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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The "Old Curiosity Shop" in Lin coln's inn-fields, London, familiar to all lovers of Dickens, has been sold for $11,250. The purchaser, J. A. Phillips, said be bought the shop to preserve it as a curiosity. Captain Berec Shepperson of Lon don, England, aviator, fell on the Hermitage property, 12 miles east of Nashville, Tenn., Saturday after he hud completed a flight in the service of a sky-writing advertising company. He burned to death. Representations have been present ed to the Jugo-Slavian minister in Sofia against the reinforcement of Serbian troops on the Bulgarian fron tier, Minister Panretoft of Bulgaria was informed Monday In a cablegram from his government. Geneva is developing at such amaz ing rapidity as the great world forum for exchange of ideaB that few, if any, of the delegates assembled there for the fourth assembly of the league of nations are able to follow all the activities of this extraordinary mental market. M. Kuclmrski, Polish minister of trade and Industry, passed through Paris Tuesday on his way from Lon don to Warsaw. It is understood that the English financiers gave him no encouragement for a loan to Poland in the present state of the London secur ities market. Mrs. Robert F. Carr, Lake Shore drive resident, Chicago, lost a string of pearls valued at flO.OOO three years ago at a hotel at a health resort at Watkins, N. Y. Saturday the gems were forwarded to her. They were found by a gardener trimming a hedge near the hotel. ' Thirty inches of snow has fallen at Dome lake, a summor resort in the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming since Sunday morning, the custodian at the resort reported. Various ranger sta tions in the Big Horn mountains re ported biiow depths ranging from two font to 28 inches. The mother of 25 children at the age of 37 yeara is the record of Mrs P. Cecona of San Diego, Cal., accord lug to a report made Tuesday by a physleliin to tho city health dopnrt- nuint. The report was occasioned by tho fact that Mrs. Cecena had just giveu birth to her 25th child. It died nt birth. Honuan Ewert, "ancient mariner' and globe trotter, who with his Bon Balled from Culfport, Miss., recently in the 22-foot boat Sea Foam, is expected in Los Angeles about Christmas day. Ewert recently completed a trip around the world which took 22 years, during which time he earned his liveli hood painting pictures. Successful negotiations of a con tract with Siemuns Brothers company of London, submarine cable manu facturers, for more than 1S00 miles of gutta percha insulated cable at a price of $1,244,000 to replace tho present worn out govornmont cable from Se attle to Alaska points, was announced Monday at the war department. Thirty persons were Blightly hurt Saturday night in the crowd that gath ered in Sackvllle street, Dublin, to listeu to an addresB by President Cos- grove, who baa returned from the fourth assembly of the league of na- tlons at Geneva. The Injured wore Jostled and trampled by the crowd In its enthusiasm to see and hear the president. Ambassador Woods at Toklo handed to Premier Yamnmoto Tuesday a certl fled check for 11,000,000 as the first large Installment ot the relief fund for Japanese enrthquako sufferers col lected by the American Red Cross. In reporting to the Btute department, the ambassador said the prom lor was deeply moved and expressed his grati tude to the American people. Lieutenant ' AI llllums, navy pilot, Tuosduy established two new elt'ctrlcullytlmed air speed records over the measured one kilometer course at Curtlst field. New York. He averaged 247 miles an hour in four trips over the course and on one flight aided by a brisk wind from behind, he reached the speed ot miles an hour. Ilolh records were accepted by the navy department a authentic. CURRENT WEEK I REBELS HANDLING BULGARIA Capital Is Blockaded and King Offers to Resign Communication Cut. London. The revolution in Bul garia lias burst into full flame and the whole country is in the hands of rebels, according to a dispatch to the Morning Post from Belgrade dated Monday. The dispatch adds that Sofia is blockaded. King Boris has offered to resign but his offer has not been ac cepted. The insurgents are said to have de stroyed all means ot communication and the government has lost connec tion with the provinces. The situation of the capital is critical. It is block aded both in a military and economic sense, is short of provisions and is threatened with attack. London. Bulgarian communists have held up the Orient express near the Turkish, frontier, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Con stantinople. The dispatch adds that telegraph communication is interrupt ed. Sofia. A semi-official statement Is sued Monday evening says that the communists' movement , has been sup pressed at two points in southern Bul garia and that peace has been restor ed. Several centers of communist dis affection still exist in the north, the statements adds, but attempts to create