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WORLD HAPPENINGS T Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The "shimmy," "toddle" and kindred steps were put under the ban by the East St. Louis city council Tuesday. . Twenty-'seven hundred union factory employes ol the Hamilton-Brown Shoe eompany in St. Louis hare voted to i work 48 hours a, week, instead of 44. Wireless apparatus has been Install ed by the New York police department , to notify police of other cities con cerning the movements of suspected ' criminals. Charles A. McCurdy, the English food minister, declared recently that the present decline of food prices as . far as he could judge,' would be likely to continue for a considerable time. Impeachment of Lieutenant-Governor Trapp of Oklahoma is recommend edin a rop'ort read in the house Thurs day by an investigating committee. Fraud and false claims in connection with bond purchases are charged. A bill providing that murderers sen tenced to death be electrocuted was passed by the house of the Utah leg i islature Tuesday. At present the con demned individual can choose death either by hanging or before a firing squad. Prohibition of the use of tobacco in publio places was contained in a bill introduced in the senate of the Arizona legislature by Senator Lines of Gra ham county. It would provide fines of f 5 to $100. Representative Webster of Wash ington was authorized by the house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce to report out favorably the French truth-ln-fabrlcs bill, the author of which is Burton D. French, repre sentative of Idaho, i Yvonne Weber, 12, has established a record In the public schools in Pitts burg, Pa. She was graduated from publio school as class valedictorian Tuesday. She speaks' four languages and teaches physical culture and danc ing In the high school class. The man who lives on the boarding house diet of white bread, potatoes: meat occasionally, prunes and skim milk may look well, but he lacks vi tality and tone, Dr. Martin Edwards, a specialist In dietetics, said in an address In BoBton recently. ThleveB were believed by the auth orities responsible for the deaths of a teacher and seven pupils killed Mon day at the Cross Roads school, near Lawrencevllle, 111., by the explosion of a can of nltr-uglyceriri found by a boy in a creek near the school. President Wilson plans to go into vlstual seclusion,, for ..a time after March 4. Free frbm the responsibili ties of office, which have weighed heavily upon him during his convales cence, Mr. Wilson, his friends say, will shut himself in for intensive rest and quiet in his new home. The army hold a "tank show" Tues day, putting" new ; types of battle wagons through their pacos, with Sec rotary Baker and war department of ficials watching. Many spectators saw the machines rumbio up and down seemingly Impossible Blopes, leap ob stacles and push down trees. The first move to exempt the salary of the president from income tuxos was made in the house Monday by Representative Pell, democrat, New York. Ills bill would exempt not only the 75,000 Balary of the president but also the salary of the vice-president from provisions of the income tax. In taking cognizance of the threaten ed onslaught of grasshoppers from Canada into the northwestern states next summer. Senator McNary called on General Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service of the army, to furnish him with detallod informa tion on the method of gassing the field pests. Sheriff Grant of Ouchlta parish, Louisiana, notified Governor Parker Tuesday that h had forgotten to hang Lonnle Eaton, negro convicted of mur der February 4, as required by the sentence and asked what to do with the prisoner. The governor has put the problem up to Attorney-General Coco. IN 11 Doings of the State House, Salem. The first con sideration given road bills by the house came Tuesday when three road bills sponsored by the committee on roads and highways were passed, one bill designated for special order of business next Monday afternoon and two referred to the committee for amendment. Protection for sub-contractors, material men and laborers performing work of the state is em bodied in one of the bills approved Wednesday. Another passed by the house relates to the sale of state high way bonds and the third provides for the employment of a first assistant highway engineer. Seven port bills, approved by the senate after much debate, were pass ed by the house without discussion or argument, Representative Gordon of Multnomah made a brief explanation of the purport of the bills, informing the members of the lower house that all the difficulties which had surround ed the port legislation had been iroji ed out satisfactorily to all. The $50 a month which the Mult nomah county commissioners receive for meeting once a month on inter state bridge matters will not be taken from them. The Multnomah delega tion, at a meeting this week, decided, on indefinite postponement of the bill which Gordon sponsored to eliminate this monthly Btlpend. Oregon's delegation in congress was memorialized by the legislature Tues day to procure the enactment of leg islation which will provide ships or cargo space for supplies for the suf ferers in China and the near east. The memorial, which