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THE MAN WITH THE SMILE <$> By B. BRACE 1 ? ? 8 (? by Short Story Pub. Ca.) THE man at the saw solicitously passed a hand, coarse- tinge red und torn-nailed, along tlie sharp "? ly ground edge, satisfied himselt slowly that all was well, und looked up at Lis leisure. "Whut fan you do around a mill?" he jeered. The stranger threw buck his shoul ders. "I'll do anything," he Jinswered quickly. 'Tiu an engineer by trade, but if there's no chance at tljut, 1 can wake bolts, or fell trees, or haul logs, k U do anything." The man at the saw looked hliu over witb the contempt of an animal for a weaker one of its kind. "You're too much of a two by-four to be good at the heavy work," he mocked, with a shameless smile at his own pleasantry. "And the bjoss don't need any more men, nohow." The fever of hope burned out In the questioner's face. It was a thin, dark, well-featured face, with a smile as its unforgetable attribute ? an anxious, cynical smile that twisted one corner of the sensitive mouth, and gave the face a curiously tortured expression. As be turned away he stumbled over a rope line, and a great burst of laugh ter from the mill men followed his awkward attempt to regain his bal ance. Kut the mnn with the smile pulled himself slowly over the narrow plank walk without seeming to hear. Oppo site the cookhouse he stopped dizzily. The hot. unsavory smell of food floated out, and mingled evilly with the whole ?ouie odor of the newly cut) lumoer. The man put out a hand anjd caught at the air. Then uncertainly he dragged himself to the cookhouse door. A fat man with an ill-natured, puffy face and a cook's apron was roiling out sand-colored pastry at the table, lie glanced up and waited for the In truder to speak. -Well, d? n ye. what Is it?1 he burst out m length. A flush flaiued up under the dark pallor of the face. The curious smile became a grimace. "Will you ? give me something to eat?" he quavered out. "I have no money to pay you." The cook trimmed the edges of the pie crust, and poured In a filling of peaches from a huge tin can. "Have they taken you on at the mill?" he grunted. "No," stammered the other.! "But ? " The cook turned his back abruptly, and rolled out the crust for a second pie and a third. When he looked up at lust to put the pastry into] the oven the man was gone. From the door the cook watched him blundering up the hiii When he hRd turned the *urve and was lost to the sight of the mill, be still went on Jerkily, like a machine that runs badly but does not know how to stop. Beneath his feet the western Washington road ran beauti ful and even, like a white stripe thrrayh ground-green cloth. Some times It was lacy openwork, for great cedars and flrs flanked the road. Here and there belated dog-wood blossoms looked out. wax-like. There were long, hot stretches of road, too. through half-miles of burned stumps of blighted tree*. Sometimes in one of these sizzling half-miles the man stood still In the road for min utes, beneath the beating sun of June. At such times bis smile quite distorted his face. The afternoon was profoundly still except for the wood-voices. Birds crooned lazily In the tree tops. A woodpecker tapped steadily away at a fir-tree trunk. Once a little striped squirrel teetered on a cedar branch, hitting there saucily unafraid, with his bushy tail lifted Uke a parasol ever him. The man crept up noise lessly and bent over with a clutching hand. But his shadow warned the shrewd little son of the forest, and he was gone with a taunting little flirt of the tall. At last the man went on. The sun slid down the side of Beaver mountain. Gradually the sky. which had been so deeply and cloud lessly blue, became more vague and dim-colored. The shadows grew longer. It was late afternoon when the man came suddenly upon a little shingle milk perched almost upon the road. ? it wus a cheerful little place, with Its red roof against the green of the trees. Every atom of It was In motion like water that bolls. Flying saws buzzed through huge logs. The pack ers' hands flashed back and forth with regularity of shuttles. To the ear the drone of the mill was pleasantly me chanical. For a long, long time the man stood quite still in the road, shading his eyes with his hands, and looked in tently at the little mill. Once he No Proof That Apple Wa? "Forbidden Fruit" Who It who first declared that the fruit of the forbidden tree men tioned in the Bible was an apple? ask* l.ondon Answers. It is almost needless to ray that no where In the Scriptures doe* any state ment of this fcortfioccur, yet the Idea that th? forbiddett fruit of Eden was an apple seems to have foup^ counte nance in former days among tibe learn ed Jews. Horticulturists later on were equally