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Things Worth Knowing.
The first complete catapult for
launching airplanes from a battleship
is ready for installation at the Hamp
ton Roads air station.
Dr. Arturo Artia, chief bacteriolo
gist of the Chilean Institute of Hy
giene, announced recently that he had
succeeded in discovering a method of
isolating the bacteria of smallpox.
Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania
late Monday announced the appoint
ment of State Senator William E.
Crow of Uniontown as a United States
senator. Mr. Crow will succeed the
late Philander C. Knox.
Five armed and masked men entered
the branch of the Bank of Hamilton,
OnL, Tuesday, compelled all the men
and women employes to lie on the
floor, rifled cages and vaults and es
caped with $3000 In a motor car.
Arrangements of a temporary char
acter designed to improve communi
cation facilities over the cable from
Guam to the island of Yap terminal
are rapidly approaching completion, it
was announced in Washington Mon
day. The Sunshine special, which left El
Paso over the Texas & Pacific rail
road at 5 o'clock P. M. Monday, for
the east, turned over near Vanhorn,
Tex., according to reports. Doctors
and nurses were rushed to the scene
of the accident.
Unable to stop his bicycle, which
had gotten beyond his control while
going down a steep grade, Oscar
Stone, 12, Omaha, Neb., collided with
a horse which was feeding by the
roadside near Council Bluffs, and was
kicked to death Sunday.
A box containing many official pa
pers relating to the congressional in
vestigation of the escape of Grover C.
Bergdoll, the draft dodger, and some
private family documents, was stolen
Tuesday night from the office of Rep
resentative Johnson, democrat, Ken
tucky. The administration's peace treaties
with Germany, Austria and Hungary
were ratified by the senate Tuesday
night, the vote on the first two being
GG to 20, or eight more than the neces
sary two-thirds and In the case of the
Hungarian treaty, due to the absence
of three senators, 66 to 17.
The schooner City of Papeete, sev
eral days overdue, arrived In San
Francisco Tuesday carrying 220,000
pounds of codfish and a crew badly
in need of food. The stock of pro
visions, according to Captain Firth,
was exhausted and all aboard had been
without food except fish for five days.
Princess Chin, mother of the boy
emperor of China, Hsuan Tung, ousted
from the throne February 12, 1912,
died October 1, and it was reported
she committed suicide by taking
opium. The reason was attributed by
reports to a quarrel between Princess
Chin and the empress dowager, Prin
cess Chun.
The threatened railroad strike was
recognized in high official circles Tues
day as having developed into the first
real test of the practicability of the
railroad labor board. , The outcome of
the negotiations now In progress, it
was declared, would determine wheth
er an "entirely futile" agency has
been created.
The proposed Investigation of the
Ku Klux Klan by congress blew up
Monday. After a 10 minutes' session
behind closed doors, the house rules
committee, which previously had put
William J. Simmons, the klan's im
perial wizard, through a rigid examin
ation, voted unanimously not to call
any more witnesses.
Orders closing the Berkeley pre
vocatlonal school at Boston, where COO
war veterans have been In attendance,
were Issued Monday by Director For
bes of the veterans' bureau, who said
the school had been found to be un
sanitary and unhealthy and he was
satisfied that It "had been voucherlng
the government for services never
rendered."
EX-KING CHARLES CAPTURED
Hungary Confines Fallen Monarch in
Castle for Disposition of Allies.
Budapest. Ei Emperor Charles and
ex-Empress Zita were captured Mon
day near Komorn and are confined In
the castle at Tata-Tovaros, guarded by
two companies of government troops.
Colonel Oestenburg's troops cover
ing the retreat of the ex-rulers were
forced to surrender and are prisoners.
The second attempt of Charles to
re-establish himself on the throne of
Hungary was no more of a success
than the first. There is not likely to
be a third attempt, for Charles now
awaits the pleasure of the allied
powers as to his fate.
The episode moved so rapidly that
the full details have not yet reached
the capital As far as is known at
the present time Charles managed to
push a trainload of troops to Budaor,
a short distance from Budapest At
first he held his own against the
forces of Regent Horthy, but when the
Horthy troops were reinforced Charles
was compelled to beat a retreat at 5
o'clock Sunday afternoon, closely fol
lowed by the Horthy forces to Her
ceghalom. The retreat gained speed when it
was learned that Colonel Hejjas was
marching to take the Karlists in the
rear and by dawn of Monday the army
of Charles bad melted away so fast
that the Horthy forces lost all touch
with them.
