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Eight thousand Russian refugees
from Vladivostok have arrived at Gen
san, Corea. They include White sol
diers, civilians and. their families, be
sides several hundred sick' and wound
ed. "
Twenty-five dollars in gold or no
crossing of the international line by
' Americans; except on brief visits, was
the requirement of the Mexican gov
ernment made' effective at Mexican
Tuesday.
Reuter's Rome correspondent re
ports a ; small conflict between the
fasclstFitnd communists there Sunday
afternoon One person was killed and
several, vjeisq, injured. Order was quick
ly restored , , ,
By next Saturday the entire Asiatic
fleet of the. United States navy, with
the exception of warships at Vladivos
tok and some small gunboats in
Chinese waters, will be assembled in
Manila bay.
Because he loved her too much and
insisted upon making their married
life a "protracted honeymoon," Mrs.
Marie Reilly of Chicago has filed suit
for divorce against John F. Reilly of
Rockford, 111.
President Harding has sent the fol
lowing birthday message to Emperor
Yoshihito of Japan: "I take pleasure
in extending to your majeBty cordial
greetings on this birthday anniversary
' with assurances of our own high re
gard and good will."
Effective Wednesday rfhother reduc-
tlon of 1 cent a gallon. In the price
of gasoline was announced by the
Standard Oil company of Indiana, mak
ing the Chicago price 18 cents a gal
lon at tank wagons and 20 cents at
service stations.
Suit for $1,000,000 damages
was filed in the federal district
court at Chicago Tuesday night
against the United States shipping
board and the Munson steamship line
by Captain B. M. Haagensen, former
ly employed by the Munson line.
Mrs. Merle Brumtleld, widow of Dr.
Richard M. Brumfield, murderer of Den
nis Russell, was married to Howard
Mozona, a laborer, at Seattle, Septem
ber 26, 19 days after Dr. Brumfield
committed suicide In the Oregon state
ponltentlary, it was learned Tuesday,
The movement of refrigerator cars
to the northwest is going along at a
rapid rute, according to. reports re
ceived by the American Railway as
sociation. Those reports show that
ItneB east of Buffalo promised to de-
liver 650 and Instead are delivering
1007.
With a threat to shoot It any ef
fort were made to dislodge him, a
man said to be Captain Freeman, own
er of the launch Narbethong, took
possession of the customs house in
Prince Rupert, B. C, Tuesday, holding
the building for sevoral hours until he
was Induced by officials to yield peace
ably.
Another request that the United
States actively participate with the
allied governments la the settlement
of European difficulties, this time
Involving the establishment of peace
between Turkey and the allies, and
the status of the Dardanelles and
Boephorus straits, was received Sat
urday by the Washington government,
W, W. 8terrett, an expert accouut
' ant of Devon, neur Philadelphia, who,
with his wife, was poisoned Thurs
day by a piece of rake mailed to their
home, died Monday night In the Bryn
Mawr hospital. Mrs. Sterrett, who is
In the same Institution, was reported
In a critical condition, and attending
' physicians hold little hope for her re
covery.
The cattlemen ot Argentina, whose
Industry Is once more In a critical con
dltlon. want the packing business na
tlonaltxed and a special law enacted
ta-Mnh wnntil pnfnrrA government con
trol of packing homes. These pro
jects, with the creation ot a bureau to
control the meat Industry and the pas
sage of an anti-trust law, were advo
cated Tuesday night In resolutions
unanimously adopted al a large aieet
lug ot stock breeders.
50 MINERS KILLED IN BLAST
Thirty-one Rescued Men Are Sent to
Hospital Bodies Left in Seaft,
Spangler, Pa. Between 50 and 60
miners were killed In the Reilly mine
of the Reilly Coal company, near here,
Monday morning, according to an of
ficial estimate made public at mid
night by rescue workers and company
officials.
This estimate was arrived at after
rescue workers who had searched the
explosion-wrecked mine for two hours
reported they believed there were no
more survivors In the workings.
Thirty-one rescued men were In the
Spangler hospital.
Officials of the company were still
uncertain as to the exact number of
men who went to work just a short
time before the blast.
They believed that the total was
between 90 and 95.
Rescue men who had attempted to
count the bodies they stumbled over
in the workings declared they count
ed approximately 50, but said it was
probably that a few more men perished
In the unexplored chambers.
Examination of the mine workings
by experts caused officials ot the
company to announce that the prop
erty damage in the explosion was very
small.
"There are dead miners strewn all
along the entries down there," said
J. Bourquin, leader of the United
States bureau of mine rescue crew, as
he came from the head of the mine.
