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Things Worth Knowing.
A Roosevelt 2-cent piece Is favored
by the house coinage committee,
which Tuesday reported favorably a
senate bill authorizing the coin.
Slight decreases In rentals are no
ted In Seattle and more are expected
soon, but there will be no sudden
drops. This Is the opinion of leading
rental firms.
Three Inmates of the municipal
farm at Kansas City sustained gun
shot wounds and three others escaped
early Sunday In an attempted break
by 22 Inmates.
A cloudburst Sunday flooded sec
tions of Hilo, damaging stores and
other property to an extent estimated
at $100,000. One hundred and fifty
persons were rendered homeless.
Windows In houses all over Lebain,
WaBh., were broken early Tuesday
morning when dynamite was used to
prevent the spread of a fire. The
town Y. M. C. A. building was blasted.
Price reductions ranging from 25 to
75 cents a ton were announced Tues
day by two large St. Louis retail coal
companies. This Is the second reduc
tion announced here In the last month.
Orders withdrawing from service 30
ships aggregating 180,000 deadweight
tons for tie-up at Baltimore New
York, Norfolk, Philadelphia and at
Oulf ports, were issued Tuesday by
the shipping board.
The worst storm In Its history hit
the Island of Kaul of the Hawaiian
group, Sunday, according to advices.
Several houses In the towns of Wal
mea and Llhue were washed out to
sea. One man was drowned.
Colonel William T. Baker, 90, said
to bo the oldest member of the Order
of Elks In tho United States, died In
Springfield, 111., Tuesday morning. He
was said to be a boyhood chum of
Abraham Lincoln.
Internal revenue bureau officials
are seeking to correct the Impression
that ex-service beneficiaries under the
war risk insurance act must pay in
come tux on amounts received In ex
cess of $1000 a year in the case of
unmarried men.
The strike of Spanish government
employes has intorfured with the state
machinery, high offlcluls Joining their
subordinates. Consequently govern
ment checks are unsigned and persons
to whom interest is due have been
unable to collect the money.
Ordinary expenditures of the gov
ernment for December decreased by
about $20,000,000 as compared with
November, while payments on the
public debt increased by nearly $1,
000,000,000, according to the treasur
er's monthly statement Tuesday.
Saniuol Gompers Monday was re
elected president of the Pan-American
Federation of Labor. His election fol
lowed three hours' dubate in which
there was a split, the Mexicans, Sal
vadoreans and Cautenialans voting
against the unanimous acceptance of
the resolution nominating Mr. Gomp
ers. Excess clothing for Unltod States
shipping board officers and crews,
stored at Boston and valued at $244,
000, was sold for $80,000, Byron C.
linker, district controller for the
board nt Boston, TueBday tostifted
before the Walsh congressional com
mittee investigating the board's af
fairs. Mochunlcal departments of the
Northern Taclflc railway will be put
on a five-day week basis before the
end of the present month, it was an
nounced by Charles Donnelly, presi
dent of tho road, who delivered the
principal address at the annual meet
ing of the Spokane chamber of com
merce. "We must have work to feed the
mouths of our hungry children." "We
would rather work than steal and do
not want charity." Carrying those
signs, niore thuu 200 married men of
Spokane, many of whom say they are
destitute and unable to furnish food
for their children, paraded the down
town district Monday morning in pro
test of the present lack of work, end
ing their line of march at the city hall
for the purpose, of demanding of the
city commissioners relief from pres
ent conditions.
LENINE ROCKS SOCIALISM
Radical's Hammer of Red Revolution
Brings Party to Crisis.
New York. -Nicolal Lenlne's ulti
matum to the socialists of the world,
giving them the "21 conditions" to
which they must subscribe before they
can be received Into the third or com
munist Internationale of Moscow, has
met with a widespread, If in many
cases negative, response. It indicates
a decided split In the ranks of the so
cialist party in many countries, judg
ing by reports from abroad.
