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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Brents of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing Worth Knowing. John Levandowsky, Bald to be near ly 103 years old, the county's oldest resident, committed suicide at a hos pital in Manitowoc, Wis. Disaffection long smouldering in Santa Clara province, Cuba, came to a head Tuesday when a detachment of the rural guard revolted and tied from their post near Santa Clara. The house has adopted the confer ence report on the bill which would authorize deferment of reclamation charges. The senate must concur be . fore the measure can go to the presi dent. , Lieutenant E. A. Musk, aviator at tached to the North island naval air squadron at San Diego,. Cal., was kill ed Tuesday when the plane he was piloting tumbled 2300 feet Into San Diego bay. Communist hecklers broke up a political meeting addressed by Andre Tardleu, deputy, In a Paris suburb Monday night after repeatedly drag ging him off the platform. M. Tardleu was badly bruised. Trustees of the Spokane chamber of commerce have adopted a resolution to 'be forwarded to members of the Wash ington delegation in congress oppos ing the change in name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoma. Flotation of a (40,000,000 loan to the Kingdom of Netherlands has been arranged by an American banking syndicate, it was learned Tuesday. Offering of the bonds, which will bear S per cent lntorest is expected soon. One hundred thousand persons, high and low, rich and poor, Monday paid their final tribute of respect to Charles P. Murphy, for two decades chief tain of Tammany Hall. Not In many years has New York witnessed a fun eral of such magnitude. General Julian S, Carr, ex-command-er-ln-chlef of the United Confederate Veterans, died in Chicago Tuesday He contracted pneumonia as the re sult of an illnesB suffered while on his way to Chicago from his home at Dur ham, N. C, last Saturday. The first budget ever prepared for the government of Creat Britain by a socialist was presented In the house of commons Tuesday afternoon by Philip Snowden, chancellor of the ex chequer. There was very little ob vious socialism in It, It any. The annual nnval supply bill, carry ing 1275,000,000, was passed Tues day by the senate without a record voto. The senate added about $700, 000 to the bill as it came from the bouse. The bill was sent to confer ence with the house but with few major differences to be ironed out. Governor Warren T. McCray of In diana was found guilty late Tuesday of using the malls In furtherance of a scheme to defraud by a jury in fed eral court after less than IS minutes' deliberation and was placed in the Marlon county jail to await sentence by United States District Judge A. D. Anderson. A five year moratorium in the pay ments of constructive charges for oil settlers on western reclamation pro jects with 35 years thereafter in which to liquidate all indebtedness is pro posed in a bill introduced jointly In the senate and house by Senator Jones and Representative Summers of Wash ington. The bill amends the reclama tion law of August 13, 1913. The war department has made answer to nuiuorous inquiries from Oregon and Washington as to condi tions under which copra and cocoa nut oil were prepared in the Philip pine Islands. The inquiries were in stigated by voters in the two states by whom it will be decided in forth coming elections whether cocoanut oil may be utilised in the preparation of certain food products. Postponement of operation of the Japanese exclusion provision of the immigration bill until July 1 is under stood to have beon suggested by Presi dent Coolldge to senate and house conferees on the measure. This sug gestion was said to have been con sidered by the conferees at meet ing Tuesday and afterwards word was sent to the White House that an agree ment on this basis might be reached within 21 hours. CURRENT WEEK REJECTS MELLON TAX PLAN Entire Democratic Substitute Adopted Smoot Plans Compromise. Washington, ' D. C The much-discussed Mellon tax plan was laid to rest Monday with adoption by the senate of the entire democratic income tax substitute. - The minority's schedule of surtax rates was approved, 43 to 40, and Its revision of normal rates was adopted, 44 to 37. The republican Insurgents joined with the democrats in support ing the entire program. Chairman Smoot of the finance com mittee said that when the bill came up on final passage he would propose a compromise as was done in the house after the democratic program had been approved there. He is hope ful that the senate will accept the compromise as the house did. The surtax rates written into the bill provided for a reduction of the present maximum of CO per cent to 40 per cent and for corresponding re visions all along the line. They are almost similar to those adopted by the house. The normal rates accepted were 2 per cent on the first $4000 of income, 4 per cent on the second (4000 and 6 per cent on all above (8000, This com pares with the present