Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — IDENTIFIED BY SIGNET RING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IDENTIFIED BY SIGNET RING

in front of the triumphant Aurelian, whilst all Romp looked on and gloated. over the downfall of the great Eastern queen. To return to our journey. About half-way between Karyatein and Palmyra we stopped for lunch at Kasr-el-Her, an immense Roman tower or barracks. On it the Arab has inscribed many “wusms,” or tribal marks; so that it has become a kind of standard by which the brands on camels strayed or stolen might be identified. Warning Off the Bedouins. That night our camp was pitched at Ein-el-Beda (the white fountain), right in the middle of the desert In the stillness of the night I was suddenly startled by hearing a man shouting at the top of his voice. Possibly the Bedouins were attacking us! Joseph, our dragoman, soon reassured me. It was the usual anouncement warning Bedouins who might be roaming about not to come near the camp. “To everyone who hears my voice, the people who are camping here are not merchants, or people carrying money, that you should come near them, and whoever comes near, them it will be hisown fault; soldiers are guarding them, and they have no other way of punishing you but with a bullet.” Three times in the night isthis waming repeated, and they calculate that it cair be heard a mile off. Next day we reached Palmyra; the entrance is guarded by mortuary towers, the “house of eternity” of the Palmyrene, of which there are only a couple of dozen remaining of the original one hundred and fifty. Skirting the tombs, we bore to the right, and there below in the plain, “within a square mile of fawn-colored earth lay the city in all its beauty, and in all its sadness.” The most striking feature is the long colonnade stretching from the base of the Cashe Hill up to the Triple or Triumphal Arch at the eastern end, facing the mighty temple of the sun. Beyond l»the Arabian desert, and there, on the borders, one solitary column seema.to point towards the Euphrates and Persia, the loneliest and saddest thing in all Palmyra. Originally there were four rows of columns, about fifteen hundred in all, but only one hundred and fifty remain. The chief pieces of sculpture tad 4

Wearer Convinced Particular Paying Teller He Was Man Entitled to - Cash Money Order. Before the receiver can cash a postal money order he must submit proof to the paying teller that he is the proper person to whom the money should be paid. The paying tellers are very particular about the kind of evi-

dence they will accept, for they are responsible for all the ffiQney ,pai<l out. Some paying tellers are more particular than others. Thus some of them are willing to accept personal letters and cardo for identification purposes. But there are others. For instance, a man presented an order recently calling for $2.50. It was only a small amount, of course, but the paying teller was very particular. First he asked the man his name and the amount the order called for. When these questions had been answered he asked the bearer if he had any letters. Some were shown him. Then he wanted to know if the bearer could produce any-cards with his name on them. These were shown, but the teller w’as still doubtful. “Let me see that signet ring on your finger, please,” he said. The wearer held up his finger so the teller could read the initials. It took the latter a minute or so to decipher the monogram, but this seemed to convince him that , the wearer was the person he. represented himself to be, for he immediately wrote out an order on the cashier for the amount of the money order. 2

THE TRIPLE ARCH OF TRIUMPH