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Ten thousand children tramped up
Fifth avenue New Tork Tuesday to
Impress upon the grownups as well as
other boys and girls that they must be
careful not to get hurt in the swirling
traffic of the city streets.
Edward Rich and his wife of Jersey
City, N. J. have accepted a girl baby
as the child born to them recently
at the Bergen sanitarium, convinced
at last that their wish alone had in
spired belief that their child was a
boy. '
Resolutions adopted by the people's
movement in Chicago at a meeting
Thursday night condemning the Ku
Klux Klan and demanding that no
kfansman be accepted for jury service,
were sent to all the Judges of Crook
county.
The bride of ex-Emperior William,
the princess of Reuss, will assume the
title "Queen Wllhelmlna of Prussia,"
according to an announcement Tues.
day during a preliminary reception to
the bride and bridegroom-to-be at the
castle here.
Crops generally suffered loss in pros
pective production during September,
but the harvests will be larger than
they were last year, except In the
case of corn, buckwheat, sugar beets
and peanuts according to the govern
ment report.
Separate trials for 218 union min
ers from Pennsylvania, indicted for al
leged participation in the battle at
the Clifton coal mine, Cliftonvllle, W.
Va., July 17, and accused of first de
gree murder, were granted late TUes
day by Circuit Judge Somervllle.
Professor James V. Garner, of the
University of Illinois, In a lecture in
Shanghai Monday, said that the wars
of the future will be wars between con
tlncnts Instead of states. lie asserted
that America never will bo neutral in
the future and will participate in all
wars.
President Harding has announced
the personnel of the commission which
is authorized by an act of congress
to make an exhaustive investigation
In both the bituminous anil anthra
cite coal fields with a view to recom
mending legislation dosigned to bring
tranquillity to the Industry.
"He kept us out of obesity," is the
slogan of DO women and BO men of
New York former membors of Health
Commissioner Copeland's reducing
classes who organized the Copeland
fat men and fat women's league to
boom the commissioner as the demo
crntic candidate for United States sen
ator.
Japan has decided to restore the
leusehold of Klaochow to China De-
comber 2. On that date Japanese
troops will withdraw, clvi! and mili
tary authority in the Klaochow dis
trict will be handed ovor to China
and the Chinese flag will be hoisted
for the first time since Germany ac
quired the territory In 1898.
The armistice convention was sign
ed In Mudania Wednesday night at 11
o'clock. The representatives of all
the powers concerned affixed- their
signatures to the revised protocol,
which General Harrington had pre
sented for acceptance to Ismet Fasha
and which the nationalist delegates
forwarded to the Angora goverumout
for Its decision.
The wife of Major Kara, a Jap
anese army officer who is to be court
martialed In connection with the dls
appearance of Czecho slovak arms in
Vladivostok, committed suicide Wed
nesday by drowning. She leaped from
the steamer Fusan. She left a note in
which she said, "I am dying because
I am ashamed of the arms affair in
which my husband is involved," .
A record low death rate was estab
lished last year In the registration
areas of the United States, according
to an announcement by the depart
ment of commerce, which gave the
1921 rate at 11.7 a thousand popula
tion against 13.1 in 1920. The infant
mortality rate for 1921 also decreas
ed from 1920, aocordlng to the state
ment, which gave the rate for 1921 as
7$ a thousand and 86 a thousand for
the previous year. The registration
areas include a population of 70,425,-000.
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GOES 248.5 MILES AN HOUR
Feat Astounds Experts Who Witness
Airplane Test Race.
Mount Clemons, Mich. In traveling
at a greater speed than any human be
ing ever before attained, Lieutenant
R. L. Maughan, a United States army
pilot, Monday set a new world's air
plane speed record.
He covered a one kilometer course
at the rate of 248.5 miles an hour.
The record wa made during offi
cial government tests of speed planes
that had participated In the national
air races at Selfridge field last week,
and was electrically timed by officers
from McCook field.
Aeronautical engineers and army
and navy officers who witnessed the
flight were astounded. The demonstra
tion, they declared, proved that there
was no limit to the speed that might
be attained in the ait
Lieutenant Maughan made the rec
ord-breaking flight in the same plane
with which he won the Pulitzer trophy
race on Saturday. The machine is a
Curtiss army biplane powered by a
Curtiss 400 horsepower engine.
