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The house voted Monday to appro
priate $360,000 for the free distribu
tion of seeds by members of congress:
Stephen D. Engle, aged 83, Inventor
and builder of the famous Engle as
tronomical, musical and apostolic
clock, famous a generation ago as a
theatrical attraction, died at his home
In Hazelton, Pa., Sunday night
House republican leaders Monday
approved a program which calls for
appropriations of $13,000,000 for con
struction of five hospitals for war
veterans suffering from mental and
nervous disorders and tuberculosis.
Canada's trade for the 12 months
endod December 31 totaled $2,639,726,
135, of which $1,336,921,021 were Im
ports and $1,302,805,114 were exports.
France will insist that the German
Indemnity be fixed by the reparations
commissioners, as provided In the
treaty, Instead of by the conference
of the allied premiers, It was asserted
on good authority. This decision, It Is
forecast, will be opposed vigorously by
the Belgians. The attitude of the
British delegation Is not known.
Attorney-General Palmer has charg
ed Samuel Untermyer, New York at
torney, with acting "In the German
interests" and "with simply serving
his old clients" In his criticisms of
Mr. Palmer's conduct of the offices
of alien property custodian and attorney-general.
William H. Taft and Mrs. Taft sail
ed for home Tuesday after a visit In
Hamilton, Bermuda, of almost a
month. Mr. Taft was called home to
resume work on arbitrating the value
of the shares of the Grand Trunk
railway, which is being taken over by
the Canadian government
J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Guaranty
Trust company announced recently
that subscription books for the $13,-
000,000 Bolgian loan were opened at
10 o'clock and Immediately closed. The
announcement was taken to mean that
the loan had been successfully floated
and that it was over-subscribed.
Telephone and telegraph facilities
were crippled in Nebraska Tuesday by
snow and sleet It. was estimated that
2000 telephone poles had been leveled
by the weight of sleet on the wires
and that the damage would reach $75,
000. Snow was falling In eastern
Nebraska following a heavy full In the
western part during the last 24 hours.
Alameda, on San Francisco bay, Is
understood to have been selected by
the joint congressional committee as
the site for the main naval fleet base
on the Pacific coast Ban Diego Is the
committee's choice, for the principal
aviation base and San Pedro for the
submarine base. Establishment of an
other aviation baBe on the north coast
at Sand Point, Wash., also will be
recommended.
Steps are to be taken shortly by fed
eral prohibition officers to block dis
tribution of Intoxicating beverages
masquerading as patent medicines.
Prohibition officials say that permits
for the manufacture of medicinal
preparations In which alcohol Is used
would be limited to the minimum.
The bureau of Internal revenue, one
official said, Is determined to curb
"the well-known abuse of patent me
dicine permits."
Herman Prey of Myrtle Point, Or.,
received a price of $520.50 a thousand
for a seasoned Myrtle plank 16 feet
long, three feet wide and two Inches
thick. Myrtle lumber, particular
when seasoned, of attractive grain,
and sound, brings about $250 a thou
sand on Coos bay and throughout the
country where there are factories util
izing It for novelties, such as pin
trays, napkin rings, nut bowls, serving
trays and for other uses.
Earnings of the United States Steel
corporation for the final quarter of
1920, made publlo aftor Tuesday's
mooting of the executive committee
and board of directors, totaled $43,
877,882, against $48,051,540 In the pre
ceding quarter. Net Income of $31,
702,810, compared with $35,739,137, and
surplus of $14,401,446 showed a de
crease of $3,388,493. For the year
earnings totaled $177,174,126, against
$152,290,639 In 1919, and $208,281,104
In 1918.
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Doings of the
Legislature
State House, Salem. By one vote
the house pledged Itself Tuesday to
take up reapportionment of the legisla
ture at this session. The skirmish in
the house was as lively as when the
same subject was threshed out In the
senate last week. Upton's joint resolu
tion calling for a committee of ten to
handle all reapportionment legislation
has been adopted by both branches and
President Ritner and Speaker Bean
are now authorized to Belect the ten
men who will work out the scheme of
redisricting.
