4 WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Rrief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSlifi Live News Items of All Nations anc Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Use of shells in the European war exceeds all records. London has reports of a decided vic­ tory over the Turks in Asia. Two Federal inquiries have begun in the steamer Eastland case in Chicago. A Belgian steamer and a Swedish brig were torpedoed by 'submarines Friday. The French chamber of deputies has increased the limit of the French de­ fense bonds to $1,400,000,000 American imports from Germany have decreased within the past year from $14,994,585 to $1,153,257' A spot six times as large as the earth has appeared on the sun, and will be visible until August 10. The majority of Spaniards are de­ clared to favor the allies, but to be de­ termined to keep out of the war. British authorities have arrested a German for landing in England with a cleverly forged American passport. English soldiers have uncovered an­ tique Greek relics of great value while digging trenches at the Dardanelles. A Portland Chinese was arrested by customs officials with 26 pounds of crude opium concealed in a basket of vegetables. ■ Another fine of $1,000,000 has been imposed upon the city of Brussels by the Germans, as a reprisal for the de­ struction of a Zeppelin by allied air­ men. One hundred deaf mutes saw the scenic beauties of Portland while at- tendng their national convention, and "heard" everything explained by deaf mute “ spielers.” A shortage of between $2500 and $3000 in the treasurer’s office in Spo­ kane haa been discovered, and two em­ ployes have been suspended pending further investigation. Michael Damphoffer, Jr., aged, 70, of Vancouver, Wash., is dead, and is survived by his father, aged 100 last January. Both were Grand Army veterans and fought shoulder to shoul­ der in the First Oregon Volunteers. Charles F. Becker, former police lieutenant of New York City, was electrocuted Friday morning for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gam­ bler, on July 16, 1912. He protested and declared his innocence to the last. NORTHW EST M ARKET REPORTS; ; G EN ER A L CROP CONDITIONS French take important position on top o f high mountain in the Alsace district after fierce bombardment. Charging that she had been de­ frauded of $10,000 in a stock deal, and that she had been beaten and injured and falsely arrested when she tried to get her money back, Mrs. Bertha M. Leland, a former restaurant cashier, files suit aggregating $100,000 against Frank Rockefeller, brother of the “ oil king.” OREGON STATE NEWS Portland — Wheat — Hluestem, 9Se All Convicts at Work. bushel; fortyfold. 90c; club, 88c; red Salem— For the first time in several Fife, 83c, red Russian, 80c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $24. years all state convicts but four or Barley No. 1 feed, $23.50; bran five physically incapacitate«! because $23.50; shorts. $23.50. of age, were put to work Wednesday Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $27 ton; shorts, $28; rolled barley. $27.50 by Harry I*. Minto, superintendent. The population of the prison is 620, @28.50. Corn— Whole, $37 ton; cracked, $38 the largest in its history, and since the Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $16 contract system was abolished it has ( i £17; valley timothy, $15; alfalfa, been a problem to provide employment $12.60@13.50. Vegetables—Cucumbers, Oregon, 30 for the prisoners. (d50c dozen; artichokes, 90c; toma­ More than 200 men are employed toes, 75c(u$l box; cabbage, H 'lllc pulling flax, and the others are at work pound; head lettuce, $1 crate; beans, building a concrete floor in the flax 2J(<:4c pound; green corn, 20c dozen. factory and at the prison rock quarry. Green Fruits—Cantaloupes, $1.5tH<£ The six gangs outside the peniten­ 2.50 crate; apricots, 90ct«i$l box; tiary enclosure were guarded, and Mr. peaches. 60td75c; watermelons, 1 2< Minto said there was little danger of pound; plums, 50«i75c box; new ap­ any o f the men escaping., ples, $1.25 t«t 1.50; pears, $1.75( Tremont tool« II "Haven't ws trav­ eled far together, Tremont?" "Yes." nodded the other, affected, "hut you must sleep now. Wo will talk about It over our cigars and liquors soon.” Hnbron smiled faintly. Ills clear mlud was regaining Its balance, and thoughts beguu to sweep over It cru­ elly fast. He looked al hls rescuer, and to him the other's radiance meant simply that he was engaged to Miss Reduiond. Of course thul was nuturnl. Sabron tried to accept It nnd to he glad for the happiness of the man who hud rescued him. But as he thought this, tie wetidered why ho hod been rescued and shut hls eyes so that Tremont might not see hls weakness. He said hesitatingly: "I am haunted by a melody, n tune. Could you help me? It won't come.” "It's not the "Marseillaise?" asked the other, sitting down by hls aide and pulling IMtchoune'» cars. "Oh, no!” "There will be singing In (ha ward shortly. A Red Cross nurse comes to sing to the