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COVNTY.
The Pirate of
Altair
HOLLAND
Author of "The Cooat at Harvard,* etc.
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Copyright, I BOB. by J
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Lippincott Company
Alt rights reserved.
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CHAPTER V.
Three days |»a»ae»l before anything fur
ther happened to disturb my «»vianlmity
of mind. an»l I was gelling back to my
accustomed serena outlook on the teach
when at dinner I found a tiny note lying
at tny plat»
Chari»« fre»|ii»nll> stopped
at the Penguin Club on his way from
marketing to are If by ch*me any mall
had l<vdgr»! there for tue
Thia time he
ted dlar»vvere>i the diminutive
missive
aforesaid lurked into the box that was
re»*rred for tue. and which usually ecu-
tained only the daily paper»
The en
velope was square «nd of a »lell.ate shade
between violet and gray, and my name
was written on It In a fine, bold hand.
Inside was a single sheet
"My Drag Mr. Pirate or Hermit (which
ever you are) :
"1 shall visit the Ship Fri»l*y after
n, ..'i w h--n ,' lie ' i l-- 1« -w
Tliere waa no name, not even a bare
Initial.
I looked at my calendar I was apt to
fo-g«t th« day» of the w»wk and found
that It was already Fri»Uy. I folded up
ths n< te and put It In my pocket, hardly
knowing whether to te ve«»<! or pl»s««»l
The truth of the mat'er ia that I found
Miss Graham's ls«t visit dis n-erttng
It ecem«l ateurd. but she bad in ««me
strange manner chang -<l the t**ne of the
bvwch
Instead of being a place for .-alm,
solitary musing. It had aaaume-I the as
pe*-t of a spot mnd« for company. I ha»l
never before felt the n«c»i of pointing out
th*
the pink shades of the sanda and
golden ersats of the rolling combers, nor
of requiring another's admiration of ths
circling gulls. Now I di»l. and the result
was that tbe more teautiful th« beach,
the more r«ut)«aa was 1. and this did not
suit me at all. I was not eo dull aa to
miss th« cause of thia change, and tbs!
was the reason why the note both vexed
and pleased me.
I "»» »'»"I ih«' 1
should be glad, and yet glad that I was
In the way of being further vexed.
! looked at the barometer after din
ner
It was falling.
1 glan<^<! at the
aky : It was still a deep, dome-ilk« blue,
but there were clouds «teallug acroua It
that betokened atorm. Tbe wind was
veerliig Into the northeast;
we
might
have ted weather at » moment's noth-«.
At th« appointed time I went up the
beach and clambered almard tEie ship,
'rtiere waa no one on Eioard. I deaev-nd
ad Into the cabin; tEiat waa empty.
1
climbed the ataira. and. »■omitig again on
deck, saw Mlaa Gratem starting aero»
the causeway. It was low tide, and the
path was above water,
covered
with
shells and barnacles
I threw over •
rope ladder that I bad made and h-ing at
the aide, and helped her on boarL Hhe
had on a soft, white laca hat that drop
ped at the edges and looked delightfully
summery. Iler gown was white; indeed,
tbe only color she wore waa a ¿»Id chain
and locket that hung low al-out her ne»-k.
Kha pointe») proudly to h«r stout tan
walking shoe«.
"I am wiaer today." »he Mid; "mncii
more of a s»m woman."
1 had thought once before that I ha 1
tasted fully tbe sense of exploration of
the Ship, but sow 1 found that 1 ha I
not. Lika two Inqulsitlva chilnren play
ing at teing explorers,
we
ransack'd
•very corner of the <*abin. thumping the
boards for secret hiding pla-ea, peering
Into tha dim re.-esse« of the banka. Hhs
opened the bra» bound cheat.
’There
waa nothing found In It?" ahe asked.
"Nothing."
"It are-ms a shame
How are we ever
to find the due If not In tbe cheatT'
"We must look for It out of doors." I
•aid
'Terhapu if wa wish hard enough,
the spirits of the old rovers will come
ba-k."
