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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1916)
OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHBJ Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. The wholesale price of flour is now quoted In Portland at 7.80 a barrel. Twenty-four Indiana of the Coeur d'Alene district have qualified to be come U. S. citizens. Roumanians lose Constanza, an im portant port on the Black Sea, to (he Germans and Austrians. Seattle proposes to take over the power plants of the Puget Sound Trac tion company, at an estimated cost of $10,000,000. William G. Sharp, American am bassador to France, sailed on the American line steamship St. Paul, ac companied by his family, to return to his post. Viscount Grey, secretary of Eng land's foreign affairs, says allies won't talk peace, but declares objects of this war must be realized, as a guarantee of International peace of the future. Spontaneous combustion caused the explosion of a 20,000-gallon tank of gasoline at the plant of the California Food Products company at San Pedro, which was partially destroyed by the fire which followed. The U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction of the three officials of the Western Fuel company, of San Francisco, who were convicted of defrauding the government by false weighing of dutiable coal. The men will now have to serve their respective ' prison terms. A wreath of flowers entwined with an American flag was dropped from a height of 1400 feet by Johnny Green, an aviator, on the cemetery at Rome, Ga., in which Mrs. Ellen Wilson, wife of the President, is buried. The wreath was placed on Mrs. Wilson's grave as Rome's tribute to her mem ory. Private CharleB Callahan, of the headquarters company of the Fifth Ohio Infantry, stationed at El Paso, Tex., received a leave of absence in which to journey to Detroit to take possession of a fortune estimated at $350,000, willed by his aunt. Mrs. Mary Callahan, who died in Detroit recently. The Austrian premier, Count Stuergkh, who was assassinated while at dinner Sunday in Vienna, by Lud wig Adler, publisher, was shot three times. Count Stuergkh was dining at hotel when the publisher attacked him. Three shots were fired, all of which took effect, the premier dying instantly. Samuel Hill declares before a San Francisco audience, that Washington, Oregon and California should petition the government to build a highway along the oceanfront in these states, which could be used in time of war to carry materials necessary to the pro tection of the coatJt, or in peace times for the benefit of pleasure seekers, or for other legitimate purposes. After killing Sheriff Stier. of Queens county, New York, with a shotgun, and keeping at bay a posse of police and deputy sheriffs who had surround ed his home, Frank Taft, 66 years of age, was shot and instantly killed by one of the besiegers. Taft shot Stier, who served him with a warrant after he had been adjudged in contempt of court for failing to appear as a wit ness. Chief of Police White of San Fran cisco hag abolished the police detinue system, under which persons are ar rested and held incommunicado with out any charge being placed against them. S. A. Appold, a student aviator, who fell In a biplane near Los Angeles, died later In a hospital. His young wife saw him fall and helped take him from the tangled wreckage of his aeroplane, The German Order Pour Le Merite bai been awarded Lieutenant Com mander Arnauld De La Perriere. com wander of the submarine U-85, for his enlevements in sinking 128 totalling 370,000 tons. The House of Commons has nasaad the Becond reading of the Rhodes es tate bill, which would exclude Ger mans henceforth from enjoying schol arships at Oxford University under tne Uecll Rhodes trust fund. Orders for more than 200 aeroplanes nave Deen piacea ny the U. 8. war de partment as tne nrst step In expan sion or me aviation service under the army reorganization act and contracts lor about 100 additional machines of various types probably will be award ed In the near future. Six Inmates of Sing Sing prison, New York, drove past a guard In a prison automobile truck and made their escape about noon Friday. The finding of the abandoned truck a half hour after the escape gave the first Intimation that the men, all of whom were serving sentences of from IS years to life, had fled. Because John Slocura mistook him for a burglar and fired a bullet at him Inflicting a flesh wound In hla hand, J. J. Hancock obtained Judgment against Slocum for $100 by a Jury In the superior court at Seattle. Hancock sued Slocum for $7500 damages. The first Indictment In San Fran cisco for the alleged offenae of ship ping whisky Into dry territory under false labels was returned by the fed eral grand Jury against the Weil-Wela-baum company. Two barrels of whia-' ky, according