When he realized that the fortunes
of war were going against him,
Charles sent plenipotentiaries to Bu
dapest in an endeavor to obtain terms.
His efforts were unavailing. Charles'
troops, realizing they had been caught
between two fires the government
troops In front and the forces of Col
onel Hejjas behind they became pan
ic stricken and Charles soon was left
with only two companies of men, who
were obliged to surrender.
Charles and Zita were captured near
Komorn. Zita pleaded plteously to be
allowed to go back to her children, but
her plea was politely though firmly
refused. The former royal couple were
taken to the mansion of Count Ester
hazy at Tata Varos, where they are
being carefully guarded until the pow
ers decide what is to be done with
them.
MAIL TRUCK ROBBED;
LOOT IS $1,000,000
New York. Three armed bandits in
an automobile forced the driver of a
mail truck to stop on lower Broadway
late Monday night while they rifled
the truck of four pouches of registered
mail valued at 1,000,000 by the postal
authorities.
The truck was on its way from the
city hall Btation to the Pennsylvania
railroad terminal with 17 pouches of
mail, 11 of them containing registered
matter. The driver had gone only a
few blocks when an automobile con
taining three men drew alongside.
They confronted him with drawn re
volvers and ordered him to Blow down.
At Leonard street two men Jumped
from the automobile onto the truck
and ordered the driver to get down
from his seat.
One held a revolver to the driver's
head, he said, while the other pointed
his weapon at his stomach.
Forcing the driver to turn over the
key, one bandit unlocked the cage
and pawed over the pouches Inside.
Selecting four, he transferred them to
the automobile, which stood at the
curb with Us motor running. After
threatening to "blow his brains out"
If he moved, the driver said, the trio
moved off Broadway west through
Leonard Btreet and disappeared.
War Mother Get Seats.
Washington, D. C. The war depart
ment announced Monday that 1000
seats, about one-fifth of the total seat
ing capacity of the memorial amphi
theater at Arlington, Armistice day,
had been reserved for gold-star mo
thers or other nearest relatives of
men who died in the world war. Not
more than two seats will be given
any applicant. Applications should be
addressed to the adjutant-general,
Washington, D. C.
Home Canning Is Fatal,
Walla Walla, Wash. Mrs. Catherine
Ebding, 64, Is dead as the result of
eating home-canned asparagus. She
became ill after eating the vegetable
Thursday and passed away Sunday. A
portion of the canned asparagus was
thrown into the chicken yard and the
chickens that ate it died. Mrs. Eb
ding is survived by Bix children. Her
husband died about a year ago.
Negro Lynched By Mob.
Allendale, S. C Ed Kirkland, a
negro, under arrest charged with kill
ing a white farmer during an alter
cation over rent, was taken from dep
uty sheriffs Monday by a mob and
lynched. Later his body was burned.
STRIKE DESERTED
BY 350,000 IRE
Nine Major Rail Unions to Stay
on Job October 30.
WALKOUT IS DELAYED
Clerks, Freight Handlers and Station
Employes to Vote Again After
Ruling of Labor Board.
Chicago. The prospective rail
strike, scheduled for October 30, was
limited to approximately one-fourth of
the na'ion's railroad employes when
officials of the Brotherhood of Railway
and Steamship Clerks, freight Hand
lers, Express and Station Employes,
representing 350,000 men, voted not to
authorize a walkout by their members
for the present.
The action increased the number of
major rail unions which have voted
not to strike to nine, and the number
of railroad employes bound by such
action to about three-fourths of the
country's total of approximately 2,
000,000. The vote was taken in a meeting
Sunday night in which some officials
at first favored a walkout in protest
of recent wage cuts. They finally
swung over to a "no strike now"
policy, but the question of quitting
work will be taken up again after the
labor board renders a decision on rules
and working conditions.
Sunday's action by the clerks left
the signal men and the telegraphers
the only organizations in the 11
"standard" rail unions which may Join
the conductors, firemen, engineers,
trainmen and switchmen in the strike
they have called.
The telegraphers tentatively have
aligned themselves with the "big
five," but officials of this union said
that the decision might be changed
before October 30. The signal men
have not yet voted.
While the official statement an
nouncing the clerks' action said every
thing had been harmonious in the
meeting, individual officials declared
the decision had been made only after
a vigorous debate.
The turning point in the debate
came,, it was said, when the officials
announced that they, like the leaders
of the other "standard" unions, had
not been able to persuade the brother
hoods and the switchmen to agree to
support them throughout the proposed
strike.
