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WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEli Live News Items of Ail Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Hi Gill, mayor of Seattle, celebrates BOth anniversary of his birth. August 23. A fter seven months' session the ‘English parliament adjourns to Octo ber. 10. An important advance in the cam paign for the conquest o f German East A frica is reported in a Reuter dispatch from Nairobi. Germany rejoices over the safe re turn o f the undersea liner Deutschland, and America is praised for her strict neutrality and fairness. Germany is said to be building Zep pelins that measure 780 feet long and with a carrying capacity of five tons, and having a radius of 3000 mlies. The meeting o f the American-Mexico conferees to settle border questions will meet during the first week o f Sep tember somewhere along the New England coast. Patricia Burke, a noted California beauty, is another American girl who has married an English title. She is now the Countess Cottenham, having been married to the Earl o f Cottenham in London on August 16. Russian forces operating in South ern Turkish Armenia have reoccupied Mush, captured by the Turks on Au-, gust 8, says an official announcement. The statement adds the Russians cap tured 2300 prisoners at Rachta. Julius Pullen, 11 years old, o f Eure ka, Cal., must have silhouetted like a deer when he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his brow, for just as he did so an unknown hunter shot at him. The bullet carried away three fingers and a thumb from the young ster's left hand. Hamburg bankers and shipping com panies, among them the Hamburg- American line, are planning the estab lishment o f a new shipbuilding plant at Hamburg, says an Overseas News agency announcement. The plant will be exclusivly for the construction of freighters o f from 7000 to 8000 tons. The 22d battalion, Sonora Infantry, 200 strong, was practically annihilated after it had been ambushed by Yaquis near Batamonte, in the Alamos dis trict, about 10 days ago, according to reports from Sahuaripa. The Mexican troops were passing through a narrow canyon. Only a few stragglers escaped. Complaint against the action of Western and Northwestern railway lines in discontinuing peddler car serv ice by which perishable commodities were sold from freight cars to consum ers, was made to the Interstate Com merce commission by the Nebraska State Grange and the Nebraska Farm ers’ Union. State Commissioner of Health Sam uel G. Dixon, o f Pennsylvania, has de cided that all public schools, as well as private, parochial and Sunday schools, in the state must remain closed until September 18, because of the preva lence o f infantile paralysis. Five hun dred and ninety-eight cases have been reported in the state since July 1, with 154 deaths. The Austrians, according to a dis patch from Innsbruck, have found the treasures of the Detchani monastery near Cettinje, Montenegro, which the monks had buried on the approach of the invaders. The accumulations were those o f seven centuries, consisting of jewels and old coins o f every genera tion since the 13th century; golden vessels and richly embroidered vest ments. The value of the whole of the accumulation is estimated at several million pounds. Intense heat in Chicago Sunday claims eleven victims. American supervision of Dominican finances soon is to be extended to in ternal revenue as well as customs re ceipts. A budget system also is to be arranged. Swiss dispatches to the Overseas News Agency report that the French have removed the civil population from towns and villages behind the front in the districts o f Nancy, Lune- ville, Baccarat and Saint Die. Roumania is thought about ready to join the allies, as the situation be tween that country and Germany is re ported serious. Eight persons were killed and 16 in jured when three boilers in the Harlan Morris Stave Manufacturing Co., at Jackson, Tenn., exploded. A masked robber held up and re lieved W. H. Estabrook, manager of the Boston-Idaho Gold Dredge Mining company, o f gold dust and nuggets valued at $2180 near Boise City in the Boise basin. The desperado made good his escape. ROUMANIA Ï0 JOIN RUSSIANS \ F F W AS FIRST MOVE IN GREAT WAR S ° Ï T F M 1 1 L i A Of General Interest S 10 About Oregon London— The Times military corre spondent, discussing the probable next step by Roumania, says: “ The strategic