We only stopped with the dead
long enough to see that the spark of
life had fled and then moved on in
search of the living," he continued.
Quite a bit of mine remained to be
explored, but I can say If there are
any more live men in there it won't
take us long to get to them."
Engineer Bourquin and his men
passed the greater part of the after
noon In the workings. They were
equipped with oxygen helmets, and so
eager were they to force their way
through the gas that they made seven
trips without pausing to have the gas
tanks recharged.
' Behind a brattice, hastily construct-
by the entombed miners to shut
out the deadly after-damp from the
heading where they had taken refuge,
the rescuers found four men alive and
one dead.
A little later they came across an
other brattice, made of mine carB and
bearing the legend burned on with a
miner's lamp: "There are 29 men be
hind this The air was so bad here
that "Sally," the bureau's pet canary
bird used In testing the air, died.
"It was a Bhame," said one of the
crew, "We could have saved her If we
had retreated to the good air. But
where the lives of miners are con
cerned I guess Sally would O. K. our
act In going ahead."
Huge Sum to be Spent. 1
Seattle, Wash. The Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railway has arrang
ed to expend more than $22,500,000 for
new cars and locomotives to handle
increasing traffic, B. B. Geers of Chi
cago, vice-president in charge of opera
tions announced here Monday. Orders
for new equipment now ready to be
placod include 10,000 box and coal
cars to be delivered next year, and
100 steam locomotives, to be ready tor
operation next spring, according to the
announcement.
Mr. Geers, who Is in Seattle on a
trip of inspection over the railway's
Pad tic coast lines, said the car short
age situation In the west was being
Improved to some extent through the
turning over of more cars to eastern
roads by eastern lines.
Bonus Given Shopmen.
Tacoma. Shopmen who refused to
go on strike at the South. Tacoma
shops ot the Northern Pacific have
received a substantial bonus payment,
it Is learned here. Foremen who de
clined to strike received checks for
JS00 In addition to their regular, pay
since July 1, and machinists received
$500 bonus. The checks came direct
from the Northern Pacific headquar
ters In St. Paul, aud were not a part of
the regular payroll.
South Africa Deluged.
Capetown, South Africa. Storms ac
companled by floods have occurred
over a wide range of country at the
capo and in the Transvaal. Owing to
the storms shipping at Port Elizabeth
was obliged to quit the roadstead tor
better shelter. The rains will prove
beneficial In many parts of the coun
try, where they have been much need
ed. s .
$20,000 In Fure Stolen.
Chicago. Nathan Tletlbaum, a mer
chant, reported to the police Monday
that four armed robbers bound him
and his wife and five employes and
looted his store ot furs valued at
120,000. The robbers escaped with
their booty In a motor truck.
TURKS OCCUPY
CONSTANTINOPLE
Evacuation By Allied Troops
Is Demanded.
PEACE PACT TORN UP
Nationalists Begin Moving Into Cha
nak Area and Other Neutral
Zones Rioters Slain.
Constantinople. The nationalist
government has seized control of Con
stantinople, Rafet Pasha has been
made the new governor and Hamid
Bey, the representative of the Angora
government, has ordered the allied
troops out. In a note to the entente
he has demanded evacuation of the
allied forces.
The Turks have torn up the Mudania
armistice convention and have begun
advancing into the Chanak area, oc
cupied by the British, and other neu
tral' zones.
Since noon Saturday, the national
ist administration is declared to have
been established and in celebration of
this masses of excited Turks have
been engaged in disorders.
Students marched against the palace
and engaged in such manifestations
that It became necessary for the allied
police to fire on them, several of the
Turks being killed or wounded.
The Christians in the Stamboul
quarter throughout Saturday night
were seeking shelter and protection
from what they plainly feared a Turk
ish massacre.
Sunday, however, the government
authorities issued orders that all dis
turbances should be rigorously put
down. The allied high commissioners
accepted the new regime and there
was nothing left for the sultan's min
istry but resignation.
Tewflk Pasha, the grand vizier,
realizing that his power had disappear
ed, dispatched messages to the repre
sentatives of the sublime porte in the
various capitols to transfer their
archives to the representatives of the
Angora government.
There seemed danger for a time
that the radical forces would gain the
upper hand. The sultan was denounc
ed, together with monarchy, and
Mustapha Kemal Pasha was acclaim
ed as "our president." It became nec
essary to throw guards of troops
around the sultan's palace within
which Mohammed VI, now caliph only,
Is spending fearful hours.
