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Mrs. Edwin A. Kraft, a niece of
General John J. Pershing, died at a
hospital In Seattle Tuesday night of
pneumonia. Before her marriage her
name was Helen Gene Pershing.
Investigation of the cause of the
Knickerbocker theater disaster, was
begun Monday by several agencies of
the District of Columbia government,
with the probability that congress also
might undertake exhaustive Inquiries.
A society has Just been founded In
London for the Bcientlfio extermina
tion of vermin. It was christened the
.Institute of Applied Pestology. Alfred
E. Moore, its chairman, believes It
will accomplish a work of Interna
tional Importance.
A secret organization composed of
small boys has been discovered and
broken up at Elllsvllle, Miss. The
organization had a membership of 22
and called itself "R, A. R.," "Run,
African, Run." It Is said the purpose
was to run negroes out of town.;
Brigadier-General Fred V.- Sladen,
commanding Fort Sheridan, Illinois,
Tuesday was appointed commandant
of West Point military academy to
succeed Brigadier-General Douglas Mc
Arthur, who will be relieved next June
30, and assigned to duty in the Philip
pines. Mrs. Underwood, widow of Horace
G. Underwood, was buried in Seoul,
Cores, January 30, having died at the
age of 70. With her husband, who
died a few years ago, after a lifetime
of missionary work in Corea, Bhe has
been a worker In the Corean mission
field since 1884.
With no food and Insufficient cloth
ing, over 100 persons, comprising men,
women and children, In 25 automo
biles, are Isolated upon the Ridge
route between Bakersfield and Los
Angeles, and are suffering much from
exposure, according to officials of the
Automobile Club of Southern Califor
nia. f
J, 8. Farlnheit, president of BUb
dlstrlct No. 3, United Mine Workers of
America, at Gratton, W. Va., In a
telegram to President Harding Tues
day, appealed for federal aid for
"starving miners and their families of
this district." The president and
other officials of the sub-district sign
ed the telegram.
Cracksmen placed a dummy safe of
cardboard and oil cloth in the window
of the United Motor Service corpora
tion In Philadelphia Monday to fool
the police and robbed the real safe
In the rear of the plant. They escaped
with a code book for making keys for
Ignition locks and with $800 in money,
bonds and jewelry.
By fairly decisive votes, the senate
refused Monday either to require con
gressional approval of the agreements
to be entered Into with debtor nations
by the proposed allied debt refunding
commission, or to limit authority of
the commission In deferring the time
when interest payments on the $11,
000,000,000 foreign debt shall begin.
Gifts for the furtherance of educa
tion totaling 33,196,706 were made
during the fiscal year 1921-1922 by the
general education board of the Rocke
feller foundation, It was made known
In the annual report Sunday. Up to
date the board has distributed $42,'
132,442, plus the income of the total
$126,788,094 given the board by John
D. Rockefeller,
Fees and wedding licenses for 1921,
spent In Clarke county, Washington,
amounted to almost $23,000. There
were 2373 licenses Issued at $4.50
each. George B. Simpson, judge of
the superior court of Clarke county,
married 225 couples, but turned in
$1125, all he collected, to the county,
so the couuty actually received for
this business $11,803.50.
" Gordon Woodbury, ex-assistant sec
retary of war, was swept over the
. railing of his yacht, "Half Moon," 40
miles off Cape Charles, Friday night,
but was returned by a wave to the
ship, It was stated when the yacht,
formerly the "Germanla," private
yacht of ex-Emperor William of Ger
many, was towed Into old Point Com'
fort In a damaged condition by the
Standard Oil tanker Japan Arrow.
WEEK
ARMS PARLEY IS FINISHED
Last of Covenants Are Signed and
Sealed Harding Speaks.
Washington, D. C Its covenants
finally signed and sealed, the Wash
ington conference was passed on to
history Monday by President Harding
as "an example to imbue with new
hope all that dwelt In apprehension."
Speaking before a plenary session
which brought to a close the negotia
tions begun 12 weeks ago at his In
vitation, he declared that the record
of achievement voiced In courageous
tones the first deliberate and effective
expression of great powers "in the
consciousness of peace, of war's utter
futility."
Before him lay, newly signed, the
treaties by which the world's predom
inant nations engaged to limit their
navies, to guarantee a new deal for
China and to set up an international
concord to keep the peace In the Pa
cific. "It matters little," he said, "what
we appraise as the outstanding ac
complishments. Any one of them
alone would have justified the confer
ence. But the whole achievement has
so cleared the atmosphere that it will
seem like breathing the refreshing air
of a new morn of promise.
