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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resurre Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other "" Things Worth Knowing. Clocks of Chicago will bo turned one hour ahead next Saturday night ' to conform with the daylight saving regulation.' Fire at Cebu, the oldest city of the Philippines, Tuesday destroyed 200 houses and rendered more than 1000 , persons homoloss. The monetary loss is estimated at $150,000. Immediate revision of the reclama tion law along the tines Indicated in the report of Secretary Work's fact finding . commission was recdmmend ' cd to congress Monday by President Coolidge. , Harry K, Thaw was declared sane Tuesday night by the Jury that had been hearing testimony to determine his mental condition. The Jury de clared him fully capable of looking ' after his estate. " Bonlto Mussolini, Italian premier, was made a Roman citizen Monday. The ceremony was Imposing and was participated In by a distinguished as semblage on the anniversary of the . founding of the city of Rome. ' A snowfall of 4.7 inches was re corded at the Fort Wayne, Ind. weather bureau Monday, breaking all records for this time of year. The previous record fall was on April 4, ? 1320, when 4.1 inches was recorded. Murie Corelll, English novelist and author of a score of popular romantic tales, died Monday from heart dis ease at her home Stratford-upon-Avon.' She had been ailing for some woeks but apparently was recovered when the fatal seizure occurred. Allegations of liquor disappearance at the department ot Justice, of do faults in anti-trust law prosecutions nnd of privileges extonded to "million aire" convicts at Atlanta federal peni tentiary wore made Monday before the senate Daugherty investigating committee. All the Smiths in Spokane bellov ed to number 1000 or more have been invited to meet next Tuesday for the purposo ot forming an association for social purposes. A committee of Smiths, including a minister, an at torney, a dontist and several others, has been busy on the proposal for some time. Colla Cooncy, 20 years old, smiled a domino goodbye aa Bho boarded a train in Jacksonville, Fla., Monday for Now York in custody ot two de tectives to faco charges of highway robbery and assault with intent to kill in connection with a long series of daring holdups credited to the "bobbed-hair girl bandit." A Joint resolution was adopted by the senate Tuesday authorizing chang ing tlio unmo of Mount Halnler, Wash., to Mount Tacoma. The resolution re cited that whereas it was "the uni versal practice" to perpetuate Indian names in the geographical nomencla ture of the country, Mount Rainier now beni'8 tho name of "the com mander of a British Bhip engaged in depredations along the Atlantic coast." Material modification ot the tariff provisions ot the McNary-Huugon agri cultural export bill was agreed upon Tuesday by the house agriculture com mittee A substitute was approved which would give the president authority to declare embargoes on any agricultural product or to increase tariff duties when importations result in losses to the corporation to be created under the bill for the mar keting abroad ot surplus farm com modities. Another attempt to bring back 2.75 per cent boor by modification of the Volstead act was made Tuesday bo foro the houso Judiciary committee. Samuel Gompers, president, and other representatives of the American Fed eration of Lnbor, vigorously urged leg islation that would permit once more the sale ot beer with this alcoholic content on tho ground that it would give tho working man a "good, pala tablo, nourishing drink" that had "warmth" to it. Long Railway Tunnel, Tho longest railway tunnel in Great Britain is the Severn tunnel. It has a length of four miles, 620 ynrda, and took over 13 years to construct MODIFIES CORPORATION TAX Levy on Telegraph and Phone Mes sages Repealed by Senate. Washington, D. C Modification of the corporation tax and repeal of the tax on telegraph and telephone messages was voted Monday by the senate in advancing consideration of the revenue bill. Notice was given, however, that contests would be made later on both of these levies. The corporation tax was increased from 12 to 14 per cent with the understanding that the capital stock tax would be eliminated. This lat ter amendment is yet to be acted upon. Senator Simmons ot North Caro lina, ranking democrat on the finance committee, announced that minority members were drafting a substitute amendment proposing to replace the present corporation tax with one carry ing a graduated scale. Pending the writing of this amend ment, Senator Simmons said he would ask for postponement of considera tion of income tax rate sections over which the main contest on the bill will penter. These rates were reported but were passed over at the request of the North Carolina senator. In voting for the repeal of the tax on telegraph and telephone messages, the Bcnate rejected the recommenda tion of the finance committee. Repeal of this