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WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around The Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Heavy rains in Northwestern Ohio are causing alarm. Omaha is visited by a severe storm which did much^damage. Austria denies the report that the Italian navy sunk many of the form er's ships. A postoffice clerk at Wallace, Idaho, has confessed to robbing the safe of $ 20 , 000 . Oregon wins grand prize for the best collection of minerals at the Panama- Pacific exposition. A t St. Johns, N. F., cod fishermen report fish plentiful but a scarcity o f sait caused by the European war. Welsh miners in the Rhondda dis trict, which furnish coal for the Brit ish navy, voted 2 to I to go on strike. Polk and Yamhill counties, in Ore gon, are quarantined because of rapidly-spreading rabies among stock. Valdez, Alaska, an important sea port, is visited by a $500,000 fire, which wiped out the main part o f the city. SUBMARINE FORCES AMERICAN SHIP IO ACT AS SCREEN FROM VICTIM Liverpool— How an American ship is alleged to have been used as a shield by a German submarine for the sink ing o f another vessel is the story re lated by members o f the crew o f the American bark Normandy, which has arrived here from Gulfport, Miss. The story is that the Normandy was stopped by a German submarine 60 miles southwest of Tuskar Rock, otf the southeast coast o f Ireland. Friday night. The captain was called aboard the submarine, where his (tapers were examined and found to show that the ship was chartered by an American firm January 5. The captain o f the bark, it was as serted, was allowed to return to the Normandy, but under the threat that his ship would be destroyed unless he stood by and obeyed orders. These orders, it was said, were that he was to act as a shield for the submarine, which lay at the side o f the bark, hid ing itself from an approaching vessel. This vessel proved to be the Russian steamer Leo. Presently the submarine submerged and proceeded around the bow o f the Normandy, so the story went, and 10 minutes later the crew of the Normandy saw the Leo blown up. Twenty-five persons were on board, o f whom 11 were drowned, including three stewardesses. Thse saved included three Americans — Walter Emery, o f North Carolina; Harry Clark, of Sierra, and Harry Whitney, o f Camden, N. J. All these three men, when inter viewed, corroborated the foregoing story. They declared that no oppor tunity was given those on board the Leo for saving life. The Leo was bound from Philadel phia to Manchester with a general car go. __________________ Edison Will Head American Board of Invention for Army and Navy ’ENGLISH UNER JUST ESCAPES TORPEDO G m m mN / 5 < Â Underwater Boat Misses Orduna nAmi VAN VOP5T-^*T5I a By Only few feel. ILLUNT PAT IONS ¡p V RAY WALTERS VESSEL IS SHELLED BY GERMAN CRAFT ar :>e a ^ w : ( t / m a w i i f r SYNOPSIS. Cunarder Has 22 Americans Aboard On Hazardous Trip, Who Give Details on Reaching Port. New York — The Cunard liner Or duna, bound from Liverpool to New York with 227 passengers, including 22 Americana, was attacked without warning, it was learned on her arrival here Sunday, by a German submarine on the morning o f July 9. Twenty miles from the grave o f the Lusitania, off Oldhead o f Kinsale, the Orduna escaped the Lusitania’s fate bv half a second o f time or 10 feet of space, the German torpedo churning the water that distance behind the liner’s rudder. Then the Orduna sped away. She was followed by the sub marine, which rose to the surface, manned a gun on her deck and shelled the fleeing steamer. The attack was at 10 minutes to 6 o ’clock in the morning, when all but a few o f her passengers lay sleeping in their berths. Aroused by stewards, the passengers dressed hurriedly and went to the upper deck, where they put on life belts and took their places at the lifeboats. They heard the scream o f the shells and saw the ocean spit up columns o f water where the shells struck. When the fire grew hot, they were ordered, for their own protection, to the next deck below. For half an hour the Orduna showed her heels to the assailant. Through marine glasses the passengers watched the dark splotch on the water's surface astern. They saw the low-lying Ger man warship coming on with a bone in her teeth, but the Drduna’s flight was faster than the pursuit and after seven shots had been fired without effect, the submarine gave up the