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LD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Sergeant Aaron Kaplan of the de partment of criminal Investigation of the American forces In Germany Is suffering from a gunshot wound In the left elbow, Inflicted during a May day demonstration. Husband and wife served on the same Jury In the state circuit court for Linn county, Oregon, Tuesday. It was the first time such an event had occurred In Oregon and probably the circumstance Is without a parallel any where. In an appeal to "friends of prohibi tion enforcement," the Anti-Saloon League urges defeat at forthcoming primaries and election of all candi dates for the senate and house of rep resentatives who favor modification of the Volstead law. The American Bible society has an nounced that President and Mrs. Hard ing had become life members of the organization. They Joined at the re quest of a 68-year old woman member, who said she had campaigned and voted for the president. A 19-year-old youth was slain by a 16-year-old fellow camper near Jamai ca, L. I., Sunday, as the climax of a rifle duel in which the two had stalked each other from behind trees. The fight started in a quarrel over the spilling of a can of soup. Agreement by both General Wu Pel Fu and General Chang Tso-Lin, rival Chinese loaders, to exclude Pekln and Tien Tsin from the field of military operations was announced in an of ficial dispatch received by the Chinese Legation In Washington Tuesday from the Pekln government. Both houses of the Icelandic con gress have, by large majorities, passed a bill authorizing the government of Iceland to exempt wine containing no more than 21 per cent alcohol from the prohibition law, according to a cablegram received in Washington Tuesday by the DaniBh legation, Leon Trotzky, the soviet war minis- tor, addressing the Moscow garrison at the May day review in Red Square, at which the red oath was taken by all the soldiers, declared that the al lies at Genoa desired conditions to which Russia would never yield; there fore, he asked the troops to be pre pared. The conference representing both sldeB of the Irish republican army re assembled Tuesday in Dublin, and ar ranged to make representations at the session of the Call Elreann relative to bringing about unity in the army and a peace settlement in Ireland. An appeal was made to all ranks to act in a spirit of conciliation. Reports that Harry M. Daugherty, now attorney-general, had received fee of $25,000 from Charles W. Morse, New York shipbuilder, for obtaining Morse's release In 1912 from the At lanta federal penitentiary, were re peated in the senate Teusday by Son ator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas, and denied by friends of the presont attorney-general. About 65 per cent of the seed grain that was sent Into the Russian famine areas was distributed in time to be sown, the central famine committee an nounced recently. More than 80 per cent of the 23,000,000 poods (about 828,000,000 pounds) of grain from Russian sources arrived in time, while only 22 per cent of the 8,500,000 poods from abroad arrived. In some districts 100 per cent of the amount needed was supplied. Cheering crowds, whose tribute vis- Ibly affected them, acclaimed Chief Justice Tatt and associate Justices of the United States supreme court who went to Philadelphia Tuesday, where the first sessions of that tribunal were held in 1791. Sitting in the same chairs that John Day, first chief jus- tlce, and fellow members of the court occupied, Chief Justice Taft and Jus- tices Pitney and Clarke heard recount ed reminiscences of those first bps slons, when there were no cheering crowds. The occasion was the rcdedl- cation of the building in Independence square occupied by the United States supreme court as first constituted, and the observation of the 200th anniver sary of the founding of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Id DEFEATED TROOPS IN ROUT Chang's Vanquished Forces Are Half- Starred, Says U. S. Minister. Washington, D. C Scenes of com plete rout among the defeated troops of General Chang In China were de scribed in a report to the state depart ment from American Minister Schur man at Pekin. He declared that until Monday 21 trains packed with re treating troops had passed through Tientsin and that railroad traffic in that section had been greatly congest ed because of the -efforts of the de feated forces to escape. The soldiers of the routed army were said by the American minister to be completely "out of control." Many of them, he added, appeared half starved." Upon representations from the Chinese foreign office the diplomatic council at Pekin released $300,000 In customs revenue to feed stranded Feng-Tien troops. The minister also reported that al though there was no intimation of General Wu's next move, both Pekin and Tientsin appeared to be out of danger with conditions returning to normal. The American marines, sent as re inforcements to Pekin and Tientsin, were said in the dispatch to have been a "valuable factor In military protection, especially in Tientsin." United States Veteran's Bureau. Men who were drafted Into war service and then rejected for