situation points to a Survey Includes Bend. combination of Roumania with the present Russian offensive. This line Bend — Under the supervision of of attack will lead the Roumanian Thomas G. Gerdine, head of the North army into Transylvania, where a ma jority of the population favor the in west division of the United States vaders. At the same time the passage Geological survey, preliminary ar o f the Danube, an advance on Sofia rangements are now being made to and the breaking down of the Bulgar make the permanent survey of the ian power in co-operation with the allied forces at Saloniki have their at 1 Cline Falls quadrangle, which includes Bend. The north limit of the map tractions." The Petrograd correspondent of the will be in the vicinity of Culver, and Morning Post says: the whole will cover an area o f 850 "Roumania's task obviously will not square miles. So far as possible, pre be confined to the Bulgarian front, vious government surveys in connec where a decision would be merely of tion with local irrigation projects, and secondary consequence. Russia has national forests and other land mat- ready considerable fbrces for use in ; ters, w ill be utilized. The maps are the Balkans, composed partly of Aus 1 of great value to the sections covared. tro-Hungarian subjects fully armed as they show all natural features, in- and officered, partly by Austro-Hun j eluding contours, and are made with garians and partly by Serbians. These the utmost accuracy. forces have taken the oath o f alleg iance to the emperor o f Russia and Willow Factory Thrives. will fight under the Russian flag.” Orenco — Orenco has a thriving up Roumania. Her Strength and Her to date willow factory. About a year Ambitions. Roumania is the 14th nation to join ago. upon solicitation, Harry Jibe- the war and the tenth on the side of mann came to Orenco and started the the entente allies. enterprise, and in one year’s time has Her military strength is estimated proved it to be a successful venture. at 900,000 men, with 480 75-milli- He now has orders for baskets and meter guns, 160 field guns and some furniture calling for immediate and heavy guns. future delivery and has been obliged to The population of Roumania is 6,- reject many orders. The enterprise 800,000. has proved that on a few acres o f land The achievement of her “ national a living can be made by raising first- ambition" to unite the lands in which class willows for a factory trade, and Roumanian population is predominant, working all second and third grade would give her a population of about willows into rough wood and market 13.000,000. baskets. Reconstructed Roumania would then include, in addition to the present ter Mill Capacity Doubles. ritory, Czernowitx, Bessarabia and a large portion of Transylvania and in Astoria— F. W. Swanton, manager area would be as large as England, o f the Astoria Flouring mills, an Scotland and Wales. nounced this week that the capacity of the company's mill is to be increased j to 1200 barrels per day. This means that the output o f the local plant will be more than doubled in capacity when the parity rates go into effect at the The Chicago— Widening o f the European mouth of the Columbia river. war rone Tuesday sent wheat prices machinery necessary will be ordered at tumbling almost as if the market had ! once. When the mill was constructed, pro no bottom. The extreme fall in prices was 111 cents, an amount virtually a vision was made to install a new line parallel to the extraordinary rise wit o f machinery without disturbing the nessed two years ago on the day that operation of the plant. hostilities began. Transactions were Coos Grain Yields Heavy. on a huge scale. Salem— Standing oats that reach to It was the view that the end of the war had perhaps been greatly hastened the shoulders of a man on horsebark that in the main brought about the big and that yield more than 130 bushels drop in quotations. Even the most to the acre when threshed are not un- conservative traders seriously dis ! common in the Coos Bay country, ac- cussed the chance that by a speedy 1 cording to J. A. Moomaw, a farmer of opening o f the Dardanelles vast stores that section, who visited the state- Barley has produced o f Russian grain would soon reach ; house recently. western Europe as a result of Rou 180 bushels an acre, while a small manian having at last joined fortunes planting of wheat showed better than with the