chase. A wireless call for help was sent out by the Orduna when the torpedo was seen. She was then 37 miles Routh of Queenstown. The reply. Captain Tay lor says in his official report, was that help would be given within an hour. It was four hours before the first Brit ish vessel, an armored yacht, the Jeannette, appeared. Protest will be made to the Ameri can government by at least one citizen o f the United States and possibly others who were aboard All Washington and Oregon give hearty reception to the Liberty Bell on West Orange, N. J. — Thomas A. its journey from Philadelphia to San Edison has accepted an invitation from Francisco. Secretary Daniels to head an ad Germany makes formal answer to visory board o f civilian inventors for a the United States in which regrets for bureau of invention and development attack on the steamer Nebraskan is to be created in the navy department. expressed. His acceptance will go forward at An ex-Philadelphian, residing in Al once to Washington, where the new bany, Or., saw the Liberty Bell for plans await word from the man "w h o the first time when it passed through can turn dreams into realities.” Mr. Daniels’ idea o f utilizing the that city recently. inventive genius of Americans in and It is reported from Washington that out of the military and naval service to Turkey is expected to enter protest meet conditions o f warfare shown in against the United States for shipment the conflict on land and sea in Europe o f war munitions to the allies. is outlined in a letter written last The health department o f New York Wednesday asking Mr. Edison wheth City reports that in the past ten years er, as a patriotic service to his coun milk drinking has increased 50 per try, he would undertake the task of The cent, while saloons have materially de advising the proposed bureau. plan is to have several men prominent creased. in special lines of inventive research For trying to sell to butchers the associated in the work. meat of a cow that had died from Among the great problems to be laid "m ilk fev e r,” William Richterich, a before the investigators the secretary dairyman of Hillsdale, Oregon, was mentioned submarine warfare, adding fined $100. that he felt sure that with Mr. Edi The Motion Picture Exhibitors’ as son’s wonderful brain to help them the sociation in session in San Francisco officers of the navy would be able “ to pledges itself to start a campaign to meet this new danger with new devices Washington, D. C. — It is reported defeat all attempts at censoring film that will assure peace to our country again that Secretary McAdoo has ex dramas in the United States. by their effectiveness.” pressed his intention o f leaving the The French are arming their troops cabinet. In the coming fight in behalf New York City Grows. with a short knife for use in trench o f President Wilson, his father-in-law, New York— Father Knickerbocker’s he does not wish the charge made warfare, thus displacing the bayonet, which, when fixed in the rifle, is too population has increased almost half a against him that he is in the fight par long a weapon to give a man free play million in the last five years. To be ticularly for his own job, and he fears in the narrow trenches. exact, the normal growth o f the great it may injure the President to have a The so-called “ treasure murder” er city from the day the national cen member o f his own family in his cab case at Bedford, la ., in which four sus takers finished their work in 1910 inet. Several business offers have been aged men were accused of having com until June 13 last, when the state mitted a murder nearly half a century enumerators started in, was 478,929, made Mr. McAdoo, among which is the ago, were dropped after Bates Hunts an increase o f more than 10 per cent. presidency of one o f the largest bank His man, the defendant, whose hearing According to census supervisors of ing institutions o f New York. was in progress, was set free by Jus Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the predecessors, Secretary Shaw and Sec Bronx and Richmond, New York had a retary Gage, took advantage of such tice Sawyer. population of 5,245,812 on June 13, as opportunities and have become rich. The 1916 national convention o f the Secretary McAdoo could be the gov compared with 4,766,883 in 1910. Elks will be held in Baltimore. ernor general o f the Federal Reserve board if he would accept. The term An Italian merchantman used the French