physical reasons are eligible for entrance into national homes for disabled soldiers provided they are In needy circum stances and unable to work, according to L. C. Jesseph, northwest district manager of the United States Veter ans' Bureau.' The home for disabled veterans housing former service men from thlB district is located near Los Angeles. In many cases of this kind, claims for goverment compensation have been disallowed because no aggrava tion of disability was shown in the short period at camp, sometimes but two or three days. The length of time, served, has no bearing upon the veteran's eligibility to enter the gov ernment Institution, according to in structions received at the district of fice. Definite announcement has been made by Manager Jesseph that the new hospital for tuberculous veteranB of the northwest district will begin to accept patients the latter part of this month. Formal opening of the institution, which cost the government approximately $500,000, will be held June 4. The first unit of the hospital will have 250 beds. On the basis of 182 employes for every 200 patients the Walla Walla institution will have a hospital staff numbering 227 doc tors, nurses and other employes. Elaborate programs have been planned for veterans' hospitals throughout the northwest for National Hospital Day, May 12. Cushman at Tacoma, Port Townsend hospital, U S. Veterans' hospital at Boise and the government hospital at Portland are among those who will celebrate. More than 900 bedridden veterans will feast on "eats" furnished in most Instances by veterans' organizations and their women's auxiliaries. Legation Is Threatened. Sotla, Bulgaria. A threat to blow up the American legation here unless the United States brings about the re lease ot Sacco and Vansetti, commun ists, under conviction for murder in Massachusetts, has been received at the legation. The threat was contained in an ar ticle in an anarchist newspaper which, encased in a red wrapper, was sent to the American minister, Charles S Wilson. 14 Prisoners Wounded. Columbia, S. C Fourteen prisoners were wounded, two possibly fatally, Monday, when 150 Inmates of the South Carolina penitentiary revolted against the authority ot the guards. The chair factory building, where the uprising occurred, was set on fire but the recalcitrants were Bubdued and the blaze extinguished speedily. Church Campaign Begun. Hot Springs, Ark. A nation-wide campaign to place 'religious teaching In all the public Bchools, colleges and universities of America was launched here Saturday night. This campaign was Included In the anniversary pro gramme of the board of education of the Methodist F.plscopal church south by Bishops James Cunnon Jr. ot Birm ingham and E. D. Mouseon of Tulsa, Okla. Detroit. Seven men, declared by federal officers to have obtained hun dreds of thousands of dollars for bol shevik propaganda, through a con spiracy to raise $5 federal reserve notes to higher denominations, were arrested here Saturday. The arrests were the result ot an investigation toy the secret service that began nearly a year ago. GOVERNMENTGOSTS GUI $110,00010 Huge Savings Accomplished by Harding Administration BUDGET REPORT OUT Reduction in Routine Operation Is Nearly Billion; Overlapping of Departments Eliminated. Washington, D. C The expendi tures of the government for the fiscal year 1922 have been reduced more than $1,600,000,000 from the 1921 fig ures. The reduction in the ordinary expenditures for the operation of the routine business ot the government, generally subject to executive control, as compared with 1921, will be In the neighborhood of $907,000,000. These facts are shown in a report made public by Charles G. Dawes, di rector of the bureau of budget, and asked by President Harding on the economies effected in the cost of gov ernment. The report was issued also In re-1 sponse to a resolution adopted by the house asking for Information showing In what way savings were affected. It is stated that the essential cause of the economies and improvements in administration which have been ef fected during the present fiscal year In the conduct of the routine business of the government has been the as sumption by President Harding of his full responsibilities as head of the business organization of the govern ment. Some of the agencies for the transmission for executive pressure, plan and policy have been established upon the advice of Director Dawes, and the president has used the budget bureau itself among his other agen cies for the imposition of executive policy. The bureau of the budget Is an Impersonal, impartial and non-parti san business agent," says the report. 