an uprising have been feebly supported and have not succeeded. RACING BALLOON BURSTS AT MEET Brussels. Several unfortunate in cidents marked the start ot the race Sunday for the Gordon Bennett cup, the American balloons being especial ly unlucky. The United States army S-6 drifted onto the Belgian Ville de Bruxelles, tearing the rlggingo badly that the Belgian balloon was unable to start. The United States A-6G99 narrowly escaped catastrophe and had to throw out ballast wholesale, which fell among the spectators. The Saint Louis, a third American balloon, was caught by a heavy squall and burst ten minutes before the time for her departure. The balloon race started in ter rific gusts of wind and driving rain, and has already cost three lives. Of the 17 entrants assembled for the race, 13 so far as is known, are in the air. One of the balloons, reported to be the Swiss Geneva, was struck by light' nlng, and Lieutenants Von Gruninggen and Wheren were killed. The Spanish balloon Polar caught fire and Kb pilot, Penaranda, was killed and his assist ant, Gomez, injured. Thus two ot the American contest ants ure Btrlvlng against three French, two Bulgian, two Spanish, two Swiss and two British. The Italian and Polish entries had already been with drawn. Rail Net Income Gains. San Francisco. The net railway operating Income of the Southern Pa cific company for the first eight months of 1921) showed un increase of 50,178,126, compnred with tho same period lust year, the company reports. The net revenue from railroad opera tions for August was $7,773,712, an in crease of- $1,237,078 over August of lust yeur. The totul net railway oper ating income tor the first eight months' period ot this year was $31,- G76.C20. Ex-Premier Is Coming. New York. A cublo received by the Cununl lino says t hat ex-Premier the Right Honorable Lloyd Oeorge, ac companied by Dame Lloyd George Miss Megan Lloyd George and the ex- premier's secretary, will sail from Southampton, Saturday, September 29, on the Cunard liner Muurotanlu, reaching New York October 5. Lloyd George will spend a month In this country, Bulling for Euglund Novem ber 3. Auto Thieve Get $2370. Sun Francisco. Two youthful auto mobile outlaws drove up alongside C. J. Quirk, cashier of the Great Western Smelting & Refining company, Mon day while ho was returning from a bunk to his office In the industrial dis trict with the week's payroll ot $2370. They grubbed the sack containing tho money from him and escaped. Wheat Penalty It Fixed. Spokane, Wash. Enforcement of tho contract provision of the Wash ington Wheat Growers' association, whereby a penalty of 25 cents a bushel will be paid the association on all wheat sold by members to outside buyers, was decided upon by the board of directors at a meeting here Monday. TARIFF INCREASE I President Coolidge Is Asked to Exert His Power. SITUATION SERIOUS Rise Declared Necessary as Protection Against Large Imports From Northern Neighbor. Washington, D. C. Sydney Ander son, representative of Minnesota and head of the National Wheat council, discussed the wheat solution at some length with President Coolidge Satur day and urged the necessity of using the flexible provision of the tariff law to provide the American wheat grow er additional protection against Cana dian grain. He announced Immediate ly afterward that he would urge the matter before the tariff commission early this week. He pointed out the power of the executive under the law to raise or lower duties 50 per cent of the fixed rate if deemed in the interest of American producers. The duty on wheat being 30 cents a bushel, he re minded the president that without call ing congress in session the rate could be increased to 45 cents. Canadian wheat is now being sold in Minneapolis In spite of the tariff, Mr. Anderson said he had been ad vised, and that being the case, the first move should be to protect the American grower to the limit before taking any steps to stabilize the domestic market. He said it looked to him like poor business to employ methods to help American producers without at the same time doing some thing to prevent the dumping of large quantities of the foreign wheat in this country in competition at the more advantageous prices. If Canadian growers can compete now, he pointed out, improved conditions in this coun try certainly would do nothing less than to Increase the availability of do mestic markets to the foreign product, Representative Anderson declared his opposition to any price-fixing plan but did not commit himself on any of the other stabilization pro posals, of which there are many, ex cept to Indicate that they did not im press him deeply. He let It be known that in his study of the grain situa tion in connection with his activities on the wheat council he was convinc ed that rapid improvement in the wheat market is near. He asserted the conviction that in the end it will develop that this country actually has no surplus of millable wheat. The question ot readjustment of acreage in the sowing of the next crop was discussed with the pri-siuent