Ho 1 took cuahlona that lay with my
painting thing« and mada her a seat on
deck, and I lighted my pipe, and told her
all I bad dreamed about the Hblp, and
how I waa aura. If we only ha I aufll*-lent
faith, that a man would come out of the
•»• to aall her again and bring her aa
fine adventures as any ahe had known.
"How different you are from most of
the men I have met!" she Mid. "Now,
you aeem quite In your setting.
It ah
most makes me doubt that I'm only els
hours from town.”
"You're not. you're a thousand miles
from town. In another world. In another
sphere
We don't talk tbe language of
town out b»r« on tha Khlp; wa talk a
different tongue."
Hhe shifted so that she could look over
the sea. her ebln still propped In her
nand.
'Talk that tongue," ahe Mid In
that little tone of command peculiar to
her.
I talked of the sea and ships, of irtaa
nr» blihlen under tbe waves, of derelicts
that floated for years
without
being
sighted, of tbs Ancient Mariner and tbe
Flying Dutchman and all the thousand
and one legends of ghost ships and their
crews.
Meanwhile 1 watched her. took
In tbe dreamy lustra of her «yaa—gray
that ehaded to blue—tbe soft brown color
of her chaeks and brow, tbe curling gold
of tier hair beneath her big wblts hat,
• nd the delicate little hand that pillwwad
her chin. I noted the lo»-ket, oval and
flat, with her Initials B. G. Intertwined,
•nd tbs heavy go d links uf tbs Chalk *
that softly atlrred with h»r even breath«
She was a child listening to world old
•toriea, but I knew ah« was also a woman
who had come to change Alastair
I stopped, and for a time we both «at
•¡lent, while the benediction of that glo
rious afternoon rested upon our spirits.
There seemed no limitation to the world.
Tbe sea stretched out far |*ast the Shift
ing Shoal ami melted Into tbe sky. ami
that In turn rose Immeasurably
high.
Italy tbe white clouds flecked tbe deep
bln«, casting patches of shade, silver-
tipped, upon tbe waves, and that gave
us tbs lure of contrast
waa
Barters looked up - I think It
then that I first called ber Harber» to
myself and over at tus
’"The world itself Is •o much mote
wonderful than anything It i-ontaina, and
the beauty of It all ao much greater than
any single beauty, isn't It?*’
I could not agree, looking Into her
deep, serious eyew, vo 1 held my
' Why Is It, 1 wonder, that we only
think these things, only really live, •o
rarely 1”
There was something In her words that
made me hoi*; they s**me»l to say that
•he had often felt thus.
“One exists an much, but Ilves so lit
tle," I said; "but I could ImAfina rirrum
Stagers when one would be always Ik*
Ing."
tier eyes changed, th« depth« In them
aurfaca light
vanished, there lay only th*
I
that mocked me.
“Onel" ahe echoed.
'"Two," I answered, The moment of
thought was over; she had changed aa
swiftly aa the shadow of one of thoee
clouds flying beneath the sun.
"You are a great dreamer," ahe aald.
"Are you also a man of a t Ion. I won-
dsrF
''Give m* the chaniw."
"Give you the chancel Men of action
don't wait for the chance; they make It."
"If I were Canute, I would order the
tide to come In."
The red blood flushed her cheeks, her
eyelids dropped. I forget everything but
the picture that she mad» ths lovelieet
picture that I had ever seen or dreamed.
"But
Next moment she sprang up
ths tkle la still out,' •he «aid, "and all
yoqr wishes will not bring it in. I UKMll
tie going home"
1 waa up and standing beside her. lean-
Ing on the bulwark. "But you will come
again?
You'll come again to tbs Ship
and take tea with me. or take »upper on
tbe Hhlp? When will It be?"
“Wait; not for a day or two."
She crossed th« deck, and. drawing out
th*
a small bandkercblrf, held It
to
brass«.
‘"Fhe wind is from tbe northeaat,” she
NV« may
Mid. 'That means a storm,
have to wait many days."
“Several, not many," 1 answered.
She gave a little cry ; tbe handkerchief
had blown from her hand and over to tbe
•bore.
"Get It for me.” she said.
