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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.
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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.
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XIV Continued.
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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.