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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,"