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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1929)
JdMSS. -t WJ.ic-v JS ' v-c t Scene In (PMr'fM r the National orphl Society. Washington, D. C.) THE long, (weeping curve of a crescent bay the storied Bay of Algiers here fringed with yel low sand, there, at one end, edged with gleaming black rocks, and everywhere backed by the steep slopes of a seml-clrcular chain of low hills rising abruptly from the water's edge and crowned with white villas In ver dant gardens flaming with Bougnln Tlllea and polnsettla. Behind the hills lies the narrow, fer tile plain of the Mltidja. In spring time blazing with the varied hues of wild flowers, the yellow of oranges, the green of cornfields and vineyard. Towering above the plain In rugged grandeur the mighty chain of the At las mountains, seeming to support the heavens on their snow-clad shoulders. And the clouds gather round their peaks and leava the sky clear and blue, almost as blue as the waters of the Mediterranean below. At one end of the bay are the spa clous harbor, the busy wharves, and the terraced houses of a white city climbing to the hilltop. Algiers, the White City! Its story runs from Hercules and the Golden Apples to the flesperldea through the forgotten chrontcles of Numldlnn. Itorann, Vandal, Byzantine, Arab and Turk to the last of the Bourbon kings, to Napoleon III, and the French re public Not a century ago It was the haunt and headquarters of the cruel est. most bloodthirsty pirates that the world hns ever seen; today It Is a bright and beautiful city of modern France. Alongside Its quays He great steam era being loaded with the produce of a bountiful land: Its wharves are piled high with cask and case. Immediate ly over ihem rises a high, cliff like wall pierced with caves mer chants' warehouses and offices In vaults. Two Contrasting Quarters. Along the summit of this wall stretches the beautiful Boulevard de la RepnMlqiie. the beginning of a quarter that might rlvnl (lie best hit of Ports between the Opera nnd the Seine, a quarter of well-built streets, where the hroad sidewalks shelter nnder arcades, of shady squares where white mosque front huy cafes and palm trees wave before the elee trie trnm that link the town with the suburbs stretching around the curving bay. This Is the quarter of theaters, ho tels, and commercial offices, of attrac tive shop, of crowded streets where automobile and electric tram dispute the . right of-way with five horsed carts. Welt-dressed European men and short shtrted. sllk-stocklnged French girls pns veiled women and Stately Arnln In flowing bumooses. But a short dltance hack frnrn the aeawnrd wall the level censes and the gnyly colored, crowded houses cllmh on each other's shoulders up (he steep hillside, as If striving to look over their neighbors heads out to sea. Flore Is the nntlve quarter, and In It dwelt 'he pirate population that lived by hloodr crime on the face of the wiser. Every being In It man. woman and child. Moorish pnshn and Christian slave had a personal In terest In watching each sail that lift ed above the distant horizon. It mlzht be an Algerlne rover loaded with plunder and chained captives. It might be the herald of a Frnnklsh fleet coming to batter down ti e pirate stronghold and set free the slaves. Upward and still upward, house fops house, until one comes to the Kasha, oma the palace fortress of the I)ey, the tyrant of Algiers, who claimed his shnre of the booty that each murderous sen wolf brought home. Whether It were plunder from sacked towns on European shores, or weep ing women from " Italy, ' France or Spain. Houiss of tbs Nstlvts. The houses hemming the streets thrust out their upper stories, sup ported on Inclined wooden struts, un til they sre not a yard npnrt, often they are built completely across, so that the narrow lane must pass under t ,1" lor Algiers. them In a dark tunnel. The few win dows, small square openings, are barred with gratings bent outward: and here and there a painted face looks out from them and smiles down Invitingly on the wayfarer. But usually the houses present a blank front to the outer world blank, that Is, but for a carved door with a small, twisted column on either side and a stone crescent above It One of these doors opens nnd three tiny children toddle