After setting the new record Lieu
tenant Maughan continued his flight
to show that the tremendous pace
could be maintained. On four laps he
was timed at the rate of 232.22 miles
an hour and his average of eight
laps was 229 miles an hour.
Examination of the machine after
the flight disclosed that it was In
perfect condition, and that nothing in
the nature of a "trick" flight figured
in the record performance.
Later Lieutenant Maughan added to
the astonishment of pilots and officials
on the field by flying approximately
one mile with the machine on Us
side. This feat in reality was a flight
without the aid of wings.
In other trials during the day the
speed record for monoplanes was shat
tered by one navy and three army ma
chines. Lieutenant Barksdale covered the
one kilometer course at the rate of
191 miles an hour and Lieutenant
Whlthead made 187." They drove
Loening-Packard planes. Captain
Hunter, in a Thomas-Morse, was tim
ed at 179 miles an hour and Lieuten
ant Calloway in the navy's Bee line
racer made 177 miles an hour.
Dental Treatment for Veterans.
War veterans of the Pacific North
west who filed claims for dental dis
abilities due to war service c-efore
August 9 of this year or within a year
after their discharge are eligible for
dental treatment at the expense of the
government even though the degree of
disability is less than 10 per cent.
This announcement was made by the
northwest district office of the United
States Veterans' bureau. Interpreta
tion of the law governing dental treat
ment has been in question for some
time. The definite ruling states that
where the war veteran makes his
claim subsequent to August 9 or after
one year from discharge, he is not en
titled to government treatment unless
service connected disability Is of 10
per cent or more degree.
Mayor Whipped By Mob.
Coffoyvllle, Kan Theodore Schlerl
man, 42, mayor of Liberty, near here,
was taken to a lonely spot four miles
northeast of Liberty Saturday night
and whipped with blacksnake whips
by 15 men, who Baid they were mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan, Schienlman
told officers. The men traveled in
motor cars. He has been mayor of
Liberty for 18 months. Mr. Schlerl-
man, his attorney, Harold F. McGugin,
said, will bring BUlt under the Kan
sas mob law for $100,000 damages
against the city of Liberty. Schlerl-
man is a Catholic. .
Winter Grips Middle West.
St. Paul, Minn. The first grip of
winter's icy hand closed on the middle
west Monday with rain and bhow re
ported from various cities in Minne
sota and North and South Dakota.
Omaha, Neb. The first snow of the
year was reported falling in western
Nebraska and South Dakota Monday.
Cheyenne, Wyo. Cheyenne got its
first snowstorm of the season Mon
day, but up to noon the fall had not
been heavy.
Mr. Churchill It III.
London. Winston Spencer Church
ill, the secretary of the colonies, was
reported Monday evening to be suffer
ing from an attack of acute gastroen
teritis, which confined him to his bed
This report aroused some anxiety,
which, however, was relieved shortly
by the announcement from the semi
official press association that the sec
retary's indisposition was slight.
St. Helens. Lumber shipments for
the week ending Saturday night were
slightly more than 5,000,000 feet. The
steamer Steel Inventor took 1,400,000
feet for New York.
EASE
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Sanitary Conditions Called Un
speakable in City.
REFUGEES ATTACKED
Near East Declared Unhealthful Place
to Hold Conference on Peace
Negotiations.
Athens. Turkey's suggestion that
the near east peace conference be held
at Smyrna should be rejected once
for all by the powers If they have
any consideration for yie health of
their delegates, In the opinion of Amer
ican relief workers, some of whom
have arrived in Atnens from Smyrna
with strange skin maladies requiring
medical treatment. They report that
sanitary conditions in Smyrna are un
speakable; the bodies of horses and
other animals and some of the Smyrna
residents who were killed In the dis
aster are still found In the streets.
Harry Ellsworth Boyd of Pittsburg,
auditor of the international committee
of the Y. M. C. A. in Turkey, arrived
here Saturday, after escorting 700
refugees to .Mitylene aboard the Uni
ted States shipping board steamer
Casey. He is a member of the com
mittee organized by Rear-Admiral
Mark L. Bristol and has been working
in close co-operation with A. K. Jen
nings of the Y. M. C. A. in his relief
efforts.
Mr. Boyd said to the Associated
Press correspondent:
'The 700 refugees just taken from
Mitylene were the last to be taken
out of Smyrna. Their condition was
terrifying. These people were actu
ally being devoured alive by flies
It is so throughout Smyrna, for the
flies, thriving on the decomposed mat
ter lying about, have multiplied by
millions.
