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Sensational Story of France's Greatest Colonial Fighter And the Negro King Who Sat on a Throne of Beaten Gold PRINCE CLAIMS THRONE + Prince Kojo Tovalon, claimant to the throne of Dahomey, taken in the Argonne Forest, 1915. He is a doctor and a lawyer, as well as being graduated from the University of Paris. Illustrated Feature Section W. B. Ziff Co., 008 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Foreign Advertising Representatives. Sensational And the Ne (Continued from last week.) S TO THE war with France in 1892, it is difficult to say just what brought it on. Some Dahomeyans say that Africa had been divided into spheres of influence by the European powers, that Dahomey had been given to France, and that France sought a pretext for conquest. Other sources say it was the desire of the French to penetrate into the interior for commerce, on the one hand, and the determination of Behanzin on the other, to keep them out. Behanzin. Hard-Headed. Again it may have been due to the fear and jealousy of King Toffa who had a difficult role to play between the British and the French. Perhaps, also, it may have been due to fear of the French colonies near-by at seeing Behanzin getting so powerful. Germany had been supplying him with modern rifles and five Germans held high rank in his army. Then also it may have been due to Behanzin's hard-headedness Washington Tribune ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION August 24, 1929 and certainty of victory. In 1890 he had scored a victory over a French expedition and had made France pay him tribute for the use of the port of Cotenou. He was stronger now and perhaps he felt he could repeat the performance. It perhaps may have been due to a combination of all these causes, but whatever it was, war began when Behanzin is said to have declared the treaty he had made with France null and void. This treaty, ceding Cotenou to France, had been made in 1868 by his father, Gli-Gli and ratified in 1890, France agreeing to pay 20,000 francs gold annually for the use of the port. Behanzin, it is said, set all intervention aside. Diplomacy failed. When the French envoys arrived at his palace of Dioxene with presents from M. Etienne, secretary of Colonies, it is said that Behanzin set them aside brusquely, and said scornfully, "We have cases full of that in Dahomey." When told of the system of the French government, it is A man with a rifle in a jungle. The Dahomeyans, from the tops of palm trees, would shoot down the French or crawl through the bushes to throw themselves courageously on the foe. By J. A. ROGERS, Paris, France. The Dahomeyans, from th through the bushes to throw said that he took his pipe from his mouth and laughed loud and long, saying that he much preferred his own which was quicker and more original. "Dahomey," he asserted, "has never ceded Cotenou to France, and if the French do not get out at once I will come and drive them out with my army." Dodds Chosen. War began shortly after, and in the first few engagements Behanzin was victorious. France realized that she had a difficult enemy to deal with. To march into Dahomey with its absence of roads, its thick forests, swamps, burning sun and lack of water was not easy. There was but one man capable of the task, the veteran General Dodds. On May 5, 1892, he left Bordeaux with several companies of white marines, a company of artillery and a battalion of black sharpshooters. Stopping at Senegal, he picked up other battalions of Senegalese sharpshooters and got five hundred warriors and thousands of bearers from King Toffa. Arriving off the Dahomey coast, he blockaded it with his warships and prevented the landing of a ship filled with arms and ammunition for Behanzin. Behanzin Defies Dodds. This done, he wrote a letter to Behanzin calling on him to surrender. But the latter replied defiantly: "France wishes war! Let her know that I am stronger and more determined than my father. I have never done anything to France that she should make war on me. I have never gone to France either to take the wives or daughters of the French. If they wish to take the seacoast I will cut down all the palm trees. I will poison them. If they have not what to eat let them go elsewhere. Every other nation, German, English, Portuguese can come into my kingdom. But the French I will drive them away. I am the friend of the whites; ready to receive them when they wish to come to see me, but prompt to make war whenever they wish. On this, Gneral Dodds ordered a bombardment of the Dahomeyan coast, and landing a few days later, captured and burned the town of Cotenou. Starting into the interior, he captured the towns of Zobo and Takou. Early in the morning of September 19, a part of the Dahomeyan army hurled itself with terrific fury against the French. Opening the attack with a volley from their repeating