Mohammed VI has given no evi
dence of conforming to the determin
ation of the new government to rid
Turkey of the high office of sultan,
but the quickly developing popular
movement may soon compel him to ac
cept the Inevitable.
Rafet Pasha sprang the news, of
the change In government In a dra
matic fashion on the allied generals.
The generals had summoned Rafet to
discuss the question of the admission
of Kemaltst gendarmes to the Galll-
poll and Chanak sections. At the
termination of the discussion, Rafet,
by way of an afterthought, broke the
startling news like this:
I must Inform your excellencies
that, since noon the Constantinople
government no longer exists, and
have assumed the governorship."
Ex-Kalser Weds.
Doom, Holland. The German ex-
emperor and Princess Hermione or
Reuss were married Sunday at the
house ot Doom, where the lord abides
in exile. This second venture was in
Strange contrast with that day In 1881
when, as crown prince, he wedded
Augusta Victoria, daughter of Grand
Duke Frederick of Schleswlg-Holsteln.
Several ot the offspring of that first
union were present to set the seal of
family approval to the new alliance.
There were two ceremonies, a civil
contract drawn up and signed by
"Wllhelm II" and "Hermione, Reuss,1
as they affixed their names; the sec
ond, a religious ceremony, conducted
by the ex-court chaplain, Dr. Vogel,
according to the Lutheran rites.
Reds' Demands Severe.
Moscow. Soviet Russia insists on
full representation In the Lausanne
peace conference upon the same basis
as the other participating powers. M,
Tchltcherin, the foreign minister,
makes this known In a note he has
sent to Great Britain, France and
Italy, In reply to the Invitation ot the
entente that Russia take part only In
the discussions relating to the straits.
The note also demanded the partlclpa
tlon of Ukraine and Georgia.
ELEANOR H. PORTER
ILLDSTRATIONSBY
KH.LWINGSTONE.
COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H. PORTER.
CHAPTER IX Continued.
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All the evening I was watching and
listening with her eyes and her ears
everything he did, everything he said.
I so wanted Mother to like him I I so
wanted Mother to see how really fine
and splendid and noble he was. But
that evening Why couldn't he stop
talking about the prizes he'd won,
and the big racing car he'd Just or
dered for next summer? There' was
nothing fine and splendid find noble
about that. And were his finger nails
always so dirty?
Why, Mother would think
Mother did not stay In the room all
the time ; but she was In more or less
often to watch the game ; and at half
past nine she brought in some little
cakes and lemonade as a surprise. I
thought It was lovely; but I could
have shaken Paul when he pretended
to be afraid of It, and asked Mother
If there was a stick In It.
The Idea Mother! A stick 1
I Just knew Mother wouldn't like
that. But If she didn't, she never
showed a thing In her face. She Just
smiled, and sutd no, there wasn't any
stick In It; and passed the cakes.
When he had gone I remember I
didn't like to meet, Mother's eyes, and
I didn't ask her how she liked Paul
Mayhew. I kept right on talking fast
about something else. Some way, I
didn't want Mother to talk then, for
fear of what she would say.
And Mother didn't say anything
about Paul Mayliew then. But only a
few days later she told me to in
vlte him again to the house (this time
to a chafing-dish supper), and te ask
Carrie Heywood and Fred Small, too.
We had a beautiful time, only again
Paul Mayhew didn't "show off" at all
In the way I wanted him to though
he most emphatically "showed off" in
his way! It seemed to me that he
bragged even more about himself and
his belongings than he had before.
And I didn't like at all the way he
ate his food. Why, Father didn't eat
like that with such a noisy mouth,
and such a rattling of the silverware!
And so It went wise mother that
she was ! Far from prohibiting me to
have anything to do wltn Paul May
hew, she let me see all I wanted to
of him, particularly In my own home.
She let me go out with him, properly
chaperoned, and she never, by word
or manner, hinted that she didn't ad
mire his conceit and braggadocio.
And It all came out exactly as I
suspect she had planned from the be
ginning. When Paul Mayhew asked to
be my escort to the class reception in
June, I declined with thanks, and Im
mediately afterward told Fred Small
I would go With him. But even when
I told Mother nonchalantly, and with
carefully averted eyes, that I was go
ing to the reception with Fred Small
even then her pleasant "Well, that's
good!" conveyed only cheery mother
Interest; nor did a hasty glance Into
her face discover so much as a lifted
eyebrow to hint, "I thought you'd
come to your senses sometime !"
Wise little mother that she was !
