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Things Worth Knowing.
The first reinforced concrete freight
car ever built is delivered to the Illi
nois Central railroad for operation in
Its coal service.
Tho budget commission of the
French chamber of deputies has de
cided to introduce a civil budget of
$520,000,000 for the first three months
of 1919.
The senate resolution asking the
peace conference to grant Ireland the
right of self-determination was adopt
ed by the house of representatives of
the Colorado legislature Tuesday.
About 16,000,000 pounds of wool,
representing a part of the surplus
stocks held by the war department,
Is offered for sale at Philadelphia.
Another auction is to be held at Bos
ton March 25 to 23.
Twenty-eight dead, several score in
jured and property damage estimated
at $2,000,000 was the result of torna
does which swept portions of Missis
sippi and Louisiana Sunday, reports
from the two states showed.
Hundreds of homes, factories, mills
and lumber yards are flooded and thou
sands of dollars' worth of property de
stroyed by the Oconto (Wis.) river
overflowing its banks. It is estimated
that BOO persons are homeless.
United States Senator Miles l'oin
doxter will make a speaking tour down
the Pacific coast after delivering an
address in Spokane early in April on
the league of nations, according to a
special dispatch from Washington.
A new line of steamers from Port
land, Or., to Honolulu and the South
seas was declared a possibility by Dr.
C. J. O'Day of Honolulu, formerly of
Portland, at a luncheon a few days ago
at the Pan-Pacific tourist bureau.
It Is reported among airmen that a
flight acroBS the Atlantic ocean Is be
ing attempted by a French lieutonant
named Fontan. He is reported to have
started from the French African port
of Dakar, Senegambia, for Pernam
buco, Brazil, by way of the Cape Verde
islands and the St. Paul rooks.
The Chinese government is alarmed
over a roport from Petrograd relative
to formation of a Chinese working
men's organization, with 00,000 mem
bers, for the object of carrying on rev
olutionary propaganda and establish
ing Soviets in China. Inquiries , are
being made ty the authorities as to
measures to check such activities.
The lager beer brewers' board of
trade of New York, representing 42
brewing concerns in New York and
Now Jersey, announced Tuosday that
on advice of counsel its members
would resume at once the sale of beer
containing 2 per cent alcoholic con
tent. This was forbidden by a ruling
of the internal revenue department
which interpreted President Wilson's
proclamation effective December 1
last,
A credit of $5,000,000 in favor of
Roumanla was announced recently by
the treasury department. This in
creased Roumania's credits ta$15,
000,000 and those for all the allies to
$8,841,657,000.
Jack Bell of Fairbanks, Alaska, who
enllBted In the United States army at
the age of 15 and lays claim to being
probably tho youngest soldier. In the
army during tho war, arrived In Se
attle last week with the 63d coast
artillery regiment. He is just back
from overseas.
Tho American government may not
accept the 100,000 or more tons of
German shipping In Chilean waters,
allocated to It by the allied shipping
commission. Chairman Hurley of the
shipping board said recently final ac
tion would depend upon both the con
dition of the grant and the ships.
German propaganda in Egypt is
blamed for recent disturbances at
Cairo, which resulted In the deporta
tion of a number of political agitators.
New York police, secret service men
and Immigration officials raided a
building on East Fifteenth street early
Saturday morning and arrested 198
iuen and two womon. Ten patrol
wagons were required to take the pris
oners to the criminal court's building,
where they are being questioned. All
are Biipposod to be radicals.
RAILROADS TO GET MONEY
Needed Funds Assured by Director
General Hines.
Washington,. D. C. Means of com
pensating equipment companies for
locomotives, cars and other materials
furnished the railroad administration
were provided Saturday by a ruling of
the federal reserve board that federal
reserve banks might properly redis
count for their momber .banks drafts
drawn by the companies on the direct
or-general of railroads and acceptable
to him. Such drafts could not have a
maturity of moro than 90 days and
would be rediscounted at the prevail
ing rates of discount for trade accept
ances.
After a conference with representa
tives of the war finance corporation,
tho reserve board, the advisory fi
nance committee of the railroad ad
ministration and the equipment com
panies, Railroad Director Hlnes an
nounced that he was considering giv
ing the companies permission to Issue
drafts or acceptances on him for
amounts due on equipment. The ac
ceptances would bear Interest at a
rate yet to be determined.
"In view of the ruling of the federal
eservo board, making this paper eli
gible for discount," said Mr. Hines,
'the director-general today assured
the representatives of equipment com
panies of his belief that the way ap
pears open to care for the situation in
such a way as to protect the equip
ment companies and thus avoid any
Industrial disturbance.