and wus agreed upon as one of the solutions, which of course could not be a help to the producers ot this year's crop. He said after leaving the White House there was no douiit '.hat with acreage today on the five-year average before the war there would be no complaint whatsoever now re garding the wheat situation. The latter statement Is understood to hove referred to the figures of government statisticians showing that while 14 states decreased wheat acre age very considerably In 1923, the average planting for the United States as a whole was 13,744,000 acres great- Land Open To Veterans. Washington, D. C Opening of more than 111,000 acres of public lands in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah to ex-service men ot the world war was announced Saturday by the interior department. Dates for filing will be made public later by local land offices. The lands comprised in the tracts opened under the orders Include 78, 000 acres In Garfield county, Utah near Huuksville. Mexican To Keep Job. Mexico City. Adolfo de la Huerta, secretary ot the treasury, announced that he has not resigned his portfolio in tho Mexican cabinet. Senor de la Huerta said he simply requested and received 60 days' leave of absence because of Illness. lie added that for the present he had no Intention ot leaving Mexico. Conference Dates Set. Lincoln, Neb. Attorney-General Splllmnn ot Nebraska Saturday of ficially set October 15 to 17 as the dates for the national conference ot attorney-generals, at which gasoline production and consumption will be discussed. The conference will be held In Chicago. IE URGED Erskine Dale Pioneer By John Fox, Jr. Copyright by Circles Scribtur! Sou DANE GREY. SYNOPSIS. To the Kentucky wilderness outpost commanded by Jerome Sanders, In the time Imme diately preceding the Revolution, comes a white boy fleeing from a tribe of Shawnees by whom he had been captured and adopted as a son of the chief Kahtoo. lie is given shelter and attracts the favorable attention of Dave Yandell, a leader among the settlers. The boy warns his new friends of the coming of a Shawnee war party. The fort Is attacked, and only saved by the timely appearance of a party of Virginians. The leader of these 19 fatally wounded, but In hiB dying moments recognizes the fugitive youth as hts son. At Red Oaks, plantation on the JameB river, Vir ginfa, Colonel Dale's home, the boy appears with a message for the colonel, who after reading It intro duces the bearer to his daughter Barbara as her cousin, Erskine Dale, Erskine meets two other cousins, Harry Dale and Hugh "Wll loughby. Dueling rapiers on a wall at Red Oaks attract Ersklne's at tention. He takes his first fencing lesson from Hugh. CHAPTER V Continued. For an hour or more they ' had driven and there was no end to the fields of tobacco and grain. "Are we still on your land?" Burbara laughed. "Yes ; we can't drive around the plantation and get back for dinner. I think we'd better turn now." "Plan-ta-tlon," said the lad. "What's that?" Barbara waved her whip. "Why, all this the land the farm." "Oh I" "It's called Red Oaks from those big trees back of the house." "Oh. I know oaks well all of 'em." She wheeled the ponies and with fresh zest they scampered for home. Everybody had gathered for the noon day dinner when they swung around the great trees and up to the back porch. Just as they were starting In the Kentucky boy gave a cry and darted down the path. A towering figure in coonskin cap and hunter's garb was halted at the sun-dial and looking toward them. "Now, I wonder who that Is," said Colonel Dale. "Jupiter, but that boy can run 1" They saw the tall stranger stare wonderingly at the boy and throw back his head and laugh. Then the two came on together. The boy was still flushed but the hunter's face was grave. "This is Dave," said the boy simply. "Dave Yandell," added the stranger, smiling and taking off his cap. "I've been at Williamsburg to register some hinds and I thought I'd come and see how this young man is getting along." Colonel Dale went quickly to meet him with outstretched hand. , "I'm mighty glad you did," he said heartily. "Erskine has already told ub about you. You are Just in time for dinner." "That's mighty kind," said Dave. And the ladles, after he wus present ed, still looked at him with much cu riosity and great interest. Truly, strange visitors were coming to Red Oaks these days. That night the subject of Hugh and Hurry going back home with the two Kentuckians was broached to Colonel Dale, and to the wondering delight of the two boys both fathers seemed to consider It favorably. Mr. Brock- tun was going to England for a visit, the summer was coming on, and both fathers thought it would be a great benefit to their sons. Even Mrs. Dale, on whom the hunter had made a most agreeuble Impression, smiled and said she would already be willing to trust her son with their new guest any where. "I shall take good care of htm, madam," said Duve with u bow. Colonel Dale, too, wus greatly taken with the stranger, and he asked many questions of the new lund