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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing Worth Knowing. A bill carrying a general program of road building In national parks has been placed in the bands of Repre sentative Slnnott as chairman of the bouse public lands committee tor In troduction. Presldont Coolldge was asked Tues day by a delegation representing Min nesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, to order modification by the department of agriculture of the exist ing wheat grades. It was learned unofficially in ' Manila Tuesday afternoon that six dostroyers from the American Asiatic Hoot have been ordered to proceed at once to Hongkong In connection with the' situation at Canton and vicinity. L. S. Swenson, the American min ister at Christianla, has received a telegram from Captain Roald Amund sen, in which the explorer congratu lates the American navy on its deci sion to explore the north polar quad rant., Funeral Services Thursday morning for Lord . Shaughnessy, chairman of . the board of directors of the Canadian Pacific railway, were in the nature of a national event. The services were . held at St. Patrick's church and in terment in Cote dos Neiges cemetery In Montreal. ' , i The Canadian minister of marine and fishorlos has been authorized to Issue llconses to United States fishing vossels on the Pacific coast of Can ada, which will permit them, during 1924, to enter British Columbia ports with certain privileges they have not had heretofore. , , Two large crevices are emitting 2, 000,000 ublc feet of molten lava every hour from the Kllauea volcano, said a wireless message received by the department of the interior from Thomas Boles, superintendent of the Hawaii national park, In which the volcano Is located. After two days of argument the board of arbitration of the Na tional Association of Professional Baseball Leagues In Chicago Tuesday t night voted to recognize Harry A. Wll , Hams, formerly a Los Angeles sports writer, as the legally elected president of the Pacific Coast league. Formal presentation of the Nobel prize awards was made at Stockholm Monday in the presence of the king, the cabinet, the foreign diplomats and representatives ot scientlfio organiza tions. Four recipients, including Wil liam Butler Yeats, winner ot the liter ature prize, received their awards in person. , Five hundred dollars was sot aside by Mrs. Clementine Reisner, who died at her home In Eugene a few days ago, for the care of her poodle dog during its lifetime, according to her will, admitted to probate yesterday. The executor ot the will is directed to retain this amount and expend not more than $5 a month for the dog's care. President Coolldge formally opened the' way Tuesday to co operation by American economic experts in the double inquiry proposed by the repar ations commission into Germany's fi nancial situation. A formal White , House statement said the Washing ton government would "view with favor the acceptance by American ex ports of an Invitation to sit upon the inquiry committees." One person was dead and several othora were recovering from injuries Monday as the result of accidents at tributed to the high winds which swept Los Angeles and vicinity, up rooting trees, unroofing houses, wrecking store fronts and demolish ing fences and signs. No accurate esti mate ot property damage was avail able, but the loss was believed to have run Into thousands of dollars. The approximate location ot the , population center of Oregon is 24.6 miles southeast ot Marquara, Clack amas county, according to statistics made public Tuesday by the federal census bureau. The movement of the center from 1910 to 1920 was i.i miles In a direct line from point to point, while the direction ot the movement was 4 0 miles northward and 1.1 miles eastward, the bureau's figures showed. CURRENT WEEK RUSSIA SEEKS RECOGNITION Soviet Appears Hopeful of Receiving Answer to Communication. Washington, D. C A note from the Russian fyrelgn office making a new bid for recognition of the soviet gov ernment by the United States reached the White House Monday and was re ferred to the state department for consideration. The only comment made in official circles was that the communication, like all others filed with the Washington government, would be studied carefully before a decision was announcod. It was add ed that any decision would be made In the light ot the well-understood views of officials here as to the neces sity ot complete guarantees of sta bility and orderly government in Russia. Moscow. Foreign Minister Tchit cherin's note asking resumption of friendly relations between Russia and America present the first instance of a member of the soviet government directly addressing the president of the United States. Once, in 1921, the soviet central executive committee sent a communication to the American congress, but previous communica tions from M. Tchitcherin, Lltvlnoff and other members of the government have been sent to the secretary of state. It appears that the Moscow govern ment Is really hopeful of receiving an answer to the present offer. . Presi dent Coolidge's reference to Russia in his message to congress, while not altogether pleasing to the bolshevik!, was considered in official circles here as a step forward. M. Tchltcherin's note is understood to mean exactly what it says, that "the soviet govern ment is ready to do all in its power so far