rifles, they rushed in with their swords and knives shouting their battle cry of "Koia! Koia! Dahomey!" Blacks and Whites Together. Illustrated Feature Section BEN DAVIS, Jr. Feature Editor al Fighter aten Gold foot down the French or crawl foe. ready. The black and the white men in his force received the enemy with shot and bayonet. The Dahomeyans, beaten back, returned with incredible eagerness to the charge, but the French, bringing their artillery and machine guns into action, forced them to retreat, leaving heaps of dead. It was evident that it was going to be a stubborn fight to get to Abomey, Behanzin's capital. A few days later, stiff fighting took place at Dogba. Here General Dodds, who always fought beside his men, had one of them killed at his side. Dahomeyans Deadly. So far the French had been meeting only detachments of Behanzin's army. The main portion with the king himself was at Allada. Marching thither, General Dodds lost many of his men. The Dahomeyans, from the tops of palm trees, would shoot down the French or crawl through the bushes to throw themselves courageously on the foe. At Atchoupa, during a fierce storm, a force estimated at 7,000 warriors and 2,000 amazons hurled itself at the French. The women fought with supreme courage, letting themselves be killed rather than retreat. Clinging to the legs of the French troops they brought them to earth and poignared them. Says an eye-witness of that fight: "The Dahomeyans showed a tenacity and bravery unheard of. But these (Continued on page two) The Story of France's Greatest Colonial Fighter and the Negro King Who Sat on Throne of Beaten Gold. (Continued from page one) Cash was broken by the discipline and the unerring marksmanship of the Senegalese sharp-shooters. The entrance to the fort bore witness of the rage with which the Dahomeyans fought... It was heaped with the corpses of men and women warriors. At Puguessa, General Dodds came up with the main portion of the Dahomeyan army, commanded by the king in person. It numbered some 10,000 warriors and had ten field pieces. But here again, after three hours of terrific combat the Dahomeyans were forced to retreat under the artillery fire and the machine guns. Nevertheless, some of the amazons succeeded in reaching to within ten yards of the French squares. Germans Captured Four of the five German captains in the Dahomeyan army were taken prisoners, and were at once ordered shot by General Dodds. At Diebe and Kana, the amazons again fought to the last moment, some of them falling dead almost at the very feet of the French. But again it was the old story of primitive men going down before civilized ones, in spite of the former's valor and persistence. A few days later, General Dodds captured Dioxene, Behanzin's largest palace. Behanzin Desires Peace By this time Behanzin desired peace. Not only had he been fighting the French but two of his neighbors as well, the Egbans and the Gaus. He sent three envoys to General Dodds, offering to pay an indemnity of $5,000,000 and to yield all the customs duties of the port of Cotenou. He also sent presents of cattle, gold and two silver hands of superb Dahomeyan work, bidding General Dodds take one of the hands and cross it with his own in sign of friendship. In return General Dodds sent biscuits and conserves and said he was willing to make peace on condition that Behanzin permit him to hoist the French flag in his capital at Abomey. Behanzin promptly refused and the fight went on. After a stiff battle, the French captured Abomey, but they found only ruins; for on retreating, Behanzin had set fire to the town, destroying his palace with its wonderful art treasures. Gold Thro. 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The Beal House was the last house on Maine street. Beyond it was the beginning of the road that led through a short space of cleared commons to the fringing undergrowth that scattered itself for a mile or more among scraggly trees and old tree trunks. Then it deepened into the heavy forest growth that became almost primeval just before one came to the one-time clearing, now over-run with new forest, surrounding Selwyn House and its octagonal tower of mystery. The state highway did not approach Maine street from the end of the town where Alec Jonas lived. It swung out just beyond the little white cottages that began with the modest Jonas home and went for almost a mile around to make a sort of a spur junction with that street, just a few short blocks above the Beal House. In this out-thrown curve it was bordered by more woodland on the outer margin. To avoid any prying eyes that might possibly be upon me I entered this shielding growth and proceeded to skirt the highway. I kept just far enough away to avoid discovery by anyone proceeding along that rather rough bit of roadway which here broke the continuous line of hard surfaced pavement stretching across