was adopted under a suspension of rules, first in the senate and later in the house, was telegraph ed to Washington. A bill Introduced by Senator Upton provides that there Bhall be appropriat ed annually out of the funds of Oregon the sum of $5000 for the support of the interstate fair and the exhibit of live stock of said fair. The money so ap propriated shall be used in defraying the premiums. The fair, under the provisions of the bill, would be held at Prineville. The Roosevelt highway bill was re called from the house by the senate Monday. In the house it had been recommitted to the committee on roads and highways. Now that the bill is back in committee, It will either slumb er there for a while or else will be so amended that it will not jeopardize the rest of the state road program. Senators Rltner and Patterson have introduced a bill authorizing an appro priation of approximately $525,000 for the construction, furnishing and equip ment of buildings, Improvements and betterments at a number of state in-stitutions- Although seven members of the house offered strenuous objections to the passage of house bill 82, Intro duced by Representative Wells, creat ing the office of state real estate com mlssionor, the measure passed Tues day. The senate, by a vote of 20 to 9, passed on third reading Senator Banks' bill providing free textbooks in the elementary schools of the state. The Oregon Agricultural college, through W. J. Kerr, president of the institution, has asked the joint ways and means committee of the senate and house to appropriate approxi mately $187,000 with which to carry on activities of tho college for the present blennlum, exclusive of resi dent Instruction work. Only two votes were registered ngalnst the bill offered by Representa tive Kubll authorizing departments of the state to enter the open market for slate printing. Senator Bell's bill providing for a change in the formation of the state emergency board to pass on all emer gency appropriations will become a law if Governor Oleott signs It. In the -remaining two weeks of the Oregon legislative session much must be done. None of the legislation which has been classified as most important has been disposed of. Into the two remaining weeks must be crowded final action on the port development measures, the road and highway bills, the Roosevelt highway bill, the reap portionment plan to redlstrict the leg islature, the tax supervising and con servation commission bill, the soldiers' bonus measure, irrigation bills, teach ers' tenure amendment, appropriation bills, fish commlsion and fish code, county and city consolidation resolution and a few others. Of the $225,000 sought by the Ore wn state fair board for the next two years, $155,000 Is needed for improve ments, according to a report filed by A. H. Lea, secretary, with the ways and means committee. IR CLAIMS REACH TOTAL $212,700,000 Already Asked of Federal Government. IS LITIGATION RECORD Attorney-General Says Suits to Collect From United States Are Rap idly Increasing. Washington, D. C Millions of dol larsand promises of billions are represented in the great tide of law- cults which is beginning to pour into the United States court of claims as one of the results of the world war. The court was expressly created to determine legal controversies between private citizens and the government. The attorney . general 'says the amount of war claims is enormous and that indications are the influx of cases has only beg'un. Actions upon claims Involving approximately $124, 000,000 have already been filed. The ultimate aggregate of claims, it is estimated, will reach between two and three billions of dollars. The person nel of the department of justice hav ing charge of the defense of these actions has been doubled to enable it to cope with the flood of new litiga tion. ; These war claims" are- brought Into the court by plaintiffs. having claims against all departments of the gov ernment. The war department has claims involving approximately $5,- 000,000,000. The bureau of internal revenue now has pending claims for refunds and rebates aggregating $050, 000,000. The shipping board has can cellations of contracts involving more than $850,000,000. Claims for patent Infringement are estimated by ; the attorney-general at $100,000,000. The rail road administration has differences with the .railroads amounting to ap proximately- $750,00,0,000. There are also claims proportion ately large in amount arising from the housing corporation, the war ris,k bureau and the food and fuel adminis trations, and it is known that there Is a large amount of other claims of miscellaneous character which have not yet been filed. In preparation for the disposition of this new business the court of claims has so cleared its dockets that not only pending suits, but actions based upon these war claims are re ceiving Immediate attention, and all cases are disposed of as rapidly as thoy are presented. One of the first and most important cases, affecting claims- estimated at $100,000,000 was begun on May 5, 1920. Judgment was rendered June 28, 1920, and an appeal was argued in the United States su preme court on January 7. Among the claims already filed in the court are $00,000,000 for shipping, $20,000,000 for railroad requisition, $26,000,000 