as the dignity and interests of its country permit to bring about a friendship with the United States." How far' Russia is ready to go in this direction in the case of her claim against the United States for the American intervention in Siberia and the Archangel region is not clear, but from unofficial sources it appears that the question of debts would not be considered greatly important in the event negotiations were brought about. It is recalled that Karl Radek, in an article in the official Pravda last year, said Russia was ready to "buy" Amer ican recognition. The soviet government Is represent ed as believing that, now more than ever, there is paramount necessity for some stability in Russo-American re lations. Russian co-operatives are said to be operating In the United States, and It is further reported that a syndicate recently was formed there to finance the shipment of American cotton to this country. Singular People Found. New York. Discovery of a tribe whose people he believed to have an tedated the ancient Egyptians was re ported Monday to the National For eign Trade council by John Glffen Culbertson, a manufacturer of Wichita Falls, Tex., on his return from a South Amoriean tour of a year and a half. These people, known as the Macht- glna, speak a language very similar in construction to English, he report ed, and they worship trees in the tradition that thoir ancestors escaped extinction in the biblical flood by climbing trees. The tribes live near the headwaters of the Amazon, where Mr. Culbertson said he had invaded forests never before penetrated by white man. Throne Offered Yankee. Rome. A member of the Albanian mission in Rome said Monday that a certain American millionaire has just been offered the throne of Albania, in succession to Prince Wiliam of Wied, in the hope that he can put the coun try on a sound financial basis. It is understood that Harry F. Sinclair, the American oil man, is the prospec tive king of Albania. Several of Mr. Sinclair's confidential agents passed through Rome en route to Tirana last week. They are under the close sur veillance of the political police of sev eral European countries. Negro Shoots Two Men. Pendleton, Or. Pete Gunis and Harry Zographas are in St. Anthony's hospital with bullet holes In their ab domens, and officers were looking tor a negro named E. Groople, who is suspected of having shot the two men in the railroad yard at Rieth early Monday morning. The wounded men declared that their injuries were in flicted as a result ot an accident and that the negro did not know his gun was loaded. Borah Not Candidate. Washington, D, C Senator Borah of Idaho "is not a candidate for the presidential nomination of any party," he said Sunday In discussing a pre diction ot Frank E. Johnesse at Boise, Idaho, that he would soon- announce his candidacy for president on the progressive ticket. Johnesse predict ed that Borah would be in the race in 90 days. its 1 Thirty-one Remaining Violators Freed by Coolidge. COMMUTE ADVISES Move Declared Favored by Majority of Members Report of Inves tigators Not Revealed. Washington, D. C The plea for amnesty which has been presented re peatedly to three national administra tions was granted finally Saturday by President Coolidge In commuting the sentences of all remaining imprisoned violators of war laws. The action of the president will bring about the release before Christ mas of 31 men now serving sentences In the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for violation of the espionage act. Two of these men were convicted at Kansas City in 1919; along with 24 other alleged members of the I. W. W.; nine of them were convicted in Chicago, together with William D, ("Big Bill") Haywood, general secretary-treasurer ot the I. W. W and the others were found guilty in Sacra mento in 1919. Mr. Coolidge acted upon receipt of a recommendation for amnesty from the Bpecial committee he appointed several weeks ago to make a disin terested study o the question of clemency for war-law violators. This committee was composed of Newton D. Baker, secretary of war during the war period; Major-General James G. Harbord, who served over seas as head of the service of supplies of the American army, and Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Episcopal church, who was chief ot the army chaplain service during the war. ' The report of the special committee was not made public, but the White House announcement of the presi dent's action said a majority of com mittee members favored amnesty. The announcement was made in the following statement: "It is announced today that the president and Attorney General Daugherty, after conferring together and considering the joint report pre pared by Newton D. Baker, Bishop Charles H. Brent and General J. G. Harbord, upon war-time prisoners, have decided to adopt and follow the majority recommendation of the com mittee, and accordingly the president today, In conformity with the recom mendation of the attorney-general, has commuted the sentences of all the remaining war-time prisoners con victed at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacramento to the terms already served. "Warrants of commutation are be ing prepared, and as soon as signed by the president will be sent to the wardens with instructions to release the prisoners." City Has $800,000 Fire. Charlotte, N. C. Damage estimated at from $500,000 to $800,000 was done here Sunday