tax had been suggested by Secretary Mellon and was voted by the houso. Chairman Smoot of the finance committee announced he would ask for a record vote on it later. Senator Smoot explained that the tax involved revenue amounting to $34,000,000 annually and it had been restored to the bill by the commit tee because it was found necessary to raise more revenue than would be forthcoming under the measure as framed by the house. EXPLOSION TRAPS 114 MEN IN MINE i Wheeling, W. Va. One hundred and fourteen minors were entombed Monday by an explosion and fire in the Benwood Mill mine of the Wheel ing Steel Corporation at Benwood, a few miles from here. Hopo has been practically abandon ed that any of the men would be res cued alivo. The bodies of 14 miners had been recovered but the progress of mine rescue crews was made diffi cult by poisonous gases that filled the workings. Two miners were alive when found but died a few minutes later. Only a faint hope was held out by officials of the mine rescue car Holmes for the other 100 men in the mine at the time of the explosion, if any of them escaped being killed outright and had time to barricade themselves in rooms filled with fresh air, some ot the trapped minors may be found alive, they declared. Upon that possibility rescue crews in short shifts worked frantically throughout the day nnd night but had not reached the scene of the explosion late Tuesday. California Stock Loss Light. Sacramento, Cal. A very small per centage of the livestock of California has been affected by the foot and mouth disease, said Dr. U. G. Houck, United States government chief in charge of the eradication forces, Mon day. Dr. Ilouck further stated "the suc cess In combating the malady by combined quarantine, destruction of Infected nnd exposed animals, and dis infection, as now carried on, demon stratus in a striking manner the ef ficacy of the present method." The California crop report, special bulletin No. 43, issued by the United States department of agriculture, gives the following census of livestock In California as of January 1, 1924: Milk cows, including heifers over IS mouths, 001,000. All other cattle 1,421.000, sheep, 2,450,000, swine 834, 000, goats 120,000. Total 5.4S9.000 head. To date approximately 69,000 head lu the Infected districts have been destroyed, 5 per cent of which were In two counties. Of the number ex terminated, nearly half were cattle. Harvey Back at Desk. New York. Colonel George Harvey, ex-ambassador to lireat Britain, has resumed the editorship of the North American Review, It was announced at the publication's office Monday. His first article, on President Cool idge, will be published in the June issue ot the magazine. Colonel Harvey's return to editorial work Just before the presidential cam paign is considered as of particular significance. New Zealand Bird I Plague. The kea, a parrot ot New Zealand, as largo as a chicken hawk, has been known to kill thousands of sheep yearly to satisfy a craving for kid ney fat. II, S, BOND FRAUD IS TERMED MYTH Sec'y Mellon Clears Engraving Bureau of Charges. REPORTS TO COOLIDGE - Losses by Theft in Seven Years De clared to Amount to, No More Than $13,100.00. Washington, D. C Secretary Mel lon advised President Coolidge Sun day night that the treasury had com pleted its inquiry into charges of ir regularities of the bureau of engrav ing and had found them baseless. The charges, made by Charles B. Brewer, department of justice attorney, and which were accompanied by wholesale dismissals in the bureau by President Harding, contained no ele ment of fact, Mr. Mellon asserted. He Informed the chief executive that he was enabled, as a result of the in vestigation, to confirm the integrity of the government's securities. Contained in the report to the presi dent, a document of magazine Bize, were specific replies to every asser tion made by Brewer In his repeated assaults on the treasury and by these, Secretary Mellon said, the "utter fal sity" of every charge was established. In addition, the treasury chief vigor ously assailed Brewer, personally, say ing In concluding the report: "His report indicates a conspicu ous avoidance of fairness, and the frequent adoption of artful and eva sive methods. Where the facts are susceptible of distortion, Mr. Brewer resorts to misstatements, where ir relevance will tend to obscure the facts, Mr. Brewer resorts to irrele vance, and where neither distortion, omission, misstatement nor irrele vance will serve his purpose, Mr. Brewer resorts to insinuations and in nuendo. "Before concluding, I am taking this opportunity to assure you that a most exhaustive investigation clearly estab lishes Mr. Brewer's charge to be ab solutely without foundation. "There has been no fraudulent duplication or over-issue of the pub lic debt, but on the other hand, by in vestigating the Brewer charges and establishing the utter falsity thereof, the treasury is enabled unreservedly to confirm' the integrity both of the government's obligations and those branches of the