for .patent infringement, $2,200,000 for aircraft engines and guns, $2,000,000 for transportation of troops and supplies, and $2,500,000 in suits commenced by the packing com panies. SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN TO BE ON SHIPPING BOARD Washington, D. C Senator Cham berlain, of Oregon who retires from the senate on March 4, will immedi ately step into office on the United States shipping board. This can be said positively on defi nite Information. "Whether President elect Harding will choose to make public announcement soon of his in tention, to name Chamberland to the board cannot be said, but there Is no doubt that the decision has been reached to have this government avail itself of the senator's service in the new capacity just as soon as he re tires from his present office. Senator McNary was in St Augus tine, F!a Sunday discussing this and other public matters with Mr. Harding and there is no doubt that he has ob tained the assurance of his colleague's appointment, although it Is not sup posed that he will announce the re sult of his conference immediately up on his return here. Secretaries Keep Seat. Washington, D. C. Secretaries Daniels and Meredith are to retain their "cabinet seats" permanently. They arranged to purchase the chairs they have occupied in the cabinet meetings as souvenirs. Formerly the chairs were sold for $65, but the two officers are understood to have paid more than $100 each. Secretary Baker has contented himself with removing his name plate from the back of his cabinet chair. BILLIONS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIIITXTIIIIIITtTTtlltTTTTTTTTITTTTTTIIttTXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXI H Author i lie nXXZXXXXXIXXXXIXXXIIXXXIXTTXTTITYYTTTTriTTTYlZITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIXTTlyXXTXXXXrmn CHAPTER XIV Continued. 14 ' The major and I were raising his head, In the hope that some nutter of life might remain, when I heard a well- remembered voice at my side, and there was De Lissac, leaning upon his elbow, among a litter of dead Guards men. He had a great bluecoat muf fled round him, and his hat, with the high red plume, was lying on the ground beside him. He was very pale and had dark blotches under his eyes, but otherwise he was as he had ever been, with the keen, hungry nose, the wiry mustache and the close-cropped head, thinning away to baldness upon the top. His eyelids had always drooped, but now one could hardly see the glint of his eyes from beneath them. "Halloo, Jack!" he cried. "I didn't thought to have seen you here, and vet I might have known it, too, when I saw friend Jim." "It Is you that have brought all this trouble," said I. "Ta, ta, tal" he cried In his old, Impatient fashion. "It is all arranged for us. When I was In Spain I learned to believe In fate. It Is fate which has sent you here this morning." "This man's blood lies at your door," said I, with my hand on poor Jim's shoulder. "And mine on his, so we have paid our debts." He flung open his mantle as he spoke, and I saw with horror that a great lump of clotted blood was hanging out of his side. "This is my thirteenth and last," said he, with a smile. "They say that thirteen Is an unlucky number. Could pou spare me a drink from your flask?" The major had some brandy-and-wa-ler. De Lissac supped It up eagerly. His eyes brightened, and a little fleck of color came back Into each of his haggard cheeks. "It was Jim did this," said he. "I heard some one calling my name, and there he was, with his gun against my tunic. Two of my men cut him down just as he fired. Well, well, Edie was worth it all. You will be in Paris In less than a month, Jack, and you will see her. You will find her at number eleven of the Rue Miromesnll, which Is near the Madelnine. Break it very gently to her, Jack, for you cannot think how she loves me. Tell her that all I have is in two black trunks, and that Antoine has the keys. You will not forget?" "I will remember." "And madame, your mother? trust that you have left her very well. And monsieur, too, your father? Bear them my distinguished regards." Even now, as death closed in upon him, he gave the old bow and wave as he sent his greetings to my mother. "Surely," said I, "your wound may not be so serious as you think. I could bring the surgeon of our regiment to you." "My dear Jack, I have not been giv ing and taking wounds this fifteen years without knowing when one has come home. But it is well, for I know that all 'is ended for my Little Man, and I had rather go with my voltlgeurs than remain to be an exile and a beggar. Besides, it is quite cer tain that the Allies would have shot me, so I have saved myself from that humiliation." "The Allies, sir," said the major, with some heat, "would be guilty of no such barbarous action." But De Lissac shook his head with the same sad smile. "You do not know, major," said he. "Do you suppose that I should have fled to Scotland and changed my name if I had not more to fear than my com rades In Paris? I was anxious to live, for I was sure that my Little Man would come back. Now I had rather die, for he will never head an army again. But I have done things that could not be forgiven. It was I that led the party that took and shot the Due d'Enghien. It