night by a fire discovered at 8 o'clock In the East Trade street mercantile section. At least one man, a negro, whose name could not be learned, was in jured in the blaze. The negro failed to heed a warning to leave the ware house of the Smlth-Wadsworth com pany on North College street and was struck by a falling wall. There were reports that a number ot other per sons had been injured or killed by falling walls but these could not be verified. $150,000 Bribe Refused. . Mobile, Ala. The charge that "fix ers" representing the liquor traffic, gambling, slot machines and other forms of law violations in the city of Mobile had pffered him $150,000 as bribe money to "slow up the work of his office" was made in a public state ment issued Sunday night by Federal District Attorney Aubrey Boyles. The statement was given out fol lowing closely upon the adjournment of the federal grand jury late Satur day night, which returned 17 indict ments as a result ot the recent ex posures here by agents of the United States government. t Monroe Doctrine Is Hit. New York. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt told the foreign policy associa tion that the political parties indorsed the Monroe doctrine because neither fathered it and both liked antiques. "There are more entangling things in the Monroe doctrine," she declared, "than George Washington ever dream ed of. To say the doctrine is right and true because all Americans be lieve in it is wrong, because South Americans do not believe in it." Erskine Dale Pioneer By John Fox, Jr. Goprrl(M br CWIm Icrlbur't SoM CHAPTER XVII Continued. 17 Crey was cautious at first, trying out ills opponent's Increase In 'skill: "You have made marked Improve ment." "Thunk you," smiled Erskine. "Your wrist Is much stronger." "Naturally." Grey leaped backward and parried" just In time a vicious thrust that was like a dart of light ning. "Ah I A Frenchman taught , you that." "A Frenchman taught me all the little I know." "I wonder If he taught you how to meet this." "He did," answered Erskine, parry ing easily and with on answering thrust that turned Grey suddenly anxious. Constantly Grey maneuvered to keep his buck to the moon, and Just as constantly Erskine easily kept liim where the light shone fairly on both. Grey begun to breathe heavily. "I think, too," said Erskine, "that my wind Is a little better thun yours would you like a short resting spell?" From the shadow Ephralm chuckled, and Grey snapped : "Make that black devil" "Keep quiet, Ephralm I" broke in Erskine sternly. Again Grey maneu vered for the moon, to no avail, and Erskine gave warning: "Try that again and I will put that moon In your eyes und keep it there." Grey was getting angry now and was beginning to pant. "Your wind is short," snid Erskine with mock compassion. "I will give you a little breathing-spell presently." Grey was not wasting his precious breath now and he made no answer. "Now I" said Erskine sharply, and Grey's blade flew from his hand and lay like a streak of silver on the dewy grass. Grey rushed for It. "D n you I" he raged, and wheeled furiously patience, humor, and cau tion quite gone and they fought now In deadly silence. Ephralm saw the British officer appear in, the hull and walk unsteadily down the steps as though lie were coming down the path, but he dared not open his lips. There was the sound of voices,' and it was evident that the game had ended in a quarrel and the players were coming up the river bank toward them. Er skine heard, but if Grey did he at first gave no sign he was too much concerned with the deuth that faced him. Suddenly Erskine knew that Grey 'had heard, for the fear in his face gave way to a diabolic grin of triumph and lie lashed suddenly Into defense if he could protect himself only a little longer! Erskine had de layed the finishing stroke too long and lie must make it now. . Grey gave way step by step parrying only. The blades flashed like tiny bits of lightning. Ersklne's face, grim and Inexorable, brought the sick fear back Into Grey's, and Erskine saw his ene my's lips open. He lunged then, his blade went true, sank to the hilt, and Grey's warped soul started on its way with a craven cry for help. Erskine sprang back into the shadows and snatched his pistol from Epliraim's hand: . "Get out of the way now. Tell them I did it." ' Once lie looked back. He saw Bar bara at the hall door with old mammy behind her. With a running leap he vaulted the hedge, and, hidden In the bushes, Ephralm heard Firefly's hoofs beating ever more faintly the sandy road. . ' CHAPTER XVIII Yorktown broke the British heart, and General Dale, still weak from wounds, went home to Red Oaks. It was not long before, with gentle in quiry, he had pieced out the full story of Barbara and Erskine and Dane Grey, and wisely he waited his ohance with each phase of the situation. Frankly he told her first of Grey's dark treachery, and the girl listened with horrified silence, for she would as soon have distrusted that beloved father as the heavenly Father In her prayers. She left him when he finished the story and he let her go without another word. All day she was in her room and at sunset she gave him her answer, for she came to him dressed in white, knelt by his chair, and put her head in his lap. And there was a rose In her hair. "I have never understood about my self and and that man," sue said, "and I never will." 