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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Howard Carter, co-dlscoverer with the late Lord Carnarvon of the tomb ot Tutankhamen In Egypt, loft Lon don for the United States Saturday for a lecture tour. The soldier bonus bill will join the tax reduction measure on the senate calendar this week, and leaders of both parties are prepared to clear the path for their Immediate considera tion. The federal government should take stops to put outdoor recreational op portunities within the grasp of the poor as well as the wealthy, Presi dent Coolidge said Sunday night in an nouncing appointment of a national policy on out-of-doors life. L. P. Quimby of Los Angeles, Cal., 88, a resident of Portland, Or, for 00 . years, and Oregon's first game war den, died In Seattle, Wash, Tuesday. Quimby came to Seattle to attend the funoral ot his daughter, Mrs. Lotta Quimby Taylor, which was held Mon day. Formal notification of Germany's ac ceptance of the experts' reports as a basis for renewed reparations par leys was sent to Paris Tuesday after noon and will be transmitted to the reparations commission by Secretary Fischer ot the German war burden commission. Clara Kimball Young, famous screen and stage actress, was taken suddenly ill while appoaring at a Fort Wayne, Ind, theater Tuesday night and the curtain was lowered in the midst of the second act while physicians were sent' for. She was removed to her suite In a local hotel. Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, wife ot Brigadier Genoral MacArthur, has been appointed a special policewoman by Mayor Romualdez ot Manila, and assigned to duty with' the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She Is the first woman attached to the Manila police 'force. . Members of the democratic national committee dufinltoly docldod late Tues day that the national convention cf the party would be held in Madison Square Gardon, as originally planned, and not in the 258th fioid artillery ar mory In the Bronx as suggested by some membors In order to admit more spectators. The special committee appointed by the Paris international chamber of commerce to study the two roports of the experts bus reached the unani mous conclusion that these reports of fer a real prospect of proving practical measures for removal ot obstacles which heretofore have appeared In surmountable in the reparations set. tlomonts. Marvin Chase, Washington state supervisor of hydraulics, Monday granted a pormlt to the Northwestern Power & Manufacturing company of Port Angeles to appropriate 1300 cubic foet of water a second from the Elwha river in Clallam county for utilization of a hydro-electric plant, which is esti mated to cost 11,600,000 and develop 20,000 horsopowcr. John W. Moore, president of the Fidelity National Bank & Trust com , pany of Kansas City, Mo, since Us reorganization in 1918, Tuesday was dropped by the board of directors with the statement that Moore "Is short in bis accounts with the bank." The dis crepancy is alleged to be $600,000. Lester W. Hall, a vice-president, was named as his successor. Industrial, financial and commercial loaders of California, at a meeting Tuesday to discuss means of combat ting the foot and mouth epidemic in the state, adopted resolutions recom mending that Governor Richardson confer with the governors of other states for appointment of representa tives from their respective states to act as permanent committees from thoso states in California. A resolution authorising Investiga tion by a spocial congressional com mittee ot all land grants to the North ern Pacific Railway company was re ported to the house Tuesday by the public lands committee. The resolu tion would defer until March 4, 1927, any adjustment by the secretary of the Interior of the railroad's claim to 3,000,000 acres of national forest land in Montana and Idaho. CURRENT WEEK WHEAT BILL SUBSTITUTE UP Wisconsin Solon Proposes New Plan for Selling Corporation. Washington, D. C.A new bill as a substitute for the McNary-Haugen bill has been prepared, Senator, McNary, republican, Oregon, co-author ot the measure, Informed the senate Mon day in requesting that action on the original bill be postponed Indefinitely. The new bill was drawn to Include the committee amondmonts. Representative Volgt, Wisconsin, republican Insurgent on the house agriculture committee, Introduced a bill tor the creation of a corporation to sell wheat abroad along lines simi lar to the plan provided in tho McNary-Haugen bill, under which various farm products would be handled for export. Mr. Volgt announced he would press for action on his bill as a substitute for the McNary-Haugon measure, which he contends is unworkable In that it attempts to cover too broad a field. , Under the bill sponsored by the Wis consin representative a corporation with a capital of 150,000,000 to be sub scribed by the government, as against the $200,000,000 fund called tor In the McNary-Haugen measure, would be sot up, to buy all kinds of wheat