was I ah, mon Dieu, Edie, Edie, ma cherie!" He threw out both his bunds, with all the fingers feeling and quivering In the air. Then he let them drop heavily Id front of him, and his chin fell for ward upon his chest. One of our ser geants laid him gently down, and the other stretched the big blue mantle over him, and so we left those two whom fate had so strangely brought together, the Scotchman and the Frenchman, lying silently and peace fully within hand's touch of each other upon the blood-soaked hillside near Uougoumont CHAPTER XV. The End of It And now I have very nearly come to the end of It all, and precious glad I shall be to find myself there, for I began this old memory with a light heart, thinking that it would give me some work for the long summer eve nings, but as I went on I wakened a thousand sleeping sorrows and half forgotten griefs, and now my soul Is all as raw ns the hide of an 111 sheared sheep. If I come safely out of It, I will swear never to set pen to pa per again, for it Is so very easy at first, like walking Into a shelving stream, and then, before you can look round, you are off your feet and down Great By A. CONAN DOYLE of "The Adventures of Sherlock In a hole, and can struggle out as best you can. We burled J!m and De Lissac with four hundred and thirty-one others of the French Guard and our own light Infantry In a single trench. Ah, If you could sow a brave man as you sow a seed, there should be a fine crop of heroes coming up there some day I Then we left the bloody battlefield be hind us forever, and with our brigade we marched on over the French bor der on our way to Paris. I had always been brought up dur ing nil these years to look upon the French as very evil folk, and as we only heard of them In connection with fightings and slaughterings by land and by sea, it was natural enough to think that they were vicious by na ture and 111 to meet with. But then, after all, they had only heard of us In Just the same fashion, and so, no doubt, they had just the same Idea of us. But when we came to go through their country and to see their bonny little steadings, and the douce, quiet folk at work In the fields, and the women knitting by the roadside, and the old granny with a big white smutch smacking the baby to teach It manners, It was all so homelike that I could not think why It was that we had been fearing and bating these good people for so long. But I suppose that. In truth, It was really the man who was over them that we hated, and now that he was gone, and his great shadow was cleared from the land, all was brightness once more. We jogged along happily enough through the loveliest country that ever I set my eyes on, until we came to the great city, where we thought that maybe there would be a battle, for there are so many folk In It that if only one in twenty conies out it would make a fine army. But by that time they had seen that it was a pity to spoil the whole country just for the sake of one man, and so they had told him that he must shift for himself m the future. The next we heard was that he had surrendered to the British, and that the gates of Paris were open to us, which was very good news to me, for I could get along very well just now on the one ba'ttle that ' I had had. But there were plenty of folk In Paris now who loved Boney, and that was natural when you think of the glory that he had brought them, and how he had never asked his army to go where he would not go himself. They had stern enough faces, for us, I can tell you, when we marched In, and we of Adams' brigade were the very first who set foot in the city. We passed over a bridge which they call Neullly, which Is easier to write than to say, and then through a fine park, the Bols de Boulogne, and so into the Champs d'EIysees. There we bivouacked, and pretty soon the streets were so full of Prussians and Eng- nsn tnat it Decame more like a camp than a city. The very first time that I could get away I went with Rob Stewart, of my company for we were only allowed to go about in couples to the Rue Miromesnll. Rob waited In the hall, and I wns shown upstairs, and as I put my foot over the mat there was Cousin Edie, Just the same as ever, staring at me with those wild eyes of hers. For a moment she did not rec ognize me, but when she did she just took three steps forward and sprang at me with her two arms round my neck. "Oh, my dear old Jack!" she cried, "how fine you look in a red coat 1" "Yes, I am a soldier now, Edie," said I, very stiffly, for as I looked at her pretty face I seemed to see behind it Hint other face which had looked up to the morning sky on the Belgian battle field. "Fancy that !" she cried. "What are you then, Jock? A general? a cap tain?" 'No, I am a private." 'What! Not one of the common people who carry guns?" "Y'es, I carry a gun." "Oh, that Is not nearly so Interest ing," said she, and she went back to the sofa from which she had risen. It wns a wonderful room, all silk and velvet and shiny things, and I felt In clined to go back to give my boots another rub. As Edie sat down again I saw that she was all In black, and so I knew that she had heard of De LIssac's death. "I am glad to see that you know all," said I, "for I am a clumsy hand at breaking things. He Bald that you were to keep whatever was In the boxes, and that Antoine had the keys." 