In the 15 nations which such opin
ions have been expressed, four have
been unqualifiedly against entering
the third Internationale, one is unde
cided, three are divided and seven in
favor are opposed by determined mi
norities. Lenine demanded, among other
things, that socialist organizations
must purge themselves of all moder
ates, defy all national laws, undermine
armies, gain control of the press,
throw off the allied "yoke," promote
a world economic crisis, condemn any
league of nations, aid the soviet gov
ernment and abandon for the blood
and fire of "red revolution" all con
servative social democratic programs.
HOMESEEKERS' RATES
TO NORTHWEST BACK
A decisive step toward pre-war con
ditions has been taken by the Great
Northern railway in announcing that
it will restore homeseekers' rates to
Pacific northwest points along its
lines from St. Paul. These rates have
not been In effect on any road since
they were abolished as an economy
measure during the war, and the Great
Northern is the first to resume.
Announcement of the rate restora
tion, received in Portland Monday in a
special message from St. Paul, de
clared that it will mean the resump
tion of the Influx of homeseekers from
the middle west to the northwest.
Great Northern traveling lecturers,
working under the direction of E. C.
Leedy, general supervisor of agricul
ture for the railway, have been telling
the farmers and others In the middle
west of the opportunities In the north
west, it is explained, and now that low
fares have been re-established, the
prospective settlers will be able to
make the trip out this way to see for
themselves what is here.
For a little less than a one-way fare
travelers may visit the northwest
points Included In the rates restora
tion order and return to their original
starting station.
The rates will be effective the first
and third Tuesdays of each month,
from April to October of this year.
Coal Bill Is Denounced.
Washington, D. C Because of its
provisions taxing coal brokerage com
missions as high as 90 per cent the
CaUler bill to regulate the coal in
dustry Is "the most stupendous aid to
profiteering ever devised," former Gov
ernor Curtis of Maine declared before
the senate committee considering the
measure.
"I'm just explaining why the coal
men are anxious to see this bill go
through," he said. "It amounts to a
conspiracy between the government
and the profiteers to raise the price
fo coal. It tempts men to profiteer.
A3 a coal man I've no objection, but
as a citizen I'm telling you what it
will do."
Storm Isolates Denver.
' Denver. The heaviest snowstorm of
the winter, embracing many points In
the Ro.ky mountain region, Isolated
Denver and other cities from tele
graph and telephone communication
for a time early Monday. According
to the weather bureau the storm swept
south from Cheyenne, Wyo., over Colo
rado, northern New Mexico and Okla
homa, east Into Kansas and central
Nebraska and north to North and
South Dakota.
Tobacco Threat Is Made.
Lexington, Ky. Night riders Satur
day night visited farmers In Bath and
Fleming counties and warned them
not to haul any more tobacco to n;nr
kot until prices were higher, accord
ing to reports. The reports sold that
the growers were told that their barns
would be burned and that they would
be dealt with severely unless they
compiled.
Court Upholds Seizures.
Washington, D. C. The supreme
court Monday upheld the authority of
the alien property custodian to seize
securities deposited in this country
by German Insurance companies to
protect American policy holders. Tho
court Bald there could be no doubt
that the trading with the enemy act
authorized such a seizure.
War Wool To Be Sold.
Washington, D. C. Approximately
4.00,000 pounds of wool will be offered
for sale at auction by the war depart
ment It was announced Monday. The
sale will be held at Boston, February 3.
Doings of the
Legislature
State House, Salem. When the
joint ways and means committee held
its first meeting here Tuesday night
to consider requests for appropriations
for money with which to conduct the
state institutions and departments
during the present blennlum, it was
confronted with tentative needs aggre
gating $9,810,350.62. Of this sum,
laws carrying appropriations will pro
vide $753,175.67, while the mlllage
taxes for county fair purposes, road
purposes, Oregon Agricultural college,
University of Oregon and State Nor
mal school will reduce the amount of
appropriations the legislature must au
thorize to $6,892,229.75.
