WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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A proclamation has been Issued from
Dublin castle declaring all Sinn Fein
organizations and Irish volunteers in
the county of Tlpperary unlawful asso
ciations. A dispatch from Weimar received at
riasle, Switzerland, Monday, says a bill
has been Introduced in the German
national assembly providing for rati
fication of the peace treaty.
Three children named Fuller, the
oldest 15 years of age, were burned to
death late Saturday night at the home
of their grandmother, Mrs. McClana
han near Mayfleld, 25 miles east of
Chehalis, Wash.
Chinese soldiers and the Russian
militia became Involved In a small
battle at Harbin. Sunday evening over
the arrest of, a Russian passenger of a
Chinese cab who insisted on paying his
fare in Siberian money;
An explosion of dynamite placed in
the entrance of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company's pay office in Butte,
Mont, damaged that and surrounding
buildings in the heart of Butte's busi
ness district about 4 a. m, Sunday,
Premier Clemenceau Sunday, began
a visit to the devastated regions, enter
ing the zone of protracted warfare at
St. Quentin. The premier encouraged
the people to question him and bring
forward any complaints which they
had to make, and they were not slow
In so doing.
Five members of the house judiciary
committee, In a minority report on
the prohibition enforcement bill made
public Monday night, declared con
gress should repeal the war time pro
hibition act or at least lift the ban in
so far as it relates to the manufacture
and sale of light wines and beer.
Field Marshal von Hindonburg, for
mor chief of the German staff, has
written Marshal Foch, appealing for
his support of efforts to prevent the
extradition of the former .German
emperor. Von Htndenburg offered also
to place his own person "fully and
absolutely at the disposal of the allied
powers."
Pigeons brought to Bend, Oregon,
by the forest service are demonstra
ting their value as a means of com
munication between points not con
nected by telephone, William Sproat
of the Deschutes National forest, re
ports after a trip to East lake, where
he has carried on a series of tests with
the birds.
Eleven suits asking damages aggre
gating $170,000 were filed in the La
porte, Ind. circuit court Monday
against the United States railroad ad
ministration. The suits are the out
growth of an accident at Hewson's
crossing, Kingsburg, this spring, when
a Grand Trunk train demolished a
school wagon, killing six children and
injuring nine.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary -to
President Wilson, announced Saturday
that according to the present program
Mr. Wilson will address the senate on
Thursday.
A dispatch from Weimar received at
Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, says a bill
has been Introduced in the German
national assembly providing for rati
fication of the peace treaty.
The gasoline launch Waldo, with
nine persons aboard, Is missing as the
result of a heavy gale which struck
Corpus Christl, Tex., early Sunday
morning aud lasted until nearly mid
night. General Crctien, commander of the
allied forces in Bulgaria, has informed
Ihe Bulgarian premier that peace dele
gates from that country will be called
to Paris soon and that the Bulgarian
government is Invited to nominate a
delegation, according to a Sofia dis
patch. Dr. Epltaclo Pessoa, president-elect
of Brazil, sailed tor home Sunday af
ternoon on the American dreadnought
Idaho, after visiting the United States
and Canada on his return from the
peace conference.
The Irish Unionist Alliance, replying
to a manifesto issued recently by the
"Irish Dominion League," asserts that
the first act of any freely elected par
liament in full control of Irish econom
ic and military resources, would be to
proclaim an Irish republic. ,
SECRET WAR RULE CHARGED
President Wilson Accused of Forming
Hidden Government.
Washington, D. C Seven men
formed a "secret government of the
United States," which, working "be
hind closed doors," determined all of
the so-called war legislation "weeks
and even months", before war was de
clared against Germany, and befriend
ed "big business," Chairman Graham,
of the house committee Investigating
war department expenditures, charged
Monday after reading into the record
a digest of the minutes of the council
of national defense.
The seven men were named by Mr.
Graham as Hollis Godfrey, Howard E.
Coffin, Bernard M. . Baruch, Samuel
Gompers, Franklin H. Martin, Julius
Rosenwald "and Daniel Willard, mem
bers of the advisory commission of
the council. This commission, he add
ed, was designed by law to act in
purely an advisory capacity to the
council, composed of six cabinet of
ficers, but the president, he asserted,
made them the real executives.
After Mr. Graham had read to the
investigating committee a digest de
signed to show that the military draft,
food control and press censorship had
been discussed by the commission sev
eral weeks before war was declared,
Representative Reavls, republican, Ne
braska, interrupting, asked "if all this
was prior to the president's speech on
armed neutrality, In which he said he
was not contemplating war."