beyond the mountains. There wus dancing again that night, and the hunter, towering a head above them all, looked on with smiling interest. He even took part In a square dunce with Miss June Wil loughby, handling his great bulk with astonishing grace and lightness of foot. Then the'elder gentlemen went Into the drawing-room to their port and pipes, and the boy Krskiue slipped u f tor them and listened enthralled to the talk of the coming war. Colonel Dale had been In Hanover ten years before, when one Patrick Henry voiced the first lutiiiiution of Independence In Virginia ; Henry, a country storekeeper bankrupt; funner bankrupt; storekeeper aguln, and bankrupt agulu; an Idler, hunter, fisher, and story-teller even a "bar keeper," as Mr. Jefferson ouce dubbed him, because Henry had once helped his father-lii-law to keep tavern. That fur back Colonel Dale hud heard Henry denounce the clergy, stlginutlr.e the king as a tyrant who hud forfeit ed all clulm to obedience, and hud teen the orator caught up on tlie shoulders ot the crowd and amidst shouts of applause borne iirouud the court house green. He hnd seen the same Henry ride Into Richmond two years later on a lean horse: with pa lters In his euddle-porkeu, his ex pression grim, his tall figure stoop ing, a peculiar twinkle In his small blue eyes, his brown wig without pow der, his coat peach-blossom Id color, his knee-breeches of leather, and his stockings of yarn. The sW of the Burgesses wst on a dais nadir a red canopy supported by gilded rods, and the clerk sut beneath with a mace on the table before him, but Henry cried for liberty or death, and the shouts of treason failed then and there to save Virginia for the king. The lad's brain whirled. What did all this mean? Who was this king and what had he done? He had known but the one from whom he had run away. When he got Dave alone he would learn and learn and learn everything. And then the young people came quietly In and sat down quietly, and Colonel Dale, divining what they wanted, got Dave started on stories of the wild wilderness that was his home the first chapter In the Iliad of Kentucky the land of dark forests and cane thickets that sepa rated Catawbas, Creeks and Chero kees on the south from Delawares, Wyandottes and Shawnees on the north, who fought one another, and all of whom the whites must fight. How the first fort was built, and the first women stood on the banks of the Kentucky river. He told of the perils and hardships of the first journeys thIther--fights with wild beasts and wild men, chases, hand-to-hand com bats, escapes and massacres and only the breathing of his listeners could be heard, save the sound of his own voice. And he came finally to the story of the attack on the fort, the raising of a small hand above the cane, palm outward, and the swift dash of a slender brown body Into the fort, and then, seeing the boy's face turn scarlet, he did not tell how that same lad had slipped back Into the woods even while the fight was going on, and slipped back with the bloody scalp of his enemy, but ended with the timely coming of the Virginians, led by the lad's father, who got his death-wound at the very gate. The tense breathing of his listeners cul minated now In one general deep breath. Colonel Dale rose and turned to General Wllloughby. "And that's where he wants to take our boys." "Oh, It's much snfer now," said the hunter. "We have had no trouble for some time, and there's no danger In side the fort." "I can imagine you keeping those boys inside the fort when there's so much going on outside. Still " Colonel Dale stopped and the two boys took heart aguln. Colonel Dale escorted the boy and Dave to their room. Mr. Yandell must go with them to the fair at Williams- Maidens Moved Daintily Along In Silk and Lace, High-Heeled Shoes and Clocked Stocking. burg next morning, and Mr. Yandell would go gladly. They would spend the night there and go to the gover nor's ball. The next day there was a county fair, and perhaps Mr. Henry would speak aguln. Then Mr. Yandell must come back with them to Red Ouksand pay them a visit no, the colonel would accept no excuse what ever. The boy plied Dave with questions about the people In the wilderness and passed to sleep. Duve lay awake a long time thluklng that war was sure to come. They were Americans now, suld Colonel Dale not Virginians, Just as nearly a century later the sume people were to say: "We are not Americans no.v we are Virginians." CHAPTER VI. It was a merry cavalcade that swung around the great oaks that spring morning in 1774. Two coaches with outriders and postilions led the way with their precious freight the elder ladies In the first coach, and the second blossoming with flowerlike faces and starred with dancing eyes. Booted and spurred, the gentlemen rode behind, and after them rolled the baggage wagons, drawn by mules In jingling harness. Harry on a chestnut sorrel and the young Ken tucklsa on a high-stepping gray fol lowed the second coach Hugh on Firefly champed the length of the column. Colonel Dale and Dave brought up the