"The question of meeting obliga
tions to railroad corporations for rent
al due has not yet been finally deter
mined, but a conclusion is expected to
be reached within a few days."
The railroad administration has an
nounced that it will need $183,681,965
to June 30 to meet amounts due equip
ment companies on account of loco
motives and cars delivered or yet to
be delivered.
ORGANIZE TO OPPOSE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Washington, D. C. Preliminary
plans for the formation of a national
non-partisan organization designed to
keep the American people better In
formed as to events at the peace con
ference and to oppose acceptance of
the constitution of the league of na
tions as now drawn were made at a
conference Saturday between Senators
Reed of Missouri, democrat, and Bor
ah of Idaho and Polndexter of Wash
ington, republicans, and George Whar
ton Pepper, a lawyer, of Philadelphia.
After the conference It was an
nounced that Henry Watterson, for
mer publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal,
would be president of the
organization, with Mr. Pepper as di
recting supervisor. It was said that
many senators who have been active
In opposition to approval ,of the league
constitution would support the organ
ization. Senator Reed announced that a
statement outlining the purposes of
the organization 'would be issued with
in a few days. One purpose, it was
explained, would be the co-ordination
of various local bodies that have been
formed over the country in opposition
to tho league. Present plans call for
establishment of a speakers' bureau
and the conducting of an extensive
campaign of publicity. Senators said
the organization would be supported
by voluntary contributions.
Suggestions were made at the con
ference that representatives be sent
to Paris while the peace negotiations
are In progress but no agreement was
reached.
Filipinos on Way to U. S.
Monolulu The special Filipino com
mission seeking closer relations with
the United States has arrived here en
route to Washington. It Is understood
the purpose of the commission is to
promote the cause of Filipino Inde
pendence, but the spokesmen declined
a statement on tills point, saying that
Manuel Quezon, a momber of the
commission, now in the United States,
was tho only one authorized to
talk.
Yukon May Open Early.
Seattle, Wash. Travelers from
Alaska report that all indications point
to an early break-up of Ice In the
Yukon river and that navigation may
open June 1. Freight Is already liv
ing from Seattle for lower La Barge
via Skagway, where It will be trans
ferred to river boats and later be
taken to Itlitarod and Fairbanks.
Palestine Influx Curbed.
New York. Restriction of Immigra
tion Into Palestine to 50,000 a year
during the first period of development
of the new Jewish commonwealth set
up under British trusteeship, has been
decided upon by the Inter allied Zion
ist conference In London, according to
cable advices to the Zionist organic
tion of America.
Americans and Orientals Clash
in Theater.
SITUATION IS TENSE
Report to State Department Indicates
Regulars Were Confused With
Yankee Marines.
Pekin. While early reports from
Tien Tsln suggested that American
marines were to blame for the recent
disorders there, later reports would
seem to show that the Japanese were
also at fault.
It is claimed that Japanese military
guards entered the French concession
and there seized two Americans, and
when American officials inquired of
the Japanese police authorities if any
Americans were being detained they
were given a negative answer, accord
ing to a report. Later the American
officials found two Americans in a
police station, one of them lying al
most naked in the yard calling for
water.
The Japanese were Induced to send
the injured man to a hospital and an
American consul refused to leave the
station until the other man, a corporal,
had been released. This demand was
finally granted. The American consul
was stoned by Japanese as he drove
away from the station, it Is said. When
the marines entered the Japanese con
sulate they are reported to have at
tacked a visitor.
On Thursday evening American ma
rines who were entering a moving-
picture theater in the French conces
sion were attacked by a crowd of Jap
anese armed with sticks. They man
aged to enter the theater, the propri
etor of which telephoned for the
French police, who dispersed the Jap
anese.
The situation at Tien Tsin is said to
be tense. The matter has been re
ferred to the French legation here.
Washington, D. C Colonel Theo
dore P. Kane, commanding the Ameri
can legation marine guard at Pekln,
reported Monday that marines were
not Involved In the disturbance at
Tien Tsin which the American minis
ter Is investigating. He said the trou
ble was between soldiers and Japan
ese, which accords with the assump
tion in official quarters here that mem
bers of the 15th regular infantry sta
tioned at Tien Tsin were confused
with marines in early accounts of the
affair.
The state department is awaiting
further advices from Minister Reiusch
before taking any step in regard to the
report that the Japanese consulate
was raided. The minister cabled that
he had sent First Secretary Spencer
to Tion Tsin to report.