until the price of No. 1 Northern spring wheat at Minneapolis reached $1.65 a bushel. Grain purchased would ' be sold abroad, but if the price reached $1.70 the corporation would have authority to sell in the domestic market. A charge of 15 per cent would be made by the corporation against each bushel of wheat bought from farm ers, who would be reimbursed, in the event a profit was made by the cor poration, in proportion to the amount loft after deduction of losses on ex ports and exponses for handling the grain. Provision also Is made for an em bargo on wheat and wheat products with the president authorized to de clare embargoes during which wheat could be imported. i Washington, D. C Indefinite post ponement on the motion of Senator McNary of the McNary-Haugen bill Monday is of significance. The bill postponed was the original McNary Haugen bill, which was placed on the calendar two months ago and for which an amended substitute was in troduced by the Oregon senator near ly two weeks ago. The present McNary-Haugen bill Is to await consider ation until the house has acted, its passage in the senate being apparent ly assured. JAP NOTE DENIES THREAT i Washington, D. C. A specific dis claimer of any intent to convey "a veiled threat" in the use of the phrase "grave consequences" in his recent communication "to Secretary Hughes protesting against the Japanese ex clusion feature of the immigration bill was made by' Ambassador Hanihara in a second lotter to the secretary, made public Saturday, and characterized by Mr. Hughes as a "frank and friendly explanation." The ambassador's lotter and a re ply by, the secretary wore made pub lic by the state department, Mr. Hughes' lotter saying that In the light of the context of the original lotter, and prevailing friendship and under standing between the two countries he "had no doubt that these words (grave consequences) were to be taken in the same sense you have stated, and I was quite sure it was far from your thought to express or emply any threat." The correspondence was made pub lic after Secretary Hughes had given much of his time for the past two days to a consideration ot the Inter national Issue involved. He conferred again with President Coolidge, and beforo receipt of the ambassador's second letter had been advised of the desire ot officials of the embassy to have an explanation ot the language of the protest placed before the pub lic. What effect the explanation may have on tho pending exclusion legis lation in congress was not apparent. Senator Lodge, chairman ot the sen ate foreign relations committee, who in souato debate characterized the phase "grave consequences" as a "veiled threat" in recent doys has con ferred with President Coolidge on the question, but leaders in congress de sire opportunity to study the language of the second letter before appraising the situation. Good Deed Remembered. Chicago. When Mrs. Ida B. Kasch became ill seven years ago Mrs. Caro line Werner, only a casual acquain tance, volunteered her assistance. "I'll always remember you," Mrs. Kasch said when she moved away to Olym pla, Wash. Monday an employe of the county treasurer's office Informed Mrs. Wern er that Mrs. Minnie M. Blass, execu trix, had sent word thnt Mrs. Kasch had died leaving Mrs. Werner a legacy. NORTHWEST BARS Three States Join in Air-tight Embargo. FEAR DISEASE SPREAD Steps Taken to Safeguard Livestock Industry Fumigation of Tour ists Decided Upon. Portland, Or. An absolute embargo on food products of all description from California and stricter regula tions for control of entry of tourists from California Into Oregon as the moans of preventing the entrance of foot and mouth disease into the north west was agreed upon Saturday by representatives of Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho, who met In Joint con ference at the Multnomah hotel. In addition to agreement upon the embargo, members of the conference decided that should the foot and mouth disease travel north by one county, or become prevalent within 200 miles of the Oregon-California border, a complete embargo would be placed upon the entry of tourists and automobiles from California. So long as the disease remains in the present Infected areas, it was con cluded that the operation ot disinfec tion and fumigation stations at the various entry points on the border would be sufficient. The conference resulted in the uni fication of protective measures, some ot which already are in effect in one or more of the northwestern states. The action will tend to simplify en forcement of the regulations. Statements made at an open meet ing held in advance of the conference developed that the foot and mouth epidemic in California is much worse than has been reported, and it was freely predicted that should the dis ease be transmitted into Oregon, Washington or Idaho, it would bank rupt these states. Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian of Oregon, reported that he had es tablished disinfection stations at the California-Oregon border, where auto mobiles were given a tire bath and passengers required to walk through a mixture. Baggage and bedding found In machines, he stated, were fumigat ed. Dr. Lytle stated that fumigation was not certain to kill the germs, but that there was no other measure, outside of absolute prohibition of entry ot tourist travel, that was better, and for that reason he advocated continuation of fumigation and disinfection. E. L. French, director of agricul ture of Washington, who presided at the conference, declared that he be lieved his state would be willing to assist Oregon in operation of the sta tions on the Oregon-California border and M. A. Means, commissioner of agriculture of Idaho, who represented that state, assured the conferees that he would ask the governor ot his state to assist. It was agreed that it the disease made Its way Into Oregon, Idaho and Washington would be certain to be in vaded. Commissioner Means explained that he sympathized with California citi zens but that it was necessary for the northwest to protect itself. Vladivostok Asks Loan. Tokio. The Ussuri railway expects to float a loan of approximately $1,- 500,000 in the London market shortly, according to S. Ito, manager of the Vladivostok branch ot the Bank ot Chosen. The money will be spent for the improvement of Vladivostok har bor and terminal facilities, according to Mr. Ito. British recognition ot the soviet government was said to have encouraged Vladivostok railway of ficials to seek this loan in London. Court Frees Ex-Wizard. Indianapolis, Ind. Charges of vio lating federal prohibition laws made against Edward Young Clarke of At lanta, Ga, former imperial wizard pro tern of the Ku Klux Klan, were dis missed by Judge A. B. Anderson in federal court Saturday. Dismissal was made on the motion ot Homer Elliott, United States district attorney. Chief of Police Slain. Little Rock, Ark. Oscar Sullivan, chief ot police ot Hot Springs, Ark, was killed late Sunday night by Hu bert Cokes, proprietor of a pool room at that place, according to a long dis tance telephone report from the Sen tinel-Record. Sullivan was Bhot five times and died a few minutes later in a hospital. Cokes escaped in an auto mobile, pursued by posses. Captain By Charlei Tenney Jackson Copyrljht bt Tbt Bobb-MnlU, Compaw CHAPTER XV 18 The Bottlo Emperor Returns. Across the mile-wide lagoon in the still hot dusk" the last buccaneers of Lafltte listened to the battle in the forest river the rattle of musketry, and then the boom of the Seraphlne's carronades. And strange as It fell out, the castaways wished for the Span iards to win. They had no hope of escape for themselves, but their hatred of Crackley's mutineers was stronger than their hereditary feud with the sea power of the Spanish king. So the fugitives lay and listened to the distant battle for the rescue ship of Bonaparte. At times; behind the fringe of forest swamp, arose the crash of musket fire, and then the bark of the Seraphlne's guns. And presently this last ceased ; the ragged volleys of small arms burst Irregularly, died out, renewed; became single shots blotted out by the tropic si lence. The Catalan swung to his feet and tied his bloody head scarf tighter. "I say It Is the end. Murlllo's men are swarming over." It seemed that a faint burst of cheering came from under the landward sturs. Nez Coupe beckoned to his fellows. "The captain will want the word back at the lady's shelter tent. He will send her and the young gentleman to Intercept the Spaniards' bouts when they come out the pass to regain the frigate. Now, watch for the fire behind the trees ye see the red ghost of a good ship!" But presently the captain, himself, and Beluche, the admiral, came through the deep sand and great hummocks to this outlying point of the reef. "You make out that the affair is done?" inquired the former. "No, there is a shot." 1 They waited silently. The low mur mur of the gentle surf on the outer fringe of sand was all the sound upon the utter calm of the night. "It Is over," muttered Bohon. "I would hnve given my right hand to have seen Crackley cutlassed and flung to the sharks. And Jarvls, the fool gibing them to the last I The wastrel had his sea fight, eh?" The leader's dark face winced. He raised his hand as if to still this jest ing about the Jester of the rue Itoyale, the Emperor of the Bottle, who, at Inst, did sit In the chulr they had or dained for an emperor himself. And now, from the sea, there came a single signal gun. The frigate was invisible, standing off the shoals, but they knew a thousand enemies were there. "Come, sirs," said the chief In quiet authority, "tlie longboat around the point for the English woman. They shall row to meet the Spaniards In the pass she shall plead that she and Monsieur ,de Almonaster were the prisoners of the mutineers." When he had gone from the men who hastened at his bidding, he came upon Mademoiselle Lestron, on the highest point of the sand before her shelter-canvas. She was alone, and she saw ills quick glance about. "Monsieur de Almonaster has