treasury service which have been engaged in the handling of public debt securities." Mr. Mellon assured the president there had been "no fraud or care lossness on the part of officials or employes responsible for the safe guarding of the retired securities." He said Brewer had called attention to losses "during a period of seven years," and added that the total of these was $13,100, "and were the re sult of thefts committed by subordin ate clerks or messengers in the treas ury." "It has been pointed out," the letter continued, "that the loss ot $13,100 over a period of seven years, during which time over $100,000,000,000 in securities were handled by thousands of employes, is by no means a reflec tion upon the officials or employes of the treasury responsible for the safeguarding of retired securities nor upon the treasury's system of controls and audits. Incidentally, the thefts of securities illustrate the danger of re taining indefinitely, and not destroy ing, the dormant stocks ot retired securities." Fruit Loss is Heavy. Walla Walla, Wash. Higher temp eratures from Sunday on did away with needs of smudging in the orch ards where the blossoms had escaped the freeze and orchardists felt re lieved. Reports coming in from the district show the freeze, though al most general, was somewhat spotty, some trees escaping while others a few foot away seem to have lost all their fruit. Inspectors say there will be more fruit than first expected. Lowell's Loss Million, Lowell, Mass. One fireman was killed, eight were injured and a prop erty loss ot approximately $1,000,000 was caused when fire, Btarting farly Sunday in the heart of Lowell's busi ness district, swept through five build ings destroying two ot the city's larg est office buildings, a theater, the Knights of Columbus building nnd a large garage. Watch Your Step. "One big advantage in avoidln' bad company," said Uncle Eben, "is dat you don't have to watch yoh step so close to keep f'uin beln' cheated." f P?&OkiMV Charles - kmmti&i Jackson ! "y''MiihCSpyright bj The Bobb8-MrriU Company T CHAPTER XV Continued. 19 They stared at him unbelievingly. He threw out an urm, kicked the en tangling scubbard from his knees and blustered on: "Sixteen there must be of you I Six muskets Crackley gave to you and you have pistols and cutlasses around. Sixteen, fair-armed and desperate, and a longboat in the dark! If you remain here Murillo's men will leave you all to the buzzards tomorrow I know, I heard them say there were men of Lafltte alive on this reef!" "They know?" muttered the chief. "They guess! I say, we can retake the schooner ! the prize guard on her Is nothing the tenlente In command can suspect nothing! Once they lay her astern the frigate there Is no hope for any of you " "We were to send Mademoiselle to the frigate in the longboat," rnur uiuied ltaoul. "Throw her to the sharks they're kinder than Murillo's men! The Spaniards think the schooner was bound to the rebel republics of the South. They Will spare none who had to do with her they blot out every life that could tell of her taking!" He swung an empty pistol bolster and tottered back and jforth. Mon sieur Sazarac tapped De Almonaster on the shoulder. "It Is the truth. It Is a chance. Monsieur, our affair we shall have to postpone it. And d n your hot head! . . . Will you understand nothing?" "Give me this action! Let me be the first to board the Seraphlne I shall show you, Monsieur Sazarac, If I nm one to be sent away under the protection of a woman!" "Noin de Dleu I And for that you would fight me!" breathed the other softly. Then he turned away, hasten ing to the outlaws down the sand spit. Jarvls had sat down again. He watched the light in the south the Napoleon ship, drawing slowly out on the ebb-tide, with the Spanish king's men at the tow-lines. "If they get a wind," mumbled Jar vls, "we are undone. Then I might ns well have stayed and died In the grass. I came to save you all " "John !" cried De Almonaster, "what madness seized you to turn upon him at the pinch?" "I saved you all " grunted Jarvis Indifferently. "The dogs plotted to turn on Sazarac from the moment she the well " he seemed plaintively diffident at her name "well, the af fair of the Gennron. I knew it. They hardly kept it from me, after the rum I broached for them. And once the she came aboard there was no hope to stop trouble. I played the fool for them; I roared chanteys in the fo' cas'le I outdrank the best o' them ! I made myself, as you saw the blanket udviser to them." "You let them put her adrift from the ship!" said Riioul stonily. "Yes to save her from John Crack ley. To save you all from walking the plunk. Well " he grunted absent ly. "I see. You are not grateful. No one is grateful. I play the part of a, Sazarac save that 1 cannot walk with a sword between my legs I boast, and pose ami swagger . .' . that Is, I try. Monsieur. You recall the other night? I alone on the qunrter-deck quite had the stage to myself? I was doing well until my rt d pistol went off quite by