The Inland »ea was low ; I recovered
the handkerchief and came back, to find
her half way acr»*» the »-auseway.
’Thank you. Thia la the wund way
yoq dev ised of lea vine the «hip on foot."
"But It's not the heat way,"l answer*.!
1 went with her to th» great gate of
tbe elub and Mid go«vd night.
“Oh"' said she. "We forgot and left
tbe cushions lying on the deck. It may
rain. A good sailor should make things
tight."
"I will." I uMurod her.
A storm was certainly coming ; It »ng
In the boughs of the pines as I hurrie.1
through them, it grew in th« gathering
douils that hid the beach, it roared in
tbe loud wave« that threw themarlves on
the shore.
I crossed the niuuel backed [with, and
climbed on the ship. As I picked up the
cushions something slid from them on to
ibe deck. It waa a kveket, the locket she
bad worn on the chain about her neck,
and II lay open. fa<* upward, looking at
me. 1 mw a small, round photograph of
Rodney lallp.
CHAPTER VI.
ORKGON
they »»»• la «r fixe-
CANNOT STOP STRIKE
i
r
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that bad b«*u tetted ba-k and forth liks
King Unable to Control Labor Situa
a ahuttlnwfc between them.
I tried la
tion in Sweden.
I«u<h aa one should who sees • clown,
bead In air. stumble over a brooms! lek,
Stockholm. Aug. 10. The tie-up of
but the laugh was not evsn a passai*!«
the businesa of thv country aa a result
imitation
of thv strike is eo rerioua that King
Tbe storm was coming, and
L>f it.
1 wanted no m*»rs of tills fin*
Gustav intervened in an endeavor to
»•■ather »ben « men was led to l»i«s* into
secure a compromise.
The king to
r -w-i-ulor-.l drrwmv an*! fancy htnuelf a
day
sent
a
message
to
the
|>artles at
priti*« with th« world a« bla realm.
Th« rain began to spin against my
conflict, exhorting them to agree al
fa*«.
Ebe «t**rm was coming fist, anJ
the earliest moment possible and ad
tbe waves terk»*l angrily at my feet, like
vising arbitration.
lioumia yelping
But I would not run. I
would not even turn up my coat collar to Leas Important but Not Leas Inter
It was after King Gustav's message Officiels Have Double Set
Drawn to
keep off th« wel ; I would walk stolidly
had
been approved al a cabinet meet
esting Happenings from Points
Guard
Against
Accident
Work
•nd let myself te s*>ak«d. fur tbe p>«>r
ing Saturday that he summoned to a
muddle brained Idiot that I «•«
Outside the State.
Progresses Smoothly.
conference at the ¡lalsce thv two lead
But what of her?
Barbara Graham
liaiked Io me like a eunsumnuite flirt,
ers of the warring factions Director
playing with me wb»n she was a trifle
Orville Wright says he can fly 1,000 Sedow, of the employers, and Senator
Spokane, Aug.
HI. When little
weary of the company of her a*»-r»«lite«l miles in his aeroplane.
l.lndquist, president of the federation Helen Hamilton, niece of Mayor Boyd,
siltnirer. I knew that women sometliues
The I'rat signa of a break in the of trades unions.
; did «u<'h things. I did nut cwo»i*ter that
of Coeur d’Alene, walked into a pile of
! -be was tbe .* *r»t of b»r sea,but merely a Swedish strike arv appearing.
The result of the conference has not 105,(>00 yellow envelopes containing
' striking Instance of the sex's ln»in*'»rity.
China has yielded to Japan in the yet transpired, but apparently the applications for land of the Coeur
Yet «lie bad lo- knl like a child, as guile-
king's efforts for a peaceful solution d’Alene Indian reservation yesterday
Antung
.Mukden railway affair.
I«*»» as a maid In »hurt skirt» and brahl-
of the trouble were without result. 'morning, shortly after 10 o'clock, the
«d hair, when she had watched the *-a.