The ax fell on two house bills Tues
day, both of which related to hunting
of game. The bills were introduced
,by Representative Belknap. One
amended the present game law so as
to permit the killing of one doe and
buck or two bucks in a single season
and the other prohibited the use of
dogs in hunting China pheasants.
Turning over to Herbert Hoover,
chairman of the European relief coun
cil, all surplus food and clothing now
in the hands of the war department
to be used in relieving the starving
people of Europe, Is proposed In a
senate joint memorial introduced by
Senator Hare. ' Copies of the memorial
were transmitted to Oregon's represen
tatives in congress by telegraph.
Twenty-two new bills were intro
duced in the senate TueBday, making a
total of 172 since the session convened.
Exemption of Oregon road bonds
from taxation as property is provided
for In a bill introduced in the house
by Representative Sheldon.
The house has passed the bill pro
viding for completing and furnishing
the babies' dormitory at the state
feeble-minded Institution. The' bill
carried an appropriation of $11,357.85
and was Introduced by the joint ways
and means committee.
Creation of Oregon improvement dis
tricts In much the same manner as
Irrigation and drainage districts are
formed under the present laws is au
thorized under a bill introduced in
the senate by Senator Norblad.
Although opposition developed
against the granting of authority to
the state board of control to dispose
of the flax plant at the state peniten
tiary, a bill for the purpose success
fully passed the house, gathering 49
favorable votes.
By a vote of 28 to 27 the bill de
fining methods of determining circula
tion on newspapers published in Ore
gon was tabled on motion of Represen
tative Kay of Marlon county, who re
quested time In which to check up
possible defects In the bill.
The Benate passed senate bill No.
13, approved at the special session of
the legislature last January, over the
veto of Governor Olcott This bill
provides that county courts may fix
the salaries of county assessors and
their assistants.
Two bills carrying an appropriation
of $40,000 and vesting In the state
board of control authority to establish
an Oregon employment institution for
the blind were Introduced In the sen
ate by Senator Moser of Multnomah
county.
Representatives Egbert and Roberts
Introduced a joint house memorial urg
ing congress to pass a law compelling
every manufacturer, handler or seller
of woolen goods to place a tag on
such goods showing the exact' percent
ages of wool and other materials In
such cloth.
Members of the legislature who vis
ited the state penitentiary during the
last two weeks have expressed them
selves as well pleased with the man
agement and will support a bill pro
viding for Installation in the prison
of some Industrial plant whereby the
prisoners may assist In defraying the
cost of operating the Institution.
When Senator Smith Tuesday after
noon attempted to smother a bill In
troduced by Senators Staples, Farrell
and Hume providing for the regulation
of drugless doctors and creating the
Oregon board of drugless examiners.
by requesting the adoption of the mi
nority rather than the majority report
of tho committee on medicine, phar
macy vnd dentistry, he Btarted a bar
rage of oratory In which more than
hnlf of the senators participated. The
majority report favored the passage of
the bill and was signed by Senators
Hume, Staples and Farrell. The mi
nority report was adverse to passing
the proposed law and was signed by
Senators Ellis and Smith.
Charles Clifford, at the head of the
Oregon branch of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, arrived here
Monday from La Grande to confer with
the legislators with regard to passing
a bill providing that drivers of motor
vehicles shall bring their machine to
a full stop before crossing railroad
track.
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Agreement by Allies Calls for
Forty-two Installments.
TEUTONS TO DISARM
Fall Agreement on Reparations I
Reached by Premiers France .
Held Fully Satisfied.
Paris. Full agreement on repara
tions, German disarmament and all
other Important questions before it
had been reached by the supreme
council when It adjourned Saturday
evening to meet in London February
21.
The greatest result obtained was,
as Premier Briand expressed it "main
tenance by the allies of a front as
united in making peace as In waging
war." The conference has resulted
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
A protocol was signed approving
the reparations scheme as agreed oh
by the special committee and also the
report on the disarmament of Ger
many as presented by the military com
mittee. Germany must disarm by
July 1, disbanding all her civlo guards
not provided for in the peace treaty.
