THE BEAVERTON REVIEW Friday, January 21, 1027 ■ Thirty Drowned in Hudson River Boat Disaster Come. I want you to go off on a little trip and freshen up." 1 Virol liy consented, and Preston spent a week lu town alone. It was on the third day llial a tramp, ahuf King along Ihc rood, looked up al the house, saw Prcsiou. Slid hesitated Then he went hraaeuly up the path and stood before him. P real on rev Bjr H. M E G B E R T ogttlicd the man and gasped. "Itankln t” he cried. (t'ovtriaM fcy vv a ckwiuoi I “ You've got me," answered Itankln. “ I thought you were dead." A W R K X t'N I'ltKSTO N , imir.ler “ I giles» you both did. Where's or. occupies a too— I mean Five hundred o f man who would captivate the Mr«. Presión— know. heart o f an Inexperienced girl like and you don't hear o f me again." Preston thought, hla eyea llxavl oil Dorothy. l*re»ton. to wtioui »he was Itanklu s fare, lie was lu a trap, and more than half engaged, »aw her slip for Dorothy's »»k e he mu»t »uhintt. plug away from him. " I'll give you five hundred." he aald Itorothy married Itankln. and then en»ued live o f the bitterest years o f “ And— listen, you houml ' I f ever I | i her life, lie took her money and see you again I'll kill you. I'm a man , »pent It. (tartly gambling, partly on o f my word and I mean Ju«t th a t” “ That's all right," an«weriHl Itankln Thirty men were drowned in the Hudson river at New York when a motor boat struck an lew Hoe and was w" ,n<'n Dorothy ought to hate rapoised. Thirty others s e ra rescued by tugs. ThU picture, transmitted by wire, shows bodies o f the dead being '■ "«re e d him. perhaps, hut »lie shrana easily. "F iv e hundred gnaw." 'H e back In an hour.” »aid I'r e * * ” ■ »'“ 1 that atep; nothing like It had tiranti onto a ---- raft. heen known In her family, ami, while Ion, “ and you aliali have 11.“ An hour later Preston handed Itali »he was »t||| deliberating. Itankln w a» Orava of Cacti Rhodas In South Africa. killed in the train accident that oc­ kin hla money, aud the man shunted I lar« and exceeded In value Ihe com curred after the Watertown races, out o f alglit along the rosal. Presión | 0 blued value o f Ihe many shiploads o f where he had gone in play. watched him. He had meant what lie F T H E three largest overseas w o o l, ostrich feathers, hides and coal The body was mangled among a salti. For IVarothy'a sake he w a» re uulta that make up lit« llrltlab lhal aallrd away from Mouth Africa heap o f others snd only Identified by mdved to kill llankln If be entered o f nations, the Ihe aame year. O ’ commonwealth a card tn a card case. It occurred to Ihetr live*» again. I n Ion ot South Africa la iho Some ktai mllea to Ihe northeast of ItNtikln. who hnd lost the five hun- nobody that Itankln might have given only one presenting serious racial Ihe diamond country are Ihe gold his card to some chance aciiualntance (Irani In a gambling hell, lawk the »ec- , The wltlle |iopul»tlnu of fields In thrlr midst la the gold- upon the train. IV rothy did not pre­ oiul aioomii 10 die place Ile wa» sure * " ‘ 1 about s million aud a half Is divided built, wonder city o f Johannesburg, tend to mourn him. .six months later he cwuht easily get »11 he wantant out between people of llrltlsli and Dutch melropolla of Mouth Africa. After the she married Freetou. and her real o f Preston. He Imiulred and learned origin, while the population o f lilacks discovery o f gold In Ihe eighties llie honeymoon began that IVirothy would mu return fair 11 la more than three tluiva lhal o f the city sprang up almost over night Two years of Ideal happiness •lav or twa>. The aectmd Hva hundred whites This racial situation hut af fo llo w »! the first. passed. Preston was at this time rep Because o f Its racial situation tha fecled the molding o f Iho govern resenting his Arm on the road, lie Mouth African Union la not marked by Itankln tlld mil rati at I'reaton a mental machinery was away for a week when Dorothy aa great a degree o f democracy as house again Perhaps he had a lurk* The Union o f Mouth Africa, although seated happily on the porch o f their Ing fear o f violence; perhaps hla nerve Australia. The executive haa rather house, and thinking of him. saw .1 w a» not equal to seeing Preston. He half around the «o rld from America broad power«, ha* lug a veto over or ragged tramp approaching along the wrote » letter instead, »»k in g for five