
"Slave I am," she answered, "for fif
teen years" a slave in this terrible
place, and now that they have tired of
me and become- fearful of the power
which my knowledge of their ways has
given me I am but recently condemned
to die the death."
She shuddered. V
"What death?" I asked.
"The holy therns eat human flesh,"
she ianswered me, "but only that which
has died beneath the sucking lips of a
I Lbokvd to See Her Torn to Pieces.
plant roan flesh from which the defil
ing blood of life has been drawn. And
to this cruel end I have been con
demned. It was to be within a few
hours had your advent not caused an
interruption of their plans."
"Was it then holy therns who felt
the weight of John Carter's hand?" 1
sked.
"Oh, no; those whom you laid low
are lesser therns, but of the same cruel
and hateful race. The holy therns
abide upon the outer slopes of these
grim hills, facing the broad world,
from which they harvest their victims
and their spoils.
"Labyrinthine passages connect these
caves with the luxurious palaces of
the holy tbems, and through them
pass upon their many duties the lesser
.therns and hordes of slaves and pris
oners and fierce beasts the grim in
habitants of this sunless world.
"There are within this vast network
of winding passages and countless
chambers men, womenj and beasts,
who, born within its dim and grew
lonie underworld, have never seen the
light of day nor ever shall.
"They are kept to do the bidding of
tne race of therns; to furnish at once
their sport and. their sustenance.
"Now and again some hapless pil
grim, drifting out upon the silent sea
from the cold Iss, escapes the plant
men- and the great white apes that
guard the temple of Issut and falls
,.in to the remorseless clutches of the
1 therns, or, as was my misfortune, is
coveted by the holy thern who chances
to be upon watch in the balcony above
the river where it issues from the
bowels of the mountains through the
cliffs of jrold to empty into the lost
sea of Konis.
"All who reach the valley Dor are,
by custom, the rightful prey of the
plant men and the apes, while their
arms and ornaments become the por
tion of the therns, but if one escapes
the terrible denizens of the valley for
even a few, hours the therns may claim
such a one as their own. ,
"And again the1 holy thern on watch,
should he see a victim he covets, often
tramples upon the richts of the unrea
soning brutes of the valley and takes
his prize by lfoul means if he cannot
gain it by fair. f ...
"It is said that occasionally . some de
luded victim oBarsoomian superstl
tion will so far escape the clutches of
the countless enemies that beset his
path from the moment that he emerges
from the subterranean passage through
which the Iss flows for a thousand
miles before it enters the Valley Dor
as to reach the very walls of the tem-.
pie of Issus. But what fate awaits one
there not even the holy therns . may
guess, for who has passed withm those
gilded walls never has returned to un-
! fold the mysteries they have held since
the beginning of time.
"The temple of Issus is to the therns
what the valley Dor Is imagined by the
peoples of the outer world to be to
them. It Is the ultimate haven, of
peace? refuge and happiness to which
they pass after this life and wherein
an eternity of eternities is spent amid
the delights of the flesh which appeal
most strongly to this race of mental
giants and moral pygmies."
"The temple of Issus is, I take It, a
heaven within "a heaven," I said.. ?Let
us hope that there it will be meted to
the therns as they have meted It here
unto others."
"Who knows?" the girl murmured.
"The therns, I Judge from what you
have said, are no less mortal than we,
and 1 yet have I always heard them
spoken of with the utmost awe and
reverence by, the people of Barsoom
as one might speak of the gods them
selves.". ' ' -
"The therns are mortal," she replied.
"They die from the same causes as you
or I might those who do not live their
allotted span of life, 1,000 years. By
the authority of custom at, that time
they may take their way in happiness
through the long tunnel that leads to
Issus. ' i. ' v
"Those who die before are supposed
to spend the balance of their allotted
time in the image of a plant man, and
it is for this reason that the plant men
are held sacred by the therns, since
they believe that each of these hideous
creatures was formerly a thern." .
"And should sa plant man die?", I
asked. '.''
"Should he1 die before the expiration
of the thousand years from the birth
of the thern, whose immortality abides
within him, then. the soul passes into
a great white ape. Should the ape die
short of the exact hour that terminates
the thousand years the soul is forever
lost and passes for all eternity into
the carcass of the slimy and fear
some silian. whose wriggling thou
sands seethe in the silent sea beneath
the hurtling moons when the sun has
gone and strange shapes walk through
the valley Dor."
"We sent several holy therns to the
silians today, then," said Tars Tarkas,
laughing.
"And so will your death be the more
. terrible ' when it comes," said the
maiden. "And come it will. You can
not escape."
"One has escaped, centuries ago," I
reminded her, "and what has been
done may be done again." .
"It is useless even to try," she an
swered hopelessly.
. "But try we shall," I cried, "and
you shall go with us, If you wish."