patients, She uisy help you to reinember.” Sabron renounced In despair. Haunt­ ing, lantutlzlng In hls bruin and Illu­ sive, the notes began and stopped, be­ gun and stopped. Ho wanted to usk hls friend a thousand questions. How he had come to him, why he had come to him, bow he knew. . . , He gave It all up and dozed, and while he slept the sweet sleep of thoso who are to recover, he heard the sound of a woiu- on those silent days, and hls blue eyes, where the very whites were I. * Comte tie Sabron, cai'tnln o f French burned, began to wear the faraway, rs va lr y, luKm to hla quarters to r « l » e l>y hand n niothrrloM Irish terrier pup. ami mysterious look of the traveler across names It I'ltchnone. lie illuea with the long distances During the Inst sand Murqutsc tl'KaclIgnac amt meets Ml-a Ju- Its Itedmoml. American heiress l i e la or- storm he stood, with the ramela, round i h r i i l to Aliclors hut la not allow*"! to Sabron's litter, a human shade and toko servants or (logs. Miss Itedmoml takes care o f IMtchoune, who. limgltis for shield, und when the storm ceased ho his master, runs a w a y from her. The fell like one dead, and the Arabs marquise plans lo marry Julia lo the l>uc ile Trvtuont Pltchoune follows Sahron to pulled off hls boots and put him to bed Algiers, il.-c nnd muster meet, uml Sahron like a child. s< (a permission to keep hla tloit with him. One sundown, as they traveled Into The nuc *le Tremont flints the Am erican heiress capricious Sahron. wounded In the afterglow with the East behind an engagement, full» Into the dry hed of when Tremont thought he a riv er and Is watched over by IMirhoune. them, A fte r a horrible night and day IMlchoune could not endure another day of the leaves him Trem ont takes Julia and the marquise to Algiers In Ids vacht but has voyage, when the pallor and waxlneas doubts about Julia's Hed Cross mission. of Sabron's face were like deuth Itself, A f t e r long search Julia gels trace of S a­ lmon's whereabouts Julht for the m o­ Hnmmet Abou. who rode ahead, cried ment turns ma tchmaker In behalf o f T r e ­ out and pulled up hls camel short. mont llnmmet AI»ou Tells the M a r ­ quise wh ere he thinks Sahron ma v he He waved him arm. found. Tremont decides to go with Haiti, “ A caravan, monsieur." met -Vbou to find Sahron t'Ttehouna ttnds In the distance they saw the tents, a village, tw elve hours Journey sway , and somehow ninkes Katou Annl understand like lotus leaves, scattered ou the pluk hla master's desperate plight. Sahron I* rescued by the village men but grows sands, and the dark shadows of the art w i t without prop* r rare T lt mont Arabs and the couchant beusts, and goes Into the desert with the caravan In search o f Sahron Julia follow s with the glow of the encampment fire. M a d a m « de la Maine, whom Tremont “ An encampment, monsieur!” loves. Tremont sighed. He drew the cur­ tain of the litter and looked In upon CHAPTER XXIV— Continued. Sabron, who was sleeping. Ills set At night as he lay In hla bod In hla features, the growth of hls uncut tent. Tremont and llammet Aboil beard, the long fringe of hts eyes, hls cooled hla temples with water from dark hair upon hls forehead, hls wan the earthen bottles, where the aweet transparency— with the peace upon hts ooze stood out humid and refreshing face, he might have been a figure of on the damp clay. They gave him acid Christ waiting for sepulture Tremont cried to him: "Sabron. and cooling drinks, and now and then Sabron would smile on Tremont, call­ mon vloux Charles, reveille toll We ing him ’'petit frere," and Tremont are In sight of human beings!” But Sabron gavo no sign that he heard the words with moisture In his eyes, remembering what he had said heard or cared. pany shall have the right to begin cut to the Marquise d'EsclIgnac about be­ Throughout the Journey across the ting timber any time after July 1 this ing Sabron's brother. Once or twice desert, IMtchoune had ridden at hls year, and the company is to pay the the soldier murmured a woman'» will and according to hls taste, some­ trustee $1.50 a thousand for the tim­ name, but Tremont could not catch It, times Journeying for the entire day ber cut up to 35,000,000 feet, and $1 perched upon Tremont's camel. He and once he said to the duke: thousand above that amount. No sat like a little figurehead or a mas­ "Sing! Sing!" mention is made as to what the money The Frenchman obeyed docilely, cot, with ears pointed northward and borrowed is to be used for, but it is hls keen nose sniffing the desert air. understood the amount is to be ex humming In an agreeable barytone the Sometimes he would take the same snatches of song he could remember. pended in constructing railroads and "La FUle de Madame Angot,” "11 Tro position on one of the mules that car­ operating logging camps. vatore;” running them Into more mod­ ried Sabron's litter, at hls master's ern opera, "La Veuve Joyeuse." But feet. There he would Ile hour after Brighton Mill Runs Full. the lines creased In Sabron's forehead hour, with hla soft eyes fixed