susceptible to the prevailing notion that throng^ -the apple came the curse and to perpetuate the error named a specially fine variety "Eve's apple." In parti of Palestine a tree grow producing fruit which Is supposed by many people to be Identical with that eaten b,- -our first parents. This fruit presents a beautiful ap pearance to the eye. but It collapses In the hanu on being touched Doubt less the deceptive appearance of the ?Trait" ha4 caused It to be associated with the Bible story. Again, in Ceylon there gitows a tree made a step from the road In lta <n rectlon. Then he shrugged his shoal ders, smiled bis Joyless smile, and dazed onward. A half mile down the road b? stopped and seated himself upon a great mossy log. Beneath the log, and on down the ravine a little brook went crying to Itself. Aiders tall and Silver gray lifted themselves beyond the tangle of wild blackberry vines. For an hour the man sat there mo tionless. Evening was almost upon the world. Cows went their home ward way, and nosed Inquiringly at the silent figure.. Once the man put his hand Into his pocket, and drew out a worn purse of excellent leather, He opened it, fingered Its handful of coppers, and siulled. He put his hand Into his pocket once more, and brought forth a cheap watch fob. There was no watch at tached, but on one end was a little, old-fashioned locket of plain gold. The man snapped It open, and gazed for a long time at the pictured face. It was a very pretty, very haughty face held proudly above the beautiful shoulders. As he looked at it, all that was evil in the mun's smile faded out, and left his face pure wlstfulness. Evening came, ?nd a cougar some where in the hills called out with Its lonesome, shivery, lost-baby cry. " Its mate answered. The man on the log shuddered. At last he put his hand Into his pocket again, and drew out a tiny bottle. He sat toying with It for some minutes. Holding it high, he watched It catch the red glow of the late sun set. Then he lifted It to his Hps. drained It, tossed away the bottle, and smiled. The hunger lines on his face grew set and deep. His shoulders began to droop in a queer, unconscious way. All the youth left bltu suddenly, and he looked like an old man as be sat there. A man of perhaps thirty came round the curve In the road, walking heavily and whistling. He was tall and broad shouldered, a splendid animal. His blue lannel shirt, open at the neck, disclosed a throat lean and hairy. He passed the man on the log, then turned back, struck by something In his atti tude. "Say !" he called loudly. "Yon look ing for work?" Very slowly the words penetrated to the consciousness of the man on the log. When he understood finally, he roused himself from bis stupor, threw back his head and laughed. "Oh. laugh, you tramp P exclaimed the giant, half good-naturedly, half contemptuously. "Maybe the Idea of working for a living amuses yon. But we need men bad at the shingle mill up the road, and If yon really want work, here's your chance." "My chance!" echoed the man on the log, and smiled for the last time. Oldest University Harvard fs the oldest university un der the American flag, according to the United States bureau of educa tion. It was established in 1638. Yale, established in 1701. is the second old est university on American soil. Oahu college, at Honolulu. Hawaii. Is the oldest college in the outlying posses sions and territories of the United States. It was established by mis sionaries in 1841. The University cf the Philippines at Manila was estab lished In 1908. The University of Porto Rico, at Rio Pledras, was established in 1903. There are no universities In Alaska or other possessions such *.i the Virgin islands. Hard to Explain I had been trying on dresses in a shop. I went back to the dressing room to change into my street clothes. Several dresses that I had tried on were hanging or lying on the back of a chair underneath my dress. I was In a hurry and, of course, did not glance in the mirror as I went out. As 1 was aljout to get in the eleva tor a clerk came to me and aaked me If I knew I had one of their expensive dresses trailing out from underneath ray coat. Imagine my embarrassment and my efforts to explain the matter! ?Buffalo Express. Potato's Importance The potato Is one of the many rain able gifts of America to the world. Most histories, busy chronicling wars and elections and perhaps inventions, fall to emphasize the introduction of the potato from America to Europe, or else mention it quite incidentally. Economists and sociologists, however, could makt a good case for the potato as the New world product which has most deeply affected life in the old wOrld. Sheridan Refased Gift Richard Brlnsley Sheridan, the Brit ish dramatist who wrote "The Rivals" and "The School