'i do," mid the general gently, "und I understand you through my sister Who was so like you. Ersklne's father was as Indignant as Harry Is now, and I ain trying to act toward you as my father did toward her." The girl pressed her lips to one ot his hands. "I think I'd better tell you the whole story now," said General Dale, and he told of Ersklne's father, his wlld ness and his wanderings, his marriage, and the enpture of his wife and the little son by the Indians, all of which she knew, and the girl wondered why he should be telling her again. The general paused: "You know Ersklne's mother was not killed. He found her." The girl hulked up amazed and incredulous. 1 "Yes," he went on, "the white woman whom he fotand In the Indian village was his mother." "Father!" She lifted her head quickly, leaned back with hands caught tight In front of her, looked up Into his face her own crimsoning and puling as she took in the full meaning of It all. Her eyes dropped. "Then," she said slowly, "that In dian girl Early Morn Is Ills lmlf slster. Oh, oh I" A greut pity flooded her heart and eyes. "Why didn't Ers kine take them away from the In dians?" "His mother wouldn't leave them." And Barbara understood. "Poor Erskine I" she whispered, and her tears came. Her father leaned back and for a moment closed his eyes. "There is more," he said finally. "Ersklne's father was the eldest brother and Red Oaks" The girl sprang to her feet, startled, agonized, shamed: "Belongs to Ers kine," she finished with her fuce In her hands. "God pity me," she whis pered, "I drove him from his own home;" "No," said the old general with a gentle smile. He was driving the barb deep, but sooner or later it had to be done. , "Look here I" He pulled an old piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her. Her wide eyes fell upon a rude boyish scrawl and a rude drawing of a buffalo pierced by an arrow : "It make me laugh. I have no use. I give hole dam pluntashun Barbara." "Oh!" gasped the girl and then "where Is he?" "Waiting at Williamsburg to get his discharge." She rushed swiftly down the steps, calling: "Ephralm ! Ephralm !" And ten minutes inter the happy, grinning Ephralm, mounted on the thoroughbred, was speeding ahead of a whirlwind of dust with a little scented note in- his battered slouch hat: "You said you would come when ever I wanted you. I want you to come now. BARBARA." The girl would not go to bed, and the old general from his window saw her like some white spirit of the night motionless on the porch. And there through the long hours she sat. Once she rose and started down the great path toward the sundial, moving slowly through the flowers and moon light until she was opposite a giant magnolia. Where the shadow of it touched the light on the grass, she had last seen Grey's white face and scarlet breast. With a shudder she turned back. The night whitened. A catbird started the morning chorus. The dawn came and with It Ephraim. The girl waited where she was. Eph ralm took off his battered hat. "Marse Erskine done gone, Miss Barbary," he said brokenly. "He done gone two duys." The girl said nothing, and there the old general found her still motion lessthe torn bits of Ersklne's scrawl ing deed scattered about her feet. CHAPTER XIX On the summit of Cumberland gap Erskine Dale fuced Firefly to the east and looked his last on the forests that swept unbroken back to the river James. It was all over for him back there and he turned to the wilder depths, those endless leagues of shad owy woodlands, that he would never leave again. At Boonesborough he learned from the old ferryman that, while the war might be coming to an end in Vir ginia, It was raging worse than ever in Kentucky. There had been bloody Indian forays, bloody white reprisals, fierce private wars, and even then the whole border was in a flame. Forts had been pushed westward even be yond Lexington, and 1782 had been Kentucky's year of blood. Erskine pushed on, and ever grew his hopeless ness. The British had drawn all the savages of the Northwest into the war. As soon as the snow was off the ground the forays had begun. Horses were stolen, cabins burned, "and wom en and children were carried off cap tive. The pioneers had been confined to their stockaded forts, and only small bands of riflemen sallied out to patrol the country. Old Jerome San ders' fort was deserted. Old Jerome had been killed. Twenty-three widows were at Harrodsburg filing the claims of dead husbands, and among them were Polly Conrad and Honor San ders. The people were expecting an attack in great force from the In dians led by the British. At the Blue Licks there had been a successful am bush by the Indians and the whites had lost half their number, among tli em many brave men and natural leaders of the settlements. Captain Clark was at the mouth of Licking river and about to set out on an ex pedition and needed men. Erskine, sure of a welcome, Joined him and again rode forth with Clark through the northern wilderness, and this time a thousand mounted rifle men followed them. Clark had been stirred at last from his lethargy by the tragedy of the Blue Licks and this expedition was one of reprisal and revenge; and it was to be the last. The time was autumn and the corn was ripe. The triumphant sav ages rested in their villages unsus pecting and unafraid, and Clark fell upon them like a whirlwind. Taken by surprise, and startled and dis mayed by such evidence of the quick rebirth of power in the beaten whites, the Indians of every village fled at their approach, and; Clark put the torch not only to cabin and wigwam but to the fields of standing corn. As winter was coming on, .this would be a sad blow, as Clark intended, to the savages. Erskine had told the big chief of his mother, and every man knew the story and was on guard that she should come to no harm. A captured Shawnev il:l them that the Shaw- noes hud got word that the white were coming, iiml their women mid old men had tied or were lleelng, ull, except In u village he had Just left he puused und putnled toward the east where u few wisps ot smoke were rising. Erskine turned: "Do you know Kahtoo?" 