Germany will be called on to pay in
42 annuities on a sliding scale 226,-
000,000,000 gold marks. Her exports,
In addition, bear an export duty of
12 per cent for the allies. On the
basis of last year's exports this would
give the allies 1,250,000,000 gold marks,
the export tax being paid in cash.
It is pointed out that besides being
a sure method of collection, It will
act as a protective tariff In countries
near Germany which are likely to be
flooded with goods made In Germany
at low cost.
Penalties agreed on for violations
will apply to all agreements alike
reparations, disarmament and coal de
liveries. A feature of the reparation
plan, from the French point of view,
It that it associates the allies in the
benefits of Germany's prosperity.
Seizure of German customs was
added as fourth of the penalties adopt
ed. The other three are: Extension of
the area of occupation; occupation of
the Ruhr district, refusal to admit
Germany to the league of nations.
The proposal to apply penalties was
presented by Premier Lloyd George.
According to the arrangement the an
nuities and export taxes are payable
semi-annually. Discount for advance
payments will be 8 per cent the first
two years, 6 the third and fourth years
and 5 thereafter. Germany Is forbid
den to establish foreign credits with
out approval of the reparations com
mission,
The decisions were communicated
to Germany Saturday night. As to
Austria It was agreed that the allies
should forego reparations, the cost of
the army of occupation and certain
other Austrian debts to enable Austria
to obtain aid more easily. It was also
decided to convene a conference of
Austria and adjoining countries to en
deavor to Improve relations between
central European states.
Approval was given M. Loucheur's
proposal for a 200,000,000 franc cor
poration to assist Austrian industries,
in which the different governments
may participate. A commission will
be appointed to Inquire Into the con
duct of the Austrian administration.
Great resistance is expected from
Germany over reparations. The allies
will hear the Germans at a conference
In London, February 28.
6171 Commit Suicide In 1920.
New York. Suicides In the United
States In 1920 numbered 6171, includ
ing 707 children, members of the
Save-a-Llfe league were told Sunday
by Dr. H. M. Warren, president This
exceeded the figures of 1919 by more
than 1000, he said. During the year
2604 women, a large increase, died
through self-destruction.
The Increased percentage among
women was ascribed to their entry In
commercial and political life.
The youngest suicide was 5 years of
age, while the oldost was 103. More
than 300 soldiers have taken their
lives, the report stated.
Steamer Burn at Sei.
Newport News, Va. Wireless ad
vice received Sunday were that the
Italian steamship Neptunla was burn
ed at sea with a probable loss of life.
The Belgian steamship Kllmmar,
bound 'for Hampton Roads, was re
ported to be bringing the survivor of
the crew, several of whom were said
to have been badly burned. Quaran
tine officials at Old Point Comfort
have been tsked to meet the ship with
doctor and nurses.
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GERMANY
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The Great Shadow
By A. CON AN DOYLE
Author of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
Copyright by A. Conan Doyle
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CHAPTER XII Continued.
12
I had expected to find half that reg
iment of horse lying on the ground;
but whether It was that their breast
plates had shielded them, or whether,
being young and a little shaken at
their coming, we had fired high, our
volley had done no very great harm.
About thirty horses lay about, three of
them together within ten yards of
me, the middle one right on Its back,
with Its four legs in the air, and It
was one of these that I had seen flap
ping through the smoke. Then there
were eight or ten dead men, and about
as many wounded, sitting dazedly on
the grass for the most part, though
one was shouting "Vive l'Empereur!"
at the top of his voice. Another fel
low who had been shot In the thigh
a great, black-mustached chap he was,
too leaned his back against his dead
horse, and, picking up his carbine,
fired as coolly as if he had been shoot
ing for a prize, and hit Angus Myres,
who was only two feet from me, right
through the forehead. Then he out
with his hand to get another carbine
that lay near, but before he could
reach It big Hodgson, who was the
pivot-man of the grenadier company,
ran out and passed his bayonet
through his throat, which was a pity,
for he seemed to be a very fine man.