When it was announced that the
brotherhoods had informed the offi
cials that their men would return to
work when their personal grievances
had been settled, regardless of the ac
tion of other striking unions, the sen
timent swung to the "no strike" plan,
it was said.
It was Intimated by labor board
members that the decision on rules
and working conditions will not be
forthcoming until after October 30,
the date set for the proposed strike.
Ex-King of Hungary Re
ported to Be in Budapest
Vienna. Charles, ex-king of Hun
gary, entered Budapest Sunday after
noon, according to a report telephoned
here from Prague. This is not con
firmed from other sources. All wires
between Vienna and Hungary are cut.
An earlier report was to the effect
that soldiers supporting ex-Emperor
Charles In his second attempt to re
gain the throne in Hungary had
reached Budaors, four miles from the
capital, where sharp fighting was in
progress Sunday. Regent Horthy
was reported to be leading the troops
against Charles.
Sound of the guns was audible In
Budapest. The situation, however, In
Hungary 1b beyond the knowledge of
the Austrian foreign office, which Sun
day lost communication with Budapest.
There have been many rumors, includ
ing one reporting the entry of Charles
into Budapest, the defection of some
government forces .to him, repulse of
the monarchist forces and other con
flicting information. It is known,
however, there has been brisk fighting
near Budapest.
Orient Trade Unsettled.
Washington, D. C Fluctuating for
eign trade in the far east was noted
in a monthly survey of business and
economic conditions issued by the
commerce department. Existing ex
change rates are an essential factor
In fostering China's Importations, but
have the reverse effect on China's ex
ports. Advices from Toklo declared
that the first half of October seemed
to Indicate an Improvement in Japan's
foreign trade.
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TO SHOOT OR BLUFF?
Synopsis. Warned by his physi
cian that be has not more than six
months to live. Dan Failing sits
despondently on a park bench, won-
dering where he should spend those
six months. Memories of his grand
lather and a deep love for all
things of the wild help him In
reaching a decision. In a large
southern Oregon city he meets
people who had known and loved
his grandfather, a famous fron
tiersman. He makes his home with
Silas Lennox, a typical westerner.
The only other members of the
household are Lennox's son, "Bill,"
i and daughter, "Snowbird." Their
abode is in the Umpqua divide, and
there Failing plans to live out the
short span of life which he has
been told is his. From the first
Failings health shows a marked
improvement, and in the compan
ionship of Lennox and his son and
daughter he tits into the woods life
as If he had been born to it By
quick thinking and a remarkable
display of "nerve" he saves Len
nox's life and his own when they
' are attacked by a mad coyote.
I Lennox declares he is a reincarna
tion of his grandfather, Dan Faii-
! lng L whose fame as a woodsman
Is a household word. Dan learns
that an organized band of outlaws,
of which Bert Cranston is the
leader. Is setting forest fires. Lan
dry Hildreth, a former member of
the gang, has been induced to turn
state's evidence. Cranston shoots
Hildreth and leaves him for dead.
Whlsperfoot, the mountain Hon,
springs on Hildreth and finishes
him.
I
CHAPTER II Continued.
9
And as for Whlsperfoot the terror
that choked his heart with blood be
gan to wear off In a little while. The
man lay so still in the thickets. Be
sides, there was a strange, wild smell
In the air. Whlsperfoot's stroke had
gone home so true there had not even
been a fight. The darkness began to
lift around him, and a strange exulta
tion, a rapture unknown before in all
his hunting, began to creep Into his
wild blood. Then, as a shadow steals,
he went creeping back to his dead.
Dan Failing had been studying na
ture on the high ridges; and he went
home by a back trail that led to old
Bald mountain. The trail was Just
a narrow serpent In the brush ; and
It had not been made by gangs of
laborers, working with shovels and
picks. Possibly half a dozen white
men, in nil, had ever walked along it.
It was Just the path of the wild crea
tures, .worn down by hoof and paw
and cushion since the young days of
the world.
It was a roundabout trail home,
but yet It had Its advantages. It took
hiin within two miles of Snowbird's
lookout station, and at this hour of
day he had been particularly fortunate
In finding her at a certain spring on
the mountain side. It was rather a sin
gular coincidence. Along about four
he would usually find himself wander
ing up that way. Strangely enough,
at the same time, It was true that
she had an irresistible Impulse to go
down nnd sit In the green ferns beside
the same spring. They always seemed
to be surprised to see one another. In
reality, either of them would have
been considerably more surprised had
the other failed to put In an appear
ance. And always they had long talks,
as the afternoon drew to twilight
"But I don't think you ought to wait
so late before starting home," the girl
would always say. "You're not a
human hawk, nnd It Is easier to get
lost than you think."