Count Zeppelin, the German aero Tonight it was n noun ceil the printers great land drawing on the thro« tracts
and then I remembered
th*we «ii*i*ien naut, has undregiuie an operation for would «trike tomorrow, and the Na
of government land the Flathead. the
flashing changes »hen the Imp of subtle abscess.
tional labor union baa issued a procla Coeur d’Alene and the Spokane Indian
mischief had darned in
her blue gray
The Milwaukee road will soon estab mation that, beginning tomorrow morn reservations was on.
eyes. She ana just a bundle of mischief,
ing, every drag wagon whose driver is
Several hundred people stood around
to whom a new man »as «imply «o much lish through service from SL Paul to
not wearing a union badge will be the platform, on which Judge Janice
sport
Yet I envied Islip with all the the coast
stopped by strikers. No exception, it W. Witten, of Washington, 1). C.,
etrrngib of my heart, which shuws how
Greece refuses to renounce her claim waa stated, will te made fur owner« formally openad the drawing on one of
strangely Inconsistent 1 ka*l grown.
to Crete and Austria warns Turkey driving their wagons.
the last of the big tracts of Uncle
Charles had foreseen the storm ■ nd
against war.
The union further declarva it will Sam's public domain. Unlike the rush
| had madr (hingM tight
lb»* ojttage;
tu««r*NjYrr, hr hi»4 built a fir* id th» liv
Cannon intends spending the time try t»> frustrate thv attempt of th» in "squatter” days, the modern method
ing INM un, which wa« also the dining room, until the regular session of congress Stockholm streetcar company to start of distributing land moved along with
to take tbe chill out of the rapidly tlain;» taking a rest.
its cars on the surface lines.
the precision of clockwork.
enfng air. Ordinarily. I would have tieen
When Miss Hamilton, daintily dreaaed
Theodore
Roosevelt,
Jr.,
likes
the
glad to get In and change into dry clothes
in white, had pluck cl the first lucky
COREA SORE SPOT AGAIN,
and stand In front of the tire, snug and air and will apply fur a pilot's license
envelufie from the tna«» and handed it
cumfortable. but now I waa as much <*ut to go ballooning.
Many Clashes Occur Between Japs to Judge Witten ami the name of laa-
of s<>rta as though the cottage had been
Harriman is to merge the Illinois
dore Selig, of Myrtle Creek, Or., had
ard Chineao.
a house of cards ami had audilenly • urt»-
Central and New York Central with
liven read aloud, th» gathering crowds
bled down about my head.
Victoria, B. C , Au^. 10. Pasaen- began to evidence increased interest
the Union Pacific.
Poor Charles I
He was soon te feel
and quivering exciteme.it.
the rawness of my temper.
1 ted no
Mrs. Harry Thaw wants (600,000 grra arriving on thaateamar Monteagle
A faint cheer aroee and followed in
sooner closed th» d«»r than I call**! to ¡ from the Thaw family pure», but the from the Orient today in diacuaaing the
rapid order as Mu* Hamilton, aided
him to get into his oilskins sn-l gu to price is considered too high.
aituation between Jajian and China,
by Ml»» Christine Donlan and Misa
Mi't'ulloai's aith an order to him to ha vs
A Ixi« Angeles inventor is looking fur aay COB iitiona at Cheintuu, on the Harriet P> t, plucked the other lucky
my horse at th* te* k d*«r by &
Men and
"Yea, Mr. Felix," »aid Charlee
“It's a wife with money enough to back him Corean border, are more likely to cause envelopes from the pile.
going t * I* a ted night, sir, a«klng your in building a flying machine.
serious trouble liotween the two na- women, now anxious to hear the ver
pardon.”
The Forty-third National encamp j tiona than the dispute over the Antung dicts in the first 20 envelope«, crowded
"I’m going to
the
Penguin
CluK ment of the G. A. R. is in session at
up to the platform where newspaper
Mukden railway.
Charli-s.'' I nnswered, "and I don't car»
men and government Clerks grabbed
Salt Lake. Fully 50,000 are in attend
When the Monteagle sailed reporta at the bits of news bearing names and
If tbe heavens fall on the way.'*
ance.