At first I thought that the cuirassiers
had run away In the smoke, but they
were not men who did that very eas
ily. Their horses had swerved at our
volley, and they had raced past ouf
square and taken the fire of the two
other ones beyond. Then they broke
through a hedge, and coming on a regi
ment of Hanoverians who were in line,
they treated them as they would have
treated us If we had not been so quick,
and cut them to pieces In an Instant.
It was dreadful to see the big Germans
running and screaming, while the
cuirassiers stood up in their stirrups
to have a better sweep for their long,
heavy swords, and cut and stabbed
without mercy. I do not believe that
a hundred men of that regiment were
left alive, and the Frenchmen came
back across our front, shouting at us
and waving their weapons, which were
crimson down to the hilts. This they
did to draw our fire, but the colonel
was too old a soldier, for we could
have done little harm at the distance,
and they would have been among us
before we could reload.
These horsemen got behind the ridge
on our right again, and we knew very
well that If we opened up from the
squares they would be down upon us
In a twinkle. On the other hand, It
was hard to bide as we were, for they
had passed the word to a battery of
twelve guns which formed up a few
hundred yards away from us, but out
of our sight, sending their balls Just
over the brow and down Into the midst
of us, which Is called a plunging fire.
And one of their gunners ran up to
the top of the slope and stuck a hand
spike Into the wet earth, to give them
a guide, under the very muzzles of the
whole brigade, none of whom fired a
shot at him, each leaving him to the
other. Ensign Samson, who was the
youngest subaltern In the regiment,
ran out from the square and pulled
down the handspike, but quick as a
jack after a minnow a lancer came fly
ing over the ridge, and he made such
a thrust from behind that not only his
point but his pennon, too, came out be
tween the second and third buttons of
the lad's tunic. "Helen! Helen!" he
shouted, and fell dead on his face,
while the lancer, blown half to pieces
with musket balls, toppled over beside
him, still holding on to his weapon, so
they lay together with that dreadful
bond still connecting them.
1 But when the battery opened there
was no time for us to think of any
thing else. A square Is a very good
way of meeting a horseman, but there
Is no worse one of taking a cannon,
ball, so we soon learned when they
began to cut red seams through us,
until our ears were weary of the slosh
and splash when hard Iron met living
flesh and blood. After ten minutes
of it we moved our square a hundred
paces to the right, but we left an
other square behind us, for a hundred
and twenty men- and seven officers
showed where we had been standing.
Then the guns found us again, and we
tried to open out Into line, but In an
Instant the horsemen lancers they
were this time were upon us from
over the brae. I tell you we were glad
to hear the thud of their hoofs, for
we knew that that must stop the can
non for a minute, and give us a chance
of hitting back. And we hit back
pretty hard, too, that time, for we were
cold and vicious and savage, and I,
for one, felt that I cared no more for
the horsemen than If they had been
so many sheep on Corrlemulr. One
gets past being afraid or thinking of
one's own skin after a while, and you
Just feel that you want to make some
one pay for all you have gone through,
We took our change out of the lancers
that time, for they had no breastplates
to shield them, nd we cleared seventy
of them out of their saddle at vol
ley. Maybe If we could have seen sev
enty mother weeping for their lads
we should not have felt so pleased
over It, but then men are Just brutes
when they are fighting, and have as
much thought as two bull-pups when
they've got one another by the throt
tle. Then the colonel did a wise stroke,
for he reckoned that this would stove
off the cavalry -for five minutes, so he
wheeled us Into line and got us back
into a deeper hollow, out of reach
of the guns, before they could
open again. This gave us ttaw to
breathe, and we wanted It, too, for
the. regiment had been melting away
like an Icicle In the sun. But bad
as It was for us, It was a deal worse
for some of the others. The whole
of the Dutch-Belgians were cut off by
this time helter skelter, fifteen thou
sand of them, and there were great
gaps left in our line, through which
the French cavalry rode as pleased
them best. Then the French guns had
been too many and too good for ours,
and our heavy horse had been cut to
bits, so that things were none too
merry with us. On the other hand,
Hougoumont, a blood-soaked ruin, was
still ours, and every British regiment
was firm, though, to tell the honest
truth, as a man Is bound to do, there
were a sprinkling of red coots among
the blue ones who mnde for the rear.