The chairman answered affirmative
ly. Mr. Graham said that censure of the
council and commission, uttered in
senate and house, led Mr. Coffin to
urge that a "definite channel of con
tact" be established between the coun
cil and congress.
"In other words," commented the
chairman, "congress ought to be edu
cated." In brief, Mr. Graham's digest charg
ed that the president organized the
council in violation of the law and
that, in addition to framing legisla
tion, dictated policies the country was
to pursue, and befriended "big busi
ness." Included in the .report read
into the record was a letter by Judge
Gary advising the committee it was
disregarding the laws "supposed to
regulate business."
After Chairman Graham had told the
committee that the minutes he had
read into the record were unofficial,
but "substantially correct," the com
mittee decided to call Grosvenor Clark
son, director of the council, to estab
lish their authenticity.
Army Probe Is Ordered.
San Francisco. An investigation
was ordered Monday by Rear Admiral
J. L. Jayne, commandant of the 12th
naval district, of charges by enlisted
men that money had been paid to petty
officers to secure transfers from un
desirable assignments.
Three chief yeomen of the receiving
ship Boston in San Francisco bay were
taken into custody pending completion
of formal charges against them. As
signments to ships on the Atlantic
coast were secured through money
payments, it was said, and in like
manner men were able to have their
names erased from lists for transfer
to ships in Russian waters.
Anarchist Plot Foiled.
Rome. An anarchist plot to attack
the central part of Rome by means of
hand grenades and other explosives
has been exposed by the arrest of 16
of the conspirators four hours before
the time fixed for carrying out the
plans.
About the same time 30 anarchists
motored to Fort Pratalata, four miles
from Rome, and tried to induce the
garrison to join in an attack on the
Rome market place. The soldiers fired
on the anarchists and seized several
of them. The others fled.
Harvest Calls For 10,000.
Lincoln. Nebraska needs 10,000 har
vest hands at once, according to an
estimate made by II. C. Fllley, of the
Nebraska university department of
rural economics, who has just received
reports from governmental agencies
throughout the state which asserted
that unless the men are forthcoming
immediately the state's big wheat crop
will suffer. So urgent Is "the need for
harvesters that automobiles are being
used to convey the men to the farms.
Five-Cent Fare Is Wanted. '
Spokane, Wash. Following notifica
tion of the state public service com
mission's extension of the six-cent fare
for local street railways for an addi
tional 90 days, the city council adopt
ed a resolution asking the commis
sion to restore the five-cent fare for
a period of 90 days. It Is argued that
such a test would afford a fair com
parison between the six-cent and the
five-cent fares as far as the financial
effect on the companies is concerned.
R-34 FINISHES SEA
FLIGLT IN SAFETY
Huge Dirigible Soars Into Min
eola Without Aid.
TRAVELS 3600 MILES
Giant Airship Completes Atlantic Voy
age, Battling .Through Fog
and Storm.
Mineola, N. Y. Great Britain's su-per-dlrlglble
R-34,' the first llghter-than-air
machine to cross the Atlantic
ocean, anchored here at Roosevelt field
at 9:64 a. m. Sunday (1.54 p. m. G.
M. T.) after an aerial voyage of 108
hours and 12 minutes which covered
3130 knots or approximately 3600 land
miles.
Passing through dense banks of
cloud, with the sun and sea visible
only at rare intervals, the R-34 was
forced to cruise 2050 sea miles to reach
Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, from East
Fortune, Scotland, and 1080 sea miles
from there to Mineola.
When the super-dirigible arrived here
she had left only enough petrol to keep
her moving 90 minutes longer. Her
crew, almost sleepless for four and a
half days, were weary almost to the
point of exhaustion, but happy at the
successful completion of their trip.
Haggard, unshaven, their eyes blood
shot from the long vigil and' lines of
care bitten deep into their faces, Major
G. H. Scott, the commander, and his
officers showed plainly the effects of
the anxious hours through which they
lived Saturday while they were cruis
ing over the far reaches of Canada and
the Bay of Fundy, beset by fog, heavy
winds and terrific electrical storms.
"It seemed as though the atmosphere
was haunted by 5000 devils," said Lieu
tenant Gay Harris, the meteorological
officer.
With the R-34 long overdue at its
destination, petrol supply running low
and buffeted by strong winds, Major
Scott decided while over the Bay of
Fundy to send a wireless call to the
American navy department to prepare
to give assistance if it were needed.