In the days and weeks that followed
(though nothing was said) I detected
a subtle change In certain matters,
however. . And as I look back at It
now, I am sure I can trace Its origin to
my "affair" with Taul Mayhew. Evi
dently Mother had no Intention of run
ning the risk of any more courtships;
also evidently she Intended to know
who my friends were. At all events,
the old Anderson mansion soon be
came the rendezvous of all the boys
and girls of my acquaintance. And
such good times as we had, with
Mother always one of us, and ever pro
posing something new and Interesting!
And because boys not a boy, but
boys were as free to come to the
house as were girls, they soon seemed
to me as commonplace and matter-of-course
and free from sentimental in
terest as were the girls.
Again, wise little mother 1
But, of course, even this did not
prevent my falling In love with some
one older than myself, some one quite
outside of my own circle of Intimates.
My especial attack of this kind
came to me when I was barely eigh
teen, the spring I was being gradu
ated from the Andersonvllle High
school. And the visible embodiment
of my adoration was the head master,
Mr. Harold Hartshorn, a handsome,
cleanshaven, well-set-up man of (I
should Judge) thirty-five years of age,
rather grave, a little stern, and very
dignified.
But how I adored him t How I hung
npon his every word, his every glance !
How I maneuvered to win from him a
few minutes' conversation on a Latin
verb or a French translation! How I
thrilled if he bestowed upon me one
of his Infrequent smiles I How I
grieved over his stern aloofness 1
Fj the end of a month I had evolved
this: his stern aloofness meant that
he had been disappointed In lovel his
melancholy wis loneliness his heart
was breaking. How I longed to help,
to heal, to cure 1 How I thrilled at the
thought of the love and companionship
I could give him somewhere In a rose
embowered cottage far from the mad
ding crowd ! (He boarded at the An
dersonvllle hotel alone now.) If only
he could see It as I saw It. Tf only by
some sign or token he could know of
the warm love that was his but for
the asking ! Could he not see that no
longer need he pine alone and unap
preciated in the Andersonvllle hotel?
Why, in just a few weeks I was to
be through school. And then
On the night before commencement
Mr. Harold Hartshorn ascended our
front steps, rang the bell, and called
for my father. I knew because I was
upstairs In my room over the front
door ; and I saw him come up the walk
and heard him ask for Father.
Oh, Joy I Oh, happy day I He knew.
He had seen It as I saw It. He had
come to gain Father's permission, that
he might be a duly accredited suitor
for my hand !
During the next ecstatic ten min
utes, with my hand pressed against my
wildly beating heart, I planned my
wedding dress, selected with care and
discrimination my trousseau, furnished
the rose-embowered cottage far from
Jerry Was an Artist, It Seemed.
the madding crowd and wondered
why Father did not send for me. Then
the slam of the screen door downstairs
sent me to the window, a sickening
terror within me.
Was he going without seeing me,
his future bride? Impossible!.
Father and Mr. Harold nartshorn
stood on the front steps below, talking,
In another minute Mr. Harold Harts
horn had walked away, and Father
had turned back on to the pluzza.
As soon as I couid control my shak
ing knees, I went downstairs.
Father was in his favorite rocking
chair. I advanced slowly. I did not
sit down.
"Was that Mr. Hartshorn?" I asked,
trying to keep the shake out ot my
voice.
"Yes."
"Mr. H-Hartshorn," I repeated stu
pidly.
"Yes. He came to see me about the
Downer place," nodded Father. "He
wants to rent It for next year."
"To rent It the Downer place !" (The
Downer place was no rose-embowered
cottage far from the madding crowd I
Why, It was big, and brick, and right
next to the hotel I I didn't want to
live there.)
"Yes for his wife and family. He's
going to bring them back with him
next year," explained Father.
"Ills wife aud family 1" I can luiag
Ine about how I gasped out those four
words.
"Yes. He has five children, I be
lieve, and"
But I had fled to my room.
After all, my recovery was rapid. I
was In love with love, you see; not
with Mr. Harold Hurtshorn. Besides,
the next year I went to college. And
It was while I was at college that I
met Jerry.
Jerry was the brother of my college
friend, Helen Weston. Helen's elder
sister was a senior in that same col
lege, and was graduated at the clone
of my freshman yeas. The father,
mother and brother enme on to the
graduation. And that Is where I met
Jerry.
If It might be called meeting him,
He lifted his hat. bowed, said a polite
nothing with his tips, and in Indiffer
ent "Oh, some friend of Helen's," with
his eyes, end turned to a radiant
blonde senior at my side.