Anglo-French allies. Word 1 125 bushels to the acre. Mr. Moo- late in the session that actual fighting j maw’s farm is river bottom land with had begun on the Roumanian frontier a heavy deposit of leaf mulch on the set the wheat pit here nearly frantic surface. and was followed by a wild close at the Two Get State Pensions. lowest prices o f the day. Salem— The State Industrial Accident Insurance commission has made pro vision for beneficiaries under the com pensation act. For Ambrogio Tomba, ' an employe of the Pacific Lime & Gyp- Berlin— Roumania’s declaration of Bum company, who sustained a broken war against Austria-Hungary was \ back June 10, 1915, when he fell off a without marked effect on the Bourse I muck car, $7074.55 was held in trust. Tuesday. Some "w a r babies” like | I f he lives out his expectancy he will the stocks o f arms and ammunitions receive $14,156. The widow and two concerns reacted rather sharply, but children o f G. W. Sanders, who died most quotations hardly changed. last month, are entitled to $13,413 if Semi-official statements made here Mrs. Sanders does not marry again and expressed the belief that the influence 1 the children attain the age o f 16. on Germany’ s food problem would not be considerable. Grain contracts for Linn Plans Fine Display. the 1915 crop already have been filled Albany— Linn county will have a largely, and the loss on imports of the splendid exhibit at the State Fair this 1916 crop w ill not be severely felt, in fall. This has been decided upon by view of Germany’ s reported excellent the County court, and County Commis home crop. Imports o f Roumanian sioner Irvine has been delegated to col grain of all kinds had been placed at lect and prepare the exhibit. For sev 1,400,000 tons. eral years preceding last year Linn German crops are now estimated at county did not exhibit at the State 5,000,000 tons above those of 1915, Fair. One was entered last year on a excluding the occupied territory. small scale but this year the .scourt Owing to the doubtful attitude of has engaged more space in the exhibit the Roumanian government, the au pavilion and proposes to make a first- thorities in charge o f Germany’s food class display. supplies completed their plans some time ago for feeding the population Neighbor Packing Grows. the next 12 months without the assis Hood River— The community pack tance of Roumania. It even is said that the bread ration soon w ill be in ing house system of handling apple creased. The authorities are planning crops continues to grow in the Hood an economic policy by which a goodly River valley, and no less than a half surplus will be saved from the 1916 dozen such institutions will be in oper crop for a possible shortage in the ation this fall. The latest community organization was formed recently by 1917 crops. O. B. Nye, A. H. Berry, Medford Reed and A. Canfield, who have secured, a Radio Torpedo Arrives. centrally located building on the West Washington, D. C.— Major General Side, where they will install a large Leonard Wood, commanding the army’ s grading machine and handle their ap Eastern department, has been appoint ple crop co-operatively. ed head o f a joint army and navy board, to pass judgment on the radio- Many Want New County. controlled torpedo provision for the Bend— Unexpected success is being purchase of which from the inventor, met with by the circulators of the John Hays Hammond, Jr., has been | county division petitions, according to made in congress. The War depart reports brought in to Chairman J. S. ment is authorized to expend $760,000 | Estes, of the local committee. Many for the purchase of exclusive right to signatures are being secured in the manufacture the device. The Ham | Sisters-Terrebonne sections by volun- mond device is designed to give an ad | teer workers, while locally the num ditional weapon for coast defense. ber o f signers increases every day. The petitions will be presented to the Receivers Cut Own Pay. county court at its September meeting. San Francisco— Warren Olney, Jr., Peppermint Growing is Success. and Frank G. Drum, former receivers for the Western Pacific Railroad com Salem— The peppermint growing ex pany, saved the stockholders $30,000 periment made during the past year on Tuesday. On the witness stand Olney seyeral Ankeny Bottom ranches prom said: “ We were expecting $35,000 ises to produce satisfactory results, each for our duties as receivers." according