Contribute Gold. Greek flag to avoid German subma Paris — The flow o f gold from the of Mr. Hamlin, the present governor, rines. private stocks o f the public into the expires the first o f the year, and Mr. McAdoo could then be appointed for Colonel Alden J. Blethen, editor and Bank o f France continues. More than the long term on the Federal Reserve 10,000 persons deposited gold at the publisher o f the Seattle Times, dies bank during Friday and Saturday. Re board. after a long illness. Mr. Hamlin is expected to make the cently the Bank of France extended an The German Crown Prince’s advance invitation to the public to turn in its race in Massachusetts for governor or against the French is said to have private hoards o f gold to strengthen for United States senator if the ad been materially checked. the national reserve. The response ministration is behind him, and Mr. McAdoo would be retained at the head Villa is reported to have penetrated was such that the bank had to desig of the Federal Reserve board, which the lines o f the Carranzaistas and com nate a half dozen receiving tellers to he created. take the coin offered. pletely isolated Vera Cruz. There are two other resignations Views of the American press on the scheduled for the first o f the year in Trade Balance Continues. German reply to the recent note are the cabinet, and the fight for Wilson Washington, D. C. — A favorable the next year will be led by new and said to be surprising to Berlin. trade balance of $20,545,773 was Many parts o f the Canary Islands shown by the weekly statement of im reinforced heads of the administration. are shaken by earthquake shocks and ports and exports at the 13 principal Men’s Places Filled by Women. considerable damage is reported. ports of the United States, issued by Hull, England— A fter arguing the the department o f Commerce. The An aviator at a height of 1800 feet at Spokane succeeded in landing safely statement shows $29,896,465 for im pros and cons o f the proposal to em after being upside down with a broken ports and $50,442,243 for exports. The ploy women conductors on the street balance is an increase o f more than cars here for a month, the unions have plane. $3,000,000 over the first week o f last been compelled to yield to the pressure For experimental purposes the U. S. month and $11,000,000 over last week. o f circumstances and admit the new Navy department has bought several labor. It was found impossible to ob torpedo nets to hang around battle tain sufficient male labor to operate French Outbuy Bond Issue. ships and protect them from torpedo Paris— The minister o f finance, M. the necessary cars and the alternative attacks. Secretary Daniels said these Ribot, introduced in the chamber of to employing women was the stopping were of the same type as those em deputies a bill raising the limit o f the of the cars. Women will receive the ployed by the European navies. issue of national defense bonds from same as the men, but the war bonusus England has succeeded in negotiat $1,200,000,000, as fixed in the law of heretofore paid will be given the men Subscrip only, who will turn the trolley poles. ing another huge war loan of $3,000,- May 18, to $1,400,000,000. 000,000, subscribed mainly by patrons tions already have exceeded the prev Absent Spy Condemned. ious limit by $30,000,000. The French of the postoffice. public in 11 months has taken $1,680,- Paris — Sentence o f death has been The Liberty Bell en route from 000,000 of national bonds. passed by a court-martial at Marseilles Philadelphia to San Francisco, gets upon Herman Hochel, now in Germany, momentous reception in Portland and War Gets 200,000 Horses. who was tried and found guilty on a other Northwestern cities. Hinton, W. Va.— F ifty men were charge o f systematic espionage against A favorable trade balance of $17,- added to the force required to handle France before the declaration o f war 674,214 is indicated by the U. S. De the war horses fed and watered here and was not present at the trial to de The accused man, who partment o f Commerce statement on on their way from the West to the A t fend himself. imports and exports for the week lantic seaboard. Fully 200,000 horses was the Marseilles representative o f a ended July 10. 