Bills divorcing the fish and game
commissions and containing the new
fish and game codes will be presented
to the house by the fisheries and game
committees of the house. The bills
have been approved, and according to
Representatives McFarland and Hurd,
chairmen of the two committees, will
be urged for passage by unanimous
action of the joint committee.
Immediate investigation of all paper
mills operating in Oregon, by the fed
eral trades commission, is demanded
in a joint memorial introduced in the
senate by Senator Dennis of Union
county and approved by unanimous
vote. The memorial was adopted at
the recent meeting of the newspaper
men at Eugene.
Provision for the Increase of the
bonds to be furnished by county treas
urers In Oregon In amounts to be
based upon assessed valuations of the
county was made In a bill introduced
by Representative Wells.
Any state bank may lend not to ex
ceed 25 per cent of Its capital, sur
plus and commercial deposits upon
notes secured by mortgages or other
form of real estate security, In caBe a
bill introduced by Senator Hall be
comes a law.
In case amendments to the teachers'
tenure law offered by Senator Staples
are approved, teachers accused of de
reliction of duty or misconduct may
be summarily suspended by the school
board. Provision has been made, how
ever, that such teacher summarily sus
pended may demand a hearing within
three days after receiving notice of
temporary dismissal from service.
Every municipal tax-levying body in
the state of Oregon will be required
to prepare a budget of proposed ex
penditures, together with a statement
of the anticipated revenue from taxa
tion and all other sources, such state
ments to be published prior to the
levying of the annual tax, if a bill
known as the local budget Introduced
by Representative Gordon of Multno
mah county becomes a law.
Designation of November 11 as a
legal holiday by statute was urged by
Governor Olcott In a message read to
the house.
Employment of two election boards
in precincts having more than 150
electors Is provided in a bill intro
duced in the senate by Senator Bell.
The bill provides for the counting of
the ballots to start two hours after
the polls open. Both primary and gen
eral elections are affected. Besides
expediting the counting, provision also
is made for protecting the polls
against fraud.
Three bills, Interlocking and having
for their purpose the more stringent
enforcemeut of the prohibition law
and harmonizing the state and federal
statutes dealing with this subject,
were Introduced in the senate by Sen
ator Farrell of Multnomah county.
Indorsement of the governor's spe
cial message suggesting that the quarter-mill
road tax be abolished and the
money turned over to the Boys' Train
ing school; a proposal to make motor
licenses a flat $5 and greatly increase
he tax on gasoline sales and opposi
tion to spending $2,500,000 of road
bonds for the Roosevelt highway were
road matters which came Into promin
ence Tuesday.
A bill requiring that 20 per cent of
all money paid by Multnomah county
residents for state automobile licenses
revert to the city of Portland for use
In the upkeep and maintenance of
the city streets, Is being prepared and
will be submitted to the legislature in
the near future by the city council.
The proposition would give the city
$140,000 annually for that purpose.
Amendment of the blue sky law so
that all bond houses issuing Interim
certificates In the conduct of their
business will be subject to regulation
by the state corporation commissioner
Is provided In a bill introduced by
Senator Eddy. This Is the first meas
ure dealing with the regulation of
bond houses that has reached the Ben
ate during the present session.
Times Change.
Scientists are to search Asia for
golden monkeys with blue noses. Time
was when such creatures were seen in
this country by men with red noses.
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CHAPTER XII Continued.
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From where we stood It was a sight
now that was worth coming over the
seas to see. On our own ridge was
the checker of red and blue, stretching
right away to a village over two miles
from us. It was whispered from man
to man In the ranks, however, that
there was too much of the blue and
too little of the red, for the Belgians
had shown on the day before that their
hearts were too soft for the work, and
we had twenty thousand of them for
comrades. Then even our British
troops were half made up of militia
men and recruits, for the pick of the
old Peninsula regiments were on the
ocean In transports, coming back from
some fool's errand with our kinsfolk
of America. But for all that we could
see the bearskins of the Guards, two
strong brigades of them, and the bon
nets of the Highlanders, and the blue
of the old German legion, and the red
lines of Pack's brigade, and Kempt's
brigade, and the green-dotted rifle
men In front ; and we knew that, come
what mignt, these were men who would
bide where they were placed, and that
they had a man to lead them who
would place them where they should
bide.