And this solicitude, Dan rightly fig
ured, was a good sign. There was
only one objection to It. It resulted
In nn unmistnkble Inference that she
considered him unable to take care
of himself and that was the last
thing on enrtb that he wanted her
to think. He understood her well
enough to know that her standards
were the standards of the mountains,
valuing strength and self-reliance
above all things. . He didn't stop to
question why, every day, he trod so
many weary miles to be with her.
She was as natural as a fawn ; and
many times she had quite taken away
his breath. And once she did It liter
ally. He didn't think that so long as
death spared hlra he would ever be
able to forget that experience. It was
her birthday, and knowing of It In
time he had arranged for the delivery
of a certain package, dear to a girlish
heart, at her father's house. In the
trystlng hour he had come tnidglng
over the hills with It, and few experi
ences In his life had ever yielded such
unmitigated pleasure as the sight of
her, glowing white and red, as she took
off Its wrapping paper. It was a Jolly
old gift, he recollected and when she
had seen It, she fairly leaped at him.
Her warm, round arms around his
neck, and. the softest, loveliest Hps In
the world pressed his. But In those
days he didn't have the strength that
be had bow. He felt he could endure
the same experience again with no
embarrassment whatever. Ills first Im
pression then, besides abounding, In
credible astonishment, was that she
had quite knocked out his breath. But
let It be said for him Hint he recov
ered with notable promptness. His
own arms had gone up and closed
around her, and the girl had wriggled
free.
"But you mustn't do that I" she told
him.
"But, good Lord, girl I You did it
to me I Is there no Justice In women?"
"But I did it to thank you for this
lovely gift. For remembering me
for being so good and considerate.
You haven't any cause to thank me."
He had many serious difHcultles in
thinking It out. And only one con
clusion was obtainable that Snowbird
kissed as naturally as she did any
thing else, and the kiss meant exactly
what she said It did and no more.
But the fact remained that he would
have walked a good muny miles far
ther If he thought there was any pos
sibility of a repeat.
But all at once his fantasies were
suddenly and rudely dispelled by the
intrusion of realities. Dan had been
walking silently himself in the pine
needles. As Lennox had wondered at
long ago, he knew how by Instinct;
and Instinctively he practiced this at
tainment as soon as he got out Into
the wild. The creature he had heard
was fully one hundred yards distant,
yet Dan could hear him with entire
plainness. And for a while he couldn't
even guess what manner of thin:; It
might be.
A cougar that made so much no'sc
would be Immediately expelled from
the union. A wolf pack, running by
Dan Saw His Purpose.
sight, might crack brush as freely;
but a wolf pack would also bay to
wal e ihe dead. Of course It might be
an elk or a steer, and still more likely,
a bear. He stood still and listened.
The sound grew nearer.
Soon It became evident that the crea
ture was either walking with two Tegs,
or else was a four-footed animal put
ting two feet down at the same in
stant. Dan had learned to wait. He
stood perfectly still. And gradually
he came to the conclusion that he
was listening to the footfall of an
other man.
But It was rather hard to imagine
what a man might be doing on this
lonely hill. Of course It might be a
deer hunter; but few were the valley
sportsmen who had penetrated to this
far land. The footfall was much too
heavy for Snowbird. The steps were
evidently on another trail that inter
sected his own trail one hundred yards
farther up the hill. He had only to
stand still, and In an Instant the man
would come in sight
He took one step into the thickets,
prepared to conceal himself If It be
came necessary. Then he waited. Soon
the man stepped out on the trail.
Even at the distance of one hundred
yards, Dan had no difficulty whatever
In recognizing him. He could not
mistake this tall, dark form, the soiled,
slouchy clothes, the rough hair, the
Intent dark features. It was a man
about his own age, his own height,
but weighing fully twenty pounds
more, and the dark, narrow eyes could
belong to no one but Bert Cranston.
He carried his rifle loosely In his arms.
He stopped at the forks In the trail
and looked carefully In all directions.
Dan had every reason to think that
Cranston would see htm at first glance.
Only one clump of thicket sheltered
him. But because Dan had learned
the lesson of standing still, because
bis olive-drub sporting dollies blended
softly with the colored leaves, Crans
ton did not detect him. He turned
and strode on down the trail.
lie didn't move quite like a man
with Innocent purposes. There was
something stealthy, something sinister
In his stride, and the way he kept
such a sharp lookout in all directions.