rates of 4 per cent on the first (4000 and 8 per cent above that amount. In adopting the democratic substi tute, which was offered by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, the senate moved with startling rapidity. The first vote came within a little more than an hour after consideration of the tax bill had been resumed. The others followed rapidly. ' Discussion of this, the heart of the bill, had proceeded in only desultory fashion for about an hour, when Sena tor Jones, democrat,- New Mexico, de manded a vote. There were less than a score of senators present and lead ers on both sides held hurried confer ences. Announcement then was made that both sides were ready for the test of strength. TRUST CHARGED TO DOOR FIRMS Portland Seven door manufactur ing companies were named In a suit filed Monday by John S. Coke, United States attorney, to break up an alleg ed trust, which the government charg ed had been operating in Oregon and Washington and suggests has been holding up prices for their products. The defendants were: The Wheeler Osgood company, Tacoma; Henry Mc Cleary Timber company, McCleary, Wash.; Nlcolal Door Manufacturing company, Portland; Buffelen Manu facturing company, Tacoma; Robinson Manufacturing company, Everett; American Door & Manufacturing com pany, Hoqulam; Peterman Manufact uring company, Tacoma. The complaint was filed In the fed eral court by Judge Coke at the direc tion of Harlan F. Stone, attorney-general; A. T. Seymour, assistant to the attorney-general; J. A. Fowler, Henry A. Gullor, C. Stanley Thompson, spe cial assistants, all of whom appear with Judge Coke as attorneys for the government. Tho government asked that the com panies and their employes be perman ently enjoined from any acts that were charged In the potition to have been committed under the alleged conspir acy in restraint of trade, It was charged that the companies namod produce more than 90 per cent of the doors manufactured in the Uni ted States and that more than 70 per cent of them wore produced by the Wheeler, McCleary, Buffelen and Nlcolal companies. The government further charged that the companies have operated under a common price list "pursuant to on agreement be tween them to establish and maintain a uniform system for the conduct of their Individual business and to elim inate competition among Jhemselvos as to grades, as to sizes, as to terms and conditions of sales, as to freight charges and as to prices." Tho government contended that on August 19, 1916, the defendant com panies caused the door and factory products committee of the West Coast Lumbermen's association to adopt an official west coast door list known as "the single list." It was held-that the purpose of this list was to estab lish a uniform price on all doors of a given size, regardless of the kind, style aud grade, leaving those matters to be determined by a group of fixed dis count differentials. Fat Men Hold Up Best. Washington, D. C Fat men standi the heat better than lean ones, the bureau of mines has established. Fat men, lost more weight when subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures, but they were loss exhausted when they were relieved. In a state of rest and in still air, the human body cannot endure indefinitely a temper ature higher than 90 degrees Fahren heit with 100 per cent relative humidity. H I SERVICE 10 SPEED 8 New York-San Francisco Trans it Starts July 1. 35 HOURS FOR TRIP Every Twenty-five Miles to Have Emer gency Landing Field With .Poweful Searchlight. Washington, D. C Dally air mail service between New York and San Francisco, with deliveries within 35 hours, or from one morning to the fol lowing evening, will begin July 1, it was announced Sunday by Postmaster General New. The time of transit will be cut to 24 hours probably within a few months, the postmaster-general believes. Not only will people on , the two' coasts benefit by the rapid deliveries, but those of the country generally will be enabled to transmit their let ters more swiftly, as special air mail stamps will carry them from any city for transmission from coast to coast or from intermediate cities for further despatch by train. Special air mail postage has been arranged and special stamps in three denominations, 8-cent, 16-cent and 24 cent, will be "distributed to the prin cipal cities of the country for use in specially designating letters to go by plane. Three zones have been desig nated for postage purposes; New York and Chicago; Chicago and Cheyenne, and Cheyenne and San Francisco. An 8-cent air mail stamp will carry an ounce ( letter anywhere within one zone, a 16-cent stamp anywhere within two adjoining zones, and a 24-cent stamp anywhere within the three zones. Letters from points not on the air mail route, it bearing proper air mail stamps, will be transmitted to the nearest air mail field for dispatch without additional postage. Any class of mall, Including parcel post pack ages, may be sent by air mall but only at regular air mail rates. Special air mall letter boxes are being in stalled in