Of the French we had seen little,
save the twinkle of their fires and a
few horsemen here and there on the
curves of the ridge; but as we stood
and waited there came suddenly a
grand blare from their bands, and
their whole army came flooding over
the low hill which had hid them bri
gade after brigade, and division after
division until the broad slope In Its
whole length and depth was blue with
their uniforms and bright with the
glint of their weapons. It seemed that
they would never have done, still pour
ing over and pouring over, while our
men leaned on their muskets and
smoked their pipes, looking down at
this grand gathering and listening to
what the old soldiers, who had fought
the French before, had to say about
them. Then, when the Infantry had
formed In long, deep masses, their
guns came whirling and bounding
down the slope, and It was pretty to
see how smartly they unllmbered and
were ready for action. And then, at
a stately trot, down came the cav
alry tlUrty regiments at the least,
with plume and breastplate, twinkling
sword and fluttering lance forming
up at the flanks and rear in long, shift
ing, glimmering lines.
"Them's the chaps," cried our old
sergeant. "They're gluttons to fight,
they are. And you see them regi
ments with the grent high hats In the
middle, a bit behind the farm? That's
the Guard twenty thousand of them,
my sons, and ail picked men gray
headed devils that have done nothing
but fight since they were as high as
my gaiters. They've three men to our
two, and two guns to one, and, by gad I
they'll make you recrultles wish you
were back In Argyle street before they
have finished with you." He was not
a cheering man, our sergeant, but then
he had been in every fight since Co
runna, and hud a medal with seven
clasps upon his breast, so that he had
a right to talk In his own fashion.
When the Frenchmen had arranged
themselves Just out of cannon shot we
saw a small group of horsemen, all In
a blaze with silver and scarlet and
gold, ride swiftly between the divi
sions; and as they went a roar of
cheering burst out from either side of
them, and we could see arms out
stretched to them and hands waving.
An instant later the noise had died
away and the two armies stood facing
each other In absolute deadly silence
a sight which often comes back to me
In my dreams. Then of a sudden
(here was a lurch among the men Just
Jn front of us, a thin column wheeled
off from the dense blue clump, and
came swinging up toward the farm
house which lay below us. It had not
taken fifty paces before a gun banged
out from an English battery on our
left and the bnttle of Waterloo had
begun.
It Is not for me to tell you the story
of that battle, and Indeed I should
have kept far enough away from such
a thing had It not happened that our
own fates those of the three simple
folk who came from the border coun
trywere all Just as much mixed up
In It as those of any king or emperor
of them all. To tell the honest truth,
I have learned more nbout that battle
from what I have rend than from what
I saw, for how much could I see with
a comrade on either side, and a great
white cloud bank at the very end of
ray firelock T It was from books and
the talk of others that I learned how
the heavy cavalry charged, how they
rode over the famous cuirassiers, and
how they were cut to pieces before
they could get back. From them, too,
I learned all about the successive as
saults, and how the Belgians fled, and
how Pack and Kempt stood firm. But
of my own knowledge I can only speak
of what we saw during that long day
In the rifts of the smoke and the lulls
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of the firing, and it's just of that that
I will tell you.
We were on the right of the line and
in reserve, for the Duke was afraid
that Boney might work round on that
side and get at him from behind, so
our three regiments, with another Brit
ish brigade and the Hanoverians, were
placed there to be ready for anything.
There were two brigades of light cav
alry, too, but the French attack was
all from the front, so it was late in
the day before we were really wanted.
The English battery which fired the
first gun was still banging away on
our left, and a German one was hard
at work upon our right, so that we
were wrapped round with the smoke,
but we were not so hidden as to screen
us from a line of French guns oppo
site, for a score of round shot came
piping through the air and plumped
right Into the heart of us. As I heard
the scream of them pass my ear my
head went down like a diver, but our
sergeant gave me a prod In the back
with the handle of his halbert.