This wa merely a measure of precau
tion and did not indicate discourage
ment. While destroyers and submar
ine chasers were racing to her assist
ance, the R-34 was plugging steadily
ahead on the way to Mineola. Once
clear of the Bay of Fundy the atmos
pheric hoodoo which had beset the
craft from the time It took the air was
gradually left in its wake.
Ex-Prince Prefers Death.
Amsterdam. "The allies can only
have my dead body; I will myself de
cide on my life or death," the former
German crown prince is quoted as hav
ing said Friday in discussing a possi
ble demand for extradition.
The statement, reported by the Brit
ish wireless service correspondent,
was said by htm to have been made to
a Dutch official who talks daily with
the former crown prince.
According to this official, Frederick
Hohenzollern is in excellent health. He
takes motorcycle trips daily and fre
quently visits both the rich and poor
on the island of Wierlngen.
Fight Picture Is Rushed.
San Francisco. Early Sunday edi
tions of a local morning newspaper
carried a reproduction of a photograph
of the Willard-Dempsey fight at Tole
do, Ohio, which, the newspaper assert
ed, was brought here in 54 hours and
22 minutes from Toledo by airplane
and fast mail service. The photo
graph, according to the newspaper,
was carried by airplane from Toledo
to Chicago; from Chicago to Ogden,
Utah, by railway mail and from Og
den to San Francisco by airplane, ar
riving here early Saturday.
Bodies of Three Recovered.
Spokane, Wash. The bodies of the
three persons who lost their lives by
drowning by the overturning of a
launch on Twin Lakes, Idaho, late
Saturday night, were discovered Sun
day morning. They were James A.
Burns, a rancher; his daughter, Phyl
lis Burns, aged 17, and Chester L.
Graves, who came here from Kansas
about two weeks ago. Nine persons
were in the 18-foot boat 150 feet from
shore when the accident occurred. '
Wind Fans 400-Acre Fire.
Missoula, Mont A fire covering
about 400 acres on Mill creek, in the
Bitter Root forest, eight miles west
of Corvallis, Mont, was the chief con
cern of officials at the service head
quarters here Monday. Fanned by a
strong wind, the fire is reported as
being beyond control at present Ex
cept tor this fire, however, the situa
tion was generally favorable, officials
said.
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THE HONORABLE MR. BAYNES MEETS THE NOW DOMES
TICATED MERJEM AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER
Synopsis. A scientific expedition oft the African coast rescues a
human derelict, Alexis Paulvltch. He brings aboard an ape, Intelligent
and friendly, and reaches London. Jack, son of Lord Greystoke, the
original Tarznn, has Inherited a love of wild life and steals from home
to see the ape, now a drawing card In a music hall. The ape makes
friends with him and refuses to leave Jack despite his trainer.
Tarzan appears and is joyfully recognized by the ape, for Tarzan had
been king of his tribe. Tarzan agrees to buy Akut, the ape, and send
him back to Africa. Jack and Akut become great friends. Paulvltch
Is killed when he attempts murder. A thief tries to kill Jack, but is
killed by Akut. They flee together to the jungle and take up life..
Jack rescues an Arabian girl and takes her into the forest. He is
wounded and Merlem is stolen. The bad Swedes buy her from Kovudoo,
the black. Malblhn kills Jenssen fighting for the girl. Bwana comes
to the rescue and takes her to his wife. Jack vainly seeks her in the
wilds.
CHAPTER XI Continued.
13 ('
Merlem was all expectancy. What
would these strangers be like? Would
they be as nice to her as had Bwana
and My Dear, or would they be like
the other white folk she had known
cruel and relentless? My Dear assured
her that they all were gentlefolk and
that she would find them kind, consid
erate and honorable.
At last the visitors arrived. There
were three men and two women the
wives of the two older men. The
youngest member of the party was
Hon. Morlson Bayase, a young man
of considerable wealth, who, having
exhausted all the possibilities for pleas
ure offered by the capitals of Europe,
had gladly seized upon this opportu
nity to turn to another continent for
excitement and adventure.
Nature had favored him with a splen
did physique and a handsome face and
also with sufficient good judgment to
appreciate that," while he might enjoy
the contemplation of his superiority to
the masses, there was little likelihood
of the masses being equully entranced
by the same cause. And so he easily
maintained the reputation' of being a
most democratic and likable fellow,
and, indeed, he was lfkable. Just a
shade of his egotism was occasionally
apparent never sufficient to become a
burden to his associates.
And this, briefly, was the Hon. Mori
son Bnynes of luxurious European civ
ilization. What would be the Hon.
Morlson Baynes of central Africa It
were difficult to guess.