to the true bill, were shipped by the firm to Pendleton, Or,' In boxes labeled "household goods." BIDS ARE CALLED fOR ON 2500 CARS BY UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD Portland The Union Pacific system Tuesday called for bids on 1000 auto mobile cars and 1500 box cars, requir ing nearly 15,000,000 feet of lumber. The specifications require that all the lumber be purchased from mills in Union Pacific 'territory Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It is probable that Twohy Brothers, of Portland, will bid on this contract as they are equipped to build cars in their East Side plant and have been eager to enter this field of activity for several months. Judge R. S. Lovett, chairman of the Union Pacific, will be in Portland this week and is expected to give some at tention to the prospects of successful car building here. When questioned about it at his office In New York a few weeks ago Judge Lovett declared that, other things being equal, he would prefer to have the cars built on the Coast. The advantages of building cars convenient to the place where the lum ber is produced are obvious. The Eastern builders must pay freight on the raw lumber that goes into the cars even when it is carried by the railroad that buys them. Trap Set by Villa; Vanguard of Pursuing Carranza Force Ambushed El Paso, Tex. Francisco Villa led the Carranza vanguard under General Carlos Ozuna into an ambush between Santa Ysabel and San Andres, on the western division of the Mexican North western railway Friday, a report re- ceived by Mexican government agents here said. According to this report, which was obtained by secret service agents for the Federal government, Villa retreat ed from a position outside of San Andres, 40 miles on the railroad west of Chihuahua City toward San Andres. This led the Carranza vanguard into the trap which Villa is said to have set for them, the government report said. The bandits, who were hidden in the rocky defiles along the railroad, poured a heavy fire into the Carranza troops from behind rocks. The same source of information claims to have confirmation of the report that the Carranza troops then retired to Santa Ysabel, thence to Palomas, and are in Fresno, the first station west of Chi huahua City. Carranza officials here admit that there has been heavy fighting between Santa YBabel and Chihuahua City, but General Gonzales, in Juarez, insists that he has received no details of the fighting. The report that General uzuna naa been killed is receiving credence here in official circles. Baseball Training Wins War Honors. Boston "Bill" O'Hara, once a star left fielder of the Toronto International league team and a former scout for the New York National league club, has been recommended for the military cross in recognition of his bravery and skill in hurling bombs for the British army on the Somme battle front, ac cording to advices received here from his home in Toronto. When O'Hara played in the Inter national league he was noted for his accurate throwing and Btrength. O'Hara, a lieutenant in a Canadian regiment at the front, is now hurling deadly bombs instead of baseballs. Fruit Diet Test Ends, Berkeley, Cal. An exclusive diet of alligator pears for two weeks ended Tuesday night for Alwyn Baker, a University of California Btudent. eat ing under the direction of the depart ment of nutrition. Baker has lost no weight, but said he was very hun gry. The official findings on his experi ment will be announced next week at San Diego at a meeting of the Avoca do assoication, composed of growers in Oregon, the Sacramento valley and Southern California. Flour Cheat is Charged. ChicagoCharges that the milling interests have made an excess profit of $60,000,000 by using rejected wheat and wheat below milling grades while charging consumers for flour, based on the best grades of wheat, were made Tuesday by Miss Florence King, of the Women a association of commerce, in a complaint filed with United States District Attorney Clyne. Miss King will seek to have federal inspection of grain, provided in a re cent act of congress, apply to this year s wheat crop. Coffee Thefts Extensive. San Salvador, Republic of Salvador Two arrests have been made in con nection with the theft of coffee ship ped from San Salvador, disclosed through compluints made by American merchants that 10 pounds of coffee were missing from each of many bags consigned to them. The value of the coffee stolon ap proximates 300,000 pesos. The inves tigation, which began a month ago, has not yet concluded. Zeppelin Stirs Dutch Ire. Amsterdam Dutch newspapers are indignant over the report by the Han delsblad that on Sunday a Zeppelin dropped a bomb near Gorkum (Gorini chem), 22 miles southeast of Rotter dam. The Nieuws Van dun Dag says: "If German airship commanders had not displayed Bupreme contempt for the protests of the Dutch government this deplorable incident, which only by accident lacked serious results, would not have occurred." 