"Don't be so blasted polite," said he.
"When you're hit you can bow once
and for all."
There was one of those balls that
knocked five men Into a bloody mash,
and I saw It lying on the ground after
wards, like a crimson football. An
other went through the adjutant's
horse with a plop, like a stone In the
mud, broke Its back and left It lying
like a burst gooseberry. Three more
fell farther to the right, and by the
stir and cries we could tell that they
had all told.
"Ah, James, you've lost a good
mount," says Major Iteed, just In front
of me, looking down at the adjutant,
whose boots and breeches were all
running with blood.
"I gave a cool fifty for him in Glas
gow," said the other. "Don't you think,
major, that the men had better He
down, now that the guns have got our
range7"
"Tutl" said the other. "They are
young, James, and It will do them
good.",
"They'll get enough of It before the
daj's done," grumbled the other, but
at that moment Colonel Reynell saw
that the Rifles and the Fifty-second
were down on either side of us, so we
had the order to stretch ourselves out
too. Precious glad we were when we
could hear the shot whining like hun
gry dogs within a few feet of our
backs. Even now a thud and a splash
every minute or so, with a yelp of pain
and a drumming of boots upon the
ground, told us that we were still los
ing heavily.
A thin rain was falling and the
damp air held the sinoke low, so that
we could only catch glimpses of what
was doing just In front of us, though
the roar of the guns told us that the
battle was general all along the lines.
Four hundred of them were all crash
ing at once now, and the noise was
enough to split the drum of your ear.
Indeed, there was not one of us but
had a singing In his head for many a
long day afterward. Just opposite us,
on the slope of a hill, was a French
gun, and we could see the men serving
her quite plainly. They were small,
active men with very tight breeches
and high hats with great, straight
plumes sticking up from them, but they
worked like sheep shearers, ramming
and sponging and training. There
were fourteen when I saw them first,
and only four left standing at the last,
but they were working away Just as
hard as ever.
The farm that they called Hougou
mont was down in front of us, and all
morning we could see that a terrible
fight was going on there, for the walls
and the windows and the orchard
hedges were all flame and smoke, and
there rose such shrieking and crying
from it as I never heard before. It
was half burned down, and shattered
with balls, and ten thousand men were
hammering at the gates, but four hun
dred guardsmen held It in the morn
ing, and two hundred held It in the
evening, and no French foot was ever
set within Its threshold. But how they
fought, those Frenchmen I Their lives
were no more to them than the mud
under their feet There was one I
can see him now a stoutlsh, ruddy
man on a crutch. He hobbled up
alone In a lull of the firing to the
side gate of Uougoumont, and he
beat upon It, screaming to his men to
come after him. For five minutes he
stood there, strolling about In front of
the gun-barrels which spared him, but
at last a Brunswick skirmisher in the
orchard flicked out his brain with a
rifle-shot And he was only one of
many, for all day, when they did not
come in masses they came in twos and
threes, with as brave a face as If the
whole army was at their heels.
So we lay all morning looking down
at the fight at Hougoumont ; but soon
the Duke saw that there was nothing
to fear upon his right and so he be
gan to use us In another way. The
French had pushed their skirmishers
past the farm, and they lay among
the young corn In front of us, popping
at the gunners, so that three pieces
out of six on our left were lying with
their men strewed In the mud all
round them. But the Duke had his
eyes everywhere, and up he galloped
at that moment, a thin, dark, wiry
man, with very bright eyes, a hooked
nose, and a big cockade on his cap.
There were a dozen officers at his
heels, all as merry as if it were a fox
hunt; but of the dozen there was not
one left in the evening.
"Warm work, Adams," said he as
he rode up.
"Very warm, your grace," said our
general.
"But we can outstay them at It, I
think! Tut I tut I we cannot let skir
mishers silence a battery. Just drive
those fellows out of that Adams."
Then first I knew what a devil's
thrill runs through a man when he Is
given a bit of fighting to do. Up to
now we had Just lain and been killed,
which Is the weariest kind of work.