Merlem at first was shy and reserved
In the presence of strangers. Her
benefactors had seen fit to Ignore men
tion of her strange past, and so she
passed as their ward, whose anteced
ents, not having been mentioned, were
not to be Inquired into. The guests
found her sweet and unassuming,
laughing, vivacious and a never-exhausted
storehouse of quaint and In
teresting jungle lore.
The Hon. Morlson Baynes found
Merlem a most beautiful and charm
ing companion. He was delighted with
her from the first, particularly so,
It is possible, because he had not
thought to find companionship of this
sort upon the African estate of his
London friends. They were together
a great deal, as they were the only un
married couple In the little company.
Merlem, entirely unaccustomed to the
companionship of such as Baynes, was
fascinated by him. His tales of the
great, gay cities with which he was fa
miliar filled her with admiration and
with wonder. If the Hon. Morlson al
ways shone to advantage In these nar
ratives, Merlem saw in that fact but
a natural consequence to his presence
upon the scene of his story. Wher
ever Morlson might be he must be a
hero. So thought the girl.
With the actual presence and com
panionship of the young Englishman
the Image of Korak became less real.
Where before it had been on actuality
to her, she now realized that Korak
was but a memory. To that memory
she still was loyal. But what weight
has a memory in the presence of a fas
cinating reality?
And presently she found the features
of Korak slowly dissolving and merg
ing into those of another, and the fig
ure of a tanned, half -naked, Tarman
ganl became a khaki-clothed and stur
dy Englishman astride a hunting pony.
The Hon. Morlson Baynes was sit
ting with Merlem upon the veranda
one evening after the others had re
tired. Earlier they had been playing
tennis, a game in which the Hon.
Morlson shone to advantage, as, In
truth, he did in most all manly sports.
He was telling her stories of London
and Paris, of balls and banquets, of
the wonderful women and their won
derful gowns, of the pleasures and
pastimes of the rich and powerful.
, Merlem was entranced. His tales
were like fairy stories to this little
, Jungle maid. The Hon. Morlson loom
ed large and wonderful and magnifi
cent in her mind's eye. He fascinated
her, and when he drew closer to her
after a short silence and took her hand
she thrilled as one might thrill beneath
the touch of a deity a thrill of exalta
tion not unmixed with fear.
He bent his lips close to her ear.
"Merlem !" he whispered. "My little
Meriem 1 May I hope to have the right
to call you 'my little Merlem? "
The girl turned wide eyes upward to
his face, but It was In shadow. She
trembled, but she did not draw away.
The man put an arm about her and
drew her closer.
"I love you I" he whispered.
She did not reply. She did not know
whnt to sny. She knew nothing of
love. She hnd-never given It a thought.
But she did know that it was very
nice to be loved, whatever it meant.
It was nice to have people kind to
one. She had known so little of kind
ness or affection.
"Tell me," he said, "that you return
my love."
His Hps came steadily closer to hers.
They had almost touched when a
vision of Korak sprang like a miracle
before her eyes. She saw Korak's face
close to hers, she felt his lips against
her lips, and then for the first time she
guessed what love meant
She drew away gently.
"I am not sure," she said, "that I
love you. Let us wait. There is plen
ty of time- I am too young to marry
"Meriem 1" He Whispered. "My Little
Merleml"
yet, and I am not sure that I should
be happy in London or Paris. They
rather frighten me."
She was not sure that she loved
him I That came rather In the nature
of a shock to the Hon. Morlson's van
ity. It seemed Incredible that this lit
tle barbarian should have any doubt
whatever as to the desirability of the
Hon. Morlson Baynes.
He glanced down at the girl's pro
file. It was bathed In the silvery light
of the great tropic moon. She was
'most alluring.
Merlem rose. The vision of Korak
was still before her.
"Good night," she said. "It Is almost
too beautiful to leave." She waved her
hand In a comprehensive gesture
which took In the starry heavens, the
great moon, the broad, silvered plain
and the dense shadows In the distance
that marked the jungle. "Oh, how I
love ltl"
"You would love London more," he
said earnestly. "And London would
love you. You would be a famous
beauty in any capital of Europe. You
would have the world at your feet,
Merlem."
"Good night," she repeated, and left
him.
CHAPTER XII.
A Night Ride.
Merlem and Bwana were sitting on
the veranda together the following
day when a horseman appeared In the
distance riding across the plain toward
the bungalow.