But these were lads and stragglers,
the faint hearts that are found every
where, and I say again that no regi
ment flinched. It was little we could
see of the battle, but a man would be
blind not to know that all the fields
behind us were covered wllL flying
nien. But then, though we on the
right wing knew nothing of It, the
Prussians had begun to show, and Na
poleon had set twenty thousand of his
men to face them, which made up for
ours that had bolted, and left us much
as we began. That was all dark to us,
however, and there was a time when
the French horsemen had flooded In
between us and the rest of the army,
that we thought we were the only
brigade left standing, and had set
our teeth with the intention of selling
our lives os dearly as we could.
At that time It was between four
and five In the afternoon, and we had
had nothing to eat, the most of us,
since the night before, and were
soaked with rain into the bargain. It
had drizzled off and on all day, but for
the last few hours we had not had a
thought to spare either upon the
weather or our hunger. Now we be
gan to look around and tighten our
walstbeltsj and ask who was hit, and
who was spared. I was glad to see
Jim, with his face all blackened with
powder, standing on my right rear,
leaning on his fire-lock. He Baw me
looking at him, and shouted out to
know If I were hurt
"All right, Jim," I answered.
"I fear I'm here on a wild-goose
chase," said he gloomily, "but it's not
over yet By God, I'll have him or
he'll have me!" He hod brooded so
much on his wrong, had poor Jim, that
I really believe it had turned his head,
for he had a glare in his eyes as he
spoke that was hardly human. He
was always a man that took even a
little thing to heart, and since Edie
had left him I am sure that he was no
longer his own master.
It was at this time that we saw two
single fights which they tell me were
common enough In the battles of old,
before men were trained In masses.
As we lay In the hollow, two horse
men came spurring along the ridge in
front of us, riding as hard as hoof
could rattle. The first was an English
dragoon, his face right down on his
horse's mane, with a French cuirassier,
an old, gray-headed fellow, thundering
behind him on a big, black mare. Our
chaps set up a Hooting as they came
flying on, for It seemed a shame to Bee
an Englishman run like that; but as
they swept across our front we saw
where the trouble lay. The dragoon
had dropped his sword and was un
armed, while the other wa9 pressing
him so close that he could not get a
weapon. At last, stung maybe by our
hooting, he made up his mind to chance
It His eye fell on a lance beside a
dead Frenchman, so he swerved his
horse to let the other pass, and hop
ping oft cleverly enough, he gripped
hold of It. But the other was too
tricky for him, and was on him like
a shot. The dragoon thrust up with
the lance, but the other turned and-
sliced him through the shoulder-blade.
It was all done In an Instant, and the
Frenchman cantered his horse up the
brae, allowing his teeth at us over
his shoulder like a snarling dog.
That was one to them, but we scored
one for us presently. They hod pushed
forward a skirmish-line whose fire was
toward the batteries on our right and
left rather than on us, but we sent out
two companies of the Ninety-fifth to
keep them In check. It was strange
to hear the crackling kind of noise that
they made, for both sides were using
the rifle. An officer stood among the
French skirmishers, a tall, lean man
with a mantle over his shoulders, and
as our fellows came forward he ran
out midway between the two parties
and stood as a fencer would, with hi
sword up and hi head back. I can
see him now, with his lowered eye
lids, and the kind of sneer that he had
upon his face. On this the subaltern
of the Rifles, who was a fine well
grown lad, ran forward and drove full
tilt at htm with one of the queer,
crooked swords that the riflemen carry.