aud lllllo known lo American«, haa In dlnanree passed hy Ihe provincial road. hundred more. It was a letter typical Ha history chapters which wa know by councils. lie also appoints admin Something In the man s appearance. o f »oeh a man. now threatening, now ! heart. It haa vast areas taken over latrntora for Ihe provinces. The mem J from aborigines; thousamla of Its Imploring, and winding up with the In hts »touching gait arrested her at here o f the senate and houae o f as * « * m nvacrod by sav aeinhly of lha Unloo must be uf Ku tentton. Suddenly she »at up In her Statement that he m eantTo tail« the " h,t* money and go Weal. • * ” ' bul " » ‘"•"h “ ‘"'•“ "•led. proamal riqieun descent, and senator» m ail aw 1 chair, rigid, her eyes fixed with hor ror upon the face of the man who had Preston received the letter when he ,hr,r «’ n,,rU W property valued al CJ.fiUU "State, been her husband came home from hitslne«*. When he farther Into the Interior o f an un­ right»“ are recognised to Ihe v ile n l known couilneut ; a gold rush won a Itankln advanced up the little walk had read It he sat with hardened face, that Ihe qualification» for voting are o f the garden. He grinned amiably thinking. He saw this blackmailer a uew em pir»; and Iho land la pro different In Ihe aeveral provinces, be­ soasad today o f a stubborn race prob I I « saw a* he came to a halt In front o f the chronic feature o f hla life ing I hose recognised by the pro« laces lain. terrified girl and removed his battered that In the man a death lay the only al the lime o f Ihe Union. In one raspaci, however, tha carving hat with a mock how chance for IVirolhy's happiness. And Even In the m ailer o f language amt “ W ell, wife.” he said, “ la that all he meant to protect IVirothy at the out o f what la now Ilia Union o f Koutli Institutions Mouth Africa la far from Africa la without Its parallel In lha yon have to say to me? Aren't you coat o f hla life —or o f hla «olii. being solely Hrltlab. The Dutch lan­ Itankln had asked Presina to meet development of tha I'ultad Míate« glad to see me again after all these guage Is equally aa official aa Kng years?" hint on the bridge ocrosa the river - Th••r*, ,h* *,r,f“ <* ' » » white peoples lla b ; and Itoiuan Dutch law Instead of Scene In the Red Square. Moscow, when thousands o f Russians paid tribute to Leonid Krassln's memory as hla Dorothy only »hrank from him. a lonely «(nit In a deserted quarter of I ^or control haa been an all Itnponaut lha English common law la lha basis funeral cortege passed. He was the Soviet representative In England and one o f Russia's beat diplomats. ■•*“ «*' ■ century and a o f tha legal system. Rankin observed the movement and the town, given over only by day to f,c lo r factory activities. I'reaton put a load ; h“ lf ,h* Dutch had possession of t ape he grinned, not so amiably as before About tha Rravin«aa. “ I guess we'd belter have this thing ed revolver Into hla (Ha-ket that night T o* " " » d 'he «mall area surrounding Capa o f Good H op » province (o r ami walked briskly through the town 1 1 which harbored all tha whites In HONOR DEAN CLARK out right away," he said, taking his Month A f r t a The Napoleonic war» “Cape Colony'* aa It la still usually «eat beside her. ''So you thought 1 until he reached the rendosvoua. As lie stood on the bridge ha saw "■««■ferrad possession to England, and termed) la Ihe premier unit o f the was deail and got married again, eh? 'l* * ! the English assumed a final Union both In age and else. With lla And I guess you're happier than you the ragged figure approaching him area o f approximately J77.IIW square were with me? Ami you wouldn't like from the low quarter o f the town In ; r®“ ' r° |. which many of the Dutch to habitants resented In IM 6 many uf miles II Is more than one-truth as large 10 he disgraced and have to take me which Hie Parker hotel was situated Itankln saw Preston and hurried for ,ll*‘ Dutcli farm er» or “ Iloera” began ea the entire l tilled Slate«, and It I* hack V more extensive than Its three slater "I'll never do that ” cried Dorothy. ward. He stopped a few reet away "ek k tn g Into the Interior with tha tn- provinces combined. From the era leutlun o f settling beyond English In “ Maybe not." he admitted "A ll tb» and looked at him Inquiringly. “ I got your letter,” aald I'reaton duence. When Englishmen followed much o f Ca|*r Colony