1 "Ub Is in that village." Erskine hesitated: "And the white woman Gray Dove?" "She, too, Is there." "And Early Morn?" "Yes," grunted the savage. "What does he say?" asked Clark. "There Is a white woman and her daughter in a village, there," said Erskine, pointing in the direction of the smoke. Clark's voice was announcing the fact to his men. Hastily he selected twenty. "See that no harm conies to them," he cried, and dushed forwurd. Erskine in ndvunee saw Black Wolf and a few bucks covering the retreut of some fleeing women. They made u feeblo rcslstunce of a volley and they too turned to fit. A white woman emerged from a tent and with greut dignity stood, peering with dim eyes. To Clark's amazement Erskine rushed forward and took tier In his arms. A moment Inter Erskine. cried : "My sister, where is she?" The white woman's trembling Hps opened, but before she could answer, a harsh, angry voice broke in haught ily, and Erskine turned to see Black Wolf stulklng In, a prisoner between two stalwart woodsmen. "Early Morn Is Black Wolf's squaw. She Is gone " lie waved one hand toward the forest. The Insolence of the savage angered Clark, and not understanding, whut he said, he asked angrily: "Who is this fellow?" "He is the husband of my half-sister," answered Erskine gravely. Clark looked dazed and uncompre hending : "And that woman?" "My mother," said Erskine gently. "Good God I". breathed Clark, lie turned quickly and waved the open mouthed woodsmen awuy, and Erskine and his mother were left alone. A , feeble voice culled from a tent near by. "Old Kahtoo!" said Ersklne's moth er. "He Is dying and lie talks of nothing but you go to him I" And Erskine went. The old man lay trembling with palsy on a buffulo robe, but the incredible spirit In his wasted body was still burning iu his eyes. "My son," said he, "I knew your voice. I said I should not die until I had seen you nguin. It is well . . . It is well," he repeated, and wearily his eyes closed. And thus Erskine knew it would be. CHAPTER XX That winter Erskine made Ills clear ing on the land that Dave Yandell had picked out for him, and in the center of it threw up a rude log hut in which to house his mother,' for his remembrance of her made him believe that she would prefer to live alone. He told his plans to none. In (he early spring, when he brought his mother home, she said that Black Wolf had escaped and gone farther Into the wilderness that Early Morn had gone with him. His mother seemed ill and unhappy. Erskine, not knowing that Barbara was on her way to find him, started on a hunting-trip. In a few days Barbara arrived and found his mother unable to leave her bed, and Lydia Noe sitting beside her. Harry had just been there to say good by before going to Virginia. Barbara was dismayed by Ersklne's absence and his mother's look of suf fering and extreme weakness, and the touch of her cold fingers. There was no way of reaching her son, she said he did not know of her Illness. Bar bara told her of Ersklne's giving her his inheritance, and that she had come to return it. Meanwhile Erskine, haunted by his mother's sad face, had turned homeward. To his bewilder ment, he found Barbara at his moth er's bedside. A glance at their faces told him that death was near. His mother held out her hand to him while still holding Barbara's. As in a dream, he bent over to kiss her, and with a last effort she Joined their hands, clasping both. A great peace trans formed her face as she slowly looked at Barbara and then up at Erskine. With a sigh her head sank lower, and her lovely dimming eyes passed into the final dark. Two days later they were married. The woodsmen, old friends of Ers klne's, were awed by Barbara's dainti ness, and there were none of the rude jests they usually flung back and forth. With hearty handshakes they said good-by and disappeared into the mighty forest. In the silence that fell, Erskine spoke of the life before them, of Its hardships and dangers, and then of the safety and comfort of Virginia. Barbara smiled: "You choose the wilderness, and your choice Is mine. We will leave the same choice . . . She flushed suddenly and bent her head! "To those who come after us," fin ished Erskine. THE END. Greatly Interested. "The milkmaids of Jamaica are one of the wonders of the island," report ed a prominent Bradford (Pa.) busi ness man, after a stay In Montego Bay, Jamaica, B. W. I. "They can carry large cans milk from mountain ranges to markets on their heads, and never even move the cans as they sell and pour out the milk. They go up stairs and down, and are so adept that when they start up a flight they can begin to fill their pitchers, measuring the amount by the number of steps taken. I watched them many times with great Interest and delight I i