They came together like two rams, for
each ran at the other, and down they
tumbled at the shock, but the French
man was below. Our man broke hi
sword short off, and took the other's
blade through his left arm, but he
was the stronger man, and he man
aged to let the life out of his enemy
with the jagged stump of his blade. I
thought that the French skirmisher
would have shot him down, but not a
trigger was drawn, and he got back
to his company with one sword through
his arm and half another In his hand.
CHAPTER XIII.
The End of the Storm.
Of all the tilings that seem strange
In that great buttle, now that I look
back upon It, there was nothing that
was queerer than the way in which it
acted on my comrades. For some took
It as though it had been their dully
meat, without question or change, and
others pattered out prayers from the
first gun-fire to the last, and others
ngaln cursed and swore in a way that
was creepy to listen to. ' There was
one, my own left-hand mate, Mike
Threadlngham, who kept telling about
his maiden aunt, Sarah, and how she
had left the money which had been
promised to him to a home for the chil
dren of drowned sailors. Again and
again he told me this story, and yet,
when the battle was over, he took his
oath that he had never opened his
lips all day. As to me, I cannot say
whether I spoke or not, but I know
that my mind and my memory were
clearer ti;6n I can ever remember
them, and I was thinking all the time
about' the old folks at home, and about
cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing
eyes, and De Llssac with his cat's
whiskers, and all the doings at West
Inch which had ended by bringing us
here on the plains of Belgium as a
cockshot for two hundred and fifty
cannot!.
During all this time the roaring of
those guns had been something dread
ful to listen to, but now they suddenly
died away, though It was like the lull
In a thunder-storm when one feels
that a worse crash Is coming hard at
the fringe of it There was still a
mighty noise on the distant wing,
where the Prussians were pushing
their way onward, but that was two
miles away. The other batteries, both
French and English, were silent, and
the smoke cleared so that the armies
could see a little of each other. It was
a dreary sight along our ridge, for
there seemed to be just a few scat
tered knots of red, and the lines of
green where the German legion stood,
while the masses 4f the French np-.
peared to be as thick as ever, though,
of course, we knew that they must
have lost many thousands In these at
tacks. We heard a great cheering and
shouting from among them, and then .
suddenly all their batteries. opened to
gether with a roar which made the din
of the earlier part seem nothing In
comparison. It might well be twice as
loud, for every battery was twice as
near, being moved right up td point
blank range, with huge masses of horse
between and behind them to -guard
them from attack.
When that devil's roar burst upon
our ears there was not a man down
to the" drummer-boys who did not un
derstand what It meant. It was Na
poleon's last great effort to crush us.
There were but two more hours of
light, and if we could hold our own
for those, all would be well. Starved
and weary and spent, we prayed that
we might have Strength to loud and
stab and fire while a man of us stood
upon his feet
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Tooth Puller' Eatf Reputation.
"To lie like a tooth puller" Is In
Le Roux de Llncy's "Book of French
Proverbs" (Paris 18ii0jV quoted from
the "Dictionary of the French Acad
emy" (1835). The tooth puller In
those days was often a wandering
mountebank who drew a crowd by tell
ing Rubelaislan stories and Indulging
In horseplay. He sold quack medi
cines, and, of course, lied prodigiously.'
Lannelongue's explanation, of the ori
gin Is mure amusing, though it Is so
circumstantial that It breeds suspl
clon. Furthermore and this Is con
clusive "to He like a tooth drawer"
Is In Phlllhert Joseph Le Roux's "Die
tlonnalre Comlque" (Amsterdam 1718)
with this comment "No one lies more
outrageously than a tooth drawer,
who promises not to hurt which la
not possible." And Le Roux quotes
Polssons' one act piny, "The Basque
Poet" (1008). "But all of you lie like
like tooth pullers."
Honesty.
Honesty Is not the best policy. It
Isn't any kind of policy. It's a virtue
practiced for Its own sake without re
gard for profits. Those who refrain
from stealing because thieves end In
Jail are not honest. They are merely
discreet. Robert Qulllen In Saturday
Evening Post
"Great Expectation." .
Should people. It Is asked, sleep st
the theater? No. They hould hard
ly expect to get bored and lodging ai
well Brooklyn Eagle.