"It may be that the naval holiday
here contracted will expire with the
treaty, but I do not believe it. Those
of us who live another decade are
more likely to witness a growth of
public opinion, strengthened by the
new experience, which will make na
tions more concerned with living to
the fulfillment of God's high intent
than with a genius of warfare and
destruction.
"Since this conference of nations
has pointed with unanimity to the
way of peace today, like conferences
In the future, under appropriate con
ditions and with aims well conserved
and definite, may Illumine the high
ways and byways of human activity.
The torches of understanding have
been lighted and they ought to glow
and encircle the globe."
The president delivered his message
soon after the formal signing of the
treaties had been concluded, and when
he finished the conference closed,
It had opened November 12, with
prayer. Within a few minutes some
of the foreign delegates already had
left Washington.
FRANCE GRIEVED AT
ALLIED DEBT LAW
Paris. Passage of the allied debt
refunding bill by the American con
gress Is regarded by most of the
French press as a severe blow to
France. The newspapers Monday gen
erally attribute what they call the
harshness of the American attitude
to successful German propaganda.
It Is pointed out in various editorials
that France must now pay the United
States annually 1,500,000,000 paper
francs in Interest, while the maximum
cash Bhe can reasonably expect from
Germany will be 52 per cent of 700,
000,000 gold marks the amount fixed
at the recent supreme council meeting
at Cannes or about 1,100,000,000 pa
per francs.
The Interest and amortization in 25
years of France's debt to the United
States, the editorials assert, will ab
sorb not only all her cash reparations
payments, but the greater part of the
values of deliveries In kind by Ger
many. Hence, they say, France will
be unable to count upon anything dur
ing 25 years for the restoration of
her devastated regions. The work of
reconstruction, it Is said, will either
have to be discontinued, or France
must continue floating Interior loans
and Increasing the interest charges
for that purpose.
Cigar Smoker Accused.
Zlon City, III. Charged with smok
ing a cigar In violation of Zlon anti
tobacco ordinance, Martin Ruesch was
Monday released under bonds of $200
and his trial set for February 14. Bert
Ray, charged with Interfering with
the pollco when they tried to arrest
Ruesch after finding him smoking on
a street corner, was released under
similar bond and Miss Margaret Flet
cher, a friend of Ruesch's, charged
with opposing and defying an officer,
appeared for a hearing Tuesday.
79 Bodies Are Recovered.
Toklo. Seventy-nine bodies had
been recovered Monday from the
wrecked train which was burled by
an avalanche Saturday at Itoigawa
station. Thirty-three injured passen
gers also had been extricated. Most
of the victims, according to advices
reaching here, were crushed when the
roofs of the coaches collapsed under
the weight of rocks and snow. It Is
believed that at least a dozen bodies
still are burled under the wreckage.
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Arms Parley Saturday
PACTS AFFECT CHINA
Shantung Agreement Also Completed.
Farewell Exchanges Are Made
By Delegates Monday.
Washington, D. C The arms con
ference made the last entry on Its
record of achievements Saturday and
prepared for Bine die adjournment
Monday.
At a four-hour plenary session two
more treaties and half a dozen supple
mental resolutions were passed
through the final stage of conference
approval and then the delegates ex
changed farewell courtesies In
speeches expressing universal satisfac
tion over the results of the history
making 12 weeks of negotiation just
ended.
Monday's session was devoted en
tirely to formal signature of the con
ference treaties and to an address by
President Harding, voicing his ap
praisement of the work accomplished
by the conference he called. Most of
the foreign delegates left Monday
night or Tuesday.
The two treaties accepted formally
at the session both relate to China,
one providing for a revision of the
Chinese customs' system and the other
embodying Elihu Root's "four points"
and the amplified open door. Some
of the separate resolutions put on the
record deal with collateral Chinese
questions, but included in the lot was
a supplement to the four-power Pa
cific treaty excluding from the scope
of the agreement the principal Islands
of the Japanese empire.
A few hours after the plenary ses
sion adjourned, the Japanese and Chi
nese met and signed the treaty by
which Shantung is to be returned to
Chinese control. Although the long
debated Shantung question occupied
a key position in the conference pro
gramme, the negotiations by which it
was settled proceeded outside the con
ference and only the two oriental
powers were made parties to the
treaty.
Every delegation had a voice in the
final session of oratory that really
brought the work of the conference
to a close, and every spokesman pre
dicted that the negotiations would
bulk large In the history of the world.