Yet he never glunced to the trail for
deer tracks, as he would have done
had he been hunting. Without even
waiting Jo meditate on the matter,
Dan started to shadow him.
Before one hundred yards had been
traversed, he could better understand
the Joy the cougar takes In his hunt
ing. It was the same process a cau
tious, silent advance In the trail of
prey. Ho had to walk with the same
caution, he had to take advantage of
the thickets. He began to feel a curi
ous excitement.
Cranston seemed to bo moving more
carefully now, examining the brush
along the trail. Now and then he
glanced up at the tree tops. And all
at once he stopped and knelt In the
dry shrubbery.
At first all that Dan could see was
the glitter of a knife blade. Crans
ton seemed to be whittling a piece of
dead pine Into fine shavings. Now
he was gathering pine needles and
small twigs, making a little pile of
them. And then, Just as Cranston
drew his match, Dan saw his purpose.
Cranston was at his old trade set
ting a forest fire.
For two very good reasons, Dan
didn't call to him at once. The two
reasons were that Cranston had a rifle
and that Dan was unarmed. It might
be extremely likely thut Cranston
would choose the most plausible and
effective means of preventing an Inter
ruption of his crime, and by the same
token, prevent word of the crime ever
reaching the authorities. The rifle
contained five cartridges, and only one
was needed.
But the Idea of backing out, unseen,
never even occurred to Dan. The fire
would have a tremendous headway be
fore he could summon help. Although
It was near the lookout station, every
condition pointed to a disastrous fire.
The brush was dry as tinder, not so
heavy as to choke the wind, but yet
tall enough to carry the flame Into
the tree tops. The stiff breeze up the
ridge would certainly carry the flame
for miles through the parched Divide
before help could come. In the mean
time stock and lives and homes would
be endangered, besides the Irreparable
loss of timber. There were many
things that Dan might do, but giving
up was not one of them.
After all, he did the wisest thing of
all. He simply came out in plain sight
and unconcernedly walked down the
trail toward Cranston. At the same
instant, the latter struck his match.
As Dan was no longer stalking,
Cranston Immediately heard his step.
He whirled, recognized Dan, and for
one long Instant in which the world
seemed to have time in plenty to make
a complete revolution, he stood per
fectly motionless. The match flared In
his dark fingers, his eyes full of sin
gular conjecturing rested on Dan's
face. No Instant of the latter's life
had ever been fraught with greater
peril. He understood perfectly what
was going on In Cranston's mind. The
fire-fiend was calmly deciding whether
to shoot or whether to bluff it out.
One required no more moral courage
than the other. It really didn't make
a great deal of difference to Cranston.
But he decided that the killing was
not worth the cartridge. The other
course was too easy. He did not even
dream that Dan had been shadowing
him and had seen his Intention. He
would have laughed at the Idea that a
"tenderfoot" could thus walk behind
him, unheard. Without concern, he
scattered with his foot the little heap
of kindling, and slipping his pipe Into
his mouth, he touched the flaring
mntch to It. It was a wholly admir
able little piece of acting, nnd would
have deceived any one who had not
seen his previous preparations. Then
he walked on down the trail toward
Dan.
Dan stopped nnd lighted his own
pipe. It was a curious little truce.
And then he leaned back against the
great gray trunk of a fallen tree.
"Well, Cranston," he said civilly.
The men had met on previous oc
casions, and always there had been
the same Invisible war between them.
"How do you do, Failing," Cranston
replied. No perceptions could be so
blunt as to miss the premeditated In
sult in the tone. He didn't speak In
his own tongue at all, the short, gut
tural "Howdy" that Is the greeting
of the mountain men. He pronounced
all the words with an exaggerated pre
cision, an unmistakable mockery of
Dan's own tone. In his accent he
threw a tone of sickly sweetness, and
his Inference was all too plain. He
was simply calling Falling a milksop
and a whlte-llver; Just as plainly as
If he had used the words.
The eyes of the two men met.
Cranston's lips were slightly curled In
an unmlstnkable leer. Dan's were
very straight. And In one thing at
least, their eyes looked Just the same.
The pupils of both pairs had contracted
to steel points, bright In the dark gray
of the Irises. Cranston's looked some
what red; and Dan's were only hard
and bright
Snowbird to the rescue.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Hat to Be Clever.
"She's a clever conversationalist"
"She has to be, to cover op the
breaks her husband makes."