the state and on across other states to only the Lord knew where. THE LIFE OF 2/10/19 1. In 1910, Mr. Erlanger, well known producer, sent for Bert and persuaded him to make a contract for three years in the Follies. August 24, 1929 SYNOPSIS THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF GRUESOME MURDERS IN SELWYN HOUSE. They have occurred in the octagonal tower room, a mysterious addition to the house. It was built by old Ezra Selwyn years before, on his return from a tragic stay in Haiti where his young bride, Mary, has been lost in the roodoo infested jungles. The tragedy has made him an eccentric recluse. He lives in the house alone save for his two Haitian servants, Diaron and his wife, Meme. Ezra himself is the first one murdered. Each murder is preceded and followed by the sound of some huge reptilian body being dragged over an uneven surface. But there are no entrances to the room large enough to admit such a body and no apparent hiding places. The bodies have disappeared one by one until the last one, the giantess detective, Alene Hardmore, who is killed in an effort to investigate the mystery. Her body is watched by detective Tom Frederick and his friend and co-worker, Alee Jones, until the undertaker, Al Jarton, comes for it. But—the next day that body is stolen from the undertaking establishment, presumably by Garland Selwyn, a nephew of the elder man, whose mother is a Haitian voodoo priestess. The bodies have all been scalped and, after the mysterious disappearance of old Meme's body, an Indian scalping knife is found with a few strands of long black hair attached to its blood-stained blade. Detective Frederick and Al Jarton subsequently interviewed Dilaron, who attributes the Selwyn mystery to Zombies, which he claims are supernatural beings which often act in this manner. Dilaron is so sincere in his belief that this will account for the Selwyn house murders, that detective Frederick and Al Jarton regard the tale very carefully. In the meantime, it is discovered that Garland Selwyn has suddenly left the Beal House on Maine street, where he had been lodging. Detective Frederick and Al Jarton then make an appointment with Alec Jonas to confer at the Beal House. The three of them meet there in order to find out more about the suspicious movements of Garland Selwyn. Detective Frederick and his associates find a clue at the Beal House. They also find that Garland Selwyn has left suddenly with an old woman whose identity is unknown. In the hope that he will discover further clues, Detective Frederick engages Garland Selwyn's empty room. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. INSTALLMENT X. IT WAS at Alec's home that I secured the old packing case with an improvised handle. We filled it with odds and ends from our youthful scientific research outfits. There were several old retort tubes that had miraculously escaped the general debacle that overtook scores of their fellows, a crucible, some pestles and a mortar. We packed them in the case, and as the dusk fell I set out for the environs of the Beal House. I hoped that I would not have to use the When I came to within a ?!?!? 2. It is here that the famous "Poker Game," which is today imitated very widely, became famous. In this Bort sat at a poker table with three imaginary players. ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION KEEPING T home and Haunting Cautiously, and with my soaking feet making little squashing sounds as I set them down one after the other on the rounds of the ladder. quarter mile of the junction with Maine street, I kept on pushing farther into the depths of what was beginning to be more sparsely wooded land. When I arrived at the edge of the last sheltering shrubs, darkness had fallen. I waited for some minutes, WILLIAMS No. --- G THIN Haunting Myster S No. 11 . . I 3. It was an experiment to place a Negro actor in a company of white people. But Bert was more than equal to the situation, and became an instantaneous hit in the watching and listening for any unusual or suspicious sounds before venturing out into the opening. But for the gentle soughing of the wind and the occasional sound of the waking night life or the far away barking of a dog, the night was still. I gripped the handle of obviously, and with my soaking feet making lit- ashing sounds as I set them down one after her on the rounds of the ladder. A.W. RENNEGARDE 4. Whenever traveling with the Follies, as the star, he often had access to the finest hotels, but always he chose to remain in the simple habitats of his own people. By Cora Jean Moten The Well-Known Serial Writer the packing case securely and felt with my other hand for the comforting safety of the handle of my automatic. Then I stepped out onto the highway and crossed it to the clear unbroken space that lay for the length of about a city block beyond. At the (Continued on page four) Text by BEN