the larger cities along the route to expedite handling. Regular landing fields, where changes of planes will be made on both eastbound and westbound trips, are located at New York, Belfonte, Pa.,; Cleveland, Chicago, .Omaha, North Platte, Neb.; Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Salt Lake City, Elko, Nev,; Reno, Nev., and San Francisco. Eleven planes will be required for the single trip each way. New planes, with slower landing speeds, deemed necessary for night flying, have been advertised tor and bids will be open ed June 10. The mail planes will fly by night over 1000 miles of lighted airway be tween Chicago and Cheyenne, the pilots being guided by automatic acetylene lights placed every three miles. Every 25 miles of the night air lane has an emergency landing field provided with powerful search lights, and at about every 250 miles there Is a regular landing field with searchlights visible from 100 to 150 miles when flashed in the air. The ex isting daylight coast to coast air mall, which has been In operation six years and which has been merely an ad vancing service to Bpeed up letter marl, will be merged with the new service. After July 1 no mail will be carried on planes except that bearing special air mail postage stamps. Potato Gat Is Fatal. Chicago. Carbon monoxide, gener ated by burning potatoes, was declar ed by a coroner's jury to have caused the death of Mrs. Caroline Shower- man, 73 years old, who was found dead in the kitchen of her home. Neighbors who discovered the body said a pot of potatoes which had boil ed dry was burning on the stove. At the inquest It was explained that, ordinarily, potatoes In carbonizing would give oft carbon dioxide gas, but it the oxygen in a tightly closed room had been greatly exhausted this gas would be changed to carbon monoxide. The room was tightly closed and it was decided this was what had hap pened to the aged woman. Bogus Bills Destroyed. Washington, D. C The handiwork of a thousand counterfeiters went up in smoke Saturday at the treasury. Treasury officials, following the regu lar procedure, solemnly carried bundle after bundle of bogus bills to the great macerators and. incinerators of the treasury. The fact value of the paper amounted to about (250,000, but its worth was nil in the eyet of the law. It was the day for the annual destruc tion of all counterfeit money. MAIL CAPTAIN - CHAPTER XV Continued. 20 "A-Barataria I" he howled. "La " The Seraphine suddenly heeled with a puff of wind that came as she cleared the shoals. It shook the wounded buccaneer from his falling grasp on the rigging. But even In mid air, Gorgio, the Catalan, repeated his call of the old days; then his body heaved out and plilnged to the opales cent waters, streaking like a comet to the depths. "D n I" growled Dominique. . "Is this a dead ship? Where, are the bul lies that I raise not a man? Mon sieur de Almonaster! Captain Saz racl I lay a course now have this ship worked 1" "Lay her as she is, old gabbler," retorted Sazarac. "Starboard a bit the mist is closing on the Spaniard, and he cannot stir In the air that moves this beauty! A long trick at your wheel, Dominique!" Still the rotund politician would not understand. "Our lads" lie fumed. "If I take the deck I want something to work with, Monsieur Sazarac 1" De Almonaster was holding his arm through whose sleeve the blood would spout despite his efforts. Louise Les stron stared In a wild disbelief from (he shadowy disorder forward on the schooner to the master. When'Snzarac spoke, it appeared to be to her: "There are none left you have seen the Inst men of a vanished race. You have seen men die in hon esty. For you, Mademoiselle for a woman, at which they would have laughed; for the peace of the world, which they would have scorned! It Is a strange thing you see I and old Dominique alone on this bloody deck alone more than any human heart can know !" The two gentlemen took her to the cabin, while the crippled schooner fled on a blinded path, anywhere to be out from the guns of the king o' Spain. They took her to the emperor's suite; and Monsieur de Almonaster found bread and meat for her; and Mon sieur Sazarac held wine to her lips. There, also, the gentlemen discov ered a thing which they did not re port to Mademoiselle. They closed the door softly to the cabin, and tried to make a jest of all the terrors that came with the taking of the Sera phine. In the tapestry-hung stateroom, with his boots on and his blood-stained head deep In the pillow, the Emperor of tlie Bottle lay upon Bonnparte's bed once more. lie might be sleeping, or he might be dead . . . the gen tlemen could not take time to discov er with so many other grim questions mounting to the eyes of eueh across tie emperor's board. , Be that as It may, the Emperor, hav ing reached the privacy' of his cham ber, flatly refused to leave It again, even though his lady of the camellia was now just outside the paneled door, CHAPTER XVI The Loot of a Bilccaneer. The shortened pail was snapping in a clear morning breeze which worried