out. laughing one a boy in red fes and a small shirt, the others little girls with flow ered blouses, colored skirts, and gaudy handkerchiefs twisted around their heads. The open door gives a glimpse of a wee tiled ball with a dwarf staircase twisting out of sight Farther down another door stands Invitingly ajar. Pass through It out of the dim alley and yon are In an other world. A bright courtyard opens to the blue sky above. Two, three tiers of galleries with gayly tilt ed parapet walls top carved stone or marble pillars; a vine swings across the void ; flowers In pots or Bougnln vllleas dash notes of glowing color Into the court on which women look down and call shrilly to the serving malds seated on the paving stones be low, cleaning great brass water Jars of old and graceful design. But the glory has departed; pasha and pirate have had their day, and their mansions, too, have fallen from their high estate. Instead of one rich man with his harem of allken-clad wives of many races peopling the chambers that open onto the tiled galleries and his wretched slaves fill ing the dark cellars and noisome dungeons below, a dozen or more poor families Arabs, Jews. Maltese, Span iards now crowd Into the one-time palace. Often the beautiful court yards are turned to utilitarian pur poses, and a carpenter's bench or a grocer's counter replaces the marble fountain that once sweetened the air with tinkle of falling water. Figures In the Streets. Out agnln Into the dark lanes and vnulted tunnels. Stand aside ami let this porter pass. Bent double, he lurches heavily up the steep ascent, a band around his forehead helping tit support the weight of the Immense: burden on his back. With his red cap twisted about with a dirty kerchief, his torn shirt and baggy trousers, hll bare feet thrust Into heelless slippers, he resembles and Is like to him In feature as In faith a hamal, or por ter, of Constantinople tolling up the equally steep streets of tilnmboul. Out of a dark alley come two white, robed figures, veiled to the dark eyes that, lustrous and beautiful, shine un der the black eyebrows nnd fair fore heads. Missive silver nnd gold neck laces hang on their bosoms, broad sil ver bracelets adorn their wrists and heavy anklets surround the silk-stock-Inged ankles thrust Into dulnty slip pers. Their henna-tipped fingers are loaded with rings. Willi a lingering backward glance these two enter slowly a carved mar ble portal lending Into a hall walled and floured with flower-designed porce lain tiles. Inscriptions In French nnd Arnlilc ti ll us that this Is the entrance to the Moorish baths, open to men ut til noon, to women In the afternoon. The fair ones flock to It, Air It Is their lounge, their club, their glimpse of so cial life, their gossip exchange It nnd the Mohutmnedun cemeteries on Fridays. The narrow alley dives Into another tunneled passage under the houses nnd emerges on a wider apace, a mar ket. Spread out on the ground or on rough stalls are meot, fruit, vegeta bles, bread. Arab and negro dealers shout nut their wares and prices In Arable nnd In French, while tnll men In while burnooses, shrouded Moorish women and dark-hnlrcd, bare-headed Maltose. girls chuffer and bargain excitedly. Buyers and seller shake their hands In each other's face, scream with rage, call on Allah or the God of the Christians to hear witness, then quiet down and conclude the deal peaceably FLASH The Lead Dog By- George Marsh TUB TENN rVflllSHINO CO. W.N.U.SERV1CB n SYNOPSIS l'p the wlUI watrt of the un known Yrlliiw-l.vg, on s winter's hunt, Journry llnu-k MrCntn and Gnspnrt! Lecrolx, hla fr'rench-Crse commits, with Klnnh, tirock'e puppy and their dos Unm. UrorR e father hod warnrd him of the danger of hla trip A fur saveral Putties with the stormy watera they arrive at a fork In tha Yal-low-Lra;. Hrork la aevarely In lurd In making a portnKe and Flash leads iinnpard to the un conarloua youth. Tha trappers race desperately to reach thalr destination before winter eeta In. Flash ennngri In a desperate right with a wolf and kills him. liaapard talla llrock of hla de termination to find out who killed hla father. Tracks are dlacovered and the two boys aepnrate for scouting purposea, Urocg la lumped by two Indiana and a white man and knocked uneon. acloua. He la held prisoner. C.aa pard teacuea him