for Scandal," was in parliament during the American Revo lution and took the part of the colo nies. The American congress voted him a gift of $20,000 in gratitude for his services in pleading the cause of Amerlcu, hut he gracefully refused to accept the offer. -earing the >ery significant name of kadura, meaning "forbiddem?' Thin tree produces blossoms whlcp emit a delicate and seductive perfume. Its fruits are beautifully colored and readily arrest attention, being a deep I orange on the outside and a bright crimson within. _ The ripe fruit, wbeir'examlne^ the appearance of having a piece -bit ten out of it. This circumstance, to gether With the fact pioi : jnous, led the Mohammedans, on their first discovery of Ceylon, to; look upon this as the forbidden fruit! and to consider themselves In the garden of Eden. Thus this apparently tempting fruit became to tbem an object efrthe great est veneration and tlw peculiar Inden tation in It was regarded as th^- im press of Evt'a bite. A liquid Are thrower Is the only weapon beintf taken Into the African jungle by' Dr. W. B. Beld. student o 1 gorilla Ufa. TELLS OF WHIPPING IDOL OF PRIZE klNC Principal Cot More . Than Decision Over John "L", , At the end of the school terra. In Jane, 1870, the school authorities In formed Sullivan senior, futhtr of John L. Sullivan, that, Incredible ml' It might seem, they would struggle along thereafter vrlthout the presence of his son on the roster. "Jawn." said his mother, grimly* "ye i are too young to go to Boston college, where the brothers will mend yer man ners. But meuutolme ye shall , go to j the Dwlght Grammar school In Spring field street, where Professor Page will cure ye Iv yer Indacent .mlsbe* havior-r-r." Prof. James A. Page was the first man to whip John L. Sullivan! To the end of his long and useful life ? he died In 1917, at the age of ninety two ? Professor Page liked to tell of the few incidents he remembered In connection with his famous pupil. He sent the new student to his room and told his teacher to fasten a wary eye on him. The first thing she saw, an hour later, wus a note being passed from desk to desk. She captured it and read: "My name Is John L. Sullivan. I whipped every boy at the Concord pri mary, and I can whip every kid In this room. I'm going to do it, too. Bead this and pass it on." In less than a month young Sulllvtru had made good. His recesses consist ed of one combat after another. His progress after school was a series of fights that strung out for the full half mile home. He even went to his classes a half-hour before the bell rang, charming his mother by such In dustry. AlasI it was only to have more time to hunt boys he had not yet whipped! Professor Page recalled that his re ports showed John was {alriy interest ed in arithmetic and English, soon toe ing the brogue be was saturated with at home, but was hopeless In geog raphy. One day. In answer to a question as to their whereabouts, he told his teacher that the Rocky mountains were In Maine. A shout of derision fol lowed, and John punched the nearest boy on thr nose. Into the free-for-all that followed the teacher plunged, emerging with a firm clutch on Sulli van's collar. She sent him tc the principal with a note. Page returned with him, and in front of the pupils gav' the future champion a sound beat ing with a two-foot ruler. ? Joe Dome/ and Sid Sutherland in Liberty. Waiter ? Lomm "PerM' It is not necessary to preach econ omy In England, where taxes are at a maximum. One after another old wasteful customs ? some of which have helped provide a living for the needy are disappearing under the watchfnl eye of the efficiency expert Among these are the "perks" (perquisites) of the porters and waiters In hotels. It used to be a porter's "perk" to collect all the old newspapers left lying around by guests and sell them for what they would bring. Those days are gone. Old papers, in most London hotels, must now be banded over to the management and kept for sale in bulk for the benefit of the house. It Is the same way with corks ? a wait* er's "perk." These have become too valuab/e to be donated to employees. Ordinary corks sell for as mnch as 3 pence (6 cents) apiece; champagne corks bringing aa high as 8 pence. Thm Correspondent John McConnack, the famous sing er, receives a great many letters from asplranta to musical fame. At a dinner in New York Mr. Me* Cormack read a letter that had been sent to him under the erroneous im pression that he taught voice produc tion. The letter, dated from the Mid dle West, ran: "Friend John ? Please let me know your lowest rates for full correspond* ence course In voice production. I have no voice, but as the efficiency engineer business Is not what It was represent* ed to me by the International Efficien cy