Dominique, still at his- trick with the wheel, which was all that a rotund alderman, his knees too much sagged with fat living, might attempt. A fair morning, and a following sea ; with not a sail In sight. Pursuit, even from the heavy-footed Spanish troopship might have gone badly with the two hundred ton schooner, short-handed as she scampered on. The two gentlemen who had been gravely washing down the decks, came about the low housing to where the bo'sun lay. tfhe deck was wet, the "He Wilt Not Be Moved, Meitltursl" dying buccaneer was wet; Mademoi selle Lestron looked up, the shaggy head with Its huge, gold earrings, pil lowed on her lap ; and her face was wet also a sparkle lent by the lea and the fountains of her woman's compassion. She turned from her ministrations with a wan smile: "He will not be moved. Messieurs I" "Old robber" mattered Sazarac; "stubborn to the end, eh?" "It Is my place here In the weather. I am no quarter-deck gentry nor mew ling 'prentice to be laid below In tht doctor's room for all a thrust or two.' "Johannes you are going toon," an swered tht chief gravely. "That It what I wanted of you. Send away tht English woman" and though he growled this, when tht bad 4. By Charles Tenney Jackson Copyright b? Tht Bobln-MtrrtU Compuf arisen he looked about at her from nnder his gray bushy brows and smiled. "I want to lie wl you a moment, and look at the flying tops. You will need to shorten sail, and I rage that I can not spring to the tops again. Name o' Q d! a seaman on his back and loose blocks clattering! . . . Is the English woman gone?" "She Is well away with Monsieur de Almonaster." ' "Good I Now, you are Lafltte, and not this woman's Sazarac. It Is this, Jean. In my shrimper's camp back.at La Camlnada there is a packet In my sea chest. It tells of plunder that Crump and De Jonvllle and I burled on Cozumel twenty years ago. Some gold, some silver and a handful of jewels. The two others have been dead long since; and I wish the stuff for you" "I can never return to Louisiana, Johanness," said the leader gently. "Eh? Well, that Is sol" The old man's voice was breaking lower. He turned his face to watch the white spume arise along the weather rail, the highest glitter of It striking his face. "Well, let me be, my captain I I wish to lie alona staring at the dizzy tops. Naught but them against the blue and the sea weathering up at me. Now let be, Jean!" The master put his hand back on his breast and walked aft. The weary group by the steersman looked ques tioningly up. "Let no one go near him. It is Ms wish. I shall roll him from the chains, That, too. Js his wish. I alone!" And again the girl looked wonder- Ingly at him. "What are you to them all, Monsieur? That rough men turn to you in this1 fashion, as I have seen them die the priest, the brother and the comrade?" 'A name," he said, and smiled ; and then would say no more. Louise had bound up De Almonaster'B Borely-wounded arm. Now they all lay In the shelter of the after-housing, save the lad, Clark, who had taken the wheel. Old Dominique, Monsieur Sazarac and Count de Almonaster with the English woman. The creak and haul of the gear In the freshening wind was all the sound, and Dominique croaked his misgivings. A sore wild nlcht for us all, hearties, If It keeps on. And another mystery there may be for the coffee houses, and that Is the end of the Seraphine and the, yelling bullies who stole her from- the Place d'Armes! I trust the Mayor Roulfllgnac will put flowers on my desk in the council chamber." They tried to smile for the sake of Mademoiselle. Now and then, with a curious little frowning fear, she had glanced down the raised skylight to the cabin of the emperor. It was, indeed, as If she was watching there for an ap parition. At times she would have asked of the ragged man she saw there In the chair of honor with the scalp wound that had given him something the appearance of one who wore a red coronet and jauntily; but always the two gentlemen had courteously evaded her. The two gentlemen had conferred apart, now and then; reservedly, per haps, but with common honesty, "You would make the Mississippi passes with fhls ship. Monsieur?" In quired De Almonaster. "It appears quite Impossible that we should I" "What Is In your mind, Monsieur?" retorted Sazarac dryly. "Your life again. Granting this shorthanded vessel can be brought to the Mississippi, there Is an answer we must make for this affair." "There is the answer I made to Mademoiselle Lestron." "True true!" The younger man shrugged. "There Is, In addition, my honor that the Seraphine yet sail on the mission for the emperor. There are gentlemen In New Orleans with money in this venture. If a crew could be shipped by any means " Monsieur Sazarac laughed aloud.' At the end it amused him this punc tilious regard each had for honor his own and the other man's, and each for the other's life and future. That was, what Mademoiselle Lestron had put upon them, this meticulous notion to stand aside rather than overreach. "Come," he said good-humoredly, ,"Is there a