gone to the beach I sent him away," she said quietly. "Away? Do you see that light, Mademoiselle, against the forest? It means the Spanish boat crews are re- The Low Murmur of the Gentle Surf on the Outer Fringe of Sand Was All the Sound Upon the Utter Calm of the Night turning. They have taken the Sera phlne In the river's mouth. You can guess what has happened? there is no man living who was upon her." "The rugged man," she answered In tently. "The man who sat In the em peror's cabin and kissed the bracelet I left there?" "The bracelet T He was surprised; he had not known of this. "It belonged, once, to Marie An toinette," she went on passively. "The queen gave it to a member of my family for a service before they put her to the guillotine." "Why, then, did you not speak when we left the ship? He he the man would have given It to you." "I did not think," she murmured. "He had his lips to it." Then she was silent, looking at the empty sea, the savage laud. "I inquired of Mon sieur de Almonaster ... he laughed painfully, and would not answer. I could not see the man's face that night Nor when he jested oa the Sazarac quarter-deck. But always It hsi seemed that some laughing spirit was near me on the Seraphlne a ghost far off from me, yet ever holding me In his fancy. Is It not strange? I cannot shake this feeling off." "It Is strange," he answered. "But come you are going now." "Monsieur Sazarac!" she cried sharply. "Why do you not speak?" "Ot what?" be said simply, in no wonder. "Ah, I do not know !" The stars showed the paleness of her face, Iter luminous eyes wide up to him. The web i of silence that had been woven about her was a mesh that neither tears nor challenge had yet pierced. "I, too, am a nameless ghost," he smiled, "the ghost of a man who might have been! Come, now! Mon sieur Sazarac bids you respectfully but firmly, to go. You will obey Monsieur Sazarac is accustomed to being obeyed. . . .' The hands of Mon sieur Sazarac have been stained with the blood of those who chose not to obey. Is that enough about Monsieur Sazarac, Mademoiselle?" He turned away to her little tent. She heard him giving Instructions to the silent black steward who had been charged to her service. The tiny light against the unseen forest shore was growing plainer. She heard a brushing In the coarse grass. Raoul de Almonaster drew out of the starlight and stopped by her with a comment. Apparently he did not no tice Monsieur Sazarac at her tent see ing to her few belongings. "He came to you, did he not?" mur mured Raoul. "It is the lust moment. I gave him this to speuk to you, Louise." "Why, what should he speak"?" she whispered, "But then he would not I" The younger man misinterpreted. "He loves you, and he would not speak. Eh, welll It is my honor to keep from him and from you. I was his first confidant from the very first. When he was about to chal lenge Carr, because of you, I offered to second him at the Oaks. From the first, he spoke of you and he had my pledge of honor. Ah, but I did not know then who the lady was the pawn of his game at Maspero's the lady he must retrieve from the Gena ronl Monsieur Sazarac at the part ing of the paths, one on to peace, even, perhaps, to honor for a wounded jiame chose this to serve you, though he knew it meant the abyss opened for him 1 Is not that a love, Mademoiselle, that would, hold the friend of Sazarac to his honor?" "Tell me " she whispered swiftly, "the ragged fellow in the emperor's cabin his Jests, his love " "A dead man, telling neither love nor Jests " Then the young man turned hotly on her. "See, here ! The boat Is making ready I Well, It Sazarac has your heart, Louise, I will not go!" "Oh, no ! no no !" ' she breathed. "Monsieur " The figure of Monsieur Sazarac loomed against the stars before them. "Pardon," he said smoothly. "It is the time for the longboat." "It is damnable I" De Almonaster sprang to grasp his sleeve: "Sir, a woman's part for me! I will not gol I will not gol" Monsieur Sazarac looked from him to Mademoiselle Lestron Intently. It wns as open to them as a blown rose to the sunshine De Almonaster would not creep away, saved by a woman's skirts among the Spaniards, and ever after see In her eyes that she was holding lu memory another man who died for her. Monsieur Sazarac smiled, rubbed his slender, bronzed hands. "Come my children !" "There Is the boat," muttered De Almonaster sullenly. "The blacks at the oars, and Clark at the tiller. The tide is coming out It Is an easy pull. Here Is my handkerchief for the truce flag on a boat-pole." He bowed quiet ly: "Mademoiselle Lestron is going to the Spanish captain's care." "Sir?" said Sazarac coolly. "You to that boat I" A stealthy slur of steel and leather came in the silence. They saw the point of De Almonaster's rapier flash dimly and then held to the sand. "Monsieur Sazarac, I had the idea long ago that, at some hour, you and I should fight. It was as inevitable as anything could be. It was written by these stars at the birth of each of us ... as It was written that we 