225 New U-BoatS Built. Geneva, Switzerland Prince von Buelow, former German imperial chan cellor, recently informed a neutral newspaper that since the beginning of the war Germany had constructed 225 submarines, saya a dispatch from Constance, The German naval authorities, the Prince is reported to have added, are paying more attention to submarines than to battleships, and Austria Hungary is doing likewise. i NEWS ITEMS Of Ceneral Interest About Oregon Great Educational Revival Strikes Oregon Institutions University of Oregon, Eugene. An Intellectual stimulus that state uni versity ob. ervers so far have not ac counted for appears to have come to Oregon this fall. Here are a few of the manifestations of It: Nearly 1,000 persons have appeared for university extension classes In Portland. Residence enrollment In liberal arts at Eugene will be nearly 1,100 f r the year. Registration In the correspondence-study department Is 628. Attendance at the summer school was 314. Other departments show similar growth. For example, 4,479 teachers of Oregon have this year done their reading circle work with the university. The Portland Increase 1b about 7E per cent: liberal arts residence in crease Is about 13 per cent; the correspondence-study increase 1b 19 per cent; the summer school Increase was 70 per cent. This growth has come in a period when Increases were not to be expected. When a member of the extension faculty made a trip on Institute work to Harney county this month, a ma jority of the teachers were found to be interested In correspondence-study. The attendance totals for all Oregon Institutions of higher education give this state a high place in percentage of population that goes beyond the high school. State Engineers Tackle Water Survey of Hood River Valley Hood River. Rhea Luper, engineer for the state water board, assisted by Fred CoBhow and Malcolm Button, has begun the four months' task of mak ing a survey of the entire area of the Hood River valley under the ditches of irrigation systems or that may be irrigated. During the next week H. K, Donnelly, another engineer of the wa ter board, accompanied by R. C. Ingar- ham, will arrive here to assist in the task. George T. Cochran, of La Grande, eastern Oregon water super intendent, was here Saturday to in spect the initial work of the engineer, The work of the water board has been undertaken here for the purpose of adjudicating the water rights of the entire Hood River watershed. The task was initiated recently, when the supreme court, remanding a decision of Circuit Judge Bradshaw in the case of the Oregon Lumber company vs. the East Fork Irrigation District, re ferred the case to the water board. Shooting Stars Promised. University of Oregon, Eugene Two separate annual displays of shooting BtarB will be visible throughout Ore gon November 16 and 24, according to E. H. McAlister, professor of astron omy and mechanics In the state uni versity. The display due on Novem ber 16 may be seen in the early morn ing hours; that of November 24 is due in the early evening. The earth at these times will be cutting through the orbit of the swarm of meteors from which the stars come. Display of the aurora borealis will be visible In Oregon next winter, for the first time in 11 years, Mr. McAlis ter says. Northern lights are dim in this latitude of the west, except when the sun spots have reached their max imum number, which occurs only once in ll years. A connection between the sun spots and the aurora borealis is believed by many scientists to exist, Bridge Does Big Business. Salem. Traffic figures compiled un der the direction of the state highway department show that In 30 days end ing at 8:30 A. M. October 10, 21,008 automobiles, 13,858 motorcycles, bicy cles and pedestrians, 10,307 horse- drawn vehicles, and 923 head of stock crossed the bridge over the Willam ette river at Salem. The dally aver age of traffic over the bridge was: 700 automobiles, 462 motorcycles, bi cycles and pedestrians, 343 horse drawn vehicles, and 31 head of stock. The maximum of traffic occurred on Portland day during the recent state ralr, when 1579 automobiles crossed the bridge. Prunes $6.40 a Hundred. Ro8eburg. The highest price paid for prunes In Douglas county this sea son was recorded here Wednesday, when Rush Clark, a Millwood rancher, sold his entire crop at $6.40 per hun dred pounds, orchard run. Mr. Clark had about 30,000 pounds of prunes. Fractlcally all of the prunes grown In Douglas county have been sold and the local packing plants are working to their full capacity. This year's crop is said to be the heaviest in the history of the county. , Arrival of Fish Is Late. Marshflold. The salmon hatchery on south Coos river has not