with Brighton— The big mill at Brighton Indicated that the singer had not yet understanding sympathy upon Sab­ is running full time and with a com­ found the music which haunted the ron's face. He was, as he had been to Fatou plete crew of men. Logging opera­ memory of the sick man. tions along the Nehalem river have "S in g!” he would repeat, fixing hls Annl, a kind of fetish— the caravan been active in several of the smaller hollow eyes on hls companion, and adored him. Now from hls position at camps in preparation for the resump­ Tremont complied faithfully. Finally, Sabron's feet, he crawled up and tion of work here and several hundred his own thoughts going back to early licked hls master's hund. "Charles!" Tremont cried, and lift­ r T_* *• . thousand feet of logs have been cut. days, he hummed tunes that he and a Manager Thomas Watt has been to San certain little girl had sung at their ed the soldier's hand. Sabron opened hls eyes. He was Francisco to interest shipowners to games In the allccs of an old chateau sane. The glimmer of a smile touched take cargoes of lumber from Brighton in the vallpy of the Indre. hls lips. He said Tremont’s name, and feels that his hope of water trans­ "Sonnez leg matlnes recognized him. "A re we home?" ho portation for the product of thetnill Ding—din— don.” Threatened by the Engulfing Sand- asked weakly. "Is It France?" soon will be realized. and other children's melodies. storm. The work on the south jetty at the Tremont turned and dashed away a In thoso nights, on that desolate Nehalem river will be completed with­ tear. way, alone. In a traveling tent, at the nn's voice In the distance, singing, one in six weeks and the water conditions He drew the curtains of the litter side of a man he scarcely knew, Rob­ nfter another, familiar melodies, and are most favorable. In spite of the and now walked beside It, hls legs absence of freshets during the spring, ert de Tremont learned serious les­ feeling like cotton and Ills heart beat- finally ho heard the "Kyrlo Elelson,” uud to Its music Sabron ugaln felt which usually scour the bar to a con­ sons. He had been a soldier himself, inn asleep. siderable depth, the channel this year but his life had been an Inconsequent As they camo up toward the en­ The next day ho received a visitor. deep enough to allow good-sized one. He had lived as he liked, behind campment, two people rode out to him always the bitterness of an early | It was not an easy matter to Intro­ freight carriers to cross. meet them, two women In white riding deception. But be had been too young duce visitors to hls bedside, for Pit* to break hls heart at seventeen, lie habits, on stallions, and as the evening ^oune'^"objected. "fMtchouno received Coast Road Is Inspected. had lived through much since the day breeze fluttered the veils from their the Marquise d'EsclIgnac with grout helmets, they seemed to be flags of displeasure. Newport — A party consisting of hls father exiled him to Africa. "Is hfc a thoroughbred?” aBkcd the Therese had become a dream, a welcome. George H. Cecil, district forester of Under hls helmet Tremont wns red Marquise d'EsclIgnac. the Northwest; Shirley Buck, Mrs. memory around which he did not al­ "H e has behaved like one." replied Buck and B. J. Finch, all of Portland, ways let hls thoughts linger. When and burned. Ho had a short, rough the officer. made the first auto trip around Cape he had seen her again after her hus­ growth of beard. Therese de la Maine nnd Julia Red­ There wus n silence. The Mnrqulso Perpetua on a road constructed jointly band's death and found her free, he by Lincoln and Lane counties and the was already absorbed In the worldly mond rode up. Tremont recognized d'EsclIgnac was wondering what her life of an ambitious young man. He them, and came forward, half stugger- niece saw In the pale man so near Forestry service. Mr. Cecil’s trip was to inspect the had not known how much he loved her ing. Ho looked at Julia and smiled, still to the borders of the other road, and he found the work done sat­ until In the Villa des Bougainvilleas and pointed with hts left hand toward world. "You will be leaving tho army, of isfactorily. Lane county has not yet he had seen and contrasted her with the litter; but he went directly up to Mudaine de la Maine, who sat Immov­ course," she murmured, looking at him completed its share of the road, from Julia Redmond. Waldport, Alsea Bay, to Florence, on All the charm for him of the past able on her little stallion. Tremont Interestedly. the Siuslaw. "Madame!” said the Capltnlnn de returned, and he realized that, as seemed to gather her In hls arms. He When this road is completed there money goes, he was poor—she was lifted her down to him. Sabron, with hls blood- all that was Julia Redmond's eyes were on tho In him—rising to Ills cheeks. will be an auto stage through country poorer. Utter, whose curtains were stirring In noted for its grandeur and hunting and "I mean that France lias done noth­ The difficulties of the marriage made fishing resources, and also will connect him all the more secure In hls deter­ the breeze. llammet Abou. with a ing for you Franco did not rescuo the Columbia river with San Franicsco mination that nothing should separate profound salaam, came forward to her. you and you mny feci like seeking a "Mademoiselle,” he said, respect­ more—another career.” Bay by a coast road. him again from this woman. (TO ItHS CON TIN UED ) By Sabron's bed he bummed hls fully, "he lives. 