BOLSHEVIK ATTACK
STOPPED BY ALLIES
Archangel. Bolshevik forces made
a determined attempt Friday to cut
the communications between the
American and allied columns on the
Dvina and Vaga rivers, but their at
tack was repulsed with heavy losses.
The enemy lost 57 dead and four pris
oners. The allied casualties were one
soldier wounded.
Vladivostok. American troops have
begun to move to strategic points on
the Trans-Siberian railway west of
Vladivostok to aid John F. Stevens
and his Btaff of American railway men
In the technical operation of the rail
way.
The first contingent is now at Har
bin, while the second wHl entrain
within a few days for Chita, the farth
est point west to which the Americans
will be sent.
It Is proposed to place additional de-
tachments at, Verkhni Udinsk, Man
churian station, and Nokolsk. The
Ussuri branch American troops al
ready are stationed at Spasske and
Khabarovsk.
Lithuanians Fight to End.
Stockholm. A Lithuanian scout de
tachment of 18 men surrounded at
Jorge by 100 bolshevik!, refused to
surrender and fought to the last, the
Lithuanian press bureau announced
last week. Fifty of the bolshevikl
were killed.
The enemy, according to the bureau
threw the Lithuanians, many of thera
still alive, Into one big grave. The
bodies were dug out by their country
men next day.
Carolyn of the Comers
BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT
CHAPTER XV Continued.
15
He knew very well that what she
had said about his daughter and Jo
seph Stagg was quite true. In his self
ishness be had been glad all these
years that the hardware merchant was
balked of happiness.
The carpenter had always been a
self-centered Individual, desirous of
his own comfort, and rather miserly.
He had not approved, In the first place,
of the. Intimacy between Joseph Stagg
and his daughter Amanda.
"No good'U come o' that," he had
told himself.
That is, no good to Jedldlah Parlow.
He foresaw at the start the loss of the
girl's help about the house, for his
wife was then a helpless Invalid.
Then Mrs. Parlow died. This death
made plainer still to the carpenter
that Mandy's marriage was bound to
bring Inconvenience to him. Especial
ly If she married a close-fisted young
business man like Joe Stagg would
this be true. For, at the reading of his
wife's will Mr. Parlow discovered that
the property they occupied, even the
shop In which he worked, which had
been given to Mrs. Parlow by her par
ents, was to be the sole property of
her daughter. Mandy was the heir.
Mr. Parlow did not possess even a life
Interest In the estate.
It was a blow to the carpenter. He
made a good Income and had money
In bank, but he loved money too well
to wish to spend It after he had made
It. He did not want to give up the
place. If Mandy remained unmarried
there would never be any question be
tween them of rent or the like.
Therefore, If he was not nctually the
cause of the difference that arose be
tween the two young people, he seized
and enlarged upon It and did all In
his power to make a mere misunder
standing grow Into a quarrel that nei
ther of the proud, high-spirited lovers
would bridge.
Jedldlah Parlow knew why Joe
Stagg had taken that other girl to
Faith camp meeting. The young man
had stopped at the Parlow place when
Amanda was absent and explained to
the girl's father. But the latter bad
never mentioned this fact to his daugh
ter. Instead he had made Joe's supposed
offense the greater by suggestion and
Innuendo. And It was he, too, who
had urged the hurt Mandy to retaliate
by going to the dance with another
young man. Meeting Joe Stngg later,
the carpenter had said bitter things
to him, purporting to come from
Mandy. It was all mean and vile ; the
old man knew It now as he had
known it then.
All these years he had tried to add
fuel to the fire of his daughter's anger
against Joe Stagg. And he believed
he had benefited thereby. But, some
how, during the past few months, he
had begun to wonder If, after all, "the
game was worth the candle."
Suddenly he had gained a vision of
what Amanda Parlow's empty life
meant to her.
Carolyn May, Interested only In see
ing her friends made happy, had no
Idea of the turmoil she had created In
Mr. Parlow's mind.
During the time thnt the nurse was
at the abandoned lumber camp caring
for Judy Mason, Carolyn May hoped
that something might take Uncle Joe
there.
The next Friday, after school was
out, Miss Amanda appeared at the
Stagg home and suggested taking Caro
lyn May Into the woods with her, "for
the week-end," as she laughingly said.
Tim, the hackman, had brought the
nurse home for a few hours and would
take her back to Judy's cabin.
"Poor old Judy Is much better, but
she is still suffering and cannot be left
alone for long," Miss Amanda said.