'In this particular report where its estimates may become a basis of con tention in an approaching political contest, Its figureB should be conserv ative and meet the test of examina tion, not only in the present but in the future when existing partisan dif ferences are forgotten and the record for impartiality and nonpartlsanshlp of the budget bureau is considered In retrospect by the unprejudiced mind of the governmental economist and student. Out of total estimated ex penditures of $3,922,372,030 for the year 1922, the director classifies only $1,765,875,672 as being generally sub ject to executive control in-the opera tion of the routine business of govern ment. These figures compare with actual expenditures under the Bame categories In 1921 of $2,673,435,079.77, segregated out of a total annual ex penditure for 1921 of $5,538, 040,689.30. "The reduction in the ordinary ex penditures of the operation of the routine business of government gen erally subject to executive control in 1922 as compared with 1921 will be, therefore, in the neighborhood of $907,500,000. As against this enor mous total reduction the estimate of economics and savings incident to the new imposition of executive control over governmental expenditures in 1922 is estimated at the lesser Bum of $250,134,835.03. "The director feels reasonably as sured that this estimate of economics and savings attributable to the new system Is an underestimate, but that If an error has been made in this re gard the savings and economics are still so large as to vindicate it, and will at the same time emphasize the indispensable policy of the budget bu reau to have its estimates conform able to the principles ot business con servatism." All Children Are Fed. New York. Child feeding in the American relief administration in Rus sia has been extended until It now reaches practically every needy child in the famine area, said a cablegram received at American relief head quarters Saturday. In the Orenburg district alone, the message said, the administration is feeding 225,164 children in- 1468 kit chens, operating in 1509 villages and 245 institutions. Omaha, Neb. Two masked robbers who told their victims they once were In a church choir, sang the hymn which includes the words, "We will come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves," as they held up and robbed nine persons, including a number ot womon, in a drug store here Saturday night. They escaped with loot amount ing to more than $300. giiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiirtiiiiiiiiniiiiitiiitiiiTiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiititiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinifutiMiiiiniimnmq The Shadow of the Sheltering Pines A New Romance of the Storm Country aiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiniR CHAPTER XIV. 14 , A Will Is Changed. The two years that had passed ilnce Tony Devon had entered the Pendlehaven home, the greater part f which she had spent in school, had Drought about many changes. Paul Pendlehaven had taken his place imong the world's workers, but this Joes not say that he did not still long tor the child who had gone from his life eighteen years before. Mrs. Curtis was no nearer giving Cousin John to Katherlne as a father than she ever had been, and Ithaca had caught no sight of Reginald Brown since he had fled from it with the notion that he might follow Uriah Devon behind the prison bars. Philip had carried on his wonderful work, living In the joyous letters he re lelved from Tony and spending his spnre time In answering them. One morning Tony came to Paul Pendlehaven, smiling and blushlngly girlish, and he motioned her to a lit tle stool at his feet. "Dtrllng," he began In a moved tone, "I sent for you because I've come to perhaps the most Important decision of my whole life." Tony glanced up at him wonderlng- ly. He appeared solemnly sober and looked as If he hadn't slept. If it affects me, Cousin Paul, it can't be greater than the one you made over two years ago when you took poor little me Into your home," she asserted. , His hand fell lovingly upon her surly head as though in benediction. They both lapsed Into a long silence, the girl's dreamy eyes fixed on space, and the man gazing at her shining head. "Tony," he ejaculated at length. There was something in his voice as he pronounced her name that dis pelled her revery Instantly. "Yes," she breathed. "Yes, what is It?" Pendlehaven cleared his throat. "I would never have believed that anyone could have wormed her way Into my heart as you have," he told her. "How would how would you like me for your father?" Tony tried to speak but, seeing he had something else to add, waited ex pectantly. "Once, as you know," went on the doctor, "I had a little girl of my own, but the years have been so long and so many since she was taken away, I feel I shan't have her again In this world." Tony's dark head dropped against his knee In silent sympathy. "Could you think of me as your fa ther, dear?" he said after an emotion al silence. "I'm not fit for that," sighed Tony. "No, no, not that. I come from peo ple who are not your kind, Cousin Paul. You know that! Everybody does I Then I'm not so good as you think I am. First of all I haven't al ways told you the truth." "So my brother told me," remarked Doctor Paul. "Long ago he took me Into his confidence about the poison In my medicine. I've wr.tched you for two years, Tony, and it seems to me that I know every secret of your soul. I'm sure you love me, dear child. I'm going to adopt you legally for my daughter. After this I'm your father, and I give warning to my Captain MacCauley that If he tries to take you from me, he's going to have some fight on his hands. From now