while his cap tnra sleep tlnspard tieltevea these men killed hla father and la pre vented from killing them By llrock. While out alone Unspatd le shot from anibunh bv an In dian and kllli hla would-be slayer While out on his trap lines llrrf- la caught In a heavy snow storm. He la lost and hla food glvea out. Hie hopee are ralsrd when he discovere a moose trail He kills a moose and Hnds Gaspnrd'e trail. CHAPTER VIII Continued 15 In the morning, because of the bet ter footing ll guve (lie tolling husky, llrock twik Cu-iinnl trail buck to camp. At the hem) of the lake Brock's eyes w idened In surprise as he si a red at the tracks In front of hint Then, he moved swiftly Into a clump of young spruce and waited, ears alert A chickadee ciillel, then the silence remained unbroken. Cautiously Brock wulkeU down the trail to what bad stopied him. The story the snow told was easy to read. Some one had followed Uas pard's trail up to this point, where he had left It to trawl a hundred yards to the right "What rlmll I do, Flnshf queried the puzzled youth. The trails were not fresli. that wus evident. If Otis pard had been ambushed. It bad been two dnjs before. He was beyond help. If they had cuptured him. It was too lute to overtake them now. Finally Brock decided to take the meat to the cache, nnd return on Oas purd's trail with Flash loose. He would never again travel without hla dog. About five miles from the boys' camp, the tracks which overlay Uus pard's trail had joined It, leading from the luke. Worried for his partner's safety. Brock reached the cump to find It undisturbed, and to meet a loud greeting from three ravenous dogs wired to trees. Entering the tent now nearly burled In snow. Brock found a roll of the Inner burk of a blrcb on which bad been burned with a stick diameters of the syllable writing used by the frees. Taught the phonetic symbols us a boy by an old Cree nt the post. Brock had often made use of this Indian shorthand and easily read the mes sage : "Twice I hunted far for your trull. Now I go to look for these people. I will come buck In s few tluys, but If you are not here, then (ii-piird l.e croIx will go Into the north to Join his father.'' "(iiMid old Caspard!" exclaimed the youth, his eyes blurred by moisture. "He looked for me after the snow burled my trull, and hss given m up. lie's not going hack to Hungry House; lies' going north to hunt them down." Starting a tire In Hie tent stove to cook bis supper, llrock lost no lime in deciding on his next move, tins pard hud been gone at least two days. In the morning he would take Flash and nil the grub he could easily curry In his pack and follow the trull. If they hud captured his friend, the snow would tell the story then what) He would wave a good-by toward (he south and those he held deur, ut Hun fry House, and follow (Juspurd us the hnlMireed hud followed Brock and his captors. And ut the end, the boy promised himself, Flush and Brock Mct'uln would show these renegades how a white boy and his dog could tight tor his purtuer. CHAPTER IX The Return of the Lost Thinking that Brock hud decided to weather It out In his cump on tha flunk of the great barren, Guspard waited for bis return at the end of the norther but Brock did not come. I'uzzled, the hnl f breed went to the outlying camp of his friend, where, to his amazement he found that Brock had not spent the two days of the wind and snow. Where bud he gone? Worried, l-ecroli returned to camp, Ills partner had been caught, some nyhere, while bunting. If be bad meat. he would work his way homo. But three days passed and Brock did not return, (luspiird circled far to the south nnd west, but found no fresh trull of t ho boy nnd dog he sought. Brock was a good hunter; ho would not slnrvo, and ho wouldn't slay lost, hu'd work mirth and homo. Thcu the thought of how his father had van ished lulu these, plillov while hills chilled (itispard's heart Wns ho to lose Brock, hla friend, also? Brock, whom he loved ns a brother! Sorrowfully, the half breed returned to cump. The days went by and llrock did not return. At length, hope tiled, and (iiispant wrote the messi.ga which he full the eyes of Brock would never read, and started on his mini hunt To the rich catch oi fur which they had hidden In their cache In the swamp, he gave no consideration. At Hungry House