accident. Discomfited. I hurried below and drank and nte everything that had been spread for the four of you at the emperor's table. Eh what did the sli think of me, Monsleur7" "She," whispered Raoul hurriedly, "apparently never saw you. That is, I believe she laughed once at some thing." ".Name o' G d!" breathed the Jest er. "Ah, well, of course! She laughed when she saw me hnnglng to the lamp-post, tin the staircase well, I could not see plainly. In fact, I never see her plainly. Or she, me. Of course I am the ghost ... I try to strut out In the brave light, but there seems laughter always . . . tilt up the bottle, Kaoul give me the last of it !" He seemed suddenly startled to dis otr a white cloak so close to him. In fact, be seeemed to hustle uncer tainly from It around to the outer edge of the group that gathered about Sinanic and Mademoiselle. And If she saw blni nt all: or divined that the fellow of the waistcoat was really this bloody figure that had staggered to them but a moment since. It was plain that he vanished from her sli'ht shortly. He had. Indeed, meant to stretch a hand of authority, seeing that the mud plot was his; to ring out l swift and pregnant campaign wor thy of a piloting Sazarac, but now he couldn't. He merely hung off In the grass hummocks, swamp mud and his own blood dripping from him. dangling an empty holster, and listen ing with month agape. She put this .spell upon him. It must have been that at once, In her presence, he became a ghost of a man, pursuing his tat tered mask of a Sazurac. Certain It Is thut, after the leader bad told of the thing to be done, and of Jarvls' coming to them, there was such a puzzled, and then a shouting acclaim for the plan, that every one forgot the author of It. "By Blackbeard himselU" roared Bohon. "It Is a scheme that Jean Lafitte would have loved!" They scattered to the bushes for their few arms and ammunition boxes. Others were working the longboat from the shoals to where the adven turers could wade as she settled with the load of them In deeper water. There was hushed laughter, grim con fidence, a jousting, nudging loyalty to the quiet leader. Two huge fellows carried Mademoiselle Lestron from the sands to the boat, In a chair formed of their brawny arms. Then they pushed the longboat slowly, stealthily out to catch the run of the ebb-tide. "Saznrac," whispered De Almonas ter. He was on a mid-thwart with Mademoiselle Lestron nt his side. His hand sought hers In the close press of the adventurers crowded In the longboat. She did not resist . . . but she did not return his pressure She was merely calm, watchful, trust ing to the skill and courage of Sazarac. "There's her tops'il above the mist," hissed the Catalan lookout. "Ease off. And Up and to the Seraphine's Deck There Slid a Dozen Silent Figures. A wind a touch of air Is fatal to us! In, lads I hear their haulboats above us. Come, there's her bulk In the fog 1" De Almonaster felt a pressure on his hand. He bent his head. "Monsieur your pistol. Give It to me I will not fall In their hands alive If we fail!" "We will not fail," he whispered moodily. "Why with Sazarac?" She wondered if the silent leader at the stern had caught this bitter tribute? There was no more speech for any of them. The girl was storing now, be tween the press of crouched figures, at the great limp disorder of the snowy sails ; It seemed but another moment when the muffled oar blades shot the longboat fair under the schooner's stern. Old hands trembled on long un used weapons ; there seemed a mutter ing and a nodding of heads. . . and then a slight jar, the snap of a hook on a wooden rail, and up and to the Seraphine's deck there slid a dozen silent figures, cutlass cords in teeth, fingers to triggers. De Almonaster writhed with Impa tience awaiting his turn. A terrified howl had arisen from some wounded sailors lying In the schooner's waist, who first caught sight of the swarming figures in the land mist. The huge Johanness was the first to roach the wheel. The two officers of the king o' Spain had hardly turned surprised faces at the footfalls ere they died gasping under his two cutlass swings. The helmsman cried out and an Iron pike crashed to his teeth. And amidships a battle was arising. Frightened howls, Incoherent com mands from fleeing petty officers ; while above It, now, came the wild yell of the gulf buccaneers In other days and evil : " "A-Baratarla 1 ABaratarla! Lafltte I Lafitte!" To that cry these castaways had swarmed chains and shrouds of many a ship now long missing In the ports of the world. Save for one obscure figure, the long boat held none except Mademoiselle Lestron. She shrank lower, closing her ears against the screams and shots of the battle which had thickened for ward. The towing boats had turned on the hawsers; they were coming back. The Spanish king's men arose at the bows, attempting to climb and save their helpless comrades. The shots and cries and trampling went on, and the girl shuddered at the sounds. Who was winning, what had happened to her