' Y-* sir, very g nod,
-«I. sir
sir . " and (Tiarlea
had iwen received that the Chinoee hs*l started them throughout the land by
depart*'*], wvmlr>ing. doubliew, at the
Mobile, Alabama, ia now in the list
massed 3,000 soldiers at Cheinlao special win s run to the drawing stand.
He of "dry" towns.
strange new master lie bad found,
The whole alTair is a perft’Ct deline
and collision» between them and
knew what I fbought of th« Penguin.
Spain explains the Barcelona out the Japanese |<olice were frequent. ation of the large scale on which Uncle
I changed Into toy storm viothr» —
Sam conducts his official business. The
».it 'i «
lea’ her break as a local affair.
Seoul dispatches receive»! before sail
heavy rldlt-g
drawing for the first day closed at 4
I
Jacket that buttoned up to my chin,
A granddaughter of General Corbin ing alate that, following the arrest of o’clock.
The mark of 1600 set by
put til I krt in a littlr pasteboard tea is to marry a Japanese.
a party of Coreans by the Japanese at
Judge Witten as the labor fur the
•ml placed It in an ln*id« pocket. ItauM-
'Cheintao, the Chines» troops attacked
Great Britain is not greatly alarmed the Japanese and rescued the prisoners, first day, was reached sn I the remain
less Mian Graham ralur-1 that «mall gold
at
the
Japanese
threats
on
China.
oval trinket with b»r monogram woven
I several of the Ja|iancae being wounded. ing 1 Soo will be drawn today. There
are but at>out half that many claims to
on the oul«hle and her lover ensconced
Jerome says Thaw is still crsxy and A boycott has been deciare»! against
he given away, but the extra 1600 are
Inside, and she should not have to wait
the Japa» ••»<» by the Chinese and Cor-
should be kept in an insane asylum.
drawn to till in where wipners fail to
until lb» sto'iii pa■»■*•1 to learn that she
eana of the daitrict.
Japan has commenced work on the
file by April I.
had nut loat it.
It would do no harm
for her to te disturbed for a few hours; Autung railroad in deaflnea of China.
MAY AVERT STRIKE.
then I would eml it.
IRRIGATION CONQRESS OPEN.
California gardeners at Basadme
Charles <••:.«> te a and said that Nero
have
passed
resolutions
declaring
Bur
would t*e aruuml at H.
I ted sup|>er In
Chicago Labor Controversy Appears
Largo Number Gathers st Spokane to
silent state, and then «auk into gloomy tank * fakir.
to Be Near End.
Discuss Important Affairs.
thought before the Are.
Confound me
A California couple returning from
Chicago, Aug. 10.- According to the
Spokane, Aug. 10. The congress
for being such a «Imple, gullible fool, I a honeymoon abroad have been arrested
w ho had scarcely hid eyes on a woman for undervaluing gomia brought home. i outlook tonight there will be no «trike opened with the "Irigation (Me," sung
before at Alastair! That waa tbv trou-
of th* streetcar emplojea of Chicago, by the Sjxikan« chorus of 260 voices.
Turkey has renewed her threat to
hie with thv affair
In town 1 should
The luidress of welcome to the state
have I wen prr|ared. properly gyvevl and send an armed force into Greece if that and a aettlcmcnt ia likely to be reached waa delivered by Governor Hay, of
breast plated, but here ahe bail come up country does not withdraw her troops ! by tomorrow night
Washington.
on ue In my own natural wilderueea, on from Crete.
It ia »aid an offer of a wage Increase,
On behalf of the city Mayor N. 8.
my own simple beach, in tny Ship of day
t>a»e»l on employee* length of »ervier, Pratt spoke. He caused the suggestion
The
Swedish
general
strike
contin
dream», wtere everything waa •» free
ues and leaders claim more men are to will te mad»- by Preaident Mitten, of of a aei saticn by charging private cap
and open as the sea.
ital with interfering with government
Two regiments of sol the Chicago City Railway company.
(Tiarlea eyed me a«kance as I pulled be called out.
reclamation projects.
my oilskin hat shout my ears and vault- diers have mutinied.