"Carolyn May will cheer her up."
Mr. Parlow would drive over on Sun
day afternoon and bring the little girl
home. Of course, Prince had to go
along.
That Friday evening at supper mat
ters in the big kitchen of the Stagg
house were really at a serious pass, Jo
seph Stngg sat down to the table visi
bly without appetite. Aunty Rose
drank one cup of tea after another
without putting a crumb between her
Hps.
"Say, Aunty Rose," demanded Mr.
Stagg, "what under the sun did we do
before Hannah's Car'lyn came here,
anyway? Seems to me we didn't really
live, did we?"
Aunty Rose had no answer to make
to tbese questions.
In the morning there was a smoky
fog over everything a fog that the
sun did not dissipate, and behind
which It looked like nn enormous saf
fron ball.
Mr. Stagg went down to the store as
usual. News came over the long-distance
wires that thousands of acres
of woodland were burning, that the for
est reserves were out, and that the farm
ers of an entire township on the far
side of the mountain nere engaged in
trying to make a barrier over which
the flames would not leap. It was the
consensus of opinion, however, tbat
the fire would not cross the range,
i "Scarcely any chance of Its swoop
ing down on us," decided Mr. Stagg.
"Reckon I won't have to go home to
plow, fire furrows."
At the usual hour he started for The
Corners for dinner. Having remained
In the store nil the morning, he had
not realized how much stronger the
smell of smoke was than It had been
at breakfast time. Quite Involuntarily
he quickened his pace.
The fog and smoke overcast the sky
thickly and made It of a brassy color,
just as though a huge copper pot had
been overturned over the earth. Wom
en stood at their doors, talking back
and forth in subdued tones. There
was a spirit of expectancy In the air.
The hardware merchant was striding
along at a quick pace when he came to
the Parlow place; but he was not go
ing so fast that he did not hear the
carpenter hailing him In his cracked
voice.
"Hey, you, Joe Stngg ! Hey, you 1"
Amazed, Mr. Stngg turned to look.
Parlow was hobbling from the rear
premises, groaning at every step,
scarcely able to walk.
"That sciatica's got me ag'ta," he
snarled. "I'm a'most doubled up.
Couldn't climb into a carriage to save
my soul."
"What d'you want to climb into a
carriage for?" demanded Mr, Stagg.
"'Cause somebody's got to go for
that gal of mine and little Car'lyn
May. Ain't you heard or Is your mind
so sot on makln' money down there to
your store that you don't know nothin'
else?"
"Haven't I heard what?" returned
the other with fine restraint, for he
saw the old man was In pain.
"The fire's come over to this side. I
saw the flames myself. And Aaron
He Plunged Forward Leaped the Blaz
ing Brand and Galloped Down the
Road.
Crummlt drove through and says thai
you can't git by on the main road. The
fire's followed the West Brook right
down and Is betwixt us and Adams'
old camp."
"Bless me!" gasped the hardware
denier, paling under his tan. '
"Wal?" snarled Parlow. "Goln' to
stand there chatteriu' all day, or be
you goln' to do something?"
"Somebody must get over to that
cabin and bring them out," Joseph
Stagg said, without taking offense at
the crabbed old carpenter.
"Wal I" exclaimed Parlow, "glad ter
see you're awake."
"Oh, I'm awake," the other returned
shortly. "I was Just figuring on who's
got the best horse."
"I have," snapped Parlow,
"Yes. And I'd decided on taking
Cherry, too," the hardware dealer add
ed, and swung into the lane toward the
carpenter's barn.
"Hey, you I Needn't be so brash
about It," growled the carpenter. "He's
my boss, I s'pose?",.
Joseph Stagg went straight ahead,
and without answering. Having once
decided on his course, he wasted no
time.
He rolled back the big door and saw
Cherry already harnessed in his box-
stall.
Together they backed the animal be
tween the shafts, fastened the traces,
and Mr. Stagg leaped quickly to the
seat and gathered up the reins.
"You'll hafter take the Fallow road,"
the carpenter shouted after him. "And
have a care drlvln' Cherry "
Horse and buckboard whirled out of
the yard and his voice was lost to the
hardware merchant.
Cherry stepped out splendidly, and
they left a cloud of dust behind them
as they rolled up the pike, not in the
direction of the abandoned camp. Fore
warned, he did not seek to take the
shortest way to the cabin where
Amanda Parlow and Carolyn May were
perhaps even now threatened by the
forest fire. The Fallow road turned
north from the pike three miles from
The Corners.