to Ralph Wells, who is in ’ ’That’ s all right, Your Honor, we terested in the venture. A company were going to concede $50,000 each,” has been formed and a still for ex spoke up Attorney John F. Bowie for tracting the oil now awaits the first the company. Judge William C. Van crop. Something more than 50 acres Fleet allowed the $35,000 each. have been planted. Wheat Tumbles 1 1 Cents at Chicago on New Waf News Berlin Trade Not Affected by Roumania’s Declaration of War The Rec^Mirage A Story o f the French Legton in A lgiers By I. A. R. WYLIE (AUitshurm ivwl. Tbs UobU- Murili Cod CHAPTER XXIII— Continued. — 22— Gocts von Herlhhlngcu lifted him self ou his elbow. The hard-lined face was shrunken with suffering. " I f 1 might speak to you- alone— my general?” "B y all means.” He heiit lower. The staff, watching tmpatleutly, saw him start nnd then slip his arm beneath the dying head. “ It shall be as you wish.” General Mcunler unclasped the cross from bis own uniform and laid It gently on the shattered breast. "The l.eglou Is proud of you—comrade." Goetz vou Perllehlngen frowned. The fast glazing eyes lit up for one Instant with a flash o f the old arroganee. lie thrust the order Impatiently aside. “ It was for the Kugllshmun—-my frtend—” He fell hack. His faee been me a mask. But about the mouth there hov ered a smile o f an lnserutable peace. CHAPTER XXIV. "Yes, o f course.” Both were silent. She studied him wistfully. Without the ragged beard and In these clothes be seemed once more the man as she bad known him III the London days the reckless, head strong soldier, without rostralut, with out fear. Only aa she looked oloaer she saw the grave eliuoblltig Hues which men guilier ou the road through Buffering. Suddenly he lifted his e y e s lo hers. They puzzled, almost fright cued her III their dogmatic composure "My father goes south tonight with the troops." lie said “ lie will suppress tlie risings nnd make treaties, mid the work ou Ids great road will lx* flulslied. That Is his own wish. We have spoken together ami I have understood, ns 1 know you will. We have each to work out our own salvation In our own way. Out there lu the desert he may flud peace." "And you?” "M y pardou nnd release were con firmed an hour ago. It w.is hta own request, and they could not refuse. Ill a few weeks 1 shall go hack to Kug- Intid. My father has given me the rough memoranda of Ids plans. I shall work them out In detail If |Misslble to perfection. They will I h > offered In due course to the government. I hope that even uowr 1 may serve my eoun try.” “ I know you w ill." The old Are flashed Into her voice, hut she did uot look at him. She felt the piercing eyes on her face: they seemed to reach the Innermost thought In her. They silenced an empty phrase that she was forcing to her lips. "Perhaps I am disturbing you." he said abruptly. "You are writing let ters?” "Yea.” “ To whom?” She looked up with a touch of tierce getlier two years ago when stia helped n desperate, Intoxicated boy up Mrs. Kerrler's stairs Incidentally back to mason and self-respect. From that night wo have been comradoa.” * Tho grim laughter lu Ills eyes failed. He held out Ids liuiid ns though to take hers, then let It drop, leaving her free. "Aud from thnt night I have loved Gabrielle Smith." he went on gently, "That was something you did not quite | realize when you mount to leave me. Under one shape or another I have Invisi you all my life. Only when you first came I did not recognize you. You hid behind the little gray shadow of yourself anil I followed the ntlrngn over the desert. And I suffered badly until I found you, the reality of all I believed lu -Ilio oasis. Do you think I am going lo lei you turn me out Into the loneliness and desolatimi? You | know timi I aliali not, Gnbrlnllo.” He paused an Instant, watching her. lie s.itv the light dawn behind the mist of pain, ami then he took her bauds and held them with a Joyful strength. "Yon stivisi my life twice," he said. “ And you saved something greater than my life my fallii. That Is a bond be tween us no one not even you—can break. We Is'loug to eueh other ns a | man anil woman belong In each other peril a [>s linee In a generation. You dare not deny a union so glorious, so s a l o l i [led " She looked at him with steady radi um eyes. "D o you bellcva that?” “ As you do." " I have uot dared to bellevs until now." And now?” "You have given me courage to be