seems barren, same, you'd give a good deal to get rid them they trekked farther. Finally, bul the soil la rich aud after the rainy o f me and not let your husband know cnlmly. "Yea." aald Itankln. deeelved hy th « beyond (lie Orange river they founded season, productive. It wasn't my twsly that was found. other'« manner 'T meant to keep in* 'he .Orange Free State, nud twyoud the Natal lies Jual around Africa's cor­ How much Is It worth to youV Hut I was «lugged V* * ' rl*er. «he Transvaal Keptibllc. ner. only a m ile way beyond lit« Cape “ What do you mean?" cried the girl. promise tn you. Elr» t diamond» and then gold were o f Good Hope. It fronts, therefore, " I mean.” said Itankln sullenly, anrl robbed. And I've got to go West “ that I’ m down and out. When I anil I'm stranded. I f I stayed In town discovered In tha new «tutea. They on Ihe southern part of the Indian It extends roughly between heard you thought me dead and had you know I'd In* recognised and lha brought greut prosperity to the Boer ocean. republic», but they brought uiuny out south latitudes 27 and IK!, and haa a got hitched up again, I meant to »lay­ truth would come out." “ It would." I'reaton «rree d ! alder» aa w e ll; and the preseuca of position corresponding In the northern away. You weren't the only one that • I've got lo get out o f town then.” «*>*»••> '«1 •« the Boar war an, hemisphere lo lltal uf northern Florida wa« «firry to have got married. M ar­ ried life wasn't all beams and roses said Itankln. "You'd lieller hand over ■ re»u ll of which (lie república came and the southern and central portion« Into the possession o f Great Britain. of Ihe other Gulf state«. In Ihe matter for me either. Now, then, how much that five hundred, and I ’ll tuke the o f location, then. It 1 an lie »ecu 1 h.1t Crsatlon of tha Union. Is It worth to you to set me on my first train fur Uallfornln In the morn­ Natal should have an excellent chance feet, knowing I'll never come back? in g " Aside from the war horn rrpuhllca lo liecotne Mouth Africa's "D ix ie." The “ Itankln.” »aid I'reaton,' "you nre Make It five hundred." und monarchies o f llie last eight years, “ You want me to deceive my hus­ supposed to have died In that train lha Union o f Mouth Africa la one of coastal licit la relatively low and warm with a subtropical climate. In lltla wreck." band V cried the girl, nine It la believed that Natal ran de­ "Yea. but I didn't. «0 what's the usa the youngest o f the Imp.,riant enuu "I'm your husband.” said Rankin Thomas Arkle Clark, who originated tries of (he world. It, too. was largely velop an Important rollon production. of. talking?” asked Knnkln with a the office o f dean o f men tn American with another grin. ’T om e now. five Shortly after the cniiclu- There, (00, Is a considerable sugar In­ sneer, thinking that the other was war-horn. universities and who haa served In hundred sipiares It. I know you ran •lon o f the Boer war plana were set on dustry and large tea plantation« Hack that capacity at the University o f lilt- ! r®l*“ that, r didn't run through all temporizing. •'Nobody knows you.didn't die," said f o o t to fuse the two old rrpuhllca with about DU mllea from the roast the nola for twenty-five year«, w ill be Yoor money. I wish I had. but now It *'a|ie Colony, the oldest Month African midland belt In-gin». This «one Is Preston thoughtfully. honor guest at a dinner party January **‘<>m* J,ut * " well." government, and Nutul, next In |silnt higher and cooler aa la Ihe hack coutf “ I guess they will smin. If you don't 11, to be attended by some 300 col- Dorothy rose and faced him scorn- o f age. to form the new union. It was leagues and frlenda from varloua fully. “ You mean that If I give you rome serosa,” said llankln threatetv- finally crraled by au act algued In Iry o f Ihe American Gulf atate« and ronatllatea a “ corn liell." SUM farther five hundred dollars you will never iim-lJ parta o f the country. IDIU. from ihe cnaat nre Ihe uplands o f •'You are ns good as dead, anyway, I see me again?" she asked. The territory o f the Union occupies Natal, where higher altitude and low. "That's about the alíe o f It,” he au- said I'realon, as If talking to himself, the whole southern and southeastern AWARD FOR BRAVERY 1 swered. “ la fire hundred the least you will er temperature combine to create con­ tip o f Africa In a wide atrip extending ditions like Ihoaa