friends, she could not tell. But slowly there was a stir In the bow-thwarts. A tall man arose, rub bing his eyes es If awakened from a dispiriting sleep. He stared about she could Just see him dimly In the star light, and then he climbed awkwardly, with frantic haste but slowly after all to the boarding ladders. He got over the rail with some diffi culty, and then stopped as If consider ing what he should do next. Louise's startled eyes could not make out his face but his uncouth movements seemed familiar. , . if she could only see his eyes whether they were light or dark or the contour ot his face, perhaps, she could know. . . then he staggered and fell. The girl upstarted. The cries and Imprecations seemed growing In vol ume, coming nearer, as if the attackers were being driven back. But she began to climb the nearer boarding ladder. When she came over the rail she saw first an Indistinct group of struggling men forward, with here nnd there the flash of Are ; and then, near her on the deck, under the dim light by the main companlonway, a man crawling along. At the companlonway he got to his feet with some trouble and disap peared below. The girl ran back of the after-housing to get away, from a dying Spaniard at her feet. There she found three other bodies, and the smooth planks were slippery under her feet. She fled the other wny from these hor rors and then found herself by the open skylight of the main cabin. It was brilliantly lighted there. Ap parently all the fury of the two bat tles for the Seraphlne had never pene trated to the heavy splendor of rose wood, silken tapestries and ormolu en cased mirrors of the emperor's suite. For at the emperor's table sat the ragged man she had seen there once before. He was In the huge, carved, pre tentious chair at the head of the board. He rather shone with blood from a scalp wound under his matted hair. Also, she saw that he appeared to be picking over the bones of some rem nants of a dish that must have been prepared for Crackley's lieutenants earlier In the day. At any rate the lone guest showed disappointment. He leached for the cognac, and then lit a long reed pipe he found on the board. Then he sat back and smoked, listening to the distant sounds of the battle for ward and above on the decks of the Napoleon ship. Mademoiselle Lestron turned away with fearful curiosity. She encoun tered a hurrying group coming past the main-mast. Panting, stumbling, smoke grimed men, among whom she saw the tall Sazarac. He sprang to the side as If to see to the safety of the Eng lish woman left in the longboat. "Monsieur 1" she cried, and ran to him frightenedly. "There Is no man of them left in arms!" he shouted, with a brightening eye. "The port watch went overboard at our rush, swimming for their boats. Beluche is tumbling their wounded to a yawl that remains. Mademoiselle," he bowed to her, "you will go below away from these abominable sights. Come the Seraphlne Is won !" "No no !" she gasped in horror still. '.'No not yet!" Sazarac turned from her for an In stant to the wheel where an alterca tion seemed arising. Old Dominique had taken It; he was shouting, with his eyes aloft. "She Is drawing at the top!" the fat seaman bawled. "A . man to her shrouds ! A man give me one man!" A silence had come, strangely si lent, after the fury. A groan or two," a coughing fellow forward In the lee scuppers. Dominique was howling once more. "D n! She's drawing 1 We'll be on the sands with this ! A seaman for Dominique! Where are ye all?" The Count de Almonaster suddenly appeared past the tangle of cordage along the starboard rail where dead men were twisted into rope and grimed sail cloth. He threw away a broken small sword and came on. "Mademoiselle!" "I am not hurt," she said faintly. "You Monsieur!" The roaring of Dominique, the al derman of New Orleans, cut hira off. "Curse me ! fat heavy ns a lout and here a sea fight such as my old eyes have dreamed ! A ship o' blood I A ship o' death! twice in one day has she been cleared o' the dead louts fallen on her!" Forward, Indeed, a man was heav ing corpses to the phosphorescent waters. Yet the ship seemed curious ly still. She was drawing on, with Dominique hauling at the wheel; slowly, and with a sighing fill of limp canvas, a weary clatter of blocks ... sailing, somehow, In unseaman Hke disorder, but out of the rippling shallows. And to the west a heavy gun broke with a spurt of Are. They heard the shot ride sullenly Into the sand spit on the port quarter. "A man aloft!" bawled Dominique. "Break out wl' stays I What's the matter wl' ye all?" Two had gone aloft. Clark, the young English lad, and Gorglo, the Catalan. The latter was crawling up slowly, a hand to shroud and cat-line. By the light they could see him faint ly. Grim, bloody-faced, responding to his last order. (TO BE CONTINrED.) A woman's head Is always Influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is al ways Influenced by his head. Lady Blesslngton, Men naturally dlsilke to sit flown on tacks, but not on the tax collector.