Impound ed a fish to date. It Is usual by this time of the season to have a large school of fine chlnook In the ponds protected by the racks, but the arrival of the fish at the hatchery depends upon freshets and there have been none this fall. The entire rainfall since the first of September only amounts to .72 of an Inch. The Coos river establishment expects to take several million eggs before the middle of December. Radio Station Under Way. Marshfleld. The United States ra dio station being constructed at Engle wood, a suburb of Marshfleld, is about one-third finished. The piling for the residences has been driven and the grading at the site Is one-half com pleted. A hill Is being cut away to make the fill required for the grounds surrounding the station. A large per centage of the lumber has been de livered and the buildings now are un der way. 1900 Cart are Lacking. Salem. All records for car shortage on the Portland division -of the South ern Pacific company's lines were bro ken when reports to the Oregon Pub lic Service commission showed the company 1900 cars short of Its orders. The company reported that It had re ceived orders for 2225 cars, and that 325 cart were available. A total of 73 empty freight cars were reported to hare arrived at Ashland in 24 hour. UNDER A European ROI SYNOPSIS. The chief characters are Ethel Wil loughby, Hunry Btreetman and Capt. Lurry Redmond. Ttie minor character! are sir George Wagfltaff of the British admiralty mi. I CharleB Drown, a New York newspaper correspondent. Ethel, a renldent or Sir George's household, ecretly married to Streetman, a German spy, though she did not know him as inch. Captain Redmond, her old lover, returns to Knglund after long absence. I torn him she learng the truth about Stretman: furthermore, that he has betrayed her simply to learn naval se crets, The European war breaks out. fcthel prepares to accompany Streetman to Brussels as a German spy in order to get revenge and serve England. ... b.i.w iiiv.n en. yiTcn m remarxaoie picture of Belgian village life Its peacefulness and hopefulness Just before the German host swept the little na tion -ln 1914. You will enjoy Charlie Brown's meeting with the Innkeeper, and sympathize with old Henri In his pathetic effort to reassure his frightened daughter of her safety. You will thrill at the meeting of spies, Capt. Larry Redmond, a llrltlsh spy, discusses pliins with a French spy In a Belgian village lnu. CHAPTER XI Continued. Larry swiftly Cautioned him to be careful. 'Tardon! A slip of the tongue!" his ally apologized. "You have arranged matters as I planned with your General Jacques?" Lairy asked. "Yes! Last night we have strung a wire from the fort to this Inn. Even now the end of it Is dangling in that chimney." He nodded toward the huge fireplace ncross the room. "I have outside a telephone. ... I wait only the opportunity to connect the In strument." "Now sit over there!" Larry com manded, waving the man to a chair at one of the tables. The fellow obeyed him without question. And after a quick survey of the place to make sure that there were no eavesdroppers, Captalu Redmond Joined him. "Good!" he said. "Now, the Germans will be here tonight," he confided, as he seated himself upon the table and leaned toward his fellow-spy. "So soon?" n "They march fast," Larry said. "Here the road forks. One turns to the left, the other to the right. The safety of your fort depeuds on which road they take." I know," the other assented. "And on their arrival a woman will send us word by our telephone." Larry had not learned that "A woman?" he exclaimed. "Who la she?" "I do not know, m'sleu." "Is she here now?" Larry persisted. A suspicion had suddenly swept across his mind, filling him, half with hope, half with fear, that the unknown wom an might be Ethel Willoughby. The Frenchman shook his head. "No, m'sleu, I wait her return," he explained. "She was not, perhaps, a Madame de Lorde " Larry mused. "I was not told her name, m'sleu. I am to find her by code." "I thought possibly it might be a Madame de Lorde," Larry told him. "Until two days ago we were work ing together In Brussels. Then I had "The Germans Will Be Here Tonight." to leave. . . thought she might have come this way." He slipped off the table onto his feet. "Still, no mat ter!" he added, as the French spy looked at him a bit too Inquiringly. lou can depend on this womau?" he Inquired. The fellow shrugged his shoulders. "She serves General Jacques. He trusts her," he replied, as If that fact absolved him of responsibility. "Explain everything carefully to her." Larry cautloued him. "Everything, m'sleu!" the little man promised. "Shall you return here later?" he asked, as Larry started to leave him. "I do not know if my regiment will stop here, or if It will go on; so I must rely on you and the woman." Captain Redmond warned him. "Re