"And'that was all fur him. Hut for
me "
All that day I watched him when
ever opportunity offered ; and I suspect
that I took care that opportunity of
fered frequently. I was fascinated. I
had never seen any one like him be
fore. Tall, handsome, brilliant, at per
fect ease, he plainly dominated every
group of which he was a part. Toward
him every face was turned yet he
never seemed to know it. (Whatever
his faults, Jerry is not conceited. I
will give him credit for that!) Tome
he did not speak again that day. 1
am not sure that he even looked at me.
If he did there must still have been
In his eyes only the "Oh, some friend
of Helen's," that I had seen at the
morning introduction.
I did not meet him again for nearly
a year; but that did not mean that I
did not hear of him. I wonder if .
Helen ever noticed how often I used
to get her to talk of her home and her
family life; and how Interested I was
In her gallery of portraits on the man
tel there were two fine ones of her
brother there.
Helen was very fond of her brother.
I soon found that she loved to talk
about him If she had a good listener.
Needless to say she had a very good
one In me.
Jerry was an artist, It seemed. Ha
was twenty-eight years old, and al
ready he had won no small distinction.
Prizes, medals, honorable mention, and
special course abroud all these
Helen told me about. She told me, too,
about the wonderful success he had
Just had with the portrait of a certain
New York society woman. She said
that It was Just going to "make" Jerry ;
that he could have anything he wanted
now anything.
I saw Jerry myself during the East
er vacation of my second year In col
lege. Helen Invited me to go home
with her, and Mother wrote that I
might go. Helen had been home with
me for the Christmas vacation, and
Mother and Father liked her very
much. There was no hesitation, there
fore, In their consent that I should
visit Helen at Easter time. So I went.
Helen lived In New York. Their
home was a Fifth avenue mansion with
nine servants, four automobiles and
two chauffeurs. Naturally such a scale
of living was entirely new to me, and
correspondingly fascinating. From ths
elaborately uniformed footman that
opened the door for me to the awe
some French maid who "did" my hair,
I adored them all, and moved as In a
dream of enchantment. Then cams
Jerry home from a week-end's trip
and I forgot everything else.
I knew from the minute his eyes
looked Into mine that whatever I had
been before, I was now certnlnly no
mere "Oh, some friend of Helen's." I
was (so his eyes said) "a dencedly
pretty girl, and one well worth cul
tivating." Whereupon he began at
once to do the "cultivating."
In less than thirty-six hours I was
caught up In the whirlwind of his
wooing, and would not have escaped
It If I could.
When I went back to college he held
my promise that If he could gain the
consent of Father and Mother, he
might put the engagement ring on my
finger.
Back at college, alone In my own
room, I drew a long breath, and began
to think. It was the first chance I had
had, for even Helen now had become
Jerry by reflection.
The more I thought, the more fright
ened, dismayed, and despairing I be
came. In the clear light of calm, nne
reasoning, It was all so absurd, so Im
possible! Whnt could I hnve been
thinking of? I must forget Jerry.
I pictured him In Andersonvllle, lo
my own home. I tried to picture hliu
talking to Father, to Mother.
Absurd, What had Jerry to do with
learned treatises on stars, or with the
humdrum, everyday life of a stupid,
small town? For that mutter, what
had Father and Mother to do with
dancing and motoring and painting
society queens' portraits? Nothing.
Plainly, even If Jerry, for the sake
of the daughter, liked Father and
Mother, Father and Mother certainly
would not like Jerry. That was cer
tain. Of course I cried myself to sleep
that night. That was to be expected.
Jerry was the world; and the world
was lost. There was nothing left ex
cept, perhaps, a few remnants and
pieces, scarcely worth the counting
excepting, of course, Father and Moth
er. But one could not always have
one's father and mother. There would
come a time when
Jerry's letter came the next day
by special delivery. He had gone
straight home from the station end be
gun to write to me. (How like Jtrry
that was portlcularly the eneclal
delivery stamp!) The most of his let
ter, aside from the usual lover's rhap
sodies, had to do with plans toi the
summer what we would do together
at the Westons' summer cottage In"
Newport. He said he should run up
to Andersonvllle early very early;
just as soon as I was hack from col
lege. In fact, o that he mlght1net
Father and Mother, and put that ring
on my finger.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
6ome Information.
She was an amiable old lady, and
volunteered much information to the
fair stranger, who had come down to
see an Important event In the country
town the laying of the foundation
stone of the new church. "Ye," prat
tled the old lady, "that Is the dnke
and duchess, and the couple behind
them are the mayor and mayor, and
those two on the right atv the vlcr
nder vixen." Pearson's Weekly.
Mary Queen of Scots had a Inrge
collection of wigs, and It In said that
she wore one at her execution.
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