lieve my own heart, Richard.” lie did nut kiss her or, for a mo ment, apeak. Yet wlint then pascisi be tween them was beyond words, shove all tenderness lie led her at last to ward tbe tuner room. "Come with me now, Gabrielle." Within the hush had deepened. All life, nil feeling seemed to draw to gether nn awed expectancy about the little figure lying quietly lu the midst of the great bed. Even the wig. still awry, could not take from the peace ful dignity of the small tired face be ne« th. A hand, heavily Jeweled, rest ed on the shoulder o f a man who knelt tiealdp her. Her eye* had been elusisi ita Gabrielle and Farquhar entered They opened now nnd passed from one to the other. In that moment they looked very blue—almost young. Hhe tried to speak and Instead smiled faint ly. apologetically, with a touch of wry self-mockery that pnsard, leaving only the quiet happiness As though grown suddenly weary, the Jeweled hand slipped from the man’s shoulder, and lie took It sud bowed bis head upon It "In a little while, my w ife— a little while.” Her eyes elusisi in peaceful assent. They did not open again. To thooe watching It seemed thnt the room had grown darker. A little half-drawn sigh hovered on the silence and then drifted out on a ray o f sunshlue Into the full daylight. The Oasis. Tie had said good-by. n e stood now st the door aud looked at her with the sad reluctance of a man who Is about to turn his back forever ou a well loved picture. " I shall not trouble you again. Oab- rlelle,” he said gently. ” Our wuya He In different worlds. I have not de served much comfort of you. I sp oiled my own life ami 1 did my best to spoil yours. There Is only one consolation that I can take with me— the knowl edge that I failed.” “ Yes— you failed.” She sat by the rickety hotel writing table, her chin resting on her hand, her eyes fixed ab sently on the hnlf-flnlshed letter liefore her. “ You are not to worry about that, Stephen. Lives are uot so easily defiance. "H ave you a right to ask?" ruined.” “ I don't know— I am afraid—" “ I should like to think that you could "O f whom—o f what?” "O f you—o f my happiness.” She was silent an Instant, battling with weakness, "The letter Is to you, Richard." “ May 1 read It?" ’ “ Not now.” He took It from her, and she did not resist. The roughness lu his voice and mnnuer shook her m no geutlenesa, am pleading could hnvc donq. This man was Indeed afraid, and this fear, linked with that great strength of purpose, ENVOY. was at once terrible and pathetic. She Close by the barracks of the Foreign did not move, uml he read the letter to Legion there Is a little gnrdeu and be the end In silence, ’’’hen he tore It de yond the garden a kind of chapel. liberately across and across, and the Within are many relies of a glorious pieces fluttered to tbe ground. past. " I know all that— I guessed It.” he On the walls nre the pictures o f the said brutally. "Y et out there on the great dead. plateau you told tno that you loved It Is the legion ’s Holy Oround. me.” Colonel fiestlnn entered for the Isst She rose and faced him. time. Outside, beyond the garden, he " I do love you,” she said firmly. “ I could henr the tramp of feet and the atn not ashamed to tell you so—even gay'i-nll of u bugle. Here everything now, for love like mine cannot hurt was peace. ! »pep shadows hid the you. But In those days It was all d if watching portraits, hut In the midst, ferent. I believed that we were equals on either hand o f the raised coffin, two — that we were two outcasts who had great candles threw their light Into erred, not luenuly or wickedly, but the darkness nnd on the two men who, recklessly, and that we were tlghtlug with drawn swords and sightless eyes, our way back to the thing we had lost. kept guard. They wore (lane uniforms You were my comrade In exile, and I which the little chupel had never seen, was yours. That was what I believed. and the coffin was hidden by a But It was not true. You had lost stranger's flag. Colonel Destlnn drew softly nearer She Heard the Door Close Softly. He nothing—and now your exile Is over." "And so you meant to desert tne? to where a woman heavily veiled, knelt Had Gone. Had fate not brought tne back here, I In prayer. Before her were two forget me—that the shadow had should have hud to hunt the world over wreaths. One bore nn Imperial crown, passed away and left no trace. I should for you." the other a simple Inscription— " I