memberIt Is Imperative your general kuow if the attack be direct or by a Banking movement" "Yes, yes! . . . Now I shall get tli telephone," the Gallic gentleman annenneed. And the lit exclaimed War story based on the drama of COOPER MEGRUE quickly, In French, "Vous avez ral son!" His change to his own language, no less than the Inflection of warning In his voice, brought Captuln Redmond around sharply; and he saw that they were no longer alone. It was the Inn keeper, Henri Chrlstophe, who had come back to serve his leisurely pat ron. "Ah, gentlemen! Something to drink?" Chrlstophe asked them, rub bing his hands lu anticipation of the feel of good coin In them. "No, thnnk you! My friend Is leav ing now," the Frenchman Bald. "But I will be back soon," Larry promised. And with that Henri Chrls tophe had to be content. Again the Indefatigable newspaper reader returned to his favorite pas time, while Henri Chrlstophe regarded him with a mild penslveness. The fel low had loafed much In his inn during the past two days; but he had been al together too abstemious to suit the pro prietor's notions of what was due him from a guest. And then all at once old Henri's face turned happy once more, at the sight of a quaint little creature who tripped Into the room and called to him: "Ah, father! You are home again! What news of the war?" "Nothing, ma petite!" he said. "Nothing! Do not be alarmed." "But all say the Germans are com ing through Belgium," she told him plaintively. Her remark seemed to exasperate him. What with poor business, nnd the worry of the last few days for Henri Chrlstophe did not entirely share the complacency of his more placid pntrons regarding rumors that were In the air what with those things to trouble him his patience had become finespun. The good God knew that he did not desire war to sweep over his fatherland. He hoped passionately that It might escape that calamity. And dreading it as he did, he took occasion, whenever the possibility was men tioned, to denounce the contingency as being beyond reason. Somehow, he derived comfort simply from asserting his disbelief in such a thing. "All say It!" he repeated after her with an irritation which was strange In him. "So always it is with you women you exaggerate every rumor," he cried. "I tell you your father we are a neutral country. All the big na tions they have promised us that our land is safe from Invasion. It is near ly a hundred years since they gave us their word and always they have kept It." "But still I am frightened," his daughter reaffirmed. She was, In truth, a timid little thingJust the sort to be thrown Into a twitter of excitement over a mouse or a war. It mattered not what one might tell her to calm her. She would still be alarmed. Ant now Jeanne looked up at her father with such fear In her great dark eyes that he forgot his anger In his attempt to soothe her. "But why?" he asked her more gently. "They did not come through our country in 1870 In the Franco Prussian war. Why should they now? The Germans make much money from us and we from them. They are our friends. ... No, ma petite, thanks to God we need fenr nothing." "I hope, father, you may be right," she said, albeit somewhat doubtful still. "You shall see! You shall see!" he reassured her. He made his way to the cigar counter and busied himself set ting things to rights there. "What worries me far more than the Ger mans, my little one," he went on, "what worries me Is that we have so few Americans automohlliug this sum mer. Always In August there are many: nnd they pay well." "Perhaps It Is the Germans who keep them away," she ventured unhap pily. "Will you cease?" he cried angrily. "Always you talk of the Germans. Soon you will have me nervous like you," he complained, as if he were not already that. "I am sorry, mon pere," she said in filial repentance. "There, there!" he exclaimed, as If ashamed that he had chlded her. "I did not mean to be cross. Come! For get your fenrs and pray to your saints that business will be better. To think that In August we have only that one lady lodger!" At his remark the French spy glanced up quickly from his newspa per. He had not known that there was a lady staying In the house. And he wondered whether she might not prove to be the persou for whom he was ou the lookout. "And what do you suppose she is do ing here in Courvoisler?" little Jeanne asked her father. It was not quite the usual thing for a foreign or any other lady to stay In an lnu without an es cort. "That I do not know nor do I care, ma petite," Henri Chrlstophe said. "She Is not French as she says. One may tell from her accent," the girl re marked. It was patent that her wom an's curiosity had been aroused by their feminine guest. "But she pays, my little one and she minds her own business," her fa ther responded. "Let us do likewise. . . . Wipe oft the table yonder!" he