'each should love a woman whom It has been given us in our lives, to pro tect. Mademoiselle Lestron to the boat then, draw, with me, Mon sieur!" The older man did not stir. Twice, then, In so short a time, he must de cline a challenge because of her I It was very odd he laughed slowly. Mademoiselle had seemed dumb for the moment. Then she sprang, with a hand raised before De Almonaster's blazing eyes and Impetuous arm. "Well, then," went on Monsieur Sazarac quietly, "first, the lady for whom we must fight to the longboat Monsieur de Almonaster." Her cry of terror echoed. There came then, a slow uncertain trudging through the reef grass. The figure of a man quite close. It was stooped; and presently It staggered or stumbled, rather ridiculously, it ap peared, over an empty scabbard which got between its knees. "Jarvls!" cried De Almonaster, and spring to him. "Eh Raoul?" The voice came weakly but gathered strength as If from some choked but over-mastering "purpose:" "Well, i came to find you!" After that he staggered buck and would have fallen If lie Almonaster had not eased him to the sand. Then . he rubbed a bloody hand across a bloody face and drawled sleepily: "Swords out what's the mutter? 1 say I what the .devil?" lie twisted about painfully. "I'm run through twice. I think" The captuln had come swiftly tu him. "Jarvls!" He knelt and stern ly lought the other's eyes. "Mon sieur de Almonaster, will you get the brandy from the ten!? What Is this, Jarvls? What of the Seruphlne? How came you here?" "She is coming out on the tide." said Jarvls thickly. "The dons think to save her as a prize. Four houti are towing. Name o' G d ! Jean ! 1 had my fight !" "Tell me this," retorted the other coldly. He looked about. The figure of the woman was dim by the tent. JwmM wmMM "Swords Out What's the Matter7 I Say! What the Devil?" She was assisting De Almonaster at the chest of bundages and scanty sup plies given them by the mutineers, "Jarvls! You deserted me but, tell me of the Seraphlne!" t "I, alone, escaped. Crackley's men fought like wild savages when the end came. The last of us took overboard to the Jungle when the Spaniards swarmed aboard. They beheaded Black Mike on a gun-block, and hanged Budge to the shrouds with a fire under him. They chopped old Mariano, arm by arm and leg' by leg and Crackley shot himself to keep away from them. I was the last who fell in the river reeds. They did not find me, Jean, and when' I gut sense after these wounds, I crawled to the water's edge. I found a dinghy with three dead Spaniards In It, and heaved them out. Then I floated with the tide. It bore me to the reef I knew you would be here somewhere. Curse me, it was a fight I There must have been a hundred of them and we did for half!" De Almonaster forced the brandy to his lips. "Thunk you, Monsieur," mur mured the painter of the rue Royale. "This thrust through my shoulder I would not have had It, hut, after breaking a don's head, I saw a bottle roll across the deck. I must after it like a cat at the cheese, and some other king o' Spain's man put a saber to me. Eh, t dropped the cog nac with cork undrawn got around and fought again. What luck one has!" He sighed wearily. His eyes closed. The English woman came nearer, and then at a sign from Monsieur Sazarac. she went apart from them. It would not do for the babbler to talk toe much In her hearing. And so, once more, the ragged lover with the new waistcoat did not see the lady of the camellia, nor she him; for when his eyes opened there were but the stars above, and the two men's faces watch ing close to his. "Come, gentlemen!" He struggled to a sitting posture between them : "I came here with an Idea! A most excellent Idea !" "Jarvls," retorted the captain quiet ly, "you are dying." "Eh, blenl Are you a physician, too, Monsieur Saz-a-rnc, as well as a bully swordsman, a fellow of pearl-inlaid pistols; a delicate hand at the cards and wondrous speeches on a lady's staircase?" He sat up straighter and shook him self. "Dying? Now, see!" He kicked out both mud-swathed legs, clapped his hands, put a thumb to his nose and wiggled his fingers at the stars. "Let me up," he drawled abiently. "I am to tell you what to do. Where the devil Is the boat, and our blusterers? Name o' G d! buc caneers snoozing In the grass, and John Jarvls In a bloody set-to!" And despite their protests he did get to his feet unsteadily. About all they could see were his two eyes sticking out of a muck of wet tangled hair. But these seemed to smile com fortingly. "Jarvls, and his deck o' blood," he mused. "Now. come. The Seraphlne is towing out the pass. ThereIs hard ly a man on her except the wounded and the officers, for they have every arm at the sweeps In the small boats. I say we shall retake her, gentle men!" (TO BE CONTINUED.) . Propagating Mistletoe. Mistletoe may be established on trees by pressing the seeds when they are ripe in April gently Into th hrk of the tree. The seeds so placed should be covered with muslin for a tiro to prevent their being devoured by bird