1716 trade balance ex have been handled since the European German sulphur company for 11 years, ceeded that for a similar period in war began, according to the officers in was charged with having relations with a foreign power. charge. June by more than $3,000,000. Secretary McAdoo Expected to Quit Wilson Cabinet, Is Rumor or I C o m t s il* S a lo o n , captain o f French raw tlry, tukce to hit q o a r tr is to raise to hand a m otherless Irish terrier pup. ami nam es It I'ttehoune lie illues with the M arquise d ’ K scItgnar ami m eets Miss Ju lla Itedmomt. Am erican heiress H e is o r dered to A ld e r s but Is not allow ed to taka servants or dogs M iss lledm om l tak es rare o f Pltchoune. who, lo u d n g for Ills m aster, runs aw ay from her The m arquise plana to m arry J olla to the l>uc de T rem ont. Pltchoune follow s Hahron to A lgiers, deg and m aster m eet, and Hahron aeia Permission to keep his dog with Idin. The l>uc de Trem ont Hods the Am erican heiress capricious Sabron. wounded In a n engagem en t, falls Into ths dry bed of a river and 1s w atched over by Pltehoune vile r a horrible night and day Pltchoune le vvea him. T rem onl takes Julia and the m arquise to A ig le ts In bis yacht but has doubts About J ulia's tied C ross m ission. Viler long search Julia gets trace of He b ron 's w hereabouts. Julia for tha m o m ent turns tnatchm ak er In b eh alf of Tre m oot. Ila m m e t Abou tells the M a r quise where he thinks Habron m ay be found. Trem ont decides to go with H a m - m et Abou to And Sabron. CHAPTER XXI—Continued. "Fatou Annl la nearly one hundred years old. She has borne twenty chil dren, she has had fifty grandchildren; she has Heen many wives, many brides and many mothers She doe* not be^ lleve the sick man has the Evil Eye She Is not afraid of your fifty armed men. Futou Annl Is not afraid. Al luh la great.' She will not give up the Frenehman because of fear, nor will ah« give him up lo any man. She glvea him to the women of hla people ’’ With dignity and majesty and with great beauty of carriage, the old worn an turned and walked toward her hut und the Bedoulna followed her. CHAPTER XXII. Into the Desert. A week after the caravan of the Due de Tremont left Algiers. Julia Red mond came unexpectedly to the villa of Madame de la Maine at an early morning hour. Madame de la Maine saw her atandtng on the threahold of her bedroom door ‘There Madame." Julia said, "I am leaving today with a dragoman and twenty servants to go Into the desert ” Madame de la Maine was still In bed. At nine o'clock she read her pa pers and her correspondence "Into the desert alone'" Julia, with her eravaehe tn her gloved hand*, smiled sweetly though she was very pale "I had not though' of going alone, Madame," she replied with charming aaaurance, "I knew you would go with me.” On a chair by her bed was a wrap per of blue silk and lace. The rom tesse sprang up and then thruat her feet Into her slippers and stared at Julia "What are you going to do In the desert ?" "Watch! ” "Yea, yes!” nodded Madame de la Maine. "And your aunt?” "Deep In a haznnr for the hospital," smiled Miss Redmond. Madame de la Maine regarded her slender friend with admiration and envy. “ Why hadn't I thought of It?” She rang for her maid "Because your great-grandfather was not a pioneer!” Miss Redmond answered. The sun which, all day long, held the desert In Its burning embrace, w«nt westward In his own brilliant caravan "The desert blossoms like a rose. Therese ” "Like a roee?" questioned Madame de la Maine She was sitting In the door of her tent; her white dress and her white It was rare for the caravan to pasa by Beni Medlnet. The old woman's Buperwtltlon foresaw danger In this visit. Hef veil before her face, her gnarled old fingers held the fan with which she had been fanning Sabron She went out to the strangers. Down by the well a group of girls In gar ments of blue and yellow, with earthen bottles on their heads, stood staring at Beni Medlnet's unusual visitors. “ Peace be with you. Patou Aunt,” said the older of the Bedouins "Are you a cousin or a brother that you know my name?” asked the an cient woman “ Everyone knows the name of the oldest woman In the Sahara.” said Ilammet Abou. “and the victorious are always brothers " j “ What do you want with me?” she asked, thinking of the helplessness of the village. Ilammet Abou pointed to the hut. “ You have a white captive In there Is he alive?" “ What Is that to you. son of a dog?" "The mother of many sons Is wise.” said Ilammet Abou portentously, "but she does not know that this man car ries the Evil Eye. His dog carries the Evil Eye for his enemies. Your people have