on, I'm not Cousin Paul. I am what?" "My father," gulped Tony. "It seems as if I couldn't stand so much happiness. And If you're my father, that makes Cousin John " "Your uncle," laughed a voice from the door. "So Paul has told you, has he, little girl? Well, Tony, you wouldn't have slept a- wink one night if you'd heard our argument about you. we spent several nours wran gling which of us should adopt you. said I should because I saw you first, and Paul" "Has the prior right because you saved me, Tony," Interrupted PauJ Now 1 think the family had better know of our changed arrangements.' Paul Pendlehaven acted as spokes man when Mrs. Curtis and her daugh ter, Katherlne, had been summoned to the library. He told them very grave ly that as his will now stood, his brother, John, and his cousin, Sarah, were the beneficiaries of it. Mrs. Cur tis smiled at him and arranged the lace ruffles around her neck. "You ve always been most gener ous, Paul dear," she simpered. "But now," went on the doctor, pay ing no heed to the lady's remark, "our household's going tohhve a mistress." Katherlne lifted her chin from the palm of her hand, and Mrs. Curtis straightened up. Were her ambitions going to be realized after all? Was It Paul who was going to put her In her rightful place? The smile broad ened on her lips, and she sank back with a happy sigh. She had to ad mlt Cousin Paul looked very hand some, yes, even handsomer than Cou sin Johni What a fool she had been not to have caught him sooner. "The woman you put at the head of your home will be most fortunate and happy, dear Paul," she murmured. By GRACE MILLER WHITE I hope so," returned Pendlehaven, and Doctor John pulled at the corners of his mouth to keep back a malicious grin. I'm going to adopt Tony Devon" Doctor Paul had only time enough to make this statement when Mrs. Cur tis jumped to her feet. "Yon couldn't do that 1" she cried. "That would be wicked, Paul, abso lutely wicked 1 Oh God, don't do thatl" Without heeding in the slightest his cousin's bitter ejaculation, Paul Pen dlehaven picked up a box that lay at his elbow. With much ceremony he opened It and took out an exquisite pearl necklace. I do not need to remind any of you, he said, turning his eyes rrom his brother to his two white-faced cousins, "that these belonged to my dear wife. I have always considered them the property of her daughter too. That is the reason, Katherlne, why I've always refused your request to wear them. But now I have a daughter." He turned smiling eyes upon Tonnlbel. "I shall allow her to wear them whenever she wishes, and If If her lost sister Isn't found, then they are hers hers forever." A long hissing breath broke from Sarah Curtis, and a gasp came from Katherlne. "I couldn't wear them," Tony got out at length, "I simply couldn't." 'Not to please me, your father, Tonnlbel?" demanded Paul, almost brusquely. And me, your new uncle?" laughed Doctor John. "Why, honey, little girl," he reached out and took Tonnibel's hand, "don't look as If you'd lost your last friend 1" Then Paul Pendlehaven drew Ton nlbel Devon to his side, and, when he had clasped the Jewels around her neck, he lifted her face and kissed her. There, little daughter!" His voice choked with emotion, but he con quered his feelings and went on. they're very lovely, very precious, Tony, doubly so because you're wear ing them." "Oh," she exulted, "how happy I am! . . .It Isn't the pearls, though they're simply great, but it's that I have some real people." She turned a flushed and radiant face to each man. "Somebody that's my very own. My mother's dead, and my fa ther" "Is in prison," snapped Mrs. Curtis, vindictively. "I'm wondering what he'll say to all this when he comes home." "His opinion won't make any differ ence to us," Paul Pendlehaven stated coolly. "He has forfeited every right to any claim on Tony." "Hideous!" exclaimed Mrs. Curtis, and "Well, I never," dropped from Katherlne. 'And," went on Doctor Paul, re lentlessly, for he knew the barbs that were being thrust into the souls of his two cousins. "I'm going to change my will in favor of my new daughter here" 'And I mine In favor of our young Salvation Army captain who is going to marry my new niece," chuckled Doctor John. "I guess that's all. we have to say, Paul." In silence Katherlne and Mrs. Cur tis faded from the room, carrying with them bitter humiliation and nursing outraged feelings. 'It's all your fault, mamma," scold ed Katherlne, bursting Into tears when they were In the seclusion of their own apartments. "You've whined and wept yourself right out of Cousin John's life, that's what you've done. God, how I hated that girl when I saw Car oline's pearls around her neck I" What are you doing now?" thrust back her mother. "Aren't you crying as If your heart would break? I tell you tears " Oh Lordy, tears! What good do they do?" came sharply. "Here we are without a future, without a home I That interloper will see we go the moment Paul gets out those papers I Oh, what shall we do?" "I wish that man her father, I mean was out of Jail," mused Mrs. Curtis. "I really believe he could do something, Katie. Perhaps, Reggie " Katherlne wiped .her eyes with a sudden movement. "Mamma, why