Secretary Hughes for the United
States, and Arthur J. Balfour, for
Great Britain, hailed the conference
accomplishments as ushering In a
"new era" of international understand
ing, and Albert Sarraut, for France,
eulogized the record of achievement
as constituting "the loftiest precedent
of mankind." Similar expressions
came from all other national gruops.
Income Tax Ruling Out.
Washington, D. C Secretary Mel
lon has Issued Instructions to internal
revenue collectors, it was announced
Saturday, to accept victory notes in
payment of Income and profits taxes
due March 15. Notes of either the
4 per cent or 3 per cent series
will be taken as a result of the order,
which was Issued under the provisions
of the last tax law.
The secretary said:
"Victory notes, In order to be ac
cepted In payment of taxes March 15,
1922, must be in coupon form and
must have all unmatured coupons at
tached; that is to, say, coupons for
June 15 and December 15, 1922, and
May 20, 1923. Settlement for accrued
interest on the notes from December
15, 1921, the last Interest payment
date, to March 15, 1922, will be made
by check from the federal reserve
bank direct to the taxpayer. Victory
notes, In registered form, will not be
acceptable."
Austria Is Sanguine.
Vienna. Passage by the American
congress of the Mellon act, which pro
vides In effect that debts owed the
United States by the allies must be
paid up in 25 years, has evinced san
guine utterances by the Austrian
newspapers, which believe by this ac
tion the prospect of immediate foreign
loans is enhanced. The crown hard
ened on the foreign exchange, despite
the fact that the Zurich quotation re
mains at the lowest point on record.
Belgrade, Jugo-Slavia. The Jugo
slav army Is to be reduced to 110,000
men. This is an outcome of an agree-
ment reached by the ministry of war
and the parliamentary budget committee.
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TONY ANOTHER TESS.
"Lean against me, dear,"
murmured Philip. "And this
time oh, Tony, don't leave
me today without telling me
you love me a lot."
Tony glimpsed him with
one little upward glance. Her
eyes were star-bright.
"I love you more'n the
whole world," she trembled.
"More'n I know how to tell."
Thi confession of love comes
right in the middle of this fas
cinating story; there's a lot of
exciting action ahead of it and
still more after it before Tonni
bel Pendleharen gets every
thing the world can give to one
little girl.
This is another of the thrill
ing stories by Grace Miller
White of the "storm country"
of New York state. It was "Test
of the Storm Country" that
made Mary Pickford Fairbanks
famous and Tony is another
Tess. Over 1,000,000 copies of
the author's romances have
been sold in book form and
motion pictures have made her
name a household word.
CHAPTER I.
"Tony" For Short
Another winter had lifted Its icy
fingers from the Storm Country and
Lake Cayuga, and an early spring had
brought from the South the red-breasted
robins and thousands of other birds
to build their homes In the Forest
city, as Ithaca, N. Y., is well called,
for to the south, the east, the west,
and even to the north where the lake
cut sharply around a corner, broad
forests stretched their lengths and
heights of leaf and bough on minia
ture mountains.
One evening on the western side of
the railroad tracks, a girl stood before
a small building over which, like ropes
of green, draped the branches of a
weeping willow tree. This building
was different from any of the other
habitations near it In that It was well
painted, and the door stood open all
day.
Twas a strange little girl that
gazed up with searching eagerness at
the two lighted signs that had arrest
ed her attention. In her arms she
held a diminutive guinea pig, and the
way she hugged It close demonstrated
her love for It
THE SALVATION ARMY," she
spelled out and thoughtfully consid
ered It.
"Everybody Is welcome here," she
read slowly. That meant that anyone
could enter If he wanted to, she de
cided, and as Tonnlbel Devon did
want to go In, she softly tiptoed up
the steps and peeped into the room.
As there was nobody in sight, she
sidled in and looked about
"Welcome" was curved In letters of
red above a table, and the silent young
stronger sighed. She couldn't under
stand how a girl could be really wel
come anywhere. Of course her moth
er liked her and missed her when she
was away, but Tony knew of no other
place where she was really wanted
but the canal boat, called Mary and
Dirty Mnry for short, which had been
her home ever Bince she could re
member.
"Glory be to God In the highest,"
swung In letters of gold across the
right wall, and to the left, "Stand Still
and See the Salvation of the Lord,"
kept her attention a little longer. She
didn't know what they meant, but the
varied colors shining brilliant in the
bright light calmed her turbulent
spirit and made her happy. She
hugged the pig closer, bent her head
and kissed the top of its ear.