DAVIS, JR. Drawn by A. W. RENNEGARBE THE CREEPING THING (Continued from page three) end of this clearing were the trees and small shrubs of the not inconsiderable grounds surrounding the Beal House. Once within the shelter of this extensive bit of cultivated forest, I would be comparatively safe from discovery. Failing, I would have to utilize my manufactured evidence to explain my presence. I was relying on Alec, and a report of a stalled car back along the highway, to account for my approach from that direction and afoot. The gray black shadows of the looming trees were only about twenty-five feet away. I breathed a long sigh of relief. Suddenly the silence was penetrated by the low drone of a powerful motor. I hastened my steps. The car I knew was close. It had to be, to be heard, because it had that humming purr that only the most expensive and powerful cars are equipped with. I glanced back over my shoulder. The glow from powerful headlights was visible and growing brighter in the seconds. I quickened my steps. My outstretched arm could have touched the bole of a great elm tree, the first outpost of the blackly silhouetted mass toward which my hurrying footsteps were carrying me. 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So far, there has been three contributors and we give a taste of all three in this week's cooking. The name that will go down in history as being the first contributor to the World's Foremost Column of Wit, Humor, and Sparkling Intelligence is "TOM SANDERS." (Your thickest blackletters for the immortal Mr. Sanders, if you please, Mr. Linotyper). Mr. Sanders hails from the state of tar, turpentine and ticks, and it is understood, of lovely women and good corn whiskey, also. His address is 3269 Reeves street, Houston. The Pepper-Pot considers Mr. Sanders not only a valuable find, but a prodigious one. He sends in three type-written pages of jokes, and what is more adds: "I am prepared to carry this kind of humor on for several hundred pages." Desserts In The Ti Desserts In Half The Time By BETTY BARCLAY the Well-Known Food Writer Prepared Exclusively for the Illustrated Fee QUITE often you want to get a dessert together in a few minutes—and do not know what to serve. 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If all like blam it one WAVINE SKIN- WHITENER OINTMENT --- August 24.1929 By J. A. ROGERS Paris, France National Correspondent and A Already the Pepper-Pot is justifying its existence by discovering hidden talent. Mr. Sanders writes: "I am a young writer unknown to the humorist world." But we had better let Mr. Sanders' humor speak for itself. So in the words of Mark Anthony: "If you've tears, prepare to shed them now." (P. S. Please note that there are two different kinds of tears, and it's going to depend on the reader which kind he sheds.) Willie (looking at a big black bull): I wonder who is that bull the mother of? Sam: You crazy dunce! Who ever heard of a bull being a mother? Willie: Well, teacher said that John Bull was the mother of Uncle Sam. When is a woman part animal? When she is bear footed. When is a man not a man? When he is a snake in the grass. Lying Jim: Don't tell me anything about ball-playing. My brother was a ball player when he was born. 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And so we could go on to regale our readers from the feast of humor that Mr. Sanders has sent us not to mention the fact that he is prepared, as was said, "to carry on for several hundred pages." Our readers, moreover, will hear some more from Mr. Sanders, as he intends to get out his witticisms in book-form. He says: "I have in my possession an incomplete manuscript containing more than five hundred Jokes, Witty Sayings, and Old Time Plantation Stories which I have originated myself." In the meantime, the Pepper-Pot is happy at having launched this "unknown writer" into sudden fame. At one coup he has been introduced to the 3,000,000 readers of the Illustrated Feature Section. How many great writers can boast that they have had 3,000,000 readers? Moral: Send in your contribution and we'll make you famous over n'ght. But fine and titillating as has been the quality of Mr. Sanders' humor we know that it is impossible to please everybody. There are always the Sober-faced Sues — those who can't see a joke, so to these we'll make the reply that a French peasant did to a prospective buyer of his pigs. The peasant had taken his sow and her nine pigs to market. A man came and began to look them over. But he found fault with first this one, and then that, until he had found a flaw in every one of them. Now the peasant was proud of the pedigree of his pigs, and losing all patience, he cried, as he pointed to the sow: "You don't like my pigs, eh? Well, there's the mother! See if you can do any better, yourself." Similarly we retort: Don't you like Mr. Sanders' humor? Well, there's our page. See if you can do any better. * * * * The second contribution to the Eiffel Tower of wit and wisdom comes from Mr. Blake Thompson of 52 rue Clichy, Paris, France. We have an idea back in one of the tiny molecules of our brain that Have light-toned smooth skin! 