don't you send for Reggie?" she questioned. "Now, lis ten to me. Reggie confided in me before he left that be really was fond of that girl, and if Oh, mamma, I've thought of a wonderful thing. Send for Reggie, shove the girl under his nose every minute. Let him cut Philip out" "And perhaps have my son marry that thing," objected the mother curtly. "That thing, as you please to call Tony Devon, Is one of the prettiest and richest young women In this coun ty," Katherlne snapped back. "She's heiress to the Pendlehavens, and en gaged to be married to a- man who owns half the town. Thing, eh? Well, I think she's a little higher up In the world at this moment than my half brother, Reggie, If you want my opin ion." That night an urgent message from the frantic mother traveled by wlr Copyright by the H. K. Fly Company to Reginald Curtis, home. summoning him CHAPTER XV. The Last Card. One day some weeks later, Regi nald Brown walked rapidly along the boulevard past the row of squatter shacks. He had received word that Uriah Devon, released from prison, would anchor the Dirty Mary near the Hoghole in her accustomed place. Devon was on deck when Brown ran up the gangplank. "So you came, old top," was Uriah's greeting. "It's good you did; I want to know what's doin'." , A woman came to the door of the cabin and peered out. When she saw the newcomer, she scowled and went back. I thought you said she was dead," commented Reggie, with a wag of his head toward the spot "where the wom an had stood. "Well,, she ain't! Worse luck!" growled Uriah. "I told that to the kid to make her feel bad. Ede was willing to be dead for a while, any how. What's the news' of Tony?" "Oh, she's a' lady now," answered Reggie, sarcastically. "The Pendle havens have sent her to school ever since you went away. My mother tells me Paul Pendlehaven's going to adopt , her. And what do you think else?" he demanded. "I dunno," grunted the other, "Good God! Don't sit there tearln' me to pieces with curiosity. Fire ahead, and tell me." "She's copped Phil MacCauley," re turned Reginald; "Ithaca's snob of a Salvation Army captain, the fellow who threw me in the lake that day, and he's as rich as the Pendlehavens put together." "Well, he won't get 'er," asserted Uriah, sharply. "I've told you the girl's rich too. Her father's got money to burn." "A lot of good that'll do you, Ry," sneered Reggie. "She wouldn't look at the likes of you and Edith. You aren't In her class any more." "Ain't I so?" queried Devon, grouchlly. "I reckon her hide ain't no tougher nor thicker'n It used to be. I'll thump h 11 out of 'er once or twice; I'll show 'er what class she's In." "You'll have to catch her before you beat her, won't you, Ry?" Reg gie inquired tauntingly. "How're you going to get your hands on her? Tell me that, will you?" "Yep, Mr. Mealy-mouth, I will," thrust back Devon. "We got to steal 'er." He clenched his heavy fist and swung It menacingly and suggestive ly. "What's left of 'er when I'm done with 'er '11 marry you all right. That over, I'll tell 'er who she Is, provldln' you promise to halve up the stuff with me." "I did promise you once, didn't I?" asked Reggie, sulkily. "Of course, I will, but what's the use of dreaming? The Pendlehavens're too much for us. Now that Paul's well, he and John are a big team, and they worship the ground that girl walks on. You're biting off more'n you can chew, Ry. You aren't any too strong, you know. A prison record doesn't help any." Uriah grunted and followed a ring of smoke with his frowning eyes. "She's my girl," he snld at length, "and I'm goin' to have 'er." "I thought you said she wasn't," put in Reggie, suspiciously. "Well, she don't know that, does she?" Devon retorted. "Nobody knows but you and Ede, besides me." "She's a beauty," sighed Reggie, his voice lowered to a' growl. "I'd marry her If she didn't have a cent" "You don't need to make any such sacrifice, old horse," said Devon. "Your eyes will bung out of your head when you hear her name." Reginald argued he should know who the girl was before he married her, but Uriah wouldn't give up his secret. Indeed, he unfolded to the prospective husband how he planned to capture Tonnlbel, and sent Reggie away convinced, red hot to perform his part In the scheme. At last, he was to have the girl he wanted and money too. The "next morning Reggie ap proached his mother with an air of secrecy. (TO EE CONTINUED.) Insects Not Prohibitionists. There are no prohibitionists amonf the Insects, says a correspondent. Hun dreds of wasps were recently observed among the fir trees of Keston lake crawling eagery over spindles and sucking at drops of turpentine which form at this time of year. A vast humming came from the trees, reminis cent of the midsummer ring over the heated hay .fields. Large files and blue-bottles were also seen. In many cases the Insects consumed so much of the firewater that they fell to the ground In a drunken stupor, or clung hazardly to the trees. The wolf spider chasing Its prey through the grass like a dog was having a rich harvest Other Insects came to the bacchanalian repast A species of aphis was much m evidence and also , Its keeper, the ant busy milking It of ' Its gathered llauor.