thought that yoti would under like to know you— happy.” “To Ottr Comrade— Goetz von Ber- stand— that It was Just.” “ I am happy.” llchlugen." Still he waited, watching her with “ What? That when T was dying, As Destlnn approached the veiled hungry wistful Intentness. hunted and friendless, a veritable wollinn looked up. He stood quietly be worthless scamp, as you believed, you side her. “ You will go back to England.” condescended to lore me, to go forward “ Yes, I think so.” "Your highness, he died brnvely. He ‘‘Farquhar la worthy o f you. You shoulder to shoulder with tne and make was worthy of his race.” “ I thank you. colonel.” will begin a new life. I f I coaid I life worth living. Now that I have He Idft her. He went out again Into would pray for your happiness to rome Into my own. that I npprar more worthy of happiness, I am to be left to the evening sunshine. An orderly held gether. march tlie desert nlotie. Is that Jus his horse In rendlness and four hun " I thank you. Stephen.” dred men murked time to the strong She beard the door close softly. lie tice?” rhythm of the Legion's war song. He “ Richard!" had gone. She felt ns though with Ills “ Haven't I had enough o f the desert swung himself Into tho saddle. passing the curtain had dropped upon “ In column— forward— march!" the first great aet of her life. And uow —haven't you bad enough? I f you leave They swung out of the gates—out a new act wus to begin—a lonelier me now—" Ills voice steadied. He one. He bad taken with him his own Nmlled wryly. “ I’ m not threatening, Into the road. H alf Nldl bel Abbes ran dream of It; she knew that he would dear. By this time I have learned your ut their heels. On the outskirts tbe cling to her phantom happiness ns to lesson; there shan't he any more throw general with his milte waited to give a last comfort, and she had had no ing down o f weapons. Whatever hap them Godspeed. "lleturn In honor, my children!” heart to tear It from him. All huppi pens— whether you stand by tne or not The hand crashed out ■ triumphant ness Is mirage. But to ’.he dreamer — I shall go ou. But It will la* a hard the dream Is reality. He would sleep going on— und It might have been a answer. Colonel Destlnn’s sword sank In farewell. In peace. She went on writing. It glory." She turned to birr, with a gesture of "Toujonrs, ma fol, le sne an dos— " waa very quiet In the little room. The Ringing, they left the glitter o f lights drowsy hush of midday seemed to helpless pain. creep In through the half-open shutters "Rlehnrd— my dear—don't you un and the sound of tho town's Joyous on rays of sunshine which shifted derstand? It Is fear o f dimming that hubbub behind them. Colonel Destlnn ■lowly till they rested on the sheet of glory that drives me away from you. rode on alone. No man spoke to him. closely-written paper. She covered her Whitt am I? What should I he to you? There was on his faee a grave and face with her hands as though dazzled. A drag—a heavy burden. Even If I peaceful knowledge. And before him Iny the desert and In the peaceful silence there was a would I cannot go back Into the old sound like a smothered cry o f pain. life. The world lias passed Judgment the night shadows, whleh were but a The door leading Into the Inner room on the woman I was— the doors are promise of another day. T H E END. opened and closed. She lifted her head shut against her. Only Insignificant and went on writing. Her hand shook, little Gabriel!» Smith can go her way but when Farquhar stood beside her In pence.” Parcel Post Carrie« Live Hen. " I care nothing for the world’s Jtidg On the rural free delivery routo In she looked up, and her face was white ment," lie Interrupted quietly. "Nor ilarwlntnn. Conn., a woman sent a and tearless. ” It Is nearly finished,” he said al do you. I f there Is anything behind live hen by parcel post to a neighbor most beneath his breath. "She Is try these e'uaed doors worth having— living about a mile away. The car whleh I doubt— we slinll Imtter them rier weighed the hen and canceled the ing to ask for you.” In. And It Is not to the woman who stamps to the amount of 8 cents and *T will come at once.” “ Walt one moment. I wanted to was thnt I atn speaking. I do not ask j took the ben to Its destination. The leave them alone together for a little. her to go bank anywhere. I ask her to hen laid an egg In the moil bag en. go on with the life which we began to- I route. You understand?”