John M. Roach, preaident of the Chi
The response on tehslf of the con-
>d u|»>n N»ro Even the poor txsist must
Japan has sent China an ultimatum cago Railway» company, ha» ha»i his
have looked at me auspiciously, for thia on the railroad situation in Manchuria. suditor» at work figuring out a mrthoil grraa waa made by George E. Barstow,
president of the congrrss.
• •< no night for riding oo any aimple
of advancing wag»», and it 1» »aid hie
It ia urderstood that a number of
Cleveland, Ohio, officers are having first offer to a committee of his em
rrrand. I must te the twarer ot tuli nr*.
state delegations have declined to com
a figure »tep(w*| out of a rough and tum a row over the Whitla kidnaping re- I
ploy*» tomorrow will te on the aame
mit themselves in the matter of indors
ble story.
Ila*l 1 only known bow that ward.
general baaia sa that of Mr. Mitten.
night was to carry tue far afield, and
ing a candidate for president. Thia
The controversy probably will te ad
Lord Kitchener is to be field mar
bow that ride te tbe first swift gallop in
is true in the case of President Bar
shal and organize the British colonial just*»! without rrsort to outside arbi-
to a strange ami swirling enterprise!
stow, who, although an announced can
I (ration. The employe» aay they are
The pines shot their water into my forces.
didal», has not been urged strongly for
'-!ecid*»lly
op|K>
ed
to
arbitration,
and
face as I galloped along the narrow r<va<L
Marriages of pretty cashiers has
a second term because of the feeling
The sandy footing gars now and again, caused Ixie Angeles hotel men to em rather than »ubmit to it will accept any that the honor should be "passed
reasonable compromiae coming from
and I had to let Nero's Instlm t eave ua ploy men.
around."
Other candidates for the
th* companies direct.
fiom foundering in the tea-* which the
president of the congress developed
The
Moors
are
again
showing
activ
heavy rain was making of the country,
during the day in the jieraona of ex
The night waa black as pitch; th* wind. ity and another clash with Spanish
Sestlle Fair Half Over.
Governor Gooding, of Idaho; ex-Gov-
risen to a hurri<-»ue. serwhed through troops is expected.
Seattle, Aug. 10. With the closing ernor Pardee, of California, and Con
the forest In a thoustnd varied voice«,
Tlie murder of a Mexican girl by a of the gates Sunday, the first half of gressman Mondell, of Wyoming.
each more terah and -vminous than ths
the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex|>oeitlon
The question of a next meeting plica
last. Meversl times, riding out from th« Chinaman has caused an outbreak at
waa ended. Figures compiled by the has narrowed down to a fight between
middle of the mad. wet liranrhrs driven Zapotlan, Mexico.
exposition management show the at San Francisco and Pueblo, Colo., with
by the gale flung themselves against me
Venexuela is about to bring to a
• nd aiimiat thudded nie from my horse. cloee the disputes with foreign powers tendance for the first half of the fair Denver pleviged to
aid the latter.
to be 1,744.361. Basing their esti
I crouelosl low, tending forward for safe dating from Castro's regime.
The new cot at i tut ion privilege, the
mates upon the percentage of Increase buaniees like basis eo much desired by
ty «nd that I mlfbt peer 1st« ika m-irky
A case of Bubonic plague has been for August and September over the the congress, was adopted without dis-
blackness of the mad.
He* er a I
times
i found in Sacramento county, Cal. The preceding months at previous expoai- senL
his head.
• ituation is not regarded alarming.
tiona, the officiala estimate that the
'I he Italifs at the gate of the rlnb wees
total attendance at the clooe of the Se
Bank Guaranty Law Effective.
The
Chinese
government
has
made
|
• •-it
they were evidently not et|>ectlng
atti« exposition October 16 will be
arrangements
to
install
a
telephone
Austin, Texas. Aug. 10. The now
visitors
I male Nero to the stable«, left
more than 4,600,000.
guaranty of bank deposits law passed
him with a groom, and strode Into the plant in Pekin with a capacity of 200,-
The instruments are to be
by the recent special sc salon of tbe
club's main hall. I mist have prevented 000 lines.
Bolivian
Revolt
Likely.