o f the plains o f " I have five hundred left and yon take. Itankln?” about ‘ J 50 miles Inland from the Indian “ Not a rent less, and It'a that or ex Texaa and Oklahoma. And, aa In lha Tw o famous explorers o f the Arctic wastes met at the National Geo- j shall have It hy the first post tomnr ocean. Ha arra lacks only ‘ja.ntsi uplands o f ihnae slate«, slock raising graphical society In Washington and swapped atori'-s on erpedltiona In the Far row,” aald the girl. “ Give me your posure.” answered the other. square mile« o f reaching the half mil “ There's an alternative.” , and cereal production are the dom­ North. They were MaJ. Gen. A. W. Greely (righ t), dean o f living Arctic ex­ ! address " "There la, eh?" demanded Itankln. lion mark. U f Its four prdvlneea. Cape inant Industrie«. Natal hna a popula­ plorers, and Dr. Knud Rasmussen, a famous explorer and authority on Eskimo [ "T h e Parker hotel.” aald Rankin. Colony Is slightly larger than Texas, tion of about 140,01«) whites and ap­ » tribes who has recently returned from a 2U.OOJ mile trip In the North by dog : Thut afternoon the girl drew all her “W h a i r “T h l»,” answered I'reaton. drawing rtiw Transvaal shout the else of Ne- proximately ten lim e« as many negroes sled and on fo o t money out o f the hank and mailed It viida. aud orange Free Slate slightly and East Indiana. to him. No answer came, o f which the revolver from hla pocket aud ain. smaller than Alabama, while Natal ex Orange Free Slate province la en­ she was glad; hut no Rankin returned. Ing It at Itnnkln'a heart. He saw the terror In the blackmail- reeds Mouth Carolina by a few thou­ tirely Inland, separated from Ihe In­ i And Dorothy nerved herself to meet sand square miles. dian ocean hy the high Drakensberg ber husband on hla return and keep er'a eyea; then, pressing the rnuxgie From the aouth snd southeast tn his breast, he fired. Without n range, and from Ihe Atlantic by half the matter from him for hla aake. South Africa la a aeries uf mighty ter Ihe width o f Ihe continent. It lies "W hy. yon look quite worn out. sound the blackmailer toppled l^'to raeea, each with a rim of high mnun on the great Mouth African tableland deareat.” said I'reaton. "Y ou 'll have the sluggish stream. tains from below and low ones from at an elevation o f more Ilian 4,01*1 I'reaton dropped In the weapon a fter to run Into the < ountry for a few daya' above. Most of the slopes near Ihc feet. The country la made up for the him and walked home. J change." sea are fertllo, well wooded and well moat part o f rolling plains with hero Hhe elnng to him hyaterteally. " I watered. The «»ren din g step» vary In and there "rand»“ or ridge«. The pop­ Im itativ « Man don't want to leave you. I-awrenoe." molature und fertility. Within (hla ulation Is largely o f Dutch origin. I ahe cried. No man In effect doth aecompariy terraced bulwark lie the great plnlns "W hat nonsense!” he answered, u-lth others hut he learneth, ere I,« Mllll farther Inland Ilea the fourth or veldta where wild game once ! kissing her. "It will do you good, la aware, some gesture, voire or fasli- province, Transvaal, with an area swarined and where great herds of dear. You ore aa while as a rag. Inn.— Baron. twice that o f Orange Free State and a sheep and cattle have taken llielr population ntnre than three times as places. These plains coulrlhule yearly great. The while population, as In all million« o f dollars worth o f wool, the other province», la greatly In Iho ostrich feather», hides, and mohair to minority. 1'hyalcally, Transvaal la the outside world. much like Orange Free Plata, a land Aa a result o f excavations during »0 on are little less perfect than we Great Diamond Mlnaa. • o f rnther dry upland plains. rebuilding in various porta o f the city make them today. Toward I he Inner edge o f the terri­ The Union of Mouth Africa haa a o f I Ain don the Guildhall museum has From Elizabethan limes we find become quite 11 storehouse o f antlqnl- chessmen In terra cotta and hone, dom­ tory o f the Union nre the world's system of divided capitals. From I’ re- greatest diamond mines, where earth t” ria, capltel o f Ihe old Transvaal 11« inoes In lead, bone skates and tobacco I ties. sufficient lo fill IhousnntU of car« la public, Ihe administrative activities of There are to he fonnd flint flakes of pipes. W. W. dem enta o f Boston, Maas, screened yeurly for