quarrel In us, Monsieur?" "In the end she will know you are Jean Lafltte," went on De Almonaster evenly. "But it Is not I who should tell her. Is not that fair?" "1 will bow to her from the gallows the governor will erect In the Place d'Armes, and announce myself, if needs be," said Monsieur Sazarac. "Jean I" tht younger man sprang np hotly. "This li no jesting 1 She lovea you 1" "A ghost Sazarac," smiled the oth er. ' "Ah, Indeed, this Is worthy of the man who Ilea below In the suite of Napoleon, babbling a glory which is compounded of fever and cognac! What It there to love in Saiarac, once the mask it torn from hlmT "That it the point of it," retorted tht other toberly. "On cm love mask ... a woman can go on for ever loving tht Illusion tht deems a man to bt 1" "Tht Irons tht will upon Mon sieur Lafltte In New Ortoant will not bt an Illation." The matter trailed again detachtdly: "This romantic fancy of hers for Saiarac I Go be low aik Monsieur Janrtt who hat suffered for her, bled for her, saved her lift and refute to bt anything bnt tht veriest myittry and Illusion SAZARAC to her! He refuses to be anything more. ... My friend, Jurvis. is ve? wise. Monsieur Sazarac can go n further than the gallons tn the Flnct d'Armes, and there smile down at her regretting lie Is not himself." "Ah, well !" the young man started up bitterly. "I can make nothing of it! I love her. Monsieur Lnfitte-kind she loves the magic of Sazarac 1" I He arose and paced the wet deck,' wincing as the swordthrust through his left arm cut him under the dress-. lng her hands had made for it. She saw him from her cushioned perch by the steersman. Dominique had taken the trick again, and sent the lud, Clark, to the lookout. A fine hot youth Raoul de Almonaster had come to be under the press of the eventful fortnight since the Seraphine tied from the river's mouth; the languid aristocrat of the sugar plantations had flung against tke steel of Mon sieur Sazarac and tempered to a mun. She would have called him and tried to win him from his moods, but she feared the flame of him . . . she could hardly full to guess why his Can Go On Forever Loving the Illu sion She Deems a Man to Be!" sword had leaped from its sheath on Campeche reef; and surely the Sera phine had seen enough of men's pas- t Blons and their blood. And Monsieur Sazarac, too, had Ills moods again. He found affairs to keep him busied, as, indeed, well a . . sailor might on this man-crippled schooner; but once, hnppenlng to -elanee down the cabin skylight, with her Incessant curiosity, she saw him -: there, He stood in deep thought, it appeared. Then lie went to the door of the emperor's stateroom, and rapped upon It with his sliver sword hilt. She thought he laughed slightly, a man who had thought upon a seri ous matter until It became amusing. The door opened. She could not tell by whom, but Monsieur Saznrac bdwed ; with an accentuated flourish. There was a sardonic smoothness to this bow; and Sazarac entered the emper or's chamber. The door closed, and s for an hour nothing happened In the cabin. It Irritated Mademoiselle Les tron. A mystery with grim laughter In It . . . about all the blood and death and fire of the weeks there had seemed grimacing mirth. ,1 Even the dying, wounded fellows, Jr overwhelmed by the boarding Span lards on the port bow last night ; that, , too, was a jest, for if the king's men ' had made one more assault the Sera phine, would have been theirs again. The swords of Monsieur de Almonas ter and Monsieur Sazarac were the only ones against them when they broke back to their boats. The last , dead of the Seraphine lay In a close row before the fo'cas'le hood Belu- ' eke, the admiral; Nez Coupe, the riven-faced; Bohon, the smuggler; Joe RIgo of Isle Grande; Freniere and two others ; a fallen rank to which, presently, she saw Monsieur Sazarac carry the last the bo'sun, Johanness. Then the master stood bareheaded in the sun and looked them over. He seemed satisfied; be took a deck broom and swept around them care fully, as If these were a treasure heaped on the schooner's spray-lashed bow; and then he came aft. Made moiselle Lestron saw that he carried a number of shabby tilings. A drenched velvet cap, a broken pistol, a faded sash, a cutlass and a gold ear ring from the bo'sun's head. With these he went down the main eom panlonway to the emperor's cabin, knocked on the door and then entered. Tht door closed. She glanced at Alderman Dominique drowsing at the wheel The flapping canvas, as the schooner wore off a bit, brought his eyes open. "Monsieur Dominique! What Is go ing on?" she cried. "Eh? On? I trust my bead Is still on and remains so? What" "What Is this play for nie?" aha broke In passionately. -TO BE CONTINUED.) Work for Blinded War Veterans, The largest electro-technical fac tory In Berlin, Oennany, has a work shop for men who Inst their sight tn the World war. Each workman la guided to the "blind ward" by a ihep herd dog and places are reserved for these dogs under the work benches. Tht men are carried free on tht trai ler and subway,