I guess we're In a church, Gussle,'
she said aloud, "and you mustn't grant
or squeal like you do on the Dirty
Mary. It's awful nice and quiet. Bin t
It, honey?"
"Were you speaking to me?" said a
voice from near the door.
Tonnlbel Devon struggled to her
feet, turned around and saw a young
man looking at her. A flame of red
rushed over the tanned skin, but be
cause he was smiling and kindly, she
smiled back, a dimple coming to life
at each corner of her mouth
"Nope," she flung out In confusion.
"I was talkin' to Oussle-Plglet here.
Mebbe her and me hadn't ought to be
here. You can kick us out if you
want to.'
Philip MacCauley, the captain of
the Salvation army In Ithaca, bowed
and then he laughed.
"Every one Is welcome here," he
quoted, coming forward. "Where'd
yon come from? I've never seen you
before."
"I'm staying up Hoghole way," re
plied Tony. "I ain't been around
Ithaca long. This Is an awful nice
,,., lt nuhy
"Yes, very. We like It," replied the
young man. "Sit down; don't be In a
hurry. I want to talk to you."
Tonnlbel did Bit down but not very
GRACE MILLER WHITE
comfortably. She was embarrassed In I
the presence of this handsome young
strnnirer nhnahprt in the clamor of his
uniform, and all the beauty of him,
With boyish admiration he was con
templating the sparkle of her gray
eyes, shaded by long lashes as ebony
black as her hair which hung in ring
lets to her waist. He decided that
she was very pretty, and that he liked
to have her In the Salvation army
quarters.
"Can't you stay for meeting this
evening?" he asked presently. "We
have singing here." ,
Tony's eyes deepened almost to lus
trous black.
Oh, I'd love that I" Then she shook
her head. "Nope," she went on, "I got
to go home to mummy. She's all
alone! Mebbe when my daddy gets
back, I'll come some time and sit clean
through the night."
For an Instant the smile stayed
about the boy's lips, then gravity set
tled once more over his earnest young
face.
"What's done in this place?" she
questioned after a while.
Oh, we sing and read and pray,"
replied the boy. "We do everything
we can to help people. There's such a
lot of misery In the world."
That's as true's you're born," came
back promptly from the parted red
lips. "I know that because my mother
is sick every day, and she cries too.
That's misery, ain't It?"
Captnin MacCauley was used to
tales of woe, but he knew a panaces
for them. "Yes, it Is so," he said.
','Perhaps you could get her to come
here some evening! Do you think you
could?"
'Daddy wouldn't let her," was the
reply, and she lifted unfathomable
saddened gray eyes to his. "You see
when a man owns a woman, and she
don't do the things he tells her to, he
beats her, huh?"
There was mute pleading in her ex
pression as she drew back on the
bench a little farther away from him.
Side by Side They Sat Together on
the Bunk.
Ah I He might have known that she
had been swept along by the relent
less tide of brutality. He sighed a
little. He had seen enough of ignorant
men with their supreme egotism, to
know she told the truth.
"Your father is is cruel to your
mother, then?" he faltered.
She remained in deep thought for
the space of a few seconds.
"A swat or two, mebbe more, ain't
a klllin' thing to women folks," was
the response she made confusedly at
length.
So unusual had been her answer
that Philip MacCauley gazed at her In
amazement.
"Have you ever heard of of God?"
he asked finally, his own confusion ap
parent in the stumble of his tongue.
Tonnlbel laughed.
"I hear God d n jmore'n a hundred
times a day," she replied. "Is that
what you mean?"
"Xot quite," answered Philip, star
tled. "No ! Not that."
"Then what?" demanded Tony.
"What kind of a God do you mean?"
"One that Is good," explained Phil
ip. "There Isn't any God but the one
who helps "
"My mummy?" breathed the girl,
misty tears shadowing her eyes.
"Yes."
"Where Is he, then?" The words
shot forth with such Insistence that
something within t'hilip MacCauley
rose to Its demand.
"Some one's got to be good to my
mother," the girl ran on before he
could speak. ;She's sick and lonely.
Oh, I've got to do something for her.
Where's your helpin' God, mister?"
"Right here In this place," said
Philip, a strange emotion sweeping
over him. "In fact there isn't any
place where God is not."
"He wouldn't come In a dirty canal
boat, would He?" demanded Tony,
breathlessly.