School of Correspondence, 1 desire to abandon same In favor of grand opera, and If you can produce me a fine tenor voice I will be glad to pay, In addition to regular charges, a cash bonus and a generous percentage of salary receipts for a term of years. An swer by return." It Come$ High Perclval S. Hill, the tobacco mag nate, subscribed for $10,000,000 of the German loan. Of course, he would not. have done this if he had not been thoroughly conversant with European affairs. At a luncheon In New York the other day he was talking about David Lloyd George, once the ir.ost prominent1 and popular man In the world, now i. negligible member of a; negligible party. "Envy wiped Lloyd George out." ha, said. "His case is like that of the pretty girl. ?"What makes Phoebe so disliked?" one young matron asked another. "?Why, didn't you hear,* said the other youns matron. Phoebe got the most votes at the church soclaole for being th<* most popular girl.'" v Word to the WUm MI am In debt to the department of street railways to the extent of sev 'eral hundred dollar*," said the north ^alde business man. "I am not usually afflicted with lapses of memory, hut .whan 'I happened to meet a friend In the bank the other day, I stopped to talk a moment, and then went on leaving behind my bag containing the change I had obtained for Saturday. I board&d a Woodward avenue car and the first th\ni thdt caught my eye was the. sign/at the end of the car where the destination or name of the line usually appears. This said in red ip*. tars, 'Stop I Turn Back!'? a ?otIce t0 the conductor to rewtnd tlie linen strln In a flash came the picture of my bae oeneath the desk at the bank. BpHa? "ate. | turned back. The bag was thtl! -untouched."? Detroit News. A Way to the J W&ys l'. By REV. H. OSTROM, D. D. Extension Department, Moody Blblo Laetliute. ChlM|o. tTEXT ? Tbero la * Way which eeemeth rfjjht unto ? man, but tho end thereof are tha "wftya of deftth." ? .Prov. 14:12. Iset as place over against that word .??SEEMETH" the word "READETH." For, since God itates what la the right way, It 1 a Idle for man to trnat in what SEEMS right Ex cusing ourselves as having been mistaken ac knowledges only a fraction of th? folly of our choice. More than mis taken, men are _ _ _ "deceived." That Rev.H.Oftrom,D.D. , . w .. Is why the wrong way seems right. "An enemy hath done this." With the sign boards all along the way to give accurate warning It is sin to trust to "seeming!" But substitute "readeth" for "seem eth." "How readest thou?" "What saith the Scriptures?" In science what distress and woes would men escape if they humbly observe what God says in His Word! The science of faith would then take the place of the dream of seeming. There is indeed the "science of faith," for the word "science" Is derived from SCIO mean ing. "I know." But there comes an end to the choice of ways based upon man's seeming. The dream becomes interrupted and the reality is found out. At thei^end of the seemed-right-way are "the way? of death." And thus, what was a way eventuates into ways. Now dea$h In the Bible is plainly defined. It never means annihilation, it does mean sep aration. If it speaks of physical death It means separation of the spirit from the body and if It speaks of spiritual death It means separation of man from God. The man in whose body are the seeds of physical death, has In his soul that which produces neglect, dis obedience, hardness, darkneaa and doubt. All this man carries with him here. Little wonder that the outcome Is stated as a variety ? "the ways of death." And surely It Is but reasonable to Inquire to what destination does the road we travel lead? What a mistake we make, it as we Journey, we soothe our consciences with a mock sim plicity only to find later that it all leads to terrible complexity. Death in tin leads later to death for tin. That death means the very opposite of simplicity. It means penury. When Jesus told of the man who had come to It He de scribed him aa too poor to afford a drop of water. Although the man had Owned property and lived in luxury when he was content with the "SEEM ING" way of life, he had now come to experience the reality of one of the ways of death. He found It to be abject poverty. It meana guilt. In all the Bible God never leaves an uncertain note as to Ills righteous program with man, here or hereafter, and, therefore, the Bible never tells of a guiltless person suffer ing judgment. While our "seeming" may allow ua to lightly estimate our responsibility and pass on carelessly through the dreamy days, and while we lull ourselves with theories of brotherllness and kindness, the guilt remains. Man must be godly. He must be at peace with God. He can not plead fairness with his fellows while Ignoring God Almighty. Falling