1 have kept my word ” IMtchoune sprang from tile litter and Polk Oils Roads 50 Miles. little Insignificant tunes, and hls heart St. Bride of Ireland. Monmouth — F ifty miles of Polk longed for the woman. When once or ran over tho sands to Julia Redmond. She dismounted from her horse alone St. Bride, Iho putroness of Ireland county highways have been oiled the twice on the return Journey they had and called him: "IMtchoune! pit* nnd of Fleet Btreet, whose feast falls past few days, according to J. W. been threatened by the engulfing sand choune!" Kneeling down on tho des­ In February, was the beautiful daugh­ Finn, county roadmaster. Approxi­ storm he bad prayed not to die before ert, she stooped to caress him, and ter of a hard who became the religious be could again clasp her in hls arms. mately 80,000 gallons were used, the he crouched at her feet, licking her dlaclplo of St. Patrick nnd abbess o( Sweet, tantalizing, exquisite with hands. entire work costing $2500. The Coun­ Kildare. The story of St. Bride, or ty court, commercial clubs, towns and the passion of young love, there came Bridget, fired the Celtic imagination, subscriptions have furnished the sup­ to him the memories of the moonlight CHAPTER XXV. and In Ireland about twenty parishes nights on the terrace of the old cha­ port necessary. Every road in Polk hear the name of Kilbride. The spire county is ready for tourist travel, and teau. He saw her In the pretty girl­ As Handsome Does. of her church In Fleet streot bus been more cars have passed through here ish dresses of long ago, the melan­ When Sabron next opened hls eyes twice struck by lightning nnd much this Beason than at any previous time. choly droop of her quivering mouth, he fancied that he was at home In hls reduced from tho original height, hut For five years gravel has been placed her bare young arms, and smelled the old room In Rouen, In the house where In still one of the tallest steeples in fragrance of her hair as he kissed on the roads in the winter months. he was born. In the little room In I»ndon. It is supposed to havo been her. So humming hls soothing melo­ which, as a child, dresaed in hls dimity designed by Wren's young daughter.— dies to the sick man, with hls voice 100 at Seavey Family Reunion. night gown, he had sat up In hls bed Pall Mull Onzetto. softened by hls memories, he soothed Eugene— More than 100 members of by candle light to learn hls letters the Seavey family, one of the oldest Sabron. from th i cookery book. Have a Good Bed. Sahron closed hls eyes, the creases families in Lane county, assembled at The room was snowy white. Out­ In Farm and Flreshle a contributor, the summer home of J. W. Seavey, on In hls forehead disappeared as though side the window he heard a bird sing, the McKenzie, Wednesday, for a fam­ brushed away by a tender hand. Per­ and near by, he heard a dog's smoth­ writing a practical article about mat­ tresses and other provialons for beds, ily reunion. For the past four years haps the sleep was due to the fact ered bark. Then he knew that he makes the following general comment: it has been the custom of this family that, unconsciously, Tremont slipped was not at home or a child, for with "In furnishing a home the housewife to hold an annual reunion. The cele­ Into humming a tune which Miss Red­ the languor and weakness came hls should give most careful thought to bration began with a picnic dinner mond had sung In the Villa des Bou­ memory. A quiet nurse In a hospital the beds and their equipment. Wo served on the lawn under the big gainvilleas, and of whose English dress was sitting by hts bed, and cedars. words De Tremont was quite Ignorant. IMtchoune rose from the foot of the spend at least a third of our lives In bed, and It Is worth while to make Will he last until Algiers, llammet bed and looked at him adoringly. that third pleasant and refreshing. Tba Grants Pass Plans Pool. Abou?" He waa In a hospital In Algiera. best mattresses and aprlngs are none Grants Pass — A public mass meet­ “ What will be will be, monsieur!” "Pitchoune,” he murmured, not too good when one Is storing up ing was held recently at the Commer­ Abou replied. knowing the name of hls other com­ strength for some work. Besides, as le cial Club rooms to decide upon the He must,” De Tremont answered panion, “ where are we, old fellowT” the case with most household pur­ plans for the new municipal bath The nurse replied la an agreeable chases, the best are really the cheap- house. The bath house is to be erected Bercely. "H e shall.” lie became serious and meditative Anglo Saxon French: ost In the cn