directed Jeanne, as If he would give her something to think of that would take her mind rff such Idle thoughts. Little Jeanne took the cloth from a nearby hook and proceeded to polish the table top at which the two peas ants had lately sat And while she was thus engaged their too frugnl French guest folded up his paper, rose, and left them. CHAPTER XII. Lost A Warl A stranger unmistakably American pedaled a decrepit bicycle up to the very threshold of the Lion d'Or before he threw a leg wearily over the rear wheel and stood there, leaning heavily upon the handle bars and saddle. It was Charlie Brown, though his best friend might not have recognized him without some difficulty. Ho was both dirty and disheveled, and hot and tired as well. Dust lay thick upon his shoes. And now he gazed mournfully into the inn, somewhat as a thirst parched wanderer lu a desert might have looked upon an oasis, with Its promise of shade and cooling water. Henri Chrlstophe did not see him at first, for his broad back was toward the street. But he sprang up quickly as Mr. Brown called to him In very bad French "Musseer le proprietor!" It was like music in the innkeeper's ears. "A customer, and an American!" he exclaimed under his breath. "Oul, monsieur!" he responded delightedly. "I am very tired," Charlie explained though he scarcely needed to dilate upon that obvious fact. "I desire a chamber with a bed, Immediately." "Oul, monsieur I have a very good room, on the mezzanine floor excel lent for monsieur! . , .' Ten francs a day!" "Ten?" said Charlie. "Cheap enough! Go to It!" And while little Jeanne went to pre pare the room for him, he threw him self Into a chair and cast a paper par cel his sole baggage upon the table in front of him. Beyond a few fresh collars Its contents were negligible. "I want to go to my room now," Charlie Informed his host. "I'm dead to the world." Unconsciously he had lapsed into his own vernacular. And then he realized that a Belgian Inn keeper In a country town could by no manner or means comprehend him. "Oh, how the devil do you say 'I want to go to my room' in French?" he groaned. "But I speak English, sir," the Inn keeper Interposed. He had a decided accent, it was true. But to Charlie Brown's ears the words were as grate ful as the sound of a rippling brook upon a hot summer's day. "You do? Why didn't you say so?" he demanded. "Pardon me, sir!" the politic Inn keeper begged him. "But so many Americans like to exhibit their knowl edge of French that I have found it wisest never to speak English to an American until I am asked." "Say how did you know I was an American?" Charlie asked him with sudden suspicion. He would have liked to know Just what It was about his ap pearance that seemed to stamp him as a Yankee, no matter where he went. "Oh! I could tell at once. . . . The voice, the manner. . . . Oh! I cannot explain. . . . It Is a some thing," Chrlstophe groped, "an air oue can never mistake it." Mr. Brown grinned at him. "Right there with that French 'gaff, aren't you?" he said. Henri Chrlstophe smiled. "Ah, m'sleu, I understand," he ex claimed, nodding his head sngely. "But you do me an Injustice. I do not flat ter. I speak the truth." All at once the American remem bered that he was a newspaper man. "Well, then, have you seen anything of a war around here?" he asked. "No, sir!" "Neither have I!" Charlie volun teered. "And I've been looking for it for a week." "Oh, there will be no war here," Chrlstophe Assured him. "It is always like this just our peaceful little vil lage! We harvest our crops; we brew some beer; we make a little wine good wine. Monsieur shall sample it and see," he added parenthetically. "We go ) church on Sunday, we live and die In the quiet sunshine. . . , There will be no war here." Charlie Browu did not like to break rudely in upon the good man's placid dream. Hut at the same time be saw no reason for dissembling. If trouble were coming as he believed he con sidered it as well that the innkeeper should be prepared for it as well as might be. "But thoy say the Germans are com ing through Belgium," he ventured. Henri Chrlstophe picked up the checkerboard that the two peasants had used to amuse themselves, and placed it upon the counter. 'Ah, no, m'sleu! And even should they, our people are good people. They will not touch us," he said as optimis tically as he could. 