at this point, his path issues Into en during guilt. It means despslr. And that la not easy for a man to picture, particularly If he Is well fed and clothed and housed. Is this the reason why the Bible In describing this awful state so often uses the word DEATH? There is In It such a measure of the unea capable. It Is a word of such Import of relentleasness. It means destruction. And 0, the* ways of death are more numerous than . all these ! But such words as those which we have employed are amopg the njany that describe "the waya of death." They never mean annihila tion. If we trace their use throughout the Bible we see tft at they are used to describe conscious men. Dftrtructton, for' Instance, is employed a*',a worjLto describe the disobedient people of Israel while God Is yet calling them to receive his help. ? "Awake thou that sleepest" Is the wSrd of mercy which comes to us In our deiusite "seeming." And like the voice of thunder we hear th$ Insistent call "O soul, cease 'seeming* and begin believing." Abandon _tbe cheating dream and believe the WQIjtD thpt Christ, who died for our sins, leads tb^ way home. g !? - ? ll , ? ' True Religion; Religion is not a perpetual moping over good books. Religion is not even prayer, praise, holy ordinance ? these are necessary to religion ? no man can bes religious without them. . But re ligion, Is mainly and chiefly the glori fying of God amid the duties and trlalSj.of the world; the guiding of our conrse amid adverse winds and cur rents of temptation by tae sunlight 0# duty and the comgass of divine ytruth, the bearing up manfully, wisely, coura geously, for the H<nW of Christ, our great Leader In the conflict of lifje. ? ; John Calrd. The Worst Kind (ha worst kind of religion ,1s no re ligion at all, and these men living in eaflsuand luxury, indulging themselves In it hit amusement of going without re Htfof may be thankful that thejf live In lai ds where the gospel they neglect hai i uned the beastliness and ferocity of mqn who, but for Christianity, might long "ago "Gave eaten their carcasses like the Soufri Sea Islanders, or cut off their heads and tanned their hides like the monsters of the French revolution, ? James Russell Lowell. > !a.V. (?, 1926. W Mttrn News pa par Union.) Wear a ?mile on your face. Keep a <augb In your heart, Let your llpe bubble' oyer with long; 'Twill lighten your load A* you travel life's road ? And help other sinners along. ? DI8HE8 FOR TWO For desserts of fruit and Jello 1^ Is easy to divide a package of prepared gelatin, using just half the quantity of water and half of the gelatin. To make the lemon jelly use the following:-*-' . Lemon Jelly. ? Soak three teaspoonfuls of gela tin In one-fourth of a cup ful of cold water, add one cupful of boiling wa ter, one-fourth cupful each' of lemon juice and sugar. Strain and pour into molds to harden. Coffee Cream. ? Soak two teaspoon fuls of gelatin in one-fourth cupful of cold water. Scald one-half cupful of cream, add one-fourth cupful of strong coffee and four tablespoonfuls of su gar. Pour while hot over the gelatin, strain, and set away to mold. 8tewed Veal. ? Prepare one cupful of peeled quartered potatoes, three fourths cupful of small whole mush rooms, and one-half cupful of sweet green peppers cut Into strips. Cut one and one-half pounds of veal from the shoulder Into small pieces and flour with well-seasoned flour. Brown the vegetables and the veal In hot fat in an iron frying pan. Add salt to taste, paprika, celery salt, each one eighth of a teaspoonful and one-half of a bay leaf. When well-browned and seasoned, add two cupfuls of boil ing water, cover closely and simmer for two hours. Thicken with four ta blespoonfuls of flour blended with two tablespoonfula of milk, and cook 15 minutes. Cheese Souffle. ? Prepare a whits j sauce, using one tablespoonful of fat, the same of flour and one-half cupful of milk. When thick remove from the flre and add one-half cupful of finely chopped cheese, one egg yolk well beaten and a dash of cayenne. Fold In the stiffly beaten white and turn Into a buttered baking dish. Set In a pan of hot water and bake until firm. Fish Balla.? Cook one cupful of diced potatoes and one-half cupful of flaked flah In boiling water to cover, drain very dry, add one teaspoonful of but ter. one-half an egg and seasonings. Drop by spoonfuls into hot fat Summer Collations. Patty shells and tlmhale cases when first used were pastry-filled with some sort of cream or costard, a sweet ; now they are more often used as a sav ory and grace the most dainty lunch eons as a meat _ dish. ^ The meat, fish or vegetable, whichever Is nsed to form the principal Ingredient for the filling, should be very finely chopped. A rich white sauce usually accompanies the meat mixture. Vegetables