'Thank you, Jock, thank you," said she. "It was like your kindness to bring the message. I heard of It nearly a week ago. I was mad for the time quite mad. I shall wear mourning all my days, although you can see what a fright it makes me look. Ah, I shall never get over It I shall take the veil and die In a convent." "If you please, madame," said a maid, looking In, "the Count de Beton wishes to see you." "My dear Jock," said Edie, Jumping up, "this is very important. I am so sorry to cut our chat short, but I am sure that you will come to see me again, will you not when I am less Shadow Holmes" Copyright by A. Conan Doyle desolated. And would you mind going out by the side door Instead of the main one? Thnnk you, you dear old Jock; you were always such a good boy, and did exactly what you were told." ' And that was the last I was ever to see of Cousin Edie. She stood In the sunlight with the old challenge In her eyes and flash of her teeth, and so I shall always remember her, shining and unstable like a drop of quicksilver. As I Joined my comrade In the street below I saw a fine carriage and pair at the door, and I knew that she had asked me to slip out so that her grand new friends might never know what common people she had been associ ated with In her childhood. She had never asked for Jim, nor for my father nnd mother, who had been so kind to her. Well, It wns just her way, and she could no more help It than a rab bit can help wagging Its scut, and yet It made me heavy-hearted to think of it. Two months later 1 heard that she had married this same Count de Botou, and she died In child-bed a year or two later. And as for us, our work was done, for the great shadow had been cleared away from Europe, and should no longer be thrown across the breadth of thenlnnds, over peaceful farms and little villages, darkening the lives which should. have been. so happy. I. came back to Corriemulr after I had bought my discharge. When my father died, I took over the sheep farm, and married Lucy Deane of Berwick, and have brought up seven children who ore all taller than their father, and take mighty good care that he shall not forget It. But In the quiet, peace ful days that pass now, each as like the other as so many Scotch tups, I can hardly get the young folks to be lieve that even here we have had our romance, when Jim and I went-a-woo-Ing, and the man with the cat's whis kers came up from the sea. , THE END, , CARRIED "HONESTY" TOO FAR Trusted Clerk Rather Overdid It, and Lost the Confidence of His Employer. ... Cash registers became nn institution as a means of compelling honesty among employees handling money. There was a time when their Installa tion was taken as an affront by every clerk concerned, but a new generation has accepted them as a matter of course. That they still have their use In the originnl sense, however, was demonstrated recently by one employer --a grocer who was telling his story over the counter the other evening to a belated customer. "Last summer," the grocer said, "my family was living down at the beach and I used to leave early In order to get down there for a late dinner. I had a clerk that I trusted to lock up and put the money in the safe. Natu rally the cash register would show in the morning what he had rung up. "For a few days I thought it was working fine. He was a good clerk and I thought he was honest. Then when 1 got to thinking about It I de cided he was too honest. For ten days that register and the cash agreed to a penny. Now that's better than I could make It do myself. It ain't nat ural. "Then I decided to try a little scheme. Just before I left I rang up $2.75 on the register, and put nothing In the till. Next morning the cash nnd the register agreed as usual. That was enough for me. Any man who is so honest he will make up mistakes out of his pocket must have plenty of money to do it with. "No, he Isn't working for me now." New York Evening Sun. As the Ancients Believed. According to the Puranas of Hindu mythology the earth is circular arid flat, like the flower of a water lily. Its circumference is 4,000,000.000 miles. In the center Is Mount Soomeroo. On this mountain are three peaks formed of gold, pearls and precious stones, where the deities reside. At Its base are three mountnins on each of which grows a tree 8,000 miles high. The furthermost country from these moun tains lsr bounded by the salt sea. Be yond this sea there ore six others of sugar cane juice, of spirituous liquors, of clarfied butter, or curds, of milk and nectar. Each sea is surrounded by a separate continent. The Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant was the sacred chest which the Lord directed Moses to make to contain the tables of the law which he had received on Mount Sinai. It was four and one half feet long, two and one-fourth feet wide and two and one-fourth feet high. It was covered within and without with gold and was carried by staves Inserted In rings on the corners. This Ark of the Covenant was the most sacred possession of the Israelites. It was placed In the holy of holies In the tabernacle and later in a similar posi tion in Solomon's temple. The ark wai carried rrom one place to another and what finally became of It Is unknown.