Bwana shaded his eyes with his hand
and gazed out toward the oncoming
rider. He was puzzled. Strangers
were few In central Africa. Even the
blacks for a distance of many miles In
every direction were well known to
him. No white man came within a
hundred miles that word of his com
ing did not reach Bwana long before
the stranger. His every move was re
ported to the big Bwana Just what
animals he killed and how many of
each species, how he killed them, too,
for Bwana would not permit the use
of prusslc acid or strychnine, and how
he treated his "boys."
But here was evidently one who hod
slipped into the country unheralded.
Bwana could not imagine who the ap
proaching horseman might be.
After the manner of frontier hospi
tality the globe round, he met the new
comer at the gate, welcoming him even
before he had dismounted. He saw a
tall, well-knit man of thirty or more,
blond of hair and smooth-shaven.
There was a tantalizing familiarity
about him that convinced Bwana that
he should be able to call the visitor by
name, yet he was unable to do so.
Bwana was wondering how a lone
white man could have made his way
through the savage, unhospitable miles
that lay toward the south. As though
guessing what must be passing through
the other's mind, the stranger vouch
safed an explanation.
"I came down from the north to do a
little trading and hunting," he suld,
"and got way off the beaten track. My
head man, who was the only member
of the safari who had ever before been
In the country, took sick and died. We
could find no natives to guide us, and
so I simply swung back straight north.
We have been living on the fruits of
our guns for over a mouth.
"Didn't have an Idea there was a
white man within a thousand miles of
us when we camped last night by a
water hole at the edge of the plain.
This morning I started out to hunt and
saw the smoke from your chimney, so
I sent my gun bearer back to camp
with the good news and rode straight
over here myself. Of course I've heard
of you everybody who comes into cen
tral Africa does and I'd be mighty
glad of permission to rest up and hunt
around here fdr a couple of weeks."
"Certainly," replied Bwana. "'Make
yourself at home."
They had reached the veranda now,
and Bwana was introducing the stran
ger to Merlem and My Dear, who had
Just come from the bungalow's Interi
or. "This is Mr. Hanson," he said, using
the name the man had given him. "He
is a trader who has lost his way In the
jungle to the south."
My Dear and Merlem bowed their
acknowledgments of the Introduction.
The man seemed rather ill at ease In
their presence. His host attributed this
to the fact that his guest was unaccus
tomed to the society of cultured wo
men, and so found a pretext to extri
cate him quickly from his seemingly
unpleasant position and lead him away
to his study and the brandy and soda,
which were evidently much less em
barrassing tq Mr. Hanson.-
When the two had left them Merlem
turned toward My Dear.
"It is odd," she said, "but I could
almost swear that I had known Mr.
Hanson in the past. It is odd, but
quite impossible," and she gave the
matter no further thought.
For three weeks Hanson had re
mained. During this time he said that
his boys were resting and gaining
strength after their terrible ordeals in
the untrncked jungles to the south, but
he had not been as idle as he appeared
to have been. He divided his small
following into two parts, Intrusting
the leadership of each to men whom
he believed he could trust.
One party he moved very slowly
northward along the trail that connects
with the great caravan routes entering
the Sahara from the south. The other
he ordered straight westward with or
ders to halt and go into permanent
camp just beyond the great river which
marks the natural boundary of the
country that the big Bwana rightfully
considers almost his own.
To his host he explained that he was
moving his safari slowly toward the
north he said nothing of the party
moving westward. Then one day he
announced that half his boys had de
serted, for a hunting party from the
bungalow had come across his north
erly camp, and he feared that they
might have noticed the reduced num
bers of his following.
And thus matters stood when one
hot night Meriem, unable to sleep, rose
and wandered out into the garden. The
Hon. Morlson had been urging his suit
once more that evening, and the girl's
mind was In such a turmoil that she
had been unable to sleep.
Hanson, the stranger, shows
unusual interest in Meriem and
watches closely the movements
of the girl and her new lover.
(TO. BE CONTINUED.)
Will Not Visit "Meat Houses."
In Tokyo, says Good Health, a cer
tain class of Japanese are adopting
the practice of eating meat, as they
have acquired the habit of using to
bacco and drinking whisky, through
their desire to imitate the westerners.
Some have nn idea that by flesh-eating
they may be able to increase their
size and vigor.
It Is noticeable, however, that the
Japanese women refuse to. eat meat
and will not visit the restaurants
where meat is served, which are known
as "meat houses." The Japanese wom
en regard it improper to visit such
places, ' -
Question of Rights.
People generally understand that
their rights end at the point where the
other fellow's begin; but the trouble
comes in determining the location of
that point Exchang