should be cooked, then rubbed through a sieve. Usually one-half cupful of vegetable Is used to one cupful of meat. Some chefs prefer to pound the meat In a mortar, which makes it fine as paste. The white sauce Is prepared by using one cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls of flour and four of butter ; cook gently till smooth and thick. The butter is melted, then the flour added and well mixed, then the milk added slowly. To season add salt, a few drops of onion Juice, a dash of cayenne, a blade of mace, or a little tomato catsup for ?est There should be just enough white sauce to moisten the other ^ma terials ; next fold In a beaten egg, one to each cupful of sauce. * The tlmbale molds used to hold the above mixtures are of tin, either scal loped or plain. Pour the mixture into the molds which have been well-but tered, set in a pan on a >paper sur rounded with a little hot -water. Bake unfit firm, turn out on ii platter ^and garnish. Tlmbales may be elthfer hot or cold. . ... ; - Cream Dumplings. ? Sift two Cupfuls of pastry flour with three tea spoonfuls of baking powder and one-half ^tea spoonful of salt. Add enougli thin cream' to make a soft dough to drop trdM'kr spoon ? about .three-fourth! of a cupful?sour cream with an eighth of a teaspoonful of soda stirred into it will give a most tasty flavor.-' Drop each dumpling on to pieces of meat to hold It ra#,fp>igi the llqul^l /iad cover closely to steam. Cook about 12 minutes., depending upon the size of the dumplings. Dropped from a teaspoon, eight minutes is sufficient ' Ham Mayonnaititf ^Thnbales. ? Cut the ham very fine, -in dtttlnct pieces ; to each cupful add twq^ablespoonfuls of mayonnaise, mhttt^tfell. Soften a ta blespoonful of\'granBlated gelatin In three-quarters of a cupful of coldvwa ter ? use this to two and one-half cup fuls of ham; place over boiling water unqi thoroughly melted. Season with salt and pepper and a few drops of tarragon vinegar. Cool almost to the congealing point, then add the ^am, with a few capers, olives cut Into slices, or hard cc/oked egg whites* cut Wfc#nd serve (enj^pa gB. pet dolly. Oafish with beetjlrfci t>llv& or egg whites eut into forms. ?y*. ? r-rvrr ^ aott i & Bologna DoproMMton is a great depression in the sausage industry, famous all ] world, at Bologna, and many btBlness failures have been reported there./.Tbe war disrupted the sausage trade- r and its recovery was checked later by high Import tariffs Imposed by many nations. AutttdiiA Women' a Bank* Australia has adopted the American plan of separata banks for women, which ire staffed entirely tar woq>? , A Shaded Street in Fez. (Prepared by the Nation*] Geographic So* cletr. Waahlnfftoa. D. C.) It U not the Moors in general with whom the French and Spanish are hav ing their troubles. Those fighting the two European countries are the Rifflaa highlanders ? the Berber "hill billies" of the mountains along the northern edge of Morocco. By far the greater part of the French sphere of influence In Morocco is un der orderly government and has been the recipient of valuable development by the French: highways, railroads, port facilities, public buildings and ir rigation works. But the northern fringe of this huge French zone, beginning some fifty miles north of Fez, is in reach of raids from the Riff moun tains, ostensibly Spanish territory, but In reality controlled by the Rifflan clansmen. It is in the region just south of the Spanish border that the French troops have been fighting the forces of the highlanders. From Algeria, long virtually a part of France, the French have built a rail way and highway paralleling the French-Moroccan and the Spanish Mo roccan boundary, passing througn fez, the greatest city and ancient capital of Morocco, and reaching the Atlantic at Rabat, the government headquarters of today. This route connects with the Algerian railway system at the border town of Ujda, forming a direct line between Rabat on the Atlantic and Oran, chief western Mediterranean port of Algeria, which has been dubbed that country's "Chicago." Passing into tlie present turbulent zone of Morocco over this route from Oran, one finds himself crossing a new ly conquered country. Between the border and Fes only a narrow gauge railway has been constructed so far and It Is restricted to the use of the military; but civilian travelers can make use of an automobile line which traverses the highway. The road par allels the railway whj^h brings the soldiers to the forts aldng the line. Theie little white forts, guarding high way and railroad, are placed at regt* lar intervals, with larger garrisons be tween. Between Riff and Berber. Some three miles to the north is the land of the rebellious Riff tribesmen; some 80 miles to the south are the re malning