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You don't bathe. Why, we Americans bathe every day. Italian: It is you, Americans, who are the dirty people why you have to bathe every day. The third contribution is on a subject that furnishes at once the greatest humor and the greater tragedy. The lady, for it is one of the fair sex, treats it seriously. She is Miss (perhaps Mrs.) Nell Occomy of 440 West 161st street, New York City. HER ANSWER The tint of scorched sands! Your body. Like bleached seaweed Your hands. 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Talbert toured Europe, adding new laurels and prestice. a 3 (Continued from page four) hiding place and the house, was « smaller gray white bulk that I knev was one of the small out-houses flanking the near side of the more modern garages that faced the sid street entrance to the front of the eyrith a sudde quick @ sudden sally, still bearing my justifying packing case, I made for the shelter of its pro- jecting eaves. Luck was with me. Leaning against the base of the building; its length projecting far beyond it at the back, was a work- man’s ladder. The rain, that now I hailed as a friend, was still falling in the misty torrent that challenged any but the bravest to Naas Passage through. I set my small packing case down, loosened my automatic from its fitted pocket under my arm and felt for the one in my pocket, It was safe and easily to be come at. Then I stopped and lifted the long ladder to my shoulders. The wet sward gave under my weight at each step and the wetness oozed into the low cut shoes that en- cased my feet. Before I reached the lee of the house, the water had be- gun to squash uncomfortably inside ot my shoes. But discomfort was the least of the things I was con- cerned about. I set my ladder down underneath the window where the swaying shut- ter still allowed that sharply pene- trating beam of yellow light to stab the rain swept darkness. Gently and noiselessly-I eased it against the side of the house. Its topmost rung came almost to the sill.of the win- dow in the room whose interior I was anxious to see. With the ladder in place, I waited a@ moment in the streaming rain to be sure that the light impact of the upright supports against the walls of the house had not disturbed any- one within to the point of investiga- tion. There was no movement or ane to indicate that anything was amiss. Cautiously, and with my soaking feet making little squashy sounds as I set them down one after the other on the rounds of the ladder, I climbed up toward the half open shutter. Just before I came to the level, I paused and shook the water from the brim of my hat. and shrugged as much of the superfluous water from my shoulders as my pre- carious pcsition would allow. Then, very carefully and very cau- tiously, I drew myself up, being care- ful to keep within the lee of the half closed shutter. Here again luck or fate, or whatever one wished to call it, seemed to favor me. For, in the swinging leaf of the open shutter LORENCE Cole-Talbert, shown here, is heralded by critics as the greatest operatic soprano the ep operauc = whee et race has produced. She was the first Negro to win the diamon¢ medal at the Chicago Musical College, in 1918. In Italy she sang the title role in the ee "aida, That was the first time in the history of Italian Ret that a Negro sang the . title role in any production. ti While in Europe, she , studied under such masters & as Crisada and Quezada of Fi Rome, Bellini of Naples, a Paccetti of Milan and Pi ae charan of Paris, The Ital- bg ian public was So hearty fF in its approval of her bo that she was asked to Re join an exclusive group = of lyric artists and be- foe cause they loved _ her 2 so, she was rechrist- 4° 2) fred Mora «Bela © Donna, _ beautiful foe brown lady. io ees Her greatest con- ae quest in America rms 4 came when she was fom selected as soloist peas for the Los Angeles | 9 Philharmonic _ concert. ‘iii Bs This concert was broad- /" ar | cast over the entire (ee SY country and the trem- Yo endous ovation she re- oS ceived was unprecedent- ee ‘s ed. Mme. Talbert re- phe cently said ages “Since I was a child 1 gage have dreamed of being a great opera singer. “The fact that I have once sung the lead in Aida only strengthens my belief that s day, somehow, I shall have my che at home in an operatic role. I worked hard to fit myself for an mand the public may make upol voice, be it opera or concert. “Realizing the early and ¢ conti @was a small irregular crevice where |some banging wind had probably Tinronel this scape, ts eae | roug) crack the of the room that lay toward the ack of