the sake of a peck Ihe Union are carried on. The pnrlln- Tudor wall files, tavern signs, U lien a e lm i* elephant . «caiied at Garnett, Knns., and roamed over the who haa been given the Carnegie med- the paleolithic period, flint celt« and or two o f diamonds. Bill the few ment meets in C«|ie Tow n ; while the knives o f the neolithic period, dag boundary marks, spurs, wehpons and «'IJucent country for several days the farmers engaged an exciting and «I 1 « and an award •/$1,000 • 1 " 6 ' NA i In ll g ill c | ItllJI, u UIJ i n 1 1 » VI n i l IX ** t l l ' l M l ^J' Sr ir sy for i attempt- llirril|M . ■ 1 j. ff ivia handfuls o f diamonds exported In 11113, Supreme Oourt o f Appeals alts In armor are all arranged In chronolog­ unusual hunt, iitu tl’y th# pachyderm w ith ninny «hot wounds and with frozen , Ing to nave a woman from drowning K° r* f lP hrpnze age « > J the last year before the World war, Hloenifonteln, riipltal o f Orange F re » ______________ a w ____ . . . . . . . . . . . _ r II..-. rw .n el.an .la I.O m n lp ri lftfl IflflU lina, o spearhead», hammers l and tools ical order. Spur» for - rockflghtlng, ♦ a n and toes, waa caught, chained and led back pea« efally to hit owners. at Miami Heart), ria were worth more than fifty million dol­ Mlnle. o f the late Celtic period. models o f «tale barge*, handcuffs, Useful and ornamental things such manacle* und a whipping post are Sym bolic Ja p a n e ta G ate a as hairpins, combs, mlrtors, rings. other curious exhibits. tlnn centuries. It la believed that the The T orll gates In Japan are arch- shoes, spoon», ladles and surgical In­ hulk o f ihe art treasure was gathered ___________ W i ways o f two upright posts with two struments, that we owe to the Ko- hy Multili! Mollman Ihe Magnificent H um anity' a Oc/rf T rait mans, Hre there. House furniture, Turkey Is taking to electric refrig­ In Its earliest stages, tuberculosis horlzontal ties ms. They were orlgl Whnt la probably the grent**t collec­ during the middle part o f th « Six­ The world Is full o f f„|nt |)e, rl(| n a llj supposed to be the perch for locks and keys, wall decorations, and erators. can lie cured In practically lot) per and yet everyone has ctllril){p rnmigh tion o f Uhlneae porcelain» In the world teenth century. sacred fow l that heralded the ap- I ’aiier can be made from practically cent o f cases, specialists say. lo hear the misfortunes wU(|ora tins lain hidden In the cellars o f the proach o f day. The word ‘ 'T o ril" anything that can be pounded Into A telegraph typewriter has been In­ Potato Seed Not U tad enough to manage the affairs o f hla tnnsure houae o f the “ old «ora l" of means either a bird rest or a gateway. U te for Oyeter Sh ellt pulp. vented which delivers messages at the the Turkish sultan* In Constantinople, neighbors.— Poor R lc h ^ g . Hnth the Irish and the sweet potato Oyster shells are used for five pur- The famous W lellcik a salt mines In receiving end lu complete tyiiewritten according to I'rof. Ernst Zimmerman, produce true seeds, hut In neither rase pose«— “ shelling," chicken shell, fer­ Galucla contain 05 miles o f galleries form. Contcience No G uide o f Dresden, one of Ihe world's fore­ are they used for propagation. The Early P r o h i b i t M ovt tilizer, lime and road building. By o f salt rock. Esperanto will be adopted as an No man's conscience ran tell him most authorities on ceramics. A large «weet potato plant produces seed only ProhlbllteR was first Mp(1 Am„ . Boys played m arble» even In the auxiliary language, especially |n the the right» o f another man; they must ,ar ,h,> ,no"* 'n'l-ortant Is for shell part o f Ihe collection con»l«ta of M iiiir In very warm climates, while Ihe Irish 0, th. early daya o f the Indian mound bulld- transmission o f Important news, It la be known by rational Investigation or | By, thls U meant ^Hie planting ' fca in 1733, when Dm and Ming pieces, ranging In date from potato produces seed only In cool rlk o f them In oyster beds. In order that , colony o f Georgia • " y u jp t . j t0 pro. predicted. historical Inquiry.—Johnson. lha Tenth to tha Meventeenlh C'hrla- mates the spat may fasten on them. j Dibit rum. KILLING WAS NOT MURDER UTHATW a Russians Pay Honor to Leonid Krassin in Death Arctic Explorers, Old and New End of an Elephant Hunt in Kansas Monuments of Past Uncovered in London ALL AROUND THE GLOBE Treasures Long Hidden