Berber tribesmen, not yet on good terms With the French; yet through this narrow lane, between enemy lines, the traveler could go In safety nntll recently. It is not the type of wilderness one pictures, of sand dune and mirage. This lies beyond the Atlas. Here are cacti and a scanty vegetation on which gaunt camels graze. These single-humped Arabian camels are not the "oldest residents" of Moroc co. They followed the' Arab invasion westward twelve centuries ago. Be fore their coming, the domesticated ass ? was the Berber's only beast of burden. .Long years before the birth of the great camel driver who gave to the Moslem world Its faith, long years be fore the Three Wise Men journeyed t# Bethlehem, Berber farmers here drove their asses to market and Berber'shep herds here tended their flocks. One sees along the road natives chief ly of Berber stock, primitive people of the plateau. Most of these seen are poor shepherds, dressed In brown home qpun robes, ragged and soiled. Although nominally Moslems, wearing the usual prescribed head-covering, their women are unveiled. The faces and ankl?fe of these Berber women are tattooed. They are taller and 4eaner than their harem bred sisters met In the cities where Moorish beauty runs to avoirdupois. 3 The heads of the young shepherd boys are uncovered, showing a long strand of hair on the otherwise shaven head. By means of this strand, the gossip of the road has it, the faithful are Jerked up to heaven. Near the road are the homes of these shepherds ? low ( black, cloth tents of woyen camels'. ,h'alrr surrounded by thorny brush walla. At night the aheep, Positive Pleasure i Z\\ Two dentists were talking "shop." One remarked: 5 * "My treatment la so painless that It often happens that my patients fall asleep while I am attending to their teeth." - t The other dentist care a. deprecating shrug of his shoulders. . "Pooh* pooh, my dear man ! That la UOttbSf f* he (MM. ""You fclrould see my place with all the latest Improve y ' '? : -T. gouts ami donkeys 8h,b the enclosure. 1 In Muroci'o time a? ^ than people. Harharj floT. driven, as In most parti of J but follow the shepherd, ii,. his sheep as he would mig children. Perched on rooks, m flocks about thera, the half^i boys play the most moor** Imaginable on their ancient ^ la a Well WjUred Coaj, The broad Muluya river i; % striking geographic feato:*^ on the trip from Cjda to must be crossed by aotWD.* the railroad bridge. Morocnui thought of by outsider* au^ desert region. Is In retll'j J tered over much r.f its i^i drained In three directing. j whose headwaters in the n within a limited drrtf. !twm lantlc, the Mediterranean, hara, tlie last-named stmvl lost In the thirsty sand. TVI flows northeast from the At^ii Mediterranean. This fact Is worth emphui the moutb of the Mulnyil Morocco lias her corridor t?a?| terranean, a fact often orsMi those who examine mWiki Like the Sebu river, flowlnjt* to the Atlantic, the Mttltji J canalized over much of its nv cording to French enjim French are negotiating (kl ish In regard to the buildup! near the Muluya's moctb. Mu^h of the line alonjttxljl route lias been held by M troops. Of all the soldiers of Ai mighty colonial army-FiwH gionnalres, Arabs, Berben dll men from many an eqnatottf ^ none are braver than ti?J framed, ebony-skinned men ? Within the walled millurjj at Gersif one sees tlw 4*2 these warriors ? circular IP with conical thatched roofi* the sort they have at hoot The Touahar Pi* From Gersif the terraced hill town of Ta* maiding theT^"^, northwest frontier p a?d Afghaalsun^ thin pass has kno of the Stone ^ Of the Br?n? Roman BelMr w* turles flocked lug east and west. The beautlfulpa from Taza on. the north are * south the pea s ^ their r bait sky. In , krtn!?^ below the road s'<* * k,i ahead, on a distant ? of white, the traveler p> T" Feftte tr.ll ?*J From Fei me ln tW0?r byU"r'>H'1?flUge ^ parts of Europe- ? ^ ??? 8'"nt z;r *2 of Roman * i^initoff^ archeologlsts are P ^ nients or stories ^ . a8 imposing Tuftisi eastern Algeria ? ,yl and other sites speak of th??* 'naS? ?** was more than The end of the ^0 Is Rabat-Sale. t ^ by the wide ^ -u ^ with Its great' ? ^ on the cliff ^ re #t* sea. now n>er;?'?* French ^^,01 ^ white as a sno ^ lessgraj ?"??? ,w. < those advent" tlS-t r*j bored the to Britons a? '?? of & plundered the r' ' n\> U rope. sailing as far Ish Isles. ^ mont.. Why. ways ask me to f fetch a phot. SrflPhe(r. p be photographed * ^ of gladness which treatment alone can don Answers. Glad" S?L Glacier bay. ^,> square miles of A # ests and m?un,f n*DUfl>*' largest national ? Serric*.
Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.)
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June 18, 1925, edition 1
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