Flecks of foam began to appear on
Cherry's glossy coat almost at once.
The air was very oppressive, and there
was no breeze,
The streak of flame that had fol
lowed down the banks of West
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brook moved mysteriously. He could
see the smoke of it now.
Amanda Parlow and his niece might
even now be threatened by the flames !
Now that danger threatened the
woman he had loved all these years, It
seemed ns though his mind and heart
were numbed. He was terrified be
yond expression terrified for her safe
ty, and terrified for fear that some
body, even Jedldlah Parlow, should
suspect Just how he felt about It
The horse's hoofs rang eharply over
the stony path. Presently they capped
a little ridge and started down Into a
hollow. Not until they were over the
ridge was Mr. Stagg aware that the
hollow was filled, chokingly filled, with
billowy white smoke.
Another man one as cautious as
the hardware merchant notoriously
was would have pulled the horse
down to a walk. But Joseph Stagg's
cautiousness had been flung to the
winds. Instead, he shouted to Cherry,
and the beast Increased his stride.
Ten rods further on the horse snort
ed, stumbled, and tried to stop. A
writhing, flaming snake a burning
branch plunged down through the
smoke directly ahead.
"Go on I" shouted Joseph Stagg, with
a sharpness that would ordinarily have
set Cherry off at a gallop.
But, us the snorting creature still
shied, the man seized the whip and
lashed poor Cherry cruelly along his
Hunk.
At that the horse went mad. He
plunged forward, leaped the blazing
brand, and galloped down the road at
a perilous gait. The man tried neither
to soothe him nor to retard the pace.
The smoke swirled around them.
The driver could not see ten feet be
yond the horse's nose. Ten minutes
later they rattled down Into the
straight road, and then, very soon.
Indeed, were at the abandoned camp.
The fire was near, but It hnd not
reached this place. There was no sign
of life about.
The man knew which was Judy's
cabin. He leaped from the vehicle,
leaving the panting Cherry unhitched,
and ran to the hut
The door swung open. The poor
furniture was In place. Even the bed
clothing was rumpled In the old wom
an's bunk. But neither she nor Aman
da Parlow nor little Carolyn May was
there.
CHAPTER XVI.
The Laurel to the Brave.
The heart of the man was. like a .
weight In his bosom. With so many
hundred acres of forest on fire, and
that, too, between the abandoned camp
and The Corners and Sunrise Cove,
how would Amanda Parlow npd Caro
lyn May know where to go?
Certainly the place must have been
deserted in haste. There was Carolyn
May's coat. The man caught It up and
stared around, as though expecting the
child to be within sight.
The old woman's clothing was scat
tered about, too. It did not look as
though anything had been removed
from the hut. Coming out, he found
another article on the threshold one
of Amanda's gloves.
Joseph Stagg lifted the crumpled
glove to his lips.
"Oh, God, spare her 1" he burst forth.
"Spare them both !"
Then he kissed the glove again and
hid it away In the Inner pocket of his
vest.
The hardware dealer tried to think
of just what the fugitives might have
done when they escaped from the
cabin.
If it were true that Amanda would
not run toward the fire, then she more
than likely had taken the opposite di
rection on leaving the cabin. There
fore, Joseph Stagg went that way set
ting off down the tote road, leading
Cherry by his birdie.
Suddenly he remembered calling
Prince the day Carolyn May had been
lost on the Ice. He raised his voice In
a mighty shout for the dog now.
"Prince 1 Prlncey, old boyl where
are you?"
Again and again he called, but there
was no reply. The smoke was more
stifling and the heat more Intense
every minute. Mr. Stagg realized that
he must get out quickly If he would
save himself and the horse.
He had Just stepped Into the buck
board again, when there was an ex
cited scrambling in the underbrush,
and a welcoming bark was given.
"Prince 1 Good boy !" the man shout
ed. "Where are they?"
The excited dog flew at him, leaping
on the buckboard so as to reach him.
The mongrel was delighted, and
showed it as plainly as a dumb brute
could. -
But he was anxious, too. He leaped
back to the ground, ran a little ahead,
and then looked back to.see if the man
was following. The hardware dealer
shouted to him again: ,
"Go ahead, Prlncey 1 We're coming I"
He picked up the reins and Cherry
started. The dog, barking his satisfac
tion, ran on ahead and struck Into a
side path which led down a glade. Jo
seph Stagg knew Immediately where
this path led to. There was a spring
and a small morass in the bottom of
the hollow.
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