gone to battle. Unless this man Is cast out from your village, your young men. your grandsons and your sons will be destroyed." The old woman regarded him calmly "I do not fear It.” she said tran quilly. “ We have had corn and oil In plenty. He Is sacred.” For the first time she looked at his companion, tall and slender and evi dently younger. “ You favor the coward Franks." she said In a high voice. "You have come to fall upon us In our desolation.” She was about to raise the peculiar wall which would have summoned to her all the women of the village. The dogs of the place had already begun to show their noses, and the villagers were drawing near the people under the palms Now the young man began to speak swiftly In a language that she did not understand, addressing his comrade. The language was so curious that the woman, with the cry arrested j on her lips, stared at him. Pointing to ■ his companion. Ilammet Abou said: "Fatou Ann!, this great lord kisses your hand. He says that he wishes he could speak your beautiful lan- j guage. He does not come from the enemy; he does not come from the French. He comes from two women of his people by whom the captive Is beloved. He says that you are the mother of sons snd grandsons, and that you will deliver this man up Into our hands In peace.” The narrow fetid streets were be ginning to fill with the figures of women, their beautifully colored robes fluttering In the light, and there were curious eager children who came running, naked save for the bangles upon their arms and ankles. Pointing to them, Ilammet Abou said to the old sage: "See, you are only women here, Julia's Eyea Were Fixed Upon the Fatou Annl. Your men are twenty Limitlese Sands. miles farther south. We have a cara van of fifty men all armed, Fatou hat gleamed like a touch of snow Annl. They camp Just there, at the upon the desert's face. Julia Red edge of the oasis. They are waiting. mond, on a rug at her feet, and In her We come In peace, old woman: we khaki rldlnghablt the color of the come to take away the Evil Eye from sand, blended with the desert as your door; but If you anger us and though part of It. She sat up aa she rare against us, the dogs and women spoke. of your town will fall upon you and "How divine! See!” She pointed destroy every breast among you.” to the stretches of the Sahara before She began to beat her palms to her. On every side they apread away gether, murmuring: as far as the eye could reach, suave, “ Allah! Allah!” mellow, black, undulating finally to "Hush,” said the Bedouin fiercely, small hillocks with corrugated aides, "take us to the captive, Fatou Annl.” ss a group of little sandhills rose soft Fatou Annl did not stir. She ly out of the sealike plain. "Look, pulled aside the veil from her with Therese!” 8!owly, from ocher and gold the ered face, so that her great 'eyes looked out at the two men. She saw color changed; a faint wavellke blush her predicament, but she was a subtle crept over the sands, which reddened, Oriental. Victory had been In her paled, faded, warmed again, took camp and In her village, her sons and depth and grew Intense like flame. grandsons had never been vanquished "The heart of a rose! N’est-ce pas, Perhaps the dying man In the hut Therese?” would bring the Evil Eye! He was "I understand now what you mean,” dying, anyway—he would not live said madame. The comtesse was not twenty-four hours. She knew this, a dreamer. Parisian to the tips of for her ninety years of life had seen her fingers, elegant, fine, she had lived many eyes close on the oasis under a conventional life. Therese had been the hard blue skies. taught to conceal her emotlona. She To the taller of the two Bedouins had been taught that our feallngs matter very little to any one but our- she said In Arabic: sclves She had lieeri taught te go lightly. In avoid serious things Her great-grandmother had gone llglitly to the sea (fold, exquisitely courteous Ull the laat. I ask your pardon If I Joetlad you In the tumbrel." Ih» old comteeaa had i said to her companion on the way to the guillotine "The springe of Ihe cart aro poor" and shu went up smiling. In tie’ companionship of the Ameri can girl, Therese de In Maine had thrown off rentralnl If the Msrquiso d'ICscllgiiac had felt Julla'n Influence, Therein do la Maine, being near liar own ago. echoed Julla'a vorv feeling Except for their dragoman and their servants, the two women were eloue lu Ihe desert. Hlulling at Julie. Mademn