rear. The road was of aind and there was little sound of hoof or wheel only the hum of voices, occasional sillies when a neighbor joined them, and laughter from the second coach as happy and care-free as the singing of birds from trees by the roadside. The capital had been moved from Jamestown to the spot where Bacon :iad taken the oath against England tiitu called Middle-Plantation, and now Williams"-"-"?. The cavalcade wheeled into oiuucester street, and Colonel Dale pointed out to Dave the old capltol at one end and William and Mary college at the other. Mr. Henry had thundered In the old cap ltol, the Burgesses had their council chamber there, and in- the hall there would be a ball that night. Near the street vas a great building which the colonel pointed out as the governor's palace, surrounded by pleasure grounds of full thre,e hundred acres and planted thick with linden trees. My Lord Dunmore lived there. At this season the planters came with their families to the capital, and the street was as brilliant as a fancy dress parade would be to us now. It was filled with coaches and fours. Maidens moved dulntlly along In silk and lace, high-heeled shoes and clocked stockings. The cavalcade halted before a build ing with a leaden bust of Sir Walter Raleigh over the main doorway, the old Raleigh tavern, In the Apollo room of which Mr. Jefferson had rapturous ly danced with his Belinda, and which was to become the Faneuil hall of Virginia. Both coaches were quickly surrounded by bowing gentlemen, young gallants, and frolicsome stu dents. Dave, the young Kentucklan, and Hurry would be put up at the tavern, and, for his own reasons, Hugh elected to stay with them. With an au revolr of white hands from the coaches, the rest went on to the house of relatives and friends. Inside" the tavern Hugh was soon surrounded by fellow students and boon companions. He pressed Dave and the boy to drink with them, but Dave laughingly declined and took the lud up to their room. Below they could hear Hugh's merriment coing on, and when he came upstairs a while later his face was flushed, he was in great spirits, and was full of enthusiasm over a horse race and cock-fight that he had arranged for the afternoon. With him came a youth of his own age with daredevil eyes and a suave manner, one Dane Grey, to whom Harry gave scant greeting. One patronizing look from the stranger toward the Kentucky boy and within the latter a fire of antagonism was Instantly kindled. With a word after the two went out, Harry snorted his explanation: "Tory I" In the early afternoon coach and horsemen moved out to an "old field." Hugh was missing from the Dale party, and General Wllloughby frowned when he noted his son's ab sence. Then a crowd of boys gathered to run one hundred und twelve yards for a hat worth twelve shillings, and Dave nudged his young friend. A moment later Harry cried to Bar bura : "Look there 1" There was their young Indian lin ing up with the runners, his face calm, but an eager light in his eyes. At the word he started off almost leisurely, until the whole crowd was nearly tea yards ahead of him, and then a yell of astonishment rose from the crowd. The boy wus skimming the ground on wings. Past one after another he flew, and laughing and hardly out of breath he bounded over the finish, with the first of the rest laboring with bursting lungs ten yards behind. Hugh and Dane Grey had appeared arm In arm and were moving through the crowd with great gayety and some boisterousness, and when the boy appeared with his hat Grey shouted: "Good for the little savage!" Erskine wheeled furiously but Dave caught him by the arm and led him back to Harry and Burbara, who looked so pleased that the lad's Ill humor passed at once. Hugh and his friend had not ap proached them, for Hugh had seen the frown on his father's face, but Erskine saw Grey look long at Bar bara, turn to question Hugh, and again he begun to burn within. The wrestlers had now stepped forth to battle for a pair of silver buckles, and the boy In turn nudged Dave, but unavaillngly. The wres tling was good and Dave watched It with keen Interest. One huge bull necked fellow was easily the winner, but when the silver buckles were In his hand, be boastfully challenged anybody In the crowd. Duve shoul dered through the crowd and faced the victor. "I'll try you once," he said, and s shout of approval rose. The Dale party crowded close and my lord's coach appeared on the out skirts and stopped. "Backholts or catch-as-catch-can?" asked the victor sneerlngly. "As you please," said Dave. "He's hurt," said Dave,' "and he's gone home." ITU tlli CONTINUED.) Very Much to Be Desired. We all should like a cook such as an English clergyman advertised for lo the London Times. In his advertise ment he said among other things that It was essential not only that his cook should have a sense of humor but alio that she should exemplify the spirit of Galatisns, verse 2J. Now Galatlans, verse 22, reads thus: ;'But the fruit of the spirit Is love, Joy. peace, long suffering, gentleuess, goodness, faith,"