'Well I hope not," Charlie agreed. "But at least I'd like to Bee some of the beggars. It's d: d irritating to look for a war and not be able to And it." He rose stiffly from his chair and strolled to the cigar counter. "Got anything to smoke?" he asked, leaning over the glass case. The innkeeper fumbled Inside the showcase and laid his wares out for his guest's inspec tion. "Gosh, Peter!" Mr. Brown exclaimed In delight. "And a real cigar counter, too! Where on earth did you get that?" "Oh, I was in New York," the other told him proudly, "I educated my daughter there. I was a waiter at the Beaux Arts." Charlie Brown stuck his hand out. The Beaux Arts was one of his special weaknesses. "Greetings!" be exclaimed. "And you brought this with your He looked al most lovingly upon that familiar con trivance of oak,lass and nickel. "I had wished to Introduce here a little of the American what you call It? enterprise. And this year I had hoped to purchase a book to registra tion In, and little boxes behind for the letters and the keys," Chrlstophe add ed. "But business has not been good." He sighed. "You're a good sort, old manT Char lie told him. "I hope if they do come, they'll leave you alone." "I hope so, m'sleu," the innkeeper answered. And he breathed a silent prnj'or that the Germans would not come that way. At that moment a lady in white entered from the street and started across the room toward a door that led to the chambers above. "Bonjour, mndamo!" Chrlstophe said politely. It was his mysterious lodger. And since she paid well, there was every reason why he should be affable to her, "Bonjour!" the young woman answered.- She did not recognize her fellow guest until he approached with outstretched hand. "Great Scott! You!" he cried, scarce believing his own eyes. Ethel Willoughby for It was she--could not do otherwise than pause. She stared at Charlie Brown. "How do you do, Mr. Brown?" she said. Her manner was nervous, con strained.. But Charlie Brown did not notice that In his surprise. He took her hand with undisguised delight. "Imagine meeting you here!" be said with great good-humor. "I suppose I ought to say, 'This Is a Bmall world after all.' " Henri Chrlstophe had witnessed their unexpected meeting with ail the Interest of a curious-minded resident of "Great Scott! You!" He Cried. a small village. It pleased him, more-' over, that his newly found friend from New York already knew his feminine lodger. "Ah, m'sleu knows Madame de Lorde! . That Is good, good," he mur mured, as he beamed upon them both. Charlie Brown looked first at Henri Chrlstophe then back at Ethel again. And nu expression of bewilderment spread over his face. "Madame de Lorde?" he said to her questloningly. "Yes, yes!" she answered impatient ly. And he perceived then that she was decidedly ill at ease. But all that escaped the pleased Innkeeper. "And now I myself will prepare din ner," Chrlstophe announced. "Perhaps you and madame will dine together," he told Mr. Brown. "Why, yes, sure if madame will," Charlie agreed promptly. So far as lie was concerned, nothing could plense hlin more. Do you believe that Brown ; will discover for himself the ; truth about Madarr.e de Lorde, and do you think he will join ; his friends In their spyina work? ! uu am cujnunujsd.) HEALTH TIP WORTH HEEDING Always Hold the Head High, Is Advice Given by William Muldoon of World Fame. In n letter to Robert Grimshaw of the New York university. William Mul doon, who ranks as one of the fore most remakers of physically broken down men, gives advice that It would be well for every man nud woman, boy and girl in America to take to heart, according to Commerce and Finance. He says : "I was taught In early manhood not to throw my shoulders back, stick my chest out, draw my stomach In. or hold my chin down like a gont preparing to nutt, but to always try nnd touch some Imaginary things with the crown of my head. If one tries to do that first understands how to try trhd then tries he doesn't have to pay any attention to the rest of his physical beine: that effort to touch something above him, not with his forehead, but with the crowu of his head, will keep every particle of his body in the position that nature intended It should be. And as a boy I was advised to frequently back up against the wall and make the back of my head, my shoulders, hips, heels, all press against the wall at the same time ; and in that way get an Idea of what was straight, or, in other words, how crooked I was be coming by drooping." Both to young and old Mr. Mul doon's "hold-your-head-up" suggestion Is Inspiring. Try It. The effect physic ally and mentally is immediate. When the head goes higher the Impulse Is to deeper breathing. A man finds more elnsticlty in his limbs. He steps out with more ease. There Is more spring to his gait. He Isn't a lumbering, sham bling creature, but a man alive. With the elevation of the crown of the head there seems to come clearer thinking, a more buoyant feeling and a brighter outlook. Advanced In Life. While out walking with my little nephew, Jack, who for the first time was wearing his first pair of woolen trousers, and who, needless to say, was proud of the fact, we met hla Uncle Harry, who said : "Hello, Jack. Too. are quite a man now, aren't yonf when Jack replied : "lea, I am wear ing pants on the outside now." Chi cago Tribune,