Texas legislature wont into operation
my
tight buttoned American make.
a aorry ape*-lade;
Lapaz, Bolivia, Aug. 10. It is stated
and
leather jacket, my riding hreoehea
Heat ia claiming more victims at that, although the inauguration of Dr. yesterday. The law is similar to the
boots, all »naked and running with water,
Oklahoma law in all its moat import
Chicago.
Don Elidoro Villazon as president of ant provisions. It provides for and de
uiy hair and face dripping when I took
Striking bakers at Montreal, Canada, the republic has been set for next fine* two alternative methods or plana
off my oilskin hat that brack led under my
Thursday, there are many persons here for the protection of the depositors of
have caused a bread famine.
chin.
’Take my name to Miao Graham.* I
who doubt that this program will be state banking cor|>orationa which are
The J a pa have called off their strike
•aid to the clerk at the d<ak. ami be rwr-
consummated because of his friendli referred to aa the "guaranty fund
on
Hawaiian
sugar
plantations.
Ognlaed uw and sent a buttons to find
nrss toward Argentina. The situation plan’’ and the "bond security plan,"
her.
The Stockholm strike is causing s in Bolivia never has been more serious, rv-pec lively.
Th» state banks may
"Miss Graham la In th» son parlor os famine and ia spreading throughout and sensational events are expected
decide which plan to adopL
tbe |>orch to the right of the main -loor.* Sweden.
shortly.
reported the buttons, "and aays aha wiD
“
Wallman May Soon Fly.
An
Oregon
woman
has
t>een
arrested
see you there."
C
vina
Give«
Her
Consent.
Tromaoe,
Norway, Aug 10.- -Advieea
at Oakland for swindling railroads by
(Ta be rontinned.)
drtak'ns >'»
" -*»
EVENTS OF THE DAY
lilHIS PICK WINNERS
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
Drawing for Government Land
at Coeur d’Alene.
PREPARED IÜRTHE BUST READER
OREGON MAN GETS EIRST CHANCE
There waa no mlataklng thnao fea
ture« ; they belotiged as unquestionably
to the man in tweed» aa did the locket to
Barbara Graham.
Moreover, the photo
graph did him justice, and ahowed an ex
tremely preposeaaing. alightly amiling
face, and -that I considered added Inault
to the Injury.
1 anapped the locket together and put
It In my breaat podiet; then I hurled the
mahlona down the cahln-etepa,
pulled
over the hatrhea, and left the Ship.
I
waa In a very different humor from that
of an hour before.
All the way down the beach I ponderavi
the matter.
How came the locket to
have dropped from the chain. how carne
It to have fallen open when the catch
aeemed eo atrong? But these were petty,
fake injury claims.
trivial quaatlona. the mereat IntroductIona
The Lw*t Wort.
Bernard J. Mullaney has declined
to the great, all absorbing question -how
Rhw— And do you believe that a won*
Mayor Busse’s offer to be chief of po
am Rodney lalip'a picture there?
an slwaye lumi to the last page flnit
lice in Chicago.
Alaa, there aeemed only one plauaible
when she picks up a book? He Well,
explanation. and I remembered the alight
One of the four surviving wives of
I
have
no
rm»
n
to
doubt
IL
I
know
air of proprietorship, the amused a mils
the Mormon leader Brigham Young, is
aa though at aotne hidden joke, that had It is the nature of the fair aei to aid
I
dead. She was RM years old.
•truck ma when Islip had come upon ua tbe last work. Pick Me L’p.
Tok Io, Aug. H. It is telle veal that
the Chinee* minister to Japan has re-
caived instructions from Pekin in
which the objection« of th« Chinese
Ifovemment to th* reconstruction of
tha AntungMukden railroad and its
conversion into a standard guage line
are completely withdrawn,’
4b
f
I
I •
a
received here from Spitzenbergen,
where the Walter Wallman polar ex
pedition la being prepared for an at
tempt to reach the north pole, say the
repairs to the balloon abed which waa
badly damaged by a atorm laat June,
have l.een completed and a gas appar
atus hna been inatalled.
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