"No girls between the ages of 15
and 25 were found in our band of
refugees; they had been taken by the
Turks.
"Captain Glover of the Casey, by
strategy, saved the lives of 70 young
Greeks, ex-army officers. He was
sauntering through the streets of
Smyrna when he found the Greeks
under arrest and began to berate them
for having abandoned his ship, threat
ening to beat them unless they return
ed Instantly. The Turks were much
amused and foreseeing dire punish
ment for the Greeks by the American,
allowed them to reach the steamer,
Captain Glover hid them in the hold
until the vessel Teached Mitylene."
Will Hear Veterans' Claims.
A special compensation representa
tive of the United States Veterans
Bureau will be stationed permanently
at every government hospital in the
Pacific Northwest with 100 or more
disabled veterans as patients, accord
Ing to Kenneth L. Cooper, Portland
manager of the bureau. This govern
ment agent will hear claims and griev
ances of the hospitalized veterans and
assist them preparing their claims.
Veterans' hospitals In Tacoma, Port
land, Walla Walla and Boise are affect
ed by this new ruling. In the past,
the Seattle district office of the bureau
has sent out a contact man from time
to time to survey compensation claim
conditions In the various institutions.
A total of approximately 600 hospital
ized veterans will hereafter have a
compensation representative close at
hand to assist them in handling their
respective cases with the government.
Medical heads of the hospitals and the
northwest district manager ot the bur
eau name the hospital contact repre
sentatives. Troop Recall Possible.
Washington, D. C. There were in
timations Sunday In government cir
cles that a project for complete with
drawal of American troops from the
Rhine wag again under consideration,
but no decision was expected for sev
eral days. No authorized statement
as to the reasons prompting renewed
discussion of the subject at this time
was available, nor would any respon
sible official forecast what course
would be adopted.
Indian Fighter Suicide.
Pocatello, Idaho. Judge Edward
Flannery, 75 years old, Indian fighter
In the early days ot New Mexico, Ari
zona and the Dakotas, committed sui
cide Saturday at Clarendon Hot
Springs, Idaho, by shooting himself in
the mouth with a pistol. Judge Flan
nery was born In New York and was
said to have been as a young man sec
retary to Samuel J. Tiiden.
MENACES
ELEANOR H. PORTER
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CHAPTER VIII Continued.
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He saw me. And, oh, how I did love
the look that came to his face ; it was
so surprised and glad, and said, "Oh I
You!" In such a perfectly lovely way
that I choked all up and wanted to
cry. (The Ideal cry when I was so
glad to see him!)
The next minute he had drawn me
out of the line, and we were both talk
ing at once, and telling each other how
glad we were to see each other.
But he was looking for Mother I
know he was ; for the next minute aft
er lie saw me, he looked right over my
head at the woman back of me. And
all the while he was talking with me,
his eyes would look at me and then
leap as swift as lightning first here,
and then there, all over the hull. But
be didn't see her. I knew he didn't
see her, by the look on his face. And
pretty quick I said I'd have to go.
And then lie said:
"Your mother perhaps she didn't
did she come?" And his face grew all
red and rosy as he asked the question.
And I said yes, and she was waiting,
and that was why I had to go back
right away.
And he said, "Yes, yes, to be sure,"
and, "goort-by." But he still held my
hand tight, and his eyes were still rov
ing all over the house. And I had to
tell him again that I really had to go ;
and I had to pull real determined at
my hand, before I could break away.
I went back to Mother then. The
hall was almost empty, and she wasn't
anywhere in sight at all; but I found
her just outside the door. I knew then
why Father's face showed that he
hadn't found her. She wasn't there to
And. I suspect she had looked out for
that.
In the afternoon I went to walk with
one of the girls; and when I came in
I couldn't find Mother. She wasn't
anywhere downstairs, nor in her room,
nor mine, nor anywhere else on that
floor. Aunt Hattle said no, she wasn't
out, but that she was sure she didn't
know where she was. She must be
somewhere in the house.
I went upstairs then, another flight.
There wasn't anywhere else to go, and
Mother must be somewhere, of course,
And It seemed suddenly to me as if
I'd just got to find her. I wanted
her so.
And I found her.