the house and opposite the door was revealed to my inquisitive eyes. As I glued my eye to this opening, the sight that met my view almost startled me into an exclamation of surprised horror. Seated in a chair, his back toward Ife, was @ man. ‘Although unbound, the figure sat rigid, as though held in position by ropes—hands at the sides in just such an unnaturally stiff posture as one sees in. bound figures. But the horror of that still figure lay, not in the posture or the stillness, but in the view of the top of the head which faced me. The tonsured head was a red mass of clotted blood from which dangled the’ still undetached crown of black hair that had covered it. But for this figure, the room was totally empty. For a single hasty instant, I stood spellbound on my high perch. The sight before me nauseated me. In the sudden weakness of physical re- sistance, I almost lost my balance. But at sight of the door opposite, L Vipera regained control over my- self. Grim curiosity held me tense and motionless. The knob of the door was turning slowly. The door itself began ,to swing inward. Then—just as the widening crack was darkened by a body, the sudden rattle and shrill honking of a motor car broke into a very din of almost ludicrous sound that shattered the stillness familiarly, I knew that sound and cursed it, It was Alec in the soul- destroying and silence-defying Ford that I had hoped would be succour and that now it seemed would be my Nemesis. With that shrilling and cackling, the door toward which I was gazing with anxious eyes, suddenly jerked itself shut. I could hear running footsteps within and then sudden cessation of any sound but that in- fernal honking from without. Suddenly I decided that I must not be found up there peering into that room from without. I must see it legitimately and from _ within. 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But as I stuck my head inside of the car, the noise: suddenly stopped, and—I looked with startled eyes at the driver’s seat. It was empty, as was the rest of the car, as my star- ing, startled eyes soon told me. Yet the noise had been going on when L first stuck my head inside. No driver—no human driver—could have disappeared so suddenly. I. felt my blood go cold as I stepped pack to the ground. Then, from the house toward which I faced, a sud- den blood-curdling shriek . shattered the night. I turned. and started forward in a very frenzy of terror. | The front deor. of Beal House was ° . -How To Get Thin RE you too heavy? If so, be gfoods may be eaten in | very careful. whose advice’ ties. without adding you take when you try to'number of calories toy Tegain that slender figure| ‘Try this method . an of yours. One» can starve cannot lose a few ounc herself into a physical wreck that|—and if you do this ci jooks much worse than an overly-| will not be long befor plump body—and this can be done far|to order a thirty-six too easily. forty-four. Unless a skilled physician has re Seger etet Placed you upon a certain diet, I TEDDIES’ DELI Would not advise you to refrain from % pound shredded eating anything that you now eat. 1 cup raisins ‘Merely reduce the amount of bread, 2 cups rolled oats potatoes, nee resi fish and eggs. 2 eggs you are eating, and appease your cup: shorten: appetite by eating liberally of fresh ee oa ane ing fruits and vegetables that are known % cup milk as “green vegetables.” Oranges, 1 cup sugar lemons, apples, grapes, peaches, pine- 2 teaspoons baking apples, cherries, berries, celery, let- % teaspoon soda tuce, butter beans, peas, raw cabbage,! Cream the sugar ani watermelon, cauliflower and all such together. Add the well ~—___———— fand beat until light; sti thrown violently open and a figure |Mix the flour, baking staggered out into the night. and a pinch of salt an (Continued next week.) other ingredients. Stir (Who is the figure that staggered aac goed the Beal ae may ‘reeping Thing. tread the next instaliment!) August 24, 1929 by CORA JEAN MOTEN | The Well Known Serial Writer. | ° zet Thin pfoods may be eaten in liberal quanti- ties without’ adding an enormous Thumber of calories to your diet. - + | ‘Try this method and see if you cannot lose a few ounces each week —and if you do this consistently, it will not be long before you'll have to order a thirty-six instead of a forty-four. se ee GEDDIES’ DELIGHT % pound shredded coconut 1 cup raisins 2 cups rolled oats 2 eggs pS % cup: shortening 1% cups flour % cup milk c we sugar bakt Pe aspoons ing pow C s ee ae id shortening ream the sugar and sl together, Add the well-beaten eggs and beat until light; stir in the reilk, Mix the flour, baking powder, soda and a pinch of salt and stir in the other ingredients. Stir in the rolied oats, chopped raisins and the chopped cocoanut. Drop by tea- spoons on buttered pans and bake until a delicate brown in a quick oven—diminishing the heat after the cookies are set.