this fur would buy hi in much that he needed But Hun gry House hud awn the liu'l of tins pard Lecrolx. Brock wus gone, and he had promised Ihem he would bring til tu safely home In the spring. The spirit of his father called him the father whose tames had lain unhurled, the sarl of bird unit beast whoso death was in yet unavenged. So, will) food fur a few days In his pack, for tie would return once more, then loud his sled and take the team Into the north, (Jnspnrd started on a circle beyond the head of the lake. He had pimed the Inlet ten miles from camp, when. In a thick stand of young spruce, he turned sharply to the right and from the cover of a clump of seedling, wutched his hack truck. What sixth cense hud given hi in the uneasy feeling that he was being followed, he could not explalu. The morning was still, without wind, but he had heurd no click of the bows, no creuk of shoes on the snow, dry ns powder. But the stalker would have seen to that he would have muf fled the sound No, If there was some one on his trail, he was far back. Shivering with the Intense Cold which cut through his caribou skin capote, the half breed ns fast becom ing convinced that his premonition uus false, when he suddenly stiffened where he lay. The barrel of his rltle slowly lifted as his right eye lined tbe sights. A hundred yards distant a hooded figure carrying a rl tie, moved over the trail. So they were hunting til in agnln. were they these people who bad hunted his fat her J Well, before the snows faced In April he would give them their bellies full of this little game. The small eyes that followed the Indian trailer over the rifle sights glittered with hate. Slowly one closed. Again the right eye covered the ap proaching shape with the bead sight of the muzzle. A finger moved and the soundlos forest echoed with a splitting rour. With a scream, the crouching shape on the trull lunged Into the snow. From the thicket above which drifted a wisp of gray smoke, clicked the ac tion of a rltle as the lever tossed aside an empty shell and pumped a cart ridge Into the barrel. Again, silence settled on the spruce. Slowly the snow beneath a sprawled leg of the crumpled figure reddened. Then, circling cautiously until he sow the gun of the would lie assassin lying where It had fallen, out of reach, Guspard walked boldly to the unconscious Indian. "Ah-hahl" he muttered. Then, first drawing the knife slung to the Creel sash and tossing It awuy. Gaspard ex amined the wound Ills shot had gone home. He had struck the thigh aa he had Intended, and the Cree had fuluted from shock and pain. Quickly the half breed fashioned tourniquet of the Crce's sash and bound the leg. Then, shortly, he had a Are going. Carrying the grounlng man to the lire h,e luld hi in on a bed of houghs. But In spite of the tight bandage ubove the wound, to fliispnrd'l surprise the hemorrhage continued. As the Cree became conscious of his surroundings, Gnspnrd forced hot tea down his throat The stimulant did Its work. "You wish to live," rasped the youth, In the Cree language, "you talk with a single tongue.' Fear-shot eyes In the seamed fea tures of the stricken Indian searched the cold face of the man who had out witted him. Again Gnspnrd held the block leu to the gray Hps. "What you track me for to kill ot luke met" begun Hie Inquisitor. The free shut his eyes, but gave no answer. "Where la your c-mpT The menacing face of Lecrolx ap proached I lie other's. "Far from here, In the north." "How many Crees and while mcnT" "Many eight, ten." "Who Is the chief the bossT "A white man who cuine In I ship He has a red heard." fTO DB CONTINUED.) An Ex-Soldier Tell$ An ox-soldlcr tells that during the war he was billeted In a certain vil lage which had a charming river me andering by Its outskirts. Hero, In the bed of the stream, a stern-faced man cultivated splendid crop of Whtercress. The soldier, In anticipation of aft ernoon ten, sent his batman on Sunday to buy some watercress. Ho found the cultivator hard at work In the middle of tho stream. "I want slxpennyworth of water cress," said the br.tman. "No," said the cultivator, "I ain't open on Sundays." Sentenced "So your father knows the exact moment ho will die, does ho the ex act year, month and day?" "VesNuh, he ought to. 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