In the little back room where Aunt
Hattle keeps her trunks and mothball
bags, Mother was on the floor in the
corner crying. And when I exclaimed
out and ran over to her, I found she
was sitting beside an old trunk that
H Saw Me.
was open; and across her lap was a
perfectly iovely pale-blue satin dress
all trimmed with silver lace that had
grown black. And Mother was crying
and crying as if her heart would break.
Of course, I tried and tried to stop
her, and I begged her to tell me what
was the matter. But I couldn't do a
thing, not a thing, not for a long time.
Then I happened to say what a lovely
dress, only what a pity It was that the
lace was all black.
She said yes, It was all black tar
nished ; and that It was Just like every
thing that she hod had anything to do
with tarnished ; her life and her mar
rlage, and Father's life, and mine
everything was tarnished. Just like that
silver lace on that dress. And she had
done it by her thoughtless selfishness
and luck of self-dlsclpllne.
And when I tried and tried to tell
her no, It wasn't, aud that I didn't
feel tumlshed a bit, and that she
wasn't, nor Father either, she only
cried all the more, and shook her head
and began again, all choked up.
She said .this little dress was the
one she wore at the big reception
where she first met Father. And she
was so proud and happy when Father
and he was fine and splendid and
handsome then, too, she said singled
her out, and Just couldn't seem to stay
away from her a minute all the eve
ning. And then four days later he
asked her to marry him ; and she was
still more proud and happy.
And she said their married life, when
they started out, was Just like that
beautiful dress, all shining and spot
less and perfect; but that It wasn't
two months before a little bit of tar
nish appeared, and then another and
another.
She said things went on worse and
worse and it was all her fault. She
grew sour and cross and disagreeable.
She could see now that she did. But
she did not realize at all then what
she was doing. She was just thinking
of herself always herself ; her rights,
her wrongs, her" hurt feelings, her
wants and wishes. She never once
thought that he had rights and
wrongs and hurt feelings, maybe.
She said a lot more oh, ever so
much more; but I can't remember It
all. I know that she went on to say
that by and by the tarnish began to
dim the brightness of my life, too ;
and that was the worst of all, she
said that Innocent children should
suffer, and their young lives be spoiled
by the kind of living I'd had to have,
with this wretched makeshift of a di
vided home. She began to cry again
then, and begged me to forgive her;
and I cried and tried to tell her I didn't
mind it ; but, of course, I'm older now,
and I know I do mind It, though I'm try
ing Just as hard as I can not to be
Mary when I ought to be Marie, or
Marie when I ought to be Mary. Only
I get -all mixed up so, lately, and I
said so, and I guess I cried some more,
Mother Jumped up then, and said,
"Tut, tut," what was she thinking of
to talk like this when It couldn't do
a bit of good, but only made matters
worse. And she said trt only went to
prove how she was still keeping on
tarnishing my happiness and bringing
tears to my bright eyes, when certain
ly nothing of the whole wretched bus!
ness was my fault.
She thrust the dress back into the
trunk then, and shut the lid. And
she began to talk and laugh and tell
stories, and be gayer and Jollier than
I'd seen her for ever so long. And
she was that way at dinner, too, until
Grandfather happened to mention the
reception tomorrow night, and ask If
she was going.
She flushed up red then, oh, so red I
and said, "Certainly not." Then she
added quick, with a funny little draw-
lng-ln of her breath, that she should
let Marie go, though, with her Aunt
Hattle. It was the only chance Fa
ther would have to see me, and she
didn't feel that she had any right to
deprive him of that privilege, and she
didn't think it would do me any harm
to be out this once lnte In the evening.
And she Intended to let me go.
TWO DAYS LATER
Well, now I guess something's doing
all right t And my hand Is shaking so
I can hardly write it wants to get
ahead so fast and tell. But I'm going
to keep It sternly back and tell It Just
as it happened, and not begin at the
ice cream Instead of the soup.
At the reception I saw Father right
away, but he didn't see me for a long
time. He stood In a corner, and lots
of folks came up and spoke to him and
shook hands; and he bowed and smiled
but In between, when there wasn't
anybody noticing, he looked so tired
and bored. After a time he stirred and
changed his position, and I think he
was hunting for a chnnce to get away,
when all of a sudden his eyes, roving
around the room, lighted on me.