Now It was our turn, and, my word,
we were ready for It Up we Jumped,
the whole brigade, In a four-deep line,
and rushed at the cornfield as hard as
we could tear. The skirmishers snap
ped at us as we came, and then away
they bolted like corn-crakes, their
heads down, their hacks rounded, and
their muskets at the trail. Half of
them got away, but we caught up the
others, the officer first, for he was a
very fat man who could not run fast.
It gave me quite a turn when I saw
Rob Stewart on my right stick his
bayonet Into the man's broad back and
heard him howl like a lost soul. There
was no quarter In that field, and It
was butt or point for all of them. The
men's blood was aflame, and little won
der, for those wasps had been sting
ing all morning without our being able
so much as see them.
And now, as we broke through the
farther edge of the cornfield we got
In front of the smoke, and there was
the whole French army In position be
fore us, with only two meadows and
a narrow lane between us. We set up
a yell as we saw them, and away we
should have gone, slap at them, If we
had been left to ourselves, for silly
young soldiers never think that harm
can come to them until It Is there In
thelf midst. But the Duke had can
tered his horse beside us as we ad
vanced, and now he roared something
to the general, and the officers all
rode In front of our line, holding out
their arms for us to stop. There was
a blowing of bugles, a pushing and a
shoving, with the sergeants cursing
and digging us with their halberts,
and in less time than it takes me to
write It there was the brigade In
three neat little squares, all bristling
with bayonets and In echelon, as they
call It, so that each could fire across
the face of the other.
It was the saving of us, as even so
young a soldier as I was could very
easily see. And we had none too
much time, either. There was a low,
rolling hill on our right flank, and
from behind this there came a sound
like nothing on this earth bo much
as the beat of the waves on Berwick
coast when the wind blows from the
east. The eurth was all shaking with
that dull, roaring sound, and the air
was full of It. "Steady, Seventy-first,
for God's sake, steady!" shrieked the
voice of our colonel behind us, but In
front was nothing but the green, gen
tle slope of the grassland, all mottled
with daisies and dandelion.
And then suddenly, over the curve,
we saw eight hundred brass helmets
rise up, all In a moment, each with a
long tag of horsehair flying from its
crest, and then eight hundred fierce
brown faces, all pushed forward, and
glaring out from between the ears of
as many horses. There was an instant
of gleaming breast-plates, waving
swords, tossing manes, fierce red nos
trils opening and shutting, and hoofs
pawing the air before us, and then
down came the line of muskets, and
our bullets smacked up against their
armor like the clatter of a hailstorm
upon a window. I fired with the rest,
and then rammed down another charge
as fast as I could, staring out through
the smoke In front of me, where I
could see some long, thin thing, which
flapped slowly backward and for
ward. A bugle sounded for us to
cease firing, and a whiff of wind came
to clear the curtain from In front of
us, and then we could see what had
happened.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Matrimonial Oddities.
In bygone days In India women were
sometimes allowed to choose their own
husband. One of their old fairy tales
tells of a fair princess, who, after a
tournament, placed a garland around
the neck of a knight who had won her
heart
Among the Eskimos of the east coast
of Greenland a man captures the girl
he wants, but from that time on the
usual order of things Is reversed. He
has to exercise the greatest vigilance
to prevent her from eloping with any
other man whom she may prefer, as
this seems to be her privilege. In the
northern New Hebrides a bride who
Is unhappy seeks the earliest oppor
tunity of running away from her hus
band and seeking a home with some
man she likes better. If her parents
cannot Induce her to return to the In
jured husband they usually send htm
a pig to soothe his wounded feelings.
National Geographic Society Bulle
tin. Sunday School a Woman's Idea.
The credit of organizing the first
Sunday school In the United States Is
claimed for a woman Miss Sarah Cblt
who died at her home In Paterson,
N. J., in 1S72, at the age of ninety
years. Miss Colt's original Idea was
to teach the mill boys to read and
write, and from this the school gradu
ally grew Into a means of exclusive
religious Instruction.