"To be put to death by mine own
people and render my memory a dis
grace to my family and my nation? A
prinVe of the house of Tardos Mors
shou'ld know better than to suggest
such a thing."
Tars Tarkas listened in silence, but
I could feel his eyes riveted upon me,
and I knew that he awaited my an
swer as one might, listen to the read
ing of his sentence by the foreman of
a Jury.
What I advised the girl to do would
seal our fate as well, since, if I bow
ed to the inevitable decree of age old
superstition, we must all remain and
meet our fate in some horrible form
within this awful abode of horror and
cruelty.
"We. have the right to escape if we
can," I answered. "Our own r moral
senses will not be offended if we sue-,
reed, for we know that the fabled life
of love and peace in the blessed valley
of Dor is a rank and wicked deception.
"We know that the valley Is not
sacred. We know that the holy therns
are not holy; that they are a race of
cruel and heartless mortals, no more
cognizant of the real life to come than
we.
"Not only Is it our right to bend ev
ery effort to escape; it is a . solemn
duty from which we should not shrink,
even though we knew tbat we shculd
be reviled and tortured by our own
peoples when we returned to them.
"Only thus may we carry the truth
to those without, and, though the like
lihood of our narrative being believed
is remote, wa would be craven cowards
were we to shirk the plain duty which
confronts us.
"Again there is a ctiance that with
the weight of'the testimony of several
of us the truth of our statements may
be accepted and at least a compromise
effected which will result In the dis
patching of an expedition of inves
tigation to this hideous mockery of
heaven."
Both the girl and the green warrior
stood silent in thought for some mo
ments. The former it was who eventu
ally broke the silence. . .
"Never had I considered the matter
in that light before," she said "In
deed would I give my life a thousand
times if I could but save a single soul
from the awful life that I have led in1
this cruel place. Yes, you are right,
and I will go with you as far as we
can go, but I doubt that we ever Bhall
escape."
I turned an inquiring glance toward
the Thark. :
"To the gates of Issus or to the bot
tom of Korus," spoke the green war
rior; "to the snows to the north or to
the snows to the south, Tars Tarkas
follows where John1 Carter leads. I
have spoken." - '
''Let us go!" I cried. "We must
make the start, for. we could not be
further from escape than we now, are,
in the heart of this mountain and with
in the four walls of this chamber of
death." v, ' ; t
"Come, then,", said the girl, "but do
not flatter yourself that you can find
no worse place than this within the
territory of the therns."
So saying, she swung the secret panel
that separated us from the apartment
in which I had found her, and wo
stepped through once more into tha
presence of the other prisoners.'
There were in all ten red Martians,
men and women, and when we had
briefly explained, our plan they decided
to Join forces with us, though, it was
evident that, it was with some conskl-
The Girl Raised Htr Revolver and Fired
Point Blank at Him. ,
erable misgivings that they thus tempf
ed fate by opposing an ancient super-'
stition, even though each knew through
cruel experience the fallacy of its en
tire fabric. i
One of these prisoners, a red Mar
turn Doy, particularly attracted me..
There was something strangely famil
iar about his face, and yet I could not
place him. I asked him his name, and .
he said it was Carthoris. '
Thuvia, the girl whom I had first
freed,- soon had the others at liberty
Tars Tarkas and I stripped the bodies
of the two therns of their weapons, :
which included swords, daggers and
two revolvers of the curions and riond.
ly type manufactured by the red Mar
tians. ... ' '
We distributed the weapons as far
as they would go among our follow
ers, giving the firearms, to two. of tle
women, Thuvia being one so armed.
With, the latter as our guide we set
off rapidly, but cautiously, through a
maze of passages, crossing great cham
bers hewn from the solid metal of tha
cliff, following winding corridors, as
cending steep inclines and how and
again concealing ourselves In dark re
cesses at the sound of approaching
footsteps.
Our destination, Thuvia said, was a
distant storeroom, where arms and am
munition in plenty might be round.
She was to lead us to the summit of
the cliffs, from where it would require
both wondrous wit and mighty fight
ing to win our way through the very
heart of the stronghold of the holy
therns to'the world without.
"Ana even tnen, u prince, sne cnea,
"f Vi-i arm tt tVia firtlir f ViT-n 1 lAn Tfc
reaches to every nation of Barsoi, "
His secret temples are hidden in th
heart of every community.
"Wherever we go, should we escape,
ws shall find that word of our comir.s
has preceded us, and death awaits us
before we may pollute the air with our
blasphemies." '
We had proceeded for possibly an
hour without serious interruption and
Thuvia had Just whispered to me that 1
we were approaching our first destina
tion when on entering a great chamber
we came upon a man, .evidently a
thern. ' 1 . ..
(To be Continued.)
He Absence makes the heart crow
fonder
She No; presents. -Tbrar.