My I but Just didn't I love the way
he came through that crowd, straight
toward me, without paying one bit of
attention to the folks that tried to
stop him on the way. And when he
got to me, he looked so glad to see me,
only there was the same quick search
ing with his eyes, beyond and around
me, as if he was looking for somebody
else, Just as he had done the morning
of the lecture. And I knew it was
Mother, of course. So I said:
"No, she didn't come."
"So I see," he answered. And there
was such a hurt, sorry look away back
in his eyes. But right away he smiled,
and said: But you camel I've got
you."
Then he began to talk and tell
stories, Just as If I was a young lady
to be entertained. And he took me
over to whire they had things to eat,
and just heaped my plate with chicken
patties and sandwiches and olives and
plnk-and-white frosted cake and Ice
cream (not all at once, of course, but
in order.) And I had a perfectly beauti
ful time. And Father seemed to like
If pretty well.' Buf after a while he
grew sober again, and his eyes began
to rove all around the room.
He took me to a little seat In the
corner afterward, and we sat down
and began to talk only Father didn't
talk much. He just listened to what
I said, and his eyes grew deeper and
darker and sadder, and they didn't
rove around so much, after a time, but
Just stared fixedly at nothing, away
out across the room. By and by he
stirred and drew d long sigh, and said,
almost under his breath:
"It was just such another night as
this."
And of course, I asked what was
and then I knew, almost before he had
told me.
"That I first saw your mother, my
dear."
"Oh, yes, I know !" I cried, eager to
tell him that I did know. "And she
must have looked lovely In that per
fectly beautiful blue silk dress all sil
ver lace."
He turned and stared at me.
"How did you know that?" he de
manded.
"I saw It."
"You saw It !"
"Yesterday, yes the dress," I
nodded.
'But how could you?" he asked,
frowning, and looking so surprised.
Why, that dress must be seventeen
years old, or more."
I nodded again, and I suppose I did
look pleased; it's such fun to have a
secret, you know, and watch folks
Then He Began to Talk and Tell Sto
ries, Just as If I Was a Young Lady
to Be Entertained.
guess and wonder. And I kept him
guessing and wondering for quite a
while. Then, of course, I told him
that It was upstairs In Grandfather's
trunk room; that Mother had got It
out, and I saw it.
"But, what was your mother doing
with that dress?" he asked then, look
ing even more puzzled and mystified.
And then suddenly I thought and
remembered that Mother was crying.
And, of course, she wouldn't want Fa
ther to know she was crying over it
that dress she had worn when he first
met her long ago I (I don't think wom
en ever want men to know such things,
do you? I know I shouldn't I) So I
didn't tell. Father had begun to talk
again, softly, as if to himself:
"I suppose tonight, seeing you, and
all this, Drought it back to me so vivid
ly." Then he turned and looked at
me. "You are very like your mother
tonight, dear." ,
"I suppose I am, maybe, when Tm
Marie," I nodded. j
He laughed with his lips, but his1
eyes didn't laugh one bit as he said :
"What a quaint little fancy of yours
that Is, child as If you were two In
one." -
"But I am two In one," I declared.
"That's why I'm a cross-current and a
contradiction, you know," I explained.-
"A what?" he demanded.
"A cross-current and a contradic
tion," I explained once -more. "Chil
dren of unllkes, you know. Nurse Sa
rah told me that long ago. Didn't you
ever hear that that a child of unllkes
was a cross-current and a contradic
tion?" "Well, no I hadn't," answered Fa
ther, In a queer, half-smothered voice.
"I suppose, Mary, we were unllkes,
your mother and I. That's Just what
we were ; though I never thought of It
before, In Just that way."
He waited, then went on, still half
to himself, his eyes on the dancers :
"She loved things like this music,
laughter, gayety. I abhorred them. 1
remember how bored I was that night
here till I saw her."
"And did you fall In love with her
right away?" I Just couldn't help ask
ing that question. Oh, I do so adore
love stories!
A queer little smile came to Father's
lips.
"Well, yes, I think I did, Mary.- I
Just looked at her once and then kept
on looking till It seemed as If 1 Just
couldn't take my eyes oft her. And
after a little her glance met mine
and the whole throng melted away,
and there wasn't another soul in the
room but Just us two. Then she
looked away, and the throng came
back. But I still looked at her."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Gentle Reminder.
"After a man Is elected to office he.
ought not to forget his friends."
"It never happens," replied Senator
Sorghum. "They never let you forget"