da la Maine said "I haven't been so far from the Hue de la I’alx lu my life " "How can you apeak of tha Rue de la ralx, Therese?” "Only to show you how completely I have left It behind " Julla'a eyes were fixed upon the I'm- Itlesa sands, a sea where a faint line lost Itself In the red weat and th* hork ton shut from her sight averyUtiag that she believed to be her Ilf* •'This la the seventh day. Therese!" "Already you are as browu aa an Arab, Julia!” "You as well, ma chere anile!” “ Robert dors not like dark women," said the t'omlease de la Maine, and rubbed ber check. "I must wear two veils ” "l-ook. Therese!" Across the face of the deaert the glow began to withdraw Its curtain. The aanda suffused an Ineffnble hue, a shell like pink took possession, and the desert melted aud then grew colder It waned before their eyea. withered llko a tea rose “ Like a roee!" Julia murmured, "smell Its perfume!" She lifted her head, drinking In with delight tbe fragrance of the sands "Ma chere Julia." gently protested the comtesse. lining her head, "per fume. Julia!" But alia breathed with her friend, while a sweetly subtle. In toxicating odor, a* of mllllous and mil lions of roses, gathered, warmed, kept, then scattered on the airs of heaven. Intoxicating her. To the left were the huddled tents of tbelr attendants No sooner had tha sun gone down than the Arabs com menced to sing -a song that Julia bad especially liked. I-ov« Is Ilk« a iv isl perfurn«. It com*«. It MCRpr* Whsn It’s It Intoilnl#«; W h e n It*« ■ m sm ory. It tirtntfa ( « « r s . love !■ l i k e ti a W e s t b reath. It comes am! It «••raj»«-». Th* weird music filled the stlenr* of the silent place It had th* *van*sr*nt quality of tb* wind (hat brought (ha breath of the sand flowers 'Ihe voices of the Arabs, not unmusical, though hoars* aud appealing, cried out their love song, and then the music turned to Invocation and to prayer. The two women listened *llently as the night fell, their figures sharply outlined In the beautiful clarity of tha eastern night. Julia stood upright In her r re riding dress, she was as slender < a boy. She remained looking toward tbe horlson. Immovable, patient, a silent watcher over the uncommunicative waste. "Perhapg,” she thought, "there Is nothing really beyond that line, so fast blotting Itself Into night and yet I seem to see them com e!” Madame de la Mnlne, In the door of her tent. Immovable, her hands clasped sround her knees, loek affec tionately at the young girl before her. Julia was a delight to her. She was carried away by her. by her frank sim plicity, and drawn tn her warm and generous heart Madame de la Mnlne had her own story. She wondered whether ever, for any period of her conventional life, she could have thrown everything aside ar.d stood out with the man she loved Julia, standing before her. a dark slim figure In the night- Isolated and alone— recalled the figurehead of a ship, Its fare toward heaven, pioneer ing the open seas • • • • • • • Julia watched, Indeed. On tho desert there Is the brilliant day, a passionate glow, and the nightfall They passed the nights sometimes listening for a cry that should hall an approaching caravan, sometimes hearing the wild cry of the hyenas, or of a passing vul ture on his horrid flight Otherwise, until the camp atlrred with the dawn and tho early prayerrall sounded "Al lah! Allah! Akhar!" Into the still ness, they wore wrapped in complete silence. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Meaning of Yankee. Tb«.re are several conflicting the ories regarding the origin of the word Yankee The moat probable Is that It came from a corrupt pronun ciation by the Indians of tbe word English, or Ita French from Anglais. The term Yankee was originally ap plied only to the natives of the Now England states but foreigners have extended It to all th« natives of tho United States and during the Ameri can Civil war the southerners usod It as a term of reproach for all the In habitants of the North Porto Rico Sugar Industry. The Important part played by ths sugar Industry in the material welfare of Forto Rico Is shown by the flguree of exports. Out of a total valuation of exports amounting to $43.000,000 dur ing the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1914, sugar alone constituted over $30,1 000,000. This was tha lowest sum real ized for sugar export* In five years Under normal conditions sugar coni stltutes two thirds tko total value of •II exports.