Astonished at such crudeness, Cap
tain MacCauley shifted himself about
so he faced her squarely. AVas It pre
tended Ignorance or Innocence In the
searching gray eyes? Then he decided
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that truth was stnmpeu on every une
of the upturned face.
"Of course, everywhere," he ex-
claimed brokenly. "Why, dear child "
Tony Devon Interrupted him swift
ly. "Tell me how to manage It," she
pleaded. "How can I wheedle your
God to the Dirty Mary?"
'To the what?" was the question
the boy asked In shocked swiftness.
"The Dirty Mary," repeated Tony.
"My mummy and me live on a canal
boat. Once she were just called
Mary. But she's so d d nasty, Ede
calls her the Dirty Mary. She's a
nice boat just the same as long as my
mummy's there. But I can't see how a
clean God could come on 'er. ... I
guess you're foolln' me, mister."
Philip swallowed hard. Then slowly
and gently he talked to her, trying to
make her understand as best he could
what he meant by God, Spirit.
"And you can help your mother, lit
tle what's your name?"
"Tony, just Tonnlbel," she mumbled. .
Then her voice rose and she uttered
sharply, "Now tell me how to help my
mother."
Philip went to the altar and sorted
out a small card.
"This," he said, coming back to her,
"has happy, loving thoughts written on
It. If you think these things all the
time oh, how they will help both you
and your mother."
Wonderlngly she took It In her
fingers. The first thing that met her
eyes was a beautiful uplifted face of a
man nnd In his arms was a little lamb.
Underneath the picture was printed,
"Feed my sheep," and directly under
that were the words, "Stand still and
see the salvation of the Lord." Once
more her eyes sought the face above,
a face wherein lay all the pity and
love In the world.
Tony Devon caught a glimpse of the
lesson he was trying to teach, and
when she went out of the Salvation
army hall she held within the depths
of her a wonderfully new and utterly
strange emotion.
She was panting for breath when
she ran up the gangplank of the canal
boat.
A woman was busy brewing tea
when the girl slipped down the steps
of the cabin.
"You been gone a long time, Tony,"
mumbled Mrs. Devon. "Did you see
anything of your daddy?"
"Nope, and I squinted In every beer
hole in Ithaca," Tony replied, "but
but but I found out something for
you. Listen 1 There's somebody on this
boat besides me, and you and Gus
sle.'" "Who?" came sharply from the
woman.
She shivered, fearing that he law
lay In wait for her absent husband.
"Who,, brat?" she repeated lmplor-'
Ingly.
Tonnlbel bent over and looked
straight Into the isad, wan face.
"God, just a plain lovlu' God!" she
replied, her countenance expressing
unusual exaltation. "Sit a minute
while the tea's inakin' good, and I'll
tell you."
Side by side they sat together on the
bunk while with lowered reverent
voice the girl told the story of the
Shepherd who had said long ago with
Infinite pity, "Feed my sheep."
"And mummy," the girl continued,
leaning her head against her mother's
arm, "Darling mummy, that beautiful
man said, "Love'd make crooked
things straight,' and and It's so."
A look of unbelief came over Edith
Devon's face.
"Fiddle," she said In a disgusted
voice. "Tony, you ain't a brain In
your bean."
"I don't need any brains as long as I
got this, Edle," the girl replied, lift
ing the card she held. "Come on, let's
say these things over. Here's one
that'll keep well, It'll help keep
daddy from beatln' you."
Mrs. Devon grasped the girl's arm
In sudden frenzy.
"You told some one Uriah beats
me?" she demanded sharply.
"Mebbe I did, and mebbe I didn't,"
answered Tony, slyly, "but these here
words about standin still and watch
ing Salvation slam good all about will
keep pappy's fists up his sleeves. Say
It, Edle," she ended.
iit nil.. .i.
i wuu i, sitiu t-uirn, getting up
swiftly. "If there's anything in it,
Tony, you can show me by gettln' your
daddy back home. Mebbe he's In Jail."
"Even If he was," retorted the girl,
with a wise shake of her head, "lovln'
hard could make the coop-doors fly
wide open, and daddy'd flop out like a
dogfish flops Into the lake. Tm golu'
to find out more some of these days,
and then I'll tell you all about It Huh,
mummy?" -
"Yes," muttered Edith, "but I'm get
ting a guess out of the days I spent
on this boat that God, or whoever
you're talkin